Bushbark
@bushbark.bsky.social
Curious human.
Biodiversity & citizen science.
Lover of owls, invertebrates, reptiles.
Constant reader.
Habitat gardener. Tea drinker. Crafty. Gluten free baker.
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🐶🐾Precious Maltese Shih Tzu
Yugambeh Country, Logan QLD
Australia
She/Her
Biodiversity & citizen science.
Lover of owls, invertebrates, reptiles.
Constant reader.
Habitat gardener. Tea drinker. Crafty. Gluten free baker.
🍄🟫🐸🐌🪲🦉🦎🐍🌿🌹
🐶🐾Precious Maltese Shih Tzu
Yugambeh Country, Logan QLD
Australia
She/Her
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From the archive...
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Taylor has released a new letter from the AFP clearing him of corruption over a Cayman Islands company.
chaser.com.au/national/ang...
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Taylor has released a new letter from the AFP clearing him of corruption over a Cayman Islands company.
chaser.com.au/national/ang...
February 13, 2026 at 6:24 AM
From the archive...
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Taylor has released a new letter from the AFP clearing him of corruption over a Cayman Islands company.
chaser.com.au/national/ang...
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Taylor has released a new letter from the AFP clearing him of corruption over a Cayman Islands company.
chaser.com.au/national/ang...
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My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon
My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon
Jon Kudelka loved his beautiful family and was fiercely intolerant of greed and hypocrisy
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www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:29 AM
My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon
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In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
February 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
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The utter sham of offsets, yet again...
“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Qld coalmine expansion approved by Albanese government will clear habitat and fuel climate crisis, scientists say
Conservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:03 AM
The utter sham of offsets, yet again...
“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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RIP, James Van Der Beek. And fuck cancer.
February 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
RIP, James Van Der Beek. And fuck cancer.
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The $80 million of public money that went to the Cayman Islands, has long gone. But not one drop of water ever turned up. www.unisa.edu.au/unisanews/20...
Australia’s ‘watergate’: here’s what taxpayers need to know about water buybacks
www.unisa.edu.au
February 12, 2026 at 11:38 PM
The $80 million of public money that went to the Cayman Islands, has long gone. But not one drop of water ever turned up. www.unisa.edu.au/unisanews/20...
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Hen and chick. Rock climbing.
#wackywednesdayart #plants #photography #hensandchicks
#rockclimbing #rocks
#wackywednesdayart #plants #photography #hensandchicks
#rockclimbing #rocks
February 12, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Hen and chick. Rock climbing.
#wackywednesdayart #plants #photography #hensandchicks
#rockclimbing #rocks
#wackywednesdayart #plants #photography #hensandchicks
#rockclimbing #rocks
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Hope you get to make art today.
February 12, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Hope you get to make art today.
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Also got a new version of my Xero data export/backup too out, now covering just about all of the account endpoints that are possible:
xerotrust.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ex...
xerotrust.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ex...
Data Export - xerotrust 1.1.0 documentation
The export command is used to export your Xero data to local files.
xerotrust.readthedocs.io
July 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Also got a new version of my Xero data export/backup too out, now covering just about all of the account endpoints that are possible:
xerotrust.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ex...
xerotrust.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ex...
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While everyone is distracted with Angus' great move, the government has quietly approved a massive extension to the Middlemount coal mine epbcpublicportal.environment.gov.au/all-referral...
Project Decision
· EPBC Act Public Portal
epbcpublicportal.environment.gov.au
February 12, 2026 at 10:45 PM
While everyone is distracted with Angus' great move, the government has quietly approved a massive extension to the Middlemount coal mine epbcpublicportal.environment.gov.au/all-referral...
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One thing that astonishes me about the Herzog visit is that Israel has murdered more journalists than any other state in the 21st century, and he hasn’t faced a single question about this (to my knowledge) from the Australian media
February 12, 2026 at 5:24 AM
One thing that astonishes me about the Herzog visit is that Israel has murdered more journalists than any other state in the 21st century, and he hasn’t faced a single question about this (to my knowledge) from the Australian media
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The Plonker get’s it. Citizens, the next Liberal prime minister of Australia. 😂 If I were Ley, I’d bail. Leave Taylor to defend Farrer in a by-election. Keep tap dancing folks. The show rolls on. As the “two party” system further unravels? #auspol #democracy www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Angus Taylor becomes opposition leader after defeating Sussan Ley in Liberal party leadership ballot
Former shadow defence minister wins partyroom vote, ending Ley’s tumultuous nine-month reign as the first female leader of the Liberals
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:02 PM
The Plonker get’s it. Citizens, the next Liberal prime minister of Australia. 😂 If I were Ley, I’d bail. Leave Taylor to defend Farrer in a by-election. Keep tap dancing folks. The show rolls on. As the “two party” system further unravels? #auspol #democracy www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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I really wish more people would read this.
Australia's unemployment benefits are the lowest in the OECD.
The government claims that this is to encourage people to get a job and lowers unemployment.
Studies have shown that this is bullshit (quelle surprise)
#auspol
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...
Australia's unemployment benefits are the lowest in the OECD.
The government claims that this is to encourage people to get a job and lowers unemployment.
Studies have shown that this is bullshit (quelle surprise)
#auspol
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...
www.aph.gov.au
February 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM
I really wish more people would read this.
Australia's unemployment benefits are the lowest in the OECD.
The government claims that this is to encourage people to get a job and lowers unemployment.
Studies have shown that this is bullshit (quelle surprise)
#auspol
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...
Australia's unemployment benefits are the lowest in the OECD.
The government claims that this is to encourage people to get a job and lowers unemployment.
Studies have shown that this is bullshit (quelle surprise)
#auspol
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...
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Moral clarity in a time of cowardice + complicity.
Thank you, Grace Tame.
Thank you, Grace Tame.
February 12, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Moral clarity in a time of cowardice + complicity.
Thank you, Grace Tame.
Thank you, Grace Tame.
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This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
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A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️
Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
February 11, 2026 at 6:59 PM
A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️
Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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📚 Mining has driven Australia’s prosperity and way of life. It’s also environmentally and socially destructive. Our mining crime novels explore this tension.
Friday essay: Australia’s ‘quarry noir’ mines our anxiety about our biggest industry
theconversation.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:49 PM
📚 Mining has driven Australia’s prosperity and way of life. It’s also environmentally and socially destructive. Our mining crime novels explore this tension.
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The Spin: Gallup will no longer publish approval ratings of presidents, & will focus on its "public research & thought leadership.”
Reality: Donald Trump doesn't like having low approval ratings & will sue Gallup or make it pay fake fines.
Gallup bends the knee. Authoritarianism at work.
Reality: Donald Trump doesn't like having low approval ratings & will sue Gallup or make it pay fake fines.
Gallup bends the knee. Authoritarianism at work.
February 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
The Spin: Gallup will no longer publish approval ratings of presidents, & will focus on its "public research & thought leadership.”
Reality: Donald Trump doesn't like having low approval ratings & will sue Gallup or make it pay fake fines.
Gallup bends the knee. Authoritarianism at work.
Reality: Donald Trump doesn't like having low approval ratings & will sue Gallup or make it pay fake fines.
Gallup bends the knee. Authoritarianism at work.
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One way in which Israeli settler colonialism very closely matches that of North America's is the way in which the "frontier-settler" has a de facto alliance with the army. The army allows settler violence to happen and in many cases actively supports it, without official policy needing to say so.
For Six Hours, Israeli Settlers Rampaged Two West Bank Villages – While Soldiers Looked On www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
For six hours, Israeli settlers rampaged two West Bank villages – while soldiers looked on
'Settlers Tried to Break Down Our Door, Broke the Window and Sprayed Us With Pepper Spray,' a Resident Recalls
www.haaretz.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
One way in which Israeli settler colonialism very closely matches that of North America's is the way in which the "frontier-settler" has a de facto alliance with the army. The army allows settler violence to happen and in many cases actively supports it, without official policy needing to say so.
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Does the Australian government raise more money from beer than it does from the tax on our gas exports?
YES
And the look on their faces is priceless.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZln...
YES
And the look on their faces is priceless.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZln...
Does Australia Get More Tax From Beer Than Gas?
YouTube video by 10 News
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Does the Australian government raise more money from beer than it does from the tax on our gas exports?
YES
And the look on their faces is priceless.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZln...
YES
And the look on their faces is priceless.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZln...
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Sunrise reflections this morning at Lake Weyba, near Noosa, on the Sunshine Coast.
#landscape #photography #nature #sunrise #reflections #australia
#landscape #photography #nature #sunrise #reflections #australia
February 12, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Sunrise reflections this morning at Lake Weyba, near Noosa, on the Sunshine Coast.
#landscape #photography #nature #sunrise #reflections #australia
#landscape #photography #nature #sunrise #reflections #australia
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Another brilliant cartoon from Cathy Wilcox.
February 10, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Another brilliant cartoon from Cathy Wilcox.