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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 1d

With the Powerful Owl now out, I'm going for the Southern Emu-wren. It needs protection from habitat destruction (I'm looking at you rocket launch site). It'd be great if it could survive the next couple of days of voting and finish in the top 5. Vote here:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 1d

He is incapable. The first time I saw him I said out loud 'poster boy for smiles with his mouth but not his eyes'. I've never seen a better example.

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 3d

Poiret was the first designer I ever studied! I chose him as a high school project. It stayed with me, I'm glad I picked him.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 3d

One for @maxrushden.bsky.social and @phlaimeaux.bsky.social

Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs Podcast @shipwreckspod.bsky.social · 5d

New episode! "Sir Ernest Shackleton: The Boss - Part 1." The first of a 2-part series about the life of the legendary explorer. Part 1 takes you from his birth through the end of his 2nd polar expedition aboard the Nimrod.

shipwrecksandseadogs.com/90

#maritimehistory #history #shackleton #podcast

Sir Ernest Shackleton: The Boss - Part 1

Sir Ernest Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish explorer best known for his daring Antarctic expeditions during the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration.

shipwrecksandseadogs.com

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 4d

HElllooooooo!

silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 4d

Some sort of Canna?

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 4d

These are my friends, they're not a strategy. Supporting trans folk, blm, statue toppling, cancelling monsters. Not a strategy - just something I believe should happen to protect people. I'd do it again even now when I'm supposed to act like 'hey maybe we went too far'.

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 5d

21. Prostanthera cuneata, another first flower from a newly planted plant

Prostanthera cuneata with its glossy bubbly dark green leaves floating blurrily in the background. The flower appears out of the green blur, white and bell like with flappy petal ends.

silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 5d

20. Kangaroo paws. I wasn't super keen because these are W.A. natives and I'm just annoyed at how many cool flowers W.A. has. But they were the perfect replacement for the structural Agapanthus that were apparently holding up the whole structure of the pool pavers. The Honeyeaters love the flowers

A pure red stalk with radiating stalks that are velvety furry. The background is a muted grey metal fence

The giant red kangaroo paws blooming wildly and tall-y. The leaves are tall grassy and strappy.

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 5d

19. Billardiera cymosa - a South Australian Apple-Berry. The more local Billardiera is trailing along the bottom of this plant and isn't quite ready to flower just yet.

In the centre of the photo are two small flowers, pale purplish white (but in reality they look to me like a pale purple-blue). They're surrounded by the long narrow ovoid leaf of the plant. The flowers sit atop a white picket stake.

The top of the Sweet Apple-Berry plant which has climbed up a metal trellis and created a big crown of green leaves and a crown of purple pink flowers

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 5d

Today's big reveal is that the Pigface that never bloomed once in THREE YEARS has popped a flower out. Anyway I'm pretty sure this is pesky Angled Pigface so it may be off for the mulch anyway. Would love an expert to chime in, hello #botanists? #plantID?

The violently pink narrow petals of a Pigface flower with some creamy yellow stamens squeezing through. The flower is a little beat up. In the background the juicy leaves of the plant.

Zooming out, the Carpobrotus flower is seen in a sea of green beefy leaves

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 5d

17. Bauera rubioides - the dog rose.

Looking into the heart of the Bauera rubioides is indeed like looking into a mini rose. Tiny bright pink flower petals that are soft and crinkly. They hang down shyly but I've caught it here rudely from below. The stamens are a fuzzy yellow the leaves are tiny, narrow, pointed and quite dark green

Dogrose flower, side view. The petal veins are a pale white compared to the shocking pink petal. The edge of the petals are ruffled like a soft rose.

