Joanna Holman

Bird nerd. Also has thoughts on books, Melbourne happenings, music and culture with bonus architecture, and cute animal pictures.

Pronouns: She/Her (they/them also fine)
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Location: Melbourne, Australia

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2026-06-24 00:18:26 UTC

This mens shed group developing inventions to defeat a flock of overly intelligent cockatoo birds has the beginnings of a premise for the next great Aussie comedy movie
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/cockatoos-lorne-new-invention-to-stop-bin-rubbish/106760610

2026-06-20 08:54:50 UTC

My walk today took me through Fawkner Cemetery and I cried a little thinking about the grieving families who will be greeted by beautiful little birds. Conservation can serve people too when we’re creative about it
#melbourne #birds
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2026-06-20 00:49:48 UTC

If any of you #melbourne people ever need pathology tests done, the pathology collector at 4Cyte near Merlynston station Tuesdays-Saturdays is so good at her job on the hardest of veins she might have magic powers. Several people in my family with awful veins go out of their way to use her clinic

2026-06-16 09:48:06 UTC

Red Nose Day just launched their fundraising merch for the year. Don’t need more plushies but tempted by the new ones
https://www.rednoseday.org.au/shop
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2026-06-15 22:22:13 UTC

Just saw a cafe offering a $27.50 toastie. The #melbourne food scene has lost its mind

2026-06-14 07:17:56 UTC

How many times do I have to attempt running before I don’t feel like I’m gonna die?
#running

2026-06-13 13:07:56 UTC

Victorians: this truly majestic creature needs a foster home!
#melbourne #victoria
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2026-06-13 09:09:28 UTC

Braved the overwhelm of Chadstone shopping centre on a weekend to experience the new RONE exhibition “home” and it was so worth it. It continues the theme in his past work of recreating lost domestic worlds as though the occupants disappeared leaving everything frozen in time. This one evolves from previous exhibitions by making much less use of centrepiece portraits painted on walls and by portraying outdoor scenes. Whereas previous exhibitions have been mostly in spaces with retro vibes, this one is in a shop space requiring every detail being created from scratch. The world he and his team have created is so detailed and immersive you forget where you are, it feels hard to believe you’re 10 metres from a cosmetics store.
#melbourne #art
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2026-06-13 04:31:28 UTC

It kinda blows my mind that how many buildings there are in the world is a question with a known answer (2.75 billion)
https://gizmodo.com/literally-a-map-showing-all-the-buildings-in-the-world-2000694696

2026-06-09 22:28:58 UTC

I suspect we could solve a lot of problems in Australian politics by requiring a course in what government involves and an exam in it prior to running for election. Doesn’t have to be a long course to likely weed out some of the incompetent grievance driven people it should. It’s rubbish that most even pretty low impact jobs require interviews, experience and qualifications but if you can get an awful party in desperate need of candidates to take you on, if preferences play out weirdly you could end up in a role with national level implications without knowing or caring what your responsibilities are.

2026-06-04 11:50:17 UTC

Today I learned there's Americans spending USD$800 – $3,000 to adopt a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. Kinda mindblown that people are spending pedigree cat money on having in their house a creature that roams in large packs through australian suburbs creating chaos
https://vety.com/costs/cockatoo-price

2026-06-04 05:19:18 UTC

People have done raves at Bunnings stores but those are so big they should do half marathons in them

2026-06-04 00:52:47 UTC

IKEA has announced their new product line and I’m so curious to know what substances the designers consume at work
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2026-05-30 03:55:05 UTC

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I’ve missed seeing my Tawny Frogmouth buddies now that they are in less predictable locations outside nesting season and its dark as soon as I finish work so I have less time to look. Was lovely to find one group today. Looks like one of the kids from last summer’s clutch decided they’re not ready for independence and followed the parents to their winter tree!
#tawnyfrogmouth #birds #birding #wildoz #wildlife
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2026-05-29 02:47:20 UTC

