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a digital image of a little blue penguin (kororā) enamel pin, a photo of a real one, and the WWF logo

a digital image of a little blue penguin (kororā) enamel pin and the WWF logo

a digital image of a little blue penguin (kororā) enamel pin, a photo of a real one, and the WWF logo

🐧 SUPER SPECIAL PIN DROP: I've partnered with World Wide Fund For Nature NZ...bringing you the cutest Kororā pin just in time for the holidays! Celebrating 50 years in Aotearoa <3

25% of sales donated to WWF NZ to support their work advocating for our wildlife!

DIVE IN: pepperraccoon.com #birds

It's endlessly incredible campaigning. What a team he must have!

The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.

Promoting @pepperraccoon.com because it is nearly the festive part of the year, their range of goodies is very cool, and I am obsessed with the raven pins they sell. I must purchase more as I keep giving them away.

World Numbat Day Pint-sized critters with adorable stripes — get ready to fall head over heels for these cute little tree-dwelling wonders!

Today, Saturday 1 November, is World Numbat Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/numbat-...

Also, Pâté Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/nationa...

And it’s happy 65th birthday to Tim Apple. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

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And the judgment is here for anyone interested - www.sclqld.org.au/caselaw/158357

This link should get you past the paywall - archive.li/rdK2i

Spectacular good news. A victory for the family who sued; for the local trans activists; & for anyone who pushes back against Australia falling into the western Trumphole of non-peer-reviewed, JFK-brain , Project 2025 nonsense 😍✊

Photograph of a immature male Satin Bowerbird perched on a bare tree branch with green foliage in the background. The bird is mostly olive and jade green with brown and yellow. Its beak is creamy white (the biggest giveaway that it's an immature male, rather than a female), and its eyes are violet.

The same subject, cropped to the bird's head and shoulders, with the bird's head turned so that the other eyes is visible. A row of very small dark feathers is starting to form under the eye.

This young male Satin Bowerbird has developed some of his first mature black satin feathers... around his eyes so it looks like he's wearing eyeliner or mascara XD
#birds

👀😬 Bulging eyes and razor-sharp teeth. The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle Upon Tyne - sits atop a ghostly doorway near to Amen Corner 🙏 at St. Nicholas Churchyard. 🧛‍♂️🐰👻
Look closely and the door itself has a ghostly countenance...😱 #iseefaces

This is currently my top advice for using the NZ medical system.

Ask your practitioner if they're using AI to transcribe your patient notes, whether to transcribe their dictation (bad) or to generate a transcription from listening to the consult (appalling). If they say yes, ask them not to.

I recently discovered I can get online access to various newspapers and magazines through Borrow Box via my local library.

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

So in a rare moment of blatant self promotion who wore it better, me or the Australian PM?

AI is part of the fascist political project

Thanks Marcus

Where does one procure the Pears from these days? I went looking recently and couldn't find any.

First flying duck (Caleana major - large duck orchid) of the spring near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC.

First flying duck (Caleana major - large duck orchid) of the spring near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC. Only a few scattered plants out in flower here but quite a few more of these very distinctive orchids in bud nearby - despite the recent dry conditions. #orchids #inthefield #ozplants

Bara Brith I have a particular fondness for Bara Brith, the traditional Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread. My late sister Thomasina lived and worked in Wales, and my first taste of it came courtesy of her next door...

#RecipeOfTheDay is Bara Brith, that wonderful Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, which I recommend eating so thickly spread with butter you can see your teeth marks in it when you take a bite (what the Danes refer to as tandsmør)! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...

The ABC’s Top 100 books poll lacks diversity. Here are my 10 First Nations ‘books of the 21st century’ Just three Aboriginal writers appeared in Radio National’s poll. There was little sense of the breadth and creativity of our First Nations writing scene.

This is a great piece from Mel Saward on some of the First Nations books that should have appeared on RN's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.

Black and white photo of two children looking down at the school in Aberfan

Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag, Aberfan Coal Slip Disaster, 21 October 1966 by David Hurn.
#AberfanDisaster

incredible article

Anonymous messages! Anonymous messages!

okay, it’s Ace Week (formerly Asexuality Awareness Week), there are some new folks here, I’ll be a designated Asexual Answering Questions if y’all stay cool about it. I don’t have infinity time today but l will get to what I can get to thoughtfully

ngl.link/handsrm1

if you showed this to anyone at the crimethinc house in 2002 they would call the cops themselves

Captain quoll boots

More captain quoll boots

Yes I used some fancy acrylic pens for this

If you can’t make it, you can send some boots instead.

Canberra types, it’s the last day to register for this event. I was going to go, but the flights were diabolically expensive so I sent an old pair of boots instead. btaa.org.au/events/head-... . Otherwise you can help get the quolls up kunanyi pointtopinnacle2025.grassrootz.com/menzies-inst...

that's it just be fucking normal because i guarantee nobody else in their life is being fucking normal about it

do you guys want elizabeth's spicy take on how to actually be a supportive friend or relation to a parent who has a kid in the NICU? this isn't the usual advice, they usually tell you to send gift cards for food delivery. here's my advice:

I have recently been rewatching The West Wing.

I am now watching the new season of The Diplomat.
Having the actor who played Josh Lyman 'married' to the actor who played CJ is messing with my mind.