Keeper of the Dram

Important announcement from NSW health.

This really makes me scream, our mental health system is in crisis. To all the wonderful nurses, doctors, counsellors, pyschologists & social workers filling the gaps thank you.

Mental health matters 🙌

Lifeline 13 11 14

Bleach and ivermectin

It's ironic that this is not actually a joke.

😐

In most cases, probably worse. Physical exhaustion is relatively easily dealt with, whereas emotional exhaustion is much more compounding.

Communication from City of Moreton Bay. It reads... “As a result of recent interactions involving People Experiencing Homelessness (PEH) and people illegally camping, City of Moreton Bay's Operations teams have been instructed to remain 50m away from PEH sites until further notice. This is for our teams' safety and wellbeing. This has resulted in missed maintenance, cleaning and servicing of many council owned places and amenities however Council continues to check locations regularly and will resume servicing at this location as soon as it is safe to do so. We thank you and appreciate your patience. Kind regards, CITY OF MORETON BAY City of Moreton Bay”

I have no words.

Fucking hell...

Photo of signage of the front window of a bookshop. Sign reads, “A bookshop is like a map of the world”

A bookshop is like a map of the world

YouTube video by MilesDavisVEVO Miles Davis - So What (Official Audio)

So what?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXk...

If you're talking specifically the US, then ☹️ it's probably going to be beyond the reach of too many. It's an expensive, very expensive procedure at the moment.

Fortunately many other places have excellent universal healthcare.

Your also never going to get the *all* option...there's never going to be an *all* option that will get funded. 🙄

Small wins are better than no wins.

That's not an excuse for not doing better, but a drug that is quite effective and can have a significant impact on the lives of a significant number of women is also nothing to be ignored.

There is still no reliable screening test for pancreatic cancer, testicular cancer (although changes are relatively easy to detect...🤷🏻), ovarian cancer (already noted), many lung cancers, cervical cancer (without invasive screening).

Most decisions on screening come down to risk/reward/cost.

I loved hearing him talk about Ruby.

Australias greatest love story

Lots of crypto bros, & "ethical investment" promotors…that I'm noticing

newsGP - Endometriosis drug Visanne added to PBS Doctors have described dienogest as ‘miraculous’, with its listing expected to positively impact up to 500,000 patients.

Approx 14% of Australian women have endometriosis accounting for 40,000 hospital presentations each year.

Dr Neisha Wratten described dienogest as a ‘wonder drug’.

She predicts the listing will positively impact up to 500,000 Australians

#NurseSky
#MedSky

www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clini....

Statues of music legends Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter unveiled at a Melbourne park The statue is in Atherton Gardens, Fitzroy, known to many in Victoria's Aboriginal community as a gathering place and where members of the Stolen Generations reunited with their families.

#AusMusic

This is right near where Archie finally reunited with his family. A fitting location.

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

👍

Train underpass

📷 #melbourne #photography

Is Jen over here yet?

This is a big issue.

But on every issue it seems Albanese and Labor get some sort of free pass because the alternative might be "somewhat more shit".

I'm astounded so many people accept a bar that is so low.

I had to look twice...

Don't use Google, Facebook, Xitter, or even here.

Start with using Google Scholar.

scholar.google.com.au/scholar?as_y...

Giving it a spin now. (so to speak...)

The cover of Chris Owen’s book ‘Every Mother’s Son Is Guilty’ showing Aboriginal men in chains in Australia c 1900

"Values"

"Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'.

much of which they amplified

Hell no. At least not with the current state of AI

♥️

LONDON - JUNE 16: Viv Albertine from punk band The Slits performs on stage at Alexandra Palace on 16th June 1980 in London. Viv Albertine plays a Rickenbacker 460 guitar.

Viv Albertine born on this day in 1954 in Sydney

Formed The Flowers of Romance with Sid Vicious.
Dated Mick Jones.
Formed The Slits with Ari Up & Palmolive.

Says quite a bit about what they think of their constituents...

2/2 Texas & Georgia stopped investigating maternal deaths now. Do the math. How many women will die & we won’t get that data? 😭 We must demand that women’s lives & deaths MATTER! Call your representatives! Demand Justice!