Sammy
@lollyfoot.bsky.social
Lapsed academic due to lack of COVID mitigations. PhD in feminism & literature, now writing fiction. Caring for a long COVID teen while unwell myself (it's hell). Please wear an N95 if you can.
Has anyone with a throttled X account ever seen it recover?
April 1, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Has anyone with a throttled X account ever seen it recover?
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Our eyes don't lie.
Resorting to brutal and unnecessary physical violence against peaceful protests is wrong.
And who put the police in this allegedly 'impossible situation'?
Don't gaslight Australia. We're not the US.
Yet.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Resorting to brutal and unnecessary physical violence against peaceful protests is wrong.
And who put the police in this allegedly 'impossible situation'?
Don't gaslight Australia. We're not the US.
Yet.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sydney protest: NSW premier defends police in ‘impossible situation’ after accusations of violence against protesters
Politicians who attended protest against visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog say police actions against demonstrators were ‘wildly inappropriate’
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Our eyes don't lie.
Resorting to brutal and unnecessary physical violence against peaceful protests is wrong.
And who put the police in this allegedly 'impossible situation'?
Don't gaslight Australia. We're not the US.
Yet.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Resorting to brutal and unnecessary physical violence against peaceful protests is wrong.
And who put the police in this allegedly 'impossible situation'?
Don't gaslight Australia. We're not the US.
Yet.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Deeply disturbed by the police brutality in Sydney today. Minns is really showing his colours.
February 9, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Deeply disturbed by the police brutality in Sydney today. Minns is really showing his colours.
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Queensland: Weekly infection surveillance report: 15 Jan to 21 Jan 2025
Reported cases:
🔹COVID: 1,303 (-12.2%)
🔹Influenza: 663 (+14.9%)
🔹RSV: 377 (-3.0%)
Hospitalisations:
🔸COVID: 205 (-19.9%)
🔸Influenza: 33 (-13.1%)
🔸RSV: 32 (-13.5%)
Source: www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...
Reported cases:
🔹COVID: 1,303 (-12.2%)
🔹Influenza: 663 (+14.9%)
🔹RSV: 377 (-3.0%)
Hospitalisations:
🔸COVID: 205 (-19.9%)
🔸Influenza: 33 (-13.1%)
🔸RSV: 32 (-13.5%)
Source: www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...
January 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Queensland: Weekly infection surveillance report: 15 Jan to 21 Jan 2025
Reported cases:
🔹COVID: 1,303 (-12.2%)
🔹Influenza: 663 (+14.9%)
🔹RSV: 377 (-3.0%)
Hospitalisations:
🔸COVID: 205 (-19.9%)
🔸Influenza: 33 (-13.1%)
🔸RSV: 32 (-13.5%)
Source: www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...
Reported cases:
🔹COVID: 1,303 (-12.2%)
🔹Influenza: 663 (+14.9%)
🔹RSV: 377 (-3.0%)
Hospitalisations:
🔸COVID: 205 (-19.9%)
🔸Influenza: 33 (-13.1%)
🔸RSV: 32 (-13.5%)
Source: www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...
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This 🧵
It's not sustainable and it is preventable.
It's not sustainable and it is preventable.
November 26, 2024 at 10:21 PM
This 🧵
It's not sustainable and it is preventable.
It's not sustainable and it is preventable.
20 books that have stayed with me or influenced me. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Let's see if I can keep it up.
Day 2
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
Let's see if I can keep it up.
Day 2
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
November 24, 2024 at 1:33 AM
20 books that have stayed with me or influenced me. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Let's see if I can keep it up.
Day 2
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
Let's see if I can keep it up.
Day 2
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
Ok, 20 books that have stayed with me or influenced me. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Let's see if I can keep it up.
Day 1
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
Let's see if I can keep it up.
Day 1
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
November 23, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Ok, 20 books that have stayed with me or influenced me. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Let's see if I can keep it up.
Day 1
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
Let's see if I can keep it up.
Day 1
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
Stopped off for a loo break on the way back to Brisbane recently and found myself parked under the tail of a 747. How they landed this thing on the short runway of a small regional airport is beyond me.
November 23, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Stopped off for a loo break on the way back to Brisbane recently and found myself parked under the tail of a 747. How they landed this thing on the short runway of a small regional airport is beyond me.
