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The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko | Chris Lynch | Substack
A four-part novel that sets off as a fable and then begins to spiral, one short episode a week. Includes talking animals, piracy, humour, interpolation, grief, and a plunge off a continental shelf. Se...
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au
15 years ago I wrote the first sentence of a novel: "Once upon a time, in a small cottage on the side of a volcano, there lived a tortoise." For the last 5 years the book's been my main project, a form I've never quite seen. Now I'm serialising it, one short episode a week. Here we go... #booksky
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Rhea On The Limb - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/4hd7a9
February 6, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Rhea On The Limb - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/4hd7a9
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Only 2 weeks to go! We're crowdfunding to publish 'Jacob and the Cassowary', a prophetic story about West Papuan independence by Gipson Suu.
www.pozible.com/proj...
Please spread the word! 🙏🏾
www.pozible.com/proj...
Please spread the word! 🙏🏾
February 6, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Only 2 weeks to go! We're crowdfunding to publish 'Jacob and the Cassowary', a prophetic story about West Papuan independence by Gipson Suu.
www.pozible.com/proj...
Please spread the word! 🙏🏾
www.pozible.com/proj...
Please spread the word! 🙏🏾
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February 1, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
Drive By | The Necks
Never tire of this one. For a certain kind of late night. #thenecks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqc0...
Never tire of this one. For a certain kind of late night. #thenecks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqc0...
The Necks - Drive By
YouTube video by kartonage
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January 13, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Drive By | The Necks
Never tire of this one. For a certain kind of late night. #thenecks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqc0...
Never tire of this one. For a certain kind of late night. #thenecks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqc0...
Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #ozlit
I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #ozlit
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January 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Singer-songwriter Bill Callahan: ‘I’m not a craftsman – I’m more of a drunk professor who likes coincidence and mistakes’
Singer-songwriter Bill Callahan: ‘I’m not a craftsman – I’m more of a drunk professor who likes coincidence and mistakes’
Preceding the release of My Days of 58, the Americana legend once known as Smog discusses his Yorkshire youth, why Spotify is like the mafia and the bleak state of AI
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Singer-songwriter Bill Callahan: ‘I’m not a craftsman – I’m more of a drunk professor who likes coincidence and mistakes’
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The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko (Part 1) is complete!
A tale of talking animals, pirates, empire, & buried texts, you can download a free copy here: theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/e-books
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books #ebooks #booksky 🪐📚💙
A tale of talking animals, pirates, empire, & buried texts, you can download a free copy here: theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/e-books
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books #ebooks #booksky 🪐📚💙
E-books
When Tortoise joins Gecko on the high seas, he learns that the stories we're told and the ones we tell transform us. With talking animals, pirates, empire, & buried texts, this shapeshifting philosoph...
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au
January 7, 2026 at 11:14 AM
The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko (Part 1) is complete!
A tale of talking animals, pirates, empire, & buried texts, you can download a free copy here: theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/e-books
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books #ebooks #booksky 🪐📚💙
A tale of talking animals, pirates, empire, & buried texts, you can download a free copy here: theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/e-books
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books #ebooks #booksky 🪐📚💙
"In almost every region, the top 1% was wealthier than the bottom 90% combined."
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds #Climate
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"In almost every region, the top 1% was wealthier than the bottom 90% combined."
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Moss garden at Saihō-ji temple, also known as Kokedera, in Kyoto, Japan.
December 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Moss garden at Saihō-ji temple, also known as Kokedera, in Kyoto, Japan.
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Episode 50: An Ice Kraken
The Pegasus faces its doom.
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/episode-50
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books 🪐📚️💙
The Pegasus faces its doom.
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/episode-50
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books 🪐📚️💙
Episode 50
An Ice Kraken
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Episode 50: An Ice Kraken
The Pegasus faces its doom.
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/episode-50
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books 🪐📚️💙
The Pegasus faces its doom.
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/episode-50
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books 🪐📚️💙
Dear moss lovers, add alt text to your images to be included in this feed so we can all see more moss. 🙏 #moss #mosstodon #mossmonday #lichensubscribe
December 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Dear moss lovers, add alt text to your images to be included in this feed so we can all see more moss. 🙏 #moss #mosstodon #mossmonday #lichensubscribe
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barefoot
through the snow black bear
woodrat.vianegativa.us
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Beautiful arrangement of Max Richter's On The Nature Of Daylight www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDrY...
On The Nature Of Daylight (live at the Bath Abbey) - by Max Richter, Arranged by Edward Cross
YouTube video by Edward Cross
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November 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Beautiful arrangement of Max Richter's On The Nature Of Daylight www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDrY...
Enjoying Radiohead's Madrid concert from the other night, their first in seven years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze8Z...
Radiohead - FULL SHOW - live Madrid 2025-11-04 night 1 European Tour complete concert
YouTube video by Javi Dieguez
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November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Enjoying Radiohead's Madrid concert from the other night, their first in seven years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze8Z...
Absolutely sobering reading.
+1.5ºC is gone, likely +2ºC as well.
"By 2040 on the current trajectory of +2ºC, 197 countries in the world would experience more than 150 days of 35ºC temperatures. In addition more than 3 billion people would experience severe water scarcity."
+1.5ºC is gone, likely +2ºC as well.
"By 2040 on the current trajectory of +2ºC, 197 countries in the world would experience more than 150 days of 35ºC temperatures. In addition more than 3 billion people would experience severe water scarcity."
Conference Report: The Global Heating Emergency
Ten years ago the world agreed to limit temperatures to 2ºC by 2100, so it’s a little alarming to attend a conference discussing if its even possible to prevent breaching that limit by 2040.
drtomharris.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Absolutely sobering reading.
+1.5ºC is gone, likely +2ºC as well.
"By 2040 on the current trajectory of +2ºC, 197 countries in the world would experience more than 150 days of 35ºC temperatures. In addition more than 3 billion people would experience severe water scarcity."
+1.5ºC is gone, likely +2ºC as well.
"By 2040 on the current trajectory of +2ºC, 197 countries in the world would experience more than 150 days of 35ºC temperatures. In addition more than 3 billion people would experience severe water scarcity."
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Raining on Two (Dog Walk), Photo by Saul Leiter, 1957
October 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Raining on Two (Dog Walk), Photo by Saul Leiter, 1957
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Episode 43: Ika
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/episode-43
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books 🪐📚💙
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/episode-43
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books 🪐📚💙
Episode 43
Ika
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au
October 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Episode 43: Ika
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/episode-43
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books 🪐📚💙
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/episode-43
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books 🪐📚💙
Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time... abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
October 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time... abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Indonesia is again bombing Kiwirok, the site of a huge massacre in 2021 that killed over 300 West Papuan civilians. dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/indo... #westpapua
Indonesia bombards Star Mountains as situation escalates across West Papua - Daily Telegraph NZ
Indonesian President Prabowo talks about promoting peace in the Middle East as his military is trying to wipe out West Papua, writes Benny Wenda.
dailytelegraph.co.nz
October 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Indonesia is again bombing Kiwirok, the site of a huge massacre in 2021 that killed over 300 West Papuan civilians. dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/indo... #westpapua
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The shrew’s extinction increases the tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 to 39 species. This is far more than for any other country. These losses represent about 10% of all Australia’s land mammal species before colonisation 🧪
theconversation.com/and-then-the...
theconversation.com/and-then-the...
And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct
Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.
theconversation.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The shrew’s extinction increases the tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 to 39 species. This is far more than for any other country. These losses represent about 10% of all Australia’s land mammal species before colonisation 🧪
theconversation.com/and-then-the...
theconversation.com/and-then-the...