When did we as a society decide to accept a prompt to join a mailing list before we have even looked at a website?

People worried about dangerous Australia wildlife really overlook the fact we grow our own muppets.

Photo dump from Saturday's 26km Southern Headlands walk from Narawallee to Burrill. Saw whales, seals, dolphins, lizards and a billion different birds and so many wildflowers. Zero snakes. Only got lost twice. Three swims, one voluntary. Good.

Any food is a breakfast food if you're dumb enough. What a day to be an aspiring ice cream influencer 🍦

In the name of centrism, we shall be partially metric, partially imperial. Please convert everything to orders of magnitude of feet and gallon. "I walked 9 kilofeet today." "I drank 49 centigallons of coffee." Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Almost sparkle szn on Yuin Country

Today's charming wildlife encounter : this dude inside the house. If you're wondering if he screams when you try to move him along, yes.

Morning shenanigans on Yuin Country : ride, gym, run, coffee (it counts as a trail run if you regret not bringing a scythe).

It's also important to remember that correlation over time can often be due to either to confounding variables, common causes, or mere coincidence, and does not automatically suggest causation.

Consistently horrifying, but facts are good: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Genuinely hilarious merch choice from the ABC abcmerch.com.au/products/con...

For someone who *really* enjoys just sitting a doing zero things (maybe staring into a void), I sure don't make enough time for it.

When in braddon with @justestin.bsky.social (Passionfruit Sorbet)

Just explained to my dietitian that my ultimate goal is to be an ice cream influencer, and I need to consider that in my future plans (I'm a challenging person to help or take remotely seriously, but I keep it interesting)

Having a pretty normal day. Walked a different way home from the gym and met a family of gang gangs who apparently have been frequenting this yard for 30+ years. Maybe delightful things just happen to me.

Skipping the arvo run. Wtaf.

If ever I'm found knocked out in my own kitchen it will almost certainly be because I walked into the head height microwave that I left open. The fact that I walk so slowly is my only saviour so far.

😍 (walking the electric boundary fence for echidna reasons)

Canberra Centenary trail quest - part 9 (Federal Hwy to Mulligans Flat). Seriously freezing arvo but worth it as we saw 4 echidnas in the 11km also with approximately 300,000 wallabies (plus the usual roos). Zero swoops.

Interesting "science vs" ep on memory. I never really thought about it much until I lost a lot of short term memory during treatment last year, now I appreciate it 🙂. This ep explains some of the real science and reinforcement behaviours. pca.st/episode/9f76...

Most delightful part of post covid floriade is that the ACT government has continued to distribute lovely flowers around the city 😍

Did Tuggeranong Parkrun twice this morning, course PB on the first lap, extremely not PB on the second. You'd think being actually airborne would have made me faster ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #parkrunau #loveparkrun

Have been trying to teach my local magpies that I won't give them mealworms every time I leave the house but I will every time I whistle. What we have instead learned is that they have trained me to give them mealworms in exchange for a song. 100% busker hit rate.

Had to cancel snow camp trip today due to predicted 100km winds and -9 temp. Now I'm frantically refreshing every weather report to justify my decision 😭

Much lower risk of echidna encounter here than at home

do you think all those noise seals and sea lions make are like microblogging to them

From Monday's slow af run club (I am the only member). Stumbled upon a gang of light up rollerbladers AND a seal. Wanted to be friends with both. Can't.

Would anyone let me do a phd in what on earth the hotel dudes are doing during checkin. It's time we knew.

Only high rollers choose the dash life (basically delightful) ✈️

Is the train with us now

Pano season. Standing a place I've never stood. Good.

Today's dunk. 🔊

Quick float for some stingray chasing. Lots of sun sparkles. Suitably ludicrous. 💙

Started the day with a 10km trail run through a very steep, muddy and delightful Meroo National Park, ended on the Burrill Lake shore.

A cool thing to do if you're having a bad day is set off your own car alarm. Bonus points if it's raining too.

Extremely Canberra public service announcement : blood orange sorbet is back at Spilt Milk in Dickson 😱

I seriously need to start planning for it to take me an hour to do the 30 min walk to work so that I can wander. Right now I allow myself 20 mins and this is the opposite of a chilled start to the day.

Morning commute report

486 days. Tried pastry on the weekend. Didn't work. I need cake obvs (little known KateFact™️ spring is actually cake season)

ABC news (AU) has autoplaying videos, which seems like a bad accessibility choice. Today's autoplay includes footage of genocide. Wild editorial decisions at play.

Anyone sick of the daily grind and imagining a different future for themselves should know that the gelato guy in the mall starts work before I do.

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Another day exploring new (to me) trails. This time along the Molonglo at Denman. Another echidna day 🎉

Joey watch. This dude is surely too big to still be living at home though.

Canberra Centenary trail quest - part 8 (Mulligans Flat / Forde to Taylor). Perfect day to do what is likely our longest segment at 16km.   Entirely new path to me, swooped once, met two shingleback lizards, a distant echidna, a billion roos and MANY mtn bikes. Lovely part of town.

Some parkrun sunbeams and red dirt to start the day #parkrunau #loveparkrun

I need someone to follow me around a shop and gently whisper the season so that I stop looking at jumpers. We could use the same person to stop people buying see-through leggings. Everyone wins.

Today was mostly a slog, but ended with a delightful Heaps Normal in the sun. (Arvo walk report)

We have been discussing how friends don't swoop friends

People think being consistently ridiculous takes work, but I am simply a magnet for this level of stupidity.