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Can any Blue Sky LC researchers help me out please? Desperately looking to source pre-pandemic covid naive biobanked blood and plasma samples from healthy children aged 8-18 (but predominantly 11-18) to act as historical control for a study? Turning out to be trickier than expected.UK based.Thx! x
November 21, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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It is possible that Elon Musk will attempt to intervene in OSHA enforcement, since his firms’ operations have been the subject of multiple OSHA (and journalist) investigations, often launched following worker deaths or serious injuries. 16/
November 20, 2024 at 10:56 PM
It is possible that Elon Musk will attempt to intervene in OSHA enforcement, since his firms’ operations have been the subject of multiple OSHA (and journalist) investigations, often launched following worker deaths or serious injuries. 16/
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I have been reading yet another article that says something like "As the COVID pandemic fades into the distance". These people should understand that there are still on average 400 deaths from COVID each month in Australia and hundreds of thousands with long term health problems.
November 20, 2024 at 10:41 PM
I have been reading yet another article that says something like "As the COVID pandemic fades into the distance". These people should understand that there are still on average 400 deaths from COVID each month in Australia and hundreds of thousands with long term health problems.
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I’m getting tired of all of this narrative. You look after yourself when you’re looked after by others & when you’re not struggling with poverty, social isolation & discrimination. The state has a pivotal role in preparing the soil. Whether that’s NHS or beyond.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
NHS ‘will be overwhelmed unless patients look after themselves’
The public must be motivated to take charge of their own health, a Labour adviser has said
www.thetimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:56 AM
I’m getting tired of all of this narrative. You look after yourself when you’re looked after by others & when you’re not struggling with poverty, social isolation & discrimination. The state has a pivotal role in preparing the soil. Whether that’s NHS or beyond.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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New COVID wave is gathering strength and might peak around holiday season. By John Flint
Source: archive.md/goJbS
Source: archive.md/goJbS
November 19, 2024 at 1:03 PM
New COVID wave is gathering strength and might peak around holiday season. By John Flint
Source: archive.md/goJbS
Source: archive.md/goJbS
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Queensland: Weekly infection surveillance report: 11 November to 17 November 2024
Reported cases:
🔹COVID: 1,038 (+15.9%)
🔹Influenza: 185 (-0.5%)
🔹RSV: 368 (+1.93%)
Hospitalisations:
🔸COVID: 114 (+14.0%)
🔸Influenza: 21 (-8.6%)
🔸RSV: 18 (-21.7%)
Source: www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...
Reported cases:
🔹COVID: 1,038 (+15.9%)
🔹Influenza: 185 (-0.5%)
🔹RSV: 368 (+1.93%)
Hospitalisations:
🔸COVID: 114 (+14.0%)
🔸Influenza: 21 (-8.6%)
🔸RSV: 18 (-21.7%)
Source: www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...
November 20, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Queensland: Weekly infection surveillance report: 11 November to 17 November 2024
Reported cases:
🔹COVID: 1,038 (+15.9%)
🔹Influenza: 185 (-0.5%)
🔹RSV: 368 (+1.93%)
Hospitalisations:
🔸COVID: 114 (+14.0%)
🔸Influenza: 21 (-8.6%)
🔸RSV: 18 (-21.7%)
Source: www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...
Reported cases:
🔹COVID: 1,038 (+15.9%)
🔹Influenza: 185 (-0.5%)
🔹RSV: 368 (+1.93%)
Hospitalisations:
🔸COVID: 114 (+14.0%)
🔸Influenza: 21 (-8.6%)
🔸RSV: 18 (-21.7%)
Source: www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...
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Just to be clear. Every time anyone blames anything on the lockdown, they are deluded or dishonest. Blaming the lockdown is denying the seriousness of the virus. The COVID virus, not lockdowns, is to blame for economic, social & health upheavals since 2020 & for ongoing damage
November 20, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Just to be clear. Every time anyone blames anything on the lockdown, they are deluded or dishonest. Blaming the lockdown is denying the seriousness of the virus. The COVID virus, not lockdowns, is to blame for economic, social & health upheavals since 2020 & for ongoing damage
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5. Bluesky's team consists of about 20 full-time employees. That's a million users here per employee now 🤯
Also, we're hiring!
bsky.social/about/join
Also, we're hiring!
bsky.social/about/join
November 19, 2024 at 6:52 PM
5. Bluesky's team consists of about 20 full-time employees. That's a million users here per employee now 🤯
Also, we're hiring!
bsky.social/about/join
Also, we're hiring!
bsky.social/about/join
I'm printing this out to hand to HCWs who won't mask. This year alone my family was refused by multiple nurses, an ER doc, two sonographers, a lung specialist, a gynecologist & most shockingly, a radiation oncologist. And when people did mask, it was often grudgingly. So f*cking exhausting.
