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Dave Watson @ecosystemunraveller.com · 6h

Time for another #AwesomeBirds #WildOz edition. This distinctive jobbie is found throughout mainland Australia, but rarely sits still. Often in pairs, these dim sim sized champions can be tricky to spot, but once you key in on their sharp notes, you’ll notice them all over.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 1d

Canine snuggles on a Friday afternoon? Nothing better! Welcome home 💜💚

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 1d

Worked with an FOI officer and a records manager in the late 1980s: the flourishing use of Post-It notes in the public service was a regular conversation topic.

Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 1d

zomg, the sheer volume of unrecyclable plastic 🫣

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 1d

October.

Display today at a Coles supermarket: assorted packets of tinsel, light strings, and LED tree shapes for your garden.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 1d

M’colleague Jon, after a contentious encounter, asks himself: how did I contribute to that conflict? What can I do differently, to repair and improve that relationship? Acknowledging there may be fault on all sides; focusing on the behaviours he can control (his own).

Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 1d

This you, @fionatribe.bsky.social?

Photo of a display in a bookshop, featuring a book called “Chair: 500 designs that matter” published by Phaedon.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 1d

Tyson Yunkaporta, again with the wisdom.

Excerpt from “Right Story, Wrong Story” by Tyson Yunkaporta.

“…the ground is littered with people who couldn't keep a leash on their misdirected wrath. They learned too late that rage is a force multiplier that should only be deployed where success is certain, collateral damage is zero and your actions will definitely make the world better for your descendants. The problem is, when we feel certain the time is right for rage, we're usually mistaken and it's our fear and narcissism taking the wheel.”

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 1d

One for @kazcooke.bsky.social’s collection of entertainers, perhaps?
(short thread 👇🏻)

Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 1d

Sarah Hengler, Fire Queen of Vauxhall Gardens, The King's Pyrotechnic. Businesswoman, firework artist. Matriarch of Hengler's Circus family. Invented rocket element for early shore to ship lifesaving equipment. d. #OTD 9 Oct 1845 in home & fireworks factory fire en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_H...

Sarah, Madame Hengler, portrait depicting her as a young woman made up from the fireworks of the business she ran for 40 years - and eventally died from when her home and fireworks factory caught fire and she died in the blaze. #WomenInSTEM #FeministSky #circus #fireworks

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 2d

Yup 🤷🏼‍♀️

Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 2d

lol, these are all facing north, away from the ocean 🌊

The residences in the photo would be mostly in the $1.2–1.4m range; in other parts of town you can find nice 3 br homes, old and new(ish), for roughly half that.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 2d

Modern Ocean Grove isn’t really the quaint seaside resort of memory and romantic imagination.

View from the town centre towards the invisible beach: it’s a hillside completely covered by boxy, multi-storey, cookie-cutter residences. Blah.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 2d

Early for a haircut appointment, and this is the view from the salon.
#Wadawurrung Country

In the foreground, a monstrously large White House with a boring white fence. Lift your eyes and feast on the view beyond: crashing surf, blue-green ocean, and natural scrub covering the distant rocky outcrop of Barwon Heads.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 2d

Was struck by a photo earlier this year (from ISS, I think, or maybe a satellite) showing the general sprawl & size of Melbourne at night: CBD and the dark bay easily discernible, but completely outshone by the enormous northern-suburbs roadworks. So brightly lit, it was impossible to see details 🕶️

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent thread (👇🏻) summarising the factual elements of the report, which “documents the widespread unlawful administration of Mutual Obligations,” a framework that punishes Indigenous people, single parents, people with disabilities, homeless people, simply for existing.

Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 2d

Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned

A thread👇

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 2d

“Sartre said, 'Hell is other people.' But us-two, we know it is the opposite. It's isolation that makes you a citizen of Inferno.”

– Tyson Yunkaporta, “Right Story, Wrong Story”

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 2d

Escaping the hell of daily life “is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."

Final paragraph from “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino.

“And Polo said: ‘The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.’”

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d

Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan #Scottish civil engineer & 1st woman member of ICE Engineers in 1927. She was #engineer on #Sydney Harbour Bridge #Australia, #Tyne Bridge linking #NewcastleUponTyne & #Gateshead & Lambeth Bridge in #London. b. #OTD 8 Oct 1899 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan as a young woman

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 2d

Wishing you a randomly happy day 🥳🌟🎉🎶🧁

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta start somewhere 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 2d

Blue- and pink-collar workers — or, these days, the fluoro vesties — rarely seem to benefit from those leading thoughts.

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 3d

Gorgeous 😍

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 3d

The theme is cities:
– Siang Lu: Ghost Cities
– Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities
– Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance
– China Mieville: The City & The City
– Peter Ackroyd’s London books
– and of course Terry Pratchett’s sprawling metropolis of Ankh-Morpork, and the other cities of the Discworld.

This week’s reading: a copy of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities lies atop my commonplace book, on an outdoor table at the neighbourhood cafe. A coffee cup and a petite lemon tart set the ambiance for this relaxed Wednesday morning in early spring. Photo by me. #CafeLife

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 3d

lol, I wasn’t thinking of you specifically, but if the sandal fits then it should be worn with pride ☺️

Am also a follower of Anoia, the Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers

wiki.lspace.org/Anoia

Anoia - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki

wiki.lspace.org

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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 3d

Erudite: the goddess of smartypantses

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