The Plodding Historian (Lisa)

I’ll live vicariously through others when it comes to the bowling. 🥴

Chances are pretty high that I’ll be quoting this in my thesis about plague, pox, pestilences and poverty in 16th century Paris, which our last five years have been alarmingly similar to and not in a good way.

I think #COVID hasn’t been normalized because on some level people know they’ve been bullshitted about it, know it’s more dangerous than is let on, and are secretly terrified. That’s why people go “deer in headlights” when you break the taboo and actually say the word.

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#Foundation season 3 finally cometh!

This is what they have done forever and will continue to do until we destroy ourselves.

Sorry, it’s 5 am and this is just triggered the historian in me. Plague, pox, pestilences and poverty is the theme of my thesis about 16th-century Paris. Plus ça change and all that. 😳☹️🤬

The looks on people‘s faces when I say my rheumatoid arthritis is my forever present from #COVID / #LongCOVID. Immediate shutdown of their brain you can see it in their face, in their eyes.

Last year I was talking to my nephew and then he said I have to go because I’m going bowling and I realised that I’d never be able to bowl again now I’ve got bloody rheumatoid arthritis. I bloody loved bowling. Hope you get to bowl again! 🎳

I have the photocopy and I scanned it and it saved in five different places that are logical but factoring in the slight disarray that my little grey cells are in. Just increases my chance of finding it when I’m in contrary or special mood. 🥴🤭

A few months ago, two friends and I started a new group: Writing Mothers for anyone in the Blue Mtns area who identifies as a mum to come together to write and chat. It's been such a great space to commiserate, laugh and lift each other up: www.instagram.com/writingmothe...

Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare bill Amendment intended to kill off legislation that would cut benefits could be backed by up to 100 Labour MPs including senior figures

Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare bill, which cuts disability benefits

Last night at the PLP meeting Liz Kendall asked MPs to back her. 108 have indicated opposition

Fuel the rebellion. Tell your MP to vote against the cruel cut.

Poverty is a political choice

About 20 years ago, I had to do a security vetting thing and I had to remember all of that. Fortunately, my brain functioned then. I filled in that form. I then copied it for myself and whenever that gets asked of me now, I go to that form. 🥴

US health secretary Kennedy to remove all CDC outside experts on vaccines Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is getting rid of all members sitting on a key U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of vaccine experts and reconstituting the committee, he said on Monday.

RFK Jr has fired all 17 members of CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices. The US now has no CDC director and no ACIP.

He alleges this is to reshape U.S. regulation of vaccines, food and medicine. More likely it's anti-vax measures.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Showls now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise

‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event

This is heartbreaking. We have fvcked the planet.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I think there’s many millions who obviously think exactly the same thing. All those worthy winners who did decent wonderful things of being overshadowed by that absolutely horrible man.

I bet he put himself forward for this.

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Sorry. Someone is annoyed. Can you tell? 🥴

I am just loving the solidarity and the care and the comradeship of the women I’ve encountered during this rather visible #perimenopause of mine. Girls rock! 😑

I think Morrison has proven that the Federation is dead. And he pretty much killed it. Back to the states looking after themselves and working together to do things together. Scrap the Federation and start again. Western Australia Australia had it right 126 years ago.

I’m not kidding. I think they have demonstrated quite conclusively over the last five years in particular that they think they are better than all the other states and territories and that they are the actual leaders of the country. And that became even more apparent during the Morrison chaos.

In 2023 when my #JohnFarnhamUterus was going insane with all its farewells, I was purchasing 30 to 40 packets of pads every shop, plus, of course, chocolate. And I knew the ones packed by a woman, ‘cos there was always one or two items of chocolate that I didn’t order. And I did like them. 🤭

Government's squibbing on Robodebt "not good enough": Senator Pocock The Albanese Government is failing to say if it will appoint an outside expert to oversee the NACC's Robodebt investigations.

Scott Morrison is almost certainly one of the “Robodebt Six” referred to the NACC for criminal and civil action.
In Australia we don’t pursue him: we rig the NACC, refuse to investigate…then award him with honours.
“Decision” still nowhere… (ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/government-r...

Any honours for #ScottyFromRobodebt would not only be tone deaf and farcical.

It would be a massive insult to the thousands of welfare recipients and their families who were terrorized by Morrison's illegal scheme - some to suicide. #auspol

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Stop Scott Morrison's Order of Australia

#ScuMo #ScottyTheMessiah
#ScottyTheSnakeoilMan
are only some of the many hashtags associated with the many rorts, scams, lies and actions of self-aggrandisement in the public life of #ScottyFromHillsong. Any OA award demeans the award and those who proffer it #auspol
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Sorting Out Long COVID Symptoms in Babies A new study has identified distinct symptom patterns of long COVID in young children.

MedPage Today: 'Not Just a Cold: Research Suggests Distinct Long COVID Symptoms in Infants and Preschoolers'

As clinicians and researchers continue to untangle the complexities of long COVID in children, Yonker urged pediatricians to keep listening.

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

"We’ve chosen to [break embargo] because we think it’s noteworthy that one of an elite class of Australians is de facto granted honours — especially someone with as ignominious a record as his. On Sunday at 10pm when the embargo lifts? His honour will be swept up in a sea of hundreds of awardees."

Ick. Almost as horrible as that centre for the history of Western civilisation who were bemoaning the fact that the history of the Western world was being ignored and it was all to eastern and indigenous and everything not white western. I don’t know which universities they were looking at. 🤨

I know we girls are just out of control! 😑

"Former" privileged blokes, now desperate-for-relevance old blokes, gasping as they disappear into the fog of yesteryear.

How to annoy Liberal women. Tell them they are ‘sufficiently assertive’ Former Victorian treasurer Alan Stockdale and former Victorian senator Richard Alston fronted the NSW Liberal Women’s Council on Tuesday night to argue why they should continue to run the troubled div...

This is just hilarious.

“Women are #SufficientlyAssertive now,” Stockdale told the virtual meeting of at least 50 #women, “that we should be giving some thought to whether we need to protect men’s involvement.”

#AusPol

I have to admit I am feeling #SufficientlyAssertive tonight. 🤭