In the tropics & subtropics, drought-deciduous flowering trees are especially showy because they flower before the leaves emerge, i.e., they are protoanthous. Here’s Jacaranda mimosifolia. 📷: John CCBYSA2 #protoanthy #Bignoniaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Cheryl
@aggerchez.bsky.social
Interested in law, Oceania/Pacific, agriculture, food, libraries, books, plants. Fuelled by coffee. She/her ☕️🌈
Giving Small Prophets another boost - streaming on ABC iview 🧚🏽 iview.abc.net.au/show/small-p...
Small Prophets
Since his girlfriend went missing seven years ago, Michael Sleep's life has been on hold. But a mystical recipe in an old journal promises to give the answers he's been longing for.
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Raindrops_on_Roses@kateraindrops.bsky.social · 4w agoFinished Small Prophets last night. Any Aussies who haven't seen it yet have an absolute treat waiting for them On iView.
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank
1. Saplings at Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne from 31 Jul – 1 Aug This is a verbatim work about the lives of incarcerated Blak youth set to rap & hip hop made by folks in the youth justice system. Plus, it won Best Prod for Young People at the Syd Theatre Awards. tr.ee/7f9ja2
Saplings
Would you risk breaking bail for a packet of Mi Goreng? Would you snitch on a mate to save your own skin?<br />
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SBS on Demand has “under 90 minutes” as a category of film and every single one i’ve seen has been a delight. it’s how feature films are meant to be!
Harry Saddler@harrysaddler.bsky.social · 7d ago👏 MAKE 👏 FILMS 👏 90 👏 MINUTES 👏 AGAIN
Join former ACT Minister, Greens Leader Shane Rattenbury, and co-CEO Dr Richard Denniss for the 2026 Dr Hugh Saddler Memorial Lecture. 📍NFSA Canberra 🗓️Mon 17 Aug 6pm Get your tickets here! ⤵️ events.humanitix.com/dr-hugh-sadd...
Dr Hugh Saddler Memorial Lecture 2026 | Shane Rattenbury
An address in honour of an energy transition expert and founding director of the Australia Institute, the late Dr Hugh Saddler, featuring Shane Rattenbury
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‘McDermid recalls: “You said, ‘how do we do this?’ and I said, ‘we’ll make it an epistolary novel’, and I had to explain what that was.” (“That’s not true!” interjects Sharp.)’ Val McDermid & Jo Sharp on writing THE DOOR OF THE SEAS together #HistoricalFiction 💙📚 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
‘We’ve always been wary of working together’: Val McDermid and Jo Sharp on writing a novel as a couple
The bestselling crime writer and Scotland’s first female Geographer Royal had long kept their work separate, until a chance discovery about a doomed 17th-century expedition forced them to collaborate
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Someone is typosquatting the Minerals Council of Australia thatsmining dot com dot au website. thatismining.com.au
The Difference Australian Mining Makes | Jobs, Healthcare & Communities
Australian mining doesn't delivers jobs, defunds healthcare and education, and sucks dry communities nationwide. Explore the facts and see the difference mining makes.
thatismining.com.au
Front Up is, in my opinion, the best TV show Australia has ever produced. I haven't watched it since the late 90s/early 00s but it's now up on SBS On Demand. Dig in and enjoy! www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...
Watch Front Up
Watch Front Up for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!
sbs.com.au
Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."
I won't say that this was enjoyable to record because talking about how my queer community is being demonised is always awful, but it is an important conversation with people whose company I value and enjoy. Thanks to @sandraduffy.bsky.social, @senthorun.bsky.social, and @adrienneringin.bsky.social
Douglas Guilfoyle@djag2.bsky.social · 3w agoNew #CalledToTheBar episode! How did the UK become a focal point for escalating anti-trans policy? What role have law, human rights, activism and the media played? @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social is joined by Sandra Duffy, Senthorun Raj and Adrienne Ringin. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...
I had never heard the story of Pavarotti chucking a sickie 30 minutes into the 1998 Grammys & the producer having to ask Aretha Franklin *while the show was in progress* to sub in to both rehearse and then perform Nessun Dorma. Incredible stuff. youtu.be/iy5V0CqVs1M?...
AMAZING - Aretha Franklin "Nessun Dorma" Live 1988 (Grammy Awards) 120fps
YouTube video by Roy Gardnerra
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If there’s anyone in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne who wants to play a very casual game of touch football, I’m part of a small group who try to play a game in Eltham every Wednesday at 6pm but we’ve been really struggling to get enough numbers recently. Newcomers very welcome! Get in touch!
This is @glutelord.bsky.social and he's completely fucking correct. The fundamental tension at the heart of all incel culture is that these guys HATE women and refuse to appeal to them but desperately want to get laid anyway, and this contradiction can only really be resolved through violence
seller of bigotry offsets and indulgences@anem0ne.net · 6mo ago
if you are not treating Tandi Iman Dupree the way you treat Tom Holland’s Umbrella video, I have some questions for you
Eric Ansley Díaz@geekboyeric.bsky.social · 4w agoRIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
bangordailynews.com
Just realised it's graduation season so I should probably share these cool pins I make again. They make great gifts and help to fund my transition canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
One of my fave things in York Minster: a medieval wren stalking a spider. It reminds me that history isn't only kings and battles. Someone, centuries ago, found joy in the same things we still notice today. It's a reminder of how much we have in common over our differences.
I got 13/20 and definitely learned a few things. What did everyone else get? I won't say what I got wrong so I don't spoil it for other people. But it did surprise me.
Janna Sophia 🏔️@jannaphia.bsky.social · last mo.Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co
That was far wilder than I could have ever expected.
Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · last mo.When looking at properties, always read to the last sentence.
"Currently, SBS has opt-out — 0.2 per cent of the population is able to find it." I had no idea but sure enough here it is, on your account settings:
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last mo.Liberal MP Simon Kennedy says anti-gambling changes contain streaming 'loophole'
I say it often but once again: By granting them borrowing privileges and protecting their privacy, public libraries afford children a form of civic standing and respect that has few parallels in our “free” society, which mostly treats children as chattel. Vociferously defend public libraries. 📚
I was asked to write a portrait of my mentor and dear friend Di Otto for @verfassungsblog.de's Outstanding Women in International Law series. I hope that you'll read it and realise what a treasure she is verfassungsblog.de/outstanding-...
Dianne Otto
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Friends in NSW, South Australia and south-east Queensland, Don't forget to check your eligibility to apply for the Solar Share Offer for three hours of free electricity each day.
energy.gov.au
most organ donors are women most organ recipients are men I'm an organ donor and I would really like to be a cunt about this but I'm not enough of a cunt. yet but if you are a man and refuse to be an organ donor without a good medical reason the only thing you should be getting is a donor kebab