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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

OK, I'll play. Here's 9 albums that affected me. There's plenty more, but this'll do. Page One. #My9Albums

• Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxygène.
• Dire Straits: Dire Straits.
• Rickie Lee Jones: Rickie Lee Jones.
• Clifford Brown All Stars: Best Coast Jazz.
• Groove Armada: Vertigo.
• Beck: Mutations.
• Lemon Jelly: LemonJelly.KY.
• Pepe Deluxé: Super Sound.
• Portishead: Dummy.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

Spectacular clouds this evening. Lovely but humid night for a walk home. #LakeMacquarie

The light from an almost full moon shines through speckled clouds

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Once again, it is a time of large white cockatoos bouncing in small wattle tree branches. #LakeMacquarie #parrots #BirdsOfOz

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Yesterday's score: a Youssou N'Dour CD, Joko: from village to town. $4.50 in a second hand bookshop on Beaumont Street, Hamilton NSW. 🎶 A day like this will come, a day like this will go. Liggeey! 🎶 #YoussouNDour

A confident black African man looking into your soul. A sticker in the top-right proclaims:

"Africa's Artist of the Century" – Folk Roots.
"The eighth wonder of the world" – The Times.
"… simply one of the world's great voices" – four stars, Uncut.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Walking through Gregson Park in Hamilton NSW yesterday, and the dianella berries are starting to ripen into their wonderful purple greatness. Also, a flying fox flew out of the big Afrocarpus tree there. I could just make out a small cluster hanging in the tree […] [Original post on aus.social]

A small cluster of Dianella berries, the largest of which are turning purple, the smallest still being pale green. In amongst long, thing, green leaves of Dianella, with some flowering spiny-head mat rush reaching in from the top-left.

Sprays of Dianella berries, in mixed stages of ripeness from green to purple, amongst the long green Dianella leaves.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Everyone wants a rating nowadays.

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Tell us what you think of your meal.

Scan the QR code to complete a short survey and help us improve food in NSW hospitals.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Ladybug like insects on a seat at the train station. There's a fair bit of sooty mould on the seat, maybe they're after that? #LakeMacquarie #insects

A wee insect with an orange carapace with black spots, on a grey metal bench seat.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

The house across the road has chooks, and one in particular likes to scratch in the mulch around our driveway and our neighbour's front fence. Since there are tradies doing work there, the gate is open and the chook is taking advantage. Taken yesterday morning […] [Original post on aus.social]

A charcoal-grey chicken with a brown neck and red comb scratching amongst the leaf litter under plants at a fence.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

One of the great things about Jean-Michel Jarre's In Concert Houston / Lyon CD is the vox pop at the end of a few tracks. Clearly of amusement to the album producers. "Jar-ray or Jarre" "I'd always pronounce it Jar-ray" "I don't have any idea 'bout what's goin' […] [Original post on aus.social]

Jean-Michel Jarre towering over buildings lit up with laserlight colours, from the CD cover.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Now playing: Jean-Michel Jarre, Zoolook, with some more noises by Laurie Anderson 🎉

A posterised and partially distorted image of Jean-Michel Jarre with his eyes looking out the Os in the word Zoolook.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Now playing: Jean-Michel Jarre, Metamorphoses. First track: Laurie Anderson vocals. 🎉

A ghostly Jean-Michel Jarre bust against a smokey sunset.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Currently playing: Jean-Michel Jarre, Oxygen. Pew pew pew pew!

Album cover with a globe of the Earth, its "skin" peeling away to reveal a human skull.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I was just watching clouds of moths around this bottlebrush tree, when a pair of musk lorikeets rocketed into it. Sadly, I didn't capture the birds on video, and they disappeared into the back of the tree quickly. But it shook up the moths a lot! #LakeMacquarie #moths

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The local Pauline Outta Tronno campaign is stepping up, laying out the whys and wherefores. #LakeMacquarie #AusPol

Text on a paste-up:

Pauline Hanson Voted Against:

- wage increases for workers;
- childcare funding for families;
- housing affordability policies;
- public school funding;
- renter's rights.

