In light of Orban's loss in Hungary, it is SO vital to go listen to this @naomiaklein.bsky.social interview with @themaybe.org / @alixdunn.com.
Don't mistake the muscularity of anger for real, sustained power. Fascists of all kinds are showing how scared they are every single day.
Hey team, here’s me in a piece about Gaza’s hospitals. youtu.be/pL1sp87iDic?...
“There is something better than science and that is science with a moral compass, science in the service of humanity.”
Moral compass is exactly what’s missing these days
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Thank you for sharing. Vale.
My tribue to Dr Bill Foege and the lessons we can learn from his inspiring life
Lessons From William H. Foege, A Global Health Legend
@forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
Reminder: ICE’s budget has not been renewed — the House voted, but not the Senate — It will take 10 Democratic votes to stop it
Pressure your senators
🧵5 years ago today, the #NuclearBan Treaty entered into force meaning it became legally binding intenational law.
Thanks to the treaty, for the first time in history nuclear weapons are illegal and there is a plan to eliminate them. #5yearsTPNW 🥳
"If education doesn't teach you to resist injustice, it has failed." - John Dewey
Two soft boiled eggs with toast “soldiers” the paper and a coffee all presented in some very sweet vintage crockery with hand painted flowers (that we hardly ever use)
The only place I want to see soldiers in civil society
It’s just so amazing to spend your life trying to help people, only to watch a few incompetent men casually endanger the lives and health of so many more people than you could ever help
Just spoke to my local library - they said they cannot offer extended hours for refuge from the heat as they do not have the funding 😭. Sucks that local councils have to fund this .. where is the Federal Environment minister? They're the ones approving new coal and gas mines.
Just to be clear social media bans are not about avoiding harm they are about avoiding meaningful regulation.
Same
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Victorian Government faces avalanche of opposition over its move against VicHealth
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Improving health and healthcare in remote communities, what will it take? – Croakey Health Media
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you know how when you were a little kid you could go up to people and be like, “you, girl with the pink ponytail, do you want to be friends?” and then you were friends?
you can also do that as a grownup; they don’t want you to know this, but people hardly ever say no
This is accurate
A short-sighted, anti-public health decision. Do they want illness and misery to increase?
"VicHealth folding doesn’t just harm Victoria, it dismantles a global template for how to get health promotion right."
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Photo of President Donald Trump, speaking at a lectern NEW EPISODE | The nuclear option Listen to After America now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts
"No matter what he meant, it was a terrible thing to say."
@drruthmitchell.bsky.social on how Trump's call to resume US nuclear testing sent officials scrambling.
Dr Mitchell, Nobel Prize winner w/ @ican-australia.bsky.social, discusses non-proliferation & the US health system 👉 theaus.in/48BtmgG
So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
The year is 2035. The first astronauts have landed on Mars. They find a cave with a human skeleton and 4 words written on the wall. What are the words? Picture of a rocket and two astronauts
Elon left me here
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
Deloitte also fucked up the same way in Australia www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
the full quote here
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Some people are replying here with things already addressed in this thread and paper, so please click through bsky.app/profile/oliv...
A little newspaper “feature “(shameless advert) for a tattoo enhancing moisturiser-yes but hold on it gets worse… and I quote “the brand uses an Al-assisted formulation to revive ink vibrancy without touching the pigment itself: think antioxidants…” blah blah blah
For the love of god please make it stop…
'we need to expand the tent!' 'to the left also, to include socialists?' 'no no, exclusively rightwards tent-expansion, thankyou'
