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The Heart Of Care - AU Edition
Your essential guide for a rewarding nursing and care career in Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-heart-of-care/

The @… is down, and nobody knows why
#archive #archiveorgdown

Hyro, whose AI agents let US health care organizations automate tasks like scheduling and prescription renewals, raised $45M, taking its total funding to $95M (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rylcu6valg

Hyro secures $45 million to scale AI automation in US healthcare
The startup aims to ease staffing pressures and improve patient access by deploying AI agents across hospitals and health systems nationwide.

I still need to spend more time learning TrueNAS and how to get container applications running properly. It's much more complex than OpenMediaVault.
Some applications do just work, but many seem to need a lot more care and configuration to get working as desired.
#trueNaS #selfHosting

AI vs. AI: Patients deploy bots to battle health insurers that deny care • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/20/repub/ai-vs-ai-patients-deploy-bots-to-battle-health-insurers-that-deny-care/

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

How is "pro life" coming along?
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/pregnancy-behind-bars-proves-deadly-for-women-and-their-babies

One of those problems where we know the solution - but there's no profit incentive, I guess. Wonder why the #ProLife community isn't pushing for solution.
World is short of nearly a million midwives, report warns

One of those problems where we know the solution - but there's no profit incentive, I guess. Wonder why the #ProLife community isn't pushing for solution.
World is short of nearly a million midwives, report warns

Ich freue mich auf die #nocode herum.
Und schön zu sehen: der Frauenant…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/115757049842593909
I don't care if she ordered you to do it, it's going to ruin the laptop.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/115934567247896543
Some folks are only going to care about this when they also implement it in Minneapolis in a few years’ time.
(Hey, give them a break, you can’t just deploy this stuff everywhere all at once…

My colleague set me up for success by telling me that the big event we do in a reasonably warm country? Is in a venue with Arctic level Aircon.
Genuinely taking care of the base of the pyramid of needs here.

Healthcare group projects anti-RFK Jr. messages onto HHS building
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5698149-protect-our-care-protests-kennedy/

https://VoteYesOrNoAI.com/vote/no

Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.
Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.

RE: https://mograph.social/@thevfxfeed/115922513913743456
That press release is full of insults.
One license model supposedly helps them speed up development? B*llshit, the RLM server takes care of that, nothing to do with the main app.
The who…

If you're free Wednesday night in SF, check out this panel on social housing at 518 Valencia. Sounds like it'll be good (I unfortunately can't make it):
Wed, Oct 22, 7:30pm
Social Housing: Challenging YIMBYs and NIMBYs
"What we’re doing on housing isn’t working. We’ve upzoned, streamlined, deregulated. And still, the crisis deepens. There is a movement waiting to be built—...rooted in care, solidarity, and the belief that everyone deserves a place to live.&qu…

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@billbot/115589492122601763
Hey, if no one knows how to perform life-saving care, there's no more problems to preventing it.

Is anyone maintaining an active list of hotels chains hosting ICE? I want to make sure folks know what companies are profiting from fascist terrorism.
These folks have no shame. But they do care about losing business.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6yde3

Check out my latest article - "The 4 C's of Executive Presence (And Why They Have Nothing to Do With Conformity)"
https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-4-cs-of-executive-presence-and?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=…

What Executive Presence Really Is: The Four Qualities That Create Magnetic Leaders
Most advice about executive presence gets it wrong. Discover how care, clarity, curiosity, and courage—not performance—create authentic, magnetic leadership.

This is the sixth death in ICE custody in 18 days.
This isn’t enforcement,
it’s a system that cages people,
outsources care,
and shrugs when they die.
Abolish ICE.
https://bsky.app/profile/adamparkhomenko.bsky.social/post/3mcq33neros2u<…

Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social)
This is the sixth death in ICE custody in 18 days. This isn’t enforcement, it’s a system that cages people, outsources care, and shrugs when they die. Abolish ICE.

