Wonderful to see Australian literary icon @firecatz.bsky.social at Turanga library today, sharing her genius and generally being an inspiration.

It is February 28 tomorrow. This means a total and complete economic blackout. This means buying nothing. AT ALL Not even your coffee!

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

Join me and the wonderful Jodi McAlister in Melbourne this Wednesday evening at Readings Hawthorn. It's free but you need to book! www.readings.com.au/events/isobe...

I greatly enjoy when foxes make this face

A library talk and a bookshop signing in the little coastal town that is the home of my heart.

A review to die for :) paperbarkwords.blog/2025/01/16/i...

If you don’t have a local library card, it should be your New Year’s resolution to get one. It’s an easy resolution to keep and you’ll actually use it, trust me.

A few reasons why I love clouds! 😊 #photography #travel #bluesky #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography

Can't wait to see this!

I looked up what a group of Blue Jays is called, which is a "party" or "band." So here is a party of Blue Jays. (They do seem to like partying it up and causing a ruckus. I could see "a ruckus of Blue Jays" as a group name working too.)

Old old pic but the second of three Perth workshops - this one is January 15 events.humanitix.com/graphic-nove...

CARTOONS OF THE DAY 🫤 (Cartoonists are rallying around @anntelnaes.bsky.social as she leaves the @washingtonpost.com )

I head to Western Australia on January 11 and I have a number of events during the week in Perth and down the coast. I will post all of the events here today and repost them again just before each event. events.humanitix.com/words-with-w...

Come for a drive down the coast on Sunday and see Nick and I talk about books movies and reveal our lovely origin story, and possibly a few other secrets. Afterwards you can buy books for Christmas with a glass of bubbly in your hand. What's not to like about that?

Thirty five minutes left if you want to bid for one of the 30 unique kites in the Hope Flies project. Whatever you do, don't leave it till the last minute because I will shut my computer at the stroke of midnight Brisbane time! hopeflies.isobellecarmody.net.au/the-kites-ne...

My last night in Canberra! Join me and Cat Sparks at the iconic Smith's alternative from 6 to 730 pm. We will be talking books, art, activism and life - with a bonus performance by the Discobedience! www.smithsalternative.com/events/in-co...

I am in Canberra. How to be embarrassed by your luggage- look weird and then have luggage come out that people watch to see who gets it and you know they are thinking of COURSE that's her bag

Here’s a little festive mix of some holiday faves I made a couple of years back for The Voice of Cassandre radio show - www.mixcloud.com/greggringo/n...

As of today all of the kites are on display at Gorman house F Gallery - they look completely amazing- if you go in today you can talk to kite maker Al Phemister who's red kite started it all or tomorrow you can talk to Paul Summerfield, who is also a kite maker and will be there tomorrow.

Early in my transition from the place that rhymes with hex, to 🦋 I encountered the talented & inspiring @stonkers.bsky.social Unwittingly she gave me a New Year’s resolution (the only one I’ve ever managed to retain beyond 6wks). Each day I embroider a symbol or image. #pizzalike #embroidery

A very funny very rude friend sent this after I sent her a picture of me walking in ancient dog on the beach. You have to admit…

This will take you to a little bit of film showing Erica Wagner making her gorgeous kite for the Hope Flies flies project www.instagram.com/p/DC5uCe5BNq...

The final kite revealed on the Hope Flies site is by the fantastically talented Shaun Tan- this is an original piece of art by one of the most iconic artists of our time. And today for the first time you can bid on any of the 30 gorgeous kites. hopeflies.isobellecarmody.net.au/shaun-tans-k...

A gorgeous black cockatoo flies in the second last kite revealed today on the Hope Flies site. hopeflies.isobellecarmody.net.au/the-black-co...

Hope flies high in this latest Kite art in the Hope Flies site - only two kites to go ... hopeflies.isobellecarmody.net.au/hope-gus-gor...

Tomorrow on she Hope Flies website The 27th kite! hopeflies.isobellecarmody.net.au/category/kit...

This is a call Out for extras for a feature documentary of the Hope Flies project for the morning of dec 7 in Canberra. If you can help dm me :)

Drinking coffee and adding details in to this new artwork this morning. #digitalart #photoshop #digitalartist #art #artpromo #artistinstudio #botanical #botanicalart #surrealism

see the latest Kite on the Hope Flies site- only four kites to go before the charity auction kicks off. hopeflies.isobellecarmody.net.au/category/kit...

I loved these books.

Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky

This is going to be FUN! www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

Many of us are echoing @timothysnyder.bsky.social's lesson in On Tyranny, "Do not obey in advance.” A no less vital admonition that deserves attn: STAND OUT “...without that unease, there is no freedom. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow."

Finally saw Can’t Stop The Music for the first time (thanks to MQFF and Cinemaniacs for programming) and why have you all been hiding this diva from me? Also shout out to Sally Christie for the beautiful introduction honoring Lee Gambin

You can see the Hope Flies kites in the window display space at iconic Canberra venue, Smiths Alternative.

'The Resilience of Poppies' - the latest kite on the hope flies site. It's creator? A diver a surgeon, a mother and an award-winning illustrator. hopeflies.isobellecarmody.net.au/inda-bindas-...

What could be more beautiful than a cat? How about a cat that flies? hopeflies.isobellecarmody.net.au/cathy-larsen...

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

When I go onto a new forum, I first have to figure out how to use it which is difficult because I'm a bit tech challenged and then I have to figure out what I can be in that space. I have decided this will be the place I come when I am in drawing mode :) www.facebook.com/1766451023/p...

I just finished this one. I’m a little embarrassed admitting I had never read it before. So good. It’s hard to describe the feeling it evoked in me. A combination of happiness and sadness and of despair and hope for humanity. All wrapped in one. #booksky 💙📚

A few copic marker and pencil animal studies! 🖊️ #art #drawing #animals #sketch #ink #studies #markers

But in the meantime I will be on the Gold Coast at the end of November :) www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/libraries/Wh...

Some exciting news I will announce here for the first time: Tara Morice who played Fran in the original strictly ballroom, will launch Comes the Night for me in Sydney in March!