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S. K. Riley

@skriley.bsky.social
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Writer, PhD, gardener, educator, tree planter, and so forth. www.skriley-author.com Lover of Australian wildlife, re-wilding, mythology, music, cinema and democracy. 🇦🇺

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Cat Sparks @catsparx.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Good morning! #birds #ornithology #audubon #closeup #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky #photography #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #AussieBirds #AustralianBirds
Baby galah - a grey bird with a pink head
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"Not amused." Hilarious composition. 😄
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting." Anne Sexton
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
That time #Obama cuddled with koalas on one of his Australian visits. 🐨
President Barack Obama cuddling Koalas at the G-20 Summit - Brisbane, Australia, Saturday, November 15, 2014.
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Coeurdelola.bsky.social @coeurdelola.bsky.social · 14h
#Photography Bonjour ! #Art #Photo #Nature #forestfriday #naturephotography Un phénomène naturel , on les appelle les yeux de la forêt #scape
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Crowbar @crobar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Eucalyptus caesia in a suburban Canberra garden 🌱
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 1h
And they were not going to sit quietly by and let their cultural place be trampled by marina traffic. #Ngarrindjeri #WarriorWomen #Kumarangk www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 3/3
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‘That bridge almost broke our mob’: the Ngarrindjeri warrior women and the fight to preserve sacred knowledge
A new documentary tells the story of the Hindmarsh Island Bridge affair and the clash between cultural rights and property developers’ ambitions
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 1h
The Hindmarsh Island Bridge saga centred on the tiny island of Kumarangk. It was the Ngarrindjeri women’s place for birth, burial and women’s business. [Tickets are now Waitlisted] #Kumarangk #SacredWomensBusiness #Ngarrindjeri #WarriorWomen www.adelaidefilmfestival.org/program/2026... 2/3
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KUMARANGK: Sacred Women's Business - Adelaide Film Festival
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 1h
Kumarangk: Sacred Women’s Business Global Premiere Adelaide Film Festival Thru extraordinary interviews & richly textured archive, KUMARANGK: Sacred Women's Business restores humanity to one of Australia's most divisive cultural conflicts, returning the story to the women who lived it. more... 1/3
Ngarrindjeri Warrior Women

