Lucy G

Some time ago, I began a practice of organising and recording quotes and chunks of wisdom, music and book recommendations and travel goals. Its called a commonplace book. I opened it up again today after a long break. It took me where I needed to be! Today’s guide was Aldous Huxley…

Thanks to all the wonderful people braving the cold, wet weather to support the pro-Palestine rally in Sydney. There in spirit and planning some email actions asking our leaders to act strongly. #pro-palestine

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

💙 Australian fiction recommendation today:
Lyrebird by Jane Caro.
A cold case murder mystery with wonderful characters and a clever plot. Subthemes of climate change, human trafficking and women’s rights.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #booksky

Farewell, associates. Welcome back assistants On 20 November 2024, Wes Streeting, the UK’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, commissioned Gillian Leng to undertake an independent review of physician associates and anaesthesia associa...

“The review… comments that without core knowledge of the pre-clinical subjects (such as pathology), it is not possible to apply mechanistic reasoning to complex health problems”

Agreed

Training to be a doctor is necessarily long because, simply put, medicine is complex

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Why is measles such a worry?
- airborne
- R0 up to 18
- not just a rash: complications include ear infection/ deafness, pneumonia and encephalitis
- rare but devastating and uniformly fatal SSPE is a known complication
- all entirely preventable with safe and effective vaccine

Measles cases are surging in Europe and the US. This is what the anti-vax conspiracy theory has brought us Nearly 30 years after Andrew Wakefield’s discredited study linking the MMR vaccine and autism, we badly need an injection of rationality

Parents, please protect your children from serious but *preventable* diseases

Give your children the benefit of vaccines that have been proven safe in millions upon millions of people

Vaccines actually work !

The woo anti-vaxxers are selling doesn’t

www.theguardian.com/society/comm...

Britt Hermes is another ex-naturopath whose writing about this very thing is worth reading.

Precipice by Robert Harris on audiobook.
Incredibly skillful narration by Samual West.
Highly recommend! #booksky
#audiobooks

Palestinian woman, 61, who fled Gaza detained by authorities after pre-dawn raid in Sydney Maha Almassri told she had failed a visa character check and taken to Bankstown police station, then Villawood detention centre, cousin says

Palestinian woman, 61, who fled Gaza detained by authorities after pre-dawn raid

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Good Evening from northern NSW 🇦🇺

Good Morning from northern NSW Australia

Maybe he only thinks viruses don’t exist….

An arresting experience no doubt.

"Reporting on the wanton destruction of health facilities, and on the killing of health professionals and humanitarian aid workers is the business of a medical journal."

@kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Update

Another book to recommend! This time I actually know the author.
‘Field Notes from Death’s Door’ by MSF doctor, Katie Treble. This is an honest and funny memoir but also a telling of truth so many of us never knew about atrocities in CAR. #booksky

I highly recommend ‘Once upon a River’ by Diane Setterfield. I fell in love with the characters, and the world they inhabit on the edge of the Thames. An uncanny combination of fantasy and reality really woke my imagination.
#booksky

Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up.

Powerful video…

I’m from before the Internet

Please donate now? Will you help deliver fresh food to more families in remote regional communities going hungry this winter?

A worthwhile cause. Food insecurity is a reality for many.
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Make your #taxdeductoble donation here: donate.asrc.org.au/donatetoday

A mist-erious early morning greets me today.

Today's Berardelli Bonus: Saturday is #ShowYourStripes day. Warming stripes are a colorful eye-catching visual created by @ed_hawkins . They quickly convey how fast our cities and planet as a whole are warming. Get your stripes: showyourstripes.info & www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Jesus Christ this graph. Total and utter political failure.

Good visual explanation of how good Obama’s achievements were nutting out that nuclear deal.

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

My stripes where i live.
Go to showyourstripes to see yours.
We are running out of time wherever we are from.
#showyourstripes

I unsubscribed earlier this year. Not sure where to go now other than bluesky!

Mrs K is a kindred spirit.

Greta Thunberg detained as IDF boards Freedom Flotilla ship bound for Gaza Israeli forces took command of the charity vessel that had tried to break a naval blockade of the Gaza Strip and has detained its crew as it is steered to a port in Israel, officials said.

In Australia:

Israeli army detains Greta Thunberg after boarding Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla ship - ABC News www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

#madleen #flotilla #gaza #greta