Pauline Outta Tronno.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

[food, non-veg] So I managed to stuff up my jollof rice six ways from Sunday (oh, today's Sunday; anyway) and it was still wonderful. My previous attempt was better, because I vibed it and stuck with my intuition. This one didn't get enough liquid because I […] [Original post on aus.social]

Brown goat meat and bones on very orange-red rice, next to very purple sautéed cabbage, on a white plate with a partial floral border.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

[offal] I discovered yesterday that Woollies now stocks 1kg packs of chicken gizzards (the label says giblets). So I just pressure-cooked 1kg for 25 minutes, and am about to freeze them for my lunch soups. Their tenderness nicely offsets the bite of chicken […] [Original post on aus.social]

A pile of light brown cooked chicken gizzards on paper towel.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Anyone have a clue what this insect is? There's a few of them around the house, along with a bazillion moths and hoverflies. #LakeMacquarie #InsectIdentification

A very leggy winged insect with a skinny orange body, faint lines across it. The wings a thin and transparent. It is sitting on bright green palm leaves.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I have eaten and imbibed, and can now reveal the picnic view. #NewcastleAU #NewcastleNSW #picnic

The Hunter River under a crystal clear blue sky. Across the water is the grain terminal with silos, and three tugboats at dock.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

[Spider] Bus stop spider. Saint Andrew's cross. #spiders #LakeMacquarie

A cream and brown spider had set up its web on the steel post of a bus stop. The web has a prominent white cross Weyden l woven into it and the spider's legs are matching the design.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The musk lorikeets around here usually fly high and stick to the high gum blossoms, so I rarely get to see them properly. Lately though, they've been getting into the red bottlebrush which gives me a fighting chance. #LakeMacquarie #BirdsOfOz #parrots

A small green parrot with splashes of red and yellow is hanging upside down, with its face in a red bottlebrush flower. The other flowers will get their turn, there are rainbow lorikeets and noisy miners that visit this tree frequently too.

A small green parrot with splashes of red, yellow, and blue is hanging over a red bottlebrush flower. It has stopped feeding to look up and see me taking its photo.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

From this morning's walk into Toronto NSW for groceries, a willy wagtail sitting on its finely crafted nest over water. #LakeMacquarie #BirdsOfOz

A black and white bird sits on a beautifully crafted mud nest in the shape of a cup, affixed to a skinny branch on a dead casuarina tree. Beneath is murky green water.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

We sat down at the lake today with chips and a couple of beers, before facing up to the stupor market. Quite a few yacht races on the go. Here's a small group of one race returning to the Toronto yacht club. #LakeMacquarie

A string of white sails on little one-person yachts. Bright blue water under a blue sky with scattered low cloud.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Inn the walk into Toronto NSW today, a dusky moorhen looking about in a storm water drain. #LakeMacquarie #BirdsOfOz

A small black water bird with a red face and white bum poking about on a very full skinny drain with lots of greenery around it.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I've been seeing Willy Wagtails around the Stoney Creek bridge near Toronto NSW, and today I noticed there's a wee nest crafted onto a fallen tree under the water board pipes. After I took a photo, both off them showed up and one sat on the nest. Left it as soon […] [Original post on aus.social]

A dead Casuarina tree hangs sideways over murky green water, under a wide black pipe. In the shadows there is a beautifully crafted mud nest attached to a thin branch.

A small black and white bird sits in a dead tree hanging over murky green water.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Not missing Missy. On a bus at Fassifern station. #IYNYN

A large poster of a cat on the side of a bus. Text is: Never Lost. Missy doesn't leave my side. Keep your cat safe at home. RSPCA NSW.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Yesterday we caught the bus to Teralba and walked to Speers Point for a picnic. Here's a selection of birds seen along the way. #LakeMacquarie #BirdsOfOz

An Australian pelican, white with black wings and a pink bill, is paddling on Cockle Creek. The creek water is cloudy, and the pelican is heading into the shadows of mangrove trees.

A distant shot of two pelicans on the water near a floating platform at the edge of Cockle Creek, with mangroves and casuarina trees behind.

A darter sits on rocks at the edge of a road alongside Cockle Creek. Across the water are mangroves and casuarina trees.

