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Small house, big dogs, bigger garden, tiny livestock.

RNing 30+ years. Paeds/adults/aged care/pal care/rural/med/surg/HDU/OR/union rep/thug since '88. Humanist

Greyhounds Molly and Dipper.

Rainbow hounds Sooty, Monty and Brutus.

Subtropical Australia
#Australia
#Spiders

Love it.

Off you go, little one.
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Down on the farm, caught up with this beautiful big girl. Such a sweetheart.
November 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
#terns are onto something....
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Inchman ants. Enormous and as potent as they look, cos y'know. Australia.

"You don't upset us we won't upset you"

Deal.

#auswild
#entomology
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Is the music stopping or is it a pause between tracks?

#finance
#GFC2
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Gee, that's a new way to describe "corruption"

#NYT
November 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It's a small thing but when there's a dead rat in your shed and you can immediately find it, well..... it beats looking for days for it.
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The wall.

It does nothing.
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Another day, another round of saturation coverage of an opposition partys internal struggle over a policy they'll never get to implement.

At least #ABCNews is pointing out some of the holes in the policy.

Anyway, what's the government doing atm?
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
That's some saturation coverage by #ABCNews of the internal shenanigans of a minor political party that will quite possibly never be in power again.

Wonder what the actual government is up to?

#auspol
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'd just like to recognise that this report didn't use "Firebrand" once.

Well done, #ABCNews, see you can do it.
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Local spider impersonating an ant but with enormous spiky jaws.

Too many legs, bro, games up!

#spiders
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Is this part of her job title? Or just lazy journalism?

I mean, you *never* see her name without this descriptor.

#auspol
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Dear #ABCNews

Looks like you have thorough coverage of the parties of opposition but....

What's the actual government up to?

Anything shady?

#auspol
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Reposted by Nick
NSW Police go out of their way to approve a Neo Nazi rally — then Premier Minns uses the “stuff up” as an excuse for *more* laws restricting free speech. The whole thing stinks of a blatantly obvious stitch-up by vested interests. Pathetic.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Police authorisation of Sydney neo-Nazi demonstration sparks calls for protest law review
A neo-Nazi protest received NSW Police authorisation to go ahead outside NSW parliament on Saturday morning.
www.sbs.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
First time I've ever seen a quadrupedal huntsman #spider.

Good news, they can grow back.

Will keep an eye out for this one.
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Watching financial markets right now and I'm getting flashbacks to the run up to the GFC.

Everyone knew it was coming but thought they could grab a seat before the music stopped.

"This time. This time it's *different*"

🍿

#finance
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Big news round here.

The local #magpies have successfully raised their first young in years (no pictures yet).

Congratulations.

#birds
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
All this rain here in the #subtropics and kaboom, my suburban garden #coffee trees are blooming.

Look like jasmine flowers, no real aroma and only last a couple of days.

#gardening
November 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
11 months on.

Was there ever any follow up to any of these reports?

#WhiteVan
1. Take all these reports seriously and investigate.

2. But if there's follow up news, please report the outcomes, as Dr Weatherburn suggested (back in 2009).

I'll repeat, take all these reports seriously and investigate, in case anyone missed point 1.

#WhiteVan
November 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I once read the book of "Successful US Foreign Interventions post WW2" .

It was a, ah... short read.
These two morons have us gearing up for war in Nigeria and Venezuela after previous strikes on Yemen and Iran and intervention in Gaza, we are beginning nuclear testing for the first time in 33 years, and all this comes after threatening Greenland, Panama and Canada.
November 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Reposted by Nick
Last gasp funnies
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The possibility that a German led European democratic alliance might one day fight a two front war against a fascist USA and Russia.

That'd be a quick historical turn around.
Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.

The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.

Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.
November 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Because what could possibli go wrong?

These things keep us busy*

*See my profile.

#Brisbane
October 31, 2025 at 11:55 PM