Groggles

How many votes do I need to win a federal senate seat? I figure if a joke candidate like Babet can do it . . . An anti populist senator, there to refute populist nonsense and demand sensible legislation from the government, to question those who play politics instead of serving us. #AusPol

#alt4me please

Fuck.

Sorry they have to say it but pretty cool they do #MusicSky #Music Amyl and the Sniffers show tonight in Nebraska

Woody Guthrie

"There were 89 SARS-CoV-2 sequences uploaded to AusTrakka with dates of collection in the last 28 days (20 April to 17 May 2026). These sequences were from NSW and SA." 🔸NB.1.8.1: 70.8% 🔸BA.3.2: 24.7% 🔸KP.3.1.1: 4.5%

Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report – 22 May 2026 Reported cases in the last fortnight (4 May 2026 to 17 May 2026) 🔸COVID: 3,736 (+8.6%) 🔸Influenza: 1,642 (+0.9%) 🔸RSV: 6,300 (+17.0%) Source: www.cdc.gov.au/resources/pu...

I continue to believe that COVID frequently damages the part of the brain that assesses risk.

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Source: virological.org/t/complete-s...

BREAKING: 1st sequencing from hantavirus outbreak. -99% identical Jun '18 case in Argentina -Andes genome ~ 12 kb across 3 RNA segments. At 10⁻⁴ 10⁻³ subs/site/y--> ~ 1-12 SNV per year -Completely in line with a natural spillover in Argentina from the rodent host in 2018 and now in 2026

Reminder that Trump wanted to inject bleach.

Naming pathogens after the place they are discovered is a stupid idea because it leads to inferences that they don't occur outside those places (e.g., Seoul virus being apparently everywhere)

#Medsky🧪 #IDSky #Neurosky #Vaccinesmatter #NeuroCovid #publichealth Sunday Long🧵 #PostCOVIDsyndrome or LC & #neuroinflammation Across the retrieved evidence, the central consistent finding is that LC with elevated neuroinflammatory activity is associated with

public health people, if you need assistance or have questions, you can DM me. google probably has guides too

genuine plea: please include alt text in your posts so that people with vision disabilities can know what’s in your pics/videos. if public health is going to claim to care about disabled people, we need to be making our stuff accessible, especially during events like this one.

Extremely worth noting - the Black Zine Fair was a masks-required event! And hundreds of folks came and wore masks and had a great time! This is a doable thing, y'all!

Dark LOL

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The American decision to release #Hantavirus into the United States just in time for the #FIFA World Cup really is peak #Trump organisation!

Has he checked their policy on prayer room access?

🚨🎯 Earlier today, @catinthehat.bsky.social posted the most comprehensive 🧵 I've seen about what is known so far about the 2026 Andes Hantavirus situation... threadreaderapp.com/thread/20530...

I really respect statements about shouldering our responsibility and showing solidarity, however, dying in solidarity is not required for infectious disease outbreaks. Will @who.int make it clear to use airborne precautions for emerging and novel diseases?

The Labor Police States are the worst.

They may take Julie Bishop's job, but they'll never take her $800,000 office located 3,092km from where her job was. We'll never see her like again.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. #ceasefire

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... #news #Health

Why are you taking the child without a parent present? -Journalist to Israeli soldier

Looks like they can and do operate under the radar… Dr Staveley a British Jewish doctor reportedly replied "not enough" when asked how many Palestinian babies he had "sniped" You know what to do 🤬🤬🤬

What a load of bullshit.

@canberracat.bsky.social

CHINA JUST DREW A LINE ON AI 👏👏👏👏👏👏 A court in China has ruled it ILLEGAL to replace human workers with AI purely to cut costs. They have put responsibility back on corporations. They can’t automate just to boost margins while workers are pushed out. China has decided that

Aboriginal people from Wreck Bay in NSW used to have a mutual fishing ‘agreement’ with Orcas, they’d drive schools of fish into the bay trapping them and the blackfellas would have a field day returning excess catch to the Orcas. Then a whitefella shot one. They never returned. Thanks arsehole.

I love this yard sign 🩵

The solution to out-of-control private consulting fees is to provide a public service that eliminates the need for most people to pay for private insurance and related fees out of their own pocket. #MedSky

What’s the go with the ‘gold’ eagle?

We’re hosting a group of microbiologists today at #ECDC. They’re a lot bigger than we expected. 🧪 #EpiSky #IDsky 🧵

Exclusive | The US wants access to the biometric data of anyone with even a “nexus” with Australia, obtained documents reveal. Bernard Keane reports. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/27/d...

Holy shit. You guessed it — the new LEGO video is out, and it is 🔥. It’s damn amazing how quickly they make these!!