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Curious human.
Biodiversity & citizen science.
Lover of owls, invertebrates, reptiles.
Constant reader.
Habitat gardener. Tea drinker. Crafty. Gluten free baker.
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🐶🐾Precious Maltese Shih Tzu
Yugambeh Country, Logan QLD
Australia
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Support our journalism. Journalism disappears for lots of reasons, but not being able to afford it is certainly one of them
theshot.net.au/support-us/
Support The Shot - The Shot
Our contributors can’t live on exposure, but they can certainly die from it. If you enjoy the work we do...
theshot.net.au
December 19, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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kateauty.bsky.social
www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/12/medi...

“The Jewish Council urges the Prime Minister to ensure that the Government’s response remains grounded in evidence, focused on prevention, the widest possible consultation and committed to unity.”
Media Release: Unity, safety and prevention — not fulfilling divisive pro-Israel wishlist — must guide the Government’s response to Bondi attack
In the wake of the horrific antisemitic attack in Bondi, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today made a series of announcements […]
www.jewishcouncil.com.au
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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peterdutoit.com
For every 1°C that we heat the atmosphere can hold approximately 7% more water.

Extreme precipitation willl become more frequent putting people living near seasonal rivers at great risk.

We need robust early warning systems for people living near rivers!

youtu.be/93K0ZyfTUPs

#ClimateLiteracy
Flash floods kill dozens in Moroccan town of Safi • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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maddenifico.bsky.social
Vanity Fair photographer Christopher Anderson deserves a Pulitzer Prize. No photographer has captured the authentic vile repulsiveness of cabinet members within the fascist authoritarian Trump regime like Anderson has. 🙌🙏👇
December 19, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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librarything.com
For an ongoing discussion of Jane Austen in her 250th year, join us in Talk: www.librarything.com/topic/366709
Jane Austen - celebtrates 250 years in 2025, what will you be reading | Book talk | LibraryThing
LibraryThing catalogs yours books online, easily, quickly and for free.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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bethanyincbr.bsky.social
I’m all for making Jewish Australians safer. It is their fundamental right to be safe and free from attacks.

But what I am NOT for is allowing a radical, right-wing Zionist wish-list become policy in Australia because their voices (and donations) are the biggest.
chrishehim.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 1d
Reminder that Jillian Segal's husband donated $50 000 to Advance Australia, an extremist right‑wing anti‑immigrant and anti‑Muslim lobby group. #auspol
December 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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just-jillg.bsky.social
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December 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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coalisdead.bsky.social
In my postcode this year out of a population of 16,936 there are 1959 registered firearms owners, up 352 from 2023.

One owner has 109 guns - WTF. The average is 3.8

Amazing. David Shoebridge is responsible for this resource

www.toomanyguns.org
Too Many Guns
www.toomanyguns.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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ausindimedia.bsky.social
“How did a man previously rejected for gun ownership, whose son was already on the intelligence radar, legally amass an arsenal?”

theaimn.net/bondi-massac...
Bondi Massacre: When Disinformation Buries State Failure
“The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance,” wrote Flannery O’Connor. She might have added that lazy metaphor, repeated by a complicit media, does not just mislead. It kills. And it feeds the slow st...
theaimn.net
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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socialmedialab.ca
The Vanity Fair photographer could probably win a Pulitzer based solely on this exchange with Stephen Miller. His photos in Vanity Fair single-handedly show these people for who they are: small, damaged people. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
bushbark.bsky.social
A good day #WQuers

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a close up of a wolf with the word netflix on the bottom right
Alt: a close up of a wolf howling
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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ronnisalt.bsky.social
Have a quiet think. Let it be a guiding lesson for you

Whatever regretful comments you may have made in your life, whatever actions you wish you could take back, let your benchmark for the lowest of the low be using the deaths of 15 people for the relaunch of your political career
December 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Here's @ronnisalt. "Don't look back in anger"
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Don’t look back in anger - The Shot
I’m angry. We’re all angry. Perhaps that’s part of the problem. At the moment, we’re angry at two twisted individuals...
theshot.net.au
December 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
bushbark.bsky.social
A species can go from endangered or vulnerable to extinct faster than you think. That’s why—every five years—a small, but mighty team takes on the task of mapping wild bilby populations because you can’t protect what you can’t locate.

