A lorikeet in a loquat tree. #lorikeet #birds #AustralianBirds #backyardbirds

Forgive me Lord (Bluesky), for I have sinned (been a bit busy and very distracted). It has been many moons, 9 or thereabouts, since my last confession (post). My sins are many and in great multitude and large in quantity and area and scope and breadth. How shall I repent, Oh Lord (Bluesky)? #prayer

I am very worried. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

There’s a first time for everything. A harvest of pears! Whoever said I couldn’t do it, well, what can I say… #gardening #pears #success #winning

End impunity End autogenocide End oligarchy #3E

Another day done. I hope everyone has done, or not done, whatever they damn well wanted to on this national day of whatever. Whatever, it’s done. But do that again tomorrow, too. #australiaday #sunset #nofilter

And so begins another Olympic-cycle period of actively avoiding all the news and whatever snippets of horror it offers up. I’ll pop my head up when I hear the sirens.

Space Karen’s Nazi salute was more of a Nazi salute than this famous Nazi salute.

I'm not sure if this is real or not and I don't actually care because it's perfect.

Setting sun tonight. Nice clouds, and an Air New Zealand flight from Auckland to Perth is making its way west. #sun #sunset #clouds #contrail #nofilter

World still turning? Just checking…

About 200. Yes.

Trying to stay distracted…. …is not working…

These two images are unrelated to the third

Tonight’s Sky at the Setting of Sol. #sol #sunset #sun #nofilter

Never bought a record in Berlin…

A chill corella (I’m pretty sure), hung around in the dappled shade of the she-oak to pose for a close-up. #nofilter #bird

Happy wandering moon. The rising moon, as seen through vines on the fence, tonight. #moon #lunar #nofilter

Bike. Cannon. Octagonal structure. Lake. #nofilter

The struggle is real. #AmanitaMuscaria #FungiFriends

This double-headed Bird of Paradise flower has become an annually recurring mutation in my garden. #flash #nofilter #gogogadgethead

Humans are such evil lazy mindless arrogant trash.

My rather late observance of Remembrance Day. The poppies are still blooming at the cenotaph. #BetterLateThanNever #nofilter

“Hey, human, what are you looking at?” #kangaroo

A recent kangaroo encounter along the river trail. #kangaroo

It just occurred to me that if you somehow managed to go back in time to warn people about everything that’s happening now, they’d think you were joking and/or insane. #modernproblems

Me watching all the arrivals to BlueSky this week. Welcome.

Check out the #fungifriends feed 🍄

The first pic I saw on bluesky was of wild mushrooms growing up a tree, I think I will be very happy here. 🥰🍄

Guys I’ve just seen there’s a hashtag on here called #FungiFriends and that makes me so insanely happy 🍄 One of my guilty pleasures is taking pictures of cute and weird mushrooms I see on my walks and adventures, so happy to see it’s not just me!! ❤️🍄 (Yes I know I’m a massive dork, hush 🤭)

This opium poppy is sullying the otherwise good reputation of my backyard.

This guy. Just lounging there, 24/7. Seemingly unemployed; maybe writes some poetry occasionally, or, allegedly once did, whilst alive. But now he’s dead, hence the statue. #nightwalks #nofilter

The sun, it was setting .. #sunset #nofilter

This madness has got to stop. Free Palestine! #gaza #palestine #israel

Late for sunset tonight, so I guess this is twilight. Venus is bright. #nofilter

Sunset tonight. Some orange. #sunset #nofilter

We had a referendum about a quarter of a century ago. It would have passed if all republicans voted yes, but a lot of them who insisted on a directly elected head of state voted no.

There is a blossoming of Australian republicanism on the other site. It's good, but also bad. Australian republicans are a rabble. Couldn't organise a root in a brothel.

Part of the blue sky as viewed from my backyard. Dramatic high cold cloud. I may have mentioned that I like #clouds.

Today I asked AI for a post-impressionist image representing hope & vibrant growth - an artificial good omen for gardeners, if you will. I got green sprouts & a pile of dirt & a hypercolour version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. That’s fine by me. 4/5 ⭐️ Happy gardening! #AI #AIart #AIgenerated

I am sick of the "you lefties can't make fun of anything because it will make people nazis" take If people become nazis it is on fucking them The augment that us mocking anyone forces them into an extreme position is as spurious as the BS about women being raped for how they dress

Australia set a record low of 24.2% for coal and gas production in the grid on the weekend. Six years ago, the lowest level for coal was 63% of generation! We've come along way, but need to run harder and faster to reduce emissions and build renewables.

The weight of the world: Wild birds = 0.002 Gt Wild mammals = 0.007 Gt Humans = 0.06 Gt Livestock = 0.10 Gt All animals combined = 2 Gt Plastic = 8.3 Gt Bacteria = 70 Gt All plants = 450 Gt Total biomass = 546 Gt Buildings and Infrastructure = 1,100 Gt Anthropogenic CO2 emissions = 1,770 Gt

“may be”… Surely we can, and should, *know* this.

Today I asked AI for toads and anthropomorphic toadstools at a rave party drinking cocktails. I got cocktails, frogs instead of toads and not much of a rave. I’m not angry, just disappointed. #AI #AIart #AIgenerated

I asked AI for frogs in a swamp under a melting universe. I got frogs in a swamp. 2 outta 3 ain’t bad. #AI #AIart #AIgenerated