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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10h

The sheer magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍

Sarah Durrant @sarah-d.bsky.social · 18h

😢RIP my old faithful Hiace campervan. OH took it away last weekend and coming home, he seemingly decided he preferred the central crash barrier to the hwy! OH was unharmed, but Hiace has been declared a write-off.

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🌊 “For those of us living in low-lying islands, atolls, coastal communities and delta regions, sea level rise is not a future threat or mere speculation. It is our present reality.” — Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo ▶️ pmn.co.nz/read/environ...

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Antarctic 'blind spot' raises fresh sea-level concerns for Pacific

Scientists say a vast, little-studied ice basin could hold clues to how quickly sea levels could rise as the planet warms.

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An enormous area of #Antarctic ice covering 1,400km by 400km, more than 4km thick in places, holds an estimated 3-4m of global sea-level rise, if melted. But for something so consequential for the natural world and human society, the Wilkes Subglacial Basin in #East Antarctica is largely unknown.

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 30/09/2026

If all the ice in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin melted, it would raise global sea levels 3 to 4 metres. It happened before – at temperatures we’re heading towards

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Tragedy stopped Mawson exploring this remote Antarctic region. We must get there to study its melting ice

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LucyParkerPaul🦉🇦🇺 @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A young Powerful Owl mid trill looking towards the adult who was holding, and nibbling dinner. Eventually it hopped over to the adult and had a possum snack for lunch. #birds #brisbane #wildoz

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𝖼𝗋𝗄Ⓥ @crk5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The September averages in #hobart for max temperatures is a full 2.5 degrees over the long term average, that's huge 😳

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shepsmags.bsky.social @shepsmags.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #EFG, birds beginning with any of those letters (1st name). A flock of galahs returning from the fishing grounds. Carrickalinga, SA, Australia. #BirdPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #Wildlifephotography #photography.

A flock of galahs with the ocean in the background.

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For Rob & @alan678.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #EFG, birds beginning with any of those letters (1st name). The Alt theme is #Paridae, any of the species. A Gaggle of Canada geese at Cannon Hill Park #Birmingham #birds #ECK #ukbirding #birdphotography #BirdLife #naturephotography

You've heard of ducks in a row, this time it's geese!

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Sarah Durrant @sarah-d.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #EFG I have an Eastern spinebill in the front garden (on the since removed weedy red hot pokers). #Birds #Birding #WildOz #Tasmania #SoTas #Nature #Wildlife

A small bird with a very long, fine, curved beak feeding on the finger-like orange flowers.

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We’ve known about these cousins for a long time, they branched off during a family dispute eons ago after a volatile debate on pebble collecting

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 28/09/2026

genuinely beginning to feel like the folks who are pro data centres in tasmania must be collectively subject to some kind of gas leak that impacts their cognition #politas

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Rachel Hollis @rachelhollisart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Did you know a group of finches is called a 'charm'? Inspired by Neville Cayley's 'A Charm of Finches' this drawing includes every one of Australia's finch species #birdart #finch #finches #birds

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026

my boy @mrchrisadams.net did the calcs on this - a $1m fine, for a facility that gets paid $290m a month. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Chris Adams 1stChris Adams • 1st

Researcher and community organiser, working on a fossil free internet, and greener digital services

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I did some quick napkin maths calculation on this. If the guardian article mentions 300MW replacing these engines, I think that 1 million dollar fee represents about 3-5 days of fuels costs for the 45 Bergen generators.

Microsoft has a 17bn dollar, 5 year deal with Nebius for the compute.

Nebius is paying DataOne to build the actual datacentres, and provide the generators to power them.

Moreover, a 17bn dollar deal, if you divide it by 60 months, is what? 290 million dollars per month?

What good is a 1million dollar fine if you're being paid 290 milion dollars by Microsoft, per month for it, who presumably are selling the compute for *more than* 290 million dollars per month?

No wonder they were happy to be allowed to keep running it - the cost of switching off the servers for a month would have been hundreds of times the cost of the fine.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Someone needs to pay for that stadium

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two men who regard their own voters with contempt

Screenshot of Albanese’s obsequious selfie photo of he and Trump

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LucyParkerPaul🦉🇦🇺 @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sometimes it's difficult to tell male and female Powerful Owl's apart. We hadn't yet seen the female but something about the chunky fierceness of this POwl suggested male. Powerful by name, and nature and the only bird in Australia that can fly carrying prey heavier than itself. #birds #wildoz

This male Powerful Owl was preening in a very urban Brisbane park. Despite being almost over a busy footpath he and his partner were so high and so well tucked in the branches it was difficult to spot them.

