J “Living Death” Kaul

Testing [email protected]. Geek. Writer. IT pro re digital content. Film buff. She/her. Annoying folks for the Greater Good. #A11y #Privacy #UX #Spoonie

[J “Living Death” Kaul @j_kaul]

All of this was avoidable. But you decided business was more important than people.

Now people are sick all the time, more susceptible to getting sick, more people disabled, health settings less safe, the health system overwhelmed.

BTW, none of that is good for business.

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

NSW: Measles alert for Western Sydney

"With the source of the infection unknown, it is likely measles is currently circulating within the community, and other people may have been unknowingly exposed to measles."

Source: https://t.co/GpxxfD03fd

[jansant @Jansant]

So, Jillian Segal can just make shit up in the Royal Commission and we're supposed to remain silent.
Fuck that @AlboMP.

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

#BREAKING: The first case of deadly H5 bird flu in local wildlife has been recorded in a bird found on the South Australian coast.

https://t.co/4wray6KHDJ

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel killed a WCK driver, Ahmad Nasser Saleem, in Gaza today. They’re still killing humanitarian workers and obstructing aid.

Is the media going to report this or is it not newsworthy?

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

Also worth noting that despite the Royal Commission documenting hundreds of child sexual abuse complaints against Christian Brothers, the schools they run continue to be publicly funded - upwards of a billion dollars since the RC's final report.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

You can’t ethically administer Assisted Death without first guaranteeing the right to a dignified life.

Disabled people shouldn’t feel pressured to choose MAiD when treatments & social support could help them thrive.

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

Australia is changing how you get your COVID-19 vaccine starting October 1, 2026.

The old pharmacy program (CVCP) is shutting down, and vaccines are moving over to the national program (NIPVIP). Eligible people will still receive funded vaccines, while others must pay privately.

[tern @1goodtern]

It's just not true that strokes were 'unheard of' in young people pre 2020.
I've been supporting families who go through this stuff for decades now.

They were rare, yes.
And they're not so rare now.

I know.
This will get shared far less than the posts that oversimplify things.

[bONGO 🌹 @wariocolosseum]

wiping meta off the face of the planet is strictly a net positive for humanity

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

8th case of H5 bird flu in Australia confirmed

"South Australia has confirmed its second H5N1 bird flu case and two more suspected positive cases in migratory seabirds have been detected on the state’s coast."

#BirdFluAustralia

Source: https://t.co/9b5aNitxSV

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Tiffany is 35 years old and suffering from a treatable disability.

There’s no cure, but there are things to improve quality of life.

Ontario simply won’t pay for them.

What will they pay for?

MAiD. Assisted death.

Disabled Canadians offered death over treatment and care.

[Minky Worden @MinkysHighjinks]

From Putin’s World Cup to the fake “FIFA Peace Prize” to the reversed US red card suspension, a thread on FIFA President Gianni Infantino caving to pressure, breaking @FIFAcom’s own rules and betraying #HumanRights to accommodate autocrats:
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1. In 2013, FIFA secretary general Jérôme Valcke explained how the governing body of world football picks #WorldCup hosts: "Less democracy is sometimes better for organizing a World Cup... a very strong head of state who can decide, as maybe Putin can do in 2018... that is easier for us organizers."
Valcke’s strategy of cozying up to rights abusers outlived his tenure at FIFA:
https://t.co/n7ftWeurfO

2. The 2018 Russia World Cup was a vehicle for Vladimir Putin to project prestige while waging a massive crackdown on civil society and #LGBT people. FIFA had just published a landmark Human Rights Policy. The St Petersburg Stadium was built by forced laborers from North Korea, at least one of whom died. https://t.co/aS2JklYBVw. And @Josimar’s “The Slaves of St Petersburg”

3. Qatar 2022 was FIFA's most lucrative World Cup ever—and its deadliest. Migrant workers built $220 billion in stadiums and infrastructure, and thousands died preventable deaths. FIFA's own human rights committee concluded FIFA had "a responsibility" to compensate workers. FIFA shamefully reneged on plans to compensate families under pressure from Qatar, whose Airways reportedly supplies Gianni Infantino’s private jet.
https://t.co/L0ImviRWY3

4. FIFA's rules require human rights due diligence and rightsholders consultation before awarding a World Cup. For #SaudiArabia 2034, Gianni Infantino oversaw a scheme that effectively eliminated bidding+human rights due diligence, engineering a "sole bid"+handing the tournament to Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman.
https://t.co/HaL6cRZCSZ

5. At the 2025 US Club World Cup, FIFA obsequiously canceled its own anti-racism+anti-discrimination campaigns, in apparent deference to Trump’s anti-DEI policies. Homophobic chants followed in Atlanta. Infantino claimed there were "no incidents." FIFA had received 145+ human rights complaints. https://t.co/2vpIud9yV6

6. Gianni Infantino concocted a "FIFA Peace Prize” for Donald Trump. Human Rights Watch wrote to FIFA to ask:
—who were the nominees?
—what was the process?
—who were the judges?
—what were the criteria?
https://t.co/90w7BF8Wqc

We got no answer. FIFA's Peace Prize was cravenly created for a president disappointed he didn't win the real one: https://t.co/IZ1DldoTaT

7. As preparations for the 2026 World Cup advanced, US federal agents killed two Americans in Minneapolis. An asylum seeker took his children to the 2025 Club World Cup final—and was deported. @HRW documented that from Trump’s inauguration to March 2026, ICE arrested at least 167,000 people in the 11 US World Cup host cities. FIFA did not use its leverage to mitigate the US immigration crisis: https://t.co/tQV95B0oYX.