#Donate #Bilby
Are our furry long-eared friends on your Xmas list?
It’s 5 years since our last survey of wild bilbies in western QLD & we urgently need to do another. Please donate to get our Red Dirt Detectives on the ground & keep bilbies off the extinct species li...
donations.savethebilbyfund.org.au
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
bushbark.bsky.social
Morning #WQuers
Started well, Oh well.

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December 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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hishamzerriffi.bsky.social
There are “rules” in photography that you learn and then can break for visual effect. That is different than not knowing the rules. The former is very much what is happening here. Choices were made and they show the power of photography.
astridoverthere.bsky.social I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 2d
Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.

Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Full-body portrait photograph of Susie Wiles, a middle aged woman in an olive pantsuit with a white shirt underneath. The room around her looks unstaged - in the foreground is a sliver of a wing chair, on the other side a small portion of a desk with half of some papers and a post it showing. There is a light switch just over her right shouder and an open hallway behind that. Full body portrait photograph of JD Vance, a smarmy-looking thirtyish man in a dark suit with a red tie and white shirt. He is posed against a blank gray wall. To his right is a flag on a flagstand, only 2/3s of it in shot. Next to his left upper arm on the wall is a light switch and a thermostat. On the left side of the shot, we can see the very back of a blue chair in side profile, a bit of a lampshade and a tiny sliver of a side table.
December 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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daryltractor.bsky.social
I actually can’t believe I grew these myself. They bring me tremendous joy.
A bunch of bright pink dahlias in a clear vase
December 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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richarddenniss.bsky.social
Think we need more bravery in our politics? So do authors including Yannis Varoufakis, Senator Fatima Payman, Michelle O’Neil, Barrie Cassidy and my good self.

Order now to get the bravery book in time for Xmas #climate

australiainstitute.org.au/store/a-time...
A time for Bravery: What happens when Australia chooses courage? - Store - The Australia Institute
This book brings together advocates, politicians, campaigners, medical doctors, academics and a firefighter each with their answer to the question: what does bravery look like in Australia and how mig...
australiainstitute.org.au
November 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
A special farewell to Girri. 🎶 #Fledge #OrangeNSW #PeregrineFalcons
December 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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morganvisconti.bsky.social
As of today, I have taken down all of my solo music and that of my bands and label partners from Spotify

Jaust
JMB
Morgan Visconti
Penny Engine
Ready, Steady, Die!
The Ancients
Triple Island

We're on all other digital outlets including BandCamp.

Good riddance.
#musicnews
#spotify
#musiciansky
December 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
bushbark.bsky.social
6,500 pals joined Pub Choir for their BIGGEST EVER fundraiser. Together, we raised over $200,000 in one night for Women’s Legal Service Queensland. It is always the right time to be reminded that we are better together, so thanks for proving the point, Brisbane.
#PubChoir
#BetterTogether
God Only Knows- Pub Choir covers The Beach Boys (and raises $200,000!)
YouTube video by Pub Choir
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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phillipisfabulous.bsky.social
As the demented paedophile turns up the heat on Venezuela and Columbia, absolutely and totally fucks up Europe, not to mention going war with it's own population, there is a flame burning that it cannot extinguish.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Virginia Roberts Giuffre: Epstein accuser’s memoir sells 1m copies in two months
Giuffre’s family calls the success of her posthumous memoir, Nobody's Girl, ‘bittersweet’ after her death in April
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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marshslibrary.bsky.social
A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
17th century engraving of a capybara under a palm tree eating a banana
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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margaretmorgan.bsky.social
Australia, as a result, comes in at #29 globally on press freedom, an appalling result for a country that prides itself on its democracy and pluralism.

(By contrast, the media I am now consuming in the Netherlands comes in at #3.)

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rsf.org/en/index
Index
RSF's World Press Freedom Index aims to compare the level of press freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories.
rsf.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM