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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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Joann, a destination for generations of lovers of crafts projects for 80 years, is going out of business and shuttering all its stores

a quick redwood forest critter pattern for your feed ☘️💕

Wishing you all the best possible week. And remember to look at the sky or a bird or a piece of art to help catch your breath occasionally. #SkySky 🌿

Close call, morning all. 🦊#FoxiMax #913 4/8 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ Wordle 1,347 6/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #WQuers

BREAKING: DPS secretary Rob Stefanic was paid $141,220.29 gross - also accrued leave so $153,660.04 total net - after he was terminated early on Dec 17 by the Presiding Officers due to a "loss of trust and confidence." President Lines said it was a "decision that was not taken lightly." #estimates

Here’s another pointer to just how fast geopolitics are changing.👇 The US is no longer a reliable ally. Yet here the ALP/LNP duopoly have got their heads in the sand, hoping it can still be business as usual. Wishful thinking is no strategy. #AUKUS #auspol

Heading to an election this is impt. The ALP w/ strong pressure frm #CommunityIndependents + Greens are delivering for Aust. Not perfect but effective! Tk u @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social. You won't hear it from the Murdocracy! @michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy michaelwest.com.au/australias-e... #auspol

Don’t we, the tax payers, fund these reports? They should be readily available for any Australian to see where our hard earned money is spent. Also, I would rather it not line a lawyers pocket, thank you very much. Get the salmon out of the harbour!

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

Here's LNP's plans to date... #auspol

couriermail.com.au/news/queenslan… I gave public evidence at the DRC about Public Trustee abuse & exploitation. In her closing arguments, Kate Eastman KC, described the horrific stories we heard as “just the tip of the tip of the iceberg”. Repeal QLD gag laws now! #qldpol #auspol

I just want to say to all of the people I know who were victims of that monster, now dead (& of those who allowed him to keep abusing children for years after they knew): good people have you in their hearts. Thinking of Paul, Steve, Nick, Andrew, the Harrisons, the Currans, to name but a few. ❤️

February 23, 1976 AC/DC shot the video clip for "It's A Long Way To The Top. It featured the band's then-current lineup, along with members of the Rats of Tobruk Pipe Band, on the back of a flat-bed truck travelling on Swanston Street in Melbourne. #ClassicRock #RockNRoll youtu.be/g-qkY2yj4_A?...

I want to see every scientific society going into emergency mode. This is a good example of how an organization can flex its specific power in a time of great need. What else is possible?

"A star-studded line-up of female artists presented a cover of David Bowie’s hit ‘Heroes’ to draw attention to Ukrainians heading into the fourth year of the full-scale war launched by Russia." Directed & Produced by @rwain.bsky.social via @kyivpost.com #SlavaUkrani

One of my top five all time fav videos.

Just in case we forgot...

The Climate Emergency Forum explains polar vortex vs jet stream, their interactions, and how climate change affects them. Learn about weakening, elongation, and reversal of these phenomena, leading to extreme weather. Watch for insights: youtu.be/2YfzhtCP6Us @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social

For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

You GUYYYYSSSSSSS The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB

“It turns out ‘up in Annie’s room’ did come from wartime. It was what a sergeant major would say if asked about a soldier who’d gone missing. He was ‘up in Annie’s room’ until someone knew better.” Shaun Micallef on a saying believed of his grandmother

"this is the first time he has argued that non-white migrants are part of a conspiracy to subvert the will of white voters" @keanebernard.bsky.social Not sure what's worse: - Dutton's open racism, or - mainstream media's supine failure to call him out. #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/24/p...

“A whole lot of people are going to be really hurt by what is happening, what is coming our way,” Jane Fonda said at the #SAGAwards. “And even if they’re of a different political persuasion, we need to call upon our empathy.” Read the full speech transcript: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Jane Fonda, the two-time Oscar winning actor and activist with a career spanning six decades and genres across film and television, was awarded the SAG life achievement award at the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards #SAGAwards reut.rs/3QtfDzP

Not a lot to report on the Bruce Lehrmann case. Toowoomba court has just heard he's seeking a judge-only trial. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You really get the impression from Bruce Lehrmann that he believed he could get away with anything. I guess when you have Australia’s largest news organisation on your side - News Corp - you might believe you are untouchable.

Greater Blue-eared Starling at Kruger National Park, South Africa. The starlings of Africa are superb. #birds #nature

I think it’s kinda a big deal that it’s not a treated as a bigger deal that vast majority of Australia’s intelligence agency’s terror caseload is teens at @thesizzle.com.au thesizzle.com.au/p/iphone-16e...

“These marine heatwaves are becoming more frequent and more intense. Climate scientists predicted this, politicians and fossil fuel barrackers dismissed their warnings…..”. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A cyclone has formed in the Coral Sea - expected to strengthen and move south. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely to curb the current coral bleaching event on the northern Great Barrier Reef.

Just a note that the 51st state stuff is not a joke. This is straight out of the Russian playbook. First they get an idea started. Then they give it a leader. Then the calls for it to be made real start. And then the foreign inavder moves in to protect "its people"

Valid questions....

Great advice on helping someone who is grieving.

I found one of the Cloudless sulfur caterpillars, still chomping on the blooms judging by that very yellow appearance. It also seems very close to full size so I expect it to be looking for a suitable location to transform into a chrysalis soon. #invertes 🌿

Really hit hard by watching this - we went to Heron Island in Jan 2020 and it is a very special place. As the IPCC said: every action, every bit of warming, every year, every choice matters. And the coral reefs feel it first.

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