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S. K. Riley

@skriley.bsky.social

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Writer, PhD, gardener, educator, tree planter, and so forth. www.skriley-author.com Lover of Australian wildlife, re-wilding, mythology, music, cinema and democracy. 🇦🇺

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · Mar 8

Dingo Roaming

Dingo was roaming, seeing, feeling − falling toward the stars.

- JP Quinton

#Dingo #Stars #Dreaming

Seen from above, the tracks a dingo makes when it runs across shallow water on a desert clay pan. Overlapping, concentric circles that look like a painting stretch out in a single line behind a dingo, running ahead. Photo credit: Greg Robertson, while mustering cattle in far north western New South Wales, Australia.

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Nick @gardenwizard.bsky.social · 17h

#bloomscrolling #gardening #photography #zinnia

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 1d

Rosie living her best life‼️

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 1d

Here's another one out of the blue from a recent weeding session. Think it's been on a few film and TV soundtracks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRlS...

Golden Earring - Radar Love (Official Music Video [HD])

YouTube video by Red Bullet

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 1d

You should post it. I love Sarah Blasko's version too. 😀

S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Australia 🌊 🦘🏖️

'Out on the patio we'd sit
And the humidity we'd breathe
We'd watch the lightning crack over canefields
Laugh and think
this is Australia.'

~ GANGgajang

#ThisIsAustralia #GANGgajang #SoundsOfThen #SurfMusic
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Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia) (Remix)

YouTube video by GANGgajang - Topic

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 1d

“Life’s meaning is lost without the spirit of play. In play all that is lovely and soaring in the human spirit strives to find expression. In play the mind is prepared to enter a world where different rules apply, to be free.”

~ Eileen Agar

Laura JG @laurajg.bsky.social · 3d

Your art history post for today: by Eileen Agar (1899-1991), Harlequin, 1968, oil on canvas, 50 1⁄4 x 40in. (127.5 x 101.5cm.), photo: Christie’s London, March 2, 2022. More in ALT. #arthistory #womanartist #womenartists #Art

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Tre Cooper @s3quinsof3v3nts.bsky.social · 1d

An old photo from somewhere in Germany. Seems quite relevant for these times.

#Vintage #Protests #humor #JokersToTheRight #OldieButGoodie

An old photo of a small squad of German police standing in a double line with two protesters dressed as clowns standing unnoticed in their lines in the back. A squad of clowns are lined up next to them in perfect formation.

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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · Jan 27

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mandolin mama @mandolinmama.bsky.social · 1d

www.bbc.com/news/article...

good news!...

💚💚💚🕊

#turtles #conservation

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'

Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

www.bbc.com

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 2d

👏The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/

Nobel Peace Prize

www.nobelprize.org

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 2d

John Lennon 1967, photographed by Richard Avedon
#JohnLennon #BOTD

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 3d

Surrealist painter, writer, and occultist Ithell Colquhoun was born #OTD in 1906. She was fascinated by megalithic sites, which she explored in painting and in her travel books 'The Crying of the Wind: Ireland' (1955) and 'The Living Stones: Cornwall' (1957).

🎨'La Cathedrale Engloutie' (1952)

Surrealist landscape showing figure-of-eight pattern of stones, half submerged and half on an island.

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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 2d

a full heart

#bloomscrolling #flowers #nature #photography #lifeisbeautiful

A gigantic pink dahlia hogging almost the whole frame! a few little other dahlia can be glimpsed behind this photohog. Tall greenery stands in the background beneath a bright blue sky spotted with a couple of fluffy clouds

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mandolin mama @mandolinmama.bsky.social · 2d

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💚🌲✌️🌎🕊

a round image divided in half. the left half is a cross section of a tree showing all the rings. the right half is a human fingerprint. they are very similar.
quote:- at the top, "tree stump & human fingerprint." at the bottom, "we are earth".

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d

NASA’s latest images reveal Jupiter in breathtaking detail—swirling storms, vibrant colors, and the raw beauty of a gas giant. ⚡

Captured with cutting-edge space tech, these views show that sometimes science and art are one and the same.

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Peter F Williams @pfwaus.bsky.social · 8d

Australian native flower Isapogon in spring bloom in the backyard jungle at #HeathcoteNSW #Sydney #NewSouthWales #Australia

#nature #wildoz #ozflowers #stormhour

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 2d

Gold Lyre with bull’s head & Silver Lyre with cow’s head, unearthed from Royal Death Pit of Ur, Sir Leonard Woolley 1920’s. Gold Lyre played by a male, Silver Lyre by a female. The young female musician was still clutching her instrument after 4 millennia.

#Lyre #Sumeria #Song
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A Song Of Dumuzid And Inana In Sumerian

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 4d

John Cheever (1912 - 1982).

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about why slugs are better than clankers. 🦑🧪

Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 3d

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3d

Eastern Australian humpback whale population now well above pre-whaling levels, report finds - ABC News 🦑🧪🌎

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there's 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

www.abc.net.au

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Robert @vrobert7.bsky.social · 5d

#Landscapes #Seascapes #Nature #Auswildlife #RealPic
#Australia #NorthWest 🧡

My favourite pic from the North West of Australia 💙🧡

Will be working there again soon for a week or two.

Goodnight from here ❤️😊

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 3d

When this happened to us, rubber seal around the door had popped out of its slot. Remedy: remove ice buildup, clean the seal, press it back in firmly all around the door. Remove any items in freezer that are blocking air flow from cooling vents. Bob's your uncle! Also, chance to clean out freezer.😀

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James Mitchell @plainfeather.bsky.social · 3d

The Dog with the Pearl Earring.
Thx Tim Mitchell.
#art #Vermeer

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 4d

Ibex has a favourite spot

Video by J.J. Cage
Savoie, France

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 5d

Black-shouldered kite 🪶 departing its perch. Oakey, QLD
#ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of a black-shouldered kite flying toward the camera in front of a clear blue sky. It is a medium-sized raptor, white but for the edges of its wings, which are black. It has bright red eyes with dark feathers over the tops like eyebrows.

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