Sorry I got confused and yelled “Red rover, red rover!” when your family joined hands to pray before dinner.

Buddy, I’m not far into this yet, but it might be right up your alley (if you haven’t read it already). @mspraxis.bsky.social

Took a grieving friend to Masons Falls at Kinglake this morning. Not sure nature actually helped much. Well, I guess it didn’t hurt. #KinglakeNationalPark #Wurundjeri #Taungurung

Helping out with the timeline cleansing #skysky

Well, I was going to be on a panel at the Adelaide Writers' Festival but I'm not any more.

m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’, and hook up with them later.’ – Mitch Hedberg Pic of the day #photography

Helping out with the timeline cleansing #SkySky

After Randa Abdel-Fattah was dropped from Adelaide Writers' Week by the Adelaide Festival Board, a slew of authors, including Michelle de Kretser, have withdrawn from the event.

I will be withdrawing from two panels I was to chair at Adelaide Writers Week 2026. I stand in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, and other Palestinian Australian writers. I urge all writers to do the same. Watch out for statements from SA mob. www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...

Statement from @australiainstitute.org.au on Adelaide Festival.

Tenth anniversary of his death on 10th January. #NotAllAmericans

Canadians are being warned to treat any medical information we see from the US as misinformation and although this is obvious to me, maybe some moots should know this too

In 2012, Patrick Keating and his dog, Kitty, teamed up to make an incredible fossil discovery on a Nova Scotia beach on the Northumberland Strait. What they found in rocks along the shore was the rib cage, backbone and partial sail of a sail-back amphibian – the first ever discovered here.

I seriously hope that enough people (writers and audience) cancel their appearances at the tainted Adelaide Festival, that it melts into a sticky puddle so small it can’t even empty into the Torrens. #WritersWeek #BookSky 📚💙

Mf didn’t have a clue who she was.. asked me “who is she and why has she been on tv all week”… WHILE WATCHING HER FUNERAL 🤮

Announcement by Adelaide Writers Festival cancelling invitation to Randa Abdel- Fattah

A group of beautiful amethyst specimens from left to right: Mexico, Brazil & Namibia 🇲🇽 🇧🇷 🇳🇦 Photo credit: Albert Russ 📷 If you had to pick only one 🤔 ... #geology #crystals #minerals #mineralogy #educational

www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... #EnergyTransition #ClimateChange #CleanEnergy

#NollaignamBan The first woman admitted to the all-male Royal Astronomical Society, Agnes Mary Clerke's analyses were so reliable, thoughtful & wide reaching that she became a revered authority. The Clerke lunar crater was named to commemorate her. www.dib.ie/biography/cl... #DIBLives

I'm going to be moving ever deeper into a shadowy and all-encompassing silence. Just keep tithing as per your usual by the first.

Australia sent another $1bn last month (non refundable) to a fascist dictator for subs that will never get delivered. WE ARE FUCKING INSANE.

Parts of Victoria upgraded to Catastrophic fire danger for Friday. Time to head home if camping in these Vic regions... www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecast...

Looks like another one of Tom Sewell's flunkeys is being deported. This follows the deportation of fellow nazi Matthew Gruter Back to (South) Africa last month. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Ain’t it weird how you can’t touch music. But music touches you.

FYI AusNet’s LLM voice system could not parse “bees”

Classic sixling of #Chrysoberyl from Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo, Brazil. #mineral #mineralogy #crystal #mineralexpert

“Not Too Late isn't an organization. Our goal is to provide useful perspectives and information and guide people from despair to possibilities #ClimateCrisis #NotTooLate I’m reading the book. #BookSky 📚💙

I finally decided to watch the movie Wicked, which I was never interested in because the book was so dark and I couldn’t imagine it as a musical. How bad could it be? It was, well, nauseating. Awful. No, I didn’t finish it.

There’s a place in California called Zzyzx.

Sorry to put the Victorian Liberals into your timeline, but here’s one of their promises, on this 40+ degree day in Smellburn. “Overturn Gas Ban. We will reverse Labor’s ban on gas in new homes & support new gas exploration for energy security.” #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #VicPol #SpringSt

PSA: twitter, X, is doing new terms of service that basically make it so that any comtent you share on there including DMs and photos is theirs and they can use it for "any purpose" including commercial use. So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/

Australia is the hottest place on Earth right now. 🥵 By far. There's about 100*C temperature range between the hottest and coldest places on Earth right now. Sources: zoom.earth/maps/tempera... www.eldoradoweather.com/climate/worl... #Heatwave

I do like this little piece - what if petrol cars were invented in 2025? #EVs #InternalCombustionEngines #FossilFuels

I just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶 So pretty! www.featherbase.info/zh/home

If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.

Amanita and blueberries. Photo from a summer hike. #Newfoundland, Canada. #mushroom #fungi #fungifriends #hiking #berries

Mitch (who’s telling this story) and Frances are two scientists spending a summer month at the new, secret seed vault on Antarctica, just the 2 of them. Friends w benefits, but they don’t know everything about each other after all. #BookSky 📚💙

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social thrilled to report the FYP has recalibrated to weird and stopped inexplicably showing me videos about things I find deeply disinteresting.

hear me out: naked yoga, to save on laundry costs

Mary Somerville - the person for whom the word scientist was coined by William Whewell in his 1834. She was a polymath, an intellectual tour de force at a time when teaching women to read and write let alone think deeply was frowned upon or ignored ⚒️🧪🌊 www.geological-digressions.com/mary-somervi...

Cladonia #lichen. NWT, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Hey, Boomers: Read this. Your vaccinations may be doing double duty! (Gift article)

Power outage, Wangaratta

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

I've done the calculations, and a second job will absolutely help me get out of debt by the end of the year, as long as I start no later than March of 2004.

The Spotted Pardalote's name is actually "spotted" twice. The word "pardalote" comes from ancient Greek pardalōtos, meaning "spotted like a leopard," and its scientific name Pardalotus punctatus also means "spotted". #BirdOfTheDay #speckles&spots #birds #australianBirds #australia #spots #wildBird

Oh hi, AUKUS. #Auspol

Pips gave her rescuers the runaround for hours. To see her now – calm, comfortable, completely blissed out with Keeper Fred – is a wonderful transformation. Her mother was likely killed by lions. Pips miraculously escaped the same fate. swt.bio/pips

Well, that’s the last episode of “For all mankind” that I can watch - S3, ep7. I wonder how long others lasted.

"I can't afford to take out a full page ad or be acknowledged in an open letter, but I have spoken with family and friends over the past few weeks; so on behalf of 23 non-prominent Australians, we call for there not to be a royal commission." (1/2)