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Jon will be so missed 💔

Adoption is not social welfare. It is what happens because we *reject* social welfare—because we do *not* help those who need it most. Adoption is a *business*: the business of making affluent people into the parents of less fortunate people’s children.

Photo of a green and gold postcard of a deer, a black box with silver lettering that says Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot and a khaki coloured book that says Frank’s Tarot Book. Both box and book have a drawing of a crow on them

THEY’RE HERE! Thanks @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social - productivity for today totally gone out of the window. And thanks to @florilegia.bsky.social for giving me the heads up about these. I wish I could say at least you won’t have to pull any cards for me now but…

Rae @raewhite.bsky.social is the first person that spring to mind for me.

a linoprint of a chanterelle mushroom

a lino print of a crow perched on a human skull regarding a plant

the bear and I are breaking up (it's fine, dw) and I'm going to have to scrape together as much as possible to be able to afford to move somewhere new. I have a ✨15% sale✨ on all linoprints on my website so if you like crows & skulls & such like, check it out 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk #witchsky

Mark of Cain singer comes out as trans ‘to finally live as myself’ Josie Scott, who has played in the Australian heavy metal band with her brother Kim for 40 years, writes to fans: ‘I’ve decided to embrace, rather than endure, who I am’

I'm not sure I ever saw a heavier, louder or more masculine gig than Mark of Cain at the Doghouse in Hobart. This makes me so happy.

'Existential threat' to Sydney Mardi Gras sees party dumped Chief executive of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Jesse Matheson, announced the post-parade celebration will not go ahead.

i thought the “existential threat” might be the total collapse in LGBTQ+ community confidence in the board, but that doesn’t rate a mention. it’s money apparently
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Red poster with the words IT IS THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE THAT PROGRESS BEEN MADE, THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE AND THROUGH REBELLION! REBELLION! PHOTOGRAPHY | PROTEST | DAVENANT Exhibition 1 June to 31 August 2026 Newcastle City Library 33 New Bridge Street West Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AX

The first display of my Rebellion! exhibition, exploring protest as part of our cultural identity, will be at Newcastle City Library from June to August this year.
#Photography

You need a lot of confidence to rock a hairstyle like this 😆
A pink cockatoo at Kinchega National Park, New South Wales.

Equality Tasmania and Women’s Legal Service Tasmania have received funding for the state’s first dedicated legal assistance to LGBTIQA people.

The State Government’s announcement is here:
www.premier.tas.gov.au/latest-news/...

The WLST and ET response is below.

My friend Rick was over here from Manchester, staying in my spare room, last week. Rick didn’t leave his home city for the first time until 2022 and didn’t even know what a donkey was until 2019, when he was 58, but now that he’s been to Devon, where I live, a few times, the pollution-coated twat thinks he’s William W***ing Wordsworth. “Slow and dreamy, the cow is the tortoise of the field,” he announced to me pompously on Friday. I didn’t reply, as I dislike confrontation, but the dude was talking utter shit. When properly motivated, British cattle can move at speeds of up to 65mph, as can be witnessed in our annual village Milk Race. Here a herd of Jerseys are challenged, over 18 miles of varied terrain, to beat a quad bike, normally driven by Sue who runs the post office, and Bill, a former Olympic runner who lives in the old mill. As usual, this year the Jerseys came out on top, leaving Bill (far right, in his customary Parisian designer denim) pathetically wheezing and crooked, although as you can see some of the herd’s progress has been impeded by their investigation of the cottage to the right, having heard the distracting opening bars of Paula Abdul’s 1988 hit ‘Straight Up’ coming from an open window.

I have now lived in the British countryside for most of my five decades on earth, within which time I have come to know it well. I thought, for newcomers to the place, I'd write a short guide to some of its more interesting aspects. You will find them in this thread.

1. EXCITING VILLAGE EVENTS.

It’s a little bit late in the day, but today of all days, you might want to read Truth Be Told. Yoorrook Justice Commission’s report, which includes the history of colonial Victoria from a First Nations perspective for the very first time. www.yoorrook.org.au/reports-and-...

