hello there, I'm back. I had no internet for 5 days straight and had some minor damage around the house due to the cyclone.
Here is a Dragon for you. I think it might like salty water. Or maybe it just came to see the sunset? Or possible it is just a Sea Dragon coming back home.
#OnThisDay First ever official #Cricket test match is played between #Australia vs #England (1877).
Julius #Caesar was assassinated by a group of senators (44 BC).
Birth Anniversary of Emil von Behring (1854) - who discovered diphtheria antitoxin. He was widely known as a "saviour of children".
Today is International Day Against #Police Brutality, World #SpeechDay and World #ConsumerRights Day.
Buried. #australia ‘s Climate Risk Assessment
“No one is officially telling Australian people that we have officially passed 1.5°C…The question now is, how much below 2°C can we stay?”
#heat #flood #fire #food #shortages
“Most experts are saying we’re actually on track for 2.6-3°C. Now, that is catastrophic in some areas. So, I think it’s recklessly negligent of either major party to fail to properly inform the Australian people of the risk ahead.”
#climatechange #politics #auspol #climate #risk
Cultivating Community How discourse shapes the philosophy, practice and policy of water management in the Murray–Darling Basin
Featured in 2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards Ceremony
When: June 3, 2025, 7:00-9:30 pm
Where: And/Ore, 1040 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1H7
Details and tickets: https://foodstudies.info/news-conferences/upcoming-conference/
A map of #Australia with County #Cork placed on it to give you a sense of just how large Australia is. Not sure folks get how massive Australia is until they see it compared to Cork.
I'll post another mention of the video I made from my #Australia trip. I noticed once the analytics were collected that YouTube's "algorithm" only promoted it in Australia. Though it got 3000 views there. (Yay mates! Thx!) Let's get the word out that the fun pictures people liked earlier in this thread came together into an #avgeek #travel story about lots of fun places to see there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BZrHoR4Dv8 #aviation
Something brand new, the tree and ravens were captured in the highlands of Falls Creek here in Australia. We have very chaotic forests which means the fog is quite vital to making a clear composition. The ravens were captured in nearby trees as there are many found in this area, just not where you want them =P
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After seeing how President Zelenskyy was treated by Trump, a cafe in the tiny town of Binalong, NSW, is raising money for Ukraine by imposing 'tariffs' on all US goods they sell. The proceeds go to the Australian Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal.
More of this please
US influencer who snatched baby wombat has left Australia
Anger erupted after Jones posted a video of her taking a baby wombat from its distraught mother.
My tshirts have just arrived. Friends don't let friends be bullied.
In solidarity with our allied friends, from here down under
#Australia, complicit promoting tabloid news for decades, reaps the rewards.
"It’s another example of “America First” becoming “America Alone”, which prioritises short-term US economic interests, national security and sovereignty. Just this week, Australia was on the receiving end of Trump’s aluminium and steel tariffs, which fly in the face of our longstanding free trade agreement with the United States."
https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/white-house-should-stay-out-of-australian-universities-20250313-p5lj9y
Sunlit trees in the blue gum forest.
https://bluethumb.com.au/jan-matson/Artwork/sunlit-trees-in-the-blue-gum-forest
Textured palette knife oil painting of an Australian blue gum forest. It is nearing the end of the day and golden sunlight shines through the stand of gum trees.
It's time for all of us who are or will be subject to Trump's Tariff attack to boycott as many American products and businesses as possible. Support local and then support products and businesses from Trump's other Tariff victims.
#Canada #Mexico #Scotland #Belgium #Norway #Australia #Denmark #Tariffs
#Sweden #EU #NewZealand
This is new... I thought I was impressed last night when my #Australia trip video got over 100 views in its first 24 hours. Now in its 2nd day, it's getting over that every hour. With a year and a half since the last time I posted on YouTube, this is the first video I didn't post at all about on Twitter. I'm fairly sure Mastodon isn't big enough yet to drive such demand. Then I noticed YouTube's preview clip shows the Australia Day fireworks. https://avgeek.social/@ikluft/114137073945163804 #aviation #travel #avgeek
The closed-door gathering of 34 army chiefs, including #NATO #alliance & #EU members as well as #Japan & #Australia, was a rare - & possibly unprecedented - convening without the #UnitedStates.
The talks aimed in part to assess options & capabilities to guarantee #Ukraine's security in the event of a #ceasefire, including potential European peacekeepers, & to maintain Kyiv's long-term #military strength.
“Let me tell you, as the former treasurer of New South Wales, I know the cost of us not taking action on climate change, because I had to fund the most expensive [un]natural weather disaster in NSW’s history, which was the last Lismore floods. And that followed the worst bushfires in the state of NSW’s history, which followed the worst drought in NSW history."
Matt Kean, former NSW treasurer #Auspol #ClimateChange #Australia