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Wanderfound @wanderfound.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Paw patrol.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The floof is beginning to be replaced by chevons (heart/bat pattern) on the front of this Powerful Owlet. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

B&W photo of Powerful Owlet on a branch with chevron heart/bat patterning coming through on its front

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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

in case you missed it!! new release of @kudelka.bsky.social’s rusted-on bingo tea towels, with $5 from every tea towel sold going to the Jon Kudelka Fund for Glioblastoma Research at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research get yours now!! www.kudelkashop.com/product/rust...

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The Kudelka Shop is at The Kudelka Shop.
RUSTED ON BINGO IS BACK.
Jon Kudelka's classic tea towel is getting a special re-release.
This time, $5 from every tea towel sold goes to the Jon Kudelka Fund for Glioblastoma Research at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research.
#JonKudelka #RustedOnBingo
#glioblastomaresearch #menziesinstituteformedicalresearch

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is very sad. The strain in Australia from Heard Island is very virulent amongst seals 😭

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Sarah Durrant @sarah-d.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The wind gusts here at home have been something else; all sorts of detritus being flung towards the house. But a bonus sighting of a Wedged-tail eagle struggling to stay upright as it flew past - at window height, and just 4m away! #Birds #WildOz #Tasmania #Weather

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Bear: My work here is done. Video is from a trail camera near our basketball court in the rural Seattle area. #mammals #nature #bear #love #trailcam #Seattle #goodmorning #PNW #nokings #bears #outdoors

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Happy powerful owl fledging season to all who celebrate! The local celebrity pair (nesting next to a popular bike path a hundred metres from a busy soccer club) have two chicks again this year. This one hasnt quite left the nest just yet:

A large, downy white owl chick standing on the edge of a very large tree hollow.

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That face you pull when a kid jumps on you unexpectedly. #CapeFurSeals #MammalWatching #SouthAfrica #seals

A row of Cape fur seals lying on a rock. A baby seal has jumper on an adult, and it has twisted its body up with an open-mouthed look of horror

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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Everything going well then (IEEFA and Green Energy Markets via @ryancropp.bsky.social ) www.afr.com/policy/energ...

Comparison of RE capacity under construction, and capacity required to meet 2030 target. there is a *big* gap

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 16/09/2026

A bloke walks out of Woolworths with a trolley of meat. In court he explains that the meat wasn’t chained to the shelf, that aisle four had no security gate, and that he checked the door for a sign reading “please do not take the meat” and couldn’t find one. All good, I guess?

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Mike Lowe @mike-lowe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Frank was an amazing man. So much of what he said long ago is now coming true.

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that black bears can be as large as they are eating almost exclusively grass and berries is amazing. And this one couldn't be any cuter doing so. From our trail camera next to our hoops court. Bear feet! #mammals #nature #bear #love #trailcam #Seattle #goodnight #PNW #nokings #bears #vegan

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Sarah Durrant @sarah-d.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Pretty okay 🤓 Wordle 1,914 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Sarah Durrant @sarah-d.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It is currently trying very hard to #snow on our patch at 300m. Mostly bursts of sleet with an occasional flake in the mix. #SoTas

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Ian Sheppard @iansheppard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A Kestrel and its prey over Orcombe Point, Devon. #UKBirding

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Saddlebacks must be having a good year, because between us, the women in my family have found four recently, and none of us had ever seen one before! 🌿

Big Saddleback Caterpillar on a tupperware lid. It's about an inch long and brown with what I can't stop thinking of as a saddle blanket marking with a white hem covering its middle section. On its back is the little brown "saddle" marking. It has two big spikes on each end and lots of little ones, including along the bottom edge on the side, all covered with thick, black-tipped stinging hairs. It's weird and cute.

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Psoroma hypnorum, our Green Moss-shingle Lichen, seen today on the Waldrop Trail 🌿

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Check out the gorgeous vermiculation on the feathers of the rufous scrub bird - in the dense ground-cover they hide in their colours make them effectively invisible. Their camouflage is SO good that they can afford to have incredibly loud voices and predators still can’t get them

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

trying to make new friends as an adult

Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A Great Meeting with Uncommon Bigg's Killer Whales. Read the full story here: buff.ly/3bk7JmI Photo by Brendon Bissonnette This is an encounter from 2019 #WhaleTales #orca

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