Michael Woodhead
@michaelwood8.bsky.social
Medical journalist, Sydney, via Leeds.
Cycling in China. Blog at josephrock.net
Cycling in China. Blog at josephrock.net
The other notable thing about the ‘second Bondi hero’ footage being shared on Chinese social media is the relatively civil and humanistic tone of the comments - at least compared to the screeds of hate and misinformation on X
December 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The other notable thing about the ‘second Bondi hero’ footage being shared on Chinese social media is the relatively civil and humanistic tone of the comments - at least compared to the screeds of hate and misinformation on X
Did I miss this? Chinese media reporting that another passerby tackled the Bondi gunman and wrestled the gun from him BEFORE the attack started. But the older guy and his wife were shot by the other gunman
December 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Did I miss this? Chinese media reporting that another passerby tackled the Bondi gunman and wrestled the gun from him BEFORE the attack started. But the older guy and his wife were shot by the other gunman
Project 2025 deregulation agenda being implemented for Big Pharma.
December 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Project 2025 deregulation agenda being implemented for Big Pharma.
Sending Christmas cards I dig out the old address book that dates from the time when London phone numbers all began with 01
December 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Sending Christmas cards I dig out the old address book that dates from the time when London phone numbers all began with 01
Reposted by Michael Woodhead
Cycled the new Green Way from Haberfield to Dulwich Hill/Cooks River today and very good it was too.
December 13, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Cycled the new Green Way from Haberfield to Dulwich Hill/Cooks River today and very good it was too.
Reposted by Michael Woodhead
Guys! GUYS! If you are an iPhone user you are NOT crazy. You're not just getting old. You're not suddenly all thumbs. Our iPhones are broken - that's why you keep misspelling shit so often in texts. I shared this with Jess and we both went 🤯
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
Thank the maker- I was feeling clumsy for about three releases. Well done Apple.
Thank the maker- I was feeling clumsy for about three releases. Well done Apple.
It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken
YouTube video by Michi NekoMichi
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Guys! GUYS! If you are an iPhone user you are NOT crazy. You're not just getting old. You're not suddenly all thumbs. Our iPhones are broken - that's why you keep misspelling shit so often in texts. I shared this with Jess and we both went 🤯
Reposted by Michael Woodhead
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Liam Neeson talks out of both sides of his mouth. He's walking back his pro-Kennedy anti-vax doc when he got called out.
Snopes knows the truth
Another one bites the dust
Liam Neeson talks out of both sides of his mouth. He's walking back his pro-Kennedy anti-vax doc when he got called out.
Snopes knows the truth
Another one bites the dust
Did Liam Neeson narrate anti-vax documentary? Claim is true
While the actor narrated an anti-vaccine documentary, he has expressed support for vaccines before, calling them a "remarkable human success story."
www.snopes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
www.snopes.com/fact-check/l...
Liam Neeson talks out of both sides of his mouth. He's walking back his pro-Kennedy anti-vax doc when he got called out.
Snopes knows the truth
Another one bites the dust
Liam Neeson talks out of both sides of his mouth. He's walking back his pro-Kennedy anti-vax doc when he got called out.
Snopes knows the truth
Another one bites the dust
On his podcast, Alexei Sayle couldn’t remember when he’d worked with fellow scouser Cilla Black. Turns out it was a ‘best of the 80s’ award show that also featured Debbie Harry. Surreal banter between them youtu.be/lnwQVLOvoo8?...
December 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
On his podcast, Alexei Sayle couldn’t remember when he’d worked with fellow scouser Cilla Black. Turns out it was a ‘best of the 80s’ award show that also featured Debbie Harry. Surreal banter between them youtu.be/lnwQVLOvoo8?...
Good report by Natasha May about the scandalous neglect of blood lead levels by NSW government. Maybe that’s because 90% of kids affected are Aboriginal. Contrast this to the panic about PFAS levels for the worried well. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW Health resists lower blood lead guidelines for children in Broken Hill, documents reveal
Greens MP condemns ‘pathetic’ level of funding to deal with lead contamination in state’s far west
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Good report by Natasha May about the scandalous neglect of blood lead levels by NSW government. Maybe that’s because 90% of kids affected are Aboriginal. Contrast this to the panic about PFAS levels for the worried well. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Reposted by Michael Woodhead
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
There’s some Anne Nightingale BBC Radio 1 shows from the 80s on Mixcloud. I’d forgotten how she was basically a surrogate cool older girlfriend for sixth formers revising for their A-levels. With hindsight she sounds like the guileless, earnest calm before the storm of late 80s laddism and hedonism
December 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
There’s some Anne Nightingale BBC Radio 1 shows from the 80s on Mixcloud. I’d forgotten how she was basically a surrogate cool older girlfriend for sixth formers revising for their A-levels. With hindsight she sounds like the guileless, earnest calm before the storm of late 80s laddism and hedonism
Look what the algorithm just put on my feed: former ABC Catalyst presenter Maryanne Demasi on the "MAHA Action" channel calling for Pharma CEOs to be locked up. Via the Falun Gong MAGA propaganda outlet Epoch Times.
