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Work in progress, books, fauna, flora and the like.
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henryhenryhenry.com
Community time bank, such a cool idea, New Mexico at it again:
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
brentsmith.bsky.social
Am trying to remember why I got out of bed this morning.
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
brentsmith.bsky.social
Spoonbills on Minjerribah.
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 AM
brentsmith.bsky.social
National Koala Monitoring Program 2025 results are in. More data and refinements to the CSIRO modelling has resulted in a greatly increased population estimate. Listed population (Qld, NSW and ACT) estimate has gone from 95,000 – 238,000 to 398,000 – 569,000.

nkmp.org.au/populations....
National Koala Monitoring Program
nkmp.org.au
November 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
brentsmith.bsky.social
Tidying up the office and found this little one, temporarily relocated 2m away and she lingered for a good half hour watching and smelling the going ons.
A pale morph of a South East Queensland Carpet Snake.
October 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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sandyhorne.bsky.social
Also at my friend's dam - this pair of lovebirds 😀 Galahs. Male on the left, female on the right. You can tell by their eye colour. I wish all birds were so easy.
October 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
The Nuclear Block is The Thing that makes Bluesky shine. Use it.
mcnees.bsky.social Robert “The Baste God” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · Oct 17
Just block the bad accounts. Do it right away. Don't share or dunk or comment or argue. That's what they all want. Just nuke them and move on.
October 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks”

Just contemplate that sentence.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition
Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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sandyhorne.bsky.social
I still haven't shared all my photos from Boolcoomatta.
Here are some more yellow-footed rock-wallabies.
Can you see the baby in the pouch? 🧡
October 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
brentsmith.bsky.social
No shit.
dpcarrington.bsky.social Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Oct 7
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ and systemic problems, study says

- Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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folklorewales.com
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
Tawny owl
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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hleisthen.bsky.social
“Thanks to the solidity of Bearded Vulture nest structures and their locations in the western Mediterranean, generally in protected places … with relatively stable temperature and low humidity conditions, they have acted as natural museums, conserving historical material in good condition.”
samillingworth.com Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · Oct 5
🦅 Bearded vultures as time capsules

Researchers found centuries-old artifacts and bones in ancient bearded vulture nests in Spain, revealing how these birds preserve ecological and cultural history.

🔗 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#SciComm #Ecology 🧪
The Bearded Vulture as an accumulator of historical remains: Insights for future ecological and biocultural studies
Click on the article title to read more.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🦝 The mammals of Australia..
London, Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1863..

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Illustration of a Phascolomys wombat from 1863, showing a close-up of the animal lying down on a grassy patch with small plants nearby. The wombat has a rounded, stout body covered in dense, dark fur, small rounded ears, a broad nose, and large claws on its front paws. The background includes soft shading suggesting foliage or a natural environment. The image is detailed, capturing the wombat’s characteristic robust build and features, and is part of a historical series on Australian mammals.
October 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
brentsmith.bsky.social
Teaching the nephew how to make friends with the local magpies. The thumbs up is golden.
Photo showing the back of a 5 year olds head as he gives a thumbs up to a magpie just in front of him.
September 28, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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dantheclamman.blog
A single giant clam can release 500 million eggs during one spawning event. By some measures, this is considered possibly the largest release of reproductive cells by an individual animal (26)
July 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Thousands of women are sharing this and saying yes, this was their experience, many of them sharing their own horrific 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s experiences. (And almost everyone sharing it appears to be female.)
September 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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kcar.me
Proton Mail's Controversial Account Suspensions Raise Concerns for Journalists #cybersecurity

https://thegistnotes.com/proton-mails-controversial-account-suspensions-raise-concerns-for-journalists/
September 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Such a handsome bug wow
tjalamont.bsky.social Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · Sep 13
Okay, that's enough photos of endotherms. Back to bugs! Here is your Saturday Stink Bug, a very pretty little nymph spotted recently in Montana. I love the speckling on this quarter-inch critter. 🌿🐙 #insects
A macro photo of stink bug nymph on dry yellow and orange flowers. The bug is oval shaped, and mostly light green with many darker green speckles, patches of black on the thorax, and dark legs.
September 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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banditelli.org
For reference, this is the shot I got last year. bsky.app/profile/band...
April 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
brentsmith.bsky.social
Open plan office space really drives home just how fucking inane most conversations are.
a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face and says `` shut up please '' .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face and says `` shut up please '' .
media.tenor.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
The weird new ant paper that shows queens laying eggs of a completely different species has me thinking that more species are probably cloning sperm in their spermathecae than we’d thought.

After all, most queens only mate once and cloning would be a great mechanism for keeping the party going.
Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species
Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say
www.science.org
September 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
I’m obsessed with deep sea sharks: their bioluminescent spots are just visible in the pitch black environment they live in
I’m obsessed with deep sea sharks: their bioluminescent spots are just visible in the pitch black environment they live in
Most of these little-known but already endangered fish have never been seen alive in their natural habitat, but are under threat from bottom trawling and deep-sea mining
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM