Aussie expat in the US. Geologist, plant dork, fandom nerd from the ‘80’s
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NEW: For #trans people incarcerated in Georgia's prisons and jails, the nightmare of losing access to hormone therapy has begun. Assigned Media brings you behind bars with an exclusive reported story by B Speaks. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Opinion: What Anthony Albanese and Michelle Rowland appear to be doing is using legitimate concerns about FOI laws as a Trojan horse to more broadly undermine transparency. #auspol www.afr.com/politics/fed...
I’m thinking late Yeltsin but minus the booze.
Second the Chicago possibility. If they want to distract really hard he could announce an invasion of troops there.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
Man, dude did some cool shit way back but he’s up there with Larry Summers for ‘perpetually fucking wrong’ these days.
Couldn’t possibly criticize a white man on his own standing, you have to shit on an accomplished black woman as a form of deflection.
In the summer of 1985, WHOI & @ifremer.bsky.social set out into the N.Atlantic to try to find the wreckage of RMS #Titanic. 🤫 In the early morning hours of Sept 1, the fatigued WHOI team recognized one of Titanic’s boilers, and the rest is history. 📲Dive into discovery: go.whoi.edu/titanic-1985
I recognized Newsom to be a self promoting egotist like JD Vance years ago and his recent ‘positions’ on trans people is just another confirmation that he will adopt whatever position or path he thinks he needs to in order to pursue personal power.
I’m guessing they’ve been giving him chemo and it’s all catching up at once. Could be wrong but I’ll be shocked if he’s still here in a couple months.
“You not believing it doesn't make it true. You not understanding it doesn't mean it isn't understood. Your ignorance gives you no authority. Your skepticism doesn't make you wise.” @juliusgoat.bsky.social www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
happy labor day
This is the way
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
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Are you incapable of thinking for yourself what that means?
Just grab some house sparrows and spray paint them gold.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
Arresting firefighters putting their lives on the line to protect our communities doesn't make us safer. This evil stunt is putting families in harm's way just so Donald Trump can score a Fox News hit.
Curious what we are all about? Click the link: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...
I’ve lived in the US for over 20 years and never saw these before this year. Of course I’m in Indiana - is this a coastal thing to slap noodles on sandwiches?
'Pink Champagne' is the first Epimedium out in the Tilba Tilba garden this yr with the delicate buds opening in late-winter. Epimediums are one of the #perennials that get the most love when featured on the nursery's socials - possibly because they're not that well know in this neck of the woods.
It could also be Vance trying to prove that he’s useful and hasn’t just been faffing around on vacation the last 8 months. Or ol’DJT has something fatal - he looked pretty shit in the no-tie presser.
Ha! I bet he thinks they’re real.
Pissing all this money away on AI and yet I can’t get Sharepoint to stay stable and not cock up my documents. And don’t get me started on the poorly coded shitshow that is ‘new’ outlook.
Why hasn’t that miserable old bastard croaked yet? I’ve been hearing about him since I was a kid.
INDIANA SILVER ALERT | Dorothy Harris, who suffers with Alzheimer's, was last seen walking away from a Walmart in north Hammond Sunday afternoon. She's believed to be in extreme danger.
Academics say cuts to US-based scientific agencies could make predicting emergency weather in Australia more difficult, with other critical research projects also at risk.
Based on all of that, the ideal outcome is 'victory by term limits' followed by 'minor clarifying crisis' and in either case the best thing is to slow down authoritarian consolidation to give max time for the buzzer to go off while the administration can still be removed without mass violence.
According to a new report: "The U.S. Department of Energy’s efforts to prevent large fossil-fuel power plants from retiring could cost ratepayers about $3.1 billion a year in 2028."
America now
Parker was shot in the head back in June. She spent weeks in the hospital with a broken skull and a blood clot in her brain. Now she’s back in Los Angeles protesting Trump’s illegal immigration policies not far from where she was shot. Why? Because people shouldn’t be taken.
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The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
Back in my Twitter days, I followed an ex-pat Russian who noted that Russian culture (and he was largely referring to Muscovites) was still Imperial in nature and accustomed to strongman leaders. America not so much. Plenty of Americans seem to want an imperial society though.
Referring to a mediocre breakfast restaurant as your culture and heritage is one of the whitest things I've ever read.
I just told my mum back in Australia not to try mailing me anything for my birthday as I can’t guarantee it won’t also get caught in the import duty black hole.
Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.
Margaret Preston, Western Australian gum blossom, 1928, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Cells, gels, and organelles. Original watercolor #sciart. Not prints, one of each. artologica.etsy.com 🧪🐡🦠🎨
Not sure. Maybe he is terrible about taking pills and they’re just IV administering diuretics among other things.
Maybe he’s just a fussy shit about it and doesn’t want it elsewhere. Or his arm veins are really hard to access (like mine).
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I’d love to know the age of whoever prompted this into being. It feels like a 20 or 30 something’s concept of the 80’s.
