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About time

@WillRBishop That’s very cool. Can you indicate which years’ songs were in the top 10?

Here's the final distribution of songs on the #hottest100ofaustraliansongs 1. 1997 (6 songs) 2. 1987 (5 songs) 3. 20 03,05,07,14 (4 songs)

@adambspencer @triplej No TISM ☹️

Amazing poll @triplej Incredible selection What’s your biggest shock that featured as high as it did and as low (or missed out altogether) Me Veronicas at 3!!! Triffids Wide Open Road missing out Let me know

@dadofmhk @TheCinesthetic Had to wait a long time but exactly this. It was one of the best things that has ever happened to me. Still is.

@TheCinesthetic Imagine being 10 reading the books and then seeing things come to life.

how amazing it must have been seeing this scene for the first time in theaters

@Nishaobgyn The idea that medical intervention (should) only occur when there is a threat to mother or infant doesn’t seem to matter. I feel very uncomfortable with the idea of any bodily process having to fit an ‘ideology’

‘The wrangle between overmedicalisation and the pressure to have a natural birth is a false dichotomy. Replacing one ideology with another does a disservice to women.’ #birth #pregnancy #informeddecisionmaking thelancet.com/journals/lance…

@anitasdottir @milfcartney I’m a bit younger so I don’t remember seeing them before they split up but I definitely remember their music on the radio. Lifelong fan. They only came to Australia once and that was before I was born!

@milfcartney I was alive and it was my birthday. Parents and siblings were visiting my grandmother. I was home alone with the tv turned up loud and screaming my head off. I had known about them for two years and this was my first look at them. I went crazy. Still am.

god was right for not letting me be alive back then because i would have had the most humiliating crash out in the living room

😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

@BazzaCC Congratulations! Huge achievement, be proud 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@wylfcen Meduseld

Would you stay at a timbered hall, majestic and adorned with gold, the most famed building for earth-dwellers under the skies, the light of which shines far over the land?

@feederofcats @Mungbeanster And 1.5k followers already 😆

BREAKING NEWS I HAVE JUST GOTTEN WORD THAT LUKE AKA MUNG BEAN (!!!!!!) AKA BEAN HAS HIS OWN ACCOUNT @Mungbeanster THIS IS NOT A DRILL

I am so, so excited to share that LUKE was ADOPTED last weekend! 😭🩷 For almost a year, Luke waited desperately for someone to want him. He longed for his own home, his own people, his own things. He just wanted to be loved. You finally got it, buddy. Happy Tails, Luke 🥹

YES #GenX

@suehodges61 @wiseconnector Me too!

@wiseconnector Yes.

Do you have that ability?

@b35king4aday @karlykingsley Rubbish. 40 years in service and have done more than one parade of over a mile. It’s actually easier to march a long distance in step: the cadence produces forward momentum.

@karlykingsley The parade route was a mile long. I think it's unreasonable to expect them to stay in step for that long. You can do a tight in step march for a simple Pass In Review, not a mile long parade. It was route marching (look it up). Quit creating conflict where there is none.

@karlykingsley Confirm. Once you learn how to march in formation and in step it’s instinctive and actually hard not to do - like trying to sing badly if you can actually sing. They would have been hating every step but they did it anyway

@Spontyyy @nickschadegg It’s a protest not a war zone

@nickschadegg I thought they had to wear press jackets

turned towards her, aimed, then shot her. if your employer ever tries to downplay an incident where someone intentionally shoots you then it’s time to update your resume

@Nursey1994 @drkeithsiau Not all hysterectomies are done through the abdomen. Many (most) are now done via the vagina with keyhole abdominal surgery.

@drkeithsiau Basically it’s a hysterectomy but you’re left with a womb. Same amount of cut Layers. 6 weeks minimum healing for the internal stitches. Risks all over including ur bladder potentially not working again. It’s no joke. I’ve had 2..

@Froglips97 @drkeithsiau A retractor holds the bladder (which is empty due to a catheter being in place) out of the way of the surgery. The bladder otherwise sits directly in front of the uterus and the incision site needed to get the baby out. Not damaging the bladder & ureters is a high priority.

@drkeithsiau do they really pull the bladder down? Because that's somehow more disturbing than all the cutting involved.

@EmilyJBarley @drkeithsiau I’m incredibly sorry this happened to you.

Hi Keith, My second baby was born by elective caesarean (at Treliske, as it happens). She is now a thriving one year old. My first baby died during labour because we were denied the emergency caesarean she needed to live. Various investigations have found that anti-intervention, anti-caesarean views have contributed to the deaths of babies across the UK. Please read the Ockenden and Kirkup reports. The risks of vaginal birth to mother and baby can be enormous and include injury and death. Individualised care demands ALL risks are weighed properly, rather than looking at caesareans in isolation. I'm sure you feel/felt you were making a benign, factual observation about an abdominal surgery, but you have not. Instead, you've repeated 'normal birth' talking points that contribute to the deaths of hundreds of babies annually, and unknown numbers of (because they are uncounted) wholly avoidable injuries to mums and babies. If you would like to hear more about these issues please let me know. I live in Cornwall so it shouldn't be too difficult to arrange a proper conversation.

@Sajhawkins1 @drkeithsiau I’m so incredibly sorry that happened to you and your little one, Sarah. It should never have turned out that way. All medical interventions should balance risk with benefit. The risk of surgery vs the benefit of a live mother and child. I hope you and your daughter are thriving

@drkeithsiau I wish I had one. I was told I didn’t need intervention, 6 days in labour trying to deliver vaginally all while being told to sniff lavender/ have a bath. She was born dead. I opted for an elective section for my 2nd. No matter how invasive my section was my daughter is alive.

@DanannSpl4ces @drkeithsiau And what would have happened to your baby? I’m sorry you felt like your consent was forced and had a difficult time after the surgery but many breech births cannot be born safely vaginally without taking a significant risk.

Section was one of the worst things to have happened to me, I felt very forced and given no other options. Baby was breech. Ended up with MRSA.... took me a long time to get over that. Scar tissue and adhesions are unreal. Had I known the real risks of the surgery I might have fought harder against it.