I have been made aware you can enter to run the Cadbury 5km/10km/half marathon/marathon from anywhere and they’ll mail you a medal that looks like a chocolate frog. It’s ridiculous and I must obtain one. Entries open next week
https://cadburymarathon.com.au
#running
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2026-05-28 00:50:21 UTC

There’s something uniquely dystopian about being offered an AI summary of a message that’s only 13 words long

2026-05-27 07:12:25 UTC

Got an auto-reply email from an organisation that said “we will manage your communication with the attention it deserves”. Not sure if that’s reassuring or immensely passive aggressive

2026-05-27 03:03:33 UTC

Lots of mastodon users: “why don’t more people join and stay on our superior platform?”
Also lots of mastodon users: frequent engagement in stereotyping, mockery and misinfo about large, diverse segments of the population. Rudeness, even cruelty to people who are doing their best to live ethically but have come to convictions that don’t match the finer details of mastodon orthodoxy

2026-05-24 22:53:11 UTC

There should be a website listing all the people and companies proclaiming Generative AI is the future of everything and we’ll be left behind if we don’t embrace it who also said similar about projects in the last decade that are now either dead or have turned out to only have niche applications (NFTs, blockchain, metaverse, cryptocurrency ect)

2026-05-24 03:28:51 UTC

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Also captured in yesterdays bird photoshoot, this cockatoo with unsettlingly good model pose
#birds #birding #wildoz #wildlife
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2026-05-23 05:08:29 UTC

Brats of Australian suburbia
#birds #birding #wildoz #wildlife
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2026-05-22 10:18:06 UTC

Very random thing I’m curious about: when you have dreams/nightmares at night: what senses/sensations do you experience in them?

2026-05-22 07:21:00 UTC

RE: https://friendhole.social/@beandreams/116615217877735643
Listing an end time for events makes them safer, healthier and happier for so many different types of people. Another group served by this is people with travel logistics challenges. As a woman frequently using public transport alone, it makes a big difference to my safe travel planning if I know whether the event is finishing at 9:30pm vs 11:30pm
#note1flr…769s

2026-05-21 02:57:52 UTC

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Took the Kmart very very tiny very very cheap digital camera out for a test and these are some of the better images I got. Photos are about 2MP, haven’t checked the video filming quality. I was shooting in the lower overcast light basic digital cameras tend to struggle with so may well get better results in full sunlight. It doesn’t cope with very closeup shots.
Obviously you’d never use this as your main camera to capture anything of importance but if you want to experience shooting with the aesthetics of early camera flip phones or test your ability to take interesting shots with the most basic of gear, this is a fun purchase
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2026-05-20 12:03:17 UTC

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I also acquired from the Kmart photo section but haven’t tried yet the smallest and cheapest digital camera I’ve ever seen. It was $19, included a microSD card and for scale I’m holding it up against a standard size business card
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2026-05-20 08:45:22 UTC

Tip for Aussie photographers: the Kmart photo printing kiosks do fun formats. These were $0.25 each for instant, cheaper if you’re willing to wait
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2026-05-19 08:40:47 UTC

Your day might be improved by learning about Honey Possums. So much cute in such a tiny form shouldn’t be possible
https://www.bushheritage.org.au/species/honey-possum
#wildlife #nature

2026-05-12 00:05:51 UTC

A plea/PSA: if someone posts about #eurovision this week, please assume that they are aware of the reasons the contest is ethically fraught these days. The actions of the organisers and certain participating countries have been agonised over at length in fan spaces over the last few years and people have landed all sorts of often difficult places on how to respond. As someone who has been invested in Eurovision for a long time it’s all quite painful. The reply guying here when I’ve brought up the topic in the last few years has been tedious

2026-05-11 03:07:29 UTC

Some animals were lucky to be bestowed cooler names than others
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2026-05-02 13:23:09 UTC

One of the most iconic birds around is a disabled Kea called Bruce. He's achieved dominance over his rivals by developing an innovative method of stabbing them with his broken beak
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-04-21/disabled-nz-parrot-uses-lower-beak-to-dominate-as-alpha-bird/106571404
#birds #wildlife #kea

2026-05-02 11:19:54 UTC

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My neighbourhood also has a delightful council of muppets who watch over (and occasionally judge) us
More of their pics in this thread https://aus.social/@joannaholman/115381601380985046
#birds #wildlife #wildoz
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2026-05-02 07:12:35 UTC

People who’ve never been to Australia: all the creatures in Australia are trying to kill you!!!
Meanwhile the creatures in my Aussie neighbourhood…
#wildlife #birds #wildoz
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2026-04-30 12:27:03 UTC

I keep getting ads for this round the world travel deal departing Melbourne and I can’t stop thinking about what a strange combination it is. Who is the market of people who are interested in Singapore and Rome but also Dallas? Like what’s the thematic connection here?
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2026-04-30 08:32:31 UTC

What’s the low cost purchase that has most improved your life lately?

2026-04-29 08:16:13 UTC

Kmart is asking for trouble with their you don’t need to get out of our roaming robot’s way signs
Refreshing to see someone give a service robot a name that’s more commonly masculine coded I guess?
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2026-04-29 04:39:50 UTC

That I can walk into a pharmacy in my lunch break and get infused with protection against deadly diseases for free is so sci-fi. We don’t appreciate the marvel of vaccines enough

2026-04-28 03:15:14 UTC

This Friday is Bandcamp Friday! Get your music wishlists ready if you’re a Bandcamp shopper!
#BandcampFriday #bandcamp

2026-04-28 02:49:32 UTC

Do you have access to old European TV archival material? Know someone who was way ahead of the time on recording broadcasts? The European broadcasting union is in search of any surviving copies of some editions of #eurovision in the 50s and 60s there is currently incomplete or no known surviving recordings
https://www.eurovision.com/stories/hunt-to-find-missing-eurovision-editions/

2026-04-26 05:46:52 UTC

This week in the Gacha makers trying to localise their product to the Australian market
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2026-04-24 08:49:31 UTC

My feline nephew Winston has had some medical misfortune this year that has required physiotherapy. He is being an extremely good boy about it but I don’t envy the people whose job it is to give hydrotherapy to cats
#cats
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2026-04-24 02:30:05 UTC

It should be law that if a company is sending emails advising they’re changing their terms and conditions or privacy policy they must state what the change is in plain language in the body of the email, not make people go hunting

2026-04-23 07:58:09 UTC

People have been putting some pretty wild out there fiction in the local Little Library
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2026-04-21 11:19:09 UTC

It is SO GOOD to have Tom Scott back making videos. No clickbait or hype, just sincere curiosity about people with interesting jobs and hobbies. His current series has him finding interesting things in every county of England. This week's youtube episode has him visiting a mine rescue service training centre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-TX1FoEN4

2026-04-18 11:23:41 UTC

My personal conspiracy is that swans are actually aliens. There is something suspicious and not of this world about these baffling weirdos. Necks shouldn’t do what theirs do
#birds #birding #wildlife
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2026-04-13 22:22:22 UTC

I have an etiquette question for Malaysians or people who spend a bunch of time in Malaysia. I’ll be travelling to Malaysia (KL and Penang, maybe Ipoh) later this year. I have basic Indonesian language abilities so can understand some of the simpler Malay I come across online. I know different cultures feel differently about non-fluent tourists trying to speak their language- some are delighted, some find it cringe and some are offended to hear their language spoken incorrectly. How are Malaysians likely to feel about my
bumbling attempts to speak Malay? How likely am I to be misunderstood/accidentally offend if my knowledge comes more from Indonesian?
#malaysia #tootSEA

2026-04-13 09:25:04 UTC

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having so many parrot varieties is fun. Here’s some I see near where I live in Melbourne
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2026-04-12 11:58:57 UTC

Kmart is selling $29 iPod nano style mp3 players and I’m kinda tempted to get one and pretend it’s 2008 again
https://www.kmart.com.au/product/mp3-player-pink-43667857/

2026-04-11 10:37:11 UTC

Sometimes I see events and think wow, it's like Mastodon in real life. Today's thing that prompted that thought was the Fish Creek Tea Cosy Festival
https://teacosyfestival.com.au/

2026-04-11 07:32:39 UTC

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Rightly rural Australians whose lives and businesses are impacted by poor phone and internet connectivity are speaking up about Vodafone’s disrespectful campaign
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-01/vodafone-campaign-regional-rural-communications-phone-coverage/106509812

2026-04-11 07:25:07 UTC

Vodafone’s current Australian ad campaign that essentially boils down to coverage isn’t needed in the outback, we just do coverage where people live sure is a choice….

2026-04-10 07:59:28 UTC

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Muppets aglow at golden hour
#tawnyfrogmouth #birds #birding #wildoz #wildlife
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2026-04-08 11:39:10 UTC

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Also in great creature names, there was a dinosaur species called Bambiraptor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambiraptor

2026-04-08 05:02:20 UTC

Fun fact: the scientific name of the Western lowland gorilla is Gorilla gorilla gorilla

2026-04-07 07:50:07 UTC

Just because you can teach your parrot to scuba dive doesn’t necessarily mean you should
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2026-04-07 07:25:33 UTC

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it always delights me how the way cockatoos eat with their hands has an oddly human vibe about it

2026-04-03 07:15:19 UTC

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my family does now tend to have it on low/no volume when I visit after it used to drive me up the wall, but yes it’s on most of the time

2026-04-03 07:04:35 UTC

I don’t watch much free to air TV so it’s a wild experience when I stay with people who are leave the TV on all the time households. There is an entire hour long early evening show called tipping point that’s just people playing the same basic carnival gambling game. What even is the audience for that?

2026-04-01 03:41:00 UTC

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I can’t wait for all the inevitable documentaries about pretentious influencers who moved to Dubai to not pay tax who are caught up in this

2026-03-29 09:32:39 UTC

Today I went to Melbourne's most joyous event: Pascoe Vale Pups by the Pool. On the last day before the pool closes at the end of their summer season, they invite the local dogs for a swim. I don't own a dog but I go every year because it's so delightful! As promised I took lots of pictures. Thread incoming!
#dogs #dogsofmastodon #melbourne
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2026-03-29 00:22:46 UTC

Was running a bit late for something but had to pull over to photograph the final boss of high dedication suburban gardens
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2026-03-27 06:04:15 UTC

He’s a useful tool to check if music you’ve found on Spotify is likely A.I. Was a bummer to find a track i liked but that had a suspicious lack of artist info was indeed almost certainly A.I. Will of course be removing that from my playlists
https://sloptracker.org

2026-03-27 01:09:11 UTC

It really had to be the day I was wearing the most absurd leggings in history I got locked out of the house and had to walk barefoot to get help
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2026-03-26 10:38:50 UTC

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A very niche thing that makes me happy is the weird names zoos come up with to call their Tawny Frogmouths. Some I know of are Pobblebonk (Healesville) Hello (Bonorong), Muppet (Bonorong) and Kermit (Healesville)
#birds #TawnyFrogmouth
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2026-03-26 10:04:06 UTC

Just found out helping scientists count penguins is a thing you can volunteer to do in #melbourne
https://earthcarestkilda.org.au/events/month/2026-04/

2026-03-25 02:35:19 UTC

I will accept a robot uprising from robots that ferry around delicious Thai food
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2026-03-24 02:30:04 UTC

The cutest event in #melbourne is happening this weekend. There’s nothing more delightful than a pool filled with happy dogs. I don’t have a dog but have been several times and had so much fun
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2026-03-22 12:54:01 UTC

In Bronze Age Britain, artists made a 100 metre long picture of a horse using trenches filled with chalk. For 3000 years people have regularly repaired the artwork, removing stray plants and topping up chalk. There’s something very beautiful about a chain of people with such wildly different experiences of the world preserving beauty and creativity across millenniums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffington_White_Horse

2026-03-22 06:46:11 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mrfunkedude/116269723460224478
This! And even if you don’t have time/capacity to volunteer, become a member of stuff like the friends of your local park/library/nature reserve group or your local public transport users group. More members means more money coming in and more credibility when advocating for things that improve your community
#note1ru4…f60w

