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Add the soil, bagged to keep the sand clean, then cover with sand. Plant out the scape, then gently fill the tank and let it settle. Once settled, it's time for final adjustments, then sending the critters home.

Ground zero, ready for rebuild.

Fishtank teardown and reset day. Even with a nano tank, it's slow, messy work. Chasing the cherry shrimp especially, as they've been very happily breeding up.

The long night ends. Tomorrow comes, and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow ever after.

May you rest deeply through this long, dark night. Tomorrow brings the return of the light.

Kangaroo curry & Kevin. Finally starting to relax after the long slog of major life change.

Jacaranda tree in evening light.

Just home from a delightful 5 hours out on the bike with a newish friend. Delicious winter sunshine, a perfectly calm Bay, cafe lunch, spotting lots of floofy grebe chicks, admiring the salt marsh & meandering conversion. So good i forgot to take any pictures.

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Good morning (old photo). A reminder that you do not need to drown yourself in the horrors of the world to care about them. Continually shouting here won't change it. Let's collaborate and change what we can within our spheres of influence. Meanwhile, self care is crucial. Burn long, not out.

“Yesterday’s massacre in Khan Younis - where 59 people were killed whilst trying to get food for their families - is not a tragedy, it’s a war crime. As Jews, we cannot watch Palestinians starved, concentrated into zones to be shot with impunity, and not remember our own history."

I wish i could be there. Thanks to all who have walked, and to Travis Lovett for his leadership. 👊🏼👊🏿

World, please stop making me sad. Stop it with the genocide, apartheid, assassinations, pollution, climate breakdown and community fracturing, ok? Or at least step it back a little. This isn't ok.

It's beginning to feel like home

Women's Peace Park, Kensington, Naarm.

G'bye, house. 6 days until settlement. Lotsa feelings to process.

This is unreal!

Tiny part.

I never cease to be amazed by the "Queen of the Night" - the Sonoran Desert's night-blooming #cereus (Peniocereus greggii) - and how nearly all the desert's plants orchestrate a synchronous bloom. The whole deserts' worth of naturally growing cacti all bloomed last night!

Your regular reminder that a corgi crossed with any other breed just ends up looking like a corgi disguised as the other dog. Dalmatian

Getting there. The fish tank will get moved onto the wall unit later. Gonna tear it down and add fresh substrate first, and tidy up the scape.

Fitted an appropriate knob to what is now the outdoor gear cupboard in the new house.

Well, wasn't that a shitful day.

The final clean is on