Michael 🌈🇦🇺🇱🇧🩸
@mickz1970.bsky.social
Hard worker, like to keep informed about politics and international affairs. Live Melbourne Australia. Fuck Ley, Reinhardt, Hanson, Palmer, Trump and JD Vance. Go the Pies!!!! No DM's - you will be blocked.
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Our culture treats success as virtue and failure as a personal flaw – a sharp break from older traditions that saw failure as meaningful and transformative. We need to recover that wisdom in an age of burnout.
#Culture #Philosophy #MentalHealth #Burnout #Neoliberalism #Arts #Society
#Culture #Philosophy #MentalHealth #Burnout #Neoliberalism #Arts #Society
Led Zeppelin, my band that never ‘made it’, and the lost art of failure
Our culture treats success as virtue and failure as personal flaw. Older traditions – from Greek tragedy to Christian thought – saw failure as meaningful. Recovering that wisdom may be essential to living with dignity in an age of burnout.
johnmenadue.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Our culture treats success as virtue and failure as a personal flaw – a sharp break from older traditions that saw failure as meaningful and transformative. We need to recover that wisdom in an age of burnout.
#Culture #Philosophy #MentalHealth #Burnout #Neoliberalism #Arts #Society
#Culture #Philosophy #MentalHealth #Burnout #Neoliberalism #Arts #Society
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Australia’s longest and deadliest conflict is no longer deniable. The Australian Wars gathers generations of research and testimony into one defining volume — and makes clear that the truth is here. Time to reckon with it. #FrontierWars #TruthTelling #TheAustralianWars #PearlsandIrritations
Massacres, memory and the Memorial: facing our most deadly war
The evidence is overwhelming – Australia’s Frontier Wars were real, deadly, and long, and a landmark new book lays it out in full. So when will the Australian War Memorial fully face the truth?
johnmenadue.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Australia’s longest and deadliest conflict is no longer deniable. The Australian Wars gathers generations of research and testimony into one defining volume — and makes clear that the truth is here. Time to reckon with it. #FrontierWars #TruthTelling #TheAustralianWars #PearlsandIrritations
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Henry Reynolds’ latest book argues that understanding Australia from the “top down” — starting with the North — reveals a deeper, often ignored history of violence, race relations and cultural complexity. #AustralianHistory #TruthTelling #HenryReynolds #NorthQueensland #FirstNations #BookReview
Henry Reynolds’ bold, new book takes a top-end view of Australian history
First Nations people please be advised this article speaks of racially discriminating moments in history, including the distress and death of First Nations people.
johnmenadue.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Henry Reynolds’ latest book argues that understanding Australia from the “top down” — starting with the North — reveals a deeper, often ignored history of violence, race relations and cultural complexity. #AustralianHistory #TruthTelling #HenryReynolds #NorthQueensland #FirstNations #BookReview
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The Democrats need to show America that they can be better trusted to bring prices down and real wages up. Robert Reich outlines 10 steps they could follow in what should constitute the Democrats’ pledge to America. #auspol #USpolitics
Five reasons Trump’s economy stinks and 10 things the Dems should do about It
The Trump economy is truly awful for most Americans. Democrats need to show America that they can be better trusted to bring prices down and real wages up.
johnmenadue.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Democrats need to show America that they can be better trusted to bring prices down and real wages up. Robert Reich outlines 10 steps they could follow in what should constitute the Democrats’ pledge to America. #auspol #USpolitics
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On the more hopeful side of this ledger, there is a political wildfire afoot nationwide – some are calling it a Democratic “Tea” Party. Millions are fed up, not only with #Trump but with the stultifying Democratic establishment. #auspol #USPolitics
US Democrats cave once more
The perils of unprincipled, performative so-called “resistance.”
johnmenadue.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
On the more hopeful side of this ledger, there is a political wildfire afoot nationwide – some are calling it a Democratic “Tea” Party. Millions are fed up, not only with #Trump but with the stultifying Democratic establishment. #auspol #USPolitics
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US allies and partners across the Asia-Pacific must anticipate more than just a future in which the US is unwilling to lead on the security, economic and diplomatic fronts, a future in which the US cannot lead, regardless of who is in power. #auspol #AsiaPacific
A United States that is disintegrating and no longer a leader in Asia
The second Trump administration has transformed US foreign policy, with immediate implications for economic and security ties with Asia and long-term implications for regional and global order.
