I have one that regularly visits my garden. I get the impression that it has Disapproving Opinions About the State of It All

Sarah Durrant@sarah-d.bsky.social · last wk.

For Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #ItsAllWhite we have an endangered Grey goshawk ( #Tasmanian white morph) from the house; it’s way down the front paddock in a tree by our dam. Apparently the only bird of prey in the world to be all white 🪶🦉 #Birding #Birds #Wildlife #Nature #SoTas #LandForWildlife

I'm reading a book/collected series of essays about feminism in the early 70s and in the current piece took me back to the brave new adolescent world of training bras. And I.... Hm... What were we training them for, exactly?

When you look up a new potential project or product that you haven't done a search on before and the algorithm fair loses its tiny mind tripping over itself to projectile vomit a new batch of targeted advertising all over you.

Keaton in the Rain

ALT: Keaton in the Rain

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A lot of my favourite birds are birds I've never seen in person including this green chonk. Not that long ago there weren't even 90 kakapo left, so this is an amazing result.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot

As far as I remember it, life as a kid/student/young adult in a pre-internet, industrialised society was a lot of wandering around aimlessly until something interesting happened. Which was nice. Except for the times it occasionally wasn't. But mostly it was.

Most of my best recipes are just me starting with a base and rummaging through the fridge, freezer and pantry to find every possible complementary ingredient to add the mix. The better it tastes, the less likely I'll ever be able to replicate it again.

The Demented Potato in Chief is running out of water bodies to rename. But he's doing a great job of distracting everyone. And inadvertently teaching people about geography I suppose.

Send a couple of laugh emojis as a text = the whole phone screen bursts into explosive animation. Say 'congratulations' in outlook, fucking confetti pops onto your screen. Yes I'm an old woman yelling at clouds but can we calm down with all this shit? My senses are already fried enough.

I beg your sweary pardon but 'We expect the trucking option to be needed only in extreme dry periods'? From where, exactly? A magic part of Tassie that doesn't need water during extreme dry periods? We'll be on hosepipe bans while water is sent to a data centre? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Plans to cool AI data centre using trucked-in water and rainwater

An AI data centre in north-west Tasmania, proposed by Firmus Technologies, plans to cool its facilities using rainwater and water that it trucks in. Community members are now able to make submissions ...

abc.net.au

I hate it when we lose little clusters of pop culture icons, but vale to the delightful Tim Curry who taught me that my sexuality is mostly straight but also has a standard deviation of whatever the hell is going on here, specifically.

Hey, so before going ahead and building all those data centres and wreaking havoc across our communities how about you tech-ghouls give us all the option to switch off AI searches, summaries and every other clippy-on-cocaine feature you're automatically opting us into first?

My lovely house was happy to have me back though (I may never have mentioned how much I love this modest 50s weatherboard but she is sturdy and full of authentic character- plus those magic words every home-owner wants to hear: relatively unproblematic)

It was cold and windy and raining for most of the day which would have been fine if I wasn't standing right out in the middle of it doing earnest things to help the planet but this was nice I suppose

A lot of my adult life has just been finding out new and lovely things about Dolly Parton. She was a real one.

I wish the people who have their car phone on whatever setting is making it just as loud outside of the car as it is inside would talk about more devilishly scandalous things. If I'm going to be forced to eavesdrop, at least make it worth my while.

On a bit of a JK Jerome reading bender at the moment, just finished Diary of a Pilgrimmage. 'The Germans hold very curious notions as to the needs and requirements of a wet man' Well done JKJ, this has absolutely sent me 😅😅😅

Note to self. One cannot connect with the youth through quips about the Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster. They had not been born yet. Repeat, they are not old enough to understand this pop culture reference. .... Juat gunna take a moment to process this one.

I'm reading old journal entries from 2006, does anyone else remember this site?! Social media before social media

I don't know why this has hit me harder than all the other garbage takes I see daily, but the constant and numerous 'laugh' reactions and conspiracy laden responses I'm seeing in response to serious messaging about bird flu just drives me to total despair. What the hell has happened to people?

Turns out it wasn't this kind of catering cart and I can't say I'm not disappointed. Also, someone hiding in the bottom of one of those room service catering trolley things was done to death in films back in the day but damned if I can find an image of someone doing that in my search

Yeah this is cool and normal. Hey, so maybe grow the fuck up and stop leaving trash on a protected beach www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Concerns Dobby's 'grave' is 'not sustainable in the long term'

There are concerns about the environmental impact of the 'grave', with one person asking ‘why a CGI character is shown more respect than our countryside’

walesonline.co.uk

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · last mo.

Harry Potter fans force power link diversion to avoid Dobby's grave

Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

Before you know it she'll be pulling a Philip Lowe informing a general public who have lived experience with Dogs in Space-esque houseshares and beans on toast to see you to the next pay packet that we need to spend less and get a flatmate to reduce the day to day pressures on our wallet.

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · last mo.

Last week the RBA Guv said: "“people who have mortgages … see increases in interest rates as an increase in the cost of living, but it’s not really”. Sorry Michele. But it is. Really. My column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

If the state of the world is getting you down, here's a live feed of bears fishing for salmon in Alaska www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Zr...

LIVE Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park, Alaska 2026 | explore.org

YouTube video by Explore Live Nature Cams

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I avoid self serve like the plague (except when the scummy bastards decide to have absolutely nobody on any checkouts) precisely because one of my favourite middle aged rants is my refusal to do unpaid labour for the benefit of some asshole shareholder.

Kerrie B@wheels002.bsky.social · last mo.

Can we have this here in Australia? Shoppers should be paid for their efforts in serving themselves #auspol

Forget The Odyssey, I'll be waiting on the Olivia Coleman - Alexander Skarsgård basketry porn cinematic experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FqC...

WICKER | Official Trailer | 2026 [HD]

YouTube video by Roadshow Films

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The ad for the upcoming census in Australia is deliberately targeting a koala called Ollie as not being welcome to participate and I for one would like to know why.

Immediately adding this to the only other Dutch phrase I know which is warme dranken (yes it's exactly what it sounds like it is, just somehow infinitely funnier)

depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

need to start using the dutch word for "party animal"

Just submitted feedback to Biosecurity Tasmania to oppose mandatory notification requirements for home producers wanting to take certain produce to crop swaps or sell it via roadside stalls because everything is stupid now.

Oh 😢