Your kid has crayons in the classroom? There's food at the church potluck? The picnic goes of without a hitch? The political event has the right people invited and the speakers told the agenda? The play in the park happens in the summer?

I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.

Have thoughts about queer museums, queerness in museums, or just plain being queer in museums? We'd love to hear from you. Early findings are turning out to be amazing, and we hope it helps museums do better. mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @alanaaaab.bsky.social
#Queer #Museums #QueerMuseums

Photo of the flower spike of a banksia. The flower spike is large and a rusty orange in colour. The green spiky leaves of the banksia can be seen in the background

Banksia gardneri var. gardneri - the Prostrate Banksia

Inspired by @scottzona.bsky.social, here's a fire tolerant #Proteaceae found in the southwest of Western Australia. The large flower spikes of this banksia species grow very close to the ground.

#ozflora #wildoz #inaturalist #nature

Hard agree. It's terrible.

I don't know if there's anyone here who has whānau in #Ōtara 🦗 or #SouthAuckland 🦗🦗 but tonight we're holding space for some local knowledge on building flood resilience, intergenerational family homestead stylee. Come through for local knowledge, local storytelling. #FloodResilience #Grassroots

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

'"Thank you," he says quietly.'

Purple book cover with green and gold leaves. Text reads: Autistic Menopause: A Guide to the Menopausal Transition for Autistic People and those Supporting Them. Dr Rachel Moseley and Prof Julie Gamble-Turner. Illustrated by Rose Matthews

Publication day for #Autistic #Menopause: A Guide to the Menopausal Transition for Autistic People and those Supporting Them' by Dr Rachel Moseley and Prof Julie Turner-Cobb, illustrated by me. Knowledge is empowering!
uk.jkp.com/products/aut...
#autism
#neurodivergence
#perimenopause
#postmenopause

Photo of leafy shoots. The leaves are nearly orbicular and stiff. The base of the leaves and the veins are orange.

Photo of leafy shoots against the blue sky. The leaves are nearly orbicular and stiff. The base of the leaves and the veins are orange.

I’ve never botanized in Australia, so I’ve never seen anything like this in the wild: Hakea victoria has magnificent, cabbage-like leaves that look like glowing embers. The small, white flowers, hidden by the leaves, are not showy. Photos are by don_vincent CCBYNC4. #Proteaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Just saw your bus epic and this prediction is really living up to the hype.

Photo of a single leafy stem with an extraordinary cone-like inflorescence of orange flowers with very long, exserted styles. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

Up this week: Proteaceae. Flowers are 4-merous, stamens fused to the uniseriate perianth, 1 carpel with a long style & pollen presentation. This Gondwanaland family is found throughout the S. Hemisphere but is most diverse in Australia. 📷: Leucospermum sp/cv. #Proteaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Submission from Anne Twomey on the Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill now up - it’s a must read for journalists and policy makers

Quite the burn here too 🔥

www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

I have also been down this rabbit hole. Asafoetida has meme status in my family because of Kurma.

Imagine calculating down to the dollar the amount you contributed to the life of a child you conceived. Like they were a property investment. Disgusting.

A very elaborate wood and stucco “temporary” building has gone up in Fed square looks about the size of a modest two bedroom bungalow

Saddens me that we can build something like this in 2 days to sell shit to tennis fans, but there are people sleeping on the footpath outside my building most nights

A map of Victoria with a huge scary red warning block over most of the state

Having lived through a Map like this
As good as this app is, its not what helps/saves the most. That honour belongs to the ABC local news & community radio
You live with it on - first updates, road closures & a calm voice

Don't Don't let anyone defund this (further).

Lives are literally at stake

63. Bombing Caracas: The Use of Force, Abducting a Head of State, and the Unravelling of International Law In this special bonus episode of Called to the Bar, the full podcast crew assembles to confront the legal fallout from the US bombing of Venezuela and the abduction of its sitting president, Nicolás M

New Called to the Bar episode: the full crew unpacks the US bombing of Venezuela and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro. UN Charter violations, head of state immunity, and why Washington no longer seems troubled by illegality. Bleak, sharp, and very 2026.
#CalledToTheBar
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Another reason why I love libraries