Tom Shires

Our resident echidna has returned for spring

YouTube video by KATU News The Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved icon

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Gold!

trumps meeting the windsors

Australian-first treaty legislation passes in Victorian parliament Historic legislation has passed that will see the creation of an Indigenous council that will be consulted on laws and policies affecting Indigenous communities.

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Stephen Miller, qu'est-ce que c'est?

1st Tiger snake for the season out sunning itself this morning. Will take the phone and get a photo tomorrow maybe. Be careful weeding the garden.🌱🐍

Very excited to announce that I’ve been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2026 Australian of the Year for WA!

Winners will be announced on November 13.

The platform this gives to critical issues is why it’s such an honour. So many worthy finalists. Thrilled to be included amongst them.

Just as a bit of context to this post. We planted 60 odd Oaks 15 years ago and this is our first truffle, so was pretty stoked. Will use this one to inoculate some more Hazelnut seedlings I have just sprouted. 🌱

Hawthorn flowers and foliage.

Hawthorn just starting to bloom. NW Tasmania 🌱

Black Truffle

Today's walk turned up a big W.

Supposed to be the best view in England… A beautiful view across to the Yorkshire Dales from the Yorkshire Moors..

In the same month that the UN Commission of Inquiry came out and said that there is a genocide in Gaza, the Albanese Government handed over $20 million to an Israeli arms manufacturer that tests its weapons in Gaza.

A photo shows a dog wearing sunglasses. A headline reads: take it easy. A caption under the headline say: fuck your job. Money is fake. Society isn’t natural. And the sun is going to explode.

Good news, everyone!

I found a new life coach.

Not often I support Carlton Football Club but when I do it's because they are against Genocide.

Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾

A sanderling on orange sand next to a sunray

Alright that's it for now. I got about 3 hours of work to do before 6am. Glad I took a break to touch sand!

Headline her name was hind over a photo of a little girl

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Crossbench calls for Camp Sovereignty attack to be investigated as hate crime, terror offence More than twenty members of the federal parliamentary crossbench have written to the Albanese Government urging the attack on Camp Sovereignty in August to be treated as a hate crime.The attack on the...

The neo-nazi attack on Camp Sovereignty was a direct attack on First Peoples - calculated and designed to intimidate, terrorise, and spread fear among our communities.

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Salad roll

A sky in turmoil. Darkening layers of cloud & a wind-flattened sea. Viewed from Sandon Point, NSW, this afternoon.

Hold your nerve.

Tawny Frogger update. Little known fact - Tawny camouflage is so effective it interferes with phone camera focus. This is the watch frogger, the other frogger is on the nest with two baby fluff muppets just visible beneath him/her #WildOz #Birds #TawnyFrogmouth #BirdOfTheYear #Birdlife

Tasmanian Aboriginal oral traditions among the oldest recorded narratives in the world New research suggests Palawa Aboriginal stories from Tasmania recall geological and astronomical events that occurred 12,000 years ago, placing them among the oldest recorded stories in the world.

Palawa oral tradition shown to accurately preserve and pass down astronomy knowledge for more than 470 generations.

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Friendship Buy it You deserve it It's just your colour It's only money don't worry about it Skip work Let's go outside And dance in the sunshine Raise our faces to the sky Eat the cake Have another Cake is good for the soul Calories don't count when your standing up Let's go out tonight Have a drink Have another Go on how often do you get to let your hair down My best friends You imperfect me Don't ever stop

This is my contribution to this weeks #poemsabout #imperfectme - a bit of silliness really but ai enjoyed writing it.

With thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt.

#poemsabout #imperfectme

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The storylines on my face and hands, the quirks of my nature. Listen with your eyes to a tale of a slow and glorious imperfection.

One of our guys had no real primary school education, rudimentary literacy 2years ago has just been accepted to Edith Cowan Uni to study medicine. His dream is to be a gp on country. He is the fifth one of us to begin a degree. We have a lawyer,engineer,master builder,ecologist and now a doctor.

My grandsons pretending to hold up an interesting perched erratic. A boulder left on top of another larger one by the glacier that made them both...

A close up look at the conglomerate all the erratics were made of. Generally reddish background rock with many lumps of red, white and grey quartz within.

This towering erratic had meter wide scrape marks from the glacier that left it here. It was twisted and scoured by the ice. An extraordinary shape that looked like it should fall over.

A plaque explaining how the erratic are formed

Something erratic from the west of Tasmania :)

Ready for launch! The lovely little black-fronted dotterels were my (almost) constant companions at Lake Hattah.

Some find succour at the bottom of a bottle, but it's cheaper to look in the mirror.