Ian Matters 🇦🇺
@imatters.bsky.social
Free and open-source software (FOSS) user.
World Community Grid member.
Retired senior technical officer.
Refugee from the defunct bird site.
Pronouns: he, him
Website: matters.id.au Canberra, Australia. 🇦🇺
Pronouns: he, him
Website: matters.id.au Canberra, Australia. 🇦🇺
Your rhetorical question begs the further question “is Australia sending F-35 parts to Israel?”.
August 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Your rhetorical question begs the further question “is Australia sending F-35 parts to Israel?”.
Your rhetorical question begs the further question “is Australia sending F35 parts to Israel?”.
August 27, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Your rhetorical question begs the further question “is Australia sending F35 parts to Israel?”.
Unsmiling Baptists mostly 🇦🇺
July 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Unsmiling Baptists mostly 🇦🇺
My late father used to sing bits of the Mikado from time to time to the complete horror of the straight laced members of the community in our Australian country town. 🇦🇺
July 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
My late father used to sing bits of the Mikado from time to time to the complete horror of the straight laced members of the community in our Australian country town. 🇦🇺
I’m not a Kiwi but I love the photo 🇦🇺🇳🇿
June 22, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I’m not a Kiwi but I love the photo 🇦🇺🇳🇿
And the shortest for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere
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June 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
And the shortest for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere
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Why the present continuous tense? Or is it just an ABC thing?
May 31, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Why the present continuous tense? Or is it just an ABC thing?
Hello again Craig. FYI here’s a link to my grandmother’s entry in WikiTree:
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mcgowan...
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mcgowan...
Iris Margaret (Mcgowan) Holdway (1889-1968) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
Is this your ancestor? Compare DNA and explore genealogy for Iris (Mcgowan) Holdway born 1889 Hargraves, New South Wales, Australia died 1968 Newtown, New South Wales, Australia including ancestors + ...
www.wikitree.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Hello again Craig. FYI here’s a link to my grandmother’s entry in WikiTree:
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mcgowan...
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mcgowan...
Thanks for your beautiful photography. We are possibly distantly related because my beloved late grandmother was Iris Margaret McGowan born in 1889 in country New South Wales, Australia. 🇦🇺
May 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Thanks for your beautiful photography. We are possibly distantly related because my beloved late grandmother was Iris Margaret McGowan born in 1889 in country New South Wales, Australia. 🇦🇺
Perhaps you could develop a module for Australia explaining the Wet & Not Wet categories for Army helicopter crew training 🇦🇺
May 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Perhaps you could develop a module for Australia explaining the Wet & Not Wet categories for Army helicopter crew training 🇦🇺
The contiguous United States is approximately 2,800 miles (4,500 kilometres) wide from the east coast to the west coast.
Australia, measuring from its western coast to its eastern coast, is about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometres) wide.
Australia, measuring from its western coast to its eastern coast, is about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometres) wide.
May 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The contiguous United States is approximately 2,800 miles (4,500 kilometres) wide from the east coast to the west coast.
Australia, measuring from its western coast to its eastern coast, is about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometres) wide.
Australia, measuring from its western coast to its eastern coast, is about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometres) wide.
It might be worth pointing out that the above photo is from Australia 🇦🇺
April 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
It might be worth pointing out that the above photo is from Australia 🇦🇺
The trouble is that both sides of politics are sending negative messages about their rivals, promising the world, and not addressing the dire state the Trumpian world is facing.
April 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The trouble is that both sides of politics are sending negative messages about their rivals, promising the world, and not addressing the dire state the Trumpian world is facing.
I don’t know if I understand how you took this shot. It seems to have a shortish shutter speed and the light level appears to be low however there is a wide depth of field. 🇦🇺
April 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I don’t know if I understand how you took this shot. It seems to have a shortish shutter speed and the light level appears to be low however there is a wide depth of field. 🇦🇺
You’re not suggesting that Fox News is not reliable are you? 😜
April 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
You’re not suggesting that Fox News is not reliable are you? 😜
Which is the dead fish and which is the senator?
March 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Which is the dead fish and which is the senator?
I’m unclear whose winter you’re talking about, northern or southern hemisphere.
March 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I’m unclear whose winter you’re talking about, northern or southern hemisphere.
We occasionally have snow in Canberra but today it’s heading for 36°C 🥵🇦🇺
January 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
We occasionally have snow in Canberra but today it’s heading for 36°C 🥵🇦🇺
Canberra on a summer day
January 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Canberra on a summer day
32°C predicted for here in Canberra Australia 🇦🇺
January 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
32°C predicted for here in Canberra Australia 🇦🇺
It’s gotta be Earth I suppose 🇦🇺
December 4, 2024 at 3:40 AM
It’s gotta be Earth I suppose 🇦🇺
Is that a genuine photo or is it AI?
November 24, 2024 at 7:41 AM
Is that a genuine photo or is it AI?