Encountered the art of Suellen Saidee Cook today and may be slightly smitten 😍 Her images look lovely on screen: they’re even better in person. www.suellensaideecook.com.au

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier.

In my happy place: a dram of Springbank 10yo, and my old friends the Ammonites.

[peering into a courtyard on the main street of a small town in regional Tasmania] She: This place looks all right for lunch. Me: Shall we give it a try? Bob Brown, striding past us and into the cafe: Absolutely! So we’re having lunch with* a legend today 🤣 * in the same garden conservatory cafe

Antarctic humpback whales have recovered to nearly pre-whaling levels. Humpbacks have been the fastest to rebound since commercial whaling was banned in 1986, with multiple groups of more than 100 whales recorded near the South Orkney Islands. The Guardian buff.ly/eSXtvdN #ShareGoodNewsToo

They frisked my knees at the airport today. My knees and nothing else! allpoetry.com/poem/1515237...

New favorite podcast: interviews about how clear communication in plain language creates fairer, more effective systems. Latest episode, out today: Prof Helen Keleher* on health literacy and driving real, meaningful change. * my brilliant sister 🫠 ingamelearning.com/top-of-their...

Our two foodbanks that thousands of refugee families rely on for their survival are at grave risk because of the fuel crisis. Please give if you can to our two week urgent food appeal as here. donate.asrc.org.au/urgent-food-...

✅ Visit all Australian States and Territories #Nipaluna Hobart #Muwinina country

New favorite podcast: interviews about how clear communication in plain language creates fairer, more effective systems. Latest episode, out today: Prof Helen Keleher* on health literacy and driving real, meaningful change. * my brilliant sister 🫠 ingamelearning.com/top-of-their...

I'm providing commentary over on the ABC News site if you want to follow! #ArtemisII 🧪

Unprecedented times 😎

Open access read: how we let the moon die & why it isn’t dead, including how animals with different eyes might perceive the Moon. #ArtemisII 🧪

Confirmation message from the car hire company. By ‘social media’ they mean Instagram and Facebook, neither of which I use 🤣

Fun fact: plastic recycling basically doesn't exist. Only about 9% of all plastic ever made has been recycled, and only 1% more than once. www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1...

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion was the better part of valour so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a cupboard.

Sometimes confiding in an acquaintance — like a hairdresser or beautician — feels safer than talking to a friend, family member or someone ‘official.’ Even better if they can respond with empathy, respect and appropriate support.

Listening in to the live Artemis II feed. I love the way they talk about everything (jargon, acronyms, plaing English) . Like a bit ago, an astronaut was talking emotionally about how beautiful the views were of the approaching moon, and Houston's CapCom person responded plainly “Copy. Moon joy.”

Huge thanks to the person* who delivered an international parcel safely to my doorstep late this arvo: (a) in a non-metro area, (2) a day earlier than promised, and (c) on Easter Sunday. I hope you’re getting paid double time this weekend. * and all the packers, stackers and drivers along the way

First cup of tea: art, meet craft. Craft, meet art.

Endless variations in repetitive motion. Easy to see why some painters get obsessed with trying to capture the spirit of rivers, canals and other landlocked bodies of water.

We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be daunsinge.

“People do not feel like strangers because their neighbours look different. They feel like strangers because the institutions that once made them feel they belonged – clubs, pubs, unions and jobs – have gone.” #SocialCohesion theconversation.com/what-the-gov...

Presenting my new book The Common Good Economy live at How To Academ–a reimagining of economics and a manifesto for a future economy that serves people and planet. How we achieve collective goals—through participation, reciprocity and reward-sharing—matters as much as what those goals are.

Fantastic piece about the DSN infrastructure. Recommended. Our umbilical cords out to all the space probes, planetary exploration robots, and human spaceflight. In a way, and through the DSN, humanity's influence can be measured to a finite distance that keeps extending with time. 📡〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️🛰️

Tomorrow morning, Australia will play a vital role in supporting #ArtemisII through @canberradsn.bsky.social @rami.spaceaustralia.com chatted with CDSCC, @drspacejunk.bsky.social, NASA and more about this historical mission. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust... 📸 R. Mandow #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪

Until the 19th century, profiting by buying farm produce cheaply and reselling it at a higher price was considered poor behavior. The people who did it were called regraters.

Of shearing, and cities, and time.

My friend Ivan Aristeguieta and I have a family-friendly live comedy panel quiz show all about animals. We recorded 6 episodes for YouTube and are gradually putting them on a channel there. You can watch them here for free (they’re very funny): www.YouTube.com/@thebiganima... (1/2)

“Bathsheba answered nothing, and the horse upon her arm seemed so impressed that instead of cropping the herbage it looked up.” – Thomas Hardy, “Far From The Madding Crowd”

For poetry month, please, let’s all finally agree: This is not a god poem. This is a sex poem.

When the sun hits Swan Bay With a cross-hatch display It’s a moiré #Wadawurrung country

“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” — Jo Walton

A manor house turned farmhouse: “Reversals of this kind, strange deformities, tremendous paralyses, are often seen to be inflicted by trade upon edifices — either individual or in the aggregate as streets and towns — which were originally planned for pleasure alone.”

The value of a small personal library.

Hello BlueSky Friends, My Melbourne shows open next week and they are filling up. If you need a cheap ticket option, there are a few tickets left to both Tuesday shows which are the cheapest! Otherwise book in a group! Sunday shows are an hour earlier. I’d love to see some of you there! 🎟️👇🏻

Hi, @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social — instead of boosting a US politician’s clickbait (and, second-hand, the mess of replies thereto), here’s a link to the original video of Helena Bonham-Carter reading “Small Kindnesses” by Danusha Laméris. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrm...

Anything for a good knees-up.

Shout out to all fellow nurses, still waiting for a pay rise, who: - can't work from home - often can't afford to live near their workplace & thus have no way out of the current #fuelcrisis. Politicians often talk of truck drivers & tradies but never mention healthcare workers. 🙄 #auspol

Margaret Medcalf, who turns 100 this week, insisted that decades of Aboriginal welfare records be preserved in the state archives and not destroyed. Those documents have proved essential to connecting Aboriginal people with their family history.

Who needs AI-generated slop when genuine Vogon poetry persists in being available? Accept no substitutes.

European regulators have approved acoziborole, a new treatment for sleeping sickness that cures the disease with a single oral dose. The drug replaces complex regimens requiring hospitalisation, spinal taps and weeks of monitoring. buff.ly/KX3Ld2B #ShareGoodNewsToo

“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” — Jo Walton

Well, that was fun 🤣 #Narrm Melbourne International Comedy Festival #micf

I just had a great chat about IMMORTAL GESTURES with @bschillace.brandyschillace.com on @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social. You can watch the whole conversation below & the podcast will be available soon. IMMORTAL GESTURES is out now with @scribepub.bsky.social. Video: www.youtube.com/live/s1RdTfh...

The sheepdog that herded too well: he met “the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.”

He “used all the hair-oil he possessed upon his usually dry, sandy and inextricably curly hair till he had deepened it to a splendidly novel colour between that of guano and Roman cement, making it stick to his head like mace round a nutmeg, or wet seaweed round a boulder after the ebb.”

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.