Irene Lomis
@irenelomis.bsky.social
Humanist, avid reader, dog-lover. The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
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COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
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Malcolm Roberts Q backfires after asking CCA Chair Matt Kean if he still stands by a former claim he made that 53% of the world is signed to Net Zero, now that USA/others are out
Kean “No I don’t stand by those previous comments, they’ve been EXCEEDED since then.”💥 #Estimates
Kean “No I don’t stand by those previous comments, they’ve been EXCEEDED since then.”💥 #Estimates
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Malcolm Roberts Q backfires after asking CCA Chair Matt Kean if he still stands by a former claim he made that 53% of the world is signed to Net Zero, now that USA/others are out
Kean “No I don’t stand by those previous comments, they’ve been EXCEEDED since then.”💥 #Estimates
Kean “No I don’t stand by those previous comments, they’ve been EXCEEDED since then.”💥 #Estimates
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To commemorate the 6th year of the pandemic, here's an animated map showing the early spread of SARS-CoV-2 from December 2019 to January 2020, based on the genomic sequences shared in GISAID.
Locations are approximate - typically country and state/province.
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Locations are approximate - typically country and state/province.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
To commemorate the 6th year of the pandemic, here's an animated map showing the early spread of SARS-CoV-2 from December 2019 to January 2020, based on the genomic sequences shared in GISAID.
Locations are approximate - typically country and state/province.
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Locations are approximate - typically country and state/province.
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"Despite The Saturday Paper first revealing the full cost of the work order to build the maligned website in September last year, the agency continued to push a misleading line that attempted to pass off the new website as a $4 million redesign – 24 times less than the actual cost."
December 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
"Despite The Saturday Paper first revealing the full cost of the work order to build the maligned website in September last year, the agency continued to push a misleading line that attempted to pass off the new website as a $4 million redesign – 24 times less than the actual cost."
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We paid for the nuke waste storage land but we are not allowed to know where it is #auspol
@mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on the money trail
michaelwest.com.au/follow-the-m...
@mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on the money trail
michaelwest.com.au/follow-the-m...
Follow the money. A radioactive farce of failed land purchases - Michael West
The Federal Government is refusing to release any details of the land purchase for radioactive waste management.
michaelwest.com.au
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
We paid for the nuke waste storage land but we are not allowed to know where it is #auspol
@mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on the money trail
michaelwest.com.au/follow-the-m...
@mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on the money trail
michaelwest.com.au/follow-the-m...
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You glorious, brave lot, sticking your oar in to remind the billionaire bastard companies that Australians want the government to stop fannying about, start taxing giant fossil fuel companies and make the country run on renewables as much as possible.
November 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
You glorious, brave lot, sticking your oar in to remind the billionaire bastard companies that Australians want the government to stop fannying about, start taxing giant fossil fuel companies and make the country run on renewables as much as possible.
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"Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In?" by Carolyn Fortuna for @cleantechnica.bsky.social: cleantechnica.com/2025/11/29/m...
Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In? - CleanTechnica
Mann offers a roadmap against an "ecocidal agenda" driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and much of the press.
cleantechnica.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In?" by Carolyn Fortuna for @cleantechnica.bsky.social: cleantechnica.com/2025/11/29/m...
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A genuine man of the people is our Andrew Hastie, patron of an exclusive gun club.
It is fun that he applied for funds for solar panels.
That MPs get a taxpayer slush fund of $150,000 per annum to spend on keeping their electorate sweet is fun too. Did you know?
#AusPol
It is fun that he applied for funds for solar panels.
That MPs get a taxpayer slush fund of $150,000 per annum to spend on keeping their electorate sweet is fun too. Did you know?
#AusPol
Exclusive gun club linked to Andrew Hastie awarded almost $20,000 in government grants
Liberal MP has declared conflict of interest with Port Bouvard Pistol and Small Bore Rifle Club, of which he is a patron
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A genuine man of the people is our Andrew Hastie, patron of an exclusive gun club.
It is fun that he applied for funds for solar panels.
That MPs get a taxpayer slush fund of $150,000 per annum to spend on keeping their electorate sweet is fun too. Did you know?
#AusPol
It is fun that he applied for funds for solar panels.
That MPs get a taxpayer slush fund of $150,000 per annum to spend on keeping their electorate sweet is fun too. Did you know?
#AusPol
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Exclusive: A damning report has revealed widespread governance failures at ANU, as fresh documents detail former vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell’s $3.3 million exit package.
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Exclusive: ANU management ‘reactive, short-term, and politically driven’
A damning report has revealed widespread governance failures at ANU, as fresh documents detail former vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell’s $3.3 million exit package.
satpa.pe
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Exclusive: A damning report has revealed widespread governance failures at ANU, as fresh documents detail former vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell’s $3.3 million exit package.
satpa.pe/1xZTs1T
satpa.pe/1xZTs1T
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Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it.
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder hit our £100,000 target. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it.
