Eric the half-a-bee
Ericthebeeover2@mastodon.au
<p>Retired structural engineer. Amateur astro photographer and illustrator Trying to learn the French horn while geriatrically challenged . Always wondering how consciousness could have arisen to function in a physical brain. <br />Lover of all weird fiction and images (see above) Hater of all Nazis, MAGA, anti-vaxers and anti-science conspiracists. <br />Obsessed with American politics at the moment.<br />Loves all dogs. Happily married since 1980 Living in Melbourne, Australia</p>
Posts
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Post #4251282
Three sulphur crested cockatoos are demanding second helping of birdseed for the day. #BirdsOfAustalia #Australia #Cockatoo #birds
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Post #3439297
#caturday #cats #AliceInWonderland #art #watercolour #illustration Ragdoll on left, Birman on the right. Typical pose for our two elderly cats. Next comes a copy of John Tenniel’s illustration for Alice in Wonderland except that I have replaced the Cheshire cat with our two cats and coloured the illustration
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Post #3379335
Pauline Hanson, leader of Australia’s populist One Nation party, lets fly with a whole list of grievances designed to appeal to those of Australia’s cash-strapped and struggling peoples who are not used to thinking terribly deeply about what is good and bad in Australian society. In particular, what stood out for me was: 1) her attacks on multiculturalism. Here in Melbourne taking a trip around to any shopping centre or marketplace you see people from all over the world, not just Northern Euro...
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Post #1408363
Evening sunlight through the nearly circular leaves of a sapling Redbox eucalypt tree. Melbourne. Taken during my evening walk using my phone cam. #AustralianTrees #eucalypt #Australia
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Post #768819
I can remember looking up at the sky with wonder to see #Sputnik one pass overhead when I was a child in New Zealand. I was just totally amazed at this moving star. Now I am old and one of my hobbies is #AstroPhotography. I hate bloody #satellites now, they’re everywhere. You can’t get away from them and what’s more a window on the #InternationalSpaceStation was chipped recently by what they think is probably a fleck of paint from some dirty great bit of rocket that has has been floating around...