Crisis as Trump admin cuts off medical care for migrant detainees and detentions explode - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-2674914650/

It's complicated, DuckDuckGo. It's complicated.
https://voteyesornoai.com/

Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.
Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

I'm tired of random follows from not accounts. Every new follower will need to be approved.
The bar is low, just be a human being interested in conversation.
Bot, spammers and "I follow you so you check my profile" all gets an automatic rejection block.
If you also follow a thousand or more accounts I will get suspicious you are not really interested in what I write or the stuff I repost.
I don't care about inflating my numbers. I actually care much m…

Was just reminded that I needed to kick in some more money to the BlackSky stuff.
Considering the money I’ve kicked in for great Mastodon clients and instances, the work Rudy and others are doing is well worth the same! https://mastodon.sandwich.net/@Sharksonaplane/114997406…

From what I see in my community, most people stay politically disengaged until election season comes around. I can’t speak for where you live, but here, it feels like people only start to care when they’re told to vote, never when it comes to questioning the system that keeps things this way.

Support evidence-based care for trans and gender diverse young people in South Africa
#lgbtq #lgbtqia

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Support evidence-based care for trans and gender diverse young people in South Africa

Religion Clause: HHS Proposes Rules to Bar Hospitals from Performing Gender Affirming Care to Minors
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/hhs-proposes-rules-to-bar-hospitals.html

One-sided rant.
The permissions system on Linux is driving me totally bonkers. Why an inserted usb drive suddenly should belong to root is sth I am totally not interested in exploring. I couldn't care less, it just has to work, especially since I'm a wheelie. Fuck it, I'll have a beer. Or 3.

Heck yeah I practice self care
Second guessing
Every
Life decision
Frequently
Constantly
Anxious
Regarding current
Events

From RI State senator Sam Zurier:

But in all seriousness, take it with a pinch of salt and check with the vendor directly if you really care. Checking this stuff is hard.
Honestly, at best I can really only say, "I *think* the others have not updated but I may be wrong."
Also expect bias when I talk about competitors [and expect the same from representatives of other browsers].

RE: #AbolishICE at this point is a Nazi. I don't care if you…

Finished "Dissolution" by Nicholas Binge.
An elderly couple, Stanley & Maggie, are coping with his deteriorating memory, for which he's living in a care facility. A strange visitor credibly claims the home is responsible for removing his memories, and that Stanley's mind holds a secret that will save the world from imminent destruction.
A cat & mouse game ensues across time, memory, and featuring a deliciously evil character. Complex!
5/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐…

Dissolution
A woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a …

Sometimes people leave art in the Free Little Art Gallery, which is awesome! And I don’t care if it’s a crayon drawing on paper or yarn tied to sticks, if it’s art, it stays.
But… we do have to curate, and we do have *some* standards, and any offensive items are swiftly removed.

"You get paid $45 million a year to keep people fearful so they don't pay attention to the CEOs taking their healthcare. You don't care about the American people. You want them to be afraid of immigrants because all you have is fear"👍
Hannity probably going to fire booker after this Justin Jones hit - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2026/01/20/hannity-probably-going-to-fire-booker-after-this-justin-jones-hit/

I am still adjusting my software related goal setting to the AI age. I had a list of things I wanted to do for 2026 for my trading management site. I thought it was an easy list, not a stretch by any imagination, but still beefy enough that I figured it will be nice to take care of over the course of this year. Well, all the items on the list are done.... #ai

@… What do they care? It wasn't *their* daughter. Besides the Prosperity Gospel teaches them that bad things happen to people because somehow God wanted it that way.

Poor cancer survival rates for those with learning disabilities
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/poor-cancer-survival-rates-for-those-with-learning-disabilities/

Poor cancer survival rates for those with learning disabilities
Study exposes cancer care deficit for patients with a learning disabilities both due to late diagnosis and referral, and less treatments offered

Through mid-October, IHS had published far fewer posts on Facebook promoting vaccine clinics this year than last.
And in those posts as well as other notices, it replaced language touting immunization’s benefits
with wording that frames both routine childhood vaccinations and annual flu and COVID-19 shots as a personal choice,
advising patients to consult health care providers about their “options regarding vaccines.”
Current and former IHS clinicians told ProPublica…

The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.

"I learned that Renee Good still had a pulse eight minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent," Klein said. "And yet the offer to administer aid from a physician on the scene was denied. I can't say how much that stirs the blood of everyone behind me here as we try to fulfill our oath and duty to care for the people of Minnesota."
Calls mount to 'rise up' as doctors speak out against 'grotesque' ICE acts - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-2674914793/

Btw: I do care about every comment under my photos. Even if its just a "wow" or an emoji. All (positive) reactions make me smile.
Please never underestimate the impact of your reactions.

Just flew to to the UK, will be here for a while spending time in Weymouth Dorset with my (ancient, in-care) parents, and fixing up an old house we’re buying. Keeping the US house, and supporting friends and family, but sad that we don’t feel safe there nowadays…

Basic Instructions. Link in alt.

Support Indigenous Land Defender Marcos Aguilar’s Family
(original: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSFUcy_jKU7 by zapatistasolidaritynetwork)
On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his anc

Zapatista Solidarity Network! on Instagram: "📢‼️URGENT On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his ancestral territory in San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, Jalisco, Mexico. He leaves behind five young children — including two babies — and elderly parents who depended on him. Marcos was a devoted father, a loving son, and a guardian of Mother Earth. He refused to abandon his community despite threats and violence. This was a planned political attack from those trying to steal Indigenous ancestral territory. ✨ That’s why we are asking for your solidarity: @semillas_collective is collecting donations that will go directly to Marcos’s family and Indigenous community to support: • His children’s wellbeing (food, housing, education) • Care for his parents • Community protection against further attacks • Legal justice for his assassination 🔗Link in our bio to the fundraiser and the communiqué from the Autonomous Indigenous Community or San Lorenzo de Azqueltán (adherents of the National Indigenous Congress [CNI]) 📣Please donate if you are able. If you cannot, share and help us break the silence. Marcos lives in the land, in his children, and in our struggle. Marcos vive — la lucha sigue. ✊🏽💚🌱 #JusticeForMarcos #Semillas #IndigenousSolidarity #Azqueltán #LandBack #ProtectLandDefenders #NoMoreImpunity #MarcosVive #LaLuchaSigue"
99 likes, 0 comments - zapatistasolidaritynetwork on December 10, 2025: "📢‼️URGENT On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his ancestral territory in San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, Jalisco, Mexico. He leaves behind five young children — including two babies — and elderly parents who depended on him. Marcos was a devoted father, a loving son, and a guardian of Mother Earth. He refused to abandon his community despite threats a…

The Holistic Horse Podcast
A podcast for those who want to learn all areas of horse care, training and management from a holistic perspective...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-holistic-horse/

Vos is a stinky piece of shit.
#wisconsin

He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms.
Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving care for up to a year after giving birth.

Leon Panetta on New Yorker Radio Hour: asked to express his greatest worry explicitly given his broader and deeper knowledge of foreign affairs, he names the dysfunction of American Democracy.
That’s after having mentioned all the external crises we currently face overseas. He made the excellent point that our inability to handle our own business (e.g. immigration, health care, taxation) in a responsible way threatens our global credibility & security.
(He’s right)

Called both our guys; Padilla has no voicemail but I left one for Schiff https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vsumu6csfmj7r7pvdknl4zd2/post/3m5a5nho3ds2q

Indivisible ReSisters Contra Costa ❌👑 (@indivisresistcoco.bsky.social)
URGENT: Call your Senators and say NO VOTE TO REOPEN GOVERNMENT UNLESS HEALTH CARE SUBSIDIES ARE REINSTATED AND SNAP IS FULLY FUNDED AND PAID. Some Senators are ready to cave. We just handed them a nationwide blue wave and they need to act like it. Call 202-224-3121 #shutdown #budget

Just finished "The Raven Boys," a graphic novel adaptation of a novel by Maggie Stiefvater (adaptation written by Stephanie Williams and illustrated by Sas Milledge).
I haven't read the original novel, and because of that, this version felt way too dense, having to fit huge amounts of important details into not enough pages. The illustrations are gorgeous and the writing is fine; the setting and plot have some pretty interesting aspects... It's just too hard to follow a lot of the threads, or things we're supposed to care about aren't given the time/space to feel important.
The other thing that I didn't like: one of the central characters is rich, and we see this reflected in several ways, but we're clearly expected to ignore/excuse the class differences within the cast because he's a good guy. At this point in my life, I'm simply no longer interested in stories about good rich guys very much. It's become clear to me how in real life, we constantly get the perspectives of the rich, and rarely if ever hear the perspectives of the poor (same applies across racial and gender gradients, among others). Why then in fiction should I get more of the same, spending my mental bandwidth building empathy for yet another dilettante who somehow has a heart of gold? I'm tired of that.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Kevin Terwilliger, #Dell head of product:
"We're very focused on delivering upon the #AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we're announcing has an #NPU in it—but what we've learned over the…

