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Upswept
@upswept.bsky.social
Science-following, mask-wearing, tree-hugging, nature-loving, indoor-cat lady and progressive snowflake. 🇬🇧 & 🇦🇺. Living in Bendigo on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Has worked in 🍁 🇰🇪 🇵🇭. 💜🤍♠️🖤
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Albanese sits on massive mandate, yet fails to add non-cosmetic dental to Medicare, to totally axe HECS & remove draconian mutual obligation requirement for jobless.
Aged pension is well below advanced economies & Jobseeker rate is below poverty level.
Aged care & child care should be nationalised
December 7, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Ouch! I also had swollen lymph nodes - with Pfizer! I tried to get Moderna or Spikevax while I was in the UK, and contacted multiple pharmacies in Sussex and Oxfordshire. Unfortunately, it was summer and they hadn't any stock, because the boosters there aren't made available until autumn.
December 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
So sorry. That sucks.
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It sure seems to be getting worse. I attended a briefing a few months ago on H5N1 bird flu, and the only prevention measure is thoughts and prayers: if it makes it to the mainland, there'll be no way of containing it, so why even bother? 🤬
December 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM