Jill ~ still.

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."
~ Gustave Flaubert

March (1910) 🎨 Franz Paschinger

#INITIAL | Explosion reported at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Scientists discover tiny ocean fungus that kills toxic algae Scientists have discovered a newly identified marine fungus that can infect and kill toxic algae responsible for harmful blooms. The microscopic parasite, named Algophthora mediterranea, attacks algae...

Newly identified marine fungus
Algophthora mediterranea attacks
algae Ostreopsis cf. ovata which causes #HarmfulAlgaeBlooms

Scientists discover tiny ocean fungus that kills toxic algae | ScienceDaily share.google/hDgoK4w7RLJh...

Geopolitical turmoil in the Middle East once again shows that reliance on volatile oil and gas exposes economies to price shocks.

Renewables, electrification and storage offer more stable long term energy costs and stronger energy security.

This. Not the PM’s decision but all our representatives. #noWar

Peacock butterfly

Pretty in pink: Peacock butterfly 🌸🦋 #butterfly

“What is your life about, anyway? Nothing but a struggle to be someone. Nothing but a running from your own silence.”

~ Rumi (1207-1273)

#Photography by Heinrich Riebesehl, 1938-2010.

What do the US Congress, Nicolás Maduro, the riots in Iran, Jeffrey Epstein, and the destruction of Syria have in common?

#Opinion by Sarmad Ishfaq

Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260306-zio...

May Love come,
and dance within your bones.

Trump’s description of Iran -from bully to loser, reveals a mindset, or a mental construct, where he sees the world (and himself) as either one or the other. So he must bully others to escape feeling like a loser himself.

And we all pay the price.

Australia? Hello?
@albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social

We see you!

BREAKING:
The State Department has approved a $151.8 million emergency ammunition sale to Israel, bypassing Congress entirely.

"Power of Activism" at the Adelaide Fringe Festival - Shane Dowling's talk for Sunday the 8-3-26 YouTube video by Kangaroo Court of Australia

"Power of Activism" at the Adelaide Fringe Festival - Shane Dowling's talk for Sunday the 8-3-26 youtu.be/IkbaWAfqnLE

You cried for night - it falls.
Now cry in darkness.

~ Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

#Photography

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)...

#Photography, Marie Šechtlová, ‘Brittany, Sable de L’omme,’ 1968.

Our government is signing us on to be war criminals via AUKUS and closer military ties to the US.

That means all of us, our government is doing this on our behalf. It’s making us all war criminals.

Personally, I’m not really up for it.

@australianlabor.bsky.social

#AusPol

Twilight

The soft voluptuous opiate shades,
The sun just gone, the eager light dispell’d – (I too will soon be
gone, dispell’d)
A haze – nirwana – rest and night – oblivion.

~ Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

#Painting, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, ‘Nocturne: Blue and Silver, Cremorne Lights,’ 1872

Craven “spent years using his platform to attack the very institutions and people he is now supposed to be assessing impartially.”

But this was never about impartial assessment.
It's another Zionist-inspired, government-funded move to suppress any criticism of the genocidal Israel regime. #auspol

This work © 2026 by Lee Zimmerman is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Faults

I don’t know about you, but watching the price of fuel rise at the bowsers over the last week has left me feeling like fuel companies are taking Australian motorists and Australian consumers for mugs.

What are you doing ACCC? @jimchalmers.bsky.social #FOI #auspol

Here we go!

Oil up $10 bucks overnight.

Art Thou Pale For Weariness

Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven & gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824)

#Painting, ER Hughes

Born 6 Mar 1946 David Gilmour once sold his £3 million London mansion & donated every penny to a homeless charity called Crisis? He said "I don't need all this luxury while others are fighting for a roof." No media catwalk, no rockstar ego-just pure generosity.He quietly changed lives❤️ #DavidGilmour

Capitalism is a malignancy

Trump hints at which country he may focus on next after Iran war Almost a week into the war being waged by the US and Israel on Iran, Donald Trump hints that Cuba could become his next focus.

So that's why fat orange grub invaded Venezuela, to cut off oil to Cuba.
While the world is distracted with Iran, he's destroying Cuban society and then gloating they'll make a deal.
Venezuela thought they were negotiating. Ditto Iran. He'll just bomb them & walk in.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

A butterfly resting on a narrow green leaf. The butterfly is seen in profile with its wings folded up. The fore underwing has some bright green scales but is mostly orange. The hind underwing is dominated by bright green scales. Both underwings have white bands that parallel the curving back wing edges. The bands are edged with black, orange, and in this light blue. The body is gray. The legs and antennae are finely striped black and white, with orange at the tips of the antennae.

Another Sandia hairstreak (Callophrys mcfarlandi ), this time on its host plant, beargrass (Nolina). Photo taken in Tres Pistolas Canyon, Sandia Mountains, New Mexico on March 5, 2026.

#nature #naturephotography #butterfly

“The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.”

~ Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

#Photography by Anne Arden McDonald.

“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”

~ Emil Cioran (1911-1995)

#Photography, ‘The Night’ by Mehmet Dere.