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Large pink and black sculpture is embedded on light broken rocks with green grass in front and behind, and surrounded at back by dark green trees. Blue sky with many white clouds are above the trees. Sculpture is a vertical diamond shape with two stylised boomerangs in front, which face in opposite directions. The diamond has three thick black lines in ever smaller sized diamond shapes, with the centre of the diamond shape all black. The stylised boomerangs have many thinner black lines in a zigzag pattern.

Pt Leo estate sculpture by Reko Rennie.

Rekospective The art of Reko Rennie sign in white over black, green, purple, brown and neon pink segments

Old Italian silver scooter in foreground with the word Aboriginal on the rear wheel guard. Above on wall at top is a sign in pale yellow with the words Original Aboriginal on pink and purple lined art. Below is a flat image of a pink boxing Kangaroo with black lines over the pink. Boxing gloves are yellow. Two black spears with yellow tips are in a X form underneath the kangaroo. Two yellow boomerangs are to each side of the kangaroo and spears, facing opposite directions.

Sculpture of three geometric standing shapes. Two are stylised boomerangs. One is pink, purple with black lines overlayed. One is red with blue and black lines overlayed. Third sculpture is a 3D hexagon with two more placed on base. It has a camouflage of black, pink, orange and yellow paint. Behind main scuptures on back wall is a vertical diamond shaped blue, black and yellow lined painting orflat sculpture.

Flat sculpture on wall, vertical shaped diamond, with blue and black camouflage paint, with four black and blue points underneath diamond, pointing in opposite directions of the diamond. Effect is a stylised shield and spears.

Visited NGV Aus for the Reko Rennie exhibition, discovering my favourite sculpture at Pt Leo estate was also a Rennie piece.

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Cartoonist Quits WaPo Over Censorship #ABlueView

Ann Telnaes: "I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, “Democracy dies in darkness” tinyurl.com/ycx4ntrr

Pls share this, in the hopes it'll reach a larger audience than if the WaPo had run it!

Agree. Also great to see Bhangra dancers at this year’s Edinburgh Military Tattoo 🥁

Sadness may knock at your heart's door many times a day, like an uninvited guest seeking entry to your most soft space. But don’t let it make you miss joy's gentle knock—those precious moments come less often, and you must embrace them when they arrive.
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Thanks for the link to the full post by Edward Zitron.

After nearly 15 years in Victoria, I finally got to visit Wilson’s Promontory. I was surprised by the high hills as I’d only seen beach pics of the region. There was low mist over the islands on the day I visited.

Header photo was taken from Ramada Suites, Zen Quarter in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia in 2023. Apartment hotel with an open to the air 16th floor, including a bar, free snacks and 360 degree view for a magnificent sunset.

If you’re looking for a free way to support an author, did you know you can ask your library to stock a book you want to read that they don’t have yet? And usually it’s a very basic online form? Google your library name plus the words “request a title” or “suggest a title” to find yours.

Elizabeth Strout books are on the short side.

Any books by Claire Keegan are short and excellent - ‘Antarctica’, ‘So Late in the Day’, and ‘Small Things Like These’.

@carlyfindlay.bsky.social Are you aware of this service? UK based.

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Into orbit: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital becomes first Booker champ to hit number one in week of its win The announcement of Orbital (Vintage) by Samantha Harvey as the Booker Prize winner for 2024 has rocketed it to the top of the charts, breaking Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid's three-week run in first place.

The announcement of Orbital (Jonathan Cape) by Samantha Harvey as @thebookerprizes.bsky.social winner for 2024 has rocketed it to the top of the charts 👇 www.thebookseller.com/news/news/in... #BookSky

Picking up your book tomorrow from one of my libraries.

Just finished Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize. It’s a short book, but has a denseness that slows down your reading, so that you get to chew the words. Set on the International Space Station.

The Skelfs by Doug Johnstone

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

Or watch Rare Exports (2010) or Violent Night (2022) or Silent Night (2021).

A vintage black and white photo taken during an American Library Association World War One book drive. A librarian in an suit with an ankle-length skirt speaks into a megaphone while standing atop an immense stack of books.

HI HELLO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.

Found a Mediherb solution - Sinus Forte with Euphrasia. Always have local honey.

Tracking Down My Family Using Open-Source Research - PART ONE Bellingcat Researcher Annique Mossou goes on a personal journey to find where her Indonesian roots come from. She details tools and tricks she found whilst e...

In our latest video, Bellingcat researcher @annique.bsky.social shares her personal journey tracking down her family history using Open-Source techniques. Watch her research unfold here: youtu.be/TiA17FJJQsY?...

I don’t play games, but have learnt a lot about game music from Meena’s show on ABC Classic FM.

I visited an Alaskan library in 2017, & took note of a series by W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O’Neal Gear, set in North America, starting from ~ 13,000 BC. When I got home to Australia, I starting reading the series by using the inter-library loan system in my state. I’m currently reading book 19.

Suffering horrendous hay fever, even with windows closed and large hepa filter on. Had been using a herbal brand for sinus relief, but it has garlic in it, and my gut niw says no.
Does anyone have suggestions that aren’t antihistamines?