Perdita Phillips
@perdy.bsky.social
walking, listening, mapping, animals, minerals, plants, ecologies, installations, exchange, photography, drawing, collage, videos, eclogues www.linktr.ee/perditaphillips
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
I can understand developers, mining, the fossil fuel and gambling lobbies capturing the Labour Party, but the meth lobby?????
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I can understand developers, mining, the fossil fuel and gambling lobbies capturing the Labour Party, but the meth lobby?????
Red water flowing through Mammoth Cave on Wardandi Boodja
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Red water flowing through Mammoth Cave on Wardandi Boodja
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For the record, Melissa's main targets of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas account for, respectively, 0.016%, 0.0089%, 0.064%, and 0.0038% of the global annual total of CO2 emissions.
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
For the record, Melissa's main targets of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas account for, respectively, 0.016%, 0.0089%, 0.064%, and 0.0038% of the global annual total of CO2 emissions.
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Read more:
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October 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Terra fires
I have been developing techniques for the automated assessment of fire events across Australia using NAFI (firenorth.org.au) data. These are the top 10 largest across Australia so far this year. 3 of them are > 1 million hectares (Terra-Fires, 100x mega fire). The year is not over.
October 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Terra fires
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And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
New edit of die back (a collaboration with Annette Nykiel) features phytophthora bodies)
October 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
New edit of die back (a collaboration with Annette Nykiel) features phytophthora bodies)
Transversal — a show of expanded, experimental video and projection opening Thursday night
October 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Transversal — a show of expanded, experimental video and projection opening Thursday night
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People kvetch about the chaos-inducing serial comma, but you can also do a lot with a colon! Beware, biographers!!
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
People kvetch about the chaos-inducing serial comma, but you can also do a lot with a colon! Beware, biographers!!
Three police officers struggle to handcuff inflatable penis
October 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Three police officers struggle to handcuff inflatable penis
Getting ready for shear zone open studio this morning. Wondering what this project plan drawing will end up like. Wayfinders by Sarah Tomasetti, blank paper and moss covered limestone rocks by Perdita Phillips.
October 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Getting ready for shear zone open studio this morning. Wondering what this project plan drawing will end up like. Wayfinders by Sarah Tomasetti, blank paper and moss covered limestone rocks by Perdita Phillips.
Can’t wait for the technocrats to say that forests should be deleted because the haven’t met their KPIs www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source
Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Can’t wait for the technocrats to say that forests should be deleted because the haven’t met their KPIs www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If anyone is in Walyalup/Fremantle this Sunday 19 October we are having an open studio 10-12 for Shear Zone
October 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
If anyone is in Walyalup/Fremantle this Sunday 19 October we are having an open studio 10-12 for Shear Zone
Australian ravens razzling the bottlebrush blossom
October 12, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Australian ravens razzling the bottlebrush blossom
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This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct.
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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 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct.
theconversation.com/and-then-the...
theconversation.com/and-then-the...
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Stereographs made as part of Lithic Traces in the Archive (my Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria)
October 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Stereographs made as part of Lithic Traces in the Archive (my Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria)
Our first letter to the forest has arrived: this one by Jane Donlin.
Dear forest, with awe and gratitude
Dear forest, with awe and gratitude
October 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Our first letter to the forest has arrived: this one by Jane Donlin.
Dear forest, with awe and gratitude
Dear forest, with awe and gratitude
Will you send A letter to the forest? You are invited to write a letter to the forests of Southwest Western Australia for inclusion in a book to be bound in the forest, near Northcliffe, Western Australia.
September 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Will you send A letter to the forest? You are invited to write a letter to the forests of Southwest Western Australia for inclusion in a book to be bound in the forest, near Northcliffe, Western Australia.
From the government that now does #unscience
September 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
From the government that now does #unscience
Having flashbacks to undergrad in the sciences (my visual arts undergrad school operated in the sheds that the gardeners left when they got new facilities)
Little (?) known fact: it’s a sine qua non condition for university accreditation in the US that the main hallway of the biology department MUST look EXACTLY like this
September 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Having flashbacks to undergrad in the sciences (my visual arts undergrad school operated in the sheds that the gardeners left when they got new facilities)
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Very rarely have butcherbirds here… only one visits, and very occasionally
Suspect the currawongs & magpies crowd them out
Suspect the currawongs & magpies crowd them out
Predawn song of a Pied Butcherbird in early spring. Before sunrise at this time of year the song of butcherbirds (and Australian Magpies) is often made up of simpler, more repetitive phrases than the typical full song heard later in the morning - but it's still sublime!
#wildoz
#wildoz
August 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Very rarely have butcherbirds here… only one visits, and very occasionally
Suspect the currawongs & magpies crowd them out
Suspect the currawongs & magpies crowd them out
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Tonight! Politics of Walking: Grief, Solidarity, and Resistance, with Nohad ElHajj, activist Marta Moreno Muñoz, artist Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman + writer Tom Jeffreys. It's free to join. Don't miss it!
wld.zone/politicsofwalking
@babakfakhamzadeh.com #WALC
wld.zone/politicsofwalking
@babakfakhamzadeh.com #WALC
August 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Tonight! Politics of Walking: Grief, Solidarity, and Resistance, with Nohad ElHajj, activist Marta Moreno Muñoz, artist Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman + writer Tom Jeffreys. It's free to join. Don't miss it!
wld.zone/politicsofwalking
@babakfakhamzadeh.com #WALC
wld.zone/politicsofwalking
@babakfakhamzadeh.com #WALC