johnmenadue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
US allies and partners across the Asia-Pacific must anticipate more than just a future in which the US is unwilling to lead on the security, economic and diplomatic fronts, a future in which the US cannot lead, regardless of who is in power. #auspol #AsiaPacific
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Real peace would require dismantling these myths. It would mean acknowledging that no people are chosen, that no nation owns perpetual victimhood, and that every human life, Israeli or Palestinian, is of equal worth. #auspol #Israel
The three core myths driving Israel’s war on Palestine
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, one of the most outspoken moral critics within Israel itself, once summarised what he called the “three core values of Israeli society”: the belief that Jews are the ch...
johnmenadue.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Such is Marwan Barghouti's standing that he is respected by all Palestinian factions and acknowledged as a unifying figure, a peacemaker and someone who should be leading Palestine not getting his head punched by Israeli thugs. @bobbobnz #auspol #Israel #palestine
Palestinian Mandela beaten unconscious. Our leaders yawned and looked away
Israel and the West pretend they want a real peace in Israel-Palestine yet the Israelis just beat unconscious the man most likely to help realise a sustainable end to the conflict: Marwan Barghouti.
johnmenadue.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Such is Marwan Barghouti's standing that he is respected by all Palestinian factions and acknowledged as a unifying figure, a peacemaker and someone who should be leading Palestine not getting his head punched by Israeli thugs. @bobbobnz #auspol #Israel #palestine
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Chris Uhlmann continues his pathetic descent into unhinged right wing climate denying nut job.
Far right journo Chris Uhlmann on #SkyAfterDark tells Peta Credlin that just bcoz he believes climate change is “the largest scare campaign in human history”, it doesn’t give people a right to label him a climate denier or to say that he’s “denying the science.”
Yes it does.
Yes it does.
September 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Chris Uhlmann continues his pathetic descent into unhinged right wing climate denying nut job.
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Better drugs and easier dosing leads to declines in HIV drug resistance (hurrah!).
HIV Drug Resistance Is Declining Over Time
Resistance to multiple classes of antiretroviral is now uncommon but is seen more often in archived viral DNA from older people.
www.poz.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Better drugs and easier dosing leads to declines in HIV drug resistance (hurrah!).
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As someone who has spent a large chunk of his life sharing scientific medical information, it drives me to despair to see the most powerful man in the world, and his henchpeople, callously share disproven medical theories and harmful nonsense.
Don’t trust Trump.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Don’t trust Trump.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
September 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
As someone who has spent a large chunk of his life sharing scientific medical information, it drives me to despair to see the most powerful man in the world, and his henchpeople, callously share disproven medical theories and harmful nonsense.
Don’t trust Trump.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Don’t trust Trump.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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🚨NEWS today in global #HIV prevention!🚨
Lenacapavir, an HIV prevention shot conferring virtually 100% protection against infection, will be available for $40/yr in 120 countries starting in 2027.
Read www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h... including bad news/good news/what’s next from me >>
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Lenacapavir, an HIV prevention shot conferring virtually 100% protection against infection, will be available for $40/yr in 120 countries starting in 2027.
Read www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h... including bad news/good news/what’s next from me >>
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Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
🚨NEWS today in global #HIV prevention!🚨
Lenacapavir, an HIV prevention shot conferring virtually 100% protection against infection, will be available for $40/yr in 120 countries starting in 2027.
Read www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h... including bad news/good news/what’s next from me >>
A thread
Lenacapavir, an HIV prevention shot conferring virtually 100% protection against infection, will be available for $40/yr in 120 countries starting in 2027.
Read www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h... including bad news/good news/what’s next from me >>
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Stephen Miller looks like a necromancer tried to resurrect a bag of dicks but mostly failed
September 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Stephen Miller looks like a necromancer tried to resurrect a bag of dicks but mostly failed
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JD's grandma thought she could make his BJ lovin' ways disappear. He is after two things now. 1) Destroy Free Speech, and getting rid of tRump to fix the fragmented MAGA BASE. Our mission is to expose Maybelline Vance, and call out those who target LGBTQ+ Peoples.
September 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
JD's grandma thought she could make his BJ lovin' ways disappear. He is after two things now. 1) Destroy Free Speech, and getting rid of tRump to fix the fragmented MAGA BASE. Our mission is to expose Maybelline Vance, and call out those who target LGBTQ+ Peoples.
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Antarctic expeditioners join research project to help astronauts on space missions
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... via @ABCaustralia
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Understanding 'brain shrink' at Antarctica could help astronauts
Expeditioners at Australia's Antarctic stations are taking part in a research project to better understand the cognitive and physiological impacts of extended deployments — which can include actual "b...
www.abc.net.au
September 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Antarctic expeditioners join research project to help astronauts on space missions
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... via @ABCaustralia
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... via @ABCaustralia