John Lakey
@lakey10.bsky.social
Wine farmer, bewildered by acronyms, soon to be cheese maker, used to be Ray-Monde deux on the X, farmer at Ingliston, Victoria, Australia
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True.
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
True.
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Any #pollinator visiting this Triggerplant will have far more to worry about than just being unexpectedly daubed with the plant’s pollen 🕷️
This Milky Flower Spider (Zygometis xanthogaster) is hoping for a tasty morsel
#ausinverts #ozflora #wildoz #spider #arachnid #inaturalist #nature
This Milky Flower Spider (Zygometis xanthogaster) is hoping for a tasty morsel
#ausinverts #ozflora #wildoz #spider #arachnid #inaturalist #nature
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Any #pollinator visiting this Triggerplant will have far more to worry about than just being unexpectedly daubed with the plant’s pollen 🕷️
This Milky Flower Spider (Zygometis xanthogaster) is hoping for a tasty morsel
#ausinverts #ozflora #wildoz #spider #arachnid #inaturalist #nature
This Milky Flower Spider (Zygometis xanthogaster) is hoping for a tasty morsel
#ausinverts #ozflora #wildoz #spider #arachnid #inaturalist #nature
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Schrödinger's mouse?? 🐭🌿🌱
Currently there are four Australian species, plants & animals, listed as nationally extinct despite them all being recently rediscovered… which means these species get no protection under our environmental laws
#auswildlife #wildoz #nature
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Currently there are four Australian species, plants & animals, listed as nationally extinct despite them all being recently rediscovered… which means these species get no protection under our environmental laws
#auswildlife #wildoz #nature
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
This tiny native mouse is legally considered both dead and alive
Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are rediscovered, leaving them without protection as threatened species.
www.abc.net.au
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Schrödinger's mouse?? 🐭🌿🌱
Currently there are four Australian species, plants & animals, listed as nationally extinct despite them all being recently rediscovered… which means these species get no protection under our environmental laws
#auswildlife #wildoz #nature
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Currently there are four Australian species, plants & animals, listed as nationally extinct despite them all being recently rediscovered… which means these species get no protection under our environmental laws
#auswildlife #wildoz #nature
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
The 'ol casa' is starting to look like a proper house
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The 'ol casa' is starting to look like a proper house
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I don't trust anyone who doesn't consult their pets when making important life decisions.
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I don't trust anyone who doesn't consult their pets when making important life decisions.
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One thing the soviet system got right was its emphasis on the virtue of education as an end in itself. In my view education should be a right freely available up to degree level purely because of the net social benefit of an educated citizenry. Populism is driven above all by the poorly educated.
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
One thing the soviet system got right was its emphasis on the virtue of education as an end in itself. In my view education should be a right freely available up to degree level purely because of the net social benefit of an educated citizenry. Populism is driven above all by the poorly educated.
Terrible twin pet sneaking a feed from Dot. Typically, this theft would be treated with savage contempt but Dot is so tolerant.
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Terrible twin pet sneaking a feed from Dot. Typically, this theft would be treated with savage contempt but Dot is so tolerant.
I'm feeling like a Scottish crofter, I've no idea who won the cup, but I've fed the chooks, milked and fed the goats, fed the sheep and cows, cut firewood in this weird spring/summer and now in drinking reef wine listening to Irish trad music.... viva Australia
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I'm feeling like a Scottish crofter, I've no idea who won the cup, but I've fed the chooks, milked and fed the goats, fed the sheep and cows, cut firewood in this weird spring/summer and now in drinking reef wine listening to Irish trad music.... viva Australia
25mm in the gauge and more on the way.
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
25mm in the gauge and more on the way.
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South Korea President Lee made sure there was symbolism for gifting a Silla dynasty crown. 👑
A dementia 🍊 fool on the world stage will be treated as such.
A dementia 🍊 fool on the world stage will be treated as such.
November 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
South Korea President Lee made sure there was symbolism for gifting a Silla dynasty crown. 👑
A dementia 🍊 fool on the world stage will be treated as such.
A dementia 🍊 fool on the world stage will be treated as such.
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“Given that the low rate of income support payments keeps many families in poverty, reducing child poverty is not inherently complicated."
A polite way of saying: the Albanese govt is choosing to keep a million kids in #poverty.
That's a lot "left behind". #auspol
thepoint.com.au/news/251031-...
A polite way of saying: the Albanese govt is choosing to keep a million kids in #poverty.
That's a lot "left behind". #auspol
thepoint.com.au/news/251031-...
Poverty is a policy choice. Time for a new policy to bring a million Australian kids out of poverty
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
October 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
“Given that the low rate of income support payments keeps many families in poverty, reducing child poverty is not inherently complicated."
A polite way of saying: the Albanese govt is choosing to keep a million kids in #poverty.
That's a lot "left behind". #auspol
thepoint.com.au/news/251031-...
A polite way of saying: the Albanese govt is choosing to keep a million kids in #poverty.
That's a lot "left behind". #auspol
thepoint.com.au/news/251031-...
Melb cup day looks like it could be interesting...
October 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Melb cup day looks like it could be interesting...
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How many times do I have to say it, and how plainly? The US is no longer an ally, and is fast becoming a rogue state we will need to divorce ourselves entirely from.
