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Debbie Fearon (she/her)
@debbiefearon.medsky.social
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Former health professional with an increasingly
ridiculous mishmash of learned knowledge and lived experience.
Living on Arrernte country.
Please be kind 💚
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Debbie Fearon (she/her) @debbiefearon.medsky.social · Aug 21
Today would have been Jennifer’s 29th birthday.

Still miss you Bub 💚
debbiefearon.medsky.social Debbie Fearon (she/her) @debbiefearon.medsky.social · Dec 30
Today, it’s 28 years since I lost my eldest child to severe congenital heart disease. Love you long time Jennifer Dulcie 💚
A cute baby lays in a hospital bed with oxygen tubing, IV line and a nasogastric tube accompanied by her favourite Elmo toy.
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smollestbunny2.bsky.social
Online ID coming soon #nzpol
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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marcdavenant.bsky.social
‘A row of coal miners' houses with no windows to the street’, Halifax, 1937 by Bill Brandt. Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
A bleak black and white photograph of a row of houses with dustbins outside. There are steps up to darkened doorways and no visible windows. Each house has four chimneys. To the right are industrial chimneys and in the foreground are barely visible cobbles and what looks like large lumps of coal debris. This is an image which always triggers a strong response. People often claim it is East Durham rather than Halifax. This comes from a mistake in the labelling of this photo in the V&A collection which has now been corrected but the myth persists. People often claim the label is misleading but this is the title given to the photo by Brandt himself. It is likely that there were windows on the other side but four chimneys normally means four rooms. You must judge for yourself whether any of the rooms were windowless. People often claim there were no mines in Halifax. This is incorrect, although there weren’t many mines the area is on the edge of a coalfield. Ultimately we must remember than none of Bill Brandt’s photos can be taken at face value and neither can the titles he gave them. That’s all part of the mystery of his work.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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asherwolf.bsky.social
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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itstessinadress.bsky.social
It is a peculiar quirk of the Australian social security system that when given the option to either engage with Centrelink for the disability support pension, or work to death for slightly better yet still poverty level wages, many women will choose the non-centrelink option, and try to hug it
itstessinadress.bsky.social Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 4d
We're working on chronic pain stuff & my therapist tried to geently float the idea that I might be too disabled for conventional employment so I went "oh! dw, you're not the only doctor to say that" and she asked who else had so I said "several GPs" and she... you know those motionless double takes?
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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davidsligar.bsky.social
I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination.

www.reddit.com/r/Centrelink...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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mrdtjames.bsky.social
“They would knock on the door, bang on the windows with their torches, shine torches through the windows. It was relentless,” says Megan, who is using a pseudonym for legal reasons. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
150 police visits in 20 months: Indigenous mother takes action after her boys subjected to ‘relentless’ checks
Exclusive: A family has launched a court case against NSW police alleging racial discrimination is behind excessive bail checks
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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erinacean.bsky.social
'I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive'
At the Cenotaph, by Siegfried Sassoon
I saw the Prince of Darkness, wit… Standing bare-headed by the Cenot… Unostentatious and respectful, the… He stood, and offered up the follo… ‘Make them forget, O Lord, what t…
www.poeticous.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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tairawhitidoc.bsky.social
Also from this morning’s beach walk: kororā (Little Blue Penguin) tracks headed out to sea.
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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jimmybarnes.com
For The Working Class Man 40th Anniversary Edition is out this Friday, so I thought I’d share a few more stories from back in 1985...when it was first released.

When I heard the mix of Working Class Man, I knew this song was going to be big.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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drpauldorfman.bsky.social
China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month
While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.
www.abc.net.au
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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asherwolf.bsky.social
Mildura Base Public Hospital caught duplicating feedback figures in annual reports www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Regional Victorian hospital caught copying and pasting complaints data
A Victorian hospital has been caught copying and pasting its compliments and concerns data, after failing to update figures across multiple years of its annual reports.
www.abc.net.au
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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drbex.bsky.social
Err BUT...

