Kate McNamara

Red-tailed black cockatoos.
Menindee, New South Wales.

Delightful things always happen to me. Been thinking about this sequence for ages and finally got around to it.

This morning's float against the tide 🎥

Watching the men's aerials at the Olympics. I would be so good at the skiing down a short slope with no poles part of this event.

Unfortunately I would actually die if I had to jump or land.

I guess you get what you pay for...

Boat in The Rocks · 7 bedrooms · 14 beds · 5 baths Enjoy ShipStays - Sydney, Australia

Today's reason no one will ask me to organise the group accommodation in future ($15k a night!) www.airbnb.com.au/rooms/136364...

Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

“fuck this, fuck my skis, fuck my poles, fuck everything I’m going to live in the woods now” is the single most relatable thing an Olympian has done so far

I sure can’t do any of the stuff these people can but I will absolutely go live in the woods if I fuck up badly enough

After doing some sort of physical training every day for months, having a recovery week is super weird. I have so much time! I will definitely waste it.

This is basically how Australia's Bureau of Meteorology explained Celsius to the public at metrication in 1972 too!

Its PR officer came up with jingles about frosty fives, tingling tens, temperate twenties, thirsty thirties, and flaming forties

(frosty fives was -5 to 5, tingling tens 5–15, etc)

Today's sunbeam report from Melbourne tourist strolling

Don't buy a garmin for the pep talks 😐

Thank you!

Shuffled through my first half-marathon today.

Everything that could go wrong did go wrong in the lead up, but because I'm always ludicrously lucky it all just worked out. *Way* slower than I'd planned, but pre-race finishing was my goal. I dunno, 21km is more of a driving distance I think.

Photograph of a small, round, passerine bird on the frame of a wooden bench with lens blurred flowers in the background. THe bird is Black, blue, white, and brown, with a long upright tail.

Superb Fairy-wren on one of the benches at the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, Mt Tomah, NSW.
#birds

Pathway next to Albert Park Lake towards Melbourne CBD

Looking over a rower on Albert Park Lake towards Melbourne CBD

Parkrun crowd reflected in Melbourne Albert Park Lake

Sunrise at the rowing sheds in Albert Park Lake

Strolled Albert Parkrun in Melb this morning. Delightful conditions early for the mega crowd. #parkrunau #loveparkrun

Half marathon! I am debating strolling a parkrun though as my event isn't until Sunday

National Film & Sound Archive of Australia on Instagram: "Extreme sweat, Aussie daredevils and the red heat of the outback. Has anything ever made a bottle of Coke look more refreshing? Dive back in... 1,852 likes, 61 comments - nfsaonline on February 11, 2026: "Extreme sweat, Aussie daredevils and the red heat of the outback. Has anything ever made a bottle of Coke look more refreshing? Dive back...

This is exactly the sort of Australian history the National film and sound archive needs to be getting online. 90s perfection.

www.instagram.com/reel/DUnMC7L...

Victoria looking a bit parched

Qld coalmine expansion approved by Albanese government will clear habitat and fuel climate crisis, scientists say Conservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint

The utter sham of offsets, yet again...

“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

I was trying to take a photo without disturbing him 🙂

Fluffy magpie soaking in lawn sprinkler

Paid some dude on airtasker to fix the sprinkler. Fluffiest magpie in the hood approves.

An Olympic athlete sprints on an ice track, bent over, pushing a small sled at the start of a run, legs and arms blurred by motion. (Stefano Rellandini / AFP / Getty)

Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Starting Speed - Austin Florian of Team USA begins a run at a skeleton men's training session at Cortina Sliding Center in Cortina d'Ampezzo on February 11, 2026, during the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Pretty sure my employer's policy of going into the office each day isn't meant to apply when it's raining. WFH or melt obvs.

The word ‘stan’ comes from the Eminem song "Stan," which is about one of his obsessed fans.

What if Eminem named the fan ‘Dennis’? 

We could be saying, “I dennis Beyonce.”

My house is full of Jon Kudelka art - lots of happy sad memories of a really top notch bloke

It's cool how LinkedIn, with access to all of my professional history, thinks that maybe I should apply for a job as a GP.

This is amazing 🙂