He’s absolutely getting a somewhat regular IV in the hand. This isn’t the first time he’s been photographed with this going on. One can only hope it’s for treating something spicy and terminal.
This was like lancing a boil.
It’s 1775, & Swedish-German chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele has made a discovery that will go on to delight, entertain and, um, kill a lot of people. Scheele is by any measure a remarkable scientist. A better world might celebrate Scheele’s legacy for what it was. Instead, it gently ridicules it. 1/
Should have been decades ago but better late than never.
“Overall, Gavin Newsom supports the LGBT+ community” I’m going to stop you right there You can’t round up on this shit
New Seasonal Drought Outlook- 🟡Expected drought development: western areas of the Plains, Hawaii 🟢Improvements: parts of the Northwest and most drought east of the Mississippi 🟤Otherwise, drought persists. drought.gov/forecasts
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Caladenia arrecta - Reaching Spider Orchid Endemic to southwest Western Australia, found between between Esperance, on the south coast, and Bindoon, north of Perth #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist
La Plaza, a Latino nonprofit, has canceled this year's Fiesta festival in Indianapolis due to safety concerns.
Presumably school but I gotta wonder what his grades were like.
For a moment I missed reading the ‘in’ in that sentence and was all ‘Well, she is an architecture nerd’. Need more coffee.
It is mind blowing to hear Democratic politicians talking about the president sending the military into American cities as a “distraction.” Actually you are all now one degree away from being violently removed from power. The fact that this may not happen does not erase the fact that it may happen.
Sign AGU’s letter to defend climate science. The Trump administration has proposed overturning the EPA’s endangerment finding — the science-based determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health.
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
Today marks day 1 of public hearings on the EPA’s reconsideration of the endangerment finding, a 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases threaten public health. Follow along with us👇🧵
Why are so many Aussie councils acting like authoritarian assholes about people trying to have housing?
A timely pep talk, comic relief, and barn-burner all in one. I did snort out loud at “peculiar expertise.” He’s one of my only heroes – a lifelong public servant & brilliant scientist.
At least the tones of gold match in the Kremlin.
A tower of 'thank yous' to everyone who grabbed a digital version of my robot book, ARTOBOT. Delighted to have found a way to get it to people that seems to work! Head to my Ko-fi in the link below if you're still to get yours!
Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/a...
Geoscience Australia is reporting the earthquake was centred roughly 250 kilometres north of Brisbane.
Shop is restocked with itty-bitty paintings #sciart ko-fi.com/1626SLXL3044F neuro, micro, genetics, algorithms
I finally got some yay!
I'm going to post one more round of itty-bitty paintings on my ko-fi tomorrow. After that I need to start saving them for upcoming irl events. #sciart
Federal agents doing slapdash safety check checkpoints because they have nothing better to do than harass American citizens is repugnant to our foundational principles. We should not tolerate it in a free society.
The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI & Art: cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
Well that was a wild read!
Tribonanthes elongata - the Brilliant-flowered Tiurndin I love these tiny native flowers, they are just so woolly!! Endemic to the southwest of Western Australia, this species grows in winter wet flats and near granite outcrops. #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #inaturalist #plants
1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.
A frontal system will push across portions of the Midwest today through Sunday, bringing with it the potential for heavy rain and flash flooding. Scattered to isolated severe storms are also possible, mainly today and Saturday. Visit weather.gov before heading out for the latest on what to expect.
Don’t forget Kevin Sorbo!
Also we should avoid polluting the bottom of the ocean more than we already have.
If you can't turn to the federal government for credible vaccine information, where can you go? Here are a number of good sites and sources. wapo.st/4m3QqKt
Caladenia hiemalis - dwarf common spider orchids A winter flowering species seen in July and early August in the southwest of Western Australia. #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #inaturalist
Bununggu and Warraingu model Cindy Rostron is named one of the industry's rising stars in this year's National Indigenous Fashion Awards.
I feel bad for this guy but at least it’s not Rwanda. Of course, the Australian government will probably punt him somewhere else as well.
I love how she’s all ‘9-5 is too hard’ and ‘just wants to be a wife/mom’. Spoken like a vapid little princess who has no idea how much work being a mother is. Totally be the sort to have a nanny actually raise the kids so she can sit around sipping iced tea. I outright despise women like her.
This suggests they aren’t getting the rate of applications they had hoped for.
Indiana state republicans singular goal is to permanently crush Indy for being a blue spot in their bullshit red sea. They absolutely despise this city.
unironically, this is the song of the summer. it's been in my head for three days straight.
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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Shit that’s catastrophic. Starmer/Labor just basically Tories now really.
Unemployed and seeking a better life, Oscar Speck pushed his kayak into the water of the Danube River and began paddling downriver. He didn't stop until he reached Australia.
i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
Anyone putting out a sentence like that should be beaten with unabridged dictionaries.
#ToucanoftheDay Keel-billed Toucan at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature
A new bookshop in a Wodonga water tower is the latest unique heritage building being transformed in Victoria.