Gavin Gatenby
@gavingatenby.bsky.social
Retired NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service officer. My videos, mostly about Australian wildlife, can be seen on Werrong Lane: http://www.YouTube.com/user/possm1. Check it out!
I stand with Ukraine! 🇦🇺🇺🇦
I block bullshit accounts.
I stand with Ukraine! 🇦🇺🇺🇦
I block bullshit accounts.
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A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.
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Here’s your Epstein Hoax
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Here’s your Epstein Hoax
I often spot a platypus in the creek at Braidwood.
Thrilled to see this big fat #platypus (check out that tail) foraging in #Hobart Rivulet. Wildlife in cities is a wonderful thing - we need to make all cities more #wildlife friendly (as well as protecting large areas of intact #native bush). Yay for #monotremes! #naturewriting #australianwildlife
November 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I often spot a platypus in the creek at Braidwood.
Both-sides-ism personified. Brilliant.
![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Both-sides-ism personified. Brilliant.
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Who’s in the room?
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Who’s in the room?
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Joseph Dalton Hooker was Darwin’s first confidant when he was secretly developing his (then) theory of natural selection as the driver of evolution. Primarily a botanist, Hooker was also an explorer and an early mountaineer.
These images appear in J. D. Hooker’s work after the Transit of Venus expedition to Kerguelen islands in 1874-1875, recounting the species described through all expeditions to date. Hooker himself visited the islands with Ross expedition of 1839-1843.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50570544
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50570544
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Joseph Dalton Hooker was Darwin’s first confidant when he was secretly developing his (then) theory of natural selection as the driver of evolution. Primarily a botanist, Hooker was also an explorer and an early mountaineer.
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Clean up.
My. @smh @theage cartoon.
My. @smh @theage cartoon.
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Clean up.
My. @smh @theage cartoon.
My. @smh @theage cartoon.
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Thank god, a corrective to the mealymouth good bloke/bit of a rascal shit as Kate McClymont lays out the trail of corruption to & from Graham Richardson.
No way does he deserve a state funeral.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
No way does he deserve a state funeral.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Long lunches, Swiss bank accounts and a kangaroo scrotum: My decades pursuing Graham Richardson
For a reporter whose career has been spent uncovering crime and corruption, the Labor senator was the one who got away.
www.smh.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Thank god, a corrective to the mealymouth good bloke/bit of a rascal shit as Kate McClymont lays out the trail of corruption to & from Graham Richardson.
No way does he deserve a state funeral.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
No way does he deserve a state funeral.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Welcome, Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer! theconversation.com/i-discovered... By Dr Kit Prendergast
I discovered a new Australian native bee, but there are still hundreds we need to identify
The discovery of a horned native bee that pollinates a rare plant highlights how little we know about Australian pollinators.
theconversation.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Welcome, Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer! theconversation.com/i-discovered... By Dr Kit Prendergast
See what it's like to drive across the vastness of Australia.
Here's my vid of a 13 day, 4,640 km trip from NSW to WA. (NY to LA is just 4,527 km).
If you've never visited Aust, or if you're thinking of doing the overland, I hope you'll like it ... (44 mins).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLE3...
Here's my vid of a 13 day, 4,640 km trip from NSW to WA. (NY to LA is just 4,527 km).
If you've never visited Aust, or if you're thinking of doing the overland, I hope you'll like it ... (44 mins).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLE3...
Wide open spaces – driving Australia coast to coast
YouTube video by Werrong Lane
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November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
See what it's like to drive across the vastness of Australia.
Here's my vid of a 13 day, 4,640 km trip from NSW to WA. (NY to LA is just 4,527 km).
If you've never visited Aust, or if you're thinking of doing the overland, I hope you'll like it ... (44 mins).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLE3...
Here's my vid of a 13 day, 4,640 km trip from NSW to WA. (NY to LA is just 4,527 km).
If you've never visited Aust, or if you're thinking of doing the overland, I hope you'll like it ... (44 mins).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLE3...
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BREAKING: Trump was just viciously BOOED at the Washington Commanders Detroit Lions game.
I’ve never heard a president booed this loudly in my life. Holy cow!
I’ve never heard a president booed this loudly in my life. Holy cow!
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
BREAKING: Trump was just viciously BOOED at the Washington Commanders Detroit Lions game.
I’ve never heard a president booed this loudly in my life. Holy cow!
I’ve never heard a president booed this loudly in my life. Holy cow!
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The sooner this AI abomination flares into flame, burns out and becomes a mere ember on the ashes of the arid, infertile imaginations of the very few ... the better.
Look I’m not one of those crazy Luddites or anything, but this does seem like it could be quite bad www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Australian man encouraged to murder his father by AI chatbot
Experts are calling for new regulations on artificial intelligence chatbots, after a triple j hack investigation uncovered a disturbing example of a chatbot encouraging a man to murder his father whil...
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The sooner this AI abomination flares into flame, burns out and becomes a mere ember on the ashes of the arid, infertile imaginations of the very few ... the better.
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Is this my best side?
A chestnut-rumped thornbill making absolutely sure that they got a good shot on the camera trap 😆
From one of my trips to Gluepot Reserve last year.
