Jo S
@jos1988.bsky.social
Never bored, never boring. Advocate and Educator.
Live boldly, love deeply. ❤️
Live boldly, love deeply. ❤️
Horrifying.
We need to encouraging the excellent educators to stay.
More training, better support and pay, lower ratios. More focus on the children vs paperwork.
youtu.be/kPY67M9A0CE?...
We need to encouraging the excellent educators to stay.
More training, better support and pay, lower ratios. More focus on the children vs paperwork.
youtu.be/kPY67M9A0CE?...
Disturbing cases of neglect and abuse in childcare centres exposed | 7.30
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
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May 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Horrifying.
We need to encouraging the excellent educators to stay.
More training, better support and pay, lower ratios. More focus on the children vs paperwork.
youtu.be/kPY67M9A0CE?...
We need to encouraging the excellent educators to stay.
More training, better support and pay, lower ratios. More focus on the children vs paperwork.
youtu.be/kPY67M9A0CE?...
History repeats.
It’s up to us to listen.
The awful shame is that it is a privilege to be able to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
It’s up to us to listen.
The awful shame is that it is a privilege to be able to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
History repeats.
It’s up to us to listen.
The awful shame is that it is a privilege to be able to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
It’s up to us to listen.
The awful shame is that it is a privilege to be able to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
This is how my views compare with the election candidates in the upcoming Australian election according to @VoteCompass. Try it for yourself! #AusPol #AusVotes
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My Vote Compass Results - 2025 Australian Election
Vote Compass calculated my alignment with the candidates running in the 2025 Australian election. Try it for yourself!
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April 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is how my views compare with the election candidates in the upcoming Australian election according to @VoteCompass. Try it for yourself! #AusPol #AusVotes
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US tourism industry faces drop-off as immigration agenda deters travellers https://twp.ai/1VwGpq
US tourism industry faces drop-off as immigration agenda deters travellers
Westerners increasingly hesitant to travel to US out of fear of arrests and detentions as Trump enforces crackdown
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March 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
US tourism industry faces drop-off as immigration agenda deters travellers https://twp.ai/1VwGpq
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AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together
March 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together
Systemic failures in childcare - what a surprise!
Except it isn’t - particularly if you have been listening to educators, many of whom are leaving in droves.
Good care takes empathy, time, money, and passion. A manager can make or break a service.
amp.abc.net.au/article/1050...
Except it isn’t - particularly if you have been listening to educators, many of whom are leaving in droves.
Good care takes empathy, time, money, and passion. A manager can make or break a service.
amp.abc.net.au/article/1050...
Tens of thousands of children attend childcare centres that fail national standards - ABC News
amp.abc.net.au
March 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Systemic failures in childcare - what a surprise!
Except it isn’t - particularly if you have been listening to educators, many of whom are leaving in droves.
Good care takes empathy, time, money, and passion. A manager can make or break a service.
amp.abc.net.au/article/1050...
Except it isn’t - particularly if you have been listening to educators, many of whom are leaving in droves.
Good care takes empathy, time, money, and passion. A manager can make or break a service.
amp.abc.net.au/article/1050...
Nothing is ever perfect… but!
While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
January 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Nothing is ever perfect… but!
December 20, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Vale John Marsden.
As a teen, I loved his books - they were friends in a dark time.
As an adult, I found his philosophy around children and learning inspiring, challenging and thought provoking.
Be at peace, John. Thank you.
As a teen, I loved his books - they were friends in a dark time.
As an adult, I found his philosophy around children and learning inspiring, challenging and thought provoking.
Be at peace, John. Thank you.
John Marsden, the gifted Australian writer, has died, aged 74. Marsden wrote over 40 books in his lifetime, including the "Tomorrow, When The War Began" series. 📚 😔
Photo credit: ABC News.
Photo credit: ABC News.
December 19, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Vale John Marsden.
As a teen, I loved his books - they were friends in a dark time.
As an adult, I found his philosophy around children and learning inspiring, challenging and thought provoking.
Be at peace, John. Thank you.
As a teen, I loved his books - they were friends in a dark time.
As an adult, I found his philosophy around children and learning inspiring, challenging and thought provoking.
Be at peace, John. Thank you.
A powerful reminder in the busiest of seasons. ❤️
December 15, 2024 at 10:12 AM
A powerful reminder in the busiest of seasons. ❤️
What a ‘surprise’.
I wonder why we have a domestic violence problem.........
Former Supreme Court judge sentenced after breaching domestic violence order: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-13/former-judge-gregory-geason-serve-time-community-avo-breach/104721736
December 15, 2024 at 5:03 AM
What a ‘surprise’.
Again, history repeats.
December 15, 2024 at 4:59 AM
Again, history repeats.
All I can can say - look to 1930’s Germany. History repeats.
For nearly eight years we have been warning about “autocratic capture,” the phenomenon by which aspiring autocrats threaten to wield the state against business leaders to coerce their loyalty. And here we are. More from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social here: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how...
December 15, 2024 at 4:57 AM
All I can can say - look to 1930’s Germany. History repeats.
As a childcare worker for over 20 yrs, this case horrifies me. Where were the safeguards? An in-depth review of practices and procedures industry wide needs to happen.
Trigger warning. ‼️
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Trigger warning. ‼️
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Ashley Griffith committed ‘depraved’ abuse at childcare centres for nearly 20 years. Were warning signs ignored? — Guardian Australia
As one of Australia’s worst paedophiles is sentenced to life in prison for 307 sexual offences, parents and victims demand answers
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November 29, 2024 at 8:36 PM
As a childcare worker for over 20 yrs, this case horrifies me. Where were the safeguards? An in-depth review of practices and procedures industry wide needs to happen.
Trigger warning. ‼️
apple.news/AKxwKBqciR-e...
Trigger warning. ‼️
apple.news/AKxwKBqciR-e...
I believe so passionately in Voluntary Assisted Dying.
As someone with chronic health conditions, and history of cancer- when it is time, I would like the grace to choose my day, on my terms.
www.mamamia.com.au/brittany-may...
As someone with chronic health conditions, and history of cancer- when it is time, I would like the grace to choose my day, on my terms.
www.mamamia.com.au/brittany-may...
'When my wife was diagnosed with a brain tumour at 29, she knew exactly how she would spend her final day.'
"She was not going to allow cancer to be in the driving seat," Dan tells Mamamia.
www.mamamia.com.au
November 28, 2024 at 12:29 AM
I believe so passionately in Voluntary Assisted Dying.
As someone with chronic health conditions, and history of cancer- when it is time, I would like the grace to choose my day, on my terms.
www.mamamia.com.au/brittany-may...
As someone with chronic health conditions, and history of cancer- when it is time, I would like the grace to choose my day, on my terms.
www.mamamia.com.au/brittany-may...
Well, just imagine the results 10 years on - or longer!
Poverty serves no one except the wealthy and privileged.
Poverty serves no one except the wealthy and privileged.
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
www.businessinsider.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Well, just imagine the results 10 years on - or longer!
Poverty serves no one except the wealthy and privileged.
Poverty serves no one except the wealthy and privileged.
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Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94.
His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.
His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.
November 25, 2024 at 2:50 AM
Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94.
His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.
His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.
What. A. Surprise.
As a candidate, Donald Trump insisted he knew nothing about the far-right Heritage Foundation's authoritarian Project 2025 playbook. But as president-elect, Trump is appointing some of its authors to powerful positions in his Cabinet.
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Here are the 5 Project 2025 authors Trump has already nominated for his Cabinet
As a candidate, Donald Trump insisted he knew nothing about the far-right Heritage Foundation's authoritarian Project 2025 playbook. But as president-elect, Trump is appointing some of its authors to ...
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November 23, 2024 at 3:51 AM
What. A. Surprise.
I still find it unusual that nearly every single house on my tiny country town street growing up ended up with some form of cancer. Mine was endometrial cancer - diagnosed at 35.
Sadly we lost too many, too young.
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Sadly we lost too many, too young.
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Lifestyle and the ‘lag effect’: What’s causing the rise of early onset cancer — The Sydney Morning Herald
Since 1990, cancer in people aged 18 to 49 has increased by 80 per cent worldwide. But why?
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November 22, 2024 at 2:49 AM
I still find it unusual that nearly every single house on my tiny country town street growing up ended up with some form of cancer. Mine was endometrial cancer - diagnosed at 35.
Sadly we lost too many, too young.
apple.news/APrFBQGvwSlK...
Sadly we lost too many, too young.
apple.news/APrFBQGvwSlK...
Well said.
Unfortunately, men’s lives are still worth more than women’s.
Unfortunately, men’s lives are still worth more than women’s.
November 21, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Well said.
Unfortunately, men’s lives are still worth more than women’s.
Unfortunately, men’s lives are still worth more than women’s.
Quite simply - because women don’t matter to Trump or his cronies. And to a lesser extent, the press too.
Look how Domestic and Family violence is reported.
Look how Domestic and Family violence is reported.
Just think about this: Trump nominated someone facing credible accusations of raping a minor. A minor.
Why isn’t the press relentlessly questioning HIM about this nomination and what the hell he was thinking? Where is the same fervor and outrage they showed about Joe Biden’s age? 🤷🤷🤷
Why isn’t the press relentlessly questioning HIM about this nomination and what the hell he was thinking? Where is the same fervor and outrage they showed about Joe Biden’s age? 🤷🤷🤷
November 21, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Quite simply - because women don’t matter to Trump or his cronies. And to a lesser extent, the press too.
Look how Domestic and Family violence is reported.
Look how Domestic and Family violence is reported.
November 20, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Ooof.
ICYMI: The gov & Coalition are on the cusp of passing legislation that will give the major parties 10s of millions of dollars more in funding - from the taxpayer.
Annabel Crabb nails it: “We’re asking the public, in a cost of living crisis, to fund a narrowing of their choices.”
Annabel Crabb nails it: “We’re asking the public, in a cost of living crisis, to fund a narrowing of their choices.”
November 20, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Ooof.
See: Michelle Duggar.
Republicans don’t give a fuck if you have sex with minors, but don’t you dare use the bathroom of your own choosing.
November 19, 2024 at 7:16 PM
See: Michelle Duggar.