This time last year I joined BlueSky and left instagram, facebook and messenger. Absolutely no regrets, BlueSky was all I needed. However, I might try a year without any social media. If Aussie kids are being forced to do it, so can I. I am reopening my WordPress blog terrasbookclub.wordpress.com

#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse

All of this. Be extremely wary of those words. They’re part of the reason I withdrew a story from a dream market this year.

I've been forgetting to take photos of the beautiful wild places I see because I'm too caught up in those precious moments of life. Sorry. Not sorry.

Feeling sore and sorry for myself tonight. Dislocated ribs from my sternum plate. Climbed down between boulders at an awkward angle and ¡POP! I've done much worse, numerous times, but it doesn't make new pain any more bearable.

#BlueSkyArtShow #FavouriteThings

Turn your bored teens into nature loving conservationists, introduce them to citizen science. Get involved in species surveys, habitat restoration, wildlife rescue... Join online communities through tools/apps like @inaturalist.bsky.social #FrogID @birdlifeoz.bsky.social #birddata #AMDI #ORRCA

With under 16s off most social media, will they be in the outdoors and exploring more? Are your kids equipped for adventure and trained in outdoor safety, navigation and survival skills. Don't just tell to "Go outside and play". Join Scouts, Outward Bound, Duke of Ed...

Does anyone know what kind of beetle this pretty one is? It is not a stag or christmas beetle, or a jewel bug. #insects #entomology #shinybeetle

“You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just #write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no #book at all, as you wait around to #magically become Faulkner...” – Cheryl Strayed

Needing time out from politics, I have rearranged my pinned feeds for more beauty and joy at a swipe. #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #FungiFriends #BloomScrolling

Just one more, I promise. I love capturing images of the sky. #BlueSkyArtShow #Sky Glory

#BlueSkyArtShow #Sky Be still my beating heart Lutruwita

#BlueSkyArtShow #Sky Rare Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds viewed from approx 5,500m up the side of Annapurna while on pilgrimage #photography #Mountain #mountainsky #skysurfing

NSW Forestry Corporation’s native forest logging division has become the most expensive loss-making habit in the state—an operation so deeply unviable it makes the Titanic look nimble. The latest Annual Report confirms another $32 million burned last year. #auspol 1earthmedia.com/nsw-is-payin...

#NetZero #AusPol #BushfireSurvivors

#BlueSkyArtShow #Warmth Innot Hot Springs Far North Queensland These thermal waters average a scalding 65°C, filtered and cooled by sand and the flowing creek, with the magma chamber sitting only 600m below. #FNQ

Congratulations @greens.org.au & @larissawaters.bsky.social for extracting important concessions from @australianlabor.bsky.social on new environmental protections. Far from perfect legislation & an indictment of contemporary ALP that it puts business interests before people & environment #auspol

Today's adventure. Both puppers were there, only one likes their photo taken.

While the world goes to shit, i get to housesit the goodest boy and sweetest girl. #BlueSkyDogs #dachshunds #puppers

Panicking! Can't find my fly net. I have turned the car inside out searching for it. Guess I need to make another, or two in case I lose one again. I have a severe fly phobia after being covered head to toe by them with no escape, for 16hrs/day trekking through a 2 week plague in WA.

No wonder Minister Murray Watt is 'huffing and puffing' to try to speed up passage of his propose environmental laws through the Senate - the longer and harder we look at the Bills, the more pitfalls and holes we see. 👇Take 'net gain' for example. 👇#auspol

I can't believe how out of touch with reality, and discriminatory most politicians are. No empathy, compassion or kindness. No interest in saving the planet. Even less interest in helping people in need. They are monsters set on destruction and death.

A proposal to the gov’t that would improve Labor's changes to our environment laws so they actually protect nature, with 15 changes including removing native forest logging exemption & removing fossil fuels from national interest test You can read more below: www.davidpocock.com.au/proposal_to_...

#BlueSkyArtShow #Small #Green Who is copying who? Tiny green jumping spider and green ant, sharing very similar markings, meet on a wooden railing. I think they went down a similar evolutionary path.

Climate of fear: are CSIRO’s sweeping job cuts a sign Australia doesn’t care about the extinction crisis? Ever decreasing funding for the globally respected government agency mirrors an industry-wide trend that could hinder scientific breakthroughs www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....

#BlueSkyArtShow #Small

www.theguardian.com/environment/... now another #auspol #copout

Join the Rising Tide against coal https://www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1443/news/join-rising-tide-against-coal #auspol

Marine wildlife fleeing to poles due to global heating as Australian oceans face ‘uncharted’ future. The rules that we’ve been relying on for ocean protection and conservation… they’re going to have to evolve. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you haven't already, it is time to check your outdoorsy first aid kit has a snake bite kit, 2 compression bandages. Brush up on your emergency response skills, take a course, practice on a friend, so you know how to use it if you need it. #snakebite #firstaid #Australia #summer

Pt 17 of the Climate Action Snowshoe Expedition memoir posted to Patreon this morning. www.patreon.com/posts/143733... I won't be using Patreon next year. Switching back to WordPress and making everything free. Patreon are US owned and take a greedy percentage of my Patron's pledges. Time to leave.

H4C3 Wrap up. After 85 days of hunger striking, two 30 day fasts, April/May, July/August, and the most recent 25 day fast, October/November, for environmental protection, i feel i have run this approach to its end. Now it's time to go back to writing my memoirs, and returning to blockades next year.

#BlueSkyArtShow Rubibi #Bright

This hunger strike has been much harder than the 1st 2. I won't be doing another. Apart from it being a pointless exercise with zero effect as a protest, it's really boring and I could be doing better things with my time. It has been lonely, complete lack of local support was disappointing...

Every fraction of a degree will translate into devastating losses for people & ecosystems. @australianlabor.bsky.social is expanding & maintaining support for coal, gas & oil. They continue to approve new fossil fuel projects & give billions in subsidies. #FossilFuel induced #ClimateChange #Auspol

D26 H4C3 3rd 30day #hungerstrike for stronger #environment #protection and #biodiversity #conservation laws, protection of all #threatenedspecies and #habitats and no more #extinctions Officially its no longer 30days. Kidneys ached yesterday so I ate veggie soup. Just fasting day to day now.

This economic system takes living organisms, strips them of their rights, turns them into products, and replaces their sovereignty with an expiration date. Humans are not exempt from this treatment.

D25 H4C3 Oops! Just woke up at nearly 11am, slept through the 6am alarm (which is one of my wild recordings of lyrebirds). Uncomfortable night, cramps, sore kidneys. If I can't fix this today, I'll need to end the #hungerstrike tomorrow.

D24 Hangry For Change 3rd 30day #hungerstrike for stronger #environment #protection and #biodiversity #conservation laws , protection of all #threatenedspecies and #habitats and no more #extinctions

" Biodiversity underpins all aspects of our life, supplying clean air & water & breaking down wastes… #Biodiversity is in precipitous decline in Aust…Since the #EPBC Act was established, threatened species populations have been declining by approximately 4% a year” #auspol #ecosystemscollapse

Have you read the Lock the Gate Alliance's statement on the EPBC reform package❓ Have you signed their Open Letter❓ (links to both below)

D23 3rd Hangry For Change 30day #hungerstrike for stronger #environment #protection and #biodiversity #conservation laws, protection of all #threatenedspecies and #habitats and no more #extinctions

As Canberra continues to argue over net-zero targets, another crisis is unfolding – one that’s had far less airtime. How do we actually live through the climate damage already upon us? #climatecrisis #adaptation #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

I just had the honour of spending time with Newcastle creator Doug Heslop who set up a temporary display of his deeply moving #genocide scultures this morning. #art #compassion #FreePalestine

Bonus video today. Write and phone our senators and ask them to keep blocking Environment Minister Murray Watt's weak EPBC laws until they are nature positive, include climate triggers and lose the resources loopholes. #auspol #EPBC #climatetrigger #naturepositive

D22 H4C3 3rd 30day Hangry For Change #hungerstrike for stronger #environment #protection and #biodiversity #conservation laws, protection of all #threatenedspecies and #habitats and no more #extinctions

Schrödinger's mouse?? 🐭🌿🌱 Currently there are four Australian species, plants & animals, listed as nationally extinct despite them all being recently rediscovered… which means these species get no protection under our environmental laws #auswildlife #wildoz #nature www.abc.net.au/news/science...