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RHW, 4 months ago to random

#measles #CBR
From #GuardianLive

People who may have been exposed to the virus in the following locations should monitor for symptoms:

Air India flight AI 302 from Delhi to Sydney, arriving in Sydney on Saturday 20 January at 8.10am.
Sydney airport – Terminal 1 international arrivals (including baggage claim and customs) and Bay 9, bus and coach bays, on the morning of Saturday 20 January
Murrays Sydney to Canberra express bus, departing Sydney international airport around 10.30am on Saturday 20 January. ACT Health is contacting individuals who travelled on this bus service.
The director of the communicable diseases branch of NSW Health, Dr Christine Selvey, said while these locations pose no ongoing risk, if you, or someone you know, were on this flight or visited the above locations at those times it is important to be on the lookout for symptoms:

RHW, 4 months ago to random

'His name at home shredded, Scott Morrison looks overseas for a fresh start. Will he find his people?'

The only place Morrison is fit for is the horror that Republican US has become. He will thrive in their hate-ridden patriarchal cult churches.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2024/jan/23/his-name-at-home-shredded-scott-morrison-looks-overseas-for-a-fresh-start-will-he-find-his-people?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

RHW, 4 months ago to random

'Fleming points out that it is possible to improve employee wellbeing by focusing on more structural aspects of work. These include improving pay, providing secure contracts, giving employees some flexibility and control over their work schedule, and providing opportunities for upskilling and mentoring.'

How amazing. /s

Work ‘wellness’ programmes don’t make employees happier - but I know what does
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/17/work-wellness-programmes-dont-make-employees-happier-but-i-know-what-does?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

RHW, 5 months ago to auspol

#Auspol
'He is from the school of “punishers” and “straighteners”, as historian Manning Clark so vividly labeled them, with a mindset intolerant of allowing any disagreement to escape a disproportionately large penalty.'

Dutton’s Woolworths ban is pure political positioning – but who would be suckered in by it?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/13/duttons-woolworths-ban-is-pure-political-positioning-but-who-would-be-suckered-in-by-it?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

RHW, 5 months ago to random

#UKpol For those too young to know, here is article on one of many reasons why Thatcher was hated.

‘The officer could have smashed her skull’: the 1984 miners’ strike in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/jan/11/1984-miners-strike-photography-martin-parr-foundation?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

dilmandila, 5 months ago to books

Oh my God! Oh fck! I wake up to this big news and all I can say is fck! I went to bed having read something about Philip K Dick Awards (I can't even remember what I read about it!) and I wake up to learn that my book, Where Rivers Go To Die, has been nominated for this and its a big deal to me and all I can day is f*ck! What a way to start the year!

https://www.norwescon.org/2024/01/09/2024-philip-k-dick-award-nominees-announced/

@bookstodon #books #sff #book #writing #writingcommunity

RHW, 5 months ago to random

This computer-error caused incrimination is horrendous.
How could they not have checked when so many were accused?*

‘I got tarred overnight’: how Post Office Horizon scandal turned victims’ lives upside down
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/07/how-post-office-horizon-scandal-turned-victims-lives-upside-down?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

*Then I remembered #Robodebt.

RHW, 5 months ago to random

Fascinating article and very interesting comments below. Far more than pick of the year, old slang, strine and links to more.
Very sad but apt pick by the writer.

I'm an expert in slang – here are my picks for word of the year
https://theconversation.com/im-an-expert-in-slang-here-are-my-picks-for-word-of-the-year-218286

hollie, 5 months ago to books

It's so weird that you can "follow Jane Austen" on Amazon.

I get what it means in reality, but every time I see links like that I imagine what a horror show so many of these long-dead authors would find Amazon.

#JaneAusten #books @bookstodon

RHW, 5 months ago to random

In #CBR we have had very strange stormy weather over the last few days, but it has given us some beautiful evening skies.

White cloud cover at top with blue below. Cotton wool clouds drift across the blue in white and grey. At the bottom a black skyline of silhouetted trees.

anathema_device, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

I hope everyone, wherever you are, whomever you are with, and whatever you are doing, has a lovely, peaceful, safe, and happy day.

For those of you who find the holidays difficult or lonely, I offer you love, and my company if you want it. I’m around all day today and tomorrow, and online #JoinIn #AtHome #SitTogether

I thank all of you for the fun, the thoughtfulness, and company that you have given me this year. Everyone on Mastodon has been very good for me ❤️

jmcleod, 5 months ago to random

Israel has - over the last 50 years - been truly adroit at manipulating monolithic main stream media message flow. The advent of social media has made main stream media less important. So we're now able to get different views of current events from different international news sources.

Thirty or 40 years ago, most Westerners would have had the following take:
"Israel is good. They were fucked over by the Nazis and they need a safe place to live. Israelis are nice white people in suits, speaking English eloquently. Arabs are bad. Brown men with big beards, wearing funny clothes, always shouting in weird languages and waving AK47s at us. Islam is misogynistic terrorism."

Now, it's: "Hey, wait a minute. Israel is doing bad things. Israel is stealing Palestinian land and treating Palestinians like shit. That's not right. This is not about religion, it's about land. And fairness."

But our politicians and our political systems are locked in to historical relationships and commitments made long ago. It now seems that politicians are only able to speak unfiltered truth when they are no longer actively participating in legacy political systems. See attached link.

The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. Our political systems and their outcomes are out of date. They are completely unprepared to respond to today's reality.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/18/israel-killing-rage-fuel-conflict-50-years-warns-ex-uk-defence-secretary-ben-wallace

RHW, 5 months ago to random

".....a roast turkey with all the trimmings, including sprouts. And beetroot, as for some reason Australians are obsessed with the stuff...."
😁😁 True

A Christmas that changed me: my best friend and I celebrated in Australia – and finally felt like adults
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/15/a-christmas-that-changed-me-my-best-friend-and-i-celebrated-in-australia-and-finally-felt-like-adults?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

chiraag, 6 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon
I really can't recommend Gordon Doherty's Empires of Bronze series enough - it's written really well and he clearly has done his research. What's really fascinating is that the story is ultimately a sad one - the Sea Peoples essentially end up wiping out most Bronze Age civs (other than the Egyptians), but the story has a hopeful ending. The author also does a great job of separating fact from fiction.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/47582

#bookreview #bookrecommendations #bookstodon

RHW, 6 months ago to random

Good news
Jimmy Barnes recovering from open heart surgery after valve replacement
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/dec/13/jimmy-barnes-open-heart-surgery-bacterial-infection?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

RHW, 6 months ago to random

The great climate Cop-out: harnessing the power of a load of hot air
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/dec/12/the-great-climate-cop-out-harnessing-the-power-of-a-load-of-hot-air?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

RHW, 6 months ago to random

'“I would say it’s giving every fossil fuel exporter on the planet everything they need to expand fossil fuel production,” Hare said.'

#Cop28: Australia, US and UK say they won’t sign agreement that would be ‘death certificate’ for small islands
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/12/cop-28-australia-us-and-uk-say-they-wont-sign-agreement-that-would-be-death-certificate-for-small-islands?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

kissane, 6 months ago to random

My copy still isn't here yet but I am EXTREMELY SO PSYCHED about @jomc's WRONG WAY, which is getting top spot on my holiday-break GTR* stack

It's @EndlessBookshelf's book of the year and an excellent holiday gift contender 🎁

Coverage:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780374610661

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a45823821/joanne-mcneil-wrong-way-interview/

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/11/wrong-way-joanne-mcneil-book-review/676028/

Powell's still has copies! https://www.powells.com/book/wrong-way-9780374610661

(* Get To Read)

RHW, 6 months ago to auspol

#Auspol This is 28 minutes long, but just for a change, it is worth a chance to go back and laugh at some of our politicians. And see them in their younger days😉

https://youtu.be/nQbeGaZuyMk?si=DOV-sJ3lnRBCtXpV

anathema_device, 6 months ago to random

The Top Ten Reasons I’m Voting For Dutts in 2024! - John Birmingham

It’s exciting how much everyone in all the newspapers is excited about the inevitable rise and unstoppable victory of Peter Dutton next year, and I hate to miss out on anything, so here are my Top Ten Reasons I’m Leaning Tuber in 2024!

https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-top-ten-reasons-im-voting-for?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=39090&post_id=139600967

RHW, 6 months ago to random

It’s been a crappy year in Australia’s parliament. Won’t somebody think of the cleaners?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/dec/07/its-been-a-crappy-year-in-australias-parliament-wont-somebody-think-of-the-cleaners?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

RHW, 6 months ago to random

I am fed up with institutions, businesses, etc who send out email pdf forms for completion and signature, but do not make them interactive.

We do not all bother to have printers at home or access to those at work.

It is highly inconvenient to expect people, often elderly, to get them printed in a library, or maybe post office, complete and then return by post.

I am happy to see less paper being used and it is easy to provide interactive forms. Am going to start writing to Ministers and Gov Depts as this has happened several times lately.

Are others finding this happens to them ?

RHW, 6 months ago to auspol

#Auspol Katharine Murphy, whose weekend articles always bring me back to a better informed and more balanced viewpoint after distressing weeks.

'The return of a government focused on governing – getting on with substantive things, sometimes not quickly or elegantly enough, but nonetheless ploughing on, trying to do some good rather than fussing obsessively over internecine score-settling, wedging and the dreaded optics – is a welcome development from where I sit.'

I am guilty of wishing the PM was bolder and louder at times, but this article reminds that there are many improvements gradually and steadily being achieved.

Heaven forbid we allow impatience to take us back to Duttonesque aggression or Morrison spectacle ever again.

Albanese is prioritising governing over spectacle – but in an era of zero-sum politics, is it enough?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/02/albanese-is-prioritising-governing-over-spectacle-but-in-an-era-of-zero-sum-politics-is-it-enough?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

RHW, 6 months ago to random

GO #ACT No more gas connections in Canberra - excellent.

If they could curb the hot air on The Hill as well, it would be even better.

https://www.act.gov.au/our-canberra/latest-news/2023/november/canberra-to-be-built-all-electric-from-8-december?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Our%20Canberra%20eNewsletter%20%2030%20November&utm_content=Our%20Canberra%20eNewsletter%20%2030%20November+CID_9bb2923135a7bc17d7e57657bee9596d&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=Read%20more%20about%20the%20regulation

fictionable, 6 months ago to blackfriday

… we've checked and it's definitely #Friday

In fact, for those who celebrate, it's #BlackFriday

So let's do it again: tell us three #books you've enjoyed recently and we'll see if we can come up with something else you might like.

Who knows? You might even be able to find it in a #library

#BookRecommendations #reading #writing #bookstodon @bookstodon