Ian of Brisbane

@RealMarkLatham Long vax

Whatever happened to Long Covid? Are they the ones with the masks still on? Or was a special asylum established for them?

@DavidLeyonhjelm @mpsmithnews @JacintaAllanMP One wonders at the delusion of people who claim they can change the world’s weather by passing a bill in the Australian parliament.

@JacintaAllanMP Electricity was cheaper and more reliable after privatisation, right up until Labor and the Liberals began subsidising unreliable wind and solar generation.

This is my dad, Peter. He lost his job when the Liberals sold off the State Electricity Commission. Now we've brought back the SEC - and we're training the next generation of tradies to build Victoria's energy future.

@SBSNews @mpsmithnews I’m not over Jacinda yet. Although, given she is in Australia now…..

New Zealand's finance minister, Nicola Willis, has invited Australians who don't like Australia’s proposed changes to capital gains tax (CGT) to move across the ditch. Learn more: bit.ly/4v152xZ

@JoshButler Do you get money from the government?

Australia’s peak community and housing groups have urged federal parliament to quickly pass Labor’s changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax, saying the reforms would improve fairness for renters and young homebuyers theguardian.com/australia-news…

@SpaceX Landed on Christmas Island?

Starship’s flight trajectory for today’s test

@iowahawkblog Peter Pus and the Infections

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you have seen live. Me: 1. Turds of Misery 2. Wait, I guess I've only seen Turds of Misery live

@SincDavidson Everything they touch….

The housing market is tanking? What? No!

@therealrukshan @DavidLeyonhjelm I’m glad the ABC tells me its Australias most trusted news agency, because if they didn’t, I would have no way of knowing.

Imagine recieving billions in tax dollars and being this childish. ABC News has not been posting on X for 2 days, but has posted multiple news stories to a Bluesky audience of 1000. Activist employees need to be fired. It's also alleged Bluesky is a breeding ground for paedophilia and child abuse material.

The taxpayer-funded ABC is triggered by X so it is posting more content on Bluesky to its 1,000 followers instead of to its nearly 2.3 million Australian followers on X. This is further evidence that the institution should be gutted and defunded. All its social media staff should be let go and replaced with generic AI bots for this simple task.

@Sargon_of_Akkad @lotuseaters_com Where can i see a copy of the social contract? Who signed it?

Hearing the king say "the social contract" is a bizarre thing. His political presence is literally the opposite of the social contract.

@SincDavidson The names Bond, Junk Bond.

Junk bond Albo. Has a ring to it.

@OwenGregorian The Amish do not vaccinate.

Amish Kids Almost Never Get Allergies and Scientists Finally Know Why | Rupendra Brahambhatt, ZME Science In today’s world, allergies are nearly unavoidable. For instance, a report from Stanford Medicine suggests that nearly 40 percent of the human population (over three billion people) suffers from at least one allergic condition, making allergies one of the most widespread health issues globally. The situation is even worse in the US, where over 50 percent of all children have at least one allergy. However, surprisingly, there’s one group in America that seems almost immune to allergies, the Amish. Compared to the earlier 50 percent figure, only seven percent of Amish kids have developed any allergic condition. Moreover, “generally, across the country, about 8 to 10 percent of kids have asthma. In the Amish kids, it’s probably 1 to 2 percent. A few of them do have allergies, but at much, much lower rates compared to the general population,” Carole Ober, an expert on human genetics from the University of Chicago, told The Washington Post. These numbers are so incredible that scientists are now digging deep into Amish barns and homes to understand how these children are being protected. They believe that their findings could lead to treatments that prevent allergies altogether. The secret to allergy resistance in the Amish Amish are a group of people in the United States and parts of Canada who live a very simple, traditional lifestyle and mainly rely on farming and livestock for their livelihood. They still ride horse buggies and typically stay away from modern gadgets such as TVs and smartphones. In recent years, the mystery behind the Amish resistance to allergies led scientists from several universities to compare the Amish with other traditional farming groups, particularly the Hutterites. Both groups have similar ancestry and lifestyles. However, only Amish children showed extremely low allergy and asthma rates. This finding suggested that genetics isn’t the answer. Something else is at play here. So the researchers looked at how children in each group interacted with their environment. They found a major difference. “The Hutterite kids and pregnant moms don’t go into the animal barns. Kids aren’t really exposed to the animal barns until they’re like 12 or so, when they start learning how to do the work on the farm. The Amish kids are in and out of the cow barns all day long from an early age,” Ober said. When scientists analyzed dust samples from Amish and Hutterite homes, they discovered that Amish house dust had nearly seven times more microbes. To test whether this made a difference, they exposed mice to each type of dust. Mice that inhaled Amish dust showed much less inflammation in their airways when exposed to allergens. Whereas mice exposed to Hutterite dust didn’t get that benefit. This strongly suggested that early, regular exposure to certain farm microbes trained the immune system of Amish kids to react calmly instead of aggressively to substances like pollen or food. This phenomenon is called the farm effect. In a further study in 2023, scientists took it a step further and identified special proteins in Amish dust. These proteins act like transporters, carrying microbial and plant molecules straight into the airways, where they help regulate immune responses. In short, early exposure to the barn dust (farm effect) creates a shield inside the body, one that keeps allergy-triggering reactions from spiraling out of control. “These clues about the origin of the farm effect represent a step toward the prevention of allergic diseases,” Kirsi Järvinen-Seppo, Chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, told The Washington Post. Time to attack allergies before they appear Today, most allergy treatments, like inhalers for asthma or antihistamines for hay fever, only manage symptoms. This is because they are typically administered after the allergy has already taken hold in the body. However, what we truly need is something that could prevent the onset of allergies. Obviously, you can’t have a barn in every household, but by studying the microbes responsible for the farm effect, scientists believe it is possible to replicate the protective effect of the Amish environment. For instance, they could develop proactive solutions, such as probiotics, nasal sprays, or even dust-derived treatments that train a child’s immune system in the early years of life. “I don’t know that we can give every family a cow. But we are learning from these time-honored and very stable environments what type of substances and exposures are needed. Once we know that, I don’t think there will be any impediment to creating protective strategies along these lines,” Donata Vercelli, an expert in molecular biology at the University of Arizona, said. The idea that something as simple as barn dust could protect millions of children is both fascinating and hopeful. However, to realize this at full scale, researchers now need to identify exactly which microbes and molecules provide the strongest protection, and they must ensure any treatment is both safe and easy to use. Read more: zmescience.com/science/news-s…