Dr Doreen Kartinyeri, at a rally in March 1995, feared the Hindmarsh Island Bridge would destroy Ngarrindjeri culture. She holds a stretched out red flag with yellow lettering that reads: Don’t Mess with Mininis Business.
Photograph: Denise Noack
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Sulphur-crested cockatoo. Adelaide Botanic Garden. #birdsseenin2026
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Nick Raschke @nickraschke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Happy Friday. Got this one from the back veranda.
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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Prophetic blue wave showing off in Maui. #marinelife #nature #vote #Maui #love #nokings #goodnight
Wave crashing near beach. Blues and greens and sand can be seen inside.
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Tranquility Found @divinedropbear.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Red Kangaroos warming themselves just after sunrise in the sandhills of Cunnamulla #NaturePhotography #Marsupials #AustralianWildlife #wildoz #kangaroo #NotaBird #thisisQueensland
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100 Percent Canadian 🇨🇦 @cuthillh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #JKLM, bird species starting with these letters. Laughing #kookaburra in Sydney Royal Botanical Garden #australianbirds #kingfishers #birdphotography
Laughing kookaburra
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 20h
"Heaven... I'm in heaven..." 🎶 😁
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Diveden, California Girl @diveden.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I have woken with this song in my head for the past few days. What do you think it means? 😉 #musicsky
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Fred Astaire - Cheek to Cheek
YouTube video by Theodeus2
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Tim McDermott @thebombshelter.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The greatest record in the history of fair Australia was released 60 years ago today. m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ggw...
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The Easybeats - Friday on My Mind (1966) 🎵🎶
YouTube video by Rock n´ Roll
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tone curran @tonecurranpoet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
david bowie 'let's dance' youtube.com/watch?v=VbD_...
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David Bowie - Let's Dance (Official Video) [HD]
YouTube video by David Bowie
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Hold On, I'm Coming" by Sam & Dave. Sam Moore was born 12 October 1935. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JEl...
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Hold On, I'm Coming
YouTube video by Sam & Dave - Topic
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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Orion demonstrating the word *parallel* with this palm tree. #stars #nokings #trees #photography #love #maui
Pic straight up along trunk of palm tree showing stars and clouds in the sky. Several other trees nearby.
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lou💋🌰🦫🐜🍒🍊🐝 @lowlow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#FleurisTonFil #Photography .
Un dahlia rose accompagné de  wax.
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Sophia Kouidou-Giles @sophiakg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Worn on the chest and found at the city of New Philadelphia, this golden decoration (5th-6th century BC) is displayed at the Museum of Thessaloniki. #archeology #AncientGreece #ThessalonikiMuseum #amreading #Booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting #Macedoniangold #GreekTales #sun
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Terumbu @terumbudivers.com · 12/10/2026
Ascend with a turtle #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #singapore #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #sgd #ocean #sealife #marinelife #turtle #turtles
a sea turtle almost at the surface of the sea, diving indonesia
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Marc Anderson @wildambience.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Common Wombat on the moorlands of Cradle Mountain National Park, Tasmania. #wildoz #tasmania
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Stir It Up ~ Bob Marley (1967) on ‘Catch A Fire’ Bob Marley & The Wailers Island Records (1973) #StirItUp #BobMarley #TheWailers #Rocksteady #Jamaica #Music youtu.be/xsT0bIyaSWo
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Stir It Up
YouTube video by The Wailers - Topic
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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LucyParkerPaul🦉🇦🇺 @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A sleeping Powerful Owlet in a Brisbane park. #birds #wildoz #brisbane
Powerful owls in this park have to roost high with little alternatives. With the dry weather most of the trees have either lost leaves or their leaves are drooping reducing shade for this Powlet. She woke, panted, then her eyes would droop and finally a head tilt.
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toeslayer2000.bsky.social @toeslayer2000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Papunya Tula Artists was first entirely Aboriginal-owned & directed art company in Australia & formed in 1972. Local artists adapted secret or sacred symbols into a modified dot-and-circle style suitable for the public & the Western art market.
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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈‍⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
antique photographic portraits of Maori women
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Laura Christine @lcodonnell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Indigenous Peoples Day ❀࿐ྀ❭❭❥─➣࿐ྀ❀࿐ྀ❭❭❥─➣・ Celebrating indigenous peoples worldwide ❀࿐ྀ Here is the first first Tribal Council of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation, 1928. The Confederated Tribes are the Warm Springs, Wasco, and Paiute bands of central Oregon ࿐ྀ ❀࿐ྀ❭❭❥─➣࿐ྀ❀࿐ྀ❭❭❥─➣・
A black-and-white photo of five Native American chiefs in ceremonial regalia and feathered headdresses sitting on a a group of large rocks with a grassy plain in the background.

The photo is from the first Tribal Council for The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in 1928. 

Left to right: George Meachum, Isaac McKinley, Charley McKinley, Nathan Heath and Jackson Culps. 

Photo: The Museum at Warm Springs, Warms Springs, OR.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl! 🦉❤️ The solemn gaze from across the centuries gives an air of ancient wisdom! From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC. Met Museum 📷 by me #OwlishMonday #Archaeology
My photo shows a small, roughly square-shaped piece of limestone carved to depict a frontal face of an owl. The owl has large, rounded eyes and a long, pointed beak highlighted with fine diagonal incised lines. The face is outlined by two symmetrical fan-like feather patterns with a raised border around the eyes, cheeks, and beak. Dimensions: Height 10.3 cm x Width 11.1 cm x Depth 2.5 cm This relief represents the ancient Egyptian owl hieroglyph 'm'. The limestone plaque is displayed in a glass case at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This gilt bronze head portrays Sulis Minerva, the cult goddess for the Roman site at Aqua Sulis (modern Bath). It is very rare for such a precious item to be found anywhere but especially in England so we’re lucky. It was unearthed in 1727 and probably dates to C1st AD. 🏛️📷 Bath Roman Museum
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Waking up to a Carnyx 🐗📢 The talented Letty Stott playing a Carnyx last night alongside the sacred waters of Llyn Cerrig Bach votive lake, Ynys Mon/Anglesey 🎶😮 Have a great Sunday everyone 🍻 🎥 My own - volume up!
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by ThePoliceVEVO
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jblue @jbluemusic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#gardening #garden Fruit and veg today 😊
A basket of colorful fruits and vegetables including peppers of different sizes and colors, pomegranate, a yellow melon, almost black green beans, roselle, okra, miracle berries, jabuticaba, raspberries, acerola cherries, tiny tomatoes and goji berries
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James Brunt Artist @jamesbruntartist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sycamore keys on a log
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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A small selection from today's spring ramble in local bushland. Includes two bonus bugs!🦟 South coast NSW. #FlowerReport #OzFlora #WildOz
Flannel flower (Actinotus helianthi), a soft white flower with 11 bracts (inc bug) & a cluster of petals forming a little mound in the centre. Teensy bug at top.A dampiera (D. stricta?), a small mauve flower with a yellow centre. Bug on top petal.I think this is a graceful bush pea (Pultenaea flexilis), a deep yellow pea-type flower.Pretty sure this is a scented paperbark (Melaleuca squarrosa). White brush-like flower spikes & pointy leaves.
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Peter Thomas @hakeafan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Grus rubicunda (Brolga) Lake Dunn, Aramac, Queensland, Australia June 2026 #GrusRubicunda #Brolga #AustraliaBirds #wildOz #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #Birds #Nature #Birding #birdwatching #AustralianWildlife #Aves #Nature #photographersofbluesky
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Dpm12 @jazzbluesrb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5bK... #Blues #PiedmontBlues #AcousticBlues #BluesSky
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Police Dog Blues
YouTube video by Blind Blake - Topic
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Mañana ~ Written by Peggy Lee & husband Dave Barbour, in Mexico. Released in 1957 as part of her album: The Complete Recordings 1950-1956. #Tomorrow #PeggyLee #Manana #Mexico #Music youtu.be/ou5vsdpsoAE
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"Mañana" (Official Video) - Peggy Lee
YouTube video by Peggy Lee
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Olivier de Saint-Aubin du Pressoir @chrisoligh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Back in Black [All rights to the original composition belong to their respective owners.] #AC/DC #BackInBlack #BigBand #Swing #Jazz #Music youtu.be/qfUbqBOS-bg
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WhatIfMusic - AC/DC- Back in Black (1940s Big Band Style by The AC/DC Orchestra) #acdc #backinblack
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Kettle @kittenstrudel.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Brett Humphries, Wild Blackberries, oil on board, 2022
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histhapp.bsky.social @histhapp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A new Dallas museum exhibit opens today to challenge the myth of an all-white Wild West. After emancipation, Black cowboys helped drive cattle across the frontier—roughly 1 in 4 trail cowboys. #BlackHistory #history #museum #historynews #afamhistory www.dhhrm.org/press-releas...
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Anne McKinnell 🇨🇦 @annemckinnell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Humpback whale tail in Blackfish Sound, British Columbia 🦑 #marinelife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #britishcolumbia
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Geoff Moore @geoffm59.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And they’re back, in black! 📍Gembrook Park, Gembrook, Vic. #wildoz #ozbirds #yellowtailedblackcockatoo
Image of Australia’s largest cockatoo, the Black-tailed yellow cockatoo, taking flight from Banksia tree on which it had been feeding.
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H 🍉🌿 @helendublin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#Artistfave15 #musicchallenge 11. ACDC - back in black youtu.be/6vImyP5EYc8?...
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AC/DC - Back In Black (Live at Donington, 8/17/91)
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RoseRed @thebookishgardener.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#BloomScrolling #Dahlias Today’s dahlia is Bo Peep. My garden is still going strong 😅.
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Bilby Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds… So won't you help to sing These songs of freedom? 'Cos all I ever have, Redemption songs These songs of freedom Songs of freedom - Redemption Song #BobMarley & The Wailers #Freedom #Lyrics #Bilby #WildOz
Two endangered baby Bilbies in a hat. The Bilby is an iconic Australian marsupial, instantly recognisable by its long-pointed snout, long ears, soft grey fur and striking black and white tail. Australian Wildlife Conservancy has restored Bilbies to six safe havens across the country in areas where they were once extinct.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026
Earthrise during the Apollo 8 mission, December 1968. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8297433...
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