HOOGS (Hoarder Of Old Game Stuff).

Technically, it's aviation emissions.

Photo of a black bird with red wing facing right while perched amongst small twigs with beak open and with whisps of golden breath leaving trails in the cold morning air

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt

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This week Makary claimed AIDS, Lyme, and COVID came from a lab based on movies and books.

Inmates running the asylum.

So. Silly me.

New normal.

Must investigate screams even if the rest of the world is *literally singing and dancing as they watch their friends collapse, and maybe die*.

Sadly this is probably true.

His colleagues said nothing as he spread volumes of rank Covid disinformation starting in 2020.

Why would they care now?

Barnaby Joyce’s scandals have damaged politics. Maybe it’s time for a change of scenery | Tom McIlroy He was once seen as a Coalition star, but his career in parliament has involved a series of misadventures and bad policies

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Joyce's a disgrace. His "legacy": self-interest, scandal, rorting taxpayer's money, unresolved sexual harassment allegations, sprouting family values while having an affair with a staff member, bringing parliament into disrepute, sabotaging climate action.

Alt text: A screenshot from Thread Reader shows the start of a thread by Zdenek Vrozina (@ZdenekVrozina), dated August 24. The text reads: “A new preprint study shatters the idea that pediatric long COVID is just a mild or different version of the adult form. It shows that children share the same core…” On the right side is a small photo of Zdenek wearing sunglasses. The Thread Reader logo is at the top, and a preview link is shown below the text.

By Zdenek Vrozina:

"A new preprint study shatters the idea that pediatric long COVID is just a mild or different version of the adult form.
It shows that children share the same core immune patterns - and, strikingly, some resemble those seen in chronic infections like HIV"

A webpage from The Sick Times with the headline: “You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely.” The article is written by Philip Hoover and dated November 28, 2025. A subheading below says: “If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.” Below the text is the painting Melancholy (1894–96) by Edvard Munch. It shows a person in dark clothing sitting on a shoreline with their head resting on their hand, looking sad or contemplative. The background features swirling, vivid colors—blues, purples, and oranges—representing the sea, sky, and landscape, with distant figures near a pier. A caption beneath credits the artwork to the Bergen Kunstmuseum in Bergen.

"The problem with Long COVID is that most of society would rather not see it. We want to believe the pandemic was just a bad dream we awoke from years ago. (When I hear someone say during COVID, in the past tense, I want to flip a table.)"

#LongCOVID

Source: archive.md/7Rer1

A screenshot of an article from the Irish Farmers Journal. The headline reads: “‘My life has been shattered by long COVID’”. A subheading explains that long COVID has more than 200 symptoms and significantly impacts daily life. Below is a photo of a woman sitting on a couch, appearing exhausted and distressed. She is coughing into her elbow while holding what looks like a thermometer in her other hand. A caption notes that research shows over 200 long COVID symptoms. At the bottom, the author’s name is listed: Rosalind Skillen, under the Health section, with the publication date Wed 26 November 2025 at 10:00 PM.

“Long COVID has shattered every aspect of my life,” says Ella, who contracted COVID in 2021 at 19 and had to move home. Once active and social, she now spends days in a dark room with “debilitating fatigue,” exercise intolerance, brain fog, nerve pain, breathlessness and many other symptoms.

New Data Shows COVID-19 Infection Much Worse For Children Than the Vaccine "The risk following vaccination is substantially lower than the risk following infection".

A Cambridge-led study of 13.9 million children in England found COVID vaccines are the safest option. The very rare, short-term risk of heart inflammation from vaccination is far lower than the risks from infection, which can cause blood clots, heart issues and severe inflammation for up to a year.

Influenza e vaccino, c'è ancora tempo per vaccinarsi? Cosa dicono gli esperti Tra i virus protagonisti della stagione c'è l'H3N2, sul quale nelle settimane scorse è arrivato un alert dal Regno Unito

Italy: Influenza 2025 season off to a flying start.

Surveillance week (Nov 10–16):

• 446,483 new cases
• 2,185,451 total cases this season
• Highest in ages 0–4: 25.7 cases per 1,000

Young children remain the most affected group.

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Dented trash can

Had a great Craftsgiving with fellow CC folks from 4 different countries!

I made a Bob Wachter’s dented trash can ornament 🗑️

A line-and-bar chart titled “COVID-19 notifications and test positivity by notification week, WA, 2023 to 2025 YTD.” Blue bars represent weekly PCR-confirmed COVID-19 cases in Western Australia, while a black line represents the percentage test positivity. The chart begins in early January 2023 with >1,200 weekly cases and around 10% positivity. Cases and positivity rise and fall in waves through 2023 and 2024, peaking above 1,500 weekly cases in mid-2023 with ~18% positivity. A secondary rise occurs in late 2024. Into 2025, both cases and positivity decline significantly, with recent weeks showing around 64 cases and test positivity just below 2%. The y-axes show up to 1,600 cases on the left and up to 20% positivity on the right. The figure caption notes that notifications to the WA Department of Health decreased to 64 in the past week.

