I love them! Something about glorious fabrics, yes? I sometimes buy textiles when I travel - I don’t make anything though, but have some hanging about on my walls.

layered fans of blue petals with yellow gold centers on deep green upright stems, dynamic black and white background

Rachel Newling

Australian Flowers:
Blue Waterlily

linocut on handmade
Japanese paper

I hope that photo haunts her all the way to retirement and beyond.

Signed. Your turn now. #AusPol #ClimateCrisis

Good times! Now I’ll have to watch that ep of A S. 👍🏻

Full Moon rise seen from a walking track along a river. The moon looks like almost a 1/4 bite is removed ( by cloud)

#DailyGlimmer Pacmoon
😂🌝

FOI documents reveal lead-up to failed Bendigo Writers Festival A founding director of the widely boycotted Bendigo Writers Festival says major sponsor La Trobe University pressured organisers into sending a controversial code of conduct.

Ms Sorensen has accused La Trobe Uni of failing to take responsibility for the "destruction" of the BWF. "They haven't taken any responsibility for the personal attack on writer Randa Abdel-Fattah [or] for the way the festival and council staff were forced to respond.“ #FreePalestine

Some of it is good!, too!

I mean, Dick Cheney died the same day a Muslim democratic socialist gets elected mayor of New York City. It writes itself.

At this point, all but the CA results are in, and the democrats have won on each count.

Image of an adult Crimson rosella dining in the abundant purple flowers of a Borage plant in the vegetable garden.

Morning Melbourne ☁️ 🥶 ☔️

Borage forage.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉 #birdsinbackyards #crimsonrosella

A bright and cheerful portrait in red, pink and gold, of a couple, surrounded by fun things like cocktails, hearts, and groovy shoes.

Awwww. Praxy. Buck up, mate. (From this year’s Archibalds.)

I just needed to remind myself that the population of NYC is just over 20 million. #mamdani

One in five Australian households 'severely food insecure', report finds A new report from Foodbank finds 20 per cent of Australian households have skipped meals or days of eating in the year to July.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Poverty exists because public resources have been stolen and given away.

Our economy should be measured by how the bottom 30% are doing in the supermarket not how the top 1% are doing in the stock market.

Charity is an admission of government failure.

#AusPol

[Exit Clown.]

Clearly there were big enough problems for Microstoven cookware that they had to stop manufacturing and selling it. But my two pieces are excellent workhorses that look cool and I’m so glad I have them.

So polls in NYC closed 15 minutes ago and they’re already declaring Mamdani as the winner? That’s pretty slick counting there, bud.

I mean, who could have foreseen this? 🤦🏻‍♀️

Dozens of tiny brown seed caps in a wooden bowl, waiting to be strung onto some fine nylon cord.

@chembarathi.bsky.social Just did a test run, but my Alt text requirement setting still remains. I use an iPad, if that makes a difference.

I find it hard to believe that we have to wait until 2028 for the next federal election. This government is behaving badly in all sorts of arenas at an astounding MAGA rate. #AusPol

Green dog toy of a long flat green squeaky dog toy.

My daughter thinks that having this dog toy around our dogs is really toxic because it creates impossible body standards.

And I’m watching 10 canoes right now, so thanks for the reminder about this. How can I never have seen it before? 🙄

Don’t forget to tell people about The Change. It’s a winner.

Yeah, I’d do that too. If I didn’t have enough from my library that is. I mostly find owning books to be a burden. #NotAllBooks though. 😆

I’m glad it still have my DVDs & a player, but I must admit streaming grabs my attention much more. One day, though, that’ll crash/enshittefy/cost too much, so…👍🏻

A statistic that continues to live rent free in my mind: half of all international shipping is just moving fossil fuels around.

What do you do with your op shop finds, once you’ve read / watched them?

Utterly deplorable, totally unnecessary, counter-productive, pointless and destructive for society. Fund our public schools properly and we all benefit: students, staff and the almighty economy. #AusPol

2/ There's no logical requirement for anybody to believe that the function of Australia’s private employment services is 'to get jobseekers [sic] into long-term work'; rather, and more obviously, these are businesses which aim to generate a profit for their owners. Further >

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a public holiday for a GOOD reason. I like the sound of giving thanks, for instance.

I get very, very, very seasick unless I take a bunch of medication, perhaps even with a small side of weed. I'm also the captain of a cruise ship.