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S. K. Riley
@skriley.bsky.social
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Writer, PhD, gardener, educator, tree planter, and so forth. www.skriley-author.com Lover of Australian wildlife, re-wilding, mythology, music, cinema and democracy. 🇦🇺
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · Mar 8
Dingo Roaming

Dingo was roaming, seeing, feeling − falling toward the stars.

- JP Quinton

#Dingo #Stars #Dreaming
Seen from above, the tracks a dingo makes when it runs across shallow water on a desert clay pan. Overlapping, concentric circles that look like a painting stretch out in a single line behind a dingo, running ahead. Photo credit: Greg Robertson, while mustering cattle in far north western New South Wales, Australia.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 4d
The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa
Maria from The Sound of Music playing guitar and singing with children
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 6h
Final day of voting is today
Time to get amongst it!

PS. Hope your favourite bird made the short list. 🦜
#BirdOfTheYear #AusBirds #Birds #Australia #Birdlife
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 8d
Australian - BIRD OF THE YEAR 2025

Time to cast your vote for the 2025 Australian bird of the year.
First Round of Voting is open! 🦜

From 6-15 October, you can VOTE HERE:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#BirdOfTheYear #AusBirds #Birds #Australia #Birdlife #WildOz
Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll
From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll
www.theguardian.com
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 7h
Video Credit: MacGillavry et al., 2025 from ‘Current Biology’ a Cell Press Journal
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 7h
The Rhythm is the Key

Riflebird’s Courtship Dance ♥️

Riflebird (Ptiloris victoriae) a Bird-of-paradise from the Wet Tropics rainforest, Australia

#Riflebird #BirdDance #Australia #AusBirds #Birds #Birdlife #WildOz
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AW Landscape Board @awlandscapesa.bsky.social · 1d
Mammal Monday
This western grey kangaroo was spotted on a recent field trip. Unlike many parts of Australia, kangaroos are not overabundant in the AW region due to the presence of dingoes. Apex predators play an important role in the ecosystem.

#wildoz
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Nick Raschke @nickraschke.bsky.social · 1d
Possum o’clock, last night. She brought her baby along. Hilarious.
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Geoff Clarke @geoffhasag.bsky.social · 1d
A pair of Pale-headed Rosellas visited our Banksia and Tuckeroo trees. They are my favourite parrot. I heard them before I saw them. Glorious!
Western suburbs, Brisbane.
#BackyardNature #BackyardWildlife #AustralianWildlife
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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · Sep 6
Well...if you say so....... 🤩😻😽
#happybirthdayidris
#Bookskly
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 1d
True Grit's stunning cinematography was shot by Roger Deakins with a score by composer Carter Burwell—both Coen regulars—while the brothers themselves edited the film, under the Roderick Jaynes pseudonym. 🎬

#Cinema #TrueGrit #CoenBrothers #Film
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 14d
SBS On Demand has the Coen brothers' superb 2010 #TrueGrit remake. Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are all excellent, but Hailee Steinfeld's performance is absolutely outstanding. Enjoy. #SBSOnDemand #film 🎥 www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...
Watch True Grit
Watch True Grit for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!
www.sbs.com.au
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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 1d
Dear Portland: your friends across the world are with you. Write up of “frogtifa” resistance in the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, today. Stay strong, fuck ICE - and solidarity.

www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
Amphibious assault: Progressive Portland’s protesting frogs take air out of Trump’s arguments
The citizens of a progressive northwestern US city have found a creative, humorous way to undercut Donald Trump’s assertions of lawlessness.
www.smh.com.au
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 1d
"Soul Man" by Sam & Dave. Sam Moore was born on 12 October.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM2R...
SAM & DAVE (Soul Man) 2023 Remaster
YouTube video by Remastering The Oldies
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Nick @gardenwizard.bsky.social · 2d
#bloomscrolling #gardening #photography #zinnia
A purple zinnia flower
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 2d
Rosie living her best life‼️
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 2d
Here's another one out of the blue from a recent weeding session. Think it's been on a few film and TV soundtracks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRlS...
Golden Earring - Radar Love (Official Music Video [HD])
YouTube video by Red Bullet
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 3d
You should post it. I love Sarah Blasko's version too. 😀
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 3d
This Is Australia 🌊 🦘🏖️

'Out on the patio we'd sit
And the humidity we'd breathe
We'd watch the lightning crack over canefields
Laugh and think
this is Australia.'

~ GANGgajang

#ThisIsAustralia #GANGgajang #SoundsOfThen #SurfMusic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUA1...
Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia) (Remix)
YouTube video by GANGgajang - Topic
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 3d
“Life’s meaning is lost without the spirit of play. In play all that is lovely and soaring in the human spirit strives to find expression. In play the mind is prepared to enter a world where different rules apply, to be free.”

~ Eileen Agar
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Laura JG @laurajg.bsky.social · 5d
Your art history post for today: by Eileen Agar (1899-1991), Harlequin, 1968, oil on canvas, 50 1⁄4 x 40in. (127.5 x 101.5cm.), photo: Christie’s London, March 2, 2022. More in ALT. #arthistory #womanartist #womenartists #Art
First, a quote from the artist: “Life’s meaning is lost without the spirit of play. In play all that is lovely and soaring in the human spirit strives to find expression. In play the mind is prepared to enter a world where different rules apply, to be free.” Now, my description: An abstract depiction of a Harlequin with two faces in profile. Very colorful and patterned. On one arm we see a bird, perhaps a parrot.
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Tre Cooper @s3quinsof3v3nts.bsky.social · 3d
An old photo from somewhere in Germany. Seems quite relevant for these times.

#Vintage #Protests #humor #JokersToTheRight #OldieButGoodie
An old photo of a small squad of German police standing in a double line with two protesters dressed as clowns standing unnoticed in their lines in the back. A squad of clowns are lined up next to them in perfect formation.
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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · Jan 27
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mandolin mama @mandolinmama.bsky.social · 3d
www.bbc.com/news/article...

good news!...

💚💚💚🕊

#turtles #conservation
Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'
Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.
www.bbc.com
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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 3d
👏The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/
Nobel Peace Prize
www.nobelprize.org
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 4d
John Lennon 1967, photographed by Richard Avedon
#JohnLennon #BOTD
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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 4d
Surrealist painter, writer, and occultist Ithell Colquhoun was born #OTD in 1906. She was fascinated by megalithic sites, which she explored in painting and in her travel books 'The Crying of the Wind: Ireland' (1955) and 'The Living Stones: Cornwall' (1957).

🎨'La Cathedrale Engloutie' (1952)
Surrealist landscape showing figure-of-eight pattern of stones, half submerged and half on an island.
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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 4d
a full heart

#bloomscrolling #flowers #nature #photography #lifeisbeautiful
A gigantic pink dahlia hogging almost the whole frame! a few little other dahlia can be glimpsed behind this photohog. Tall greenery stands in the background beneath a bright blue sky spotted with a couple of fluffy clouds
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mandolin mama @mandolinmama.bsky.social · 4d
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a round image divided in half. the left half is a cross section of a tree showing all the rings. the right half is a human fingerprint. they are very similar. quote:- at the top, "tree stump & human fingerprint." at the bottom, "we are earth".
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