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 5d

16. Lambertia formosa (Mountain Devil), only planted a couple of months ago, but already flowering?! I'm ok with that.

Looking directly into the flower head of the Mountain Devil flower, you can see lots of smaller little flowers, perhaps one of those flowers that are mostly sepals and the flower is the tiny bit? Something for me to look into. The middle of the flower is a candy red, with the sepals etc lightening and greening as they spread outwards. The leaves are narrow and end in a definite spike a DEFINITE spike these plants are unforgivingly sharp all over

Same flower side on. The whole flower is an upturned bell shape surrounded by radiating taller green and yellow petals. The little flowers inside end in little purplish red curls. The flower is centered in the photograph, the background is the blurred side of my house and garden bed blurred enough to make it all a little anonymous ya know

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 5d

Whatever that praying means for you, get it done. That includes scientifically cheering for her wellbeing. Don’t fuss about it, just make good thoughts for a good woman.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 5d

I dream of achieving such shapes

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 6d

Yes I remember the bat controversy! I am sad that my year in Cheistchurch doesn't count towards me having a vote. Disappointed. (I would have voted for the Snipe).

silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 6d

This sort of thing only really happens around birds, I think - wouldn't mind one for marsupials, insects, sea creatures. I tried to vote in the NZ one, but it didn't let me!

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 6d

So many good birds, but my heart is always in the swamp so I've put my love and my vote behind the Australasian Bittern

In the centre of the image is the Australasian Bittern, a bird that is beautiful if you like a sort of dinosaur muppet type of bird, which I do. The feathers are brown, tan, and white patterned. In this snap the bittern is shown with its long snakey neck completely retracted into its body, giving it a kiwi-like appearance. The beak is pointed. The legs are non-webbed water bird type, long and ending in sharp curved talons. The legs are a pale blue-green. The best part of the Bittern (hard to choose) is often its intense staring eye. The Bittern is caught mid-journey walking over tall grass and sticks.

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 7d

It's bird time

Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 7d

Omg it’s the bird vote again. 😳

Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 7d

It's time to vote for Australia's best bird! Vote 1 Powerful Owl!
[ @australia.theguardian.com seems to have chosen a particularly unflattering POwl picture, so here's a better one]

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 7d

So...are they running the sites to get friends? And then it goes wrong? Is that what's happening?

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 7d

Also sympathies about the piping. When our claw foot cast iron tub started leaking from the drainpipe the plumbers dropped by and were like 'is it possible that the previous owners didn't...' and I just immediately said yes whatever it is you're assuming they did, they did

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 7d

Could you start a gripe page called the Fucking Priors? I need somewhere to vent about the people who installed built-ins by cutting into and removing sections of timber that are now 1. Made of regionally extinct trees 2. Only commercially available at 2/3rds the size

Photo shows the corner floor of the bedroom. The floor is wood, the skirting board is white, the wall is a dismal brown. Several crimes are visible: the missing skirting board is a 300mm length that thus removed exposes the inside of the house, I can see the ground from the bedroom now, a room with a view. To the right another crime -- a 15mm section of the skirting board has been cut out every 300mm. The panel with the electrical plug (which used to live in the wardrobe) revealed both the ancient wiring of the house AND historic termite damage. The photo also features the bottom half of a ladder and my partner's feet. Out of shot, he is removing panels from the built-ins that have been nailed directly into the lathe and plaster walls.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 8d

This also isn’t true!!! There is a public consultation NOW OPEN and you can go have your say. Obviously they want to present it as a done deal but it’s not.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/

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silviaalexandra.bsky.social @silviaalexandra.bsky.social · 9d

Outrageous! When I did one I was completely awake (long story there) and got to watch the whole thing. Visually not exciting and physically not something I'd ever want to do again, but it still felt like a privilege to see it.

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Nigel Monaghan @nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social · 9d

A great piece on the realities of moving a whole #museum collection so that works can proceed on restoration of the 1856 building

National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 10d

Over 9,000 specimens safely tracked & stored as the National Museum of Ireland refurbishes the Dead Zoo. Faith Nolan shares how location control supports conservation, research & exhibitions. #Museumology #RegistrationCorner #NMIBlog #NaturalHistory www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

NH:1892.49.1 being photographed as part of the Natural History Decant Project. Research image by Anna Massignan © National Museum of Ireland

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