Verbatorium
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Aus Politics #auspol, Climate Change, Biodiversity. Anti SARS-CoV-2. He/Him. Also at 🐳 & http://mastodon.social #VaccinesPlus #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask
Two-dose shingles vaccine slows dementia progression, study shows | ABC ... youtu.be/9pRjQ8XOfug?... via @YouTube
Two-dose shingles vaccine slows dementia progression, study shows | ABC NEWS
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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December 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Two-dose shingles vaccine slows dementia progression, study shows | ABC ... youtu.be/9pRjQ8XOfug?... via @YouTube
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Weekly respiratory viruses update:
- #influenza activity is increasing rapidly and circulating widely,
- #RSV is slowly increasing,
- #SARSCoV2 circulation continues to decrease.
More info: erviss.org
#ERVISS #RespiratoryViruses #IDsky #EpiSky #COVID19
- #influenza activity is increasing rapidly and circulating widely,
- #RSV is slowly increasing,
- #SARSCoV2 circulation continues to decrease.
More info: erviss.org
#ERVISS #RespiratoryViruses #IDsky #EpiSky #COVID19
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Weekly respiratory viruses update:
- #influenza activity is increasing rapidly and circulating widely,
- #RSV is slowly increasing,
- #SARSCoV2 circulation continues to decrease.
More info: erviss.org
#ERVISS #RespiratoryViruses #IDsky #EpiSky #COVID19
- #influenza activity is increasing rapidly and circulating widely,
- #RSV is slowly increasing,
- #SARSCoV2 circulation continues to decrease.
More info: erviss.org
#ERVISS #RespiratoryViruses #IDsky #EpiSky #COVID19
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
South Australian golf course wetland is breeding site for locally extinct tiny native olive perchlet www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Scientists say golf course wetlands are the future for breeding threatened native fish
Golf courses around the world feature picturesque water ponds as a challenging hazard for players to avoid, but scientists are diving right in. They say golf club wetlands are an ecological safe haven...
www.abc.net.au
December 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM
South Australian golf course wetland is breeding site for locally extinct tiny native olive perchlet www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Keeping WBD out of Paramount's hands is good.
Putting it in Netflix's is still unlawful consolidation though. This is the #1 streamer merging with #3.
State enforcers should speak up.
Putting it in Netflix's is still unlawful consolidation though. This is the #1 streamer merging with #3.
State enforcers should speak up.
Netflix has won the bidding war to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery.
The sale is not yet finalized, as the U.S. Department of Justice could also interfere due to anti-trust concerns.
(Source: www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...)
The sale is not yet finalized, as the U.S. Department of Justice could also interfere due to anti-trust concerns.
(Source: www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...)
December 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Keeping WBD out of Paramount's hands is good.
Putting it in Netflix's is still unlawful consolidation though. This is the #1 streamer merging with #3.
State enforcers should speak up.
Putting it in Netflix's is still unlawful consolidation though. This is the #1 streamer merging with #3.
State enforcers should speak up.
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“I haven’t thought about COVID in a long time.”
For a lot of people, that’s the whole story: if they bounced back, it feels like the crisis is over. But for those living with Long COVID, life never went back to normal, and that gap between realities is its own kind of wound.
For a lot of people, that’s the whole story: if they bounced back, it feels like the crisis is over. But for those living with Long COVID, life never went back to normal, and that gap between realities is its own kind of wound.
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For people living with Long COVID, that gap is brutal. They’re “watching people [they] love act like none of it matters, while [their] life is barely functioning.”
Brasure links this to “identity-protective cognition”: we believe what keeps us in good standing with our community. Doctors and friends “folded” not because they don’t care, but because they’re tired, want normal, and are protecting their place in the tribe.
But, as he writes, “reality doesn’t care about tribes.”
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December 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“I haven’t thought about COVID in a long time.”
For a lot of people, that’s the whole story: if they bounced back, it feels like the crisis is over. But for those living with Long COVID, life never went back to normal, and that gap between realities is its own kind of wound.
For a lot of people, that’s the whole story: if they bounced back, it feels like the crisis is over. But for those living with Long COVID, life never went back to normal, and that gap between realities is its own kind of wound.
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The fines aren't large enough. $140k is nothing to people with multimillion dollar homes. They will gain more than that when they sell thanks to the newly gained view. Council should replant vegetation that will be higher.
Native trees poisoned along beach in exclusive township where homes sell for millions
Six Australian native trees have been poisoned on public land along one of Queensland's most expensive and exclusive beachside streets.
www.abc.net.au
December 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The fines aren't large enough. $140k is nothing to people with multimillion dollar homes. They will gain more than that when they sell thanks to the newly gained view. Council should replant vegetation that will be higher.
