Grasshopper today while weeding the remnant urban bushland

Question of balance? Removing fumitory in urban fragment reveg bushland (weed paradise) to save reveg native seedlings, or preserve weedy understorey as bobtail habitat? Mosaic a bit of both perhaps?

"The overpowering pain that someone is feeling when they take their own life doesn’t go away when they die. It just gets passed on to the people who love them."

"conservationists have dedicated decades to protecting cool temperate rainforests in the north west of the state in an area where research demonstrates that, pre invasion, these forests largely didn’t exist"

Yummy quick soup for cold wet day. I just ate 2 servings! I added a dash of milk & a squeeze of lemon to my bowl instead of to the pot as I'm going to freeze the leftovers www.kyleecooks.com/white-bean-p...

Being educated. So far I've learnt that "There are no randomised controlled trials of parachutes"

I think this might be ricinocarpos wedding bush. Seven petalled flowers and grooved fruit in Mueller Park Subiaco Western Australia. Wondering if 7 petals are unusual?

Settlement of native title in Western Australia described as 'Australia's First Treaty'. Noongar (Koorah, Nitja, Boordahwan) (Past, Present, Future) Recognition Act 2016. Noongar Boodja Trust receiving yearly instalments of $50 million for 12 years static1.squarespace.com/static/56cac...

"Conservationists have dedicated decades to protecting cool temperate rainforests in the north west of the state in an area where research demonstrates that, pre invasion, these forests largely didn’t exist at scale" themountainjournal.com/2025/09/10/l...

India Day parade in Freo today. Scottish bagpipes and Indian bagpipes

Love this vid of wind turbines rising

Choice of sites for windfarms, there may be some no go areas. Well positioned windfarms are needed to replace ageing coal plants and cut greenhouse gas emissions. I don't know enough about this to comment www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Make your submission now to protect the Northern Jarrah forests

You can make a submission. Terms of reference include how misinformation & disinformation related to climate change & energy is financed, produced & disseminated, including, the origins, growth & prevalence of ‘astroturfing’ and its impact on public policy & debate www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

You have until 21 August to make your submission to EPA to protect the Northern Jarrah forest. Your to do list for the weekend starts here wafa.org.au/alcoa/

About 5% of common Australian wild birds including kookaburras and lorikeets could have undergone a “sex reversal” where their genetic sex does not match their reproductive organs, according to a new study. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I got so frustrated from seeing this happen, I have done a BIG fb post about it and it has been wonderful to see in the comments so many older users *get it immediately*. You CAN talk to your mum about healthy Facebook usage - she survived the 60s, she’s not dopey: www.facebook.com/share/p/15iX...

I am BEGGING people to condemn the attempts at Nazi rallies in Australia without telling every prospective attendee when and where they will be held and where to find the organisers. Please - please - stop doing the far right’s publicity for them, that’s how we lost the Voice. #auspol

Tallest public art in Perth? Smokestack chimney in Subi

I think there's hundreds of species of pterostylis orchids. Here's a couple that are flowering in Kings Park today

You are a critter looking for nectar in Kings Park today, which flower is deceiving you?

Hoverfly on the carnivorous drosera in Kings Park today.

Thousands in Tel Aviv protest. Organisers say more than 100,000 people joined demonstration demanding end to military campaign www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Solar farming in Aust from @racheljourno.bsky.social cosmosmagazine.com/earth/agricu...

This funky looking creature is a goose barnacle. It is actually multiple organisms that congregate on flotsam who spend their lives drifting at sea, as opposed to their homebody barnacle relatives.

My family lost a baby at Auschwitz. I can’t see how our child is any different from those being killed in Gaza. One of the most personal things I’ve ever written — about grief, conscience, and complicity. Read: thebigsmoke.com.au/2025/08/01/g...

Previously unnoticed by scientists, as it disguises itself as a stick (photo from article of when it looks less stick-like), and there are so many species of critters in the world. "there are as many species of just ladybirds as there are of all mammals combined." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great vid Colonials didn't realise Australian bush rats were a native rat species until Darwin captured a native rat with cheese at Albany western Australia. The local Aboriginal population could have told them tho youtu.be/QI2Gd9v7zkI?...

"Science, Latin for knowledge. The motto adopted in 1663 by the Royal Society in London: “Nullius in verba.” means “Take nobody’s word for it.” In other words, experimentation and observation is what counts, not the opinions of influencers" theconversation.com/friday-essay...

Just noticed that Australian flour doesn't have added iron. Weetbix has added iron tho. Growing up in Scotland eating white bread fortified with iron etc, so never questioned Oz bread before, maybe depends on Oz brands , whether wholemeal. Might alternate Weetbix & porridge & look at iron in toast

Bloom scrolling. Hardenbergia flowering on Clontarf hill today and also at Lowlands 14 years ago today. Wattle flowering . Maybe the other plant is Dodonea?

Hating on “Big Pharma”? Cool, it’s a $1.6 trillion regulated industry. But hang on…the $6.3 trillion wellness industry sells you mushroom tea, dewormers, crash diets, and alkaline water—no regulations, no oversight. But hey, it’s ‘natural,’ right?

aluminum salts are used as adjuvants that enhance the immune response, allowing for fewer doses and lesser quantities of the vaccine.

RFK Jr. must be removed Please sign and share! www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...

This piece on MSNBC, authored by Alex Morozov, Helen Petousis-Harris, and I is presenting evidence of what appears to be a long-planned campaign against vaccines by RFK Jr and his, umm, colorful associates. They discovered a new scary chemical called aluminum ... www.msnbc.com/opinio...

“I think we are on the verge of losing vaccines for this country,” Offit says. “RFK Jr will hold up a paper, in the next 4 to 5 months, that says it’s aluminum in vaccines that is causing a whole swath of problems, including autism,” he goes on.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

2/ ❗RFK Jr., now overseeing HHS, has pushed false claims linking aluminum in vaccines to autism—a theory rejected by decades of peer-reviewed science. Gottlieb warns this could unleash lawsuits and cripple vaccine production in the U.S.

Blue whales are singing less but humpbacks are singing more? journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The Select committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy chair is David Whish Wilson, road map by Jeremy Walker , link to his submission , acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

"children of mothers who had higher intakes of sugar & processed foods during pregnancy were more likely to have emotional & behavioral problems at age 4, especially girls." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I haven't read this but hopefully adding more veggies helps

poor mums to be, more to worry about pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40033007/

Trump's deranged rant on wind turbines, reenacted by toddlers, see link to youtube vid here youtu.be/BZYhCC-XfTA?... As one person commented "The normalization of such erratic and fact-free outbursts in a figure of significant political influence is profoundly troubling"

Lil lizard fren , probably crytoblepharus, joined me on the bench at the hill today. I'm grumpy cos have sore arm from free Shingles jab, lil fren cheered me. Is depression a side effect of shingrix jab? When they say 2/3 days for sideeffects, does that mean all good in 72 hours? Which is 1.40pm Sat

Time to make your submission wafa.org.au/alcoa/ to stop the expansion of bauxite mining in the Jarrah forest www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

Packed Freo town hall last night for info session on the Alcoa proposed expansion of bauxite mining in the Northern Jarrah Forest. I got AI to write an example submission while I was in the hall using the points brought up by the speakers. See photo of what AI came up with. Omg does everyone use AI?

Treebate. Get a rebate for the cost of a tree you plant. www.wa.gov.au/organisation...

Brilliant walk today on Bibbulmun track. Great that 30 people turned up in inclement weather to activism to end forest mining. Many wonders in the forest, understory of white star buckthorn, amazing 7 headed balga Make a submission to stop forest mining, while you can! endforestmining.org.au/alcoa/