Tom Shires

The death toll from Israel's strike on the children's elementary school in Minab, Iran is 85.

I get things have been escalating to this, but I'm still so fucking sad that more people are being bombed and dying for absolutely no fucking reason. None of this needs to be happening.

jesus

'Things will be very complicated' without antibiotic, salmon industry warns Tasmania's salmon industry is arguing the case to keep using an antibiotic being used to combat bacterial infection in fish stocks, as a possible ban on the drug's usage looms because of it being foun...

Maybe the salmon farmers should be putting their energy & $$$ into slowing climate change, (not bullying). If the waters weren’t warming their salmon wouldn’t be under as much stress. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Capped Honeycomb in a frame.

Had to make some room for the girls today, so sad. Thanks ladies. 🌱🐝

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting.

She had some things she needed to get off her chest

How an annual ‘wedding flight’ of 1,000 virgin queens is ensuring the revival of Europe’s dark bee The Belgian ceremony attracts beekeepers from the Netherlands, France and Germany keen to boost dark bee numbers and stop the spread of the hybrid honeybee

What a fantastic story. 🐝

Chimay in Belgium does more than produce the world's best beer! 🍺

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No matter how bad your day is, things can always get worse.

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

Amber Glenn 🇺🇲 came in 4th, but is leaving the Olympics a Rockstar. ⛸️ A Queen. Liberated. And deliciously unhinged with this stunning choreography. 👀 🤍

Just look at the fabulous colours and patterns on this bird's wings. It could be a luxe furnishing fabric design.
A juvenile Australian hobby at Sunset Strip, New South Wales.
Holding its wings open due to the intense heat.

#poemsabout #undertheskin

Breaking: Identity of man charged over Perth alleged terrorism act revealed The man accused of throwing a bomb at Invasion Day protesters in an alleged terrorism act attack in Perth can be named as Liam Alexander Hall.

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

'Unacceptably high': Concern over lead air pollution results over Hobart High levels of lead contamination have been found in dust samples taken from suburban locations close to Nyrstar's Hobart zinc smelter, documents obtained by the ABC show.

Our RTI shows more Eastern Shore suburbs downwind of the Hobart zinc works have higher levels of lead in dust contamination than the EPA had suggested, including Lindisfarne, Rosny and Bellerive ... more to come on this one: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Oscar-worthy

I may have been known to entertain myself by greeting people in cities with a wink and a "how ya goin". Scares the heck out of them.

Il Douche

Great pic, love ya work Melbs! 🇵🇸✊🏻 #HerzogNotWelcome

a webcam screen grab of a lake in Tasmania. Beautiful red clouds from the sunrise.

An almost daily pick-me-up I do is visit the Angler Alliance webcam page. Shows many Tasmanian lakes and is by far the best webcam implementation I have ever seen.
www.anglersalliance.org.au/tasmanian-la...

I want to add that her spots look like stardust ✨

I think we should also localize the intifada, but do it globally.

Two moths end to end on a stick.

Moths in the garden this morning.

A spotted-tail quoll, alert and facing the camera. It is standing on a cut log.

Our local quoll showed up again and this time I actually managed to get a decent picture. This might be the best thing that has ever happened to me. #auswildlife #wildoz #marsupial #mammal

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

This is what our leaders endorse by their invitation and complicity. May they live to see their harvest spoil in the field.
aje.news/s1ry02

Political illustration of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese seated inside a car, pointing and speaking dismissively. Through the car window behind him are protest signs reading “Declare recognition of the State of Palestine,” “Cancel the weapons contracts,” “Sanction Israel,” “Expel the ambassador,” and “Back the ICJ case against Israel,” with Parliament House visible in the background. Albanese wears US and Israeli flag pins on his lapel. A speech bubble from him reads: “Yeah ok, I get it… genocide, but please! We have some social cohesion to focus on here!”

The language of “social cohesion” was never neutral. It was a calculated, callous move to silence dissent on Palestine. You can keep it. Decent Australians demand justice, international law upheld, and an end to our complicity with a rogue apartheid state committing genocide.

We will continue to gaslight and enrage the public until Social Cohesion improves.

We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

Segal loses her job if she is good at it.

People holding signs, flags & banners opposing Isaac Herzog & genocide & supporting Palestine.

People holding signs, flags & banners opposing Isaac Herzog & genocide & supporting Palestine.

People holding signs, flags & banners opposing Isaac Herzog & genocide & supporting Palestine.

People holding signs, flags & banners opposing Isaac Herzog & genocide & supporting Palestine.

Launceston, Lutruwita / Tasmania this evening.👇
Many gathered to protest President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia.
Stop the genocide.
Free Palestine.

Stay safe out there.