Yes. A proper digital disconnect and human reconnect, far from the noise and business of the city. Time outside, moving. Sharing food, telling stories.

Top down view of a Bullina bubble snail exploring algal turf on a shallow rocky reef. Two tiny black dots for eye-spots behind its headshield. Neon blue edge, a pale blue body, cherry-red stripes on a tiny white shell. What's not to love. Lower half of the image is swatches of the Bullina's colours.

Last of the palettes included in the R package, but certainly not least, the beautiful Bullina bubble-baby. Tiny, friend-shaped, perfect.

#rstats #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Isn't that universal?

When dealing with complex and complicated problems, distract yourself with what you can control and convince yourself that it's the solution?

I'm a career public servant. They ALL do it, it never works.

friend-shaped!

Feeling you. Somehow I'm 47.

Night 5 of emergency works outside my place. I am so tired, yet I cannot be mad: last 4 nights have been my own employer, and I know how stretched our field crews are and how hard fixing underground assets is in the inner city. Still, I'm losing my mind.

Look, I believe in Tim & what he stands for, so if he tells me this really matters, I turn out my pockets. Let's help the kids take the culpable to court, and hope they win. They have more moral courage than us adults too afraid of losing what comfort we've been able to glean in this messed up world

Aight, dug some change out from under the couch cushions.

“May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.”
– Native American Proverb

Columbines (State Flower of Colorado) blooming in the Colorado Rockies

Photographer: Lars Leber Photography

Humming-blep!

The Caped Chickadee.

#birds #art #linocut #linoprint #printmaking #chickadee

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This is a thoughtful thread. We really are all still grappling with the pandemic fallout (yes i know, covid is still here, long covid is real, etc), both individually and collectively.

Thanks for this thread, it resonates with my experiences both at the time and ongoing. It feels like a step change in (anti) social behaviour, at macro and micro levels.

I'm certain 5 months stuck home on my own has had lasting effects.

Oh my! What a little cutie!

It's so nice to see less known species from other countries.

While employers “meeting women where they are” (bearing the burden of care) is a positive thing, “where they are” is at its core a sociocultural problem. I wonder whether meeting women where they are further embeds the expectation (and employer belief) that they bear the burden of care at home.

Just look at this guy! This fish's shape and toughening tells you a lot about its habitat. Ping @ecosystemunraveller.com!

Yikes

Spectacular place. I've only taken the Explorer once, for the reasons you mention. How was your trip?

Thank you for your lifetime of fighting. 🌈

This little fairywren is looking better now with some fluffed up feathers! #fairywren #bird #birdart #painting

Black bird with red flashes on wings eats seeds on a railing

Red winged blackbird sporting his intense mating season colours 🪶

A wee bubble nest in the new nano.

Sauteed red lentils for dinner, with roasted tomatoes & cauliflower, portobello mushrooms, onion, passata, a sploosh of wine & roasted garlic. Yum.

In slow news, I made a really tasty lentil dish to use up some sad veg, and Monty has started his first bubble nest. Go little baby betta!

That would be delicious.

The answer may be bit blue-green.

I have seen these in real life. They are huge and impossibly blue. 😍

Perfect autumn weather for walking at the moment, so today the ex and I made a lap of Werribee Gorge, as we work on finding friendship.

Looking so good!

Oh that's lovely!

Who needs sleep?

Could be an interesting night. Potable main burst. Water & energy corps on site. Hard to see so much precious drinking water lost.

It's nice out