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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Just found out that the Pokémon Mewtwo is 6”7. Damn! He should have hooped
November 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Very upset to see the Hamburglar turning up in these Epstein emails. Grimace I expected. But not this
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Just seen a few screeners of the new AVATAR film. Not sure James Cameron needed to add the scene of a Naavi circumcision ritual but I appreciated his attention to detail
November 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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“Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers.”

The stories will get worse over time as censorship erodes. But we knew and didn’t stop it.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I confess to some mild curiosity as to how it is that Labour Cabinet ministers agreeing to push through a series of measures over the last year condemned as overtly racist by everyone to their left could not see that they were just buttering their own faces for the leopards.
Absolutely disgusted to hear about the racism Wes Streeting mentions here directed at school children who were visiting Parliament.

He has taken the post down, rightly, to protect the children.

But it's wrong that he had to do it.

Disgusted with so many people in our country. Racism is never OK.
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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It's sort of interesting to me that for a lot of British journalists, "success" largely means reducing people's access to essential services
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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V good - as Tom points out, much of living in the UK today is built around either believing, or tolerating, being lied to directly to your face. Pointing out the lie will get you yelled at, castigated and publicly shamed, and underneath it all, a fear of what happens once the lie unravels
Hi guys, I've decided as everyone else has to start a substack. Here's my first article, on how the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan furore lays bare the pretence at the heart of British politics. Feel free to subscribe, I'm going to try write at least 2 articles a month.

open.substack.com/pub/tomusher...
Fated to pretend
What the Maccabi Tel Aviv furore shows us all about pretending
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Look like somebody was pissed out of their heads on impunity again
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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The ability of the far right to insist that their views - trans people are lying perverts, climate change is a hoax, immigrants are all thieving, raping scum - are necessarily legitimate & must be given a hearing is already a vast victory for forms of extremism beyond the pale not long ago.
What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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my favorite fact about the AI bubble is that despite all the consternation, NVDA has under-performed monster energy over the last year
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Barrack Obama has not congratulated Zohran Mamdani on his Facebook Page but he has offered his condolences to Dick Cheney’s family, that oughta tell you everything you need to know about what this overseer values in his twilight years
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful.

Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.

Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Roti and roses
Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.
africasacountry.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Still, we have things to look forward to
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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I am outraged that apparently jews are not welcome at football matches in Tel Aviv (am I doing this right?)

news.sky.com/story/tel-av...
Tel Aviv football derby cancelled as 'violent riots' see nine arrested
Police said dozens of smoke grenades and pyrotechnic devices were thrown, injuring 12 civilians and three police officers.
news.sky.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I could write you a book but the basic reason is: they are highly unpleasant, self-centred psychos who have deeply committed themselves and the national press to their drivel and horseshit, so they now can’t do anything else but roar bullshit and drivel, to maintain the fiction as long as possible.
October 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Can we please get some perspective. If Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were banned because of a risk to them it would absolutely be anti-semitism. When they are banned because they have a track record of causing violence it is just common sense. Preventing football hooliganism is normally a good idea.
October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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You have to marvel at how relentlessly insulting British politics is
October 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Starting a rumour that Charlie Kirk is still alive and lives in Turkey
October 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Transphobia is evil and, if there is a God, will be punished in the hereafter.
Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack
A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM