earthmothering9

earthmothering9, 6 months ago to Bloomscrolling

This is the melaleuca tree picturd in the previous toot. #bloomscrolling

earthmothering9, 6 months ago to Bloomscrolling

Melaleuca rhaphiophylla or paperbark grows in swamps and along estuaries on the south coast of Western Australia. It has great bark of course, but we found it absolutely covered in flowers in some locations. #bloomscrolling.

earthmothering9, 6 months ago to Bloomscrolling

Gum tree on the south Coast of Western Australia. I love them at every stage of flowering and fruiting.#bloomscrolling

Gina, 6 months ago to australia

My life is complete now 🙂 🇦🇺 #quakkas #australia

Quakka on a terrace
Quakkas on the terrace

inquiline, 6 months ago to random

"It would be much easier to use NPIs to drive Re to much below 1 and keep it there until elimination when starting from Re around 1.2-1.3 than when it was over 3, and this moment should be used, before another radically new serotype appears and takes us back to those even more unpleasant situations. This is not a technical problem, but one of political and social will."

Ugh. This is a gut-wrenching read but recommended

https://johnsnowproject.org/insights/endemic-sars-cov-2-and-the-death-of-public-health/

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver

marnier, 6 months ago to gardening

You guys, I just spent a year turning this useless sloped backyard with useless muddy grass on it into a couple of slightly more useful #gardening terraces. All of my exercise for the past many months has consisted of shoveling dirt and woodchips and dry-stacking old concrete blocks and bricks I scavenged from the little house they tore down next door to put up the much bigger house you can see in the “after” photo. Third photo is the view from above. #landscaping #LiftHeavyThings #recycling

The same sloped backyard, but it has been adorned with two concrete block terraces with curved walls and a central staircase.
View of the terraces and stairs from above.

DanielMenjivar, 6 months ago to food

On the way to grocery shopping today, we bought some cotton-linen #fabric to make more reusable #dinner napkins for everyday use. I really don’t want to make more #napkins right now, (I have a lot of funner things on my #sewing list), but we’re now back to using too many paper napkins lately, so we need them. I usually do plain wide hems with mitred corners, but thinking about maybe using some decorative stitches or machine #embroidery to make it more interesting? Or not…?… #sewing @sewing

earthmothering9, 6 months ago to random

Happy #caturday From Dora and me.

earthmothering9, 6 months ago to random

About time! Western Australia settles on stolen wages case.State will also apologise.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-01/wa-government-settles-indigenous-stolen-wages-case/103051706?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

luciedigitalni, 6 months ago to random

"...from next year viewers of SBS On Demand will be able to choose not to see gambling advertising on the platform, as well as ads for alcohol and fast food."
👏
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/01/seven-network-betting-ad-breach-fine-sbs-opt-out

perkinsy, 7 months ago to random

I bought this gazania plant for $2.50 at a hardware store. It had no label and looked very sad but I know that half dead looking gazanias can be easily revived. Several weeks later and I am rewarded with this spectacular flower that looks even better in real life than this photo.
#Gazania #GardeningAU

BlackAzizAnansi, 7 months ago to random

Do any of y'all own a fully electric car? What has your experience been like?

heidilifeldman, 7 months ago to random

In case anybody else needs a good poem tonight, I share with you Shaking Hands by Pådraig Tuama. (Apologies—I can’t upload the words to alt text.)

HeavenlyPossum, 7 months ago to random

Some people have objected to my position that no injury can ever morally justify harming people who have not harmed you.

Some Israel apologists have demanded I answer: what if it was your family that Hamas murdered?

Some Hamas apologists have demanded I answer: what if you were subject to the occupation?

And the short answer is: I don’t know. I’ve been subject to violence and abuse in my life, but never those particular situations, so I can’t be sure how I’d respond.

But the longer answer is: I’m only human, and I might respond in really horrible ways. I might lash out; I might hurt innocent people; I might abandon my moral calculus and do terrible things to people who have done me no harm in an attempt to survive or to exact revenge.

And, if I did so…I would become someone else’s abuser and oppressor, and I should rightfully be opposed for it.

NationCymru, 7 months ago to random

Language learning app Duolingo to mothball Welsh course https://nation.cymru/news/language-learning-app-duolingo-to-mothball-welsh-course/

cathywilcox, 7 months ago to random

Still terra nullius.

My @smh cartoon.

timrichards, 7 months ago to random

Groups of people who come to libraries to "work" but then sit together whispering and giggling. Grrrrrr

earthmothering9, 7 months ago to random

AntiPoverty Weeks in Australia are focussing on poverty and children.
I reckon a YES is the start of new hope. Please consider voting yes.

theautisticcoach, 7 months ago to actuallyautistic

As many of you here, and as all of you who have met or worked with me, know, I am an Israeli.

I’m also a life long peace activist for Israel-Palestine.

Unfortunately, MANY of you have taken the last few days to attack me, call me a murderer, lecture me about the world I grew up and lived in for 35+ years of my life, dare to speak down to me and over me, erase my history and lifelong dedication for Palestinian rights, and even wished me to die.

Others of you have taken the opportunity to call me an antisemite, a race traitor, a horrible person, a hypocrite, a terrorist, and erase my history and lifelong dedication to Jewish life and making Israel a better place to live.

Yet, VERY FEW of you have asked how I am. How is my family? How are my friends? How are YOU?

Well, no. I have my family & friends in deep crisis. Many have lost their own other family and friends, parents, siblings, kids and lovers - some by bullets, others by fire, others by kidnapping. A comrade of mine lost his parents. An other had their 16 year old son taken into Gaza. Too many people I know or am connected to have been murdered or taken. And I use the word murder, not killed, because sleeping civilians in their home or at a party are not military combattants. Babies aren’t targets.

I also have Palestinian friends who have lost families in Gaza from the bombs currently falling from IDF planes. My heart aches for them too as theirs does for me.

But many of you only care about death when one side fits your own narrative and unformed and ignorant beliefs.

So no, I’m not OK. I’m not OK at all.

Keep reading in the next post

@actuallyautistic @mazeldon

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 7 months ago to australia

COVID-19 costing the Australian economy billions.

#COVID19 #Australia #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.perthnow.com.au/business/covid-19-costing-the-australian-economy-billions-c-12171403

earthmothering9, 7 months ago to Bloomscrolling

I am loving this rose from my garden in an old gin bottle!
#bloomscrolling

earthmothering9, 7 months ago to gardening

Thanks to the kindness of my neighbour I picked up all but 2 of these succulent cuttings and planted them yesterday.
#gardening #ActofKindness

jpm, 7 months ago to random

Bub has now hit daycare plague day 5 - it’s turned into tonsillitis and we are at the stage of giving her another hour to finish another small bottle or we are taking her to hospital for emergency dehydration treatment

earthmothering9, 7 months ago to Perth

West Australian native Flannel Flower, in the #Perth Hills today.
#Bloomscrolling