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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The best birthday present imaginable. #DollyDay 💖
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Am reading Going On and On, Why our longevity threatens the future, by Lucinda Holdforth. Us oldies need to let go. The PM and his fixer Farrell should hand over to very capable younger members who could replace the current stifling discipline. @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The First Inventors, Tuesday 8pm, NITV, is such a good series, showing some of the tens of thousands of years of First Nations knowledge. Not terra nullius.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Chris Sidoti - Gaza death toll higher than official count
YouTube video by Deepcut News
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A much-needed break from anything serious. 🥰
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@albomp.bsky.social Nepal glacier collapse. Blood on your hands, Prime Minister? How much more fossil fuel has been burnt with your approval?
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
youtu.be/6YIH4eL0o_s?... Essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand Australia's gas industry. Thanks, Richard and Jo.
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Dr Richard Denniss on the Great Australian Gas Scam
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Granddog politely letting me know she wanted to go for a walk.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yesterday's Wordle 1,879 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 😁
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Elizabeth Farrelly @emfarrelly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A gentle ramp spirals into the pool that lies curled in the floor of the light-filled, tepee-shaped pavilion. It’s wheelchair access but it feels symbolic and vaguely yin-yang, like some ultra-pale azure catseye catching the light.... Read on: elizabethfarrelly.substack.com/p/aged-care-...
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AGED-CARE FACILITY? SPARE ME
There must be better ways to age disgracefully than the soulless dettol-flavoured institutions we offer
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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Isn’t it high time to bring all the craven politicians, rabid media & profiteering big environmental exploiters to account - better still to trial with punitive damages, for all the destruction they are reaping on our planet? Over time people vote for survival www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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‘No one wants to be right about this’: climate scientists’ horror and exasperation as global predictions play out
As the northern hemisphere burns, experts feel deep sadness – and resentment – while dreading what lies ahead this Australian summer
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Electricity bill today $37.54 for the last 3 months, Canberra winter. Solar panels, smallish battery, EV. Pay to charge car only when away.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world) theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world) - The Shot
For 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site...
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
www.sydneyoperahouse.com/sydney-symph... Enjoyed this concert on Thursday.
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The Music of The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings films feature some of the greatest scores ever composed and in this concert you will hear them like never before – led by conductor Nicholas Buc and unpacked by popular podcaster...
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
organicinvestmentcooperative.com.au/food-as-thy-... Interesting article if you don't want a dose of paraquat in your dinner.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
For a palate cleanser, watch My Neighbor Totoro on SBS On Demand.
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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"Memo to ABC management: Senator Hanson has reiterated that your journalists are banned from her media conferences. ... oblige the Senator by banning on ABC radio or TV any coverage at all of what she says & does. ... your journalists ... should cease reporting anything she says..." Ban her ...
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Please explain: Hanson blasts away
Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club appearance cannot be judged by normal standards of evidence or logic, because her appeal lies in grievance, demagoguery and a direct rejection of the journalists a...
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Michelle 🌻 Peace Path 🌏🕊️ @michellepeacepath.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“Racism is not simply immoral and abhorrent, it is absurd. The notion that some of us are in some way different to the rest of us – in some way born differently, of some alien biology.”- PJK #auspol Full transcript here: www.paulkeating.net.au/persistent/c...
Keating on Hanson 11 November. 1996
The great tragedy of the shamelessly regressive politics of Pauline Hanson is not so much that it is rooted in ignorance, prejudice and fear, though it is; not so much that it projects the ugly face of racism, though it does; not so much that it is dangerously divisive and deeply hurtful to many of her fellow Australians, though it is: not even that it will cripple our efforts to enmesh ourselves in a region wherein lie the jobs and prosperity of future generations of young Australians, though it will-the great tragedy is that it perpetrates a myth, a fantasy, a lie,

The myth of the monoculture.
The lie that we can retreat to it.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Drove the new EV for the first time today. Lovely. Pre warmed seats and air filtered by app before I left the house. Powered mostly by the sun. Google says the G-clean air purification system will even eliminate fart smells.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
All the bells and whistles in our new EV make me think of my first car in about 1964, a no frills Morris Mini. Aircon/heating was windows open/closed. The good ole days.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
My current earworm is "But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he’s most assur'd, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep."
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
At last! Bloke picked up the EV. I'm away for a couple of weeks but look forward to driving it when I return.
White Geely EX5 with big green bow on the bonnet.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I recommend the doco on Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister, on Netflix.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I'm not usually interested in reruns of old British shows on TV but am loving UK Portrait Artist of the Year on iview. The first season was a bit chaotic but then settled down. Such a lot of talent, so interesting to watch. 🎨
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Fertiliser from the Middle East? No thanks. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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'Plate to paddock': How a festival's waste became a farmer's treasure
Tonnes of organic waste from the National Folk Festival are being turned into fertiliser on a farm outside Canberra in a circular economy project delivering more benefits than just waste reduction.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Dogsitting for Easter and the (other) old girl is kidding me that 2.15pm is her dinner time.