“Core Thesis: The target I care about is simple: can you make space-based, commodity compute cost-competitive with the cheapest terrestrial alternative? That's the whole claim. Not "space is big." Not "the sun is huge." Not "launch will be cheap." Can you deliver useful watts and reject the waste heat at a price that beats a boring Crusoe-style tilt-wall datacenter tied into a 200–500 MW substation? If you can't beat that, the rest is just vibes.”
…

After writing some questionable `rust` code for #adventofcode Day 8, I've managed to get the right answers in a reasonable amount of time which has taken far, far longer than I'd care to admit. I'll jump on the Python and Nim solves later because my brain is absolutely fried at the moment.
Solution:

If you screenshot an image from Twitter, and that tweet is a political one, and then you post it here and what's more you don't even put alt text on it ...
... then oh boy you have never seen my fingers move so fast to that Block button.
I don't care if you've got 12,000 followers on Fedi. Bye bye.

Ofcourse Trump supports his fellow autocrat Orban... He couldn't care less about Ukraine, NATO or the EU.
#trump

Trump gives Hungary one-year exemption from Russian energy sanctions
The opt-out comes despite the US increasing pressure on allies to sever economic ties with Russia.

Interesting: We're in approximately our 250th year of people making jokes about "Maybe this is the year of Linux on the desktop?" Two of the blockers have been "games" and "printers". However in just the last year, Bazzite and SteamOS have taken care of the former.
On the latter: My brand new Win11 laptop and relatively new colour laser printer require a decice reinstall every time I want to print something (and often this doesn't work anyway - I ju…

Faculty Member in Church History/Historical Theology at The University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
https://ift.tt/R8bY45S
The University of Dubuque Theological Seminary seeks a faculty member in Church History/Historical…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Studie: Neuartiges Care-System soll die Überlebenszeit von Gliedmaßen verlängern
Ein neues System der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover versorgt abgetrennte Gliedmaßen außerhalb des Körpers. Das sorgt für mehr Zeit.

You do not vote syndicalist, you organize syndicalist, so treating it like an election choice in Kaiserreich is fundamentally silly.
Because of that, I’m buying myself Hearts of Iron IV just to install Kaiserreich and laugh at it.
Image is probably AI-generated; I grabbed it from DuckDuckGo and genuinely do not care.
#Humor

A: "Oh my god, he is *you*. If you were mayor, the first two things you'd do is fill on a pothole in a bike lane, and install bidets in your office."
Me: "pretty much, yep!"
#NYC #Mamdani

@…
https://voteyesornoai.com/vote/no 🚫

Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.
Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.

Pomelo Care, which delivers 24/7 virtual care for women by using data to flag pregnancy risks and more, raised $92M led by Stripes at a $1.7B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20

This CEO’s $1.7 Billion Health Startup Began With Moms. Now She Wants To Expand To All Women.
Former Flatiron Health exec Marta Bralic Kerns raised $92 million to expand her virtual care model to women at all stages of their lives.

I might be the minority here but I feel like if Firefox shipped with AI shit enabled but a huge "DISABLE AI" button you could press to turn it off... I might be okay with that.
If the alternative is (almost) every other browser having AI and no way to turn it off, is a "DISABLE AI" button a win?
It would let the people who care disable it. People who don't care could also disable it, we just need to tell them how and why they should.
1/n

Currently setting up my new laptop (HP EliteBook X Flip G1i), and so far:
1. The device was delivered with a bundled warranty that already started 50 days ago
2. The supplier delivered a Battery Replacement Care Pack for 3 years instead of 5 years as ordered
Called HP for the warranty precox, had to send the invoice. Agent: "Yeah, it's gonna be about 2 weeks till we correct that."
(OK, Laptop won't leave the house until then)
Wrote the supplier for…

Pediatricians object to Trump's push to ban care for transgender kids : Shots - Health News : NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/19/nx-s1-5649891/transgender-pediatrician-trump-rfk-jr-ban

People tell me that Wiener is a smart guy.
So why does #Friedmanist, devoutly trusting developer to do …

Senator Scott Wiener (@scottwiener.bsky.social)
CA State Senator, representing San Francisco & northern San Mateo County. Chair, Senate Budget Committee. Passionate about health care, climate, making it easier/faster to build good things like housing, transit, clean energy. Democrat 🏳️‍🌈✡️ scottwiener.com

Ever notice how you're watching your own life from a slight distance?
Not depressed. Not burned out. Just... slightly absent.
When overwhelm lasts longer than we can process it, we adapt by feeling less. We function but don't fully inhabit our days.
The long dissociation kept us safe when feeling everything wasn't possible.
But survival was never the same thing as being alive.
What would it mean to gently come back?

The Long Dissociation and the Cost of Nonchalance: Why We Feel Numb, Detached, and Distant
An essay on how prolonged overwhelm teaches us to care less—and how we gently relearn presence, desire, and participation in our own lives.

SNAP Recipients Crushed by Democrats Caving on Shutdown: “They Just Wasted It All”
People on food stamps said they were willing to sacrifice to protect health care benefits. They’re furious that the Democrats gave up.
By Jessica Washington
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/12/go

SNAP Recipients Crushed by Democrats Caving on Shutdown: “They Just Wasted It All”
People on food stamps said they were willing to sacrifice to protect health care benefits. They’re furious that the Democrats gave up.

Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social :
“These politicians want a Christian nation
— unless it means providing health care to the sick.
Or funding food assistance for the hungry.
Or raising the minimum wage.
It seems like they want to base our laws on the Bible…
until they read the words of Jesus.”
h…

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “These politicians want a Christian nation— unless it means providing health care to the sick. Or funding food assistance for the hungry. Or raising the minimum wage. It seems like they want to base our laws on the Bible… until they read the words of Jesus.”

This trial would appear to ignore the precautionary principle. The critics, victims of previous irresponsible prescribing, should be taken seriously.
Campaigners question ethics of puberty-blocker trial in legal letter to Streeting - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvg6l5…

Campaigners question ethics of puberty-blocker trial in legal letter to Streeting
Researchers and the UK regulator say the study is going to help improve care for children questioning their gender.

White House Dementia Care Unit Lets Trump Write Walk Of Fame Plaques All By Himself!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/white-house-dementia-care-unit-lets

I heard there was a secret tool
That you could use if you were a fool
But you don't care for PDF files, do ya?
It goes like this: you click "log in"
A chatbot bubble blocks the screen
Investors thought this feature was a shoo-in
#ai #llm

Ageing Matters Podcast
Hear first hand from the people driving change across ageing and aged care in Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/ageing-matters/

Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/04/tala-health-raises-100-million-se…

Tala Health raises $100 million seed round, as Ritankar Das seeks to build a holding company for the AI era
Titan Holdings has launched a new operating company, Tala Health, Fortune has exclusively learned.

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115533328078620492
I will not abuse, I don't care, quote me all you want!

'Cruel and Unconstitutional': Trump, RFK Jr. Escalate War on Trans Youth With Threat Against US Hospitals | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-transgeneder-care-ban

https://mastodon.social/@arcticleo/115510312695653216
“Here, taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday.”

I’m not sure but if you go to urgent care and lie flat on the floor instead of sitting in a chair they may see you sooner. 😫

Many of us learned to survive by staying slightly absent from our own lives.
Not apathy. Not burnout. Something quieter.
A low-grade separation that let us function when feeling everything became too much.
It protected us. But survival is not the same as being alive.
What does it look like to come back?
…

The Long Dissociation and the Cost of Nonchalance: Why We Feel Numb, Detached, and Distant
An essay on how prolonged overwhelm teaches us to care less—and how we gently relearn presence, desire, and participation in our own lives.

