12/03/2021 9am 🇦🇺 Total 29,092🔺2 HQ 🔬Tests 14.8m ↑ 25k 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 CT 4,277 🔍Inv 0 💉Vac 129k ↑ 4,037 🔴Deaths 909 🔵Vent 0 🟣ICU 0 🟡Hosp 46 🟠Active 117 🟢Recovered 26,218 VIC 🍩 NSW QLD🔺2 HQ WA SA TAS 🍩 ACT NT

A weekend visit to the Australian War Memorial ... came home with, among other things, a good reminder of perspective ... and a reading resup (of course).

the international gymnastics federation literally put restrictions on the amount of points she can score to “prevent other athletes from taking dangerous risks” when in reality it’s because if they scored her fairly it would be no point in them showing up to compete.

Of all the things the female MPs talked about / disagreed upon in #MsRepresented, this is the story almost ALL of them told, in almost identical terms. Might ring a few bells outside politics too. Episode 2 airs 8pm TONIGHT on @abctv

I finished something so that I can start something. I swapped my badge.

This is the best explanation of the Covid Vaccine I’ve ever heard.

Sydney in COVID - still good for an afternoon run, 😷 and all

Your moment of calm 🐺

Just one day in March (1981): Hinkley attempts to assassinate Reagan.

Compliments can be dangerously delicious if you let them ... clarifying standards that you may not have fully seen before, but now must strive to uphold everyday.

I feel like this would increase accidents because if I saw that I would assume it’s a demon arriving to drag my soul to hell.

The pursuit of knowledge and happiness is *never* a waste of time.

I just read -- in the book SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO by Jess Hill -- about the incident in Stockholm for which Stockholm Syndrome is named, and I am royally pissed off on behalf of all women, buckle up.

Australia has a black incarceration rate that is 2.3 times the rate of African Americans, by the way. We are incarcerating black people at SIX times the rate as they incarcerated black South Africans during apartheid. We are the HIGHEST incarcerator of black people in the world.

This article doesn't go far enough. The pathways to the achievement of "healthy" "positive" masculinity is through the respectful treatment of women. Ending male violence toward women is not some by-product of men's healing. It is the path. It is the medicine itself. We don't

The head of a #Dubai-based conglomerate says Afghanistan’s #Taliban authorities have stopped around 100 women from travelling to the United Arab Emirates where he was to sponsor their university education. english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2023…

This officer is resigning b/c he has decided his religious values are supreme to his identity as a professional. OK, that's his choice, but if that's the case, he shouldn't just resign his command--he needs to resign his entire commission. 5/

This is Berlin today. Calling for resistance against the Far Right. All around Germany, people took to the streets in the last days. History tells us: We cannot wait until it is too late and Fascists are in power. We have to stand up to them. NOW.