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Susan McCreery

@susanmccreery.bsky.social

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Writer. ALL THE UNLOVED out now. Retired proofreader (90 issues!) for Australian Geographic. Still work for trade publishers. Newbie freediver. Ocean, flowers, movies, birds, books, cats, silliness. Thirroul/Dharawal, Australia. susanmccreery.com.au

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · Nov 8

The colours and textures of a little afternoon beachcombing.💫

Motley collection of sea glass & bits of shell laid out on a rock. Sea in background on a clear day.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 11h

A statement from me, on behalf of the Australian Cartoonists Association:

The Australian Cartoonists Association welcomes the decision of the federal Attorney-General, Michelle aRowland, to reject the Productivity Commission’s proposal to exempt tech companies from copyright laws, which would have handed them free rein to mine creative content to train their Artificial Intelligence models, without recognition or recompense for artists.

We are glad the Albanese Government recognises the value and precarious of the creative industries and encourage their ongoing support of artists in all fields.

Cathy Wilcox
President
ACA

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6h

'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 2h

the wild ocean in a stone wall

cracks breaks and marks in a small and very old stone wall - suddenly it looks like a roaring sea

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 2h

(love to know its name)

Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you! Wonderful to see.

Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 14h

There they are!

Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 16h

Greek doors, an occasional series.

Koufonisia 🇬🇷

Double doors painted a pale green & set, flush at the top, in a low whitewashed stone wall. The doors are weathered & have two padlocks & a rusted chain but no handle. Grey clouds beyond.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 16h

🖼️ Ferne Glannan-macrae

An illustration of various wildlife found in an estuary or British waterway ecosystem. The print features a collection of animals and plants, including several birds, fish, and invertebrates.
The species depicted include:
Birds: Oystercatcher, Avocet, Shelduck, and Curlew.
Fish: Striped Red Mullet, Twaite Shad, Perch, and Barbel.
Invertebrates: Catworm, Mud Shrimp, Common Cockle, Mud Snail, and a Short-snouted Seahorse.
Plants: Sea Aster, Sea Lavender, Lesser Sea-spurrey, Sea Milkwort, Marsh Samphire, and Sea Buckthorn.

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 1d

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #SenryuSunday #senryu #poetry

high tide—
the weight of the news
behind my eyes

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2d

Marvellous Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters about 3,800 years ago!

Which is your favourite? ❤️

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me 🏺

#Archaeology

My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif:

Top left: swirling white vine-like lines and round reddish-orange medallions framed by white circles on a black background.

Top right : large white spiral on front of cup with a reddish-orange oval shape with stylised white petals beside it, on a black background.

Middle left: diagonal zig-zag stripes in alternating black and white above and below a band around the middle of the cup

Bottom left: swirling white lines and reddish-orange and white geometric band on a black background.

Bottom right: diagonal white stripes below a row of red dots outlined with white circles on a black background.

This type of ornamental Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 1d

I listened to the Sunday morning show The Year That Made Me at 7 a.m. in Sydney (before midnight here), to hear if I was on this one or the next (I wasn’t on this one.) I fell asleep & spent the night with Bowie feeding ducks, making X-rays & talking about whales. Maybe because I chose the year 2016

Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 5d

Today at dawn, an Australian radio station interviewed me about the Sea Library. The show will be up in a month or so, but I am already grateful to the starry cosmos for connecting the dots in the most unexpected ways ✨

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 1d

This is happening right now.

Each one gone in a day.🌸
#FlowerReport

Epiphyllum, a cactus flower, in brilliant pink bloom. It's hanging in a basket by the trunk of my NSW Christmas bush. The background blue is the side of my house.

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 1d

Here we have a lovely double display of flowers and fruits (+ even an ageing red leaf!) on a blueberry ash (Elaeocarpus reticulatus).

Reason: they fruit April–Oct and flower Oct–Jan.

Endemic to eastern Australia, from SE Qld thru NSW, Vic. & Flinders Island, Tas.🌿
#FlowerReport #ozplants #ozflora

Dainty pink bell-like flowers with fringed skirts, & a cluster of blue berries hanging amid large green leaves (+ one red). A blueberry ash seen in Thirroul, NSW.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 1d

A rather regal-looking polar bear on the fall tundra. #mammals 🌿

A polar bear sniffs the air from where he is lying on the dry tundra moss. Pale grasses sway gently behind him.

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Bronwen Scott @snailseyeview.bsky.social · 1d

Pacifc Baza flyby (with cicada) on the Atherton Tablelands.

Pacific Baza soaring with a large cicada in its bill. The view is of the underside with wings spread against an even-coloured grey-blue sky. The bird has fairly rounded wings with striped tips. The birds underside is also striped. The eyes and feet are yellow. Not that you can see it in the photo, but the bird also has a snazzy crest.

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 1d

I love the sound of these grassland walks!🌿🥰

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 2d

“I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.”
― Lauren Myracle

the old made new

a broken down building it's boards are falling down on the grasses. there is a cow between the slats of a wood fence.

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 1d

Drama overhead and a pearlescent sea for this morning's swim.✨️

Scene of a vast sky with dramatic clouds not long after daybreak. A calm sea below & land in the distance. Photo taken from Bulli headland, NSW.

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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 2d

Anne Tyler - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful. Go take a looksee if you can.😊

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 2d

Good news!

Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 2d

Well, this is a new (to me) and rather lovely native plant. It's called milkmaids (Burchardia umbellata) and flowers Sept–Nov. The tubers are high in starch and have been a food source for First Nations people for millennia. #ozplants #wildoz #ozflora 🌿

Six-petalled star-shaped white flowers with pink centres in a blurred bushland setting.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

NOW, VOYAGER (1942) went into wide release on Halloween Day, which is appropriate because Gladys Cooper plays one of the great monsters of classic cinema. #FilmSky #Halloween

Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Henry Vale writing withering missives to loved one.

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Meandering M🌿 @pathwaymoments.bsky.social · 4d

A new family moved in over night! 📷🍄 ….

A fresh arrival of brilliant red Amanita mushrooms arrived along the lakeshore.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 3d

Last light breaking through over the valley, looking west towards Bae Ceredigion/ Cardigan Bay

#Cymru #Wales

Rays of sun shining through storm clouds over a valley

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