In case you've forgotten a certain viral disease COVID-19, in the past week there were 50,811 new cases in Oz. A conservative estimate is that 2,500 will develop Long Covid. 329 lives were lost and more than 2,000 people are in hospital. It's not over. Anthony Albanese Dan Andrews

Wounded Ukrainian defender shows how #AFU fighters are taken to #Germany for treatment #EU and #NATO countries are not only helping #Ukraine directly with arms, equipment and soldier training, but also with medical treatment and rehabilitation.

This is incredible - Iranians are fighting back like I’ve never seen before.

This is how the Russian-Georgian border looks now.

Georgia: 2008 and 2022.

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Some really great upgrades in this release, and as always totally free as in beer and free as in speech!

Twitter users suggested a new logo for the social network.

The open-source software which can save you a ton of work. → Umami - alternative to Google Analytics → Uptime Kuma - uptime monitoring like Uptime robot → NocoDB - convert DB to spreadsheets → Discourse - discussion platform → Supabase - Firebase alternative

Two things about the Socceroos: - they represent Australia with the spirit we love to see - they represent Australia with the diversity we love to be

Wish for miracles? 🇺🇦 create them themselves. Want faith, hope? Both have been in the army for a long time. Want light? It's in each of us. Today it's only one wish. It'll come true not by a miracle, but our work. Fight. Mutual aid. Humanity. Happy New Year! Year of our victory

A man is on a street corner in Moscow yelling “The president is an idiot “ Police surround him and handcuff him. They say, “It is illegal to insult President Putin.” He says, “You don’t understand I mean the Ukrainian president, Zelensky, he is the one I was insulting. “ The

IN FULL: Former PM Paul Keating addresses National Press Club today on the Albanese Government's AUKUS pact . youtube.com/live/VmgxAoa1n… via YouTube

After watching last night's #FourCorners by Louise Milligan I've contributed to Matt's legal fund so he can fight the shocking bastards at the Scouts (having been a scout myself). You should too: mattvscouts.com.au

Astro was just named Breakthrough Project of the Year at JSNation! Thank you to everyone who voted! 💜

Deaths per million from COVID as at May 2023 : USA 3481/UK 3290/ Sweden 2387/Australia 808. In 2020, had Australia adopted neo-liberal Covid policies, we would have had UK/US and Swedish outcomes. Passive acceptance no substitute for preventive action.

Absolutely chilling to see Leaflet being used for this purpose. Ukrainian volunteers risking their lives to save people trapped by Russia-made flood, while Russians leave them to die and shoot at rescuers. #RussiaIsATerroristState #RussiaBlewTheDam

ABC News is bad already, crammed with crime stories and scandalously missing big international news. Sacking Andrew Probyn and replacing him with junior reporters who can get stuff on TikTok will drive down audience even further. The chair and board must reverse this.

Wish I had time to join in the festival of cricket opeds today, but this is about as far as I got