Original post on aus.social
There will be a lot of #Australian younglings who were born after 1975 and thus have only a passing knowledge that Edward Gough #Whitlam was an Australian Prime Minister who was sacked by the Governor General (the Queen’s Representative) on 11 November 1975 - very soon to be 50 years ago.
If […]
23.10.2025 10:19 — 👍 0 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on aus.social
An article from Amy Remeikis, noting that:
* ‘centrists’ are a waste of time; and
* change is never the right thing to do until the change actually happens and then everyone says they were always in favour of the change.
Worth a read
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When the politicians refused to move […]
23.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on aus.social
Oh FFS, this buffoonery was*not* what the Australian public wanted for a National Anti-Corruption organisation.
#Albo needs to dismiss this mob and start again with a clean slate.
It is clear the Anti-corruption watchdog is as bent as it comes […]
23.10.2025 03:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Plushtodon Mini
Last year, we launched our first batch of plushies, and our community has embraced the #Plushtodon literally and figuratively. It sold out in Europe within a few weeks. Sadly, that means a lot of you missed out on the chance to get one. We’ve listened to your feedback and decided to bring the creature back with a few amendments: Size and color. For the first time, the #Plushtodon will be available in **two flavourful colors, and half the size** , making it much easier to fit within every household or mode of transport, while maintaining the delightful softness and squishiness that it’s come to be known for.
Our plushies are **made in an ICTI Ethical Toy Program and Intertek WCA certified factory in China** , are surface-washable, and are **suitable for children 3+**. The materials are **super soft velboa on the outside, and polyester fiberfill on the inside**. It is worth noting that due to the challenges associated with tariffs in the US, this time, the #Plushtodon will **only be available in Europe** (EU, Norway, Switzerland, and the UK). Like before, there will be a **limited number available**.
**We expect them to go on sale at the end of November**. If you would like to be notified ahead of the public, you can join our merch-specific mailing list below. We only send updates about new merch through it, and your membership helps us gauge interest for future products. Of course, you can also expect us to post about the launch on our official Mastodon account. If you want to ensure that you don’t miss a post from us, click the bell button next to the follow button.
Along with our new line of plushies, you can expect reprints of our winter and summer mugs, along with two brand new seasonal designs for spring and autumn, so keep an eye on our store over the coming months!
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The Return of the #Plushtodon! (at the end of November, anyway...)
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22.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 4 🔁 44 💬 7 📌 5
Original post on aus.social
I did the 2025 maths HSC exam (some 44 years after doing the actual 3 unit math HSC exam) and got 8/10! Woot!!!
Are you smarter than a 12th grader? Relive HSC anxiety with a quiz based on this year’s maths exam […]
22.10.2025 21:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on aus.social
RE: https://mastodon.social/@esoastronomy/115412052414889997
Very excited by this news, not least because many of my colleagues at AAO have had a part in building 4MOST. Specifically AAO built AESOP, the optical fibre positioning system which is the key to 4MOST's ability to study so many […]
21.10.2025 22:25 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A starfield image from a professional telescope, divided up into many rectangles. There are lots of bright diagonal lines across the starfield, those are from satellites that flew through while the image was being taken.
Good morning. Starlink has now launched more than TEN THOUSAND satellites into orbit. Nearly 1400 have already been burned up in the atmosphere so far.
Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
21.10.2025 14:01 — 👍 69 🔁 129 💬 11 📌 3
An Azalea with white flowers in front of a light coloured brick wall
The #Azalelia was doing its thing today.
#Canberra #Garden #Spring #BloomScrolling
21.10.2025 09:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Looks like the UA1093 incident is tentatively confirmed to be a balloon and not space debris, per this exchange on the other site
21.10.2025 03:18 — 👍 208 🔁 31 💬 5 📌 9
The African Daisies are out in force at the moment (well, earlier today). There are some purple and move daisies, but white seems to be their thing this year.
#Bloomscrolling #Canberra #Spring
20.10.2025 09:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on aus.social
If you look at what #Israel has done to the #Palestinian people with horror, then sign this petition.
It is well past time #Netanyahu was punished for the #Genocide he and his cronies have committed.
#Auspol #Worldpol #WarCrimes […]
20.10.2025 09:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251019120503.htm
“Receiving a #COVID19mRNAvaccine near the start of cancer immunotherapy dramatically improved survival in advanced lung and skin cancer patients. The discovery hints at a new era of universal, immune-boosting cancer vaccines.”
19.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 1 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Original post on plasmatrap.com
It shouldn't come as **_any surprise at all to anyone_** that Israel is:
• Stopping aid into Gaza again;
• Making air strikes in Gaza again;
• Blaming it all on Hamas again.
Netanyahu **DELIBERATELY** demanded terms that he **knew** were impossible. Enough of them that he'd have some left even […]
19.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on mastodon.social
I've gotten lots of notes from people today about 2 potential space debris falls.
One looks like a Chinese rocket stage that fell on Australia (https://nitter.net/RaviHJagtiani/status/1979900950199386410 and https://satobs.org/seesat/Oct-2025/0078.html)
And one is a suspiciously high altitude […]
19.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 4 🔁 68 💬 4 📌 0
Original post on aus.social
It is #MondayRandom10 time again - to join in, set your music player of choice to random play, share the first 10 #songs and add the hashtag #MondayRandom10
My ten random songs are:
1. Treaty by Yothu Yindi
2. Your Song by Elton John
3. Can’t Stand Losing You by The Police
4. Part Time Love by […]
19.10.2025 22:18 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on aus.social
@sundogplanets
Hi Sam
FYI - possible space junk found in Western Australia.
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Suspected space debris is believed to have crashed near a WA mine site, with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau confirming the object was not from a commercial aircraft.
WA Police were co-ordinating a […]
19.10.2025 09:39 — 👍 0 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The front of the main Keep is shown with the entrance to the castle. The castle has towers on the corners and Merlons around the tops of the walls. Some growth of moss is visible on the wall to the left of the entrance. The walls are made of stone blocks and stone bricks.
The side of the main Keep is shown. The castle has towers on the corners and Merlons around the tops of the walls. Some growth of vines are visible on the walls. The walls are made of stone blocks and stone bricks.
The throne room has a thrown in the far centre of the room. There is a fireplace on the right wall near the camera. Doors to other rooms are on the left and right walls, about as far back as as the throne. There are book shelves along the left wall with patches of purple and black in front of the throne on the wooden floors. The walls of the room are mode of stone.
The view is from the door of the main bedroom, showing a wide bed against the far wall. There is a fireplace on the left wall (just to the left of the door. There are tables against the walls and chests. Some tall plants are in the far left and right corners. There is some purple and black carpet on the wooden floors.
I am currently working on a new #Minecraft project at the moment.
I have finished the main keep (pictured below) and I am part way though decorating the rooms (it takes a while to get the ingredients) and then I will move on to the surrounding towers and walls […]
[Original post on aus.social]
19.10.2025 07:44 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on aus.social
When driving around, my adult son and I are listening to the #Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan.
Today, we moved into the third season that covers the French Revolution. Part way through the first episode, he stopped the podcast and said:
‘I know a bit about this one - the peasants were […]
19.10.2025 04:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo de l'une des statues de l'exposition. Une statue de chat géant est couchée sur une voiture qui se retrouve complètement écrasée sous son poids. Sur le socle on peut lire : « Pour une fois, c'est une voiture qui s'est fait écraser par un chat »
Sympa l'expo du chat de Geluck au parc de la Tête d'Or de #Lyon. Il y a une quinzaine de statues assez drôles :blobaww:
17.10.2025 12:58 — 👍 0 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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It's finally not 100% cloudy and I found the comet! I got it with binoculars really easily, then spent like 20 minutes trying to get it with my telescope (because I'm really bad at that!)
But I got it! It's really neat looking! And I actually thought it looked more interesting through […]
18.10.2025 02:13 — 👍 3 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
Photo of a Lego model of Paranal Observatory. There are several large telescope domes, some more smaller ones, and some buildings.
Photo of the Lego Paranal Observatory model from another angle, showing the observatory control building.
Another photo of the Lego model of Paranal Observatory, showing the gap in the middle which reveals the structures below ground level.
Close up photo of one of the telescopes in the Lego model of Paranal Observatory.
Returning to the models of @esoastronomy, I have to applaud whoever built this amazing Lego model of Paranal Observatory.
They included the 4 Unit Telescopes, 4 Auxiliary Telescopes, the VLT Survey Telescope, the control building, the VLTI Lab, and even a […]
[Original post on aus.social]
17.10.2025 19:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meme showing a photo of three anti-ICE protestors in Portland, Oregon, dressed in inflatable frog costumes. Meme text reads: "The establishment will irritate you to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor." - John Lennon"
Meme credit: facebook.com/theshakeups
In the future, when the history of these days are written, our grandchildren will shake their heads and wonder how we could've sat back and allowed this insanity and cruelty. And those of us who are willing to speak honestly about what we did today, will […]
[Original post on universeodon.com]
17.10.2025 06:01 — 👍 3 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
ok so Victoria appears to be Australia's safest state (excl. ACT) by such a wide margin that I'm interested to know if there's some weird methodological thing happening here?
17.10.2025 01:41 — 👍 25 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 0
Oh gods, my email inbox... do I want to deal with that or doomscroll to catch up on all the hideous news from the last 3 days? Hmmmm
16.10.2025 14:26 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Modell der Enterprise 1701 aus Kürbissen in verschiedenen Orangetönen fliegend über ausgelegte rote Kürbisse auf einer Wiese. Im Hintergrund eine Schlossmauer und Gebüsch.
Ein Freund hat mir einen Fotogruß von der Kürbisausstellung in Ludwigsburg geschickt 🖖🏼
#StarTrek
15.10.2025 14:51 — 👍 2 🔁 43 💬 1 📌 1
Next year in November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be ONE full light day away from the Earth!
Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day
Space is so big and we are so tiny :blobcatgiggle:
14.10.2025 13:34 — 👍 11 🔁 110 💬 3 📌 0
Original post on aus.social
@feather1952
Income Support payments were indexed from 20 September (they are also indexed on 20 March).
People no longer all get paid on the same day anymore (the old Pension payday was a Thursday) and the pension is made up of 14 days of payment (ie, a fortnight).
You would have got a part […]
15.10.2025 10:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
13.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 6 🔁 54 💬 1 📌 0
Original post on aus.social
Set your music player of choice to random play, share the first 10 #songs and add the hashtag #MondayRandom10
My ten random songs are:
1. Deat Of A Martian by Red Hot Chilli Peppers
2. Hold On by Angus and Julia Stone
3. Chains by Tina Arena
4. Celebration Day by Led Zeppelin
5. Fell In Love […]
13.10.2025 11:54 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