"If you’re a health-care worker who sees a patient in a mask, put one on for them. Don’t make them ask. Don’t psychologize them. Don’t betray the trust they’ve shown you. They’ve put their lives in your hands. Don’t take that for granted, it’s not an easy thing for many of us to do"
A plea to maskless health-care workers from vulnerable patients - Healthy Debate
Health-care workers have a responsibility to protect their vulnerable patients. Our lives are in your hands.
healthydebate.ca
November 18, 2024 at 11:14 AM
I'm printing this out to hand to HCWs who won't mask. This year alone my family was refused by multiple nurses, an ER doc, two sonographers, a lung specialist, a gynecologist & most shockingly, a radiation oncologist. And when people did mask, it was often grudgingly. So f*cking exhausting.
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Huge study of 18 million births from US found the proportion of babies born with a congenital heart abnormality increased by 16% after the first year of the Covid pandemic.
Study: obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
www.news-medical.net/news/2024111...
Study: obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
www.news-medical.net/news/2024111...
Pandemic linked to 16% rise in babies born with heart defects
The proportion of babies born with a congenital heart abnormality increased by 16 per cent after the first year of the pandemic, according to research at City St George's, University of London and pub...
www.news-medical.net
November 17, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Huge study of 18 million births from US found the proportion of babies born with a congenital heart abnormality increased by 16% after the first year of the Covid pandemic.
Study: obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
www.news-medical.net/news/2024111...
Study: obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
www.news-medical.net/news/2024111...
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Thanks to @sickandtiredaus.bsky.social for the great idea to create a CAC Aus Covid Conscious Community starter pack
We haven’t found everyone yet, but it’s a good start & we’ll keep adding 😊
go.bsky.app/Fonz5B3
We haven’t found everyone yet, but it’s a good start & we’ll keep adding 😊
go.bsky.app/Fonz5B3
November 18, 2024 at 6:45 AM
Thanks to @sickandtiredaus.bsky.social for the great idea to create a CAC Aus Covid Conscious Community starter pack
We haven’t found everyone yet, but it’s a good start & we’ll keep adding 😊
go.bsky.app/Fonz5B3
We haven’t found everyone yet, but it’s a good start & we’ll keep adding 😊
go.bsky.app/Fonz5B3
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“Cvd-cautious Aus, China, Japan, NZ, S Korea tended to win ⬆️🥇than expected in Paris, cvd-stoical UK, US won ⬇️🥇 than expected
Excess mortality sig predictor…in countries w- cvd restrictions/⬇️ exc mort, athletes haven’t suffered “immunity debt” rel to rest of world”
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excess mortality sig predictor…in countries w- cvd restrictions/⬇️ exc mort, athletes haven’t suffered “immunity debt” rel to rest of world”
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Possible impact of national responses to the COVID pandemic on medal tallies at the Paris 2024 Olympics
Introduction Western Pacific nations have experienced lower excess mortality compared to rest of the world since 2020 and recently performed exceptionally well on the medal tally at the 2024 Paris Oly...
www.medrxiv.org
November 18, 2024 at 9:00 AM
“Cvd-cautious Aus, China, Japan, NZ, S Korea tended to win ⬆️🥇than expected in Paris, cvd-stoical UK, US won ⬇️🥇 than expected
Excess mortality sig predictor…in countries w- cvd restrictions/⬇️ exc mort, athletes haven’t suffered “immunity debt” rel to rest of world”
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excess mortality sig predictor…in countries w- cvd restrictions/⬇️ exc mort, athletes haven’t suffered “immunity debt” rel to rest of world”
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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‘The fatigue is not only real, it is absolutely legitimate’: why are so many of us so tired right now? - Guardian Australia
You have to 🤦♀️ at an article on fatigue that refuses to even mention the airborne virus everyone’s repeatedly infected with that literally causes chronic fatigue 🫠
You have to 🤦♀️ at an article on fatigue that refuses to even mention the airborne virus everyone’s repeatedly infected with that literally causes chronic fatigue 🫠
November 17, 2024 at 2:26 AM
‘The fatigue is not only real, it is absolutely legitimate’: why are so many of us so tired right now? - Guardian Australia
You have to 🤦♀️ at an article on fatigue that refuses to even mention the airborne virus everyone’s repeatedly infected with that literally causes chronic fatigue 🫠
You have to 🤦♀️ at an article on fatigue that refuses to even mention the airborne virus everyone’s repeatedly infected with that literally causes chronic fatigue 🫠