Lena📎

👍🏼 I couldn’t make it :(

inspired!

she was always funny, a quick wit

Not usual at all to have @throwingmuses.bsky.social's Dave Narcizo as a guest in a podcast, so you should definitely check this out!

Enormously proud that SKASE: FALL OF A TYCOON has been nominated for Best Audio Documentary at the AIDC Awards. The ABC Rewind team really did a fantastic job on this series and I’m so chuffed to have been part of it. All 5 episodes are on @abclisten and podcast apps.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

what happened to #thelouvreofbluesky

An all-timer.

Orange coloured fungal balls that have a honeycomb-like pattern growing on a moss and lichen covered branch.

A younger patch of the fungal fruit. This one has a lot more of the "balls" but a large proportion have not opened so look a matt apricot colour. Some have opened to reveal the orange honeycomb-like indents. These probably have a name, but I don't know what it is.

"Myrtle oranges" are a really striking #fungus (Cyttaria gunnii). The myrtles (Nothofagus cunninhamii) at a roadside stop on the #Tasmanian west coast were being hammered by these.

‘Cis is a made-up word’

All words are made-up. As a science person, I see new words almost weekly. New cellular organelle discovered. ‘Nitroplast’ becomes its name.

‘Cis’ has been around a long time. I first came across it in organic chemistry. It just means ‘same side of’. 1/6

Two geese I interrupted while they were singing 'Islands In The Stream' on an allotment in North East Nottinghamshire.

"And we rely on each other, ah-ah."

Read more: theshovel.com.au/2026/02/12/l...

A watercolour of flowers in progress a few summers ago.

I will hopefully be doing more botanical paintings in the garden and studio this summer. I'm already exploring the various boxes of seed packets and soon all the indoor surfaces will be covered with seed trays.
#flowers #botanicalart #watercolour

I don’t know about other years but Amanda Keller probs most famous in my form…we did art together

Severe storm warning for South East Queensland from the BOM app.

Severe storm warning for South East Queensland! It got up to 36 in Brissie today and it's still hot and stinky after 5pm 🥵

Coastal communities delighted by 'rare' seismic testing rejection A controversial seismic testing proposal off Victoria's south-west coast has been rejected in a "rare" move from the offshore regulator.

Good news everyone.

Plotters, kingmakers and dark horses — the Liberals vying for control Parliament House has entered the spill zone, where politics is at its most primal. Here are the Liberals jostling for control of their much-reduced party.

“war-gaming, backgrounding & rampant speculation..until Taylor walked out..it was all just a warm-up. Now, Parliament..has been plunged into its most primal state - the spill zone, where events move quickly, the dark arts practised, & nothing can be taken for granted”
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Show nature some love by registering to volunteer this #ValentinesDay. Our reserves team is looking for five additional #volunteers to help us get into the far corners of Five Rivers Reserve to track down sneaky ragwort! Starting on 23/02/26 we will be weeding for 4 days.

I only like their early stuff

'Large crack' found in $786 million bridge days before opening Days before the official opening, the Tasmanian government's largest-ever infrastructure project hit a hurdle, with a large crack picked up in one of the Bridgewater Bridge's piers detected and fixed,...

‘The documents show that the modelling of the two southern piers' load capacities was inaccurate because southern land reclamation was not considered.’

#politas

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

there’s a lot to unpack there 😂

such a knob

👍🏼🥰

this is so sinister

Halinka Orszulok | Contemporary artist Australia My work is created by painting from photographs which I take at night. Night-time darkness activates the subconscious rendering the familiar strange and introducing elements of the uncanny into the la...

Also, just by the way, the cover art on these books is by the amazing Halinka Orszulok, and if you were keen to peruse some of her other masterpieces, check it out here (lots of paintings still available to buy...): www.halinka.com.au

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How the hell is Angus Taylor still a thing? - The Shot Angus Taylor a walking Venn Diagram intersection of fossil fuel fervour and cash for the boys.

As it appears enough of the Liberals will sufficiently succumb to madness to endorse him as their next hapless leader, here's a piece I wrote way back in 2021 about the many and varied and still unexplained controversies that have swirled around Angus Taylor.

theshot.net.au/news/opinion...

Excellent, good point.

Will the government finally deliver a housing policy that stops making a bad situation worse? | Greg Jericho The 5% deposit guarantee has done what everyone expected to housing affordability. But fixing the capital gains tax discount would be a great move

My column on new data that shows how the 5% deposit guarantee raised house prices just like we all said it would.

www.theguardian.com/business/gro...