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Melbourne / wurundjeri country. Artwork on stone by BokBok and Iya. Born at 314.3 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere. Currently at 425 ppm (Mauna Loa Observatory via Scripps Institution).

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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 14h
TIL that kangaroos can pause their pregnancy by up to a year if the conditions aren’t right. Did you know this? And gestation is only 3 or 4 weeks! Healesville Sanctuary is terrific. Here’s Bernice, the black-breasted buzzard after using a rock to crack open an emu egg.
A large raptor on the ground with her wings open, her trainer behind, picking up the remnants of a broken shell from a green lawn.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 14h
It was wet at Healesville today. Listen to these loony tunes. I love them. Not really #WildOz.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 20h
Where am I?
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I like city skylines, too. My dad, who died 30 years ago, used to like counting how many cranes he could see when we went to the city. This is one from Quarry Hills park, South Morang.
A sunset coloured sky with the city of Melbourne on the horizon, pink sun glinting off a couple of buildings. The foreground is suburbs all the way to the city.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Boy, working on one of their new songs, WITH 168 TRACKS!
A very wide computer screen with audio tracks running across.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Guess who found a critically endangered creature in her bedroom this morning? #Epping3076 #WildOz #BogongMoth
A dark photo of a dark brown bogging moth, sitting hear the blind roller.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sometimes I feel like this grass’s common name.
A page from a book that illustrates and describes a grass whose common name is “rigid panic.” #WildOz
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I planted early, a risk, I know, but it’s a spot where feral tomatoes sometimes pop up bc they like the conditions there. Anyway, there are a few flowers peeking out and Cup Day is still a couple of weeks away. #Epping3076
A close up of a carefully staked tomato plant bearing a few little flowers. #TinyJoys #DailyGlimmer
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Arvo walk in #Epping3076 #wildflowers #BloomScrolling #WildOz
A small purple flower growing next to some lichen-covered rocks. Grassland and trees in the background. #TinyJoysWhite, 6-petalled flowers nestled in a rocky knoll. Sunny day. These pinky-purple flowers grow one on a stem but there’s like a poppy pod beneath each one.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#SundayPixAnimals Sunning emu. Did you know they’re the only bird that has feathers that produce two plumes from one shaft? #WildOz
An emu sitting on the ground in such a way that it allows the sun to warm its feathery body.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#SundayPixAnimals A fire salamander.
A very black salamander with bright yellow patches, sitting on a damp forest floor, facing away from the camera. #Austria
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I “found” this at birrarung marr this week. The top layer of words read: The prime minister’s light is Australia’s darkness. I don’t know here it comes from, but it’s pretty apt at the moment. #Melbourne3000
Three tear-drop shaped slices of pink granite placed on top of each other, with text wrapped around each layer.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Love Melbourne. #Melbourne3000
A triptych based on McCubbin’s “The pioneer” where the couple are in a scorched, blackened forest and the grave plaque says “The Holocene “. Three lines of women in red tops and black bottoms practicing a dance in the atrium of Fed Square.A black and white A4 poster stuck on a pole showing a cartoon bust of a young woman and text that says, “Have you seen this person”Tall gymea lilies in flower with buildings just visible behind them.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How’s that unattractive paperwork going, Asher? Have you been as busy as a bee? All done? Half done?
A couple of very bright pink pig face flowers, with a bee, busy in one of them.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At my local urban productive area, an old unclothed tree, the quince trees flowering and the promise of the mulberry season. #Epping3076
The branches of a mid-sized tree, dark against the blue sky. Several, open white flowers on a green-leafed tree. The beginnings of mulberries on a tree.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sucked in by the writing, the characters and the humour, and now staying for the weird semi-horror and real life racism and history of Mississippi. (Written before “James” btw.) Such an excellent book. @heymum3.bsky.social @mspraxis.bsky.social #BookSky 📚💙
Cover of the book, “The trees: a novel” by Percival Everett.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you see this, post a monster. (Niche Australian example.)
Scary, half-lit close-up of Peter Dutton’s face. Although, to be fair, his wife DID say he’s not a monster.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Perfect day to plant out our local #TinyForest. How lucky am I? First pic taken a few months ago, 2nd one today. I’ll tell you who turned out in force - the Sikhs. #Epping3076 #AFLGF AFLW (Men’s Division).
A gravel path leading to a central circle surrounded by large logs for sitting. Around this is a thick band of soil and then a grassed field. The same place busy with people in rain gear planting small shrubs in the prepared ground.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No…more that WHEN it’s tomato planting season then it’s ALSO flannel sheet removing season. Here’s a hint:
A small tomato planting season in the ground.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Also, gotta say that I used my 3 free months of Apple music but still prefer my radio stations, on my walks and in the car: @3rrrfm.bsky.social and 3 PBS. #Epping3076 #WildOz
Pink / red / orange Grevillea flowers draping over lomandra. A low plate of white paper daisies.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In a tiny little conservation area near me. #Epping3076 #WildOz #grasslands
Little white flowers on a stem, with some purple orchid things in the background. All in a grassy field.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Small twiggy and floral construction. #Epping3076
Someone has woven some small branches over and around a large rock, and laying some fresh flowers on top of the rock. A different view of the structure, I. The centre of some built rock benches.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have one i planted a couple of weeks ago and two extra that will prob go in this weekend. The feral ones are sprouting up everywhere.
