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emustar.bsky.social
@emustar.bsky.social
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Retired librarian, artist, small farm, fibre arts, citizen scientist. NSW Australia.
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risingtideaus.bsky.social Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · Oct 9
🪑 Armchair activists, assemble! 😜

We need YOU to sign our petition to the Port to stop coal ships during the Blockade.

The Port calls itself “a global leader in sustainability” — let's pressure them to live up to that claim.

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October 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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The lunar eclipse from NSW Australia at about 3:30 am #astronomy #eclipse #moon
The full moon looking 3D and orange because of the eclipse
September 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Scary looking orange-footed centipede found under a rotting log. Apparently a voracious predator but mildly toxic to humans. #auswildlife #ausinverts
August 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Sunrise
Orange light coming up behind hills under a cloudy sky
August 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Halle-fucking-lujah!

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Engineers Redesign the 180 Year Old Speculum
YouTube video by Today I Learned Science
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August 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Dinner time here in Australia. 🍽️😋🇦🇺

Ibis in a low tide lagoon. Seafood is on the menu.
🐦🌊🏖️ 🦞🐚

Sweet dreams, world. 😴✨🌍

#birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #naturephotography #birding #birdwatching #birdwatchers #Canon #R5 #Australia
The photograph, taken from a low angle at eye level, presents a flock of Australian white ibis birds wading in the shallow, sandy waters of a light blue lagoon. The blurry background features a light-brown, sandy bank and additional ibis birds in the distance. In the foreground, four birds take centre stage. On the left, two birds are intently searching for sustenance, their long, downward-curving beaks either submerged or close to the water's surface. To the right, two more ibis birds have their beaks open, seemingly in search of food. The birds' bodies are predominantly white, contrasted by black feathers on their backs and black, featherless heads and necks. Their legs and beaks are also black. The scene is bathed in the warm light of sunset.
August 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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A Rainbow Lorikeet taking off from a Swamp Banksia flower spike

Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

#Australianphotography #birds #australianbirds #WildOz #nature #flight #birdsinflight #banksias
The head of the rainbow lorikeet is deep blue with a greenish-yellow nuchal collar, and the rest of the upper parts (wings, back and tail) are green. The chest is orange/yellow. The belly is deep blue, and the thighs and rump are green. The flower spike is a lime green colour. In the distance the sea can be just made out.
August 2, 2025 at 6:27 AM
emustar.bsky.social
See reply to post below, I forgot about the character limit.
August 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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I just got a new laptop with Windows 11. During setup there is a screen to log into your Microsoft account. No way to bypass it or opt out. So I logged into my account (which I have from registering MS Office 2019).
officewatch.bsky.social Office Watch @officewatch.bsky.social · Jul 30
Microsoft saves a lot of related files in secret, hidden #OneDrive folders taking up the space customers pay for and preventing proper backup.  Let’s look at the messy mix of things hidden in OneDrive and other #Microsoft online locations. #microsoft365
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August 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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On #YorkshireDay, enjoy this lovely railway poster of the Yorkshire Dales by Ladybird artist Ronald Lampitt
A lovely vintage railway poster, in a limited palette range based on green, looking down into a village in a dale
August 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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July 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Free book at Project Gutenberg: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/236
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#kindle #reading #ebooks #Gutenberg
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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July 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Yellow thornbills, tiny twittering little birds hanging out in the wattles and casuarinas. #auswildlife #ausbirds
Small brown bird with yellow chest and underbelly perching on a branch
July 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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See alt text for full description. #photography #bordercollie #nature
It's nighttime and I am walking my puppy. The full moon is shining through clouds and big old gumtrees are silhouttted in front. It is 10 degrees Celsius, not too cold if you are rugged up. We saw one small kangaroo hopping away.
July 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Walking at sunrise with puppy after a rainy night. #photography #sunrise #naturephotography
Pink clouds at horizon reflected on road. Trees beside road. Sky lightening and gum trees at sodes of curving road.
July 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Pink mist this morning! And a heavy frost.
Sunrise theough mist, trees and hills
June 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Arty shots of evening light reflected on surface of wooden coffee table. #photography
Coffee table surface relecting light from outside window. Pink clouds, mouuntains in distance, wooden verandah behind window. Same with blue sky Same showing table legs
June 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Frost, fog and roos this morning #auswildlife
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Big male Eastern grey kangaroo in paddock 5 Eastern grey kangaroos, hravel driveway flanked by gumtrees
June 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Play, walk, play, sleep. Freezing wind and rain, 6 degrees centigrade outside, nice to come home to the fire. #bordercollie
Border collie puppy curled up in a director chair in front of the fireplace
June 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Puppy had a busy morning shredding her blankets
Border collie sleeping on couch covered in torn blankets
June 7, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Breakfast sorted! Orange, lemon, lime and mandarin marmalade. 50% wholemeal sourdough. Tried a longer fermentation and it has risen better this time.
2 loaves of bread and 4 jars of orange marmalade
May 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Ghost moths - they are attracted to lights at night but seem to like sleeping in the sun during the day. #auswildlife #Australianinvertebrates
Large moth on grass Side view of moth on wooden verandah
April 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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2 Peron's tree frogs in the sheep 'bathtubs trough when I went to scrub off some of the algae.
#auswildlife #frogs
A little frog with one front leg stretching up, showing distinctive webbed toes and lemon-yellow inner thighs. Green algae on the surface it's reaching up to.
April 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Morning sky #sunrise
Sunrise over paddocks and hills
April 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Straw necked ibis and sulphur crested cockatoos vying for a tree to roost in at dusk #auswildlife #birds
2 eucalyptus trees with ibis and cockatoos flying around them
April 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM