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We're staying in a 17th century monastery inside the ramparts of Old Quebec City, way up on the fortified hill. I shit you not. Mind=blown. The beauty of this place

Gravestone reads RIP DEMOCRACY 1776-2024

My neighbor’s Halloween decor is legit 👌🏼

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Oh dear god this hay fever

If I have not seen further, it is because giants have been standing on my shoulders.

OPTIONAL uteruses

This is Annie. She is a dental therapy dog. Her job is to help patients experiencing anxiety by providing emotional support. While dentists go through years of schooling to treat patients Annie is able to lower their blood pressure and reduce anxiety just by being there. 14/10 (TT: funny.bunny9215)

The Tasmanian Lower House has unanimously supported financial redress for victims of Tasmania’s former laws against homosexuality and cross-dressing. The photos say it all.
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From @tomredmemes.bsky.social

WOW.

A path of Blue Things (bottle tops, a pen, torn scraps of tarpaulin etc), each item obsessively and precisely placed on the ground with the occasional pale leaf or piece of pale bark as highlighting, leads to the bower of a Satin Bowerbird in my sister's garden in the mountains of Victoria, Australia

A close up photo of the bower, an archway of dead grass and sticks constructed by the Satin Bowerbird that lives in my sister's garden. Carefully and meaningfully sourced and placed small blue plastic items are also visible in shot. All efforts are part of a courtship display that includes a song and dance number by the male bird.

I proffer the following photos from my sister's garden in Noojee, VIC, Australia last week: exquisitely curated Blue Things for The Ladies

No conviction for whistleblower Boyle. Reform urged after ordeal - Michael West Tax office whistleblower Richard Boyle avoided jail with no conviction recorded after a seven-year ordeal, punished for doing what was right.

7 year ordeal over for ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle is finally over w no conviction recorded. Severe need to fix #auspol WB laws.
@kimwingerei.bsky.social
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Pro-gun groups are mobilising against gun laws, and celebrating the increase in guns in our community.

We've launched a petition to create a National Firearms Register to help close dangerous loopholes and better protect public safety.

Can you sign and share?
▶️ theaus.in/firearm_regi...

Oh love

The Merlin birding app (Cornell University)can only identify 14% of the bird noises it is hearing in my sister's garden. More Australian birders should be contributing identifications to this free public database ☺️

I am dog-sitting my sister's 1yo chihuahua, Jasper. She lives in Noojee, and has a little house on the edge of the forest. Garden is abundant and chock full of tiny curious birds. View across the valley is gorgeous. I have a coffee in hand and a small sleeping warm dog on my lap. I am at peace.

Something is rotten in Australia’s tertiary education. And UTS’s suspension of teaching courses is one of its biggest disgraces | Isobel Crealy If preparing teachers for NSW during an ongoing teacher shortage isn’t a public good, what is?

I love this woman. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
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A fire in a patio brazier, wine glasses awaiting our first pour

Cape Barren Geese parents ushering along four very new goslings that look like fluffy grey&black-striped footballs on legs

A nefarious pirate cove with a small rocky beach, viewed from above on a cliff

At The Island, hooray!

What if the Gen z stare is just their fear response?

Like:
Gen Z: freeze
Millennial: fawn
Gen X: flight
Boomer:fight

Crystalline cold sunny Winters morn in Melbourne. It's a porridge morning for sure

To be clear here, I'll be doing precisely what I want regardless, I'm not asking for social permission. But I send this kind of anxious thought out into the ether because there was a time 20 years ago when I had nearly no ability to put the brakes on hedonism. I'm different now but still... cautious

End of week 2 of 22 weeks of work burnout-based long service leave. I am 55 years old. In my early 30s I was very nearly alcoholic. I am having a lovely time. I am wondering if one (1) bottle of champagne entirely to myself per week is... ok

Sure thing honey

When The Wind Blows, Raymond Briggs. I was 12. It should not have been in the children's book section. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_th... It's a masterpiece but not for children

Lee Pace. Is my counter suggestion. Sure Denzel, but alternatively LEE PACE.

Somehow, simultaneously, I have a poor sense of object permanence BUT I hate to get rid of things that have meaning to me. As in, I can easily forget for years that I own a thing that I love, so when it comes to e.g. decluttering and getting rid of things I don't use, I find it hard to let go

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A photograph of a mostly empty road at night lit up in a cars headlights. Standing on the road slightly to the right is an Eastern grass owl standing upright looking directly at the camera. Photograph taken on January 10, 2015 in Queensland, Australia by Katarina Denesova. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVOpiVlhm9W/

"Stopped by a toll collector, Queensland, Australia"

Eastern grass owl photographed by Katarina Denesova

#InternationalOwlAwarenessDay #OwlAwarenessDay #OwlishMonday 🦉