A small tomato plant in the ground, surrounded by river rocks.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I just spent a couple of hours passing a needle threaded with knitting cotton through the live stitches, because I don’t trust the provisional cast on (crappy old wool with some unravelling). Now, at least, I can continue knitting & spend useful mental time figuring out what to do with the stitches!
It looks like a tangle of orange stitches and pink cotton on circular needles, but I feel I have a handle on things at this stage.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Paul, I think she prefers this image
Gina Rinehart in a Vincent Namatjira painting on the left and a photo on the right.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On my guided walk of Blue (not blue) Lake in Plenty Gorge. #WildOz #VNPA
A small greenish lake visible through eucalyptus and bushes from a high viewpoint.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It took me almost an hour to turn this 100gm skein of stunning brushed suri into a ball. Time spent pleasantly. 🧶 #KnitSky
Two chairs facing back to back with a skein of orange wool wrapped around them and part of a ball wound up, sitting on the table nearby.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Q: How will I be useless to capitalism today? - brontë velez. A: By mowing the nature strip with a machine that doesn’t use fossil fuels, given to me by a neighbour who was moving. #Epping3076
Looking at a push lawn mower from above. Its catcher is tied on with a bit of orange plastic rope.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BANNED! #HungryLah
A printed A4 image of a cartoon cat’s head, with the text “This cat is banned from this city.”
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Afternoon walk #Epping3076 #WildOz
A field (?) of bright pink pigface surround an old leaning eucalyptus. Three bright red dwarf pokers enjoying the sun. Lots of wattle out at the moment. This is a small bush with long, slender branches and blooms interspersed with tiny leaves.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not that it’s any consolation, but it isn’t just here. This book is helping me a little with the numerous awful things going on everywhere:
 Cover of the book “I eat the stars” by Sarah Wilson.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’ve never heard of this author before, but this book is what I need at the moment. Since we’re in collapse (falling glacier in Nepal anyone? Loss of trust in media, rise of fascism, AI takeover, greater wealth gap, etc.), how do we think / act / live in this reality and maintain sanity? #BookSky 📚💙
Glorious cover of the book, “I eat the stars” by Sarah Wilson.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Afternoon clouds right now #Epping3076
Low black horizon with a blue sky, setting sun and selection of various clouds above.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
First ice cream truck of the season. Have a listen. #Epping3076
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Who’s a lucky human, then? #PublicHealth #AusPol
A large envelope from the Australian government’s National Bowel Cancer Screening programme, addressed and sent to me. There’s text that reads, “What’s in here could save your life. It’s free and easy to do.”
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Despite the fact that the main character is not likeable, I enjoyed this book. The setting is SO Melbourne (with a bit of Canberra & LA thrown in) & I honestly forgot that the author is male. It’s funny, with up-to-minute with references that I had to look up and the writing is terrific. #BookSky 📚💙
Cover of the book, “Blue giant” by Jordan Prosser
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sorry everyone…I did it the wrong way. This is the account you might want to block.
An account called Ivy Lynn
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Had to show this: the fruits of 8 weeks encouraging a beetroot to grow. The leaves told me it was ready…🤦🏻‍♀️ Who’d be a fecking gardener? #BackyardGardening #vegetables #Epping3076
In a rectangular glass vase sits several stems of vibrant, shiny, fat, healthy beetroot leaves. In the body, from which the leaves are growing, is a minuscule, barely visible, beetroot.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Papa.
A black and white photo of a barefoot, smiling young boy with a pageboy haircut, wearing pyjamas, holding a few flowers.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The last of my mung bean sprouts, looking a little spermy.
A few dozen sprouts in the bottom of a black, plastic bowl.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
*I* would call this “Peter AND MRS Hopper Lake” bc whatever Mr Hopper achieved, it was probably bc some woman was madly paddling behind the scenes, keeping him and his kids fed, clean, free from drudgery and family maintenance. Continuing to make women’s contributions invisible. #MillPark3082
A lake fringed with trees and big clouds in a blue sky.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s a 2-dog walk this morning, a pair of whippets with really gorgeous colouring. They accepted a pat from me. #Epping3076
Gloomy day over a path in a park lined with she-oaks and leafless decorative pear trees.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What gif shows up when you type your name?
A screen shot showing the result for a gif called “addle” and the result is…no results found.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
From Ziebell’s farmhouse, all lit up and a beautiful scent of pittosporum in the air. Walking Thomastown.
Looking along a brick path lined with a fence and bushes and a tree in the background. All lit, at night.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Walking Thomastown. Lighting and music.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s very busy! Walking Thomastown.
Through some tall tree lit in colours to a playground with kids, you know, playing. A large lantern in the shape of an orange, red and yellow spider, sitting in some bushes.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Finally made this one today, and it worked a treat. Leftovers…
A plastic container with two services of chicken on top of fennel and onion.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Ever since returning from Darwin, I’ve been hunting for a decent laksa in Melbourne (preferably not too far from #Epping3076). Of the three I’ve tried, the best has been at Hi Hot Pot on High St in Northcote. Better than the one at The Malaysian Laksa House in the city (which was so-so).
A bowl of delicious laksa featuring noodles, snow peas, a purple sweet potato dumpling, broccoli and fried shallots in a yummy coconut milk soup.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Band listening to one of our takes.
People gathering around a sound desk and audio engineer, focussed on listening to the output.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Did you catch the animation on the outside of Hamer Hall? Really good.
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