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• Post #2024874

  #SilentSunday #bloomscrolling

• Post #2002615

  Walking and talking with the middle one yesterday evening, thinking about how light travels. Ordinary moments of small hope. #MagicInTheMundane

• Post #1733065

  "We have experienced this type of racism for over 230-odd years. "It really is a whitefella problem, not a Blackfella problem." Uncle Ray Minniecon, not the only Aboriginal Elder and veteran to have to stare down Australian racists heckling Elders at ceremonies today. This is who we are, white Australia. We’re the problem, it’s our work to do. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-25/anzac-day-2026-marches-services-live-updates/106597328

• Post #1703123

  #SilentSunday

• Post #1516882

  While I’m on a tear, a big shout out to older women on here. We’re so often deficit-coded in relation to both tech and political naïveté, and we’re made invisible by the cultures around us. We’re formidably experienced and carry a lifetime of wisdom. We’ve led teams, lifted weight, made things happen, raised families, buried love and loved ones, balanced all kinds of budgets, learned and taught. We’ve carried humans, illness, joy, change and injury in our bodies that are the most speculated abo...

• Post #1233211

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116403744095800752 Please take a moment in your day for this rage-thread, and follow @sundogplanets who is making the science of space debris so accessible and clear.

• Post #1187250

  RE: https://aus.social/@timhollo/116170923934277940 “Those of us who can sleep sound in our beds, let us do so, so we can use our freedom to work for the freedom of all.” Please find a minute in your day for this short urgent piece of wakeful writing, thank you @timhollo.

• Post #1023864

  How does a community know itself without actually checking in on every individual about everything? By a weird mix of representative politics and lazy generalisation. Some people end up holding a bullhorn and saying what’s what, and some people participate anyway while agreeing or not agreeing. No one can possibly know what everyone is doing, but the bullhorn holders get a bigger say. Meanwhile everyday practice defines lived experience, and that comes to you through another weird mix of socia...

• Post #1023861

  RE: https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/116369921575635116 South Orkney Islands: not where you thought they would be. But still, #goodnews

• Post #1023860

  Thinking this morning about Joanna Macy’s model of nested communities: the intimate group we feel at home in, the wider community we are part of, the global community of humans we belong to, the planetary community of living things. It’s not either/or, it’s all. @StillIRise1963

• Post #944722

  Prediction markets, the endless moral gaslighting of late capitalism. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/prediction-market.asp

• Post #936994

  Helpful fediverse, the world remains terrible but what is this? Found at the beach (NSW Australia), smooth stone with a neat polished straight groove down the middle. It has a half of something feel. Geologists?

• Post #846094

  All the gardeners posting pictures of compost bins and seedlings and bees and #bloomscrolling — we’re not ignoring world events. We’re thinking with our hands about local food, food miles, waste and water management, fertilisers and pesticides. We don’t have answers either. But we work with cycles of growth and decay, and we’re thinking every day about more cooperative ways of living. #gardening

• Post #791005

  The world is terrible and yet 165 people are watching a kākāpō asleep in her nest on “a small, predator free island in southern New Zealand.” You can too. https://www.youtube.com/live/BfGL7A2YgUY?si=pKlRecaDDCEx9k47

• Post #754346

  It’s honestly so encouraging to sit down to people’s #gardening results on here when I’m deep in hard weeding and hauling out and exhausted soil improvement, and the whole thing is dirt and sweat and bugs. Send more flowers! More fruit! So lovely.

• Post #710382

  RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/116269177854026690 Quoting this to literally quote it, as a prelude to standing on a corner shouting it, and then hiring a small plane to skywrite it: “Even if you are criticising someone, burying their bad ideas with logic and all the knives of science, you’re still making them and their ideas important.” Choose who you make important, amen to that.

• Post #681300

  Heads up. Yesterday I was messaged by a credible looking version of someone I know well IRL. They used to be active on mastodon dot social and seemed to be setting up a new account and starting over, following the accounts my friend had previously followed. The tone was just off by a fraction but everything else looked right. I checked with her and it wasn’t her, so reported the account. This isn’t really a tech issue, it’s cultural credulity. Someone found a dormant account and borrowed its...

• Post #631894

  Having a moment of gratitude to all those people who make very short videos showing exactly how to fix a minor household thing without getting into deeper trouble.

• Post #631891

  I’m not sure where to place this query to word nerds, but amid the smithereens of the world he is making, the orange buffoon’s specific language tic has got to me and I want to know if there is a linguistic way of thinking about this: “nothing like this has ever happened before, nothing like this has ever been seen” What do we call this motif, this idiolect? It’s so insistent, like a mosquito. @grammargirl @stancarey @bright_helpings

• Post #448296

  RE: https://spore.social/@bethsawin/115985120276391923 Coming back to this small thread from @bethsawin to think about how we keep in mind what is possible, not just what is happening. How we draw attention to the possible in the everyday, and keep noticing it on purpose?

• Post #448288

  The pearl-clutching about “family voting” in Gorton and Denton is an eye opener for Australians who all rock up for a democracy sausage in one car and vote compulsorily together while we’re at it.