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Curious human. Biodiversity & citizen science. Lover of owls, invertebrates, reptiles. Constant reader. Habitat gardener. Tea drinker. Crafty. Gluten free baker. 🍄‍🟫🐸🐌🪲🦉🦎🐍🌿🌹 🐶🐾Precious Maltese Shih Tzu Yugambeh Country, Logan QLD Australia She/Her
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This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

It's #WormWednesday 😌🪱 Here's a very good flatworm, possibly in the Genus Paraplanocera. 📷 adrian2370 on iNaturalist 📍 Australia 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Probably the easiest but most impactful thing you can do *right now* for wild nature near you is to take a photo and then share it ... ⤵️

This fabulous little treehopper will be published in an upcoming scientific paper! Have I said I love @inaturalist.bsky.social ? It's so great for connecting scientists to observations. #invert (Gelastogonia bicristata) Papallacta, Ecuador

One year ago today 🌿 The Wisdom of the Ancient BlueSky People: Watch out for snakes 🐍 Irish Canyon petroglyph

One year ago today 🌿 Physaria subumbellata, our Parasol Bladderpod, blooming on Lookout Mountain, Moffat county #nativeplants

WIP i need more yarn to continue with this blanket. 3D bump is my favourite crochet stitch. It produces a perfect blend of texture, squish and the fabric produced is light yet warm. #crochet #yarn #fibreArt

Coming off my crochet hook, this shawl or lap blanket is soft and light, perfect for a Queensland winter. First ripple pattern. Not a great yarn to frog and there was quite a bit if frogging between a hook size change, to get better drape, and me not losing the ability to count. 🤣

Rue is shedding which makes her hungry and itchy. Adorable, as ever. Ctenophorus nuchalis #reptile #CentralNettedDragon #Dragon

www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/06/s... You’ve got to fucking kidding me. Voted again and again as Australia’s Worst ever Prime Minister, this smirking prick gets an award. If he’s the kings pick it’s time to lose the monarchy. Morrison is getting Australia’s highest honour. #Auspol ##DitchTheKing

‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Shoals now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Greens defence spokesman David Shoebridge says NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton's position is "increasingly untenable" after it was revealed he sought and received an age extension to remain a major general in the Army Reserve after he began his anti-corruption role.

"Australians are known for being wonderful at sport, but there's this inconvenient truth that we're terrible at conservation and protecting culture. It’s shameful," Ritchie said. Yes, I'm grumpy! Great story au.news.yahoo.com/inconvenient... by @michaeldahlstrom.bsky.social.

Will never forget Evangelical LNP PM, Morrison, warning thousands of women peacefully protesting against sexual violence-outside his own office-to be grateful that they weren’t “met with bullets” Liberals make my skin crawl

"Unable to decisively defeat Hamas, Israel has adopted a strategy of resource denial, treating Gaza as an undifferentiated hostile territory where any sack of flour might lend succour to the enemy. Food, fuel, medicine: weapons to withhold rather than needs to meet" Calibrated starvation as policy.

“When I was an executive at BP, we acknowledged climate change nearly 30 years ago and what it would bring," writes Greg Bourne. “We knew then what many fossil fuel companies still pretend not to.” https://trib.al/NWiMgTZ

Great read from Richard Flanagan on the AFL stadium. Original budget $375 million, now $1.86 billion, for just 7 games a year, in breach of all planning and heritage laws, opposed by 70% of Tasmanians. Truly unconscionable by the AFL. #auspol #afl www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20890/...

An immutable fascist is at war with an unstoppable narcissist. Shocked I tell you, we're all just so shocked. (and yes, those terms fit either one of them)

Neon Films released THE LIFE OF CHUCK. Because they’re small, they depended on Mark Hamil, Tom Hiddleston, and others to go on the circuit and talk the movie up. Thank you, guys. Now go bust a move!

#FinchyFriday in the shade with some bokeh balls. 💦 It was also BOGO day at the dispensary. 🌿🌿 Win-win. Have a wonderful weekend! 🤘😶‍🌫️ 📸 Haemorhous mexicanus ♂️🪶 #FeatheredFriday #BirdPhotography #EastCoastKin #Birding #Birds

Doctors for the Environment Australia has won a Federal Court order that enables it to challenge the approval of the Scarborough Gas Project’s environment plan by the National Offshore Petroleum Safety & Environmental Mgt Authority www.edo.org.au/2025/06/06/c... #auspol @docsenvaus.bsky.social

Hey Albo … Man up MF … Israel is a genocidal terrorist state led by a fugitive war criminal. Condemn Israel, sanction, boycott and dismiss the ambassador of that disgraceful mass murdering Nation. #auspol #Gaza #Genocide @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social

Neither major party can follow the science on climate. Why would anyone vote for these antisocial political dead ends? #auspol #climateaction www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I watched her mother lay the eggs. She laid them in the lawn which we mow so I took them to my butterfly nursery to raise & keep safe. She spent 5 days in the egg, 28 days as a caterpillar & 12 days inside her chrysalis 🥰 I finally have a proper record of the #VariedEggfly #Butterfly life cycle 💜🦋

@albomp.bsky.social , PLEASE do NOT play with our Beef Biosecurity!!!! I don't give a shit what The Felon over in the US wants, this is Australia's security & I don't want ANY loopholes in it, thanks. Can't we just cut them off instead? Sincerely, a, thankfully still 'beef disease free' Australia

This boy sat with me for so long, I was able to do something artistic 😍 The #VariedEggflyButterfly with a chrysalis sibling, yet to eclose & the discarded skin of the last caterpillar to turn into a chrysalis, all together on my knee 🥰

Checking the butterfly nursery, I found a moth who had somehow gotten into the enclosure as caterpillar & matured along with the others 💗🦋 Then, bringing the washing in, I stumbled across a juvenile lacewing 🥰

An @effinbirds.com shirt for every occasion

UNBOUND AUTHORS: We’ve prepared a letter you can send to administrators to demand things like expedited rights reversion, no AI use, return of electronic files (cover art, typesetting, etc) and the option to get any remaining copies of your books. DM me and I will send the template over