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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 19h

I have finished up 8 weeks of doing the boss's job and 10 weeks of running on cortisol. The crash is real. It's taken most of a week to get my mental capacity back. Now it's on to the work of building back into healthy habits and better balance, while not losing the lessons.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Still in love with the new-old euphonium. Hadn't played in a fortnight. So good to blue away the cobwebs tonight.

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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good news #invert story of the week 🦋 After a catastrophic decline in numbers over recent years that placed Australia’s iconic Bogong moth on the IUCN Red List, their numbers have really surged this year! #mothsmatter #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist www.smh.com.au/environment/...

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After a catastrophic decline bogong moths are back, and naturalists are celebrating

Bogong moths numbers have surged after years of decline, flying evidence of an ancient transfer of vital nutrients from lowlands to the fragile high country.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm loving all the bogong moth reports in my timeline. Welcome back, travelling friends. May the migration go well and the population continue to recover.

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Moth's Emotional Welcome Home

ALT: Moth's Emotional Welcome Home

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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I guess it's hard for many to understand, but HOORAY for the 100's of Bogong moths at our place this weekend! Welcome back!! Not so much the wolf spider in my shoe this morning...aaagh! (But I did see a wallaby in the backyard... so all good!)

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Laying blame for what are clearly structural issues at the feet of individuals is a particularly cruel form of societal control.

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Karen VH @designinginward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

gentle reminder: the void is for screaming, the abyss is for staring, please don't mix that up and ruin the experience for the rest of us

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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Be very kind to them. Don't use insecticides. Turn off unnecessary outdoor lights. Pop any moth that comes inside back outside so it can continue its migration. au.news.yahoo.com/aussies-warn...

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Aussies warned not to make common mistake as thousands of moths swarm

A phenomenon not seen in around 20 years has returned to Sydney.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stillness is undervalued. Part of the forgotten skills of being human. Grounding, calming, regulating, processing, doing the deep feeling and thinking, resisting the pull of reactivity, instead working from intentionality. Stillness - distinct from avoidance - takes practice. 🩵

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

The woman who feels priced out of spare time

Rosie* is in her 30s and lives in Canberra. She captured the point vividly.

"Housing gets covered as deposits, rates, supply. Living it, the real cost is time. You work the hours the housing demands, in the suburb the housing pushed you to, and what gets sacrificed is the ability to sit down with the people around you.

"Multiculturalism worked in this country when people had time to spend with people unlike themselves. Not policy time — ordinary time. Backyards, front steps, sport, the shops, someone's kitchen. That's how a stranger stops being a category and becomes a neighbour.

"We have spent 30 years pricing that time out of people's lives and now we're surprised that cohesion is fraying and asking what went wrong with our values.

"When people are exhausted and stretched and never in the same room, difference stops being interesting and starts being threatening. That's not a failure of tolerance. It's a failure of time. That's what I'd want people in power to understand."

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I gave my mother a stern talking to yesterday, for writing off the women claiming assault by Sydney Swans footy players as "just being after money" because they are sex workers. Just hideous, unquestioned bias.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My failure to kill pot plants is getting ridiculous.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Finally got around to giving the work tank some overdue love. I've been filming in for my boss, who took long service leave, so it's been very neglected.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Instead of: “the biggest driver of biodiversity loss is change in land and sea use” Try: “the human quest for food is the biggest driver of deforestation, freshwater use, and overfishing”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

this really has been such a stupid loss of what was once one of the internet's purest pleasures

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's no place like (new) home

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I sure hope that as the climate continues to change, climate people won’t get nastier and nastier to each other online, and subject each other to ever stricter purity tests… …while the people who are actively accelerating the problems, and aren’t even on here, laugh all the way to the bank

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Saw something about a proposed millennium prize in biology for reengineering Rubisco, so bumping this. Everyone worried AI is going to make a killer virus. But instead some botanist is going to kill us all with super-corn saturating the atmosphere in oxygen.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Check out these super cute stickers I bought from a Brisbane-based artist. Plus she sent me bonus tiny stickers! Fuck AI, find artists you like and buy what you can afford.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The AI debate has forced me, somewhat agst my will, to grapple a bit more closely with the "longtermists", basically a movement or subculture of morons who propose novel forms of moral reasoning based on sci-fi ideas they imagine might happen hundreds, thousands or millions of years in the future.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The coalition wishes to turn education into right wing propaganda, replicating the fire educating system of the USA. The end game is to build an ignorant, nationalistic populace that can be manipulated really for political and financial gain, as per the US. "Wokeness" is a smokescreen.

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fat little wild budgies 🙂 This is the natural colour of budgerigars. You don't find blue, purple, etc budgies in the wild. Also, Americans call these 'parakeets'. Most Australians won't recognise that bird name. (It took me years to figure out that parakeets were actually budgies.)

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's a warm, windy spring day and the plane trees are in season. The air is thick with tree jizz. I'm hiding inside and sneezing.

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Wolfcat 🥄 @wolfcat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reminder... you have 10 days left to get your Covid Booster for free. I am getting mine tomorrow.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

This is such a great thread because it tells you instantly how to answer the supposedly intractable regulation problem: liability, potentially joint liability, for the person who set up the AI system.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Seen this morning. How delightful.

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Your hiding-place isn't watertight. Life trickles in everywhere.

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 17/09/2026

wasting time should be mandatory

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Re: yesterday's discourse post. I warned you.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I see today's Bluesky Discourse is the weird rationalist AI sex cult. For those new to the topic, strap in. From Harry Potter fan fic to "information hazards" (roko's basilisk), effective altruism and tech-flavoured polyamorism, to billions of dollars & political influence, it's a ride.

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Happy Wrensday Wednesday! A male white-winged fairywren at the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden. #wrensday

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can we please stop doing this? I made a comic about it and everything!

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today's theme of #BirdOfTheDay is #Mamas&Papas Here's a mated pair of Agami Herons gettting ready for nesting season. #CostaRica #herons #birds #nature

Two colorful herons with long pointed bills and blue-gray, maroon, and white plumage perch among dense green foliage.

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is sounding significantly less heinous. Between the newbeiph and more practice, high notes are much more solid. Hooray!

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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh my. This Clouded Yellow has just let me photograph it on my phone. Just look at the colour of its eye 😁 So glad this beautiful butterflies have turned up on patch this year.

Close up of a Clouded Yellow butterfly with its striking green eye

Close up of a Clouded Yellow butterfly with its striking green eyes

Clouded Yellow butterfly in the dewy grass

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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As a brief serious moment: I specialize in disasters & worked all kinds of roles, But the most impactful in terms of enacting actual change have all had playful framing. Policy doesn’t change without public support, political will, & money. Joy unlocks more than fear.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

First dead waterbird recorded on site today. A hardhead. Waiting for DEECA to decide if they can be bothered following their own protocol to test it.

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?" ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart #BookSky

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Rachel Hollis @rachelhollisart.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A bit disconcerting when one of the world's largest moth species is attracted to your headlamp! Found this beautiful Hercules Moth in far north Queensland. #wildoz #wildlife #nature #biodiversity #insects

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Professor Asha Rao @asharao.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Compound Interest - that’s the point of Super! That’s what the maths shows! Length of time is what makes the difference. Taking money out of super will make people poorer in retirement.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Look at this iridescent beauty!

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Day 1 of undoing the belief that I can't draw, 30 years after I stopped trying. Eucalyptus leaf study in pencil.

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