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S. K. Riley
@skriley.bsky.social
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Writer, PhD, gardener, educator, tree planter, and so forth.
www.skriley-author.com
Lover of Australian wildlife, re-wilding, mythology, music, cinema and democracy. 🇦🇺
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · Mar 8
Dingo Roaming

Dingo was roaming, seeing, feeling − falling toward the stars.

- JP Quinton

#Dingo #Stars #Dreaming
Seen from above, the tracks a dingo makes when it runs across shallow water on a desert clay pan. Overlapping, concentric circles that look like a painting stretch out in a single line behind a dingo, running ahead. Photo credit: Greg Robertson, while mustering cattle in far north western New South Wales, Australia.
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Timelapse of the moon being stowed away in the Griffith Observatory's secret underground warehouse.
#Astrophotography
February 19, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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altyellonatpark.org
Fun fact

It will take the space probe Voyager about 80,000 years to reach the nearest star.

Image credit
NASA JPL
February 17, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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I captured the Andromeda Galaxy with an 8-hour integration time using my Askar FRA500 telescope, ASI2600MC Duo camera, and ZWO AM5N mount.

#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposurephotography #longexposure #andromeda #galaxy #eastcoastkin #photography
December 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
skriley.bsky.social
Are we there yet? 🪐

#Deodato #2001ASpaceOdyssey #AlsoSprachZarathustra #Jazz #Funk #Instrumental #Music

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJK3...
Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra HQ audio
YouTube video by funkmoses
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February 20, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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Tawny Frogmouths at the local wetlands. #ausbirds #birds #tawnyfrogmouth #yalikutwillamnaturereserve #wetlands
Three Tawny Frogmoths at the local wetlands, one is stretching a wing
February 19, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Virginia Giuffre ❤️
Say her name. #VirginiaGiuffre #Andrew #Epstein
February 19, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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old mate emu is probably judging you
#photography #AustralianFauna #Emu #EastCoastKin
A fed up looking emu stares at the cameraperson and contemplates stealing her sandwich, handbag or possibly her phone. Photo taken at Melbourne Zoo, Feb 14 2026.
February 19, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Keep owls out of it! #Andrew
An owl on a stump.
February 19, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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Wow.
kzooastro.bsky.social Kalamazoo Astronomical Society @kzooastro.bsky.social · 1d
Mercury was only 50 arcminutes (0.8°) above a very young waxing crescent Moon this evening. KAS member Pete Mumbower captured this image from his home in Vicksburg, MI.
February 19, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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#62 #cassowary #birdphotography #birds
November 10, 2024 at 5:21 PM
skriley.bsky.social
STRAYA 🇦🇺

My country don't share no borders
'Cos of all the waters that surround our land…

Don't try to find the capital
Or fight the animals
You're on your own

Just drive from town to paradise
And you'll see why we call Australia home

#Straya #Oz #Outkast #HaYa

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMdb...
National Anthem of STRAYA (to the tune of Hey Ya)
YouTube video by coachbombaymusic
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February 19, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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gdrosser.bsky.social
I am just getting into my car to go to work. This is the sound of the lorikeets (plus a galah and a magpie) in my garden. Since dawn.
#birds #AustralianBirds #nature #gardens #trees
February 18, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
After a Devastating Bird Flu Outbreak, Scotland’s Seabirds Are Slowly Recovering—and So Are the Scientists Who Witnessed Their Decline

The world’s largest colony of northern gannets was decimated by bird flu in 2022. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... 🧪🦑🌍
After a Devastating Bird Flu Outbreak, Scotland's Seabirds Are Slowly Recovering—and So Are the Scientists Who Witnessed Their Decline
The world’s largest colony of northern gannets was decimated by bird flu in 2022. Now, as their numbers climb again, researchers are collecting data to understand the virus’ lasting effects
www.smithsonianmag.com
February 18, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Ruth Arenz
February 18, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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sandrojanssen.com
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”

— Henry David Thoreau
February 18, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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Oh wow. Plot twist! Glitter bomb pidge has a ladyfriend. Both were strutting around the back yard yesterday!

Also it seems a family of King parrots have moved into our street. Not my photo, but this is what they look like-- big, and SERIOUSLY vivid. #birds #australianwildlife
February 18, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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Men at Work's singer-songwriter Colin Hay is not happy "Down Under" is being used by "March for Australia" events to promote racism and xenophobia. He posted this 👇 on social media today. #auspol #racism #AusMusic 🎶
Statement by singer-songwriter Colin Hay; Down Under “Let me say that I most strenuously disapprove of any unauthorized, unlicensed use of Down Under, for any ‘March For Australia’ events. Down Under, a song I co-wrote, does not belong to those who attempt to sow xenophobia within the fabric of our great land, our great people. Down Under is ultimately a song of celebration. It’s for pluralism and inclusion; unity, not division. Go write your own song, leave mine alone.” – Colin Hay (immigrant)
January 21, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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Remarkable details of birds, flowers & insects from the border of this 2nd century Roman floor mosaic in Antioch (present-day Turkey), which depicts Ganymede offering a drink to Zeus (in the form of a cranky eagle). Signed by artist Neikias
February 18, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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February 14, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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A lovely #Roman glass bowl, in shades of green & yellow. It was made about 2000 years ago, probably in Italy, but ended up in a grave in the Rhineland; it is one of the largest glass bowls ever found north of the Alps (📷 Clemens Sels Museum Neuss) #AncientBlueSky
February 17, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Good Morning ☕😏✌️... Happy Wednesday🇦🇺🟥🟨😎🏄‍♂️☮️👊
#Sydney #Bondibeach #Bondiripper #Australia
February 17, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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#TwoForTuesday #WildOz #EasternGreyKangaroo
Mama Roo with Joey in her pouch in my carport. 📷 Mine. Photo taken in 2025. South Coast NSW, Australia.
February 17, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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Year of the Horse. Artist: Michele Kortbawi Wilk
February 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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thebombshelter.bsky.social
If you missed the end of @reverenddan.bsky.social's show this afternoon, you missed this wonderful version of the Beatles' "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey" by Fats Domino.
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 177:
youtu.be/gf5YvNU9xrg?...
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
YouTube video by Fats Domino - Topic
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February 17, 2026 at 10:02 PM