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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Last month was Earth’s 3rd warmest October on record. A lot of climate extremes regionally too. Every one of the ten warmest Octobers has taken place since 2015. 🧪⚒️
+ Data from NOAAGlobalTemp version 6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
+ More information: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
+ Data from NOAAGlobalTemp version 6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
+ More information: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Last month was Earth’s 3rd warmest October on record. A lot of climate extremes regionally too. Every one of the ten warmest Octobers has taken place since 2015. 🧪⚒️
+ Data from NOAAGlobalTemp version 6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
+ More information: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
+ Data from NOAAGlobalTemp version 6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
+ More information: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
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Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
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"It took only weeks for Trump to turn the US from a biomedical & global health leader to a pariah, shattering trust while shattering lives, all the while posing fundamental threats to a law-based international order grounded in human rights & democratic governance"
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
The Trump presidency: Cascading global shocks on global health
journals.plos.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
"It took only weeks for Trump to turn the US from a biomedical & global health leader to a pariah, shattering trust while shattering lives, all the while posing fundamental threats to a law-based international order grounded in human rights & democratic governance"
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Scientists must learn to join larger pro-democracy and people's movements, coalitions. Our science training may not have prepared us for such work, but we can no longer sit in the safety of our labs and expect the world to get better
My book review @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
My book review @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
From doing science to saving science
Science and scientists are under assault. From denial of vaccines to climate change,
political leaders are increasingly sacrificing democracy as well as science on the
altar of populism and authoritar...
www.thelancet.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Scientists must learn to join larger pro-democracy and people's movements, coalitions. Our science training may not have prepared us for such work, but we can no longer sit in the safety of our labs and expect the world to get better
My book review @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
My book review @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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On this week's #SundayShot, @roycerk2.bsky.social rolls off the plane from @cop30brazil.bsky.social to join Lorena Allam on the panel. Plus an interview with newly minted @walkleys.bsky.social-award winner Yaara Bou Melham on her powerful documentary feature KURLU COUNTRY.
Join us!
Join us!
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
On this week's #SundayShot, @roycerk2.bsky.social rolls off the plane from @cop30brazil.bsky.social to join Lorena Allam on the panel. Plus an interview with newly minted @walkleys.bsky.social-award winner Yaara Bou Melham on her powerful documentary feature KURLU COUNTRY.
Join us!
Join us!
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Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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How many of us have had that conversation… telling someone that they have a disease that will progressively cause cognitive decline? Or loss of mobility?
The fear and sadness this provokes?
That’s why I’m gentle with “the masses” wrt C19.
The fear and sadness this provokes?
That’s why I’m gentle with “the masses” wrt C19.
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
How many of us have had that conversation… telling someone that they have a disease that will progressively cause cognitive decline? Or loss of mobility?
The fear and sadness this provokes?
That’s why I’m gentle with “the masses” wrt C19.
The fear and sadness this provokes?
That’s why I’m gentle with “the masses” wrt C19.
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Critical to enabling Australia to circumvent its non-refoulement obligations
I had a productive meeting with Nauru’s President Adeang today in Canberra - the relationship between our countries is critical on a range of issues.
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Critical to enabling Australia to circumvent its non-refoulement obligations
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If you’re seeing this, you’re one of the few — conversations about abortion rights don’t exactly get boosted by the algorithm. But they matter.
In this episode, we discuss Labour’s move toward decriminalisation and what it means amid global backlash. Listen here ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4nNFphD
In this episode, we discuss Labour’s move toward decriminalisation and what it means amid global backlash. Listen here ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4nNFphD
In Solidarity - by openDemocracy
Podcast · openDemocracy · In Solidarity is an openDemocracy podcast about people, power and politics, co-hosted by our editors based in London, Abuja and Montevideo and featuring guests from the around the world.Get our independent journalism delivered direct to your inbox, join the openDemocracy Newsletter today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If you’re seeing this, you’re one of the few — conversations about abortion rights don’t exactly get boosted by the algorithm. But they matter.
In this episode, we discuss Labour’s move toward decriminalisation and what it means amid global backlash. Listen here ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4nNFphD
In this episode, we discuss Labour’s move toward decriminalisation and what it means amid global backlash. Listen here ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4nNFphD
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Growing @greenparty.org.uk membership 📈
Growing the pressure on Labour to tax extreme wealth fairly 📈
Growing the movement to make hope normal again 📈
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Growing the pressure on Labour to tax extreme wealth fairly 📈
Growing the movement to make hope normal again 📈
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Growing @greenparty.org.uk membership 📈
Growing the pressure on Labour to tax extreme wealth fairly 📈
Growing the movement to make hope normal again 📈
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Growing the pressure on Labour to tax extreme wealth fairly 📈
Growing the movement to make hope normal again 📈
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to introduce a wealth tax of 1% on assets of over £10m & 2% on assets over £1bn & if the super rich want to leave the UK because they are being taxed a tiny amount more then we should wave them goodbye
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to introduce a wealth tax of 1% on assets of over £10m & 2% on assets over £1bn & if the super rich want to leave the UK because they are being taxed a tiny amount more then we should wave them goodbye
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
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Are the Labour Government finally going to bring in rent controls?
I seem to be living rent free in their heads!
(Thanks for the shout out!)
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I seem to be living rent free in their heads!
(Thanks for the shout out!)
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Are the Labour Government finally going to bring in rent controls?
I seem to be living rent free in their heads!
(Thanks for the shout out!)
Join.greenparty.org.uk
I seem to be living rent free in their heads!
(Thanks for the shout out!)
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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I’m afraid that I can’t refute this.
My feeling is it will be similar to the tobacco issue.
Some might say that’s tolerable, but it is sad.
My feeling is it will be similar to the tobacco issue.
Some might say that’s tolerable, but it is sad.
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I’m afraid that I can’t refute this.
My feeling is it will be similar to the tobacco issue.
Some might say that’s tolerable, but it is sad.
My feeling is it will be similar to the tobacco issue.
Some might say that’s tolerable, but it is sad.