8. Ten African nations qualified for the World Cup but Trump imposed bans on travel to the US for citizens from 39 countries, including 26 in Africa.  Many African fans, journalists+family members were banned or had to post “visa bonds” of up to $15,000. FIFA’s response was to side with Trump. @HRW’s @VincentSimaOle: https://t.co/i5BY7llmIX

9. As World Cup preparations advanced in the US, Trump Administration ICE deaths surged. FIFA’s weak response to the US government’s cruel immigration crackdown squandered an opportunity to make it less deadly. https://t.co/AV5lLSXGgQ

10. The world should have been welcome at the 2026 FIFA World Cup; but from banning Somali referee Omar Artan to denying Iranian women fans visas, FIFA failed to defend affected people from Trump’s exclusionary policies:
https://t.co/Y5dkDbX895

11. FIFA needs fundamental change if it is to meaningfully protect the rights of fans, workers, journalists and athletes. The beautiful game deserves better than partnerships with ugly autocrats: https://t.co/rmq6iifgjW

[Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan]

Big story here on Anthropic’s moves in Australia, pushing for huge data centre deals and a huge copyright exemption to train Claude https://t.co/UkPktwaVCX

[Yuling Chow @yulingchow]

The big lesson we should’ve all learned from the pandemic is viral infections are far costlier than we assume, and our laissez faire attitude towards them is irrational.

We could’ve taken our heads out of the sand, but we’ve instead decided to double down and dig in even deeper.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million.

This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs.

Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

Australia: "Second case of H5 bird flu suspected in South Australia"

"South Australia has another suspected case of deadly H5 bird flu in a migratory seabird found on the Yorke Peninsula."

Source: https://t.co/uaZp7PwtNG

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The Trump administration approved three new “forever chemical”-based pesticides last week for use on food crops, including corn and soybeans — the most widely grown crops in the country — as well as wheat, kiwi, oats, peas, broccoli and coffee.

These new chemicals — diflufenican, epyrifenacil, trifludimoxazin — have all been quietly approved without a standard press release.

Trump approved other PFAS-based pesticides cyclobutrifluram and isocycloseram earlier this year, and the first food use of chlormequat — which is already found in 90% of Americans’ blood.

An EPA scientist wrote in the approval documents that at least one of these new PFAS-based pesticides is “suggestive evidence of carcinogenic potential.”

These approvals come just days after the Supreme Court sided with chemical maker Bayer and the Trump administration in limiting Americans’ ability to sue pesticide companies for harms linked to pesticides.

Now, Americans will have a harder time holding companies accountable for the cancer-causing effects of their pesticides.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Scandalous.
18 months in arbitrary detention. No charge. No evidence. Torture attested by his lawyer, marks visible on his body.
And instead of covering this, @BBC amplifies Israel's unproven claims casting doubt on a hostage doctor.

>BBC's journalism in the time of genocide.

[chantzy @chantz_y]

An answer to the loneliness crisis isn't telling people with long Covid & other disabilities to take more health risks. It's creating a society where people don't have to choose between protecting their health & participating in community in the first place

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

🇦🇺Australia's 7th “confirmed or presumed positive” H5N1 Bird Flu Case.

"A giant petrel found at Mullaloo beach in Perth is being treated as Australia’s seventh positive case for H5N1 bird flu"

Source: https://t.co/551wqHQXW8

[Sam Connor @criprights]

Tears of anger. No, *rage*.

@Mark_Butler_MP you told Australians on @InsidersABC
that nobody would die because of these changes.

I want you to read these posts. Half an hour ago, a suicide farewell by a young woman, a wheelchair user, in an NDIS group.

You too, @AlboMP. @JEChalmers . ALL of you men.

Not a modelling report, not a bloody budget paper.

This is what we do every day. Spend our lives watching other disabled person’s lives unravelling in public. Waiting for their final messages.

We have done the usual mop up for you butchers. That’s what we community members do. Only this one locked down her profile and is probably dead in Logan, Qld. Do you care?

You can bet @PaulineHansonOz doesn’t.

If you’re in the group, over weeks and months, you can watch it happen. Because you are killing us every day. Another one today, in an Illawarra hospital, a ‘social’ admission.

Now this young woman.

First, her wheelchair funding was removed because the NDIS decided Functional Neurological Disorder wasn’t the “right” kind of disability for funding. She lost the wheelchair that allowed her to leave home.

Then came the isolation.

A broken second-hand wheelchair that caused pain. Fewer supports. Weeks alone. No friends. No community. No way to leave the house without someone else pushing them.

Their world became smaller and smaller.

They wrote about being trapped, losing hope, about feeling abandoned by both the health system and the NDIS.

Then they wrote:

“I don’t want to be here anymore.”

“This will be my last post ever.”

“It’s now time to say goodbye.”

I’ve just gotten off the phone from another young woman who attempted suicide in January after the cuts that took away her ability to live safely. Why only now? Because she’s been in a coma for four months.

Now there’s yet another disabled Australian whose life has been reduced to surviving alone inside four walls - this week.

And today, I don’t know whether they’re alive.

That sentence should stop every minister in their tracks.

You said nobody would die.

Can you honestly say that after reading this?

You have been warned and warned and warned. Do we need to haul corpses to the Labor conference to make you say no to your shitty cuts, even if you don’t actually care?

Because if you don’t care about us, you sure as shit should care about losing the election.

We have had enough. Blood is on your hands.