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The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko | Chris Lynch | Substack
A four-part novel that sets off as a fable and then begins to spiral, one short episode a week. Includes talking animals, piracy, humour, interpolation, grief, and a plunge off a continental shelf. Se...
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15 years ago I wrote the first sentence of a novel: "Once upon a time, in a small cottage on the side of a volcano, there lived a tortoise." For the last 5 years the book's been my main project, a form I've never quite seen. Now I'm serialising it, one short episode a week. Here we go... #booksky
Beautiful arrangement of Max Richter's On The Nature Of Daylight www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDrY...
On The Nature Of Daylight (live at the Bath Abbey) - by Max Richter, Arranged by Edward Cross
YouTube video by Edward Cross
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November 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Beautiful arrangement of Max Richter's On The Nature Of Daylight www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDrY...
Enjoying Radiohead's Madrid concert from the other night, their first in seven years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze8Z...
Radiohead - FULL SHOW - live Madrid 2025-11-04 night 1 European Tour complete concert
YouTube video by Javi Dieguez
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November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Enjoying Radiohead's Madrid concert from the other night, their first in seven years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze8Z...
Absolutely sobering reading.
+1.5ºC is gone, likely +2ºC as well.
"By 2040 on the current trajectory of +2ºC, 197 countries in the world would experience more than 150 days of 35ºC temperatures. In addition more than 3 billion people would experience severe water scarcity."
+1.5ºC is gone, likely +2ºC as well.
"By 2040 on the current trajectory of +2ºC, 197 countries in the world would experience more than 150 days of 35ºC temperatures. In addition more than 3 billion people would experience severe water scarcity."
Conference Report: The Global Heating Emergency
Ten years ago the world agreed to limit temperatures to 2ºC by 2100, so it’s a little alarming to attend a conference discussing if its even possible to prevent breaching that limit by 2040.
drtomharris.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Absolutely sobering reading.
+1.5ºC is gone, likely +2ºC as well.
"By 2040 on the current trajectory of +2ºC, 197 countries in the world would experience more than 150 days of 35ºC temperatures. In addition more than 3 billion people would experience severe water scarcity."
+1.5ºC is gone, likely +2ºC as well.
"By 2040 on the current trajectory of +2ºC, 197 countries in the world would experience more than 150 days of 35ºC temperatures. In addition more than 3 billion people would experience severe water scarcity."
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Raining on Two (Dog Walk), Photo by Saul Leiter, 1957
October 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Raining on Two (Dog Walk), Photo by Saul Leiter, 1957
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Episode 43: Ika
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/episode-43
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books 🪐📚💙
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/episode-43
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books 🪐📚💙
Episode 43
Ika
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October 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Episode 43: Ika
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/episode-43
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books 🪐📚💙
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/episode-43
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books 🪐📚💙
Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time... abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
October 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time... abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Indonesia is again bombing Kiwirok, the site of a huge massacre in 2021 that killed over 300 West Papuan civilians. dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/indo... #westpapua
Indonesia bombards Star Mountains as situation escalates across West Papua - Daily Telegraph NZ
Indonesian President Prabowo talks about promoting peace in the Middle East as his military is trying to wipe out West Papua, writes Benny Wenda.
dailytelegraph.co.nz
October 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Indonesia is again bombing Kiwirok, the site of a huge massacre in 2021 that killed over 300 West Papuan civilians. dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/indo... #westpapua
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The shrew’s extinction increases the tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 to 39 species. This is far more than for any other country. These losses represent about 10% of all Australia’s land mammal species before colonisation 🧪
theconversation.com/and-then-the...
theconversation.com/and-then-the...
And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct
Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.
theconversation.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The shrew’s extinction increases the tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 to 39 species. This is far more than for any other country. These losses represent about 10% of all Australia’s land mammal species before colonisation 🧪
theconversation.com/and-then-the...
theconversation.com/and-then-the...
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Good morning #BlueSky ☕️ A little something l took a few nights ago. Have a beautiful day my friends ☺️ #BlueSkyArtShow #glow #Photography #PhotographyOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #SunSet #SunSets #Clouds #CloudFormations #Nature #SkyScapes #Ireland #NaturePhotography #Saturday
October 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Good morning #BlueSky ☕️ A little something l took a few nights ago. Have a beautiful day my friends ☺️ #BlueSkyArtShow #glow #Photography #PhotographyOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #SunSet #SunSets #Clouds #CloudFormations #Nature #SkyScapes #Ireland #NaturePhotography #Saturday
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An elaborately constructed book in a box filled with stories and ephemera? In this economy? Fear not. @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social has discounted the boxed edition of Ephemeral City to A$45 (pp) for a limited time. If you’ve been on the fence, now's your chance. www.simongroth.com/shop/ephemer...
