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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One of the best of the best is gone and I’m home alone crying. It was always such a pleasure to talk and work with Tim Read. He was so thoughtful and wise and generous and gentle. He worked incredibly hard as a local MP, for the community and the planet. Deepest condolences to his family.

A slightly blurry crop of a group of people outside a community meeting. In the middle is me next to Tim Read.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sweeping leaves this morning, this person came to join me. We had a lovely chat as they followed me around, finding tasty delights I was leaving behind.

A magpie stands proudly on red paving bricks, observing the recently swept oak leaves

Magpie crouches towards red paving bricks, about to grab a little snack left behind after my sweeping leaves

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

EJ Swift’s “When There Are Wolves Again” is as beautiful and brilliant a piece of climate literature as I’ve ever read. And I’ve read a lot. It’s also a real a telling of what it feels like to be an activist in a broken and breaking world as I’ve read. I felt very seen. Do read it.

Lovely cover, too. A wolf, sort of in a cage but they’re also maybe trees?

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I was lucky enough to get to watch a gorgeous little flame robin playing in the trees up on O’Connor Ridge today. Check it out mid-dive on the third photo!

A tiny flash of bright red against the pale blue sky between the boughs of a leaning gum tree

A tall grey gum against a backdrop of gum leaves and a pale blue sky. Halfway up the tree is a tiny bird with a black head and bright red breast

Tall gums, blue sky. If you zoom in, you can see a tiny bird mid dive, with a bright red breast

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Fresh snow. Fresh footprint. 51 cycles round the sun.

A single perfect bare footprint in perfect fresh snow.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Back on Ngarigo country, my favourite place. So ridiculously warm for mid winter, with not much snow for the snow gums. But still just stunningly beautiful. Good for the soul.

A magnificent snow gum, eucalyptus pauciflora, with colourful stripy bark, grass poking through snow, blue sky behind

Extraordinary sunset colours - salmon pink clouds, darkening blue sky, silhouettes of trees over snowy hills

Magnificent trunk of eucalyptus pauciflora, snow gum, with snow around it, and undergrowth peeking through around it

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Jillian Segal is absolutely living up to her role as Antisemitism Envoy. Every time she says something like this, she increases antisemitism in Australia. I'm sorry, I have to be facetious about this or I will cry scream. Our community used to be respected. This makes us at best a laughing stock.

Screen grab from Grauniad news digest reading "'Very serious perception' in Jewish community that ABC's Middle East reporting creates negative impression of Israel, Jillian Segal says

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This rather unassuming photo marks a truly historic occasion! ACT Greens members are currently voting in the first full membership ballot for the leadership of a Greens party in Australia, with a contested ballot. And we’ve got a real contest of ideas and approaches. Democracy in action! 💚🌎

Three humans sit at a bland table in a bland office space

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy 100th birthday to our deeply beloved Oma. Gone ten years now and missed every day. I’m so grateful for her incredible love and strength and wisdom.

Old black and white photo from I guess around the mid 1930s. My Oma as a young girl with a smile and short wavy hair in a spotty dress stands between two stern older ladies - her aunt and grandmother, I think

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Don’t worry, I’m not planning on cooking a succulent Beef Wellington, but can any of my(celium) clever friends identify these fun guys growing in my front yard? There’s not mushroom for error.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Who else LOVED Barbapapa?! This was absolutely one of the most important books of my childhood. Now I wove it into some thinking about Audre Lorde's "the master's house" and Vanessa Andreotti's "house of modernity", and I'd love it if you'd read it. in-between-days.ghost.io/renovating-t...

Cover of the gorgeous children's book, Barbapapa's New House, by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My ducks are not in a row. My ibis, however..:

Half a dozen ibis are perched on a breakwater, reflected in the flat water of the reconstructed wetland.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Fabulous to see Not Drowning Waving again, after all these years! Playing lots of songs off Tabaran and Claim, as well as the new record.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Thank you, Sir David Attenborough, for your love of the world, and for sharing it with us for 100 years. This letter is one of my most treasured possessions. I sent him my book when it came out, with a letter of gratitude, and he replied! Happy birthday!

A letter in spidery hand-writing, dated 1.8.22, reading “Dear Tim Hollo, thank you very much for sending me a copy of Living Democracy. I look forward very much to reading it. And thank you too for the very kind thing you say about my programmes. Best wishes, David Attenborough”

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

In today’s other fabulous news, the spotted pardalotes are back in my garden! This is a photo from two years ago - couldn’t get one this morning. They’re too speedy!

A tiny jewel of a bird, with yellow belly, black wings and cap with white spots and a splash of red tail feathers perches on a shrub outside my window

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

This coming Thursday evening, I’m running a session for the Degrowth Network Australia on Direct Action as a path to Degrowth (and broad economic, social and political transformation) Register here: events.humanitix.com/strategy-wor...

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…

Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Advertise your account with just one image.

Photo of poster with bastardised Gramsci “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of Monsters” above a photo of Elmo

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

More and more of us willing to put our names to this

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Conversation with a corvid cousin.* Turn the sound on! * Hollo means raven, so we’re definitely cousins

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

BREAKING: gouging out your eyes with a rusty fork could reduce glaucoma risk - but it could come at a cost

New Scientist
Environment

Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2
Cutting down boreal forest and sinking the felled trees in the depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove up to 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year – but it could come at a cost to the Arctic ecosystem

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Some of the new friends made this week

Fluffy baby eastern grey kangaroo, with mum behind, in the shade on a hot day

Rather larger lizard - a goanna close to 6ft long - clambers up the slope beside the beach

Magnificent grey gum in the Monga National Park, with a twisted trunk with a great big hole in it, but standing tall above

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The world is a fiery mess, and my heart breaks But my partner & I spent much of this week deeply immersed in nature, making friends furry, scaley & leafy, skinny dipping in rivers & bays & ocean, and the grief subsides. If more of us got our kit off and jumped in the water, the world would improve

Me from the waist up, standing naked on a beach, the sandy shore curving around behind me, with thick Australian bush ringing the beach

A small stretch of the Mongarlowe River - a beautiful wild bit of bushland with cool water to plunge naked into.

Stunning orange and yellow and purple sunset clouds through eucalyptus trees.

Glimpses of blue sky through the curves of a spotted gum

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Actual Bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from 50 years before you were born Joan Miro, The Harlequin’s Carnival

Midi’s The Harlequin’s Carnival. Impossible to describe, sorry

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

What the everloving fuck is this They wonder why people think government is a sick joke Nah, we won't stop funding fossil fuels, or stop gambling ads, or regulate AI. We'll do an unworkable and idiotic social media ban for kids... Oh and here's a pile of cash for private equity because Tim Tams.

Government fund lends $45m to Arnott’s to help Tim Tams go global
Patrick Commins
The government’s National Reconstruction Fund has lent Arnott’s Group $45m to help support the Australian name to take Tim Tams worldwide.

The money will be used to refinance $1.75bn in debt that comes due in 2026, which is earmarked for “planned future growth capital expenditure”.

Tim Tams are already stocked in all major British supermarkets and are reportedly selling well – Brits have bought more than 5 million packets since the biscuits hit shelves in April 2024.

The NRF has $15bn in taxpayer money to invest in the country’s manufacturing capability, and recently also lent $36m to the country’s biggest meat pie maker, Patties Food Group.

Arnott’s has been around since 1865 and employs 2,500 people across five facilities.

While Arnott’s is an iconic Australian name, the company is owned by American private equity giant KKR, which bought the company from Campbell Soup Company in 2019.

Arnott’s has not been Australian owned since 1997.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This is a hugely famous public figure. I absolutely could not have told you it was him, even while reading the article. In fact, despite the caption, I’m not sure I believe it. What’s going on?

Middle aged white guy with a white beard in a black three piece suit delivering a eulogy

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Who’re you calling slow? I’ve got two pieces I’ve been working on for a while almost ready to go up on the blog/letter: “On the necessity and limits of left populism” and “ACAB includes (climate) COPs”. Subscribe here to get them in your inbox: in-between-days.ghost.io

Very close up on the face of an Eastern Longnecked Turtle, little beady eyes looking at you, shell nice and shiny

Same turtle from a distance. On the grass, urban wetland behind him, blue sky above

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Hehehe, there’s a Zohran generator homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...

Zohran for New York City but it says “Just for shits and giggles”

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

31% of Jewish New Yorkers voted for Mamdani. To me, this says the absolute dominance of Zionism in the diaspora has broken. As New York goes, the rest of the diaspora follows. This is massive.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Absofuckinglutely NOT. Just no. Haven’t even started in academia and this old profile is being resurrected and turned into slop?!? Seriously, though. Can you turn it off? Or should I just quit the service? Any point being on there?

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

So yeah, I’m a bit obsessed with Ali Smith, sure, but this book is truly something else. It’s both devastating and uplifting. Also laugh-out-loud funny and mind-expandingly thoughtful. Think I’ll have to read this one again in a little while.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

She taught us so much about being related to the rest of the natural world, living understanding that interrelationship. Vale Jane Goodall

The iconic image of Jane Goodall hugging a chimp

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

“Piss in our time” One day history will judge those who cosied up to this clown-car dictator as harshly as we judge Chamberlain

Aus PM Albanese decided to take a damn selfie with Trump at the UN, to prove something to someone I guess

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

In a rather WTF moment, someone left a banana peel neatly on my bike saddle while I was swimming. Is it a message of some kind? Or a genuine accident? There are food waste bins 10m away…

A banana peel resting comfortably on my parked bike’s saddle

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

My heart is broken in a million pieces. There’s so much tragedy in the world, but today this is mine. This magnificent creature gave so much love and joy for ten years. My beloved Midnight has left us, after a long illness, curled up at home with me and my daughter. She was the bestest.

I’m leaning my head on the pillow of my beloved tripod tuxedo cat, Middy, who is sitting on the back of a white sofa. This was a month or so ago, as her illness was getting worse. The sadness was already in my eyes.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It’s time we believed Labor when they tell us they are quite happy to see countless people, not to speak of creatures, die in fires, floods, droughts and storms, so as to enable the fossil fuel industry to keep making profits a while longer. The old world is dead. Time to birth the new.

White bold writing on red background, reading “Labor’s climate target is a message to us all: Governments don’t give a shit about us. They don’t mind if we die.”

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Brought my beloved baby home from hospital and she got straight into a nice cardboard box. Steeling ourselves for saying goodbye. Can’t bear to think about it too much. Not clear how much longer she will be with us. #FuckCancer

Two little yellow eyes peeking out of a cardboard box. The black cat is mostly invisible in the darkness

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Aaaand the Albanese Government has approved its first fossil fuel expansion of the new term. We're all (legitimately) focussed on genocide, while governments like ours are actively pursuing a policy of omnicide. How nice to have a stinking parliamentary majority and use it for ecocide.

Snapshot of approval page on government letterhead, approving Ulan Coal mining extension

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Huge crowd in Canberra today. 4-5000, I estimate. Which for our little town is massive. None of us will ever be safe until all are safe. Killing leads only to more killing. The killing must end.

Jewish contingent in the crowd, holding “Jews say no to genocide” banner

Placard held above head saying “no one is free until everyone is free” #FreePalestine

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Later than usual this year comes the important annual question: “wattle we do about this, then?” And while we’re being humerus, I taut I tore my rotator cuff, but it turns out I’ve fractured my greater tuberosity. Sounds dramatic, but I can shoulder the pain.

Magnificently bright golden wattle in front of fabulous blue Canberra winter sky

$MRI scan of my shoulder. I’m told it shows a fracture…$

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Yesterday, some 5000 of us marched in little Canberra. Proud to march with a strong Jewish contingent.

In the middle of a large march across Commonwealth Ave Bridge, under a grey winter sky, a group of people carry a banner reading “Jews say no to genocide”

At the end of a large march, a group of people hold a banner reading “Jews say no to genocide”

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Such joy! In Hobart marking 10yrs since this hero and giant of ecological politics, @christinemilne.bsky.social retired Fab reunion filled with laughter & tears & fun “They shall count themselves accursed they were not there” Incredible privilege to be one of the happy few to have been there

Five smiling people! Christine in the middle, with me, Emma Bull, Clare Ozich and Erin Farley - most of our original senior staff team from when Christine became leader

Bob Brown on the stairs speaking to the gathered crowd. Christine at the bottom

A long table filled with smiling people, covered in food. Slightly dark room. Larissa Waters at the front. Christine and me at the far end. Coats on the wall

A dozen smiling people hugging in a line. Christine in the middle. Whole lot of former staffers around her

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

And yes, to lighten the tone, we are also having a holiday on this long service leave trip! To prove it, here are some shots of a walk and a lunch and a very chilly dip up in the Pyrénées Arriégeois two days earlier 😜 Back to my holiday now. But wanted to share the Fittko walk. Solidarity

Me doing my dapper “walking in the Pyrenees” look, with jumper and scarf and wooden walking stick, on stone steps between old stone buildings

A fabulous lunch with a fabulous view. Fried shrooms, three cheeses, an omelette, French bread, Basque pickled chillies, a green green garden, and mountain peaks behind

Did someone say “peaks behind”? In counterpoint to the dapper walking in the Pyrenees look, here’s me with my kit off getting into a FREEZING pool on the edge of the Cascades de l’Artigue, fed by snow and glacier melt coming down off Montcalm. Refreshing 😜

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It was also just a beautiful walk! Especially on the ascent on the French side. Stunning views across the foothills of the Mediterranean Pyrenees, down to the sea. A five hour hike with a 600m elevation. Good going for a couple of middle-aged Jewish intellectuals, older than Arendt was 😜 5/

A beautiful tree spreading its limbs over the path

A narrow path through grassy verges, with shady trees over hanging

A narrow, rocky path winding between trees and bushes

Steep, rocky hills, stretching into the distance

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