As climate change results in more bushfires and we continue to clear-fell old habitat trees, the fate of the laughing kookaburra – our icon of the ages – could be sealed. That once-ubiquitous call will be heard no more.
There’s a family of them near where I live in Canberra. I think I counted 6 but it may have been more. I’m always happy to see native wildlife thriving in the suburbs but then I realise I’ve lived here for years and years and never seen nor heard them here, it’s likely because of their loss of habitat due to the Orroral valley fire during black summer.
I’m also pretty conscious of all the animals listed in the article that they have to compete with - all in abundance here.
By deep I mean with the most obscure original. I am not talking ‘all along the watch tower’ but things like Fever Ray’s cover of Vashti Bunyan’s song Here before...
I guess it’s like I can’t find a use case for it. Maybe I’ll try it again but it didn’t grab me the first time. I’m a savoury drink fan - bloody Mary’s and super dirty dry martinis are my favourite.
Maybe it was the carbonation I didn’t like. Things to ponder…
The damaged tree likely could still have been a home for animals. This, not so much.
I don’t understand the need so many feel to make sure that human fingerprints are visible on everything. Like carving initials in trees, spray painting on boulders, stacking stones at the beach.
Can’t we look out at the natural world and see that it’s the absence of us, or absence of any signs we were there that makes it beautiful?
You’re probably right with regards to this tree. Couldn’t it have been carved as something more in keeping with the natural environment though? I suppose a fucking human hand is emblematic of environmental destruction so maybe it fits.
US woman goes on highway shooting spree: There were many things American officials were gearing up to face amid the solar eclipse - traffic jams, accidents, eye injuries and more. But this one definitely wasn’t on their list....
In my country, I literally don’t know anyone who owns a gun. I wouldn’t even know where to start to get one. I suppose I could drive out to the bush and a farmer would have a rifle. But that’s about it.
I’d otherwise need criminal associates to access one.
How did she have one? Why was it so easy for her to get in a very isolated, specific state of psychosis?
Why the kookaburra’s iconic laugh is at risk of being silenced (theconversation.com)
As climate change results in more bushfires and we continue to clear-fell old habitat trees, the fate of the laughing kookaburra – our icon of the ages – could be sealed. That once-ubiquitous call will be heard no more.
MUSIC - What is the deepest cover song you know?
By deep I mean with the most obscure original. I am not talking ‘all along the watch tower’ but things like Fever Ray’s cover of Vashti Bunyan’s song Here before...
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Woman says God talked to her via solar eclipse and asked her to shoot at drivers (www.wionews.com)
US woman goes on highway shooting spree: There were many things American officials were gearing up to face amid the solar eclipse - traffic jams, accidents, eye injuries and more. But this one definitely wasn’t on their list....
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Prompt : a pirate captain walking on his ship, wearing brown clothes, and a tricorn. Other pirates are working around him.