2026-03-22 03:13:20 UTC

Something I consider to be one of the great but under-discussed melbourne mysteries is what is going on with Arthur Daley’s on Swanston Street. They’ve occupied what must surely be valuable real estate for decades but every time I go in there there is few to no customers and there doesn’t seem to be much stock turnover. Much of the stock looks dated or poor quality. They’ve still got a big Christmas selection out. All up it’s got big back rooms vibes. What’s their secret to staying in business?
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2026-03-19 10:21:59 UTC

As a long term Geoguessr player, the elite players unsettle me a bit. It doesn't feel like identifying random country lanes in Estonia or back allies in obscure Bolivian villages in seconds is a thing human brains should be capable of

2026-03-18 05:16:52 UTC

It’s problematic how much advertising for crypto investment platforms there is in public spaces, especially on public transport around here. High risk investment options (crypto or not) should be treated like a high regulation product with substantial restrictions on how they can be advertised

2026-03-14 12:15:19 UTC

Getting into #bonkwave lately. It's the only genre I know of who can trace its founding to a mastodon rant
https://words.key13.uk/thats-not-bonk-wave
https://bonkknobrecords.bandcamp.com/

2026-03-14 07:42:09 UTC

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Junior and senior
#tawnyfrogmouth #birds #birding #wildlife #wildoz
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2026-03-14 02:36:28 UTC

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The New Holland Honeyeaters found out I was talking about them and one showed up outside my house to yell at me so loud I could hear it from inside the house
#birds #birding #wildlife #wildoz
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2026-03-14 00:51:08 UTC

I appreciate how New Holland Honeyeaters almost always look startled and confused. It’s a mood
#birds #birding #wildoz #wildlife
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2026-03-11 02:25:44 UTC

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A lovey little piece from someone who has made a practice of observing their local Tawny Frogmouths at night
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/09/aerial-athletes-and-unsung-hunters-by-night-tawny-frogmouths-are-more-than-just-their-muppet-looks
#tawnyfrogmouth #birds #birding

2026-03-10 03:34:33 UTC

We need to start shaming people who add AI note taking tools to meetings the way we would someone who insisted on bringing a random stranger to work meetings

2026-03-08 09:28:00 UTC

So, high on my list of bird species I've wanted to see in the wild is Gang Gang cockatoos. I've been looking for them for ages but being an endangered species in Victoria they've proved elusive. I was just taking a quick wander before i caught my bus home from Warrandyte when I heard a weird screech. It was TWO Gang Gang cockatoos!
#birds #birding #wildlife #wildoz #melbourne
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2026-03-08 04:20:13 UTC

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Visiting a part of the city I’ve never been to before and found some of their local tawny frogmouths. Tawnies are very good at blending into their environment often picking trees that match their feather pattern so it feels like you’ve discovered a special secret when you find them
#tawnyfrogmouth #birds #birding #wildoz #wildlife
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2026-03-07 07:42:17 UTC

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Tawny Frogmouths are usually pretty quiet birds but sometimes you’ll hear them make a sound that’s sort of a hoot and sort of like a phone on vibrate. I couldn’t capture the sound over the wind and other birds but you can see here how they puff out their chests to do it
#TawnyFrogmouth #birds #birding #wildlife #wildoz
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2026-03-07 07:38:49 UTC

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Judging the neighbourhood and everyone in it (especially the yappy dogs below) from up high.
Yes a substantial portion of my camera roll is tawnies
#TawnyFrogmouth #birds #birding #wildlife #wildoz
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2026-03-05 08:42:57 UTC

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While I was watching the tawny frogmouth in the last post some people came by doing the classic birder walking while looking up in trees thing. I showed them this tawny and they told me about where they’d seen these other ones nearby. Several others stopped to see what we were looking at and I lent them my binoculars. Suburban birding is a fabulous way to meet other locals
#tawnyfrogmouth #birds #birding #wildlife #wildoz
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2026-03-05 08:37:04 UTC

