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I forgot to post this earlier. Found this amazing feather when out walking today.
Edit: forgot the hashtags
Out-of-sorts France is set to welcome out-of-form Australia to Paris in the Autumn Nations Series, with both sides mired in sticky patches. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/11/21/more-sports/australia-france-autumn-nations-series/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #france #australia
Streaming platform Twitch added to Australia's teen social media ban
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2n2955g10o
#HackerNews #Twitch #Australia #SocialMedia #Ban #TeenSafety #StreamingNews
Theft of the Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_The_Weeping_Woman_from_the_National_Gallery_of_Victoria
#HackerNews #Theft #Weeping #Woman #National #Gallery #Art #Crime #Australia
I forgot to post this earlier. Found this amazing feather when out walking today.
Edit: forgot the hashtags
Australia has received a boost ahead of the first Ashes test in Perth starting Friday, with Cameron Green telling reporters he is ready to bowl free of any restrictions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/11/18/more-sports/green-ashes-opener/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #ashes #australia #england
🐨 Australia Introduces 'Landmark' Streaming Content Quotas // @slashdot
｢ The rules require Netflix, Prime Video and the other global streamers with more than one million Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their total Australian expenditure -- or 7.5% of their revenues -- on local originals, whether they are dramas, children's shows, docs, or arts and educational programs ｣
The rainbow bee-eater (Merops ornatus) is a bird species in the bee-eater family Meropidae.
- Photo courtesy of Muneer Al Shanti, Australia
The rainbow bee-eater (Merops ornatus) is a bird species in the bee-eater family Meropidae.
- Photo courtesy of Muneer Al Shanti, Australia
I collect toys from an old television show called Space Patrol.
Space Patrol had a competitor called Tom Corbett Space Cadet.
Both of these shows aired in the US in the first half of the 1950s.
I really love Space Patrol. I have seen a lot less of TCSC because a significantly smaller number of episodes are in circulation.
I have a saved search on ebay for certain pieces of TCSC and Space Patrol merchandise, because there are still a few pieces I'm missing, and a few pieces I'd like to upgrade, and because every once in a while something will get posted at a good enough price that I can justify buying it for resale.
Today I got a little surprise from ebay and I'm trying to figure out why it exists.
This is a late model space-a-phone from Space Patrol, wrapped around a Tom Corbett Space Cadet cardback. It was listed by an Australian seller.
So #australia folks do you know anything about Tom Corbett Space Cadet?
Was it aired on TV or was it just a comic book?
Did Australia get Space Patrol too, or just TCSC?
I imagine that this was just a case of a franchise unloading unsold merch onto a new audience, but I've never seen the space-a-phones with any branding that wasn't Space Patrol.
Cricket has had many brilliant all-rounders, but does the game need a Shohei Ohtani? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/17/japan/cricket-shohei-ohtani/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #shoheiohtani #cricket #kapildev #imrankhan #westindies #india #pakistan #england #southafrica #australia
Finalist – threatened species: Standing Watch
‘Huddled together for warmth on a cold morning, these juvenile numbats (affectionately known as numbubs) survey their surroundings for any potential threats. With introduced species such as the feral cat and European red fox to contend with, their formative years are spent learning to blend in with their woodland surroundings, always alert to danger.’ Wiilman country, Dryandra, Western #Australia.
Photograph: Lewis Burnett
Anyone used Binary Lane VPSes?
So last week I asked Kiwis and Aussies if people prefer their fairy bread with margarine or butter, crusts on or crusts off, squares vs triangles.
It turns out that I'd stumbled upon one of the great issues of our time.
The Great Fairy Bread Debate of 2025 is still happening. The most interesting revelations culled from VERY FIRM opinions are:
Apparently the fairies cannot enter the bread if you are a complete monster and neglect to cut the bread, leaving all four crusts. Do not do this or fear Great Judgement and potentially tutting. (Much worse than it sounds. You will feel shame.)
Squares are a travesty, unless they are not. A diplomatic suggestion that squares are just two triangles back to back does not work and will be met with great uproar and virtual snorting.
Butter is the Kiwi preference, unless feeding vegans. If one is feeding vegan fairies, one must check the labels of the margarine for non vegan infiltrators. If spotted, one must tut loudly to let them know they've been spotted. (Please see above point.)
If one is feeding their fairies butter, one must get the spreadable kind, otherwise fear the event of Butter Lumps and Torn Bread. There is no coming back from this. You have failed your fairies.
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'Canopy' (2025)
Another Tassie Myrtle pic because why not - I honestly couldn’t get enough of these trees shooting out of the surrounding landscape with their gnarly moss-covered branches
This was taken in the morning as the sun rose & cut through the fog that had blanketed the area the night before
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