Janet Leversha

Look at this adorable budgie feeding his girlfriend 💚💚💚

Single frame. Left to right: Skip containing statue, paintings, books visible on left. Man in white coat at top of ladder feeding book into open mouth of a huge robotic dog with studded collar and dog-tag “AI”. Red bucket on floor below dog’s lowered rear. Second white-coated man says to onlooking woman: “It’s marvellous really. You just feed in all the intellectual property you can get your hands on without paying for it, then sell whatever comes out this end…”

Too easy!
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Glow-in-the-dark marsupial shows off its luminous fur — July’s best science images The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

Glow-in-the-dark marsupial shows off its luminous fur — July’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

A rock wallaby on a rock with it’s long tail on show

Is there a more adorable animal than a rock wallaby? I doubt it tbh - the ears, the tail, the T rex arms 😍😭

WHAT A BUTTERFLY! 🤯❤️🖤
One of the most striking insects in the world, the amazing Blood Red Skipper is found in the Amazon rainforest! 🌳

The males are this bold red & black colour whilst females adorn a similar pattern but with most of the wings shining white! 😮
JUST WOWWWWW! 😍🦋💅

A faked video of bunnies jumping on a trampoline is depressing a lot of folk right now because it turned out to be just more AI slop, so here's a reminder that in real life, it seems animals *do* want to have fun for the sheer joyous hell of it, even if we don't often see it happening. 👇

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A tiny human (2?) is riding a yellow plastic trike. Whenever he encounters an obstacle he stops, looks disgruntled and bellows: "Toot toot! Get offa the road bloody idiot!"
Dad in the background face palming, trying not to laugh. (1)

I'm a 'no" on net zero, too
Because we can do better

Australia needs to target real zero, not net zero

Net zero a crock open to corrupt influences of interpretations of what's in or out, and soft targets by polies/ industries that don't want change, or don't believe we can
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That looks so lovely David 🌱

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This is what it’s like to check the nest of a regent parrot on the banks of the Murray River 😍👀👀

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Hey Albo, it’s been A Long Way to The Top! But we’re expecting a lot from your 2nd set & we know you love❤️ AC/DC. So here’s little 🎵 to get your #climate mojo working – from some headbangin’ Nannas.
Go harder, go faster! More wind and solar! Less coal and gas!
Prod: AnitaJorgensenwtsthestory.com.au

Curlews return to fox-free Phillip Island, 40 years after last sighting Decades after the bush stone-curlew went extinct on Phillip Island, scientists reintroduce the species and hope the eradication of foxes will enable the flock to grow in the wild again.

Alison and her family have been such wonderful champions of the reintroduction program. On some nights, up to five birds visit their property and run laps around their home - and they love it! (And no, the birds don’t keep them awake - they’ve never heard a peep!)

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Northern NSW branch: ‘Evergreen: A life in botanic gardens - Professor Tim Entwisle - Australian Garden History Society 2025 Winter Speaker Program Tim will also outline his forthcoming book on dispelling plant and garden myths The Sceptical Botanist – Separating Fact from Fiction. Tim Entwisle is Patron of the Australian Garden History Society. Tim has been director of […]

Don't miss this event hosted by the Australian Garden History Society!

@timentwisle.bsky.social talks about his life in botanic gardens and his new book, The Sceptical Botanist.
Sunday 3 Aug, The Hoskins Centre - The Armidale School

Buy your tickets: www.gardenhistorysociety.org.au/events/north...

Powerful Owls (Ninox strenua) are Australia's largest owl. They have beautiful yellow eyes and roost in dark rainforest gullies during the day rachelhollis.com/product/powe... #owl #birdart #birdpainting #wildlifepainting

AI is zombifying our brains. The iNaturalist saga shows we can fight back The infestation of generative systems in education, medicine and academia should all be cause for much, much more alarm.

Keep AI far away from iNaturalist.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/23/i...

Delightful photo, full of promise 🌱

Join the dots.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social (both newly arrived to Bluesky)

silver banksia (Banksia marginata) is such a hardy tree. This one was growing on a sand dune, in a windswept, extremely dry location. The flowers attract so many birds and insects.

#bloomscrolling #flowers #australia

2 green parrots on a blue gloved hand both with fluffy heads blowing in the wind

Fuzzy headed orange-bellied parrots 😂🩵

I am prone to fatalist climate doomerism. But is it really too late? | First Dog on the Moon It’s bad (real bad) but it’s NOT over * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

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Tiny Weebills foraging in the early morning at Cunnamulla, Qld These are Australia's smallest birds! #birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #WildOz

Tiny Weebills foraging early in the morning at Cunnamulla, Qld These are Australia's smallest birds!
#birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #WildOz

Cultural strength, community spirit showcased at Trawmanna NAIDOC Week event It may have been a gloomy winter's day at Trawmanna, just outside of Smithton on Tasmania's far north-west coast, but the atmosphere was anything but bleak.

It may have been a gloomy winter's day at Trawmanna, just outside of Smithton on Tasmania's far north-west coast, but the atmosphere was anything but bleak.

With regard to universities, who does the 'deeming' as to whether they have "facilitated, enabled, or failed to act on antisemitism ..."?

Another study (using drones) shows that extreme sea temperatures in 2024 triggered mass morality of corals on the Great Barrier Reef, compounding losses in 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2022. (And 2025).

The higher the heat exposure, the greater the impact. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two orchid flowers that are deep purple with obvious darker spots and golden yellow edges

Thelymitra apiculata - Cleopatra’s Needles

One of many terrestrial orchids endemic to the southwest of Western Australia
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist

The new Flying Duck Orchid prints turned out so well, such stunning flowers! rachelhollis.com/product/flyi... #orchid #botanicalart #botanicalprint #flowers

Absolutely gorgeous 😍 🌱

Beautiful colour. Sharing with gardening feed 🌱