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Chris Jones
@drcgjones.bsky.social
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Lecturer in applied engineering at SM TAFE WA. Retired president of the Australian Electric Vehicle Association. Interested in transport, energy, motorbikes, environment and biodiversity. Living on Whadjuk country, born on Ghitabul country.
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Garlic harvest! #gardening
And some rather old but entirely edible carrots.
A large freshly harvested garlic plant. Thumbs up for a very good garlic harvest. Two large bunches hung up to dry. Freshly harvested carrots with their leaves removed lay on a grass lawn after being washed off with a hose.
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Hey @eepy.bsky.social my first #gardening post of the Southern Hemisphere spring! I lifted one single sod from the potato patch and my word, it delivered!
A garden fork has lifted three massive potatos from a vegetable garden bed. We eat tonight!
September 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Tried to capture the spillover as best I could.
August 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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The anti war rally in 2003 was pretty damn big, but so glad this movement is growing.
Rally for Palestine in Perth, Western Australia.
August 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Solid turnout for Palestine in Perth.
Thousands turn out in Perth in solidarity with the people of Palestine.
August 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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I get to drive the car once a week or so, and it's the only way I can listen to Double J. So I voted in yet another hottest 100.
I could have picked a dozen songs from a dozen artists, but this is a good life history soundtrack.
Chris' inadequate list of favourite songs by Australian artists, including Clouds, You Am I, Warumpi Band, Screamfeeder, The Superjesus, The Easybeats, Little Bidry, Custard, The Cruel Sea and The Herd.
July 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Much of this is 70 km/h road with limited shoulder, but the north-south spine follows the old Upper Darling Range Railway.
June 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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How it started, how it's going.
I plant trees for the shade I may never enjoy.
But so far this one's got a good head start.
Workplace EV charging has finally been installed.
If you don't get active for change, it won't happen.
#gardening #TAFE #trees4life #shade #EV
Corymbia callophylla seedling planted in December 2021 outside my college building. The same Corymbia callophylla seedling in May 2025. I also planted two more beside it. Oh, I also got some charge points and a 20 kW solar array installed too. I do that :)
May 25, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Not a meme, but a banger.
A cartoon of a climate scientist addressing a lectern on 6 occasions over the course of 30 years expressing ever increasing levels of concern. The final occasion sees the scientist tapping the microphone asking "is this thing on?"
May 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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It looks like this. Perth Hills in March 2024.
Mature trees dying where they stand. A sea of brown leaves on a very dry hillside.
May 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Seems appropriate...
South Park parody of how the average penis size was calculated.
April 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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2 cubic metres of blended manure. Should do wonders for the vegetable garden, but it would have been nicer for the neighbours it they hadn't delivered it on a warm Monday... 💩💩💩 hope to move the rest of it tomorrow afternoon. 🌱
April 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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This is an Eastern Brown Snake from Australia. We call the young ones danger noodles, or nope ropes. They eat rats, mice, small marsupials and prefer drier areas. They are the world's second-most venomous snake, and Australia's most common garden snake. Best you leave them right alone!
A juvenile Eastern Brown snake, Pseudonaja textilis, coiled up on dry soil. These guys are deadly and kill half a dozen Australians each year. Mostly because some hero tries to pick them up or mess with them.
March 30, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Vegetarian kookaburra pinching the last of my capsicums. #gardening
March 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Starting my planet-slaying trip from Perth to Sydney to attend Everything Electric Australia. Yes, I am aware of the irony thanks for pointing it out.
Bus and train either side of the flights at least.
Waiting on a Transperth train at High Wycombe station to the airport, Smartrider in hand.
March 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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I love a good Simpsons meme, but spotted this one and thought it's pretty relevant today...
Principal Skinner screams "No!" as a paperboy tosses a newspaper with a headline "Prez Sez: School is for losers".
February 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Anyone in Kalamunda/ Perth hills got a mobile sawmill? Hedley Jorgensen Oval.
A large fallen tree, Eucalyptus sp. lies across a path in the hills east of Perth.
February 16, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Guavas are red, Agapanthus are blue. I'm drinking a beer in the garden, how about you?
Delicious cherry guava fruits. Agapanthus, or November lillies, flowering in February in Perth. A cold can of beer on a warm Perth evening.
February 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Well that's a shame. I think Greg is one of the best accounts to follow. I didn't even Stan the guy!
February 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Kid loved science, is all I can say.
The poster of this photo, Chris, aged about 7 years old, holding a test tube in the backyard in Warwick, Southern Queensland circa 1987.
February 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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It's so wonderful to have aircon again after three long hot summers without it.
Image 1 is just a double glazed home, image 2 is a double glazed home with aircon.
Only 6 more weeks of this weather, but at least the aircon is in.
On January 19th at 2.42 pm, the temperature outside was 40.8°C and the temperature inside was 26.6°C. This was with rudimentary ceiling insulation and double glazing throughout. On January 29th at 6.03 pm, the temperature outside was 40.0°C and the temperature inside was a very pleasant 20.7°C. Same basic ceiling insulation, same double glazing, but with a split system aircon in the living room. Bliss.
January 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Another scary chart for Perth:
A chart with annual datapoints correlating the number of growing degree days along the X axis, and cumulative precipitation on the Y axis. The trend shows 15 of the last 20 years have been the hottest and driest on record.
January 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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My current heatmap:
45'C in Perth yesterday.
A weather chart of Australia with a colour scale indicating hot, very hot and incandescent heat. Much of southern Western Australia is over 45 degrees celsius.
January 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Hey @kiwiev.bsky.social some worthwhile progress to report - Leaf motor is mounted in the CRX!
An electric motor from a Nissan Leaf is mounted in the engine bay of a 1988 Honda CRX, viewed from below. An electric motor from a Nissan Leaf is mounted i nthe engine bay of a Honda CRX, seen from the lower right hand side, looking forwards.
January 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Last batch of sauce for the summer. The crappy preserving jars I bought don't seal properly - two jars exploded in the pressure cooker and most of the rest never sealed 🥺. They are sterile at least, just easily prone to spoil if too much air gets in. Hence the cling-film.
#gardening #self-sufficient
About 50 jars of home-made tomato pasta sauce line the shelves of a kitchen cabinet. Double saucepans on the stove means double the stress. Three large piles of home-grown tomatoes on the kitchen bench, ready to be turned into sauce.
January 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM