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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 17h

The gorgeous history-inspired, decorative-icing biscuits (cookies) from the super-talented @ellamchawk.bsky.social are back! 🤩 Look at that exquisite detail, and such a cool research project too... 🗃️ 🍜

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maskflowerprince.bsky.social @maskflowerprince.bsky.social · 6h

For #TombTuesday. Another treasure from Tomb 7 in Monte Albán in Oaxaca, Mexico. Shows the skill of the ancient Mixtecs before the Spaniards arrived (2011). #photography #Mixteca #ÑuuSavi #Oaxaca #Mexico #MonteAlban #mesoamerica #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #Mixtec #gold #EastCoastKin #ECK #WCK

This photograph features a highly detailed, multi-strand pre-Columbian necklace made by the Mixtecs of ancient Mexico, displayed against a dark background. The necklace is constructed from thousands of tiny beads, showcasing a vibrant gradient of colors arranged in horizontal rows.

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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 20h

Lots of vibrant Green Scarab Beetles (Diphucephala colaspidoides) around at the moment, making the most of the abundant spring wildflowers 💚 #ausinverts #wildoz #beetles #Coleoptera #bugsky #inaturalist

Bright green, shiny beetle on a bright yellow flower

Two bright green, shiny beetles on a cluster of bright yellow fluffy flowers

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LovelyLeah 𑄝੭𑄝੭𑄝੭ @lovelyleah75.bsky.social · 12h

Jack Smith: “I will not be silenced.” Be like Jack Smith. VOTE. #Blues

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 16h

Stylidium petiolare - Horn Triggerplant One of triggerplants endemic to the southwest if WA. Like all triggerplants, this one has a sensitive floral column that snaps forward when touched by an insect daubing it with pollen 🌿 #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling #spring

Picture of two small pale pink flowers with four petals, two at the top and two at the bottom the flowers centre

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bill doyle @billjondoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

uluru sunset from camel-back, uluru - kata tjuta national park, northern territory, australia ( no amount of seeing uluru in photographs can prepare you for the experience of encountering it in real life. it is awe inspiring ) #photography #AustralianPhotographers #landscapephotography

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Musk lorikeet Trichoglossus concinnus in a grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis, Inverell, NSW photo by Ash Falconer

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Tre Cooper @s3quinsof3v3nts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The last of our black swallowtail butterflies to be released this season. Looks like all the rest (approx two dozen) now in cocoons will overwinter with us. #nature #photography #butterflies #BlackSwallowtail #HopeAndAPrayer

One male black swallowtail butterfly perched on a Celosia blossom ready for lift-off.

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Pam Williams @pamkeenwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Drifting somewhere between this world and another. * Chrysaora colorata. #marinelife

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Neil Cameron @neilcam57.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Helen Bennett 🌿's #BirdOfTheDay ALT theme is #AwkwardAvian Not sure there's competitors to Oz's parrots & cockatoos. Exhibits: Rainbow Lorikeet Little Corellas Cockatoo #ECK #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #nature #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) almost upside down in a bottlebrush tree at Toowong, Brisbane.

Little Corellas (Cacatua sanguinea) wrestling, University of Queensland, St Lucia

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) being goofy by hanging upside down from the neighbour's TV antenna, St Lucia, Brisbane.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn." - Isaac Newton

A face-on spiral galaxy with dusty arms and pink star-forming knots, overlaid with a golden spiral and nested rectangles illustrating the golden ratio.

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Paula @totallypaula.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. ~ Kurt Vonnegut #Quote #BookSky #Writer

Photo of American author Kurt Vonnegut (November 11,1922 - April 11, 2007)

Part of a collection redesigning all 14 of Vonnegut's major book covers SPINE Magazine.
Created by designer Alicia Raitt at Milk & Bone

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Nick Raschke @nickraschke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Friday.

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Superzoomed close-up of the a.m. ocean - the spots that look like lights/candles are the rising sun reflecting off the crests. #nature #Maui #nokings #abstract #photography #marinelife

$Black and white looking ocean close-up . With mosaic refraction and white highlights of the sun's reflection.$

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Marine Conservation Institute @savingoceans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The BBNJ Agreement just reached 100 ratifications! We celebrate this milestone and look ahead to a strong network of protected MPAs on the high seas. Congrats to Germany, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, Canada, Australia & Brunei Darussalam. Now: turn ratification into real, lasting ocean protection.

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rock Steady [Chorus] (What it is) It's a funky and low down feeling (What it is) In my hips from left to right (What it is) What it is is I might be doing (What it is) This funky dance all night ~ Aretha Franklin youtu.be/fGavl_m41LE #RockSteady #ArethaFranklin #YoungGiftedAndBlack #Funk #Lyrics

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Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady (Official Lyric Video)

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fortunate Son [Chorus] It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate one, no ~ John Fogerty youtu.be/r5NzAksjfDI #FortunateSon #CreedenceClearwaterRevival #JohnFogerty #ProtestSongs #Lyrics

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Fortunate Son

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Milena @milenarejc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees." Rainer Maria Rilke

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Glen Ryan @silverdory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Spotted sun orchid (Thelymitra ixioides) near Hyam's Beach, NSW - another coastal location where most of the flowers have no spots. Flowering had already pretty much finished here in mid-September with only a handful of plants still out. #orchids #inthefield #ozplants #biodiversity

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sand painting rug, Navajo culture, before 1942, handspun wool, natural and analine ivory, brown, pale yellow, green, red, and tan, 153.7 x 139.7 cm, private collection

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Tim McDermott @thebombshelter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy 78th birthday to Gasper Lawal! m.youtube.com/watch?v=CUro...

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YouTube video by Gasper Lawal - Topic

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Congratulations to Ecca Vandal on her 7 nominations for the 2026 #ARIA Awards. 🎉 Blending punk, hip-hop & alternative influences, Ecca continues to redefine modern #Australian music. 🦘 A fearless and genre-defying artist. #EccaVandal #CruisingToSelfSoothe #AusMusic #Music youtu.be/pccffwLPRSw

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Ecca Vandal - CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE (Official Video)

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Marc Anderson @wildambience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Put some headphones on and enjoy this ethereal predawn soundscape. The fluty phrases of the Pied Butcherbird are sublime, like music floating across the arid plains. This is an excerpt from the album "Australia: Outback Dawn" wildambience.com/albums/austr... #wildoz #fieldrecording #soundscape

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Codex Silens @codexcultus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien was published in London on September 21, 1937, by George Allen & Unwin. The first 1,500 copies sold out by December due to great reviews. Today, this classic is one of the best-selling books ever, with over 100 million copies sold worldwide. #thehobbit #tolkien #books

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 21/09/2026

Europe and Australia see the world in the same way. And this joint vision translates into concrete actions. Our Security & Defence partnership is fully at work. Our Free Trade Agreement: about to be signed next year.

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Glen Ryan @silverdory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Grevillea macleayana flowering in coastal heathland near Ulladulla, NSW. These coastal plants with mostly entire, elliptic leaves + semi-prostrate habit when young offer a lot as garden plants - but I'm not sure when I last saw one available in a nursery or native plant sale. #grevilleas #ozplants

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Favorite Things Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things #RodgersAndHammerstein #MyFavoriteThings #JohnColtrane #JulieAndrews #Music #Lyrics youtu.be/qWG2dsXV5HI

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My Favorite Things - John Coltrane [FULL VERSION] HQ

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Sophia Kouidou-Giles @sophiakg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Spring fresco housed at the National Archeological Museum of Athens, from Akrotiri, Thera. Dated frpm the Aegean Bronze age, (16th century BC). #writingcommunity #AncientGreece #Booksky #AncientBlueSky #GreekTales #archeology #Akrotiri #reading #bookshelves #amwriting #Books #Ariadne Greece

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Needless To Say @needlesstosay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Victor Brauner

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Geoff Moore @geoffm59.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Don’t often see white ones! #macropod #marsupial #kangaroo #wildoz

A white kangaroo amongst a large pod in a paddock on the outskirts of Melbourne. The white or albino kangaroos occur once every 50,000 to 100,000 animals,” according to a report published in 2017.

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Alan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Photos: Wildflowers Bloom in the Atacama Desert - Javier Torres, a photojournalist with AFP, recently visited the Atacama Desert in Chile, capturing images of a desert in bloom after a spell of unusually wet weather. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

An aerial view of patches of blooming wildflowers in a desert, with small mountains in the background (Javier Torres / AFP / Getty)

A close view of purple wildflowers in bloom (Javier Torres / AFP / Getty)

An aerial view of a car driving through a flower-covered area of a desert (Javier Torres / AFP / Getty)

A dark sunset, under a cloudy sky, above a field of blue-and-white wildflowers (Javier Torres / AFP / Getty)

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Chorus: [Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark & David Crosby] Hey Mr Tambourine Man play a song for me I'm not sleepy & there ain't no place I'm goin' to Hey Mr Tambourine Man play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you #MrTamborineMan #Dylan #Byrds #Lyrics youtu.be/Swqw5a8I4b4

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The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man (Audio)

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Marc Anderson @wildambience.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A pair of Red Kangaroos in the soft light after sunset. I love the earthy colours of the outback! Sturt National Park, Australia #wildoz #australia

Female and male Red Kangaroos stand looking straight at the viewer. The light is subdued and the surrounding vegetation and stony ground are out of focus.

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Stars in Avalon. Photo taken at silly o'clock (😂) this morning on Glastonbury Tor. Lightened a bit for the screen.

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Pol Niuman @pol-niuman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Diego Rivera Vendedora de flores(1942)

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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Happy Spring Equinox! 🌱 🌸 🐝 in the Southern Hemisphere: Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, South America, southern Africa Wednesday, 23 September 2026 at 10:05 am AEST (00:05 UTC) #Spring #Equinox

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Marc Anderson @wildambience.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've just released a new soundscape album "Australia: Outback Dawn" recorded in spring in Paroo-Darling NP, NSW which was alive with stunning wildflowers and plenty of birdlife after recent rain. Link to album page in comments. #soundscape #fieldrecording #biodiversity

Album cover showing an outback scene from Paroo-Darling National Park, New South Wales with vibrant wildflowers and rich, red soil.

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Anita Hart @anitakhart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute. - Claude Monet . #photo #photography #photosky #photographersofbluesky #photosofbluesky #nature #naturephotography #naturelovers #agave

Close-up image of an agave plant showing overlapping blue-green leaves with smooth, matte surfaces. Each leaf edge is lined with evenly spaced, sharp reddish-purple spines that are tipped in a soft yellow-green glow. The background is softly blurred, highlighting the texture and curves of the plant.

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Forest Firefly @elwoodsadventure.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Agave Elegance 🌵

The image showcases a close-up view of a succulent plant, likely an Agave species. Its thick, fleshy leaves radiate outwards from a central point, forming a rosette shape. The leaves are a striking shade of blue-green, with prominent spines lining their edges. The tips of the leaves are adorned with sharp, reddish-brown thorns.
* Rosette Shape: The arrangement of the leaves in a circular pattern is typical of many Agave species.
* Leaf Texture: The leaves appear smooth and slightly waxy, which helps to reduce water loss in arid environments.
* Spines: The presence of spines is a common defense mechanism in plants, deterring herbivores.

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