Four wood ducks on a grassy area. All were sitting until I disturbed them by stopping and looking; now three are standing.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

The phishing campaign using Sendgrid as a cover has been stepping up its game, getting quite inventive. Here's just this morning's crop. (All of these use stolen credentials to utilise other people's valid email configurations, so SPF / DKIM pass just fine) #phishing #Sendgrid

A selection of email subjects for phishing emails.

We're moving our portal to Twilio.
SendGrid - A new IP address has been whiteli…
Plan Cancelled
We're preparing your email export. James From SendGrid.
Two Factor Settings Changed.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

[Food, non-veg] Afternoon picnic at Lake Mac. Braised chicken, pickled egg, artichokes, long grain rice in tiffins. Glass of Shiraz. View. 👍 #LakeMacquarie #picnic #tiffins

A steel tiffin bowl with a chicken drumstick, part of a pickled egg, an artichoke heart, rice, chillies, and a small metal spoon. A metal cup sits next to the bowl on a floral tablecloth.

The view. Grass to the water's edge where there is a Casuarina tree, long leafed plants.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) apps API is down, it as my Kodi on the TV puts it: #BOM

Dodgy photo of a TV screen. A wreck of a wooden house is surrounded by long grasses next to a road. There's a road sign that says: Road closed 3 miles ahead. Local traffic only.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

With a little time to kill while waiting for a bus, I found a Manu Chao CD in a discount shop in Glendale NSW. $2. #CD #ManuChao

A man stands on one leg against a wall with flaking paint. He is wearing a red and white striped shirt, vertical stripes, and a headdress of some sort with a couple of tassles. Manu Chao, Clandestino, esperando la ultima ola… Bloody Border.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Yesterday we stepped off a bus at Edgeworth NSW and immediately upset a masked lapwing and its two chicks. #NewcastleAU #NewcastleNSW #BirdsOfOz

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Seeing this stuck up around Toronto NSW recently, like this one on a bin. I'm guessing anti One Notion? Definitely a hyper-local campaign 🙂 #AusPol #LakeMacquarie

A large paste up on a metal bin, reads Pauline Outta Tronno (i.e. Pauline Out Of Toronto).

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

I forgot to post this photo from after last Sunday's picnic. Walking back to the bus stop, one of the yachts moored in Kooroora Bay had been designated as The Roost for these little black shags. There's at least two dozen by my count. #LakeMacquarie #BirdsOfOz

A white yacht is moored on blue water, clear skies above. Small black shags are standing on the railings around the yacht. Other boats and trees in the background.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Back to the op shop while waiting for a bus, and I found more Lee Ritenour. Somebody has been cleaning out a collection. Also found a classic 1991 album from Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Good day today, $1 each. #OpShop #jazz

Cover of Color Rit, by Lee Ritenour. Very colourful abstract art. Don't make me describe this, I haven't had coffee yet.

Cover of Larry & Lee, by Lee Ritenour and Larry Carlton. A pastiche of photographs of both men, and guitars.

Cover of Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Cartoon illustration of a hippo in a beret flying through space. In the background there are: a rocket, a UFO, a horse jumping over the hippo, a shooting star, and a banjo floating alone.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Spring is certainly here. A bit cloudy this morning, but this gymea lily doesn't mind. Lovely and warm, definitely shorts weather. #LakeMacquarie #GymeaLily #PlantsOfOz

A gymea lily with two flower spikes. The plant has long green leaves coming up from a central base at the ground, to about 1 metre. The flower spikes are thin and long, to about 3 metres, with a collection of red flowers at the ends.

