State Department slashes fee to renounce US citizenship by 80% to $450
The State Department has slashed by about 80% the fee for Americans to formally renounce their U.S. citizenship.
It’s about time. I believe I’m going to renounce this year. I haven’t returned to the USA in a quarter of a century. I hear it’s changed a bit. I suspect many of us who hold dual nationality will leave in droves now. I can visit as an Australian. I don’t think there’s anything left for me there.
14.03.2026 11:57
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Corella Sounds (Flock Calling in Geelong Parkland)
YouTube video by Sego Nature
Bear with me. Rihanna’s Umbrella but ‘You can stand under my own corella 'ella, 'ella, *corella screeching*’
#australia #birds #earworm
11.03.2026 23:08
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#lidapavlova #magic
11.03.2026 00:48
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black cat and cafe au lait dahlias
07.03.2026 03:29
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Bulk Billing for all Australians Campaign – 30 second advertisement
YouTube video by Australian Dept of Health, Disability and Ageing
The cavernous ear canal in the new Medicare bulk billing ad is doing my head in. I am not a medical doctor, but nothing about that is ‘looking good.’ Won’t someone think of the children.
youtu.be/UeKL9vqD9FU?...
05.03.2026 07:02
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Is this place on? Strawberries, pineapple, and sugared lime slices.
#foodstorage #campsnacks #trailfood #hiking
28.02.2026 00:50
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Here is my friend, and the house of my friend. Zoom in to see a Hortophora transmarina up close. She’s weird out in the day, eating a bee, as needs must. Living between Dahlias in Ballarat is pretty sweet real estate. #spiders #spiderestates #australia
26.02.2026 02:15
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I’m spending way less time there, too.
22.02.2026 06:44
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Facebook must have realised
I’m over it. They’ve started targeting me with outdoor gear and botany instead of eye creams and shape wear. They have even stopped the illegal ads recommending medically-induced gastroparesis is just a Telehealth appt away. #misogyny #marketing #outdoors #women
22.02.2026 01:29
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The dulcet tones of the fledgling galah (rose-breasted cockatoo) saw me through my second coffee. Baby is bottom right. Parents are the ones trying to move away from the sound.
20.02.2026 23:25
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I think it’s just been they need more time. This will be the year they descend if they ever will. 🤞
20.02.2026 21:17
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One of three seed-grown Brugmansia I have remaining in my plant collection. This one has three “skirts,” but all three have yet to descend despite years of patience.
Autistic specialist (not speshul) interest/plant nerd business.
“Look, Daddy! I’m a farmer!”
20.02.2026 02:10
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I survived, dramatically.
20.02.2026 02:03
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All the world mate. Down here in Australia, too.
18.02.2026 01:53
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Todos el mundo. Love from Australia.
18.02.2026 01:52
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Worldwide for over half an hour.
18.02.2026 01:51
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It seems to be global. It’s weird.
18.02.2026 01:50
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It’s down in Australia as well
18.02.2026 01:48
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YouTube has been down worldwide for half an hour. Nobody seems to know why.
18.02.2026 01:47
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#nsw #auspol #radicalgrafitti
12.02.2026 22:35
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I reckon it’s some kind of magic, and I don’t go in for those sorts of things much.
12.02.2026 04:18
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Me too.
12.02.2026 03:42
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Planning my escape/2. I can piss off _and piss in. #dayhike #hiking #australia #outdoors #solo #ballarathikes #ballarat #grumpylonersunitetheoretically
12.02.2026 03:19
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I despair. I really do.
12.02.2026 01:18
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I am beginning to feel like home is just nature for me. I am mostly exhausted by the aloneness of caring and chronic illness. Have found it hard to connect locally, but it’s still early days.
12.02.2026 00:56
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'This is over for me, I'm done': Woman says man assaulted her on solo bush hike
A woman's solo hike through regional Victoria took a disturbing turn near Daylesford, raising questions about safety and police responses.
‘But she said the officer she spoke to told her there was little they could do. Four hours later, an officer offered to "swing by" Lake Daylesford, but by then she had moved on.’
#vicpol exist to assist the rich. They don’t exist for women like us.
#takebackthetrack #solohiking #hiking #women #oz
12.02.2026 00:30
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