❌️Potaka made it harder to access emergency housing

❌️Upston made it harder for teens to access Jobseeker

❌️Bishop cancelled thousands of planned social housing builds AND sold off existing social housing

❌️Chhour slashed OT investment into youth employment programs
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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euanritchie.bsky.social
My interview with Sally is here www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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drxeo.eu
New study out! 🌍💧 “The Association between Total Precipitation and Diarrhea Morbidity” — a multicountry analysis across climate zones. Both dry & wet extremes raise health risks. 📖 Read journals.lww.com/environepide...

#ClimateHealth #GlobalHealth #Diarrhea #Precipitation
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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ingridm.bsky.social
the writing on the wall is big.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price backs out as headlining speaker at anti-immigration rally due to feature Tommy Robinson
Exclusive: Rallies, organised by anti-lockdown protester Monica Smit and others, are set to go ahead in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane at the end of November
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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mark-s2436.bsky.social
Spotted this reflection of the clouds and blue sky in this cute little Robins eye 😁 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#Wales #ornithology #birds #🪶
#Canoncamera #ukwildlife #photo
#coastline #countryside #Cymru
#birdsoftheworld #photography
#reflection #pembrokeshire #Robin
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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alan678.bsky.social
Good morning. Sunday, a day of calm reflection. A wallpaper capture taken yesterday as the low morning sun gently laid its warmth on this Mute Swan in #Ireland #Swanday #photography #birds #EastCoastKin #Stunday
A graceful mute swan glides across calm, dark-blue water, its pure white feathers glowing softly in the golden sunlight. The swan’s reflection is perfectly mirrored beneath it, creating a serene, symmetrical image against the still surface of the lake.
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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btdtutoring.bsky.social
ADHD Focus Hack: Background noise. For a neurodivergent brain, silence equals under-stimulation, leading to restlessness. Low-level noise (white noise, instrumental music) provides the necessary sensory input to scratch that 'stimulus itch' and keep you on task.
#Neurodiversity #ExecutiveFunction
October 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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globalgyno.bsky.social
"Complicity in torture represents not only a violation of several legal covenants and ratified agreements but also the profound betrayal of medical transforming medicine from an act of care into one of repression."
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Torture and health worker complicity in Israeli detention sites
Multiple credible reports have emerged since 2023 detailing the torture and inhumane treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli detention sites.12345678 At least 75 Palestinians—including children—have...
www.bmj.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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sarahpolo10.bsky.social
Hey, hey it's Monday that day of the week where we celebrate all the small to big wins with everything in between. Mine is that I had wrist surgery last Tuesday and I have got to take off the bandages yesterday so that I could have a shower without a plastic bag. What's yours?
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Before ACA, many Americans couldn’t afford insurance

Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26

He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums

He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance
Insulin's High Cost Leads To Lethal Rationing
Alec Raeshawn Smith was 23 when diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and 26 when he died. He couldn't afford $1,300 per month for his insulin and other diabetes supplies, so he tried to stretch the doses.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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socialmedialab.ca
Some good news: Big Bird and Elmo found a new home: "‘The second coming we all deserve!’ Sesame Street goes global at long last" www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘The second coming we all deserve!’ Sesame Street goes global at long last
After decades of struggle, the warm-hearted kids’ programme has been rescued by Netflix. This could be the start of a partnership as enduring as Bert and Ernie’s
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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yungenchee.bsky.social
Exciting!
Endangered, cryptic eastern ground parrot found well outside known areas of occurrence in Narawntapu National Park
Endangered parrot found in northern Tasmania for first time in decades
The presence of an endangered and "cryptic" parrot species at a northern Tasmanian national park has been hailed as "very good news" by a bird expert.
www.abc.net.au
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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drbex.bsky.social
This is horrific.

It also disproportionately impacts on women who go back to retrain later in life- mostly after time at home engaging in care duties.

Now, older women are forced into poverty by this cruel neoliberal system we're in.
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Silver lining is Mike Johnson has to come up with new reasons not to release the Epstein files
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM