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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Felt compelled to write this. On the state of things, this Reconciliation Week. First Nations people in this country are under constant attack. Subject to systems and attitudes designed to control and silence us. We resist by speaking out.

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Control is the Oldest Reflex

From custody to culture to the page, the state still decides who gets to speak, survive, and be seen - even during reconciliation week.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

It does. I'd never thought of that

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Grevillea grabrilimba 🌱

Red grevillea flower with a honey bee helping itself to its pollen.

Two red grevillea flowers suspended gently below delicate grey foliage covered branches

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Banksia watch. There's a new kid on the block 🌱

Ashby's dwarf banksia has its first flower after being planted two years ago. Beautiful golden yellow tone. There are two developing flowers in the background.

Dwarf banksia prionotes flower almost full bloomed with a few rows at the top still in their fluffy white capsule.

Banksia prionotes from above showing the contrast between full bloom and top waiting to bloom

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Saltbush is in full flower and the berries are appearing and ripening. Tastie little morsels if I can beat the birds, goanna and chickens to them. My lucky day today obviously. 🌱

tiny Ruby red berries hanging from the delicate thin branches of a sprawling tangle of a saltbush.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Birthday cake but it's sandwiching icecream. Perfection.

Two packaged icecream sandwiches from Kuld Creamery. The one on the left is cookie dough and the one on the right is chocolate double fudge brownie. There are some sneaky fingers coming in to steal the cookie dough one

The chocolate double fudge brownie unveiled and sitting atop of its packaging

A curly haired white person wearing glasses and sitting outside a shop eating the chocolate double fudge brownie icecream sandwich and laughing because it's so good

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

You will need to make long-term plans. In captivity they can live up to 80yrs I think. I can hear the wild ones here chatting at night sometimes.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

So many different shades of grey on this little friend #ausbird 🦉

A Djakal-ngakal (pink and grey galah) perched a top the frame of my clothesline, looking back over its wing toward the camera.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Your writing, as always, speaks in ways that inform but also spark the deepest of reflection.

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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I tried to resist writing about this particular white gazed book, but couldn't. Here's my essay on Evie Wyld's dehumanisation of Blak people, and co-option of Blak trauma for her latest sad white girl novel. Harmful white gazed novels need to be left in colonial eras. overland.org.au/2025/02/echo...

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Echoing of the white gaze in Evie Wyld’s The Echoes - Overland literary journal

Wyld’s creation of voiceless-nameless-lifeless Blak people in The Echoes serves no narrative purpose. This novel is not truth-telling of invasion and occupation, and it does not envision justice for A...

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It was the first thing I put in my muted list so if it did get here I was ready. It's the worst

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The relief the MHT I use will be on the PBS come March is real. I don't use the full dose because that's not always in the budget. This means I will have full benefit from the medication. Hopefully it will make it accessible to more people experiencing perimenopause & postmenpausal symptoms.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I guess if you could get it established it would be ok. I do find banksia take a good 4-5 years before their tap root gets deep enough for them to really take off here. I am right near the coast so no frosts but heaps of wind and salt.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Glad he's feeling better. Hope you get to catch up on your sleep tonight. I've been nursing a crook chook the last week or so. I envy you your local vet.

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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’m back on the tools for The Spencer Street End. This time about the odds stacked against us depending on which post code we’re born in.

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Goal Posts

The uneven bounce of the playing field

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Banksia prionotes ‘Dwarf’

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Banksia watch is in full swing. My most mature shrub is flowering earlier than past years. Not complaining and neither are the birds 🌱🐦

Orange banksia flower against a blue summer sky. Opening from the bottom up two thirds. The top third is still white and fluffy. The green serrated leaves form a tangled mess below.

