Tom Shires
@tshirt4844.bsky.social
Children's Author. Living on Tommigenner Country. Tasmanian, Aboriginal, Retired Country Footballer.
Farmer: Shorthorn Beef Cattle, Saffron, Black Truffle and Beekeeper. https://t.co/6SgrnbGaeN
Farmer: Shorthorn Beef Cattle, Saffron, Black Truffle and Beekeeper. https://t.co/6SgrnbGaeN
Pinned
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Oscar-worthy
February 15, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Oscar-worthy
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Great pic, love ya work Melbs! 🇵🇸✊🏻 #HerzogNotWelcome
Huge numbers out in Naarm/Melbourne right now for the second time this week to say the war criminal Isaac Herzog isn't welcome in our city! ✊🇵🇸
February 12, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Great pic, love ya work Melbs! 🇵🇸✊🏻 #HerzogNotWelcome
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An almost daily pick-me-up I do is visit the Angler Alliance webcam page. Shows many Tasmanian lakes and is by far the best webcam implementation I have ever seen.
www.anglersalliance.org.au/tasmanian-la...
www.anglersalliance.org.au/tasmanian-la...
February 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM
An almost daily pick-me-up I do is visit the Angler Alliance webcam page. Shows many Tasmanian lakes and is by far the best webcam implementation I have ever seen.
www.anglersalliance.org.au/tasmanian-la...
www.anglersalliance.org.au/tasmanian-la...
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I want to add that her spots look like stardust ✨
A red-tailed black-cockatoo in someone's backyard at Sunset Strip, New South Wales.
You can tell that this one is a female by the spots on its face.
You can tell that this one is a female by the spots on its face.
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 AM
I want to add that her spots look like stardust ✨
I think we should also localize the intifada, but do it globally.
February 11, 2026 at 7:49 AM
I think we should also localize the intifada, but do it globally.
Moths in the garden this morning.
February 11, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Moths in the garden this morning.
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Our local quoll showed up again and this time I actually managed to get a decent picture. This might be the best thing that has ever happened to me. #auswildlife #wildoz #marsupial #mammal
February 11, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Our local quoll showed up again and this time I actually managed to get a decent picture. This might be the best thing that has ever happened to me. #auswildlife #wildoz #marsupial #mammal
This is what our leaders endorse by their invitation and complicity. May they live to see their harvest spoil in the field.
aje.news/s1ry02
aje.news/s1ry02
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
aje.news
February 10, 2026 at 9:27 PM
This is what our leaders endorse by their invitation and complicity. May they live to see their harvest spoil in the field.
aje.news/s1ry02
aje.news/s1ry02
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The language of “social cohesion” was never neutral. It was a calculated, callous move to silence dissent on Palestine. You can keep it. Decent Australians demand justice, international law upheld, and an end to our complicity with a rogue apartheid state committing genocide.
February 10, 2026 at 3:03 AM
The language of “social cohesion” was never neutral. It was a calculated, callous move to silence dissent on Palestine. You can keep it. Decent Australians demand justice, international law upheld, and an end to our complicity with a rogue apartheid state committing genocide.
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We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.
February 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.
Segal loses her job if she is good at it.
February 9, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Segal loses her job if she is good at it.
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Launceston, Lutruwita / Tasmania this evening.👇
Many gathered to protest President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia.
Stop the genocide.
Free Palestine.
Many gathered to protest President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia.
Stop the genocide.
Free Palestine.
February 9, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Launceston, Lutruwita / Tasmania this evening.👇
Many gathered to protest President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia.
Stop the genocide.
Free Palestine.
Many gathered to protest President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia.
Stop the genocide.
Free Palestine.
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Thank you to everyone at the Herzog protests today. I'm so proud of you. We can stand against genocide, arm in arm: Jew, Muslim, Christian, atheist. Human rights apply to everyone. Never again means never again, not even by Jews.
You give me hope. You show we're better than our leaders.
You give me hope. You show we're better than our leaders.
February 9, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Thank you to everyone at the Herzog protests today. I'm so proud of you. We can stand against genocide, arm in arm: Jew, Muslim, Christian, atheist. Human rights apply to everyone. Never again means never again, not even by Jews.
You give me hope. You show we're better than our leaders.
You give me hope. You show we're better than our leaders.
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“Antisemitism is a crime.
Anti-Zionism is a duty.”
Anti-Zionism is a duty.”