September 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
An elaborately constructed book in a box filled with stories and ephemera? In this economy? Fear not. @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social has discounted the boxed edition of Ephemeral City to A$45 (pp) for a limited time. If you’ve been on the fence, now's your chance. www.simongroth.com/shop/ephemer...
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Three-quarters of the way through Part 1 of The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko! You can download a free PDF of episodes 1-39 here: theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/e-books
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books #ebooks #booksky 🪐📚💙
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books #ebooks #booksky 🪐📚💙
E-books
When Tortoise joins Gecko on the high seas, he learns that the stories we're told and the ones we tell transform us. With talking animals, pirates, empire, & buried texts, this shapeshifting philosoph...
theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au
September 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Three-quarters of the way through Part 1 of The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko! You can download a free PDF of episodes 1-39 here: theamazingadventuresof.tortoiseandgecko.au/p/e-books
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books #ebooks #booksky 🪐📚💙
#tortoiseandgecko #sff #books #ebooks #booksky 🪐📚💙
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Earth & Green
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https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4865
September 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Earth & Green
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4865
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4865
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🧵 I’ve been thinking about death, recently. Not my own, I look forward to the relaxation. It’s how people describe death. It’s a truism that the Irish do death ‘well’. We have an ancient tradition of engaging with mortality & a far too frequent experience of violent death in our history [1]
September 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
🧵 I’ve been thinking about death, recently. Not my own, I look forward to the relaxation. It’s how people describe death. It’s a truism that the Irish do death ‘well’. We have an ancient tradition of engaging with mortality & a far too frequent experience of violent death in our history [1]
Members of the Melbourne West Papuan community at the PNG Independence Day market last weekend--so good to see the community included in the regional dance performance.
September 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Members of the Melbourne West Papuan community at the PNG Independence Day market last weekend--so good to see the community included in the regional dance performance.
Good segment on 50 years of PNG independence on 7.30 tonight, with some great historical footage I hadn't seen before. From 24:48 mins: iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2501... #papuanewguinea
7.30: Tuesday 16/9/2025
A Queensland government audit found more than 700 vulnerable children were missing from out-of-home care in July. Can Australia break China's "chokehold" on rare earths? Plus Papua New Guinea marks 50...
iview.abc.net.au
September 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Good segment on 50 years of PNG independence on 7.30 tonight, with some great historical footage I hadn't seen before. From 24:48 mins: iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2501... #papuanewguinea
Sorong Samarai - One People One Soul One Destiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJf... #papuanewguinea #freewestpapua
SORONG SAMARAI - Airileke Feat. Twin Tribe
YouTube video by Rize of the Morning star
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September 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Sorong Samarai - One People One Soul One Destiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJf... #papuanewguinea #freewestpapua
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John Martinkus made his name reporting on conflict. He was one of the first journalists to cover East Timor’s struggle for independence in the 1990s, and went on to cover Iraq, Afghanistan, Aceh, Burma and West Papua. He died in Melbourne, aged 56 www.theage.com.au/culture/book...
September 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
John Martinkus made his name reporting on conflict. He was one of the first journalists to cover East Timor’s struggle for independence in the 1990s, and went on to cover Iraq, Afghanistan, Aceh, Burma and West Papua. He died in Melbourne, aged 56 www.theage.com.au/culture/book...
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Golden-mantled Tree #Kangaroos 🦘🤎 are critically endangered #marsupials of #PapuaNewGuinea 🇵🇬 They're on the edge of #extinction from #palmoil #deforestation and #hunting. Resist for them and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴☠️🤮🙊⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/26/g...
June 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Golden-mantled Tree #Kangaroos 🦘🤎 are critically endangered #marsupials of #PapuaNewGuinea 🇵🇬 They're on the edge of #extinction from #palmoil #deforestation and #hunting. Resist for them and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴☠️🤮🙊⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/26/g...
Australia and Papua New Guinea's military forces will become "totally integrated" as part of a landmark defence treaty between the two nations. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
'Battle ready': Australia and PNG will be obliged to defend each other under treaty
Australia and Papua New Guinea will be legally obliged to defend each other from a military attack on either territory under a landmark defence treaty, the ABC can reveal.
www.abc.net.au
September 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Australia and Papua New Guinea's military forces will become "totally integrated" as part of a landmark defence treaty between the two nations. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...