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Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"
Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity - The Shot
It really is the 1% versus the rest of us. The stakes couldn't be higher. And the enemy could not be more depraved. Still, we'll win.
theshot.net.au
December 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"
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Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Shopping for someone who’s a bit of a winner? 🏆
Give them a winner too! Browse our Gift Ideas catalogue for award-winning and shortlisted reads:
www.publishing.csiro.au/catalogues/G...
#BooksForChristmas #GiftIdeas
Give them a winner too! Browse our Gift Ideas catalogue for award-winning and shortlisted reads:
www.publishing.csiro.au/catalogues/G...
#BooksForChristmas #GiftIdeas
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Shopping for someone who’s a bit of a winner? 🏆
Give them a winner too! Browse our Gift Ideas catalogue for award-winning and shortlisted reads:
www.publishing.csiro.au/catalogues/G...
#BooksForChristmas #GiftIdeas
Give them a winner too! Browse our Gift Ideas catalogue for award-winning and shortlisted reads:
www.publishing.csiro.au/catalogues/G...
#BooksForChristmas #GiftIdeas
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Australia's mainstream media is obsessed with the colour and movement of conflict.
As 'both sides' support #AUKUS, they have failed to investigate whether it might be a huge, wasteful and dangerous dud 'deal'.
Our media rarely 'speak truth to power'.
They parrot power's talking points.
#auspol
As 'both sides' support #AUKUS, they have failed to investigate whether it might be a huge, wasteful and dangerous dud 'deal'.
Our media rarely 'speak truth to power'.
They parrot power's talking points.
#auspol
Can the media reporting on news that the US agrees it is “worth continuing” with AUKUS, stop pretending that it’s some sort of big surprise that Trump agrees it’s worth taking our billions of taxpayer dollars for second rate submarines they don’t even have to provide?🙄
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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We estimate that by the start of 2025, the UK economy was approximately 8% smaller than it would have been without Brexit, based on macro data, and 6% smaller using firm-level micro data”
www.euronews.com/business/202...
www.euronews.com/business/202...
A decade of Brexit: Britain falls behind peers in trade and growth
Economic analysis shows UK GDP per capita grew up to 10% less than similar nations as firms froze spending and productivity slipped.
www.euronews.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
We estimate that by the start of 2025, the UK economy was approximately 8% smaller than it would have been without Brexit, based on macro data, and 6% smaller using firm-level micro data”
www.euronews.com/business/202...
www.euronews.com/business/202...
It should be double that. #priorities
$2.5 million grant for cutting edge brain cancer research lab
$2.5 million grant for cutting edge brain cancer research lab
An Australian cancer research centre has been awarded a $2.5 million grant to further their research into one of the country's deadliest brain cancers. Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Institute in Melbourne hope to fast-track diagnosis and treatment options.
www.sbs.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
It should be double that. #priorities
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So why is there no public health messaging about this ongoing #pandemic? That #COVID is caused by a fully airborne virus that can infect and disable anyone at any age, vaxxed or not?
I'll tell you why. Because politics. Because capitalism.
#disability #healthcare #MillionsMissing #MECFS #maskup
I'll tell you why. Because politics. Because capitalism.
#disability #healthcare #MillionsMissing #MECFS #maskup
[27 Jun 2025] @DrTedros at WHO media briefing:
“We cannot talk about COVID-19 in the past tense. Although the crisis has passed, the virus remains.
It continues to evolve, it continues to kill, and millions of people continue to live with post COVID-19 condition or long COVID.”
“We cannot talk about COVID-19 in the past tense. Although the crisis has passed, the virus remains.
It continues to evolve, it continues to kill, and millions of people continue to live with post COVID-19 condition or long COVID.”
September 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
So why is there no public health messaging about this ongoing #pandemic? That #COVID is caused by a fully airborne virus that can infect and disable anyone at any age, vaxxed or not?
I'll tell you why. Because politics. Because capitalism.
#disability #healthcare #MillionsMissing #MECFS #maskup
I'll tell you why. Because politics. Because capitalism.
#disability #healthcare #MillionsMissing #MECFS #maskup
Fascinating discussion with Sean Kelly on his Quarterly Essay The Good Fight @ The Hawke Centre
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Fascinating discussion with Sean Kelly on his Quarterly Essay The Good Fight @ The Hawke Centre
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This isn’t business as usual.
Potentially significant cuts are coming to the Australian Public Service and I want to know what this means for service delivery and for jobs.
