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Jill ~ still.

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~ In the rose garden which is ours, and ours only🌹T.S. Eliot. Living on Dja Dja Wurrung land. Victoria, Australia. #ClimateChange! Without a healthy planet, we have nothing. Vote #GREENS. DMs: Friends only.

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"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

07.03.2026 09:17 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#INITIAL | Explosion reported at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

08.03.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

07.03.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 98 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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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.

07.03.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 452 πŸ” 160 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 12

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

08.03.2026 00:48 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Peacock butterfly

Peacock butterfly

Pretty in pink: Peacock butterfly πŸŒΈπŸ¦‹ #butterfly

07.03.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 531 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2
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β€œWhat 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.

07.03.2026 14:32 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What do the US Congress, NicolΓ‘s 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...

07.03.2026 11:47 πŸ‘ 390 πŸ” 229 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 8
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May Love come,
and dance within your bones.

07.03.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

07.03.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

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

We see you!

07.03.2026 08:29 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

07.03.2026 03:27 πŸ‘ 646 πŸ” 505 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 74
"Power of Activism" at the Adelaide Fringe Festival - Shane Dowling's talk for Sunday the 8-3-26
"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

07.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You cried for night - it falls.
Now cry in darkness.

~ Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

#Photography

06.03.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)...

#Photography, Marie Ε echtlovΓ‘, β€˜Brittany, Sable de L’omme,’ 1968.

06.03.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

07.03.2026 00:34 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1
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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, β€˜Nocturne: Blue and Silver, Cremorne Lights,’ 1872

06.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Craven β€œspent 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

06.03.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1
This work Β© 2026 by Lee Zimmerman is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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

Faults

06.03.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

06.03.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

Here we go!

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Oil up $10 bucks overnight.

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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

06.03.2026 09:29 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

06.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Capitalism is a malignancy

06.03.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

06.03.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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.

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

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β€œThe 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.

06.03.2026 09:18 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œMan starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”

~ Emil Cioran (1911-1995)

#Photography, β€˜The Night’ by Mehmet Dere.

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