@Tony_Diver @danwootton If Gordon Brown is the answer, what was the question?

Interesting choice of shot in No10’s new PR video, in which Rachel Reeves looks like she is conducting a wedding ceremony

@JimFergusonUK Accelerated recycling

🚨 BREAKING: MASSIVE FIRE ERUPTS AT TENNESSEE RECYCLING PLANT A huge blaze has broken out at a recycling facility in Henry County, Tennessee, with towering flames and thick smoke reportedly visible for miles. Authorities have issued a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents as firefighters battle to contain the inferno. Scenes coming out of the area look intense: • Heavy black smoke pouring into the sky • Emergency crews rushing to contain the fire • Residents urged to stay indoors • Air quality concerns now growing Developing situation.

@RennickGBR Like your work but you need to learn how to pronounce Corowa.

It’s a beautiful morning here in Farrer as voting starts. The Coalition is going to lose its seat in Farrer this weekend for the first time since its inception in 1949. Farrer is indicative of what’s happening across the country as people turn their back on the Coalition. The reasons are varied but it’s worth mentioning one of the main factors and that is the Coalition turned its back on its own members by refusing to let them preselect their representatives. Farrer was a good example of this. Local branch members of the Liberal Party had wanted to get rid of Sussan Ley for years, yet were constantly denied the right to do so by head office in Sydney who wanted to control politicians to ensure none of them stepped out of line. Those who did, like myself were removed. Head office did this because they were controlled by their major donars who were driven by self interest rather than the best interests of the people. I.e. big pharma, super funds and banks. The Liberal branch of Farrer has lost nearly all of its members as a result with many moving to minor parties. It’s a valuable lesson in what people power can do if it can organise itself. And it’s a valuable lesson to the establishment that they can’t get away with ignoring the people forever. As the old saying goes - you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. It’s also a valuable lesson to the people - the world is run by those who turn up. If you want to have a say in running it then please consider signing up today at Peoplefirstparty.au

@ClarksonsFarm1 No

Will you be watching the new Grand Tour?

@ClarksonsFarm1 That’s all there was.

Anyone else?😎

@lippyent @SincDavidson It worked

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@ClarksonsFarm1 Trains have coupling that come loose, destroying everything they touch. The solar panels are soon to be destroyed

Brilliant idea!

@SincDavidson Raising taxes appears to be all they care about.

High taxes and falling standard of living. What's the government doing - raising taxes.

@GrahamY @CampbellNewman What is a social licence?

More Australia Institute BS. They'll stop at nothing to try to destroy the social licence to operate of the oil and gas sector. Private sector companies like Jemena and APA build the pipelines not the governments. But guess who is underwritten by the government - the Australia Institute. Not only don't they pay tax, but if you donate to them you don't pay tax either. Who's rorting the system?