Toni Fish
@tonifish.bsky.social
Professional water nerd, recovering policy wonk, collector and connector of good humans and holder of important conversations. Hello.
Went for a wander along the Bass Coast trail with a friend today.
I recklessly wore shorts and didn't put sunscreen on my leggies once the clouds cleared. Pink really isn't my colour. 😳
I recklessly wore shorts and didn't put sunscreen on my leggies once the clouds cleared. Pink really isn't my colour. 😳
December 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Went for a wander along the Bass Coast trail with a friend today.
I recklessly wore shorts and didn't put sunscreen on my leggies once the clouds cleared. Pink really isn't my colour. 😳
I recklessly wore shorts and didn't put sunscreen on my leggies once the clouds cleared. Pink really isn't my colour. 😳
Trying to search for an AI-free browser, now Firefox has failed me, and all I get are search results for the best browsers with AI.
Help me out, hive mind! How do I opt out of this nightmare?
Help me out, hive mind! How do I opt out of this nightmare?
December 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Trying to search for an AI-free browser, now Firefox has failed me, and all I get are search results for the best browsers with AI.
Help me out, hive mind! How do I opt out of this nightmare?
Help me out, hive mind! How do I opt out of this nightmare?
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As I understand today's discussion, we can stop an ISIS cell by policing the speaker list at writer's festivals and the BA syllabus at Unis. And by "stopping demonstrations." This is madness.
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
As I understand today's discussion, we can stop an ISIS cell by policing the speaker list at writer's festivals and the BA syllabus at Unis. And by "stopping demonstrations." This is madness.
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Important point. While "cognitive debt/deficit" is getting some ink, we're also going to have to talk about socialization and empathy debt as well. It's not just analytical skills and discipline we're eroding, but the patience and understanding needed to have any kind of relationship with a person.
December 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Important point. While "cognitive debt/deficit" is getting some ink, we're also going to have to talk about socialization and empathy debt as well. It's not just analytical skills and discipline we're eroding, but the patience and understanding needed to have any kind of relationship with a person.
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The machine of vengeance and hate that is now being stoked by many in the press and political circles will never make anyone more safe. Not my community, not your community, not any Australian. /3
December 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The machine of vengeance and hate that is now being stoked by many in the press and political circles will never make anyone more safe. Not my community, not your community, not any Australian. /3
At our best, we are stardust.
I am the grandchild of Holocaust refugees. I am a secular humanist, world citizen, Australian. The only way forward is in unity.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I am the grandchild of Holocaust refugees. I am a secular humanist, world citizen, Australian. The only way forward is in unity.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘We are all human beings first’: Jews and Muslims embrace at vigils for those killed in Bondi beach terror attack
Interfaith groups share messages of love, unity and ‘deep heartbreak and condolences’ in the wake of antisemitic mass shooting
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
At our best, we are stardust.
I am the grandchild of Holocaust refugees. I am a secular humanist, world citizen, Australian. The only way forward is in unity.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I am the grandchild of Holocaust refugees. I am a secular humanist, world citizen, Australian. The only way forward is in unity.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Lovely morning to take the bike on a boat.
Collected a friend for an early little city loop to check out the new veloway, home via the delightful Westgate punt.
Collected a friend for an early little city loop to check out the new veloway, home via the delightful Westgate punt.
December 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Lovely morning to take the bike on a boat.
Collected a friend for an early little city loop to check out the new veloway, home via the delightful Westgate punt.
Collected a friend for an early little city loop to check out the new veloway, home via the delightful Westgate punt.
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I wish more people would wake up to this. Segal is trying to make mileage. As will Hanson and her ogres. In the end the issue is that INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS ARE NOT WORKING AS THEY SHOULD.
December 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I wish more people would wake up to this. Segal is trying to make mileage. As will Hanson and her ogres. In the end the issue is that INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS ARE NOT WORKING AS THEY SHOULD.
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Check out this gorgeous little gang gang cockatoo 😍
December 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Check out this gorgeous little gang gang cockatoo 😍
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Feeling for all the different communities who are grieving and scared. Let’s meet this moment with love and empathy.
December 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Feeling for all the different communities who are grieving and scared. Let’s meet this moment with love and empathy.
One for the weirdos arguing that gun laws aren't preventing antisemitism, and thus are meaningless.
Now I'm logging my Ashkenazi-atheist arse offline before the logical fallacies give me an aneurysm.
Now I'm logging my Ashkenazi-atheist arse offline before the logical fallacies give me an aneurysm.
Loudly: keeping guns controlled is the fastest and most effective way to stop Jews being killed!
Also helpfully stops other minorities & persecuted groups from being murdered.
You can't control thoughts, you CAN constrain the capacity of people to act in those thoughts.
Also helpfully stops other minorities & persecuted groups from being murdered.
You can't control thoughts, you CAN constrain the capacity of people to act in those thoughts.
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
One for the weirdos arguing that gun laws aren't preventing antisemitism, and thus are meaningless.
Now I'm logging my Ashkenazi-atheist arse offline before the logical fallacies give me an aneurysm.
Now I'm logging my Ashkenazi-atheist arse offline before the logical fallacies give me an aneurysm.
Don't want "AI" forced on you? Keep resisting. They need the use to recoup the grotesque $$$ investment, else is all collapses. What a shame that would be...
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Don't want "AI" forced on you? Keep resisting. They need the use to recoup the grotesque $$$ investment, else is all collapses. What a shame that would be...
Hat tip to Far Fetched Designs in Seddon for this cracking new shade for my beloved mid-century lamp.
The original is quite tatty, and the height of it limited placement options. Now it's got a shorter and fatter modern shade, with the old one tucked away for possible re-covering in future.
The original is quite tatty, and the height of it limited placement options. Now it's got a shorter and fatter modern shade, with the old one tucked away for possible re-covering in future.
December 15, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Hat tip to Far Fetched Designs in Seddon for this cracking new shade for my beloved mid-century lamp.
The original is quite tatty, and the height of it limited placement options. Now it's got a shorter and fatter modern shade, with the old one tucked away for possible re-covering in future.
The original is quite tatty, and the height of it limited placement options. Now it's got a shorter and fatter modern shade, with the old one tucked away for possible re-covering in future.
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I need us to not follow America into the dark on this. I need to believe we will not fail victims by doing anything less than actively reclaiming the best thing this country ever did - collectively turning our backs on firearms. That’s been eroded for the last 20 years & I want us to renew our vow.
December 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I need us to not follow America into the dark on this. I need to believe we will not fail victims by doing anything less than actively reclaiming the best thing this country ever did - collectively turning our backs on firearms. That’s been eroded for the last 20 years & I want us to renew our vow.
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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"Australia’s true strength lies in our unity. We will not let violence or misinformation divide us."
To all the right-wing politicians & advocates, chafing at the bit to take this horrific act & weaponise it further, stoking fear & hatred, choose not to.
To all the right-wing politicians & advocates, chafing at the bit to take this horrific act & weaponise it further, stoking fear & hatred, choose not to.
December 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Australia’s true strength lies in our unity. We will not let violence or misinformation divide us."
To all the right-wing politicians & advocates, chafing at the bit to take this horrific act & weaponise it further, stoking fear & hatred, choose not to.
To all the right-wing politicians & advocates, chafing at the bit to take this horrific act & weaponise it further, stoking fear & hatred, choose not to.
Always repost gang gangs
December 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Always repost gang gangs
Humans being cruel and sadistic toward other humans. Round and round we go.
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Humans being cruel and sadistic toward other humans. Round and round we go.
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We find ourself in the dangerous position of having our public forums owned by billionaires who have extreme power to control algorithms that decide what we all see and don’t. That’s scary. I don’t know what we can do about that.
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
We find ourself in the dangerous position of having our public forums owned by billionaires who have extreme power to control algorithms that decide what we all see and don’t. That’s scary. I don’t know what we can do about that.
Why Norfolk? Because my mother wanted a family holiday while dad is still able to travel. So here I am, tagging along with a bus-load of Gold Coast seniors.
December 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Why Norfolk? Because my mother wanted a family holiday while dad is still able to travel. So here I am, tagging along with a bus-load of Gold Coast seniors.
Still off-limits, just viewed from the other side.
Technically, i can visit this beach, except the tour I'm stuck on doesn't take people down there (it's steep, the group is oldies), so I'd need to hire a car.
Norfolk Island: weirdly difficult to explore for a tourist destination.
Technically, i can visit this beach, except the tour I'm stuck on doesn't take people down there (it's steep, the group is oldies), so I'd need to hire a car.
Norfolk Island: weirdly difficult to explore for a tourist destination.
December 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Still off-limits, just viewed from the other side.
Technically, i can visit this beach, except the tour I'm stuck on doesn't take people down there (it's steep, the group is oldies), so I'd need to hire a car.
Norfolk Island: weirdly difficult to explore for a tourist destination.
Technically, i can visit this beach, except the tour I'm stuck on doesn't take people down there (it's steep, the group is oldies), so I'd need to hire a car.
Norfolk Island: weirdly difficult to explore for a tourist destination.
The off limits beach, it beckons
December 8, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The off limits beach, it beckons
I have been snorkelling, and regretting not bringing the waterproof camera. Surge wrasses are very pretty.
December 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I have been snorkelling, and regretting not bringing the waterproof camera. Surge wrasses are very pretty.
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Sadists.
One of the things you realize is true but sounds weird when you put it into words is that *sadism is now central to Republican culture*.
They have no policy. No morality. No integrity. Their culture is based on "drinking liberal tears." Delighting in the suffering of others.
Sadism.
One of the things you realize is true but sounds weird when you put it into words is that *sadism is now central to Republican culture*.
They have no policy. No morality. No integrity. Their culture is based on "drinking liberal tears." Delighting in the suffering of others.
Sadism.
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Sadists.
One of the things you realize is true but sounds weird when you put it into words is that *sadism is now central to Republican culture*.
They have no policy. No morality. No integrity. Their culture is based on "drinking liberal tears." Delighting in the suffering of others.
Sadism.
One of the things you realize is true but sounds weird when you put it into words is that *sadism is now central to Republican culture*.
They have no policy. No morality. No integrity. Their culture is based on "drinking liberal tears." Delighting in the suffering of others.
Sadism.
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Turning toward machines for love, care, and companionship is not evidence of societal ingenuity, it’s evidence of societal collapse.
September 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Turning toward machines for love, care, and companionship is not evidence of societal ingenuity, it’s evidence of societal collapse.