A chestnut-rumped thornbill making absolutely sure that they got a good shot on the camera trap 😆
From one of my trips to Gluepot Reserve last year.
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Is this my best side?
A chestnut-rumped thornbill making absolutely sure that they got a good shot on the camera trap 😆
From one of my trips to Gluepot Reserve last year.
A chestnut-rumped thornbill making absolutely sure that they got a good shot on the camera trap 😆
From one of my trips to Gluepot Reserve last year.
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Yet more confirmation that Musk is this century's Joseph Goebbels - with global reach.
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Yet more confirmation that Musk is this century's Joseph Goebbels - with global reach.
This Australian Fur Seal is having a nice little snooze. I've watched them do this in a swell, off a rocky shore, by anchoring themselves in floating kelp. The world's biggest fur seal, they mostly eat squid, octopus, fish and lobsters & can dive to 200m. #WildOz #seals #AustralianWildlife
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This Australian Fur Seal is having a nice little snooze. I've watched them do this in a swell, off a rocky shore, by anchoring themselves in floating kelp. The world's biggest fur seal, they mostly eat squid, octopus, fish and lobsters & can dive to 200m. #WildOz #seals #AustralianWildlife
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Little known fact about Jesus: he was also very close to the gambling lobby, and fought hard to shut down freedom of information requests
At the Christian prayer breakfast this week, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said that the “principles and values that Jesus lived by underpin the role of Australia’s first law officer” and claimed that “our values and faith” guide lawmakers. Read more: rationalist.com.au/australias-a...
#auspol
#auspol
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Little known fact about Jesus: he was also very close to the gambling lobby, and fought hard to shut down freedom of information requests
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A wonderful day spent with the Rock-wallabies on Magnetic Island, Qld
#NaturePhotography #Marsupials #Macropods #AustralianWildlife #wildoz #wallaby #wildoz
#NaturePhotography #Marsupials #Macropods #AustralianWildlife #wildoz #wallaby #wildoz
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A wonderful day spent with the Rock-wallabies on Magnetic Island, Qld
#NaturePhotography #Marsupials #Macropods #AustralianWildlife #wildoz #wallaby #wildoz
#NaturePhotography #Marsupials #Macropods #AustralianWildlife #wildoz #wallaby #wildoz
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OTD in 1880, Charles Darwin published The Power of Movement in Plants. D believed that plants are active agents in the world: “A radicle may be compared with a burrowing animal such as a mole, which wishes to penetrate perpendicularly down into the ground.”
🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫
🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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A bit of a mood booster seeing these amazing animals in action :)
Our new #EcolClips on Platypus and Echidnas — the world’s only egg-laying mammals!
#Australia #Sydney #animals #nature #science #biodiversity #ecology
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kupR...
Our new #EcolClips on Platypus and Echidnas — the world’s only egg-laying mammals!
#Australia #Sydney #animals #nature #science #biodiversity #ecology
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kupR...
How have Monotremes survived 100 Million Years of Change? | EcolClips
YouTube video by EcolClips
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November 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
A bit of a mood booster seeing these amazing animals in action :)
Our new #EcolClips on Platypus and Echidnas — the world’s only egg-laying mammals!
#Australia #Sydney #animals #nature #science #biodiversity #ecology
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kupR...
Our new #EcolClips on Platypus and Echidnas — the world’s only egg-laying mammals!
#Australia #Sydney #animals #nature #science #biodiversity #ecology
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kupR...
Now there’s a great idea! And the panels should be used to provide free or cheap charging for electric cars, especially if it was a shopping centre car park. #AusPol
Australia is one of the sunniest places on earth.
Cover every car park with solar panels. Provide shade and cool the cars at the same time as producing electricity.
Cover every car park with solar panels. Provide shade and cool the cars at the same time as producing electricity.
South Korea (hey how about it PM #MarkCarney?) #Solar #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Now there’s a great idea! And the panels should be used to provide free or cheap charging for electric cars, especially if it was a shopping centre car park. #AusPol
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This story reads like a blockbuster movie script. But this is not a movie, this is real life and real people.
#Ukrainian soldiers from the 1st Medical Battalion, using a ground robot, evacuated a wounded Defender from a Russian-controlled settlement.
📹: 1st Medical Battalion
#Ukrainian soldiers from the 1st Medical Battalion, using a ground robot, evacuated a wounded Defender from a Russian-controlled settlement.
📹: 1st Medical Battalion
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This story reads like a blockbuster movie script. But this is not a movie, this is real life and real people.
#Ukrainian soldiers from the 1st Medical Battalion, using a ground robot, evacuated a wounded Defender from a Russian-controlled settlement.
📹: 1st Medical Battalion
#Ukrainian soldiers from the 1st Medical Battalion, using a ground robot, evacuated a wounded Defender from a Russian-controlled settlement.
📹: 1st Medical Battalion
It's that time of year again folks. Just say 'Nup to the Cup'.
Cartoon by Fiona Katauskas, The Guardian. #MelbourneCup #AnimalWelfare #HorseRacingKills #NupToTheCup #YouBetTheyDie #Australia #AusPol 🏇☠️💰
November 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It's that time of year again folks. Just say 'Nup to the Cup'.