I was on the BBC World Service News Hour today (aired on a lot of @npr.org stations in the US) to talk about this sighting of an Amur tigress with ***five cubs*** in northeast China. Link to interview here, my bit starts ~30:52: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... www.chinadailyasia.com/hk/article/6... 🌍

I know a few family farms where the daughter is taking over the running, the father is playing his part of being both supportive & mildly obstructive, it's a game where both know their parts. Dad objects, Daughter wraps him around her finger, they move on, it's fun to watch.

If you celebrate the birth of the baby on the left, please don't turn a blind eye to the violence being committed against the baby on the right. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine #HappyChristmas 🎄

Be careful with your eating utensils over Christmas. 😜

Unbelievably inhumane conditions. No wonder the Trump administration didn't want Americans to see this reporting. Must watch.

Christmas quantum leaps from CSIRO!! www.csiro.au/en/news/All/... 🎅

Random but apt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HSN...

As a self described old fart I can remember when 40 degree days were rare.

Dear Americans, When you pronounce Bondi (the beach) as "Bondee" Australians of a certain age tend to think of this bloke. When referring to the beach every Australian pronounces it "Bond-eye". Thank you for your attention to this matter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bond

My thoughts.

Back to patrolling at the moment, I was to go out on Sunday but wasn't needed. Luckily Merriwa got more rain than here.

NYT being seriously ratio'd.

Now that there's fires and everyone's talking water bombers. Water bombers rarely put out fires, they're good for slowing & asset protection & work best in coordination with crews on the ground. A water drop from a plane is the equiv of a short, sharp shower of rain. 1/

While there's currently a lot of focus on the fires on the Central and Mid North Coasts, if the Milson's Gully fire jumps the Bylong Valley Way into the Wollemi National Park then that could be going for weeks (and the Wollemi NP has regrown considerably since 2020).

remember, folks,

Say Hello to my little friend, size XXL hand for scale, must have hitched a ride with me back from Mum's place, or somewhere else.

The glam & excitement of being a fire-fighter. Sitting & waiting for the power mob to fix an almost fallen line.

6 years, 8 months, 16 days till retirement. Let's see if I can get there without committing a major felony.

Amyl & The Sniffers Should’ve Labelled Gig a Nazi Rally if They Wanted It To Go Ahead, Police Say

There's a bloke over the road in shorts & thongs (a form of footwear to any north American readers) with a petrol powered pole pruner, up a ladder attacking a tree. I've closed the curtains, gone back inside & want nothing further to do with it.

This.

I do wish Australian businesses would stop using the American “Black Friday Sale” Black Friday has a whole other meaning in Australia it’s an insult to the dead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_F...

The algorithm has kicked up some Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Real rhythm, not algorithm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKkZ...

Sandwich guy..Not guilty

Claiming “strong environmental laws hurt business is like claiming it’s bad for restaurants to have food safety standards. It might be easier in the short term to let your prawns bake in the sun all day, but poisoning your customers isn’t a sustainable business model.” www.smh.com.au/national/our...

Confession time, percentage wise I've probably done better out of horse racing than probably anyone else on the planet. I think the only time I've ever bet on a horse race was about 10c on a Melbourne Cup sweeps in primary school, a few yrs ago I worked casually for a local horse stud for 3 yrs.

Murray Watt squats beside dead fish, rather symbolic of the whole thing really.

Murray Watt looks upon the hopes and dreams of millions of Australians who wanted a better environment.

Save the Melbourne Heritage Fleet. 👇 Please write a letter to Premier Jacinta Allen, Minister Harriet Shing and your local State and Federal MP (send one to anyone you feel should be listening. Save the Melbourne Heritage Fleet. www.savetheheritagefleet.com #auspol #SpringSt

So, why did that Werewolf have a Chinese menu in his hand? So many questions.

Ok, so Halloween is coming, if you're into that kind of thing do the right thing for the environment, plastic, non biodegradable skeletons end up in landfill or get blown away and are just a disaster. If you're gunna hang up skeletons, use the original organic biodegradable ones.

No, not even close.

I've been in the RFS for around 36 years & Landcare around 30, I love the anarchistic nature of both, the ability to say "no", alternately to say "get f&cked" to senior management, it can be true grassroots democracy, determining what your area needs & getting it done. 1/2

Using ChatGPT

My favourite part of emails is the "reply all" button.

Borderforce here would do exactly the same.

Going anywhere else I'd think this was a joke, but I was on my way to Merriwa.... (I do like the town, including it's various oddities

The gambling industry is predatory and insidious. I quit the Parliamentary Sports Club a few weeks ago, when I discovered it had registered as a lobbyist group and was sponsored by the gambling peak body. The industry will do anything to wield influence on pollies, and hates being called out.

Visited NZ 12 years ago, noted the countryside grazed to the ground, very green due to regular rain but very hard grazing, realised the "clean green" image was aspirational. Surprised to see how bad it is re rivers and lakes.

30 seconds of chickens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcXy...

When television was good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rca_...

BREAKING: Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died.

Yet to go through and ID them properly but some Donkey Orchids (Diuris sp)