Receiving a flu shot doesn’t just protect you, it protects all the people you would have passed your flu on to. Among those people may be some who are frail or old.
It takes five minutes, it may save a life and will certainly save some suffering.
Get a flu shot.
Ludicrous that Australia doesn't have thousands of these. We are now years and years behind other countries who have the infrastructure to run everything on renewable energy, & we're still polluting & not taxing the billionaire fossil fuel companies. Clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right.
Saw a reel making fun of people who were expressing skepticism of the #Artemis II images in Instagram comments and while it's true that a lot of folks are just spreading conspiracy theories, there are misconceptions that can just be addressed directly!
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Wow that’s huge news thank you! Lots of Armidale connections in my tree
A great new book about this topic that you would love is Fed Up by Lucy Ridge publishing.monash.edu/product/fed-...
That’s a Cornwall connection, but it looks like a half relationship way back there
Yes! 11th cousin once removed!
It's impossible to take the government's talk of spending restraint seriously while it insists on handing tens of billions of dollars to the US for submarines we'll never see.
We should get the time back that we have spent in our lives dealing with printers!
A lot has been written about the Epstein files lately, but I think this is the best piece. Marina Hyde asks what has anyone in power done to attack the structures and attitudes that allowed the abuse to happen? The answer: pretty much nothing at all.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?
Using multiple lines of evidence, we show that feral cats and red foxes are strongly implicated in most Australian mammal extinctions and in the ongoing imperilment of numerous extant species. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
A large collaborative effort to rebut Wallach and Lundgren (2025).
Screenshot of the word theatrical
I’ll take this as an invitation to the theatre!
So sorry this has been done to you and your work. Is there any other method to report this to #FamilySearch? Perhaps someone here can suggest an advocate or escalation?
The social media ban will leave young Australians in the dark on news and politics. It’s not fair | Leo Puglisi
Since the mid 1990s, Norway has imposed a 56 per cent "special tax" for oil and gas companies, alongside a 22 per cent corporate tax rate.
Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
I really admire you for doing this. It also applies to other instances where we might be sticking with a name or spelling and forgetting to cast a wider net in our family history searches
Here's an idea, Minister Watt, activate your heart and spine, respect the advice of environment, climate and conservation experts, and work with the Greens to get the EPBC Act reform package passed. Your job is to be Minister 'for' the environment, remember?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
What's the best book of this century? We've got 287,990 answers: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/top-100-...
Archives in the news!
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Great coverage on the project Leontine and @camdiglib.bsky.social
#archives #digipres
Nah, you just feel like a stranger in contemporary Australia because of your own outdated dinosaur Liberal views, Andrew Hastie. They have no place here. We’re not afraid of migrants, because they are us. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
“If the most prestigious university in Australia will not fund our most prestigious literary journal, then it makes you question whether or not universities actually care about Australian culture.”
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
A and yes please can we have polls @pfrazee.com
And this is a real thing! Of all the things reading can be, first it has to be pleasurable, and entertaining, and engaging, otherwise people will do something else with their time. And pleasure reading begets more reading, or at least, more than the reading that feels like dutiful homework.
🧵I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about kindness since I've moved here to Aotearoa New Zealand and would like to share some thoughts. (Please bear with me!):
1. Kindness is learned. It's not innate. People are taught kindness by other people. We are creatures that learn by example.
"It has been so long since we have not had culture wars or grievances dominating our politics — or its undertones — it is hard to imagine what it might look like.
It opens up the scope for rational discussion about policy at a time when we need it."
– Laura Tingle
#AusVotes
#AusPol
Thank you Antony Green, for teaching me about Australian politics, and the importance of preferences. Thank you also for introducing my kids to the joy that is the voting geekdom.
Can't wait to see your analysis in the coming days. Happy retirement!
#thankyouAntonyGreen #auspol #AustraliaVotes2025
If you or someone you know needs a refresher on how the Australian preferential voting system works, now is the time to check out Dennis the Election Koala! #auspol www.chickennation.com/voting/
It’s a week till election night. Next Saturday also marks a huge end of an era with the last election for @antonygreenelec.bsky.social. What a marvellous service he has done for the nation. I propose a minute’s silence from politics nerds around the country to give him thanks. #auspol ⭐️
