Katy D

I forgot how atomised platforms are now - Insta is my primary acc. We have a GoFundMe that has been lifesaving, enabling us to take time off work to manage this crisis. You can read more here about ways to support us and there’s links to cancer charities in my bio x www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-su...

On Monday, I'm talking with an expert about ***indoor air quality***. This is a subject I've been meaning to cover for years. Very interested in the overlap between this & pandemic prevention, climate change, economic justice, etc.

What are your questions about indoor air quality?

Bottom line of systematic assessment of studies on Covid vaccinations/boosters:
~50% reduction of hospitalization, across all adults (not just older) who are not immunocompromised
Real data on vaccine-induced myocarditis: occurred in 1-3 per 100,000 male adolescents
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

I really need folks to stop acting like Trump's goons are somehow emotionless terminators. They are super insecure bullies who desperately want to seem strong and powerful and popular and it kills them inside when they're not. Like Trump.

If you destroy certain quantities of your immune system by repeatedly getting infected with a pathogen that does this…

…it will cause the immune system to become “deficient”.

Gestapo just loves these things!!! DONT you dare point that laser at those plastic shields! DON'T you dare throw down jacks under their tires while they are terrorizing the neighborhood. Please don't think of carrying spark plugs either. Please don't buy an AIRHORN and follow them around. 💯

The image is a table titled “Deaths involving acute respiratory infections by month 2025.” It shows monthly death counts in Australia for three major respiratory illnesses — COVID-19, Influenza, and RSV — from January to August 2025, with totals for each across the year so far. Breakdown: COVID-19: Deaths range from 129 (April) to 350 (July), with the highest counts in June (348) and July (350). Total: 1,703 deaths by August 2025. Influenza: Gradually rises through winter, peaking in July (309) before dropping in August (121). Total: 898 deaths. RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus): Also peaks mid-winter with 116 deaths in July, down to 38 in August. Total: 345 deaths. Columns for September to December are marked “na,” indicating data not yet available. Overall, the table highlights that COVID-19 remains the leading cause of acute respiratory infection deaths in 2025, more than double influenza and nearly five times RSV.

Australia: "Deaths due to acute respiratory infections"

Published: 30/09/2025

Deaths registered by 31 August 2025:

🔹1,703 - COVID deaths
🔹898 - Influenza deaths
🔹345 - RSV deaths

COVID remains the top cause of acute respiratory infection deaths in 2025 — nearly 2× influenza and almost 5× RSV.

Just this week, I know of:

- a girl (9) with new diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes
- a young mother (35) with new crippling migraines
- a man (45) who dropped dead from a stroke on a train platform
- a colleague (50s) hospitalised with sepsis

A friend said "these things always happened."

Taxpayers have paid a fortune to the toxic fossil fuel industries. Most of that money goes offshore with little or NO TAX paid.

With Tawny Frogmouth winning today’s popularity contest, a timely reminder that frogmouths are a
diverse group that extend well beyond #WildOz. Here’s one of the other 15 species, widespread across South-east Asia.

an image of two children with blue surigical mask on reading a children's book. and under that the following is written: Study challenges notion that Covid is ‘mild’ for children — finds life-threatening complications for those sick with virus twice More than 6 million American children suffer from long Covid which can lead to life-threatening complications Thursday 02 October 2025

"Study challenges notion that Covid is ‘mild’ for children — finds life-threatening complications for those sick with virus twice

More than 6 million American children suffer from long Covid which can lead to life-threatening complications"

Julia Musto

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

I am also in this list LOL. Thanks Euan!

Hey, more Data Centers to eat up more electricity and water seems like a really great idea!

COVID-19 linked to rise in autoimmune lung disease, study finds A study in eBioMedicine identifies shared immunopathology between SARS-CoV-2 infection and MDA5 autoimmunity, highlighting a surge in MDA5+ cases and interstitial lung disease during the COVID-19 pand...

www.news-medical.net/news/2024051...
The gift that keeps on giving. #covidautoimmunelungdisease

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.

Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

Batman’s aff his nut Have you seen the way he cuts aboot Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat Batterin guys I was lit at: “Mate, I’m worried aboot ye I know your ma and da died But everybody’s ma and da dies And we’re no aw runnin aboot Hookin muggers and Kickin psychopaths in the baws.” And that was when Batman went “Aye, but do ye ever feel like it? Do you ever look at the world and feel like it? Like having a big mad base under your hoose? Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor that turns intae a tank? And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night? Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?” And that’s when I was lit at: “Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.” And that’s the Secret Origin of Robin And everyone else.

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

You want to mourn people who have been shot & killed? Here are the kids who died in the Uvalde Shooting in 2022. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE, CHARLIE KIRK SAID WERE ACCEPTABLE LOSES SO PEOPLE CAN KEEP THEIR GUNS. That was his opinion! So GUN LAWS NOW because these are the innocent lives that never got a chance to have an opinion.

"You want to mourn people who have been shot & killed? Here are the kids who died in the Uvalde Shooting in 2022.
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE, CHARLIE KIRK SAID WERE ACCEPTABLE LOSES SO PEOPLE CAN KEEP THEIR GUNS. That was his opinion!
So GUN LAWS NOW because these are the innocent lives⬇️

Hospital admissions for Covid hit 10-month high Waning immunity and rising case numbers are the main drivers of the increase in hospital admissions, scientists say Tom Bawden Science & Environment Correspondent September 11, 2025 4:02 pm (Updated 7:30 pm)

UK: Hospital admissions for COVID hit 10-month high.

"Waning immunity and rising case numbers are the main drivers of the increase in hospital admissions, scientists say"

UKHSA data shows hospital admissions rose 8% in the week to 7 Sept, doubling since the end of June.

Source: archive.md/krx36

@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.

Humans Are Altering the Seas. Here’s What the Future Ocean Might Look Like. (Gift Article) Some marine ecosystems could soon be unrecognizable, according to new research. We mapped the possibilities.

“These vast, seemingly timeless seascapes have become some of the world’s most vulnerable marine habitats, according to a new study published on Thursday in the journal Science that adds up and maps the ways human activity is profoundly reshaping oceans and coastlines around the world.”

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YouTube video by The Sunday Shot The Wild West - September 7 - Jesse Noakes and Marian Wilkinson

The #SundayShot is up for your catch-up viewing! Nazis on our streets, Woodside driving Govt policy - we delve into the bleak and search for hope in the future.

Watch, like, subscribe...and, if you can, donate so we can keep providing an alternative to #Insiders.

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Lol siiighhhh!

like seriously. "deportation abundance." are you fucking kidding me.

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This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

Satire?

Big miners have banked $60b in diesel fuel tax credits A Climate Energy Finance report recommends a $50 million cap on the fuel tax subsidy for mining companies to create more cash for green projects.

Australia’s biggest miners have pocketed almost $60BN in diesel tax subsidies in <20 years.

Unless we act, taxpayers lose $84BN more by 2030.

It makes no sense for 🇦🇺ns to pay tax while coal giants get a free pass.

End this fossil fuel subsidy now.
www.afr.com/companies/mi...

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Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know

Single frame. Wasteland. Headscarfed, gaunt woman on ground cradling skinny skeletal child. Gaunt man sitting on upturned bucket at crate as table looking at menu “GHF menu - Starve - Be shot”. Netanyahu as bow-tied waiter saying: “…and for monsieur?”

Choices.
My @smh @theage cartoon.