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Ooze, 9 days ago to Signal

Today I discovered that you can only edit a #signal message a maximum of ten times. I had been keeping a record of a series of events over a number of days and adding new info as it happened, hoping to be able to send a single message at the end, but it finally refused to commit an edit saying ten edits is the max.

Ooze, 14 days ago to Tasmania

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The aurora filling the Tasmanian sky

#aurora #AuroraAustralis #tasmania

Ooze, 14 days ago to random

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The Southern Cross almost obscured by the brightness of the aurora.

#aurora #AuroraAustralis

Ooze, 16 days ago to random

Medicine in Tasmania.

Must see doctor every x days to get new prescription. Minimum days in which it is possible to book an appointment to see a doctor =x+5

Ooze, 1 month ago to Tasmania

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Fuck the Tasmanian fire service and their claim to "protect lives and communities" by wholesale torching entire hills. There is so much research that shows that this only makes things worse.

This is over the road from my house. There is zero chance I can go outside. The inside of my house smells like smoke and I have two air purifiers going. Do we even have a clean air law in this state or what?

I m just devastated by the sheer number of creatures and plants they are killing, all in the name of protecting humans, which it isn't even doing anyway.

#politas #TasFire #Tasmania

Ooze, 1 month ago to random

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Super conveniently located cat.

Ooze, 1 month ago to random

Bwahahahahahaha!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/06/make-up-of-tasmanian-parliament-finally-settled-as-anti-politician-independent-takes-last-seat

Rockcliff is so fucked. He can't deal with the Greens and Lambie hates his guts. He's toast. Probably Abetz will take over and swing the party harder to the right, thus dooming any future electoral success.

#politas

Ooze, 1 month ago to Tasmania

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The dry.

#Tasmania #photography

Ooze, 1 month ago to Tasmania

Keen followers will recall that a few weeks ago I posted about the wombat gate I had just built. I finally got a wildlife camera so I can see if anyone is actually using it. And they are!

Wombat goes in and then a couple of hours later goes out. Super excited.

#Tasmania #wombat #wildlife #photography

Wombat goes through wombat gate. Then goes back later.

Ooze, 2 months ago to auspol

Well this is going to be fun. Rockliff is claiming victory despite not have a majority, and neither Labor or the Libs could agree to a coalition with the Greens. I predict the first Liberal/Labor coalition government in Australia. They are so close to each other in policy that it is the only thing that either of them can do to get power.

And how the hell did Abetz get in? What the actual fuck.

#auspol #politas #TasmaniaVotes

Ooze, 2 months ago to Bloomscrolling

Centaurea montana

#BloomScrolling

Ooze, 2 months ago to auspol

Just had the pleasure of putting Abetz dead last.

#auspol #tasmania #TasmaniaVotes

Ooze, 2 months ago to Tasmania

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Smoke from the fires up north fills the Huon Valley today. No going outdoors for me today, which is a bugger as I was hoping to get my seedlings planted.

#Tasmania

Ooze, 3 months ago to photography

Does anyone recognise this beautiful person?

#entomology #insects #photography

Ooze, 3 months ago to australia

As many as half a million households in Victoria have lost power after a major transmission line was brought down by a storm, tripping a power station and sending spot electricity prices soaring.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/13/victorias-electricity-spot-prices-soar-as-states-largest-coal-generator-suffers-outage

#Australia #climate #electricity

Ooze, 3 months ago to random

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The Muscovy ducklings are predictably huge already.

#farm

Ooze, 3 months ago to Tasmania

Top wind speed yesterday 75.6kph! Totally not coincidentally this poor darling got blown over at the time that peak happened.

#tasmania

Ooze, 3 months ago to random

Yes! My child has quit the corporate job and is coming to stay on our farm. There were two last straws. One was the CEO having a big whinge because corporate climate policies mean he and his mates can't get sponsors for their annual sports car charity event. But the main one was the glowing performance review that was accompanied by a pay cut. They only have themselves to blame. What did they think would happen?

#capitalism

Ooze, 3 months ago to Tasmania

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I made a wombat gate because the fence was in their way.

#Tasmania #farming #wildlife

Ooze, 4 months ago to Tasmania

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Evening light.

#Tasmania #photography

Ooze, 4 months ago to random

If you could make the music come out of your phone at the same time as the Bluetooth speaker you could have povo stereo.

Ooze, 4 months ago to Astronomy

Deosil is anticlockwise

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how the Sun travels through the sky, and specifically about which way it goes. In fact I wrote my Honours thesis about it, which I will put up here in the not too distant future. But I digress. The direction of the Sun’s movement is usually described as clockwise. But why is clockwise clockwise? Which is to say, why is the direction we call clockwise turning the way it is? No one will be surprised to know that clocks go that way because they are mimicking the direction of the Sun. This is based on a person facing the direction of the sunrise and seeing the Sun gradually move to their right over the course of the day; east, then southeast, then south, then southwest, then west. This direction is also referred to in English as deosil, a word with Gaelic roots. It is from from Old Irish, dess meaning right and sel meaning to turn.

However this situation does not obtain the planet over. Indeed where I live the Sun absolutely does not do this. My Sun rises in the east and then moves northeast, then north, then northwest, then west. I remember trying to explain this to a bunch of northern hemisphere Pagans at a Glastonbury solstice vigil one time, and they fully thought I was mad. They were unable to separate the concept of deosil from that of clockwise for the same reason I was unable to reconcile what I saw when I looked at the sky with the representation of that sky on an astrological chart, i.e. it just didn’t look that way to me. It took me a very long time to learn any astrology because of this. My breakthrough came when I eventually found some astrological software that had a feature to display the chart wheel as it appears in the southern hemisphere. It was a revelation. Suddenly the framework I had been taught to work with accurately reflected the reality of my sky, where deosil is anticlockwise.

So me and the bloke made a thing to help us austral dwellers see an astrological chart that shows our actual sky, with things moving in the direction they move for us. Here is a still from our real time, live updating chart for Hobart (42°52’48.0″S 147°19’01.2″E), Tasmania, Australia. You will have to go to the blog to see the actual live one.

Read the rest of this piece at;

https://ooze.net/deosil-is-anticlockwise/

P.S. If anyone knows how to italicise text in a toot please let me know.

#Astrology #Astronomy #Religion #Pagan #Tasmania

Ooze, 4 months ago to animals

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Allis the house duck. Allis decided to live with the humans rather than with the ducks a year ago. She spends a lot of her time sitting under the ute.

She seems to be making a nest, but I'm not sure if she has been to visit Roger the drake recently.

#farm #animals

A large Muscovy duck eating duck pellets and drinking water alternatively.

Ooze, 4 months ago to mastodon

I reckon people who moved to Mastodon and stayed are the kind of people who would pass the get a second marshmallow in 15 minutes if you don't eat the first one till then test.

#Mastodon

Ooze, 4 months ago to Cat

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And that folks is why it is called cat mint

#cat #gardening #tasmania

A black British Shorthair cat licking and nuzzling and eating a act mint bush.