We've shut down the busiest pedestrian intersection in Naarm/Melbourne because our government invited a genocidal war criminal to our country
February 9, 2026 at 7:11 AM
“Antisemitism is a crime.
Anti-Zionism is a duty.”
Anti-Zionism is a duty.”
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Meet us at 5pm outside St Paul's Cathedral
February 9, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Meet us at 5pm outside St Paul's Cathedral
CarrmOn CarrmOn here. A bit more rain would be nice.
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
”You don’t want to exclude such a huge customer base.“
”You don’t want to exclude such a huge customer base.“
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Attention spans are shorter than that."
"Attention spans are shorter than that."
February 8, 2026 at 10:20 AM
CarrmOn CarrmOn here. A bit more rain would be nice.
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They should call them "Elons" instead
At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city.
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
February 8, 2026 at 12:14 AM
They should call them "Elons" instead
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Work around too much snow
February 6, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Work around too much snow
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February 7, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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Isaac Herzog is not a ceremonial guest.
He is the head of state of a government carrying out genocide in Gaza, enforcing occupation, and maintaining apartheid over Palestinians.
His rhetoric was cited by the International Court of Justice in assessing the risk of genocide.
He is the head of state of a government carrying out genocide in Gaza, enforcing occupation, and maintaining apartheid over Palestinians.
His rhetoric was cited by the International Court of Justice in assessing the risk of genocide.
February 7, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Isaac Herzog is not a ceremonial guest.
He is the head of state of a government carrying out genocide in Gaza, enforcing occupation, and maintaining apartheid over Palestinians.
His rhetoric was cited by the International Court of Justice in assessing the risk of genocide.
He is the head of state of a government carrying out genocide in Gaza, enforcing occupation, and maintaining apartheid over Palestinians.
His rhetoric was cited by the International Court of Justice in assessing the risk of genocide.
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‘Linking criticisms of Israel with antisemitism is that — just as all Muslim Australians were for too long tarred with the brush of extremist terrorism — Jewish Australians are now finding themselves 🔗 linked to the actions of the Netanyahu government’
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Herzog's Australia visit unfortunately links two previously separate events
Unravelling the threads of antisemitism and anti-Israeli sentiment will require both more political courage and more community tolerance than we have seen to date.
www.abc.net.au
February 7, 2026 at 3:25 AM
‘Linking criticisms of Israel with antisemitism is that — just as all Muslim Australians were for too long tarred with the brush of extremist terrorism — Jewish Australians are now finding themselves 🔗 linked to the actions of the Netanyahu government’
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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Laura Tingle, spot on as usual. Albanese has gravely miscalculated here. Inviting a political leader from Israel, a country under investigation for war crimes and genocide, is just completely nonsensical. This will lead to more division, not cohesion. #auspol #gazagenocide
Herzog's Australia visit further politicises the Bondi terror attack
Unravelling the threads of antisemitism and anti-Israeli sentiment will require both more political courage and more community tolerance than we have seen to date.
www.abc.net.au
February 6, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Laura Tingle, spot on as usual. Albanese has gravely miscalculated here. Inviting a political leader from Israel, a country under investigation for war crimes and genocide, is just completely nonsensical. This will lead to more division, not cohesion. #auspol #gazagenocide
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I put the spare #CameraTrapping #TrailCamera onto the potting shed near the house, as I has suspicions that 'someone' was using the area underneath. The 'someone' was 2 #Endangered Eastern Quolls, 1 being the beautiful dark morph.
#WildOz #Tasmania #LandForWildlife #mammals
#WildOz #Tasmania #LandForWildlife #mammals
February 6, 2026 at 3:51 AM
I put the spare #CameraTrapping #TrailCamera onto the potting shed near the house, as I has suspicions that 'someone' was using the area underneath. The 'someone' was 2 #Endangered Eastern Quolls, 1 being the beautiful dark morph.
#WildOz #Tasmania #LandForWildlife #mammals
#WildOz #Tasmania #LandForWildlife #mammals
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I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
February 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
Spent 16 hrs sitting in a car, waiting for a plane yesterday, which really sucked. But I did meet a new friend. @kristiellingsen.bsky.social 'we' call them Christmas Beetles what do you call these guys?
February 5, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Spent 16 hrs sitting in a car, waiting for a plane yesterday, which really sucked. But I did meet a new friend. @kristiellingsen.bsky.social 'we' call them Christmas Beetles what do you call these guys?