A large stone stands in front of the lily, the edge of a derelict train station platform behind the lily. Trees and suburbia beyond.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

[food, non-veg] Some South Asian grocers sell a condiment called a chutney powder, we picked this one up in a Nepali grocer but have seen it elsewhere. DW likes to put some on her lunches sometimes. It makes a pretty good seasoning for potato wedges! After […] [Original post on aus.social]

A black bowl with some large potato wedges cooked until golden, with spices.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Late in our picnic this pair of wood ducks ambled past our table, with Mrs grazing on the grass while Mr watched for threats. He's looking the other way, so I guess we were assessed as non-threatening. #LakeMacquarie #ducks #BirdsOfOz

Two wood ducks on the grass just past the concrete slab our picnic table was on. Casuarina trees behind at the edge of the water. Mrs duck is grazing, while Mr duck looks out for trouble.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

[Food, non-veg] Today's picnic was a simple one of braised chicken drumstick and rice, with some olives salad. Lovely with a sunny spring day, birds, the lake view, and great company. #picnic

A steel Tiffin bowl and a large jar of olive salad sit on a floral tablecloth on a picnic table. The Tiffin contains rice soaked with broth, a braised chicken drumstick, some carrot, with some spices visible.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

We went to the Lions Park in Toronto NSW for a picnic, and saw ducklings! 2/2 #ducklings #LakeMacquarie #ducks #BirdsOfOz

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

We went to the Lions Park in Toronto NSW for a picnic, and saw ducklings! 1/2 #ducklings #LakeMacquarie #ducks #BirdsOfOz

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

New Op Shop CD white waiting for a bus. I had no idea this existed. Could be interesting, sure to be $1 not wasted. Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins: Neck and Neck. #OpShop #MarkKnopfler #ChetAtkins

Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins pose with their guitars.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Peeling 500 grams of garlic, need a beat. #PepeDeluxé

Screen grab of iPhone playing the album Super Sound 25, showing two old reel to reel tape players

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Yesterday's Op Shop CD is just delightful. An eclectic mix, even a couple of waltzes and a tango. Apparently playing at The Lass in Newcastle NSW early this century, and the CD was produced in Newcastle in 2004 too. A lucky find. Le Minibus […] [Original post on aus.social]

CD cover for eponymous album Le Minibus. Through cut-out snippets it shows some of the musical instruments played: banjo, bouzouki, saxaphone, violin, drum, guitar, and the scroll and machine heads of a double bass.

Track titles:
01. The wary road.
02. Argosvineis moni.
03. Argosvineis moni.
04. Shanghai Lil'.
05. Bei mir bist du schön.
06. Toh thikomo paploma.
07. La marine.
08. Tsifteteli.
09. La fille du pêcheur.
10. Jessie James.
11. A bre ludo adzamija.
12. Je m'suis fait tout p'tit.
13. Kéren Chave (Amari cini bóri).
14. Tantz Tantz.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Waiting for another bus, I looked in the Op Shop again and found some more Lee Ritenour light jazz CDs. The two I got the other day were great while hammering away at code yesterday. #OpShop

Four CDs from Lee Ritenour:

• Stolen Moments
• Amparo
• Wes Bound
• Smoke 'n' Mirrors

Also the onions and avocados I should have cropped out of the photo, and the nuclear green bench which needs a wipe.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

On my return from the shop, two cockatoos are now fighting over the biscuit packet from an electrical transmission wire. #LakeMacquarie #parrots #BirdsOfOz

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

I walked around the corner to get some wine, and found these cockatoos and corellas fighting over a packet of biscuits somebody has dropped. #LakeMacquarie #parrots #BirdsOfOz

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Yesterday's waiting for the bus Op Shop got me two CDs from Lee Rinenour. Nice light jazz, calming and non-intrusive. Yes, would make good on-hold music, but good for keeping focused on the computer touching. $2 each. #OpShop #LeeRitenour

CD cover of Lee Ritenour album Rit's House. A noir-ish photo of Lee playing guitar in front of a brick wall, with light and shadow play.

CD cover of Lee Ritenour album World of Brazil. Abstract blotchy art with autumn tones of orange, yellow, brown, black.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I have a habit of cutting an onion in half and putting one half in the fridge in a container, then using the other in cooking. In the past the container was a round Tupperware thing; lately it's a jar. No matter, result is the same. I always put the half onion […] [Original post on aus.social]

Half an onion sitting cut-side up on a bamboo chopping board.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I loved this scene of Venus and a sliver of the moon at about 6:15 PM tonight as we arrived home. #moon #venus

A sliver of the moon just above a carport with a bright Venus above, in a sky starting to darken. Stars are starting to come out, much fainter than the planet and moon.

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