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Civil responses to my posts sought.
If I want to express myself without response I'll talk into my pillow.

Watching, wrestling, working, dreaming and sleeping in Australia.
Not always clear which is which. #AgedCareBusinesses #WhatHappensAfterYouDie #ArchiveElon #AgedCare #Robodebt #TheColorOfDistance #Dance #PinaBausch #ContactImprovisation #SeaKayaking #HannahNyala #Schnapsen #LibertarianBillionaires #RePurposeMyEducation #HellScapeTheBioSphere #GraeberAndWengrow #DawnOfEverything

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gutenberg_org, to books
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"The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past."
The Waning of the Middle Ages

Johan Huizinga Dutch historian was born in 1872. Huizinga had an aesthetic approach to history, where art and spectacle played an important part. His most famous work is The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919). Other works include Erasmus (1924) and Homo Ludens (1938). via @wikipedia

Books by Johan Huizinga at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6957

Title cover of Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga

skua,
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@gutenberg_org @wikipedia

- saw this in in his "The Culture" and earlier in the .

And here has it back in 1938.

skua, to random
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Boss is putting a unit into the air conditioner at work!

Price is AUD $1250 fitted.

This sort of thing is AIUI absent from facilities, doctor's waiting rooms, classrooms, government department and corporate offices.
Looks clear that it was absolutely necessary with the annual influenza before 2020.

That there are no regulations now at the end of 2023 is ... concerning? a betrayal? a gauge on corporate power?

melissabeartrix, to random
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Half a head of foils ... They can't see me now ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

skua,
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@melissabeartrix

Ahhh, inner city chic - wooden floor, old building not made of glass and cold steel nor covered in colourful flammable composite.
Style without architecture.

rwba, to auspol
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Peter Dutton’s rhetoric is nothing like his border protection record

He should be condemned. In fact he is arguably in contempt of the High Court and should answer for that.

#auspol #BorderProtection #Dutton

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2023/12/05/peter-dutton-border-protection

skua,
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@rwba

claims a passion for protecting .

But surely many of the women and mothers who were (and remain) part of would have been exploited in a nasty part of the - those very vulnerable women.

And Peter went along with demonising the unemployed - who include women and the parents of children.
This demonising was the base of - doubtless deaths of women and kids' parents resulted.

Women and children?

spocko, to TeslaMotors
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The sadness of a owner.
"Days after launch, you sit at a red light. The novelty is gone, you aren't any happier. Maybe it's your imagination but the gaps in the door looks off. You think you saw a car full of teens laughing at you earlier. You're now 100k debt for a meme, and you feel nothing."

skua,
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@spocko

I take a positive view of the situation.

(Of course the following is a dramatic script only and would be illegal in real life. Just say "No" to scrapping brand new .)

Marj: That discretionary purchase is chock full of 4680 lithium batteries!
Very very good for ebikes.

Mike: A metalised Mylar tarp over the truckie to Faraday shield the radiowaves then into a covered trailer, off to a Faradayed workshop and then cut it up and gut it!

skua, to audiophile
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Used to think the #AuthenticReproduction approach of the #Audiophile was the way to go.

Then I read what had been done to the audio data to get it onto the medium. Sheeeeesh - now think whatever sounds good to you is good.

Even (pre-microphone) performance sound is heavily modified by the different psycho-accoustic processing of each listener at that time.

But if cryogenically treated 99.999% silver speaker cables with prime numbers of strands sound good to you and is carbon nuetral then OK.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 30 November 2023

🔹Active cases: 1,946 (-117)
🔹Active outbreaks: 299 (+15)
🔹Residents: 1,334 (-84)
🔹Staff: 612 (-33)
🔹Reported deaths in 2023: 1,281 (+26)

🔸6,048 aged care COVID deaths since beginning of pandemic

🔸686 reported deaths in 2020
🔸226 reported deaths in 2021
🔸3,855 reported deaths in 2022
🔸1,281 reported deaths in 2023

@AnikaWells @Mark_Butler_MP @AlboMP @auscovid19

Source: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/covid-19-outbreaks-in-australian-residential-aged-care-facilities-1-december-2023?language=en

skua,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

The average weekly deaths for 2023 to date come to 27.25 per week.

That was pretty much an average week.

And stil no regulations in sight.

Must be acceptable to to have dieing of an respiratory virus without being regulated.

@AlboMP

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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The World Health Organization authorizes emergency use of Novavax's updated COVID shot in individuals aged 12 and older.

The emergency use listing helps speed up the regulatory approvals to import and administer the vaccines by member states, according to the WHO.

@auscovid19

Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-authorizes-emergency-use-novavaxs-updated-covid-vaccine-2023-11-28/

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skua,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

WHO declare the pandemic emergency over.

But now register this as an emergency use vaccine.

Usually emergencies are declared over once emergencies are over.

Drdind, to random
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The article here is actually about how the Chinese could flood the market to undercut the domestic production of solar cells. You would not get that from the headline, which makes it sound like Biden has created a problem.