December 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Look what the algorithm just put on my feed: former ABC Catalyst presenter Maryanne Demasi on the "MAHA Action" channel calling for Pharma CEOs to be locked up. Via the Falun Gong MAGA propaganda outlet Epoch Times.
At ATAR results time here’s a timely podcast from @littleredpodcast.bsky.social on China’s intense gaokao exam. Includes a mock exam question with an illuminating ‘correct’ answer podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
Education Nation: China’s Exam Fetish
Podcast Episode · The Little Red Podcast · 08/12/2025 · 48m
podcasts.apple.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
At ATAR results time here’s a timely podcast from @littleredpodcast.bsky.social on China’s intense gaokao exam. Includes a mock exam question with an illuminating ‘correct’ answer podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
From this to this. An 800g tent with a few mods to make it pitch better. Bikepacking here I come.
December 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
From this to this. An 800g tent with a few mods to make it pitch better. Bikepacking here I come.
Taking the bike and ultralight tent out for a trial run, over the seas and far away
December 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Taking the bike and ultralight tent out for a trial run, over the seas and far away
Seam sealing the new Lanshan ultralight tent. Latest model is polysil fabric (800g!) that does not absorb water like nylon and so does not sag after rain (or increase weight)
I made a right dog’s breakfast of the sealing, but I don’t care if it’s not pretty so long as it be waterproof. #camping
I made a right dog’s breakfast of the sealing, but I don’t care if it’s not pretty so long as it be waterproof. #camping
December 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Seam sealing the new Lanshan ultralight tent. Latest model is polysil fabric (800g!) that does not absorb water like nylon and so does not sag after rain (or increase weight)
I made a right dog’s breakfast of the sealing, but I don’t care if it’s not pretty so long as it be waterproof. #camping
I made a right dog’s breakfast of the sealing, but I don’t care if it’s not pretty so long as it be waterproof. #camping
NHS England in denial. The clear lesson from China was that with a ‘go fast, go hard’ approach it WAS was possible to contain the pandemic virus spread until a vaccine was available.
By Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social
"The UK says it won't even bother when the next pandemic hits. The lesson most countries have drawn from covid is that letting the old and weak die is better for capitalism. The pandemic was a waymarker on our journey to a harsher, crueller world"
"The UK says it won't even bother when the next pandemic hits. The lesson most countries have drawn from covid is that letting the old and weak die is better for capitalism. The pandemic was a waymarker on our journey to a harsher, crueller world"
December 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
NHS England in denial. The clear lesson from China was that with a ‘go fast, go hard’ approach it WAS was possible to contain the pandemic virus spread until a vaccine was available.
Reposted by Michael Woodhead
Reposted by Michael Woodhead
December 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Whatever happened to Li-Meng Yan, the COVID bioweapon conspiracy theorist?
Well this is pretty wild
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The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Whatever happened to Li-Meng Yan, the COVID bioweapon conspiracy theorist?
On a podcast former Biden bigwig Jake Summers confidently asserts that China will not beat the US in areas such as biotech because the ‘American innovation ecosystem’ is resilient. Yeah look at your universities, NIH and FDA www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
China holds the key to the modern world. The West risks being left behind
China used to be trying to catch the West, specifically the US; then it caught up; now the West is trying to catch up to China but likely can't.
www.abc.net.au
December 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
On a podcast former Biden bigwig Jake Summers confidently asserts that China will not beat the US in areas such as biotech because the ‘American innovation ecosystem’ is resilient. Yeah look at your universities, NIH and FDA www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Bought a new tent to replace the ageing MSR Hubba, a Lanshan Pro, via AliExpress. A Chinese brand and the quality is pretty good, at a fraction of the price of US/EU ultralight tents. Camping gear is yet another area where #China brands are becoming dominant
December 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Bought a new tent to replace the ageing MSR Hubba, a Lanshan Pro, via AliExpress. A Chinese brand and the quality is pretty good, at a fraction of the price of US/EU ultralight tents. Camping gear is yet another area where #China brands are becoming dominant
SMH running crap articles from the Washington Post that give credulity to antivax cranks now appointed to official positions. There is no ‘balance’ or ‘ both sides’ when it comes to scientific fact vs quack fiction
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
SMH running crap articles from the Washington Post that give credulity to antivax cranks now appointed to official positions. There is no ‘balance’ or ‘ both sides’ when it comes to scientific fact vs quack fiction