Part of why #Trump has always been so hard to pin down politically is that he was always representing highly conflicting interests. Now, as that eats him alive, the GOP is fracturing in to two main groups: the Pinochet/Franco wing and the Hitler wing.
The Pinochet/Franco wing (let's call them PF) are lead by Vance. PF are also a coalition with some competing interests, but basically it's evangelical leaders, Opus Dei (fascist catholics), tech fascists (Yarvinites), pharma, and the other normal big republican donors. They support Israel, some because apartheid is extremely profitable and some because they support the genocide of Palestinian in order to bring the end of the world. They are split between extremely antisemitic evangelicals and Zionists, wanting similar things for completely different reasons. PF wants strong immigration enforcement because it lets them exploit immigrants, they don't want actual ethnic cleansing (just the constant threat). They want H1B visas because they want to a precarious tech work force. They want to end tariffs because they support free trade and don't actually care about things being made here.
The Hitler wing are lead by Nick Fuentes. I think they're a more unified group, but they're going to try to pull together a coalition that I don't think can really work. They're against Israel because they believe in some bat shit antisemitic conspiracy theory (which they are trying to inject along side legitimate criticism of Israel). They are focused on release of the #EpsteinFiles because they believe that it shows that Epstein worked for Mossad. They don't think that the ICE raids are going far enough, they oppose H1Bs because they are racists. They want a full ethnic cleansing of the US where everyone who isn't "white" is either enslaved for menial labor, deported, or dead. But they're also critical of big business (partially because of conspiracy theories but also) because they think their best option is to push for a white socialism (red/brown alliance).
Both of them want to sink Trump because they see him as standing in the way of their objectives. Both see #Epstein as an opportunity. Both of them have absolutely terrifying visions of authoritarian dictatorships, but they're different dictatorships.with opposing interests. Even within these there may be opportunities to fracture these more.
While these fractures decrease the likelihood of either group getting enough people together, their vision is more clear and thus more likely to succeed if they can make that happen. Now is absolutely *not* the time to just enjoy the collapse, we need to keep up or accelerate anti-fascist efforts to avoid repeating some of the mistakes of history.
Edit:
I should not that this isn't *totally* original analysis. I'll link a video later when I have time to find it.
Here it is:
#USPol

Unconstitutional.
House passes Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for trans youth - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/house-passes-mtgs-bill-to-criminalize-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth/

OpenAI says 40M Americans turn to ChatGPT daily for health information, per an analysis of anonymized interactions, seeing it as an "ally" for health care (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/05/chatgpt-openai-health-insurance-aca

Exclusive: 40 million Americans turn to ChatGPT for health care
OpenAI's new report shows how chatbots can help navigate health care.

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115873278073273765
Capitalist propagandists are free to disagree with me, but I honestly couldn’t care less. I see the world through an anarcho-syndicalist lens, and no amount of capitalist noise will make me …

Today was… something. I woke with terrible leg pain, like the worst I’ve ever had. Tried everything to make it go away, nothing helped, I cried. When my partner awoke I asked if they could take me to urgent care. When we got there I was in such pain I could only lay flat on the waiting room floor. Eventually they saw me, I got a shot for the pain, got sent home with some prescriptions…
1/n

She Drove a Hundred Miles to Give Birth. New California Laws Are Bringing Maternity Care Closer to Home.
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/11/17/she-drove-a-hundred-miles-to-give-birth-new-california-laws-are-bringing-maternity-care-closer-to-home/

We outnumber the pigs. By a lot.
They don't win by using force. They don't win by shooting us, or kidnapping us, or locking us up. If anything, that kind of thing backfires. They don't win by making us afraid or angry.
They win through propaganda, by making us turn on each other, by making us feel hopeless or that any of this is inevitable. They win by leading us to believe that any of their behavior is justified.
Take care of yourself and each other, and shut d…

Dads Of The NICU
A podcast created by Dads, for Dads, that are spending time in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or Special Care Unit...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/dads-of-the-nicu/

Even if AI could take over every job, humans will invent new work for themselves, because we value human effort and connection, not just output (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/ai-and-the-human-condition/

AI and the Human Condition
AI might replace all of the jobs; that’s only a problem if you think that humans will care, but if they care, they will create new jobs.

U.S. bishops ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g-s1-97651/gender-affirming-care-ban-catholic-hospitals

Trump admin blocked from freezing billions child care funds, judge rules
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/10/trump-child-care-fund-freeze-billions

HHS uses conscience rights to strip trans people of health care
https://www.advocate.com/health/hhs-transgender-care-conscience-rights

5 blue states sue Trump admin over $10 billion child care funding freeze
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/09/trump-child-care-funding-freeze-lawsuit-five-blue-states

Louisiana abruptly cuts two Medicaid contracts, putting care options for 488,500 in limbo • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/12/09/louisiana-abruptly-cuts-two-medicaid-contracts-putting-care-options-for-488500-in-limbo/