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TARA SMITHSON -Wildlife & Nature 📸 @tarasmithson.bsky.social · 10h

Little squishy baby Masked Lapwing. 🐥🐣🪶

I just posted an adult Lapwing before if you want to know what this chick will look like. 🎭🏊‍♂️🪽

#birds #birdphotography #birding #birdwatching #birdwatchers #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #Canon #R5 #Australia #BirdOfTheDay #Spring

A tiny, fluffy Masked Lapwing chick is shown in a full-frontal, close-up photograph, standing on short, green grass. The chick is covered in soft down, with a black and tan spiky, tufted crown on its head. Its face, chest, and belly are predominantly white down, while the sides of its body are mottled with black and brown. It is looking straight ahead with a small beak and appears to be just a few days or weeks old. The chick's relatively long, spindly, dark-coloured legs and large feet are prominent. The background is a soft blur of pale green and brown, with a hint of dark blue or shadow in the upper right.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

Well isn’t that just lovely - a shit deal on the environment to ensure the Orange Haemorrhoid is happy

Headline in The Australian: Labor’s green law reforms critical to Trump deal

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 21h

Native title on 900,000ha of Cape York has been returned to the traditional owners, and it’s expected that Native Title for all of entire Cape York will be settled by the end of next year.

Cape York land returned to owners 255 years after Captain James Cook arrived

A native title claim in the region where Captain James Cook made landfall after his ship crashed into the Great Barrier Reef in 1770 is among one of three to finally be settled by the Federal Court th...

www.abc.net.au

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 1d

Eastern barred #bandicoots aren't only near the top of the leader-board for being utterly adorable, but they also have one of the shortest pregnancies of any #mammals: they give birth to mini-bandicoots after only 12 days! #BandiCute
#Tasmania #marsupials #MammalWatching #WildOz

An eastern barred bandicoot at night in wet grass. Its eye shines bright white in the torch-light

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billboard @billboard.com · 1d

Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K

Chappell Roan has announced her Midwest Princess Project for trans and LGBTQ+ youth, and the fund has already raised $400K.

bit.ly

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 1d

Roses are red,
AI is inaccurate,

A screenshot of Bryan Johnson, the insane and stupid billionaire who looks like a desiccated corpse but thinks he's making himself look younger, saying "I eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate" on Nazi Twitter

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

International Court of Justice says Israel must allow UNRWA to deliver aid in Gaza.

🇦🇺 must push for international law to be upheld.
amp.9news.com.au/article/4c0e...

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 1d

A crimson rosella! A nexcellent birb.

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 2d

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

Fighter jets against the backdrop of a sky with the Idaho state flag and a quote that should say “everyone is an ally until they aren’t” but the spacing makes it look like it says “everyone is anally until they aren’t”

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BHL Australia @bhl-au.bsky.social · 2d

It’s #WorldWombatDay!

We’re extremely fond of these marsupials around here and happy for any opportunity to celebrate them. Whether it’s a common wombat, a hairy-nosed wombat or a bare-nosed wombat, we think they’re all neat.

Thus, behold an array of wombat illustrations!

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh! It's Aussie Bird Count time again!
aussiebirdcount.org.au

Aussie Bird Count

Celebrate National Bird Week by taking part in the biggest citizen science project to hit Aussie shores. Join thousands of people from across the country, heading out into their backyards, local parks...

aussiebirdcount.org.au

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 4d

Those Louvre windows never looked thief proof to me.
You can just slide the glass slats out

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Mark Ogge @markogge.bsky.social · 4d

There, fixed it

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 4d

This is very disappointing, and so ridiculous that you have to pay so much. I also did some quick maths, and this works out to $65.60/hour for the retrieval staffer (because surely they're not making a profit (lol)). It might be interesting to work out what level of APS staff this corresponds to...

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 4d

is the boiger? want the boiger??

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 5d

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

Zohran Mamdani looking uncharacteristically calculating

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ace ✨ @overdrumatik.bsky.social · 6d

this is terrible..

"A loaf of bread in Aurukun can be as much as $7-8; a 1.8kg frozen beef roast around $80 and a bag of frozen vegetables $8."

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 7d

"A weekly shop would cost me about $1,000 for only seven or eight bags of shopping," she says.

"I do my shopping for the whole family, all the meat and vegetables, fruit ... the basic needs for our household and [the cost] just blows my mind."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The 'ridiculous' $1,000 weekly shop for remote Cape York community

Being one of Australia’s most remote and disadvantaged communities, Aurukun’s grocery prices are some of the highest in the country.

www.abc.net.au

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7d

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 6d

Ours hasn’t turned up yet. Delayed flight? :)

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 7d

As American-style utes gain popularity across the country, there are calls for owners to face higher taxes for their "big cars, causing big problems".

Calls for Australia's growing love affair with US-style utes to be taxed

As American-style utes gain popularity across the country, there are calls for owners to face higher taxes for their "big cars, causing big problems".

www.abc.net.au

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 7d

Australia has a tax designed specifically to ensure Australians get a fair share for our oil and gas: the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT).

But it turns out NONE of the foreign-owned gas corporations who export 80% of Australia’s gas every year have EVER paid it.

#auspol

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 7d

So, Australia collects 43 cents per $100 of exported gas.

Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas

And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil

This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources.

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

‘For every $100 of gas exported, Australia gets 43 cents’: Unions open new tax battle

The federal government this week overhauled its superannuation tax reforms. Now the union movement says it should radically overhaul taxes on gas exports.

www.smh.com.au

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 8d

it's also darkly amusing that "young republicans" are 18 to 40 years old. go go gerontocracy!

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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 9d

The point of politics isn't to just stay there, guys ...
#auspol

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 10d

Listening to @abcnews radio news on the release of "Israeli hostages" and "Palestinian prisoners" and the "end of the war" and I'm really sick to death of this whitewashed pro-Israel biased shit that is genocide denial and dehumanizes Palestinians. #auspol #GazaHolocaust

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