US detains British commentator Hamdi in middle of national speaking tour reut.rs/4hwjEQv
US detains British commentator Hamdi in middle of national speaking tour
U.S. immigration authorities detained British commentator Sami Hamdi, revoked his visa and said he would be deported rather than allowed to complete his speaking tour in the United States, a Homeland Security official said on Sunday.
reut.rs
October 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
How many times do I have to say it, and how plainly? The US is no longer an ally, and is fast becoming a rogue state we will need to divorce ourselves entirely from.
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"Australia is also the first nation to surpass 1 GWh of utility battery capacity per million people, launching it into a league of its own, far ahead of China and the United States, each with less than 400 MWh per 1 million people."
Australia becomes world’s third-largest utility battery market
Australia has overtaken the United Kingdom to rank behind China and the United States in utility-scale battery capacity, with 14 GW/37 GWh of projects at or nearing financial close.
www.pv-magazine.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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RBA said market-sector jobs (those driven more by demand) had been the bulk of job growth in 2025... but the data says... errr wut?
thepoint.com.au/news/251024-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251024-...
October 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
RBA said market-sector jobs (those driven more by demand) had been the bulk of job growth in 2025... but the data says... errr wut?
thepoint.com.au/news/251024-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251024-...
I'm feeling a bit odd; I'm listening to cricket and the stove is burning to warm the house
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I'm feeling a bit odd; I'm listening to cricket and the stove is burning to warm the house
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PUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN
Barnaby Joyce in the news again🤮
Let’s remember, Oz is a country where BJ can “spend” $675,000 in expenses - no receipts - but less than three weeks on the ground while ‘drought envoy’
& he texted through his report!
No debate, no transparency, no resolution
We’re led by the corrupt & the greedy
Let’s remember, Oz is a country where BJ can “spend” $675,000 in expenses - no receipts - but less than three weeks on the ground while ‘drought envoy’
& he texted through his report!
No debate, no transparency, no resolution
We’re led by the corrupt & the greedy
October 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
PUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN
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I’m doing the Aussie Bird Count
Fie on my lack of knowledge … just saw something that looked like a bird of prey going home for tgg th e night, but I’m instructed by the app that a falcon is unlikely… any other ideas bird folk ( eastern Sydney location) ?
Fie on my lack of knowledge … just saw something that looked like a bird of prey going home for tgg th e night, but I’m instructed by the app that a falcon is unlikely… any other ideas bird folk ( eastern Sydney location) ?
October 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I’m doing the Aussie Bird Count
Fie on my lack of knowledge … just saw something that looked like a bird of prey going home for tgg th e night, but I’m instructed by the app that a falcon is unlikely… any other ideas bird folk ( eastern Sydney location) ?
Fie on my lack of knowledge … just saw something that looked like a bird of prey going home for tgg th e night, but I’m instructed by the app that a falcon is unlikely… any other ideas bird folk ( eastern Sydney location) ?
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World’s biggest coal exporters and gamblers 🇦🇺 mak u proud
Australians are the biggest gamblers in the world, and the government has taken little action despite strong public support.
‘We know from the polling that we’ve conducted that the majority of Australians, about 75%, would support a ban on gambling advertising.’
- Morgan Harrington
#auspol
‘We know from the polling that we’ve conducted that the majority of Australians, about 75%, would support a ban on gambling advertising.’
- Morgan Harrington
#auspol
October 22, 2025 at 5:57 AM
World’s biggest coal exporters and gamblers 🇦🇺 mak u proud
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Can’t argue with that.
Without getting the media landscape to stop serving up political propaganda, meant to deceive and stir up dissent, racism, othering, contrived culture wars, intended to get voters to vote against their own interests, democracy will wither and fascism will take its place.
Without getting the media landscape to stop serving up political propaganda, meant to deceive and stir up dissent, racism, othering, contrived culture wars, intended to get voters to vote against their own interests, democracy will wither and fascism will take its place.
October 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Can’t argue with that.
Without getting the media landscape to stop serving up political propaganda, meant to deceive and stir up dissent, racism, othering, contrived culture wars, intended to get voters to vote against their own interests, democracy will wither and fascism will take its place.
Without getting the media landscape to stop serving up political propaganda, meant to deceive and stir up dissent, racism, othering, contrived culture wars, intended to get voters to vote against their own interests, democracy will wither and fascism will take its place.
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Australia's CEO-to-worker pay ratio is about 50-1.
However, forget trickle down, because most CEOs in Australia are trying their hardest to reach the US ratio before they retire.
However, forget trickle down, because most CEOs in Australia are trying their hardest to reach the US ratio before they retire.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Australia's CEO-to-worker pay ratio is about 50-1.
However, forget trickle down, because most CEOs in Australia are trying their hardest to reach the US ratio before they retire.
However, forget trickle down, because most CEOs in Australia are trying their hardest to reach the US ratio before they retire.
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FOX PROPAGANDA needs to either be shut down or called out legally for being a news imposter network.
#FOXisNOTNews
#FOXisNOTNews
October 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
We're an open church here at Lakey Farm! All kinds welcome
October 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
We're an open church here at Lakey Farm! All kinds welcome
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Tat of the day
October 16, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Tat of the day