Labor promised to protect the APS, they need to honour that promise.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
Potentially significant cuts are coming to the Australian Public Service and I want to know what this means for service delivery and for jobs.
Labor promised to protect the APS, they need to honour that promise.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
December 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
This isn’t business as usual.
Potentially significant cuts are coming to the Australian Public Service and I want to know what this means for service delivery and for jobs.
Labor promised to protect the APS, they need to honour that promise.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
Potentially significant cuts are coming to the Australian Public Service and I want to know what this means for service delivery and for jobs.
Labor promised to protect the APS, they need to honour that promise.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
SA’s Aspire program faces shutdown despite saving millions and reducing hospital stays - glamadelaide.com.au/sas-aspire-p...
SA's Aspire program faces shutdown despite saving millions and reducing hospital stays
The program is being phased out due to funding cuts, but has saved the SA Government over $40 million and prevented 6,000 hospital nights.
glamadelaide.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
SA’s Aspire program faces shutdown despite saving millions and reducing hospital stays - glamadelaide.com.au/sas-aspire-p...
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Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand)
Results:
Last week: 100% RE
Last 223 weeks: 98.6% RE (1/5)
Results:
Last week: 100% RE
Last 223 weeks: 98.6% RE (1/5)
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand)
Results:
Last week: 100% RE
Last 223 weeks: 98.6% RE (1/5)
Results:
Last week: 100% RE
Last 223 weeks: 98.6% RE (1/5)
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140,000 homes are currently being left vacant in Australia. 32,000 homes in Melbourne alone!
Air BnB has 160,000 homes on its books.
There are thousands of developers land banking properties in our cities.
We could legislate the end of a housing crisis very quickly.
Air BnB has 160,000 homes on its books.
There are thousands of developers land banking properties in our cities.
We could legislate the end of a housing crisis very quickly.
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
140,000 homes are currently being left vacant in Australia. 32,000 homes in Melbourne alone!
Air BnB has 160,000 homes on its books.
There are thousands of developers land banking properties in our cities.
We could legislate the end of a housing crisis very quickly.
Air BnB has 160,000 homes on its books.
There are thousands of developers land banking properties in our cities.
We could legislate the end of a housing crisis very quickly.
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The ARC is due to appear before Senate Estimates tonight. As usual, they're last on the schedule, at 9pm (Canberra time) ▶️ parlwork.aph.gov.au/committee/de... ("live" schedule).
I hope the committee asks about the job losses & restructure the ARC are proposing👇
I hope the committee asks about the job losses & restructure the ARC are proposing👇
ARC are considering a restructure in which jobs there will be lost, a source tells me.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
December 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The ARC is due to appear before Senate Estimates tonight. As usual, they're last on the schedule, at 9pm (Canberra time) ▶️ parlwork.aph.gov.au/committee/de... ("live" schedule).
I hope the committee asks about the job losses & restructure the ARC are proposing👇
I hope the committee asks about the job losses & restructure the ARC are proposing👇
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Improve the grocery shopping experience for disabled people - Sign the Petition! c.org/JrKhHyPKp9 via @ChangeAUS
Sign the Petition
Improve the grocery shopping experience for disabled people
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December 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Improve the grocery shopping experience for disabled people - Sign the Petition! c.org/JrKhHyPKp9 via @ChangeAUS
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In the Netherlands, where the Dutch invest in safe cycling, the over-65s cycle around a quarter of their journeys, while the over-80s cycle around 10% of theirs.
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and cycle lanes don't 'restrict freedom', they expand it.
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and cycle lanes don't 'restrict freedom', they expand it.
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In the Netherlands, where the Dutch invest in safe cycling, the over-65s cycle around a quarter of their journeys, while the over-80s cycle around 10% of theirs.
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and cycle lanes don't 'restrict freedom', they expand it.
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and cycle lanes don't 'restrict freedom', they expand it.
In other words “sure we believe in corporate social responsibility but only if it doesn’t cost too much and we can make some nice PR story about how we are better than our competitors at something”
Mandating the electrification of company fleets puts an excessive burden on businesses, Raluca Marian, director of the IRU, argues at our #POLITICOSustainableSummit 👇
“Our sector says a clear no to any form of mandate," she says.
Follow live: www.politico.eu/article/sust...
“Our sector says a clear no to any form of mandate," she says.
Follow live: www.politico.eu/article/sust...
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
In other words “sure we believe in corporate social responsibility but only if it doesn’t cost too much and we can make some nice PR story about how we are better than our competitors at something”