Two banksia flowers in the late afternoon light. They are half in bloom the bottom orange the top white. On the flower on the right a Bandin/New Holland Honeyeater is holding on tight and feeding on the nectar.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I have always loved this song. Seeing her live is still one of my favourite concerts. Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach opened for her. It was brilliant.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

So good. Her albums never disappoint

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I don't believe she is. I've had intermittent contact these last few years and she was into more digital pursuits. The etsy store still exists but no stock.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

A baby pink and grey galah turned up in my backyard and it was the smallest I'd seen without parents. It seemed healthy and could fly but not strong enough to keep up with the others. It's had refuge here and each day it gets stronger. Happy my garden is a safe haven.

five pink and grey galahs perched on the pitch of a shed roof. Second from the top a smaller lighter coloured baby galah stands up tall looking very pleased to be part of the gang

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It's so hard when it's hot. Hope the cool change comes soon

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Stunning purple twilight sky above my neighbours shed 🌘

A light purple sky above a corregated colourbond shed roof line. In the sky on the left is a waxing crescent moon and slightly above it on the right is Venus.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

When you go to the regular monthly farmers market on Invasion/Survival Day wearing your Ancestress Teila Watson artwork T-shirt and people either side eye you or still wish you a Happy celebrate the day and you have to explain why you don't celebrate.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Every Invasion/Survival Day the absolute worst of people comes out. So far tonight we've had burn outs and someone running around with an air rifle. Tomorrow, just add drinking alcohol in the sun all day at the beach and it will be a complete shit show.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Impacting the world from the space you occupy it in is the most important thing we can do. Good luck with it.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Volunteered to prick out and pot up native plants for future revegetation projects & stock the local community nursery. Honoured to be trusted with 103 Eucalyptus Rudis babies 🌱. One day they will be up to 20 metres tall & provide critters with food and shelter. How cool is that!

Cell tray of Eucalyptus Rudis seedlings at different stages of growth.

Cover of the how to booklet provided by the nursery with an acknowledgement of country of the Wardandi people who have cared for these plants long before colonisation. The impact of that colonisation has meant we need nurseries like LCN to try to keep these plants where they should be.

A view of the worktable with empty tubes ready to be filled with soil sitting in buckets and others already hard at work pricking out seedlings.

Looking down on my first complete tray of 40 tubes of seedlings. Go well my babies.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I never clean my house, I'm always in the garden. Lovely to see you here

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hoverflies are important pollinators in my garden 🌱

A busy hoverfly enjoying the nectar of the vibrant yellow flower of a climbing hibbertia plant.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

After 10pm and still 30°C for a second night in a row. Ceiling fan has packed it in. Not a breath of wind. Reminds me of summers of my childhood.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Today was a better day. First in four days I didn't get notified someone I know had died. A real reflection time and time for some self care and empathy and compassion. It's been rough over the last few weeks for many.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Tamala's narration brought the Wiradjuri language and the characters to life. It was fabulous Anita.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

First day back at work for the year, a funeral at 11am and the rest of the day was an emotional right off. Leaves me wondering what it's all about really.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Went to the second hand store for a jar to make sprouts, which they had, for $1. Then I checked out the jigsaws and scored three beauties for $15. First one done. Start another tomorrow. Then hand them over to Mum to do them.

A completed Ravensburger 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle which is a painting by John Bradley of a tram on a Melbourne city street on a rainy evening.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It sure can. I will leave the inside for another day.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It is one of the only domestic house chores I enjoy. The satisfaction of the sparklearkle at the end. Mind you I haven't done the inside yet 😀

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Most physical activity I have managed in the last 2 weeks or so. Cleaned all the windows on the outside and refreshed the little breakfast table garden 🌱

A group of colourful small pots with succulents on a small round glass outdoor table up against a brick wall. From left to right a turquoise fish, a white llama a group of three drip glazed tiny pots in greens and browns, a yellow and white rectangular pattern and a tiny bear face.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Good morning from the panettone thief.

Very close up view of Tully the black bantam araucana chicken standing on my bare legs with her sharp claws looking straight at the camera with her fluffy beard feathers sticking out.

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