The lede is buried. Like very deeply buried.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/us/politics/biden-solar-energy.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

skua,
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@Drdind
I'm thinking that Trump as would be good financially for news corporations.

And the has all that in mind when they support fascism and kleptocracy and corrode Biden.

Jeremiah, to random
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I just invested in Talf Solar to increase its solar installation in Bhārat (India) via a €100 microloan on Trine using repayments from other loans supporting electrification in Nigeria.

Affiliate link where we both get an extra €25 if you use it: https://trine.com/just-invested/273572

skua,
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@Jeremiah
You may want to read Indian author Arundhati Roy on a possible ( well Ms Roy is very clear about it really) relationship between fascism and those in Indian promoting the name Bhārat.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to australia
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New surge of COVID-19 in Australia.

@AlboMP @Mark_Butler_MP @AustralianLabor @auscovid19

Full article here: wsws.org/en/articles/...

skua,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

From the WA Department of the Premier and Cabinet:
Where can I collect free RATs?
WA's free Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) distribution program has concluded.

Register your positive result
There is no longer a requirement for the Western Australian community to register positive RAT results with the WA Department of Health, in line with other States and Territories. The RAT Register has now closed.

firstdogonthemoon, to random
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What happened?! A mere 18 months ago we were all filled with (a tiny skerrick of) hope about the incoming government and now voters are all yeah nah. Whither Albo? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/nov/27/albo-is-ropable-the-polls-are-a-disaster-and-nobody-can-explain-how-this-happened

skua,
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@bigiain @firstdogonthemoon

You predicting Albanese will manage to exceed the & disillusionment?

Missed one chance to when the immigrants were released from indefinite detention.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to NewZealand
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🇳🇿 New Zealand: COVID-19 still NZ's 'biggest infectious disease problem' - Epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker

"Every time you are infected and re-infected, you run all of these additional risks, and we are worried about the mounting burden of long COVID. This is different from the way say influenza pandemics behave," he said.

@auscovid19

Source: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/503358/covid-19-still-nz-s-biggest-infectious-disease-problem-michael-baker

skua,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

The article continues along the usual lethal path.

Last paragraph:
Scientist: "So I do think as a society, we need to be taking a lot more precautions to decrease the risk of catching this virus over and over again."

Capable Interviewer, with adequate grasp of issues, "You've spoken already about vaccination. Are you now calling for increased masking and regulations for transport, businesses and schools?"

But not this time.

melissabeartrix, to random
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Product review

I have to say I like this ... It was suggested that I "should" reduce my coffee in take ... Followed but "I won't ask you to reduce your pot intake"

I picked this one because of the colour ... Like how could a red drink not taste yummy

It is a bit pricey

Hugz & xXx

skua,
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@melissabeartrix
Sunday morning coming down here Melissa.

I'm aiming for 2 non-instant coffees and only before midday.

(Swoon warning: Sit down now if feeling sensitive.)
And trying #Rosemary and Sage herb teas at other times.
It's better than it sounds.
Rosemarinic acid is an ester of caffeic acid the binary oracles tell me.
Mayhap that I get some of the "feel alive" better living through chemistry with these herbal teas.

The phrase, "An ester of caffeic acid" can be repeated as required.

augieray, to random
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A repeated situation that I find annoying and sadly funny: People message me to let me know they got , and they'll tell me how they did so despite being cautious and trying to follow my advice. Then I'll look at their social feeds: Concerts, parties, bars, airports, planes, and conferences without masks.

I can't tell if people purposely lie or if they honestly believe that because they stayed home that one time a month ago, it's reasonable they went to five other crowded, risky events.

skua,
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@augieray

I suspect they're using their feelings as a guide to whether to not attend, attended and don't mask, or attend and mask.

And they masked when they felt fearful and went unmasked where they felt safe.

And got Covid.
And can't understand how.

I had thought that moderately severe consequences would have such behavior re-evaluated

I was wrong.

New prediction: Severe consequences, which I hope don't eventuate, will trigger more rational thought about risk.

melissabeartrix, to random
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Look what I just had !!!

Hugz & xXx

skua,
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@melissabeartrix
OMG Melissa that looks soooo perfectly coloured.

Lemon b?

skua,
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@melissabeartrix
The lemon goo / meringue contrast is where I'm at.

Mmmmmmm

gutenberg_org, to books
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Dutch philosopher and scholar Baruch Spinoza was born in 1632. One of the foremost and seminal thinkers of the Enlightenment, modern biblical criticism,
and 17th-century Rationalism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered "one of the most important philosophers—and certainly the most radical—of the early modern period".

Books by Baruch Spinoza at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/473

Document through which Spinoza was banned by the Portugese Jewish community of Amsterdam, Thursday, 27 July 1656 = 6th of Av, 5416. Escamoth, register of the resolutions of the parnassim (rulers) of the Portugese Jewish synagogue Talmud Tora, Amsterdam. Translation of the Portugese transcription above The Lords of Maamad [the leaders of the community] announce that they have long known of the wrong opinions and erroneous behavior of Baruch de Spinoza and by various means and warnings have tried to turn him away from the wrong path. As they did not obtain any result and, on the contrary, the horrible heresies that he practiced and taught were increasing, as well as his unheard-of behavior on which there are many testimonies that were given in the presence of the mentioned Spinoza, all analyzed in the presence of the Messrs. Chachamim, they decided according to them that an anathema should be imposed on him and that he be set apart from the nation of Israel, according to the following declaration by Jérem: By the verdict of the angels, and the judgment of the saints, we impose jérem, expel, execrate and curse Baruch of Spinoza, with the consent of this Holy community, before the Sacred Books of the Law with its six hundred and thirteen precepts that are written in them, with the jérem with which Josué imposed Yerijó, with the curse with which Elisha cursed the young people and with all the execrations written in the Law.

skua,
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@gutenberg_org

Fascinating.
Now wondering about the historical roots of .

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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VIC COVID-19 Surveillance Report: 24 November 2023

🔹Deaths: 43 (+18)
🔹Hospital: 325* (+8)
🔹ICU: 16* (+2)

*7-day average

🔸Deaths in the most recent 28-day period have continued to increase, with a current 28-day total of 145

@auscovid19

Source: https://health.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-11/victorian-covid-19-surveillance-report-03-november-2023.pdf

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skua,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

Increases in deaths outstripping hospitalisations strongly suggest deaths in aged care businesses. (AIUI many aged care recipients don't go to hospital when they get Covid and instead die in the business's premises.

How are the regulations for those lethal money-churners going

Oh that's right, there aren't any clean air regulations and so hundreds of residents are going to keep on dieing.

how many you thinking will die on your watch?

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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🇬🇧UK: "Politicians and civil servants didn’t have the scientific knowledge necessary to understand research-based advice during the COVID-19 pandemic, a public inquiry into the UK government’s response to the crisis has heard."

@auscovid19

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03706-y

skua,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

Could this discovery extend to politicians and public servants not understanding research-based advice on and well as the handling of the current, and future, pandemics?
🤔🤷‍♀️

sundogplanets, to random
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COOL! The spicy article I wrote about satellite pollution is FINALLY published! "Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide" in Nature News & Views.

This article required weeks of back-and-forth with the editor, the editor-in-chief, and Nature's lawyers, so I hope that means it's a good one.

During this process, I learned that satellite companies are so powerful and litigious that even giant publishers like Nature are terrified of getting sued. Which is...rather worrying.

skua,
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@sundogplanets
" ... even giant publishers like Nature are terrified of getting sued."

The 's new Run-It-By-The-Lawyers section.

Has some symmetry with the earlier Get-Funding section.

GottaLaff, to legal
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🧵Thread via Pagliery: 1/...

Breaking news: In court docs, NY AG just came out swinging against & the appellate judge who freed him up to keep attacking the law clerk at his bank fraud trial.

"A speedy denial is necessary to ensure the safety of Supreme Court’s staff and the integrity" of the trial.

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=lvuRl/IIQvnSR96YY7YJoA==

skua,
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@GottaLaff

Tangent:

That Trump face in the flag device would be the envy of Kim Jon Un and Stalin. And Mao.

Request of a :
Please create and distribute similar images showing Stalin, Mao, Kim Jon, ...

Let's be clear where Trump is headed.

GottaLaff, to Utah
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👎🏻Republican Celeste Maloy was projected to win a Thanksgiving-week special election for the open U.S. House seat in left vacant by her former boss, Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), according to Decision Desk HQ.

She beat out state Sen. Kathleen Riebe (D), the No. 2 Democrat in the Utah Senate, keeping the Utah second congressional district seat in Republican hands.

https://trib.al/xiB9tYz

skua,
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@GottaLaff
Another R who thinks that she can be a nett benefit even if she has to support Trump returning to the WH?

Or does she want Donnie's love child?

dangillmor, to random
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In some dangerous ways, Trump remains above the law. Judges are letting him flout the rules, as Brian Beutler explains here: https://open.substack.com/pub/brianbeutler/p/judges-terrified-trump-law

skua,
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@dangillmor
There is another way to look at Wallace.

She established insurrection.

Now the plaintiffs can try in a higher court to have a different interpretation made of what Wallace help to exempt Trump.

If it is as clear as the article makes out then "Where's the hold-up?"

skua, to random
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I may have been muted/blocked by some supporters of Israel's killings in Gaza as I've expressed a view that the mass killings of noncombatants is a war crime and an atrocity.

Turn about to that is that I'm not attending demonstrations that mix "Ceasefire now" with, "Free Palestine".

I want the killing of children stopped. "Free Palestine" right now obstructs that IMO.

skua,
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@EndemicEarthling
Yes, I know.

Analogy:
The patient has major arterial bleeding.
Any call that divides support for getting that addressed ASAP is out of place.

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