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Borb mode!
It’s not just humans who have awkward scraggly teenage phases
#tawnyfrogmouth #birds #birding #wildlife #wildoz
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2026-03-03 07:26:30 UTC

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Existential crisis floof update
#tawnyfrogmouth #birds #birding #wildlife #wildoz
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2026-03-02 04:02:53 UTC

It’s possible to emphasise the seriousness of recent events without showing pictures of dead bodies. Not showing those pictures can be a way of showing respect to the dead and to care for your audience. If the pictures must be included or are likely to show in a link preview, please use a content warning. I saw some images of a bombing victim without warning here earlier I wish I could unsee

2026-03-01 06:32:56 UTC

Today in lesser known heroes, this team of an electrician and a dentist who've developed methods to repair the shells of injured turtles
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-01/dental-supplies-and-resin-healing-injured-turtles/106336388

2026-02-28 03:05:15 UTC

Pondering how I ended up with a targeted ad for this backpack
https://dangerfield.com.au/products/cicada-backpack
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2026-02-27 23:47:41 UTC

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A muppet meetup moment
#birds #birding #tawnyfrogmouth #wildlife #wildoz
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2026-02-26 09:05:17 UTC

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Checking in on the youngest local Tawny Frogmouth. Haven't seen the parents around as much lately as would be normal but hopefully the kid getting nicely chonky is a sign they're still both around and involved.
#birds
#birding
#TawnyFrogmouth
#wildlife
#wildoz
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2026-02-24 00:23:08 UTC

I think of Geordie and his passion for taking on his dodgy apartment block Body Corporate every time I have to deal with mine and I get a little bolder. I think he would have been amused by that legacy
#rememberinggeordie

2026-02-22 23:58:41 UTC

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please don’t feed Australian birds mince, it’s bad for them. Here’s an article about other options
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-20/is-it-ok-to-feed-australias-wild-birds/106349168

2026-02-19 01:37:22 UTC

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Also in Australian retail mysteries, is anyone buying the dated toys, books from unknown authors and assorted junk at AusPost outlets or it just there to brighten up the room?

2026-02-18 07:23:53 UTC

What is it with tobacco shops of dubious legal compliance and also selling American candy?

2026-02-17 02:41:09 UTC

RE: https://aus.social/@jhaue/116083631353576205
Plains Wanderers are such rare, special little birds that it’s a point of pride among ecologist coworkers to have seen one in the wild. It’s on my bucket list to do so. Delightful to see a couple of news stories in the last year of them appearing in unexpected places
#birds #birding #wildoz
#note1l3g…fvkw

2026-02-15 01:20:16 UTC

The latest instillment of the enshittification of everything is a 7eleven store I was planning to use being replaced with vending machines. Not a valid 7eleven if there isn’t a slurpie machine
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2026-02-14 01:52:29 UTC

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the camera isn’t amazing but I really like my iPhone SE. It’s a nice compact size. Sometimes they come up at decent prices

2026-02-10 02:22:23 UTC

Aussie arts and crafts folk: Lincraft has a bizarrely good sale at the moment. A lot of the store is 50% off, some 75% off. Includes sewing machines, jigsaw puzzles, pillows and kids educational sets

2026-02-09 02:20:43 UTC

I’ve seen a few visitors to #Melbourne recently complain about the absurd cost of the SkyBus service to the airport. They don’t make it obvious, but there is regular cheap public transport in the form of a bus from the airport to Broadmeadows station
https://danielbowen.com/transport/melb-airport-cheap-way/

2026-02-07 01:12:35 UTC

If you’re looking to make your knowledge of the world more well rounded, the Oxford University Press’ Very Short Introduction series is a great place to start. The books are written by experts, usually 120-160 pages long (3-5 hours in audio) and generally at roughly a first year university subject level. They have books on an astounding range of subjects. I’m trying to read as many of them as possible, I’ve finished 25 so far
https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/v/very-short-introductions-vsi/
#books

2026-02-06 06:56:02 UTC

I wonder how many of the politicians with big feels about who speaks at writers festivals have ever actually been to a writers festival?