"Effluencers"

Thank you Peta - so am I 😊
Chrysanthemum's, they're on the east porch, so a good dose of morning sun, then shade for the remainder.

Two magpies eating dry food on a concrete porch.

"Plumpy" and "Bebe" - two very young magpies that are being bullied - they get some extra food on the porch behind the flower pot.
#WildOz
#Birds

Receiving a flu shot doesn’t just protect you, it protects all the people you would have passed your flu on to. Among those people may be some who are frail or old.

It takes five minutes, it may save a life and will certainly save some suffering.

Get a flu shot.

Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?

just write it terrible for five minutes and see where it goes. or write questions to yourself into the draft—“what the fuck goes here, i don’t know, but it’s something about blah blah this will sound smarter later” is acceptable rough draft material

During my weekly call with my 89 year old mother she explained how she laboriously (and importantly, thoroughly) cleaned her oven "top to toe" - because a cleaner is coming on Tuesday... and they "might give the oven a clean".

#MakeItMakeSense

55 yrs ago this week, 4/17/71, all 4 former Beatles had solo singles in the UK charts:

Paul McCartney: "Another Day,"
Ringo Starr: "It Don’t Come Easy"
John Lennon: "Power To The People"
George Harrison: "My Sweet Lord"

All 4 songs still sound great, 55 yrs later.
Play 'em loud.

What do we think writing IS? What is an author? Why bother, if you don't want to write, if you are not challenged and exhausted and exhilarated and electrocuted in the doing of it?

Angus Taylor,
My mother is rapidly approaching the end of her life, in aged care. This awful time is being made easier by the tender, thoughtful care by people from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Australia. How dare you talk about ‘Australian Values’ & reboot One Nation/Trump bs about migrants.

"All Our Own Work" with Sandy Denny is a classic.

Over the years I've read your posts about your parenting challenges and joys - you're doing a bloody marvelous job Asher! Make some good plans for you and keep celebrating the wins and milestones. 💗

I never thought I'd live in a world where an American president supported a pro-Russian European dictator, blocked an important sea route used by his allies and portrayed himself as Jesus Christ... all in the same day.

Jesus doling out the loaves and fishes...
"The Dow is over 50,000!"

Happy "Hungary Shirtfronted Tony Abbott" Day!

#AusPol
#Hungary

Cover of Small is Beautiful.

VINTAGE CLASSICS www.vintage-classics.info WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JONATHON PORRITT 'A book of heart and hope and downright common sense about the future' Daily Mail Small is Beautiful is E. F. Schumacher's. stimulating and controversial study of economics and its purpose. This remarkable book examines our modern economic system - its use of resources and impact on how we live -questioning whether they reflect what we truly care about. The revolutionary ideas are as pertinent, inspirational and thought-provoking today as when they were first published in 1973. VINTAGE U.K. Random House www.vintage-books.co.uk 9780099225614 FSC Cover Neil Fletcher and Matthew Ward/Getty Images

"Small is Beautiful - A Study of Economics as if People Mattered"
E. F. Schumacher (1973).

#AmReading
📚

The R-word was taboo as a slur for people with disabilities. Now it's being normalized again | CBC Radio The R-word has been considered taboo for several years, as a slur against people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Now, the word appears to be undergoing a resurgence and normalization...

“My question is, ‘Why would you want to use language that is known to be hurtful, and that people are asking you not to use?...You're showing who you are as a human being if you think that's OK to still use words that people tell you are hurtful to them.”

#Disability
♿

Happy "Hungary Shirtfronted Tony Abbott" Day!

#AusPol
#Hungary

Black and white baby goat in a blue tub in the front seat of my car

Goat is my co-pilot

My dad to the dog while making a snack, “I know you're excited, so am I. But there is no need to bark. I'm not barking. No one else here is barking”

I don't think we can continue our friendship Eric - you probably drink blackcurrant tea too. 🤣

Roaring wind and 70 K gusts for 8 hours today - backyard is strewn with upended pot plants and strips of bark from the manna gum...all to be attended to over the weekend.
But now it's off to bed early with a gardening book and dreams of "spring colour" in six months time.
Sweet dreams BlueSky 🌱

The *very* high proportion of blackcurrant flavoured "Snakes" in a bag is part of the world wide "Big Blackcurrant" takeover to ruin our snacking pleasure.

Oooofffff...

Diesel $3.32 per litre in town (Braidwood, NSW)...was $3.13 two days ago.

King's Highway Robbery.

#AusPol

Day job news: come learn to write the most accessible text format available. Aussie time zone, but suitable for anyone writing in English. If you want to make sure as many people as possible can read & understand what you're putting out, start here.

events.humanitix.com/11-may-and-1...

Alt text use is tanking.

Please fill in the alt text on images you share. It makes a huge difference.

Thank god. Christ.

But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.

starting to think blue sky might have a lot of writers on here

In return, Iran would lift its de facto blockade of the key shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran would also impose a fee of roughly $2 million per ship that it would split with Oman, which sits across the strait. Iran would use its share of the proceeds to reconstruct infrastructure destroyed by American and Israeli attacks, rather than demand direct compensation, according to the plan.

Text or NYT screenshot (apologies, posted before realising there was no #ALT)

So is Trump getting a cut of Oman's cut?

We may never know, but if so, we won't be surprised.