Double-eyed Fig Parrots have the most beautiful red, turquoise & blue feathers around their eyes, striking against that impressive green! #drawing #bird #parrot #illustration

The Key to Avalon. This morning's sunrise on Glastonbury Tor. A bit windy up there and very cold hence nobody else around.

Happy World Earth Day from Via Pontica Foundation.

Today reminds us that protecting nature and making sustainable choices every day helps build a healthier future for all.

#WorldEarthDay #EarthDay #GreenFuture

Tom Paxton - Whose Garden Was This? (Live 1971) YouTube video by Boot Leg

A little song Tom Paxton wrote for the original Earth Day in 1970. A lot of pollution under the bridge since then… youtu.be/msKYLHwqvW4

A $71bn rebuild and 77-year setback: A 'catastrophic' crisis in the Middle East The cost of rebuilding Gaza and the "catastrophic" human toll of war have been laid bare in a new report.

A $71bn rebuild and 77-year setback: A 'catastrophic' crisis in the #Middle_East

Nearly 1.9 million people in #Gaza have been displaced, many of them multiple times, according to a new report

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Howdy from #BigBearValley where Jackie had been out hunting AND JUST LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT FISH SHE BROUGHT HOME! 🐟🦅 #BaldEagles

Taxing our gas.Today’s Age cartoon.

Study warns of terrifying Atlantic Ocean current collapse New research shows a critical Atlantic Ocean current system is weakening faster than expected, raising the risk of irreversible climate disruption.

“The time for half-measures is over. The choices we make in the next decade will determine whether future generations inherit a manageable climate or a world plunged into chaos.”
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The Sanderson Sisters - One Way Or Another (Full Music Video) Hocus Pocus 2 YouTube video by J kiss

The orange menace signed off with, ‘one way or another’.

Bette Midler replied, ‘Were gonna get ya..’

#Resist

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🇺🇸Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson has revealed that Donald Trump wanted to use nuclear codes during a White House meeting on Saturday night. General Dan Cain, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stood up and said NO!

FFS US 🇺🇸!
Why is it so difficult to kick the insane man out of the WH?!

BREAKING: We've just secured another 200M litres of diesel.

This brings the total additional diesel secured in the last seven days to approximately 300M litres.

We’re doing everything we can to help secure more fuel for Australians.

Why cash has made an unexpected comeback in Australia: new study

Around half of Australians still use cash in a typical week, and we keep about $65 in our wallets.

Jim Chalmers says there was “frustration” in the room after meeting US Treasury officials in DC saying he & his G20 counterparts are losing patience with the US as their war on Iran continues “dragging out” #auspol

"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it."
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
#BookSky Wake TFU

April 21 is World Curlew Day.
This photo is from a few years ago when I found a small group of overwintering Far Eastern Curlews at Port Clinton, Yorke Peninsula.
Three types of ‘true’ curlews can be seen in Australia: the Little Curlew, Whimbrel and Far Eastern Curlew.
Gorgeous birds!

These monsters from the Valley act as if their own perspective is the organising principle of reality. They flatten the world until it reflects their own image back at them, and they call it order. They recast dominance as necessity, exclusion as clarity, cruelty as truth-telling. What they are building is not just a politics, but a way of being in which other lives appear as obstacles, or worse, as background.

On Palantir’s manifesto, their AI fantasies, and how Silicon Valley billionaires think they are the new Guardians of the Universe.
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Sometimes I think Van Gogh's last words—"The sadness will last forever"—were, for him, a kind of consolation. It was the only immortality he could see. And he knew, in his art, he'd made a place where the sadness and the sunflowers were one.

The Fraud's Prayer:
Our Father, who art in the White House,
hallowed be thy combover;
thy blingdom come;
thy will be dumb;
In Washington as you are in Florida.
Give us this day our daily round of golf.
And forgive us our insider trading,
as we refuse to forgive those who investigate against us...

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·Exmouth, WA, Australia ·
A juvenile Tasselled Leatherjacket (Chaetodermis penicilligerus)

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

I’ve started reading Trumps posts, or reimagining his statements, in the voice of Winston Churchill. It’s the little things.

These laws are unconstitutional and they deserve to be chucked out.

Listen to Executive Officer, Bart Shteinman on PM overnight discussing why the anti-protest laws in QLD and NSW are anti-democratic and it's a good thing they've been struck down in NSW!

Full link: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

I Tracked Down The World’s Rarest Parrot YouTube video by Wildlife With Cookie

A small number of male kākāpō live at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari as part of a trial helping experts learn whether a larger population could one day thrive at this site.

Meet Bunker. 🦜 #Kākāpō2026 #nzwildlife
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Poor Gimbir, they interrupted his larder inspection.

Yesterday, Gimbir was startled by one of those pesky Cockatoos.

Cockatoos are cavity nesters (tree hollows) so this box does not meet their needs. Cockatoos also do not compete with #PeregrineFalcons for food. But ... pesky all the same. #OrangeNSW

Walkable towns help regional Australians exercise 75 minutes more each week - Myall Coast News Of The Area Share via: Facebook X (Twitter) AMID soaring fuel prices which are prompting Australians to explore alternative transport options, a new study highlights the health benefits of walkable neighbourhoods...

Research from Australia shows the importance of walkable towns for improving physical activity in regional areas. The research team assessed the walkability of areas around the country to understand how well-connected they were and how easy it was to walk to shops, schools, and public transport.

‘A white man’s fantasy’: if we want to rebuild social cohesion, we need to acknowledge where it all started to unravel Australia has a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent. Koori civilisation has been torn asunder ever since the convict ships dropped anchor

A must-read for Australians from Melissa Lucashenko on the definition of 'social cohesion' & more. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

New protest slogan laws "remind some of 1970s Queensland".
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"Oh no no no ... there are no more brown paper bags stuffed with cash up here ... don't you worry about that!"
#qldpol

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets

“Don’t just give us a generic statement, saying ‘humanitarian workers should be protected’ – make the phone call, call out the people killing us, stop arming those that are doing this.”

#Peace ☮️ #NoMoreWars 🌻

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Won’t somebody save these hundreds of turtles condemned to death?
— First Dog on the Moon
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