Gail Sims

[Gail Sims @MyOwnSidekick]

I was sitting in the public gallery at this moment.
Old Smiley over there hah hah.

[Jason Clare MP @JasonClareMP]

It’s almost 10 years since the Liberals ripped the guts out of public school funding and they’ll do it again if given the chance 👇👇👇

[Gail Sims @MyOwnSidekick]

It's June 9th 2026 the day I gave in and googled it.

[Adrian Bott @Cavalorn]

@enchantedsocks @TechnicallyRon yeah, I'm afraid I'm right here in 2019 with you.

[Gail Sims @MyOwnSidekick]

mama pick me up! mama!

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

I’m having very strong feelings for/about a root I removed from my baked potato 😳

[Gail Sims @MyOwnSidekick]

Taking the grandkid to see @ Dendy Newtown. We are both mad keen and have watched together on YouTube since the pilot.

[Michael Kovach @kovox]

TADC: The Last Act is in theaters now!

[Gail Sims @MyOwnSidekick]

@strangerous10 Damn it I'm getting too old to contain this amount of fury and disappointment in my labour government. Feels like I might just explode under the pressure.

[Gail Sims @MyOwnSidekick]

Grace Tame is so Frick'n cool.

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

Loved this podcast with Grace Tame. Someone should let Charlie Pickering know there's nothing problematic about Grace sharing her lived experience of autism and helping educate people about it.
https://t.co/fCXw2Mrt9T

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

What a nasty bitter miserable corrupt woman.. If you agree please repost. 😩 @PaulineHansonOz #auspol

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

I have a living room 3 shade lamp, switched on and off by a floor button. Every time I press it with my foot, I feel like Prince choosing his next guitar effect on his pedalboard setup & it helps keep his memory alive in a small important way.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

It’s a podcast on autism. But still the Jewish lobby demands to cancel Grace Tame… or anyone they don’t like. The arrogance is next level.

https://t.co/7rU8MzXjmT

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Print by contemporary Polish artist Laura Makabresku #WomensArt

[Gail Sims @MyOwnSidekick]

why am I happy to watch this on loop and sit here grinning and muttering my approval

[Blue🦋 @Lismarblue]

El invento perfecto 👌 se merecen un premio

[Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01]

That’s quite literally the greatest looking watermelon I’ve ever seen

[Gail Sims @MyOwnSidekick]

uh oh I'm having a feeling

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

An 18-year-old just did what billion-dollar water companies couldn't.

Meet Mia Heller.

A high school junior from Warrenton, Virginia who built a water filter in her garage that strips out 95.5% of microplastics from drinking water.

That's better than most government treatment plants, which sit somewhere between 70% and 90%.

Her secret weapon? Ferrofluid. A magnetized liquid made of oil and powder that latches onto microplastic particles. Then a magnet yanks them out. No membranes. No constant filter replacements. No endless maintenance bills.
The ferrofluid even gets recycled, around 87% of it, in a closed loop.

The spark for all of this wasn't a classroom project. It was a local newspaper article warning that her town's tap water was loaded with PFAS and microplastics, and that nobody was coming to fix it.

So she watched her mom swap out filter after filter and thought, there has to be a smarter way.

She built the prototype herself. Tested it with a homemade turbidity sensor. Then walked into the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair and walked out with a special award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society.
Up against nearly 1,700 students from 62 countries.

She's now eyeing a household version that sits under your kitchen sink.

The future of clean water might not come from a lab in Silicon Valley. It might come from a teenager's garage in Virginia.

Source: Smithsonian Magazine

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

A tiny bee just did what chemotherapy couldn't.

Scientists in Australia discovered that honeybee venom can wipe out 100% of aggressive breast cancer cells in under 60 minutes.
And the healthy cells around them? Barely touched.

The breakthrough came from Dr. Ciara Duffy and her team at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, working alongside the University of Western Australia.
They tested venom drawn from 312 honeybees and bumblebees across Australia, Ireland, and England.

The target: triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer. Two of the deadliest, most stubborn forms of the disease.
The weapon: melittin. The same tiny peptide that makes a bee sting burn.

At one specific dose, melittin tore through cancer cell membranes completely within an hour. Within just 20 minutes, it shut down the chemical signals cancer cells need to grow and multiply.
Bumblebee venom, which lacks melittin, did nothing. Zero effect, even at high concentrations.

Scientists then recreated melittin synthetically in the lab and got almost identical results, meaning no bees need to be harmed to develop the therapy.

Published in the peer-reviewed journal npj Precision Oncology, the findings are still early-stage. Human trials haven't happened yet.

But one thing is clear. Nature has been hiding answers in plain sight all along, sometimes inside the smallest creatures on Earth.

Source: Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research / npj Precision Oncology (Dr. Ciara Duffy et al.)

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Bong Joon-ho says he tried to make Parasite (2019) deeply specific to Korean culture, but audiences around the world all reacted the same way:

“Essentially, we all live in the same country, called Capitalism.”

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

長さの違う振り子を同時に動かした動画、永遠に見てしまう

[Gail Sims @MyOwnSidekick]

yes my liege .. I am on the case

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

There are more than 2,200 people with privileged access all areas lobbyist passes to Parliament House.

After repeated calls for transparency, not a single Labor, Coalition or Greens senator or MP has disclosed who they are giving this access to.

At a time of intense lobbying on issues like making sure Australians get a fair return for our export gas, that should concern all of us.
https://t.co/lYkJzWp2dm

Go to https://t.co/OmDUHQJUq8 to call on your MP to disclose who they are giving access to.

[Gail Sims @MyOwnSidekick]

not to mention that it's Sunday afternoon and I simply can't move and now it's starting to rain so obviously everything must be postponed

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

Dear algorithm, connect me with ADHDers who woke up Saturday with big plans and are currently lying in bed reading this instead of doing any of them.

[Dirtyleftie @CraigSarg73]

Women’s rights matter. So do the rights and dignity of transgender people. Pretending those two things are automatically in conflict is political fearmongering, not leadership.

The Giggle v Tickle case was about whether anti-discrimination law applies to transgender Australians in public life and digital services. It was not a ruling that “abolished women’s spaces” or erased biological sex.

The constant framing of trans people as predators or threats to women and children is not backed by evidence. Trans Australians are a tiny minority already facing disproportionate rates of harassment, violence and mental health struggles. They are not the reason housing is unaffordable, wages are stagnant, or public services are under pressure.

And let’s be honest if One Nation genuinely cared about women’s safety, they’d spend more time talking about domestic violence, sexual assault, coercive control, childcare affordability and equal pay instead of obsessively targeting a vulnerable minority for clicks and outrage.

You can support women’s sport, privacy and safety without turning transgender people into a political punching bag. Mature societies are capable of nuance. Screaming “radical ideology” every five minutes is not nuance. It’s culture war politics designed to divide Australians.

[Manoco @Moonlighhy]

When a Crow feels sick, it goes to an Ant nest and deliberately disturbs it. The Ants get angry and start climbing on the Crow.
But the Crow doesn't move. It stays still with its
wings open. The Ants then spray formic acid on the Crow. This acid helps remove germs and fungi, like a natural medicine.