Lucy

A brushtail possum in a small tree in the daylight

A brushtail possum nibbling leaves in a small tree during the day

This brushtail possum was not at all concerned by how close I was. It's unusual for them to be out during the day, but she looked healthy and was munching leaves of a small tree we'd talked about removing, but I guess not if it's wildlife food

An excellent choice!

A possum found its way into the house while I was away and scared the shit out of my partner in the middle of the night, intruder noises coming from the next room. He investigated. Me, I would've cowered in bed and quietly called the cops, with a highly embarrassing outcome when they showed up.

I wonder if superficial attraction plays a role. Relationships not born online sometimes bloom out of friendships, in which you've got to know a person prior to judging their appearance. Perhaps if you'd first seen that person on a dating app you'd have swiped left and missed a beautiful opportunity

Yeah nah to music streaming fees funding AI weapons systems instead of artistic content. I've jumped ship to Tidal. Better sound quality, much better compensation to artists. Transferred my playlists using Soundiiz. In the words of the mighty King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, "Fuck Spotify"

You will also become a motorist with an awareness and consideration for other, more vulnerable road users

I also attempt the short chill to achieve cellar temperature, but I don't think to set a timer and it results in the beer doing an in-fridge-out-fridge hokey cokey as I leave it to get too cold or too warm. (NB I only do this with English ales, not local Aussie beers, which need proper chilling)

Revisited Ruth Thomas, an author whose books I loved as a kid. I read "The Secret," which was a new one for me. It was great, totally holds up for an adult reading it for the first time. I hope kids are still reading Ruth Thomas. Or would they find it too dated? The language, the lack of technology

Awwww I have a massive soft spot for donkeys! Also, great shirt.

This poor man should be granted a permanent visa so he can receive the medical treatment he needs for such a horrific injury. Not only surgical and physio treatment, but psychological support for the trauma. This will be a long recovery

Those are not foreign policy issues, and people don't end up homeless because on one day their commute to work takes a little longer. Direct action has a history of effective outcomes, including for workers' rights. The right to protest is a fundamental element of living in a democracy.

Australia isn't a hermit kingdom, and foreign policy is important. If we were experiencing famine and genocide would you not want other nations to stand up and do something about it? Politics aside, it's a matter of compassion

Hahaha excellent

A tiny, day-old, dark coloured chick in the palm of a human hand

I hope more eggs hatch. I'll feel bad for her if she has no friends her own age to play with

A tiny one-day old black chick with its mother, a brown silkie breed hen

Mariah's been sitting on 4 eggs, but I didn't think it likely they'd be fertilised as the roosters are so young, and none too successful in their endeavours to charm the hens. Imagine my surprise when I picked her up and found this tiny chick had hatched

The strange silence of Australia's free speech warriors People who for years have clogged our airwaves with various 'free speech' crises apparently caused by anti-vilification laws are weirdly quiet today after Jillian Segal's antisemitism report.

For years, News Corp and its friends warned of a "free speech crisis" in Australia's universities. But after a proposal to strip funding under a very broad and controversial definition of antisemitism? Crickets.

Oh yes! Loved BoJack Horseman, I will definitely be checking this out.

If you ever wondered what happens when a bollard runs for office, look no further than Peter Dutton.

Stubborn, immobile, and completely detached from the flow of modern Australia, he spent his leadership standing in the way of everything, offering nothing, and somehow expecting applause for it.

Nothing tastes quite so much like Australian democracy as a crap sausage in a slice of cheap white bread (both mustard AND tomato sauce, that's how I roll). May our decidedly average prime minister run the show for another 3 years and please spare us the horror of Temu Trump

Timothy's ridiculous, hysterical crow. He's so small but thinks he's a big man. He's the chicken equivalent of a chihuahua

If you caption it I will share it

I suspect Labor are attempting to win votes from the centre, and have given up on welfare recipients and renters as lost cause Greens voters. They will regret it as more gen Z come of voting age

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.

Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

I wish him all the best. I've been following this remarkable story with great interest. If the long term outcome for Prof Scolyer is cancer-free it will pave the way for future brain cancer patients

Ooh I've heard this is good, ta for the reminder that I should watch it

I started doing this in 2020 during lockdown. I flagged the cats I encountered during my runs in my "Friendly cats" list on Google maps, and then would plan my running route to pass as many as possible.

Exercise is so much easier in summer. The outdoors is generally warm and dry, and the sun is up for longer. And sitting on ice packs after, for the hamstring tendonitis, is way more tolerable; pleasant, even

They are an absolute menace at my place. Chicken coop crawling with them, veggie garden decimated. They are wise to traps and I'm out of ideas that don't involve secondary poisoning (not an option)

People keep saying to me, "I need to read more," "You're so good, you read so much," and I don't get it because all this reading is an addiction & almost a problem for me because I barely do anything else. Maybe it's slightly better than watching hours of TV, but it's still sedentary & unproductive

Juice An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limit…

After a sojourn in the world of crime fiction for a few months, I am back with my favourite genre of dystopia. A few chapters into Tim Winton's Juice, feeling that familiar sense of impending doom through intensely uncomfortable yet thrilling reading
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