A serious post. Tomorrow in Vic there’ll be big wind storms so if you suffer from asthma,COPD or other forms of respiratory diseases please stay home. These storms can kill,so If you have to go out tomorrow wear a mask. Ian

SF promises strange new worlds. In @clarkeaward.bsky.social winner The Animals in that Country, the blurb is a classic 3-parter: protagonist, premise, perturb. 1) a foul-mouthed drunken granny; 2) who suddenly understand animals; 3) and hits the road with a bossy dingo to find her lost g-daughter.

Give this a Like or even a RT if you want to see billionaires forced to pay tax like everyone else.

This weird little orchid is flowering again.
Bulbophyllum rothschildianum

So this probably is who was grunting and bellowing outside my window last night. He's a very big boy.

My bat plant is definitely enjoying the hot, humid Sydney summer.
Me, not as much

This time with alt text. Apologies

Jeez I hope they knocked first.
Collaroy, Sydney Northern Beaches

The tater harvest is in. About 8 kg of Dutch Creams plus another 1kg that I bandicooted earlier. I put 1 kg of seed potatos in, so I'm pretty happy with that.

The national energy marketer seems alarmed by the (wonderful, world-leading!) fact that *4 million* Australian homes and businesses have rooftop solar.

It’s time for the government to help all those homes and businesses afford the batteries they need to store their cheap, clean energy.

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Bluesky now lets you block account directly from the "..." in the post

They really did not even look around the corner let alone over the horizon on this.

smdh

want to quickly follow a bunch of aussies who have moved from X/twitter recently?

go.bsky.app/F46ebLH

Humpback whales having a major party off Collaroy beach in Sydney rn