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I'm a nearly 70 year old Aussie - immigrated in 1964. I'm a Maths and Physics teacher, and outside work my passions are photography, ham radio, astronomy and birds - as well as calling out obscene politics.

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Panorama looking from Short Beach, Battery Point - near Hobart, Tasmania.
#panorama #photography #batterypoint #hobart #tasmania

14.03.2026 04:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mekong River panorama - Thailand
#photography #panorama #mekong #thailand

14.03.2026 04:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Getting ready for a fair at our local school- western Brisbane.
#photography #panorama #schoolfair #brisbane

14.03.2026 04:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump calls Iran leaders β€˜deranged scumbags’ as Middle East violence spirals Tehran residents report relentless bombing with US and Israeli planes launching wave of attacks

Deranged scumbags??
That'd be you and your sycophants, trumper!
(Remember that in old English to trump meant to fart)
#iran, #trump #middleeast
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

14.03.2026 04:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Teen reflects on time in a cell after ICE's 'unintended' arrest The case of a US teen who was pulled over and detained on his way to volleyball training highlights ICE's tactics, and how lawyers are fighting back.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

14.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hardhead aka white-eyed duck aka Aythya australis - Brisbane.
#photography #birds #hardhead #brisbane

14.03.2026 00:27 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Willie wagtail aka Rhipidura leucophrys at it's mud nest Brisbane.
#photography #birds #williwagtail #willywagtail #mudnest #brisbane

14.03.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With WASHINGTONβ€”Saying critics of the missile strike that killed at least 175 civilians were dodging a fundamental question,Β Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday demanded to know what girls were doing ...

Looks about right ... He's certainly stupid enough to think that.
#theonion #hegseth #iran
theonion.com/pete-hegseth...

13.03.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Photobook Awards - Photo Collective

The Photo Collective.
Australian and New Zealand Photobook Awards shortlist.
#photography #awards #australai #newzealand #photocollective
photocollective.com.au/photobook-aw...

13.03.2026 07:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rufous Whistler - Sherwood Arboretum, Brisbane.
#photography #sherwoodarboretum #birds #whistler

12.03.2026 08:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kookaburra flying from its nesting hollow in an arboreal termite nest. Western Brisbane.
#photography #birds #kookaburra #termite

12.03.2026 08:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brisbane arcade - Brisbane city, Queensland.
#photography #arcade #brisbane #brisbanearcade

12.03.2026 08:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Which Way Is Iran?’ Asks Pantsless, Sword-Wielding Trump Wandering On Side Of Freeway WASHINGTONβ€”In a chaotic scene that left motorists confused and alarmed, witnesses along Interstate 495 reported Tuesday that President Donald Trump was seen wandering pantsless on the shoulder of the ...

β€œWhich way is Iran?” β€œWoman! Tell me if Iran is to the left of here or if it’s south!” the commander-in-chief yelled at a morning commuter

11.03.2026 23:45 πŸ‘ 1541 πŸ” 207 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 5
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Just after sunset at Coolangatta, Queensland.
#nighttime #sunset #photography #coolangatta #queensland

12.03.2026 06:58 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New satirical statue depicts Trump and Epstein as doomed lovers from Titanic Latest sculpture titled β€˜King of the World’ includes plaques with pointed commentary on pair’s past association

Very funny!
#trump #epstein #statue #titanic
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

12.03.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What you need to know about Iran today, with Laura Tingle The ABC's global affairs editor, Laura Tingle, is in Dubai and will provide daily updates on the Middle East war.

From Laura Tingle - an Australian journalist in Dubai.
From the article:
"This war increasingly feels like a contest between an "all hardware, no strategy" United States and a "less hardware, lots of strategy" Iran, at least as far as the war of words is concerned."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

11.03.2026 20:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Where's Mummy???
#photography #birds #Queensland

11.03.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜We’re the good guys’: why moral storytelling doesn’t make the war on Iran necessary or legal Once the narrative of a β€œjust war” replaces the rule of law, there is little left to restrain powerful states from dominating weaker ones.

Worth a read ....
theconversation.com/were-the-goo...

11.03.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunrise at Oxley Creek Common - Brisbane.
#photographyy #oxleycreekcommon #sunrise #blackandwhite #monochrome

11.03.2026 08:37 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s ego-trip war has collided with economic reality but he can’t undo the damage | Rafael Behr The US president’s doctrine of lawless military adventures harms American interests and boosts Vladimir Putin, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Looks about right!
#trump #wariniran #uspolitics #epicfury #middleeast #iran
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

11.03.2026 08:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Foreign Facebook pages have been promoting One Nation. It wants them to stop An ABC NEWS Verify investigation uncovers a raft of foreign Facebook accounts targeting Australian users. And they're just the tip of the iceberg.

So FB's bots are able to expel me from the site for criticising trump - and delete all the data I had posted in the last 15 years, but are unable to detect false AI posts.

I call BS and suggest that FB doesn't care about truth as long as they are making money.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

11.03.2026 02:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Parts of giant Nasa satellite to crash to Earth, posing low risk The 600kg Van Allen probe A will re-enter Tuesday evening, with most of it burning before reaching Earth’s surface

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

11.03.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome Rosalie - its a much better place to be!
Tim

11.03.2026 00:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns Marc Abraham: β€œDuring the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."

arstechnica.com/science/2026...

10.03.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why do Americans hate each other while Canadians love each other? Could it have something to do with our politics? With the sociopath in the Oval?

open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

10.03.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Startup Wants Giant Orbital Mirrors to Turn Night Into Day – Scientists Are Horrified Orbital mirrors from Reflect Orbital promise nighttime solar power but face catastrophic physics limitations and astronomical concerns over sky pollution.

NO! NO! NO!
www.gadgetreview.com/startup-want...

10.03.2026 07:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, it's about 1200m high.
I spent a lot of time on that mountain as a teenager and young man - our house was a few hundred metres away from where this phot was taken.

10.03.2026 07:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mount Wellington (kunyani) panorama, as seen from the Bracken Lane Fire Trail. South Hobart, Tasmania.
#mountwellington #kunyani #southhobart #tasmania #panorama #photography #landscape

10.03.2026 06:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Antananarivo - capital and largest city of Madagascar.
#antananarivo #madagascar #photography #panorama

10.03.2026 06:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump, Netanyahu down to last card in criminal Iran war By Walt Zlotow President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister began their second war on Iran in 7 months with just 2 war crime cards to play. The first card was the US, Israeli version of [...]

theaimn.net/trump-netany...

10.03.2026 06:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0