Dr Michael Clifford
@drmikeclifford.bsky.social
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)
Josh Johnson did an interview the other week saying that now he has money, he realises how much of the senseless cruelty of capitalism is a choice. It really is rich people with too much ego destroying the lives of others to protect their own self-image because they have no internal locus of worth.
Said better than I ever could.
The world needs more whistleblowers and unions. Why do we feel our only recourse for survival in the present is to sell both our morality and our future. Refusal, of our participation, engagement, and labor is key to the changing the value systems which we currently inhabit.
Microsoft worker emails thousands of colleagues about company's support for genocidal 'Israel'
A Microsoft worker has quit and sent a mass email detailing Microsoft's complicity in surveillance tech Israel uses to hunt Palestinians
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Another cracking poetry collection - Manorism, Yomi Sode yomisode.com thanks to Pádraig Ó Tuama's Poetry Unbound Podcast poetryunbound.substack.com?r=8e5mq1&utm...
HER NAME is Tunchanok Donhomla. She was 17. His name doesn't matter www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
we are truly...truly...fucked...how hot was it in London yesterday ?
Lobbyist: "We need to make a choice! Climate or AI! We might lose to..." Me: *smacks climate button Lobbyist: "But we have to open the conversa..." Me: *punches climate button Lobbyist: "But our competitive..." Me: *JUMPS UP AND DOWN ON CLIMATE BUTTON www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Now that we can say this out loud, when the death toll becomes clear in weeks to come, what prosecutor in Europe will charge fossil fuel executives with corporate manslaughter?
Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...
The day the Republicans lost America - they went after Dolly Parton..."NEVER FORGET NEVER FORGIVE"
imagine getting in the way of dolly parton’s charitable spirit & kindness?
Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.
Finally we have someone who has sorted out the temperature scales
once again: fahrenheit: 0 - cold 100 - hot celsius: 0 - cold 100 - dead kelvin: 0 - dead 100 - dead
We don’t do court reports, but I checked the prisoner’s outburst against the facts: The sheriff is only one year older than me, is not fat, but he does wear glasses. Take him down. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2621569...
Look at how they vote...they are not on your side
So far One Nation has promised to: -Freeze wages & cut conditions to help bosses. -End maternity/parent leave -Abolish qualified childcare -Force girls & women to give birth - Add $225 billion to defence spend -Repeal gun laws -Subsidise new coal & nuclear plants -Take Malcolm Roberts seriously.
So far One Nation has promised to: -Freeze wages & cut conditions to help bosses. -End maternity/parent leave -Abolish qualified childcare -Force girls & women to give birth - Add $225 billion to defence spend -Repeal gun laws -Subsidise new coal & nuclear plants -Take Malcolm Roberts seriously.
A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt via Smithsonian Magazine
i am looking for someone to take over the bins on Friday next www.instagram.com/reel/DEcN1Rm...
Les Fo'Plafonds on Instagram: "🥳😎👌 Allez on termine cette session de rattrapage par notre cover le plus regardé depuis toujours avec près de 70 millions de vues!!! J’ai nommé … Satisfaction ! 👀🔥🤗 #les...
716K likes, 7,549 comments - lesfoplafonds on January 5, 2025: "🥳😎👌 Allez on termine cette session de rattrapage par notre cover le plus regardé depuis toujours avec près de 70 millions de vues!!! J’a...
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pa...
One Nation - Hands Off Our Rights At Work
One Nation say they are the party of workers, but their actions say differently. Time and time again Pauline Hanson and One Nation have voted against our rights at work. She’s voted against: • Same Jo...
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If you talk about Michelle Obama today, please make it about this video
"Loin girding"..and before anyone comments ..its a TUNIC, NOT A DRESS... youtu.be/JqIRmmkAduI?...
'Akimbo' is an excellent word that can be used for comedy purposes. We mustn't start blaming words for the way people use them. (It's 'gird your loins' that takes the prize for 'ooh, that doesn't mean what I thought it did'.) #DefendAkimbo
When Plato gets cancelled - and its NOT Monty Python Plato, they say, could stick it away Half a crate of whiskey every day Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle Hobbes was fond of his dram And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart "I drink, therefore I am"
Helen Poremba, textile artist living and working in rural Northumberland, UK who creates with free-motion embroidery, she ‘draws’ with a stitched line and ‘paints’ with a whole range of recycled fabrics #WomensArt
Augusta Savage, Gamin, ca. 1929, The sculptor was a pivotal figure of the Harlem Renaissance #WomensArt
They will not be able to say they didn't know.
"She would make sure that all 535 packets of letters and drawings were delivered to every member of Congress. She would keep telling the stories of the children she’d met." Keep going, Ms. Rachel. (gift link) wapo.st/4ecHKP2