Close up of black, grey and white dog's face.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Time to pension off our 2012 Camry hybrid. Signed up today for a Geely EX5, to be delivered in a couple of weeks. Timing is to do with our finances, not the daft war and surging petrol prices.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
nerdlegame 1512 2/6 🟪🟪⬛🟪🟪🟪🟪⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🥳
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Housing prices when Howard was PM. From Where It All Went Wrong by @amyremeikis.bsky.social.
Graph showing fairly flat housing prices followed by very steep increases 1999-2003.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Thanks @amyremeikis.bsky.social
Where It All Went Wrong, The Case Against John Howard by Amy Remeikis.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 03/02/2026
A real pleasure to meet George Clarke and hear about his experiences growing up on a council estate. We both know the positive impact social housing can have on families’ lives. That’s why I’m determined to continue delivering more council homes as we build a fairer London for everyone.
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Andy @vicozandy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Ronnie Salt tells it like it is. Essential reading for Aussies! Don't let the casual language fool you.
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
@albo
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 17/01/2026
Editorial: Three and a half years ago, then environment minister Tanya Plibersek thanked activists who had protected the country’s wilderness. She was replaced by a man who immediately began extending the life of fossil fuel projects. satpa.pe/eXQ6XoU
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Dead parrot sketch
It is difficult to know which numbers are the more appalling, the very large ones or the ones that are tragically small. Is it the scale of the destruction of threatened species habitat approved by the Albanese government, or is it the fact that the surviving population of night parrots could be counted by most children under 10?
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Cities aren’t safe from the next firestorm
As we face these fires in Victoria, there is deep apprehension among my colleagues in emergency services. We are not just worried about today. Victoria’s most savage fire weather often arrives later i...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"Harcourt fires show need for disaster levy Those responsible for the climate crisis must be made to pay for the mess they have made." Alex Kelly #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Harcourt fires show need for disaster levy
Those responsible for the climate crisis must be made to pay for the mess they have made.
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 15/01/2026
Technology gains mean that one ship load of solar #PV panels is now worth more to the grid than 120 #coal carriers, or 57 #LNG tankers.
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One ship loaded with solar PV is now worth more to the grid than 120 coal-carriers
Technology gains mean that one ship load of solar PV panels is now worth more to the grid than 120 coal carriers, or 57 LNG tankers.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Some thoughts on Adelaide Writers' Week and the moment we find ourselves in. It's all just so grinding. rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...
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The Great Silencing
Last week it snowed heavily twice in Paris, turning the city into a frigid, monochrome fantasy land over three days, and at the weekend I popped into the Musée Marmottan Monet for a spot of impression...
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Grass roots. My @smh cartoon.
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Ryan Park Xmas Turkey. One of several local Australian brush turkeys in a little park off Stanmore Road.(Not Ryan Park, NSW Minister for Health.)
Brush turkey.
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Cormac (Bee guy) @jagungal.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Great piece highlighting how it isn't a choice between agriculture and environment - not only can we work with both, but we must. Accelerating the transfer of science to the paddock is becoming increasingly critical as we adapt to the changing climate 🧪 www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
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This farm hides a delicate ecosystem where bulls and birds live in harmony
On the edge of the southern Great Barrier Reef, a dozen bulls graze peacefully on a riverbank, sharing the delicate wetlands with about 50 species of shorebirds. This unlikely combination is intention...
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This was on my trousers when I came in from the garden. No idea what it is and image search didn't have any matches. Anybody know?
Small yellow bug about the size of a ladybird but flatter. 4 black stripes down the length and 3 across near the rear.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 08/12/2025
I thought it was a tinfoil hat theory. Then I checked facts. Big Oil knew 50 yrs ago what their policies would do & pushed ahead anyway. That's criminal. After 20+ yrs responding to climate disasters, I know ordinary people pay the price. It’s time Big Oil faced the music. Full article w receipts:
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They Knew, They Lied, and We’re Living the Consequences
The Big Oil deliberate strategy to make record profits while destroying our environment, health, and climate future
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Australian native plants in pots, divine smelling chocolate lilly (arthropodium fimbriatum) with yellow buttons (chrysocephalum epiculatum).
Small purple flowered chocolate lillies and bright yellow button flowers with soft greyish foliage.
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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Pauline Hanson’s use of the Burqa speaks volumes about her and the kind of country she wants But Senator Fatima Payman’s essay on bravery speaks volumes about the need for quite a different Australia Please read and share if your want to cleanse people’s feeds… thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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The Floor I Crossed Was Between Fear and Freedom
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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Front garden is a native wilderness. Look what popped up courtesy of local wildlife. Probably dianella. Other photo shows wahlenbergia stricta and various bulbines.
Small blue flower with bright yellow and brown stamens and anthers.Blue wahlenbergia and yellow bulbine flowers.
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Abul Rizvi @abulrizvi.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Why wouldn’t farmers do this on their own initiative? Costs would be tax deductible.
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David Lindenmayer, Bruce Chapman and John Mitchell: A rare win-win for climate, farming and biodiversity – if policymakers act
Restoring Australia's farm dams could slash emissions, improve water quality, boost livestock productivity, and enhance biodiversity – all at low cost.
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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
David Pope in Canberra Times
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