Heliograph

TFW you have a big presentation coming up and you are not stressed 🤓 guess we all grow up at some point 😆

It's gorgeous tho 🥰

Young girl with atrocious haircut.

Why I have never cut my children’s hair.

On a brick wall a cinema style sign saying "Weird is a side effect of awesome"

#apropos #weird this has been said about #awesome #notsureyouknew

blue sky above a turquoise tasman sea with small dots of sailing boats in the far

looking forward to this today #silentSunday #walkingisgoodforyou #TasmanSea #straya

Why this 'stubborn bugger' sued his bank for $379 million Ian Williams has brought a whole new meaning to "taking on the big guy". When scammers stole from the pensioner the bank blamed him. So he launched a $379 million lawsuit to "make it right".

check this out 😮✊️👏

"Mr Williams's efforts to get his money back were rejected by the #bank. So the one-time elephant handler, trawlerman, stunt person, brickie, horse breaker, nurse and private investigator really dug in."

#sueyourbank #patriarchy #resist #hero

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

colourful illustration with smiling faces saying good morning

have a nice #sunday punters 👋🥳🐨 #goodmorning

Tesla slashes Cybertruck prices as it tries to move (unpainted) metal The stainless steel pickup truck is Tesla's first real flop.

Fewer than 39,000 Cybertrucks were sold in 2024, and just over 20,000 found homes in 2025.

Heliograph (@Heliograph@mastodon.au) Attached: 4 images visited #BoomGateGallery today 🖼️🎨🖌️ picked up a few things, so much good stuff in their collection #artwork #inmates #longbay

#boomgategallery #inmates #artwork #longbaygoal
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the sun rising above the trees outside my house

despite all and everything the sun just keeps coming back 🌞👋 #goodmorning #happyfriday

Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, plans to target creators with new features | TechCrunch Mastodon is looking to grow its open source, decentralized social network with new features aimed at creators.

#Mastodon, the decentralised alternative to X, targets creators with new features. #fediverse joinmastodon.org

techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/m...

Mette Frederiksen - Wikipedia

and just for context #MetteFrederiksen Prime Minister of #Denmark

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mette_F...

just hate these old guys and their applied #chauvinism #arrogance and sense of #entitlement 😤

This infographic from Our World in Data, titled “What Americans die from vs the causes the US media reports on,” compares actual causes of death in the US in 2023 (left) with New York Times media coverage of those causes in 2023 (right). The left stacked bar shows heart disease as the leading cause at 29%, followed by cancer (27%), accidents (7.8%), stroke (7%), lower respiratory diseases (6.3%), Alzheimer’s (4.9%), diabetes (4.1%), and smaller shares for kidney failure, liver disease, suicide, COVID-19, influenza/pneumonia, drug overdose, homicide (<1%), and terrorism (<0.001%). The right stacked bar shows NYT coverage percentages normalized to 100% across selected causes: homicide dominates at 42%, followed by terrorism (18%), drug overdose (7.5%), COVID-19 (5.3%), suicide (3.8%), accidents (9.7%), cancer (4.1%), and heart disease (2.8%). The stark mismatch highlights how media coverage overrepresents rare violent causes while underrepresenting leading natural causes of death. Data sources listed are Media Cloud (2025), US CDC (2025), and Global Terrorism Index; the graphic includes a “Swipe →” prompt suggesting it is part of a carousel.

“What Americans die from vs the causes the US media reports on”

Information Is Beautiful (@infobeautiful@vis.social) Attached: 1 image What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media by @ourworldindata

how the #media influence what we see and think

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“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus …
Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

Meanwhile, in Germany, the public weighs in on what they think of the Epstein Administration.

#BrutalButAccurate

illustration of planet Earth talking to the Moon about the detrimental effects of climate change, showing pollution from factories and transportation emitting smoke and carbon emissions, environmental degradation from fires and deforestation causing habitat loss and natural disasters, and global anxiety from the severe consequences of human activities on the planet.

the #moon had a chat with #earth about what's ahead and they're not happy

I hope he will become available to all of us 🐨🤞👏 #DavidPocock (*soon!)

The planet doesn't need more "successful" people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

we need more people who really care 🫂 #lovers #peacemakers

China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.

one for the #treelovers #taklamatan
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Got a kiss on the cheek from Freddie Mercury in a department store 😅

David Pocock is right: more tax is raised from beer than from petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) Senator David Pocock has produced viral social media content claiming that Australia’s beer tax raises more revenue than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). Can more public mo...

so wanna vote for this guy #pocock #australia #tax #fossilfuels
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

Thanks I needed this today 🫂

A screenshot of a fediverse exchange between me and astrophysicist professor Heino Falcke. Me: What's something you've made that got unexpectedly popular? (Not necessarily hugely popular, but more than you thought it would.) Professor Falcke: A picture of a black hole 🤔

To counter all the cringy fediverse interactions that regularly get posted on here, here's a post of mine from 2024 where a question about unexpected popularity was answered by one of the scientists involved with publishing the first ever image of a black hole.

illustration of planet Earth talking to the Moon about the detrimental effects of climate change, showing pollution from factories and transportation emitting smoke and carbon emissions, environmental degradation from fires and deforestation causing habitat loss and natural disasters, and global anxiety from the severe consequences of human activities on the planet.

the #moon had a chat with #earth about what's ahead and they're not happy

Genocide is the story, not antisemitism The Australian government’s response to Gaza, and its handling of President Isaac Herzog’s visit, has blurred the line between antisemitism and criticism of Israel. The result is deeper division, weak...

John Menadue speaks to truth. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02....

this is terrible!!! 😳

David Seymour to ban "David Seymour" because the words contain no inherent meaning or reference to a specific entity.

"Reflect Orbital wants "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to launch one million "AI datacentres"

Only way to protest is to file a comment with the US FCC, horribly complicated, but American Astronomical Society has detailed instructions here: aas.org/posts/advoca...

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