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✊🏼🌳🦜🦈🐝🍄🥔🌈🎧🇦🇺🇸🇪🇫🇮 lutruwita / Tasmania excitedly running around in this off-leash park sniffing bums

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · Jan 21

Hi new bluesky peeps 👋

alt text is for screen readers used due to vision impairment

a short description of the image won’t take long (subject/context/colour) and is inclusive & considerate of others

* don’t be a knob & police others, things like dyslexia can make it difficult for some to do ☺️

reads: alt text helps screen readers read visual content
shows 2 identical images of an aeroplane landing, one has no alt text so only says ‘img_1234’, the other reads ‘airplane landing’ (American spelling)

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 10m

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 8h

CAAAAAAARN THE TAWNY!

Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 8h

The Tawny frogmouth has emerged as an early favourite as we enter day four of the bird of the year contest!

As of the close of voting last night, the muppet-like frogmouth had increased its lead over Baudin's black cockatoo, surging ahead by 1,372 votes

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Line chart showing votes per round for birds in the top ten of each round. The Tawny frogmouth has led in every round, and dramatically increased its lead in round 3

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 6h

A petition to save affordable arts and screen training in Tasmania. chng.it/rm5zKmX7RX #politas #auspol

Sign the Petition

Save affordable arts and screen training in Tasmania

chng.it

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 20h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 5h

Daily bunny no.3102 wishes they had checkers

Three bunnies are afloat at sea, on a yellow inflatable life raft. They have a few supplies, and look bored but not too worried. It is a calm, dusky evening, and there is a seagull nearby

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Jen @juniperlilacs.bsky.social · 2h

Oh that’s fine it’s not like it’s been one of THE conduits for online misogynistic radicalisation of young men for DECADES. But please, take all my data!

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 7h

4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says

Julie Inman Grant says message board will need to comply with other codes which will also include age assurance for sites hosting violent and adult content * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The eSafety commissioner is not expected to block children from accessing 4chan as part of the under-16s social media ban, despite it being labelled one of the “darker” places on the internet. The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, was asked by independent senator Fatima Payman in Senate estimates on Wednesday night whether 4chan, the message board often referred to as the engine room of the internet, would be considered one of the sites required to prevent under-16s when the social media ban comes into effect from 10 December. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 2h

‘the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa’

b/w photo of Davy Jones and Maureen McCormick (Marsha Brady in the US tv show ‘The Brady Bunch’…he wears an embroidered collared shirt, she a poncho

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 19h

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h

Myanmar’s military government has bombed a protest, killing 24.

Myanmar: At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Buddhist festival

Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 22h

This is censorship by SBS. Fix it now.

turnleft2024 @turnleft8.bsky.social · 22h

SBS not allowed to say Palestine

zionists run this country, yet noone is allowed to say so

www.smh.com.au/business/com...

SBS staff sworn off naming Palestine despite federal recognition

SBS staff remain unable to use the word Palestine in news reporting despite federal recognition of the state last month as tensions over reporting on the conflict in Gaza remain high.

www.smh.com.au

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 21h

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 1d

I think @drspacejunk.bsky.social will enjoy this one.

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 1d

Portland #antifa ✊🏼💜

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 1d

#Straya

Michael @nomad-notmad.bsky.social · 1d

Spring is in the air and a young snake's mind turns to love.

Two male Eastern Brown Snakes wrestling to impress lady snake.

These guys are rated as the second most toxic of all snake venoms in the world.

#herps #snakes #australia

Two male Eastern Brown Snakes about to wrestle

Two male Eastern Brown Snakes wrestling to see who has the stamina. Both bodies twisted around each other like a scaly rope

Two male Eastern Brown Snakes in the grass, wrestling to see who has the stamina. Both bodies twisted around each other like a scaly rope

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 1d

chunky boys 😳

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 1d

love me some silverside with horseradish sauce and a good root-mash ☺️

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

highland cattle have it figured out

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 1d

womensagenda.com.au/latest/what-...

What I learned about healing after surviving the Rwandan genocide

From surviving the Rwandan genocide to rebuilding her life in Australia, Frida uses her voice to inspire healing, compassion and unity.

womensagenda.com.au

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 1d

go home google, you’re drunk

Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 1d

you‘re a brave man! :)

agree completely on the negatives re commercialisation of pro-sport & all that comes with it…the arrogance & power wielded by the AFL in holding Tasmania to ransom over a team is a case in point

but I do love me a bit of sportsball (afl & soccer) just the same 🤷‍♀️

#nostadium

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Love this lapel pin from @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social celebrating the amalgamation of the Netherland's green & labour parties.

If only it could happen in Australia, with the Greens & the ALP forming a truly powerful green-progressive party. It seems that dream is dwindling by the day.

#Auspol

Lapel pin depicting a red hand and green hand clasping.

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve said for a long time that the Greens & ALP should join forces…though not a chance with our present ALP :(

and then, a truly radical environmental green party should be formed to keep pushing them, because we are running out of time #climatecrisis

Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 1d

“We are all going to be rich and famous… or we would be.. if we followed our passion.

It’s rubbish. It’s marketing. It’s advertising. It’s cynical. It’s a lie.“

open.substack.com/pub/jeanette...

Passion or Process?

How to find what you love...

open.substack.com

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