Nick
@knockaboutwok.bsky.social
Small house, big dogs, bigger garden, tiny livestock. RNing 30+ years. Paeds/adults/aged care/pal care/rural/med/surg/HDU/OR/union rep/thug since '88. Humanist Greyhounds Molly and Dipper. Rainbow hounds Sooty, Monty and Brutus. Subtropical Australia
Yeah, nearly there..... #EVs
Nick@knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 2y agowww.carsguide.com.au/car-news/che... In a few short years the idea of going to a petrol station to fill up will be as quaint as dropping by Blockbuster for a VHS or leaving your film at the chemist. And "range anxiety" is going to be as funny as a man waving a red lamp in front of your car.
Two ways to frame the climate apocalypse. Maybe a bit less of the water park games, hey #ABCNews? #ClimateCrisis
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3d agoSouth Korea records hottest day on record
Can only be a matter of time before he runs for the senate. #ABCNews giving him free publicity, probably couldn't find a cafe owner.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 6d ago'Compromise' proposal to give ministers more control over return of temporarily excluded IS fighters
I visited 20 years apart and noted the decline in sea lion numbers. Can't see that colony getting past this. Tragic #auswild
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 6d agoExperts weigh measures to protect Kangaroo Island marine life from H5 bird flu
Got pecked in the peeper by a peewee*. *Translation. Magpie lark attempted an enucleation of my left eyeball this morning while I was peacefully walking and enjoying a coffee. Missed my cornea and left a bruise on my lower lid. #Straya. Even the cute little animals want us dead.
These people run the world. Explains much. Imagine if rational, intelligent people did instead. *He's dead, in a box. There's no Mega Mar-a-Lago.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."
Always puzzling... Victorian Derangement Syndrome. The exclusively old white blokes I encounter who live here in Qld but have an absolute deep, visceral, unhinged hatred of the Victorian ALP. It's astounding. I don't have strong feelings about them for/against but geez. Is it talkback? #auspol
"They told me to get off the (clearly identified) nurses computer! I was only gonna be a minute!" Yeah, we'll do that. Every time.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last wk.Doctors' union raises behavioural concerns about nurses' conduct at SA health service
Being born into the squatocracy? Accident of birth. #auspol
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last wk.Angus Taylor on the accident that changed his life
Emergency Turkey Alert successful. That's definitely a scrub turkey, thanks. *That's what it was for, right?
The two resident juvenile pied butcher #birds. One sunning, the other.... annoying its sibling? Maybe just taking the opportunity to pick off some parasites, so not being annoying. Yeah. Let's go with that 😊
Breaking. Markets go up *and* down. More at 6 #auspol
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2w agoProperty market transforming with cold feet, cooling prices and withdrawals
Grandma Poss and her latest youngster. Up in the weather proof box I installed under the eaves. 😊 #possums
Dementia is ramping up. I'm guessing by June 2027 the remnants of his frontal lobe will be gone....
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3w agoTrump says he is going to increase tariffs on Canada due to the wildfires
Well that ended how you thought it might. #auspol
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3w agoMoira Deeming ousted as Liberal candidate after apology stand-off
I heard someone who would have been denied entry to Australia under that policy voice her support of ON recently. Should be some cognitive dissonance going on about now, doubt it though. #auspol
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3w agoPauline Hanson blames end of White Australia policy for migration issues on Tommy Robinson's podcast
Guessing the Coral Sea is still a little over heated. I'm sure that's just a glitch.... #ClimateChange
"In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine." Quote from Someone Smarter Than Me *Sometimes the short run weighs it up, too.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3w agoMarkets live: ASX to rise after mixed results on Wall Street, SpaceX shares plunge
It's #midwinter so what better time to prep for #summer. Truckload of compost enriched soil and mulch. Took me and my shovel 2 days to move it all.
