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Dr Michael Clifford

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Paediatric intensivist, anaesthetist, atheist, skeptic, member of the “Guardian Reading, Tofu eating, Wokerati”, former animal eater and alcohol self medicator Still learning to partner, parent, and appreciate the small things (like compost microbes)

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They are not ablest in their persecution - yet. I expect if they need the room for more children they will have to do something else with the disabled..

10.03.2026 13:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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0 or -1 ?

10.03.2026 06:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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David Pocock calls for inquiry into why Government collects more revenue from beer excise than PRRT Independent Senator for the ACT David Pocock has called for an inquiry into why gas companies pay less for gas exports than Australians pay in the beer excise.

All hail David Pocock. Clearly a difficult man. #Auspol thepoint.com.au/news/260303-...

06.03.2026 19:58 👍 83 🔁 35 💬 5 📌 1

Well said.

08.03.2026 07:50 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

09.03.2026 02:06 👍 3428 🔁 717 💬 23 📌 25
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Nationals push for tripling paid parental leave to 18 months and lowering Hecs debt for mothers Exclusive: The party is trying to shape Coalition policies with attempt to widen appeal to women and young people

Who knew - in Australia, if you keep going to the right - eventually you arrive on the left !
Nationals push for tripling paid parental leave to 18 months and lowering HECS debt for mothers
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

10.03.2026 03:30 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

"Masterly inactivity"

09.03.2026 13:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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09.03.2026 13:37 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I am sure its why we end up working in a job where we STOP the "chat" . It must be genetic - my son wants to be an anaesthetist too.

09.03.2026 03:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Are you someone who dislikes chat and just wants to do their highly repetitive thing. Do you find people trying to talk to you when you do not want to deeply, deeply irritating ? Can you put in a cannula? Have you thought about anaesthesia ? The NHS needs you. Email Raj LB.

09.03.2026 03:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Must have just watched "Love Actually"

09.03.2026 03:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SA Liberals to preference One Nation over ALP as Bernardi comments condemned South Australia's Liberal opposition will preference One Nation over Labor at the upcoming state election as parties condemn "outrageous" comments by One Nation's Cory Bernardi.

SA Libs have announced they’re preferencing One Nation ahead of Labor at the state election. Any dignity the Liberal Party had left is gone. One Nation isn’t preferencing Liberals but Liberals are preferencing One Nation. SHAME!

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

07.03.2026 22:05 👍 50 🔁 23 💬 9 📌 1

The Gillard years were a mess of unacceptable misogyny. I know One Nation probably chose David Farley to run in Farrer BECAUSE he is a vile misogynist (& probably a racist bigot too - like Hanson). One Nation are a stain on Australia and should be condemned (and not preferenced - shame on Liberals).

08.03.2026 07:27 👍 72 🔁 22 💬 4 📌 2

Or not

09.03.2026 03:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Israel is responsible for two in three journalist killings across the globe in 2024 and 2025. The Israeli military has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992.

Read more in CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549

25.02.2026 16:44 👍 143 🔁 146 💬 1 📌 6
Picture of Jane Goodall as an older woman with one of her quotes and the source: It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman.
That's why there are so many of us.
Jane Goodall
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Picture of Jane Goodall as an older woman with one of her quotes and the source: It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman. That's why there are so many of us. Jane Goodall @fema quotient

“It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman.

That's why there are so many of us.”

Jane Goodall #AusPol

26.02.2026 05:45 👍 268 🔁 93 💬 8 📌 3

I cant help it - I just have to keep reposting this "..cold ..cruel ...mean" and he was not (then or now) the only one..

09.03.2026 03:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Sports - Who Listens To The Radio (1978) HD
The Sports - Who Listens To The Radio (1978) HD YouTube video by Antipodean Music

Who (still) listens to the radio?

She's a fooled with the logarithms, she's going berserk
I dig the talkback, but the hosts drive her nuts...

Who listens to the radio?
Who listens to the radio?
That's what I'd like to know
Who listens to the radio?
youtu.be/DGMd3qyph8U?...

09.03.2026 03:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He's the nephew of the AG in the NT. He got home detention for killing a man with his car on purpose then bragging about it and seriously injuring another man. They were both Aboriginal and it was a hate crime.

06.03.2026 03:46 👍 152 🔁 83 💬 12 📌 1
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'No way' Iran’s women footballers can return, as calls grow to protect them in Australia The Iranian women's football team is facing an impossible situation. Return home, and possibly face punishment from the Islamic Republic regime for its silent protest, or stay in Australia and their f...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

07.03.2026 08:44 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 3
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Dr Space Junk 20 Years of Blogging Feminist as Fuck Edition This beautiful artwork is by archaeologist Dr Katherine Cook  https://drkrcook.wordpress.com/  This blog is 20 years old! My first post was ...

It's International Women's Day! It's a day to be feminist as fuck, so here are a few of my favourite blog posts (written by me) on this theme. #IWD2026 #WomenInSTEM

07.03.2026 22:41 👍 39 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1

Why would you ever trust a man with a cravat ?

09.03.2026 03:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No - just your usual "Old White American Christofascist"..you know the ones who don't "love their enemies". A charming "Good ol' boy blend" of Christianity and fascism, endorsing violence, authoritarianism and the regeneration of society on the basis of the Bible and its teachings. Killing for God.

09.03.2026 03:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Vaccination
"The interests at stake are so vital that an enormous responsibility rests with the men whose notion of progress is to revert to the condition of things which existed in the dark ages before the dawn of medical science." 15 July 1887
www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/wiki/Compuls...

09.03.2026 02:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yet another - catecholamine comparison WCT
"Who Cares Trial" ...intubation-related complications....postoperative outcomes ..acute kidney injury, time on ventilator, or length of stay in the ICU...not different. Just use the drug your pharmacy gets for the best price.

07.03.2026 20:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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07.03.2026 20:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"Breaking Bald"

07.03.2026 20:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Raj - is there a reason these 2 posts have been combined? "Teaching on RRT" (Rectification of the Reduced Tonsure). 1977 - must have been a low year for patents. In 1967 I had the opportunity to be born by centrifugal force. I expect the hyperbaric spinal was concentrated at the filum terminale

07.03.2026 20:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That Sethinia feeling again ? This is why wise women were feared - shit got done, no blood on the tiles, multi-tasking, mental load borne - with low TSH and cold toes - probably a witch

07.03.2026 10:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I need to reply to Sethina Watson about her new job, Raj hasnt liked my last post is he angry with me, how can they let Trump do that shit, I wonder what sort of spider it is that always puts a curled leaf in the middle of its web, what are those buried water pots called, is that a tap dripping ?

07.03.2026 10:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0