A bar chart titled “7-day average of COVID-19 cases currently in hospital or in ICU, WA, 2023 to 2025 YTD.” Blue bars show COVID-19 hospitalisations and orange bars show ICU cases. Hospitalisations start high in early 2023 near 250 per day, gradually drop, then rise again mid-2023 and mid-2024 with noticeable peaks, before declining into 2025. ICU cases appear sporadically in small amounts during earlier peaks. In the most recent weeks, hospitalisations are stable at around 17 patients per day, with 0 in ICU. The latest data point is for early November 2025. A note clarifies that “hospitalised” refers to active and recently cleared COVID-19 cases still admitted, and ICU is a subset of those hospitalised.

A dual-axis line chart titled “SARS-CoV-2 concentration in wastewater and COVID-19 notification rate, Perth metropolitan area, WA, 2023 to 21 Nov 2025.” The blue line (left axis) shows the 14-day weighted average of SARS-CoV-2 genome copies in wastewater, with large peaks at multiple points in 2023 and early 2024 — the highest reaching around 30,000 copies per 50mL in mid-2023. The yellow line (right axis) shows 14-day average COVID-19 case rates per 100,000 people, tracking closely with wastewater fluctuations but at a lower scale, peaking near 90 cases per 100k during major waves. Throughout 2025, both wastewater levels and case rates decline significantly. The most recent data shows very low detection with both measures near the bottom of their scales approaching 0 by mid-November 2025. A note states that samples are sourced from Perth wastewater plants, missing data is shown with dashed lines, and a more sensitive test was introduced in December 2024.

A figure from a public health report showing two stacked-bar charts titled “Distribution of SARS-CoV-2 variants in clinical samples (top) and metropolitan wastewater catchments (bottom), 03 July 2022 to 23 November 2025.” Each bar represents the percentage share of COVID-19 variants over time. The charts show shifting variant patterns across waves. Earlier periods include BA lineages, then BQ/XBB subvariants dominating through 2023 and early 2024. A sharp surge in a dark-cyan lineage — XBB.1.5-related strains — appears mid-2024 before declining toward late 2024. By late 2025, the chart shows XFG.X (orange) as the predominant clinical variant. Wastewater data is not displayed for the most current period due to undetectable SARS-CoV-2 levels in samples. A note clarifies that weekly clinical sequencing numbers are small and the wastewater data generally better reflects community distribution. The legend includes multiple Omicron sub-lineages such as BA.2.75, BA.5 sub-variants, BQ.1/BQ.1.1, XBB, XBF, KP.3, and XFG-related strains.

WA weekly COVID update: Week ending 23 Nov 2025

🔸COVID positivity rate: 1.8% est. (-0.3%)

🔹PCR cases: 64 (-34.0%)
🔹Hospitalisation: Average cases remained stable at 17 per day (Stable)
🔹ICU: 7-day average remained at 0 (+0.0%)

Source: health.wa.gov.au/Articles/F_I...

A dark-themed table titled “AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update – 28 November 2025.” It lists States and Territories with icons indicating trend direction, percentage change, and reporting notes. VIC: UP +9% — Fortnightly reporting / Weekly update, positivity 3.2% NSW: UP +5.3% — Weekly update, positivity 2.7% (Line break separating NSW from WA) WA: DOWN -34.0% — Weekly update, average 17 per day in hospital, positivity 1.8% QLD: DOWN -11.3% — Weekly update, 34 in hospital, hospitalisations +17.2% SA: DOWN -5.5% — Weekly update TAS: No current trend data — Monthly reporting, next update 12 Dec ACT: No current data — Reporting paused until autumn/winter 2026 NT: No current data — NT COVID reporting discontinued on health website Aged care: DOWN -20.9% — Weekly update, no resident deaths reported The table headers read: State/Territory, Trend, % Change, Reporting Notes. Blue arrow icons point up or down to show changes.

AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update: 28 November 2025

VIC: Up (+9.0%)
NSW: Up (+5.3%)

WA: Down (-34.0%) Avg 17/day in hospital
QLD: Down (-11.3%) 34 in hospital (+17.2%)
SA: Down (-5.5%)

TAS: Next update: 12 Dec
ACT: Paused reporting for 2025

Aged-care: Down (-20.9%) No deaths reported

“The Japanese Ambassador in Australia said, ‘Japan needs Australian gas for keeping the neon lights of Tokyo’, but it’s not true” – Yuki Tanabe at the Climate Integrity Summit 2025.

Sign our petition urging the government to fix our gas export problem: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...

A bunny shares most of a blueberry pie with a family of blackbirds in the woods. The pie has about one quarter slice taken out, but the rest is for the birds. It is almost sundown, just after dinner

Daily bunny no.3152 has lots of leftovers

Disabled people deserve healthcare.

Disabled people deserve housing.

Disabled people deserve food.

Disabled people deserve support.

Our ability to work and produce for capitalism should not determine our value.

Disability is not a moral failing. Most people will experience it someday.

A small clay sword and shield.

The sword and shield are now on the back of a clay frog.

A couple little process pics.

A public health dashboard titled “Friday 28 November 2025” showing data updated weekly for the previous week. Navigation buttons display four categories: COVID-19, Flu, RSV, and Pertussis. The COVID-19 section is visible with a table of key metrics. It reports 152 new COVID-19 cases this week, 10,694 cases year-to-date, and 17,124 cases at the same point in the previous year. It shows 78 deaths year-to-date from COVID-19 and 230 deaths in the previous year. The page specifies that updates occur every Friday at around 12:00 pm.

South Australia Weekly Respiratory Update: 22 Nov to 28 Nov 2025

Reported cases:

🔹COVID: 152 (-5.5%)
🔹Flu: 801 (+10.1%)
🔹RSV: 79 (-15.0%)
🔹Pertussis: 57 (-27.8%)

Reported deaths in 2025:

🔸COVID: 78
🔸Flu: 61
🔸RSV: 12
🔸Pertussis: 5

Source: www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/conn...

A page from the Victorian Respiratory Surveillance Report dated 28 November 2025 titled “Laboratory surveillance.” It explains that COVID-19, influenza, and RSV cases confirmed through lab testing are only part of the total infections in the community, and results may be influenced by testing changes. A summary states: In the past week, COVID-19 notifications increased by 9%, influenza notifications increased by 26%, and RSV notifications decreased by 11%. Three info boxes follow: COVID-19: 9% increase with an orange upward trend arrow Influenza: 26% increase with a purple upward arrow RSV: 11% decrease with a blue downward arrow

A page from the Victorian Respiratory Surveillance Report dated 28 November 2025, focusing on COVID-19. A bar chart titled “COVID-19 notified cases by week, Victoria, 24 November 2024 to 22 November 2025” shows weekly case counts. Cases were high around December 2024 and peaked again mid-2025, then declined into spring before slightly rising again in November. Below the chart are three information boxes: 472 notified COVID-19 cases two weeks ago (9–15 Nov 2025) 515 notified COVID-19 cases last week (16–22 Nov 2025) 9% increase with an upward orange trend arrow

A page from the Victorian Respiratory Surveillance Report dated 28 November 2025, focused on Influenza. A bar chart titled “Influenza notified cases by week, Victoria, 24 November 2024 to 22 November 2025” shows weekly infections separated by Influenza A, Influenza B, and combined categories. Cases are low over summer, peak strongly around mid-2025 near 5,000 weekly cases, then decline but rise again in November. Below the chart are data panels: Influenza A: • 1,808 cases two weeks ago (9–15 Nov 2025) • 2,283 cases last week (16–22 Nov 2025) • 26% increase with a purple arrow trending up Influenza B: • 33 cases two weeks ago • 41 cases last week • 24% increase with a purple upward arrow

A page from the Victorian Respiratory Surveillance Report dated 28 November 2025 focusing on Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). A weekly bar chart titled “RSV notified cases by week, Victoria, 24 November 2024 to 22 November 2025” shows low case levels through summer, followed by a steep increase in winter peaking around July 2025 at roughly 2,000 cases per week, then falling toward late 2025. Below the chart are three data boxes: 193 notified RSV cases two weeks ago (9–15 Nov 2025) 171 notified RSV cases last week (16–22 Nov 2025) 11% decrease with a blue downward arrow

Victorian Weekly Respiratory Surveillance Report: 28 Nov 2025

From 16 Nov – 22 Nov 2025

🔸COVID positivity rate: 3.2% (+0.8%)

🔹COVID: 515 (+9%)
🔹Influenza A: 2,283 (+26%)
🔹Influenza B: 41 (+24%)
🔹RSV: 171 (-11%)

Source: health.vic.gov.au/infectious-d...

Jess 🇨🇦 @MeetJess Watched my neighbor drive off this pm & about an hour later, I saw him come back by foot. I happened to be outside and so asked if he had an issue with the car. He looked at me and said « fuck, it’s still in the parking lot of the store. I forgot I drove there » 😵‍💫 He’s 32. 11:44 AM · Nov 27, 2025 · 55.5K Views

I was going to say this isn’t normal… but with years of an ongoing pandemic, repeated infections, and the cognitive effects COVID can cause, it sadly doesn’t surprise me anymore. So many young people are struggling with memory and focus now, and nobody wants to join the dots.

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The Grenfell flats catastrophe in the UK was a stark warning....

Humans are poor learners when developers can cut corners.

The richest 150 people in the UK get £120,000,000 richer every single day, and that's not share value.

That's profit stolen from you through the Banks, Energy Companies, and Supermarkets they own.

But the problem is someone getting £10 on Universal Credit?