To say that Australian plants are adapted to fire (and flood, and storm, and landslide) is like saying that grass is adapted to lawnmowers. Saturday, 7 December 2019 at 8:28 pm – view South from my window, horrific smoke from major bushfires in the mountains of southern NSW.
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You know who else was anti-woke, pro-cancelling, hated and killed LGBTQ people, destroyed unions, hated and killed anyone of different cultures and religions, removed opposition political parties, hated and destroyed the Arts, packed the judiciary, worshipped the military, used a lot of flags? Yeah, you do.
Suck it up Mike Godwin Read More »
\”An odd thought strikes me:—we shall receive no letters in the grave\” (Samuel Johnson) It strikes me that there will be books written, music performed, art created, films directed, science discovered – that I will never know about.
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USA was once an amalgam of Thomas Jefferson\’s America, and of Abraham Lincoln\’s America, and of John F Kennedy\’s America. USA is becoming an amalgam of Adolf Hitler\’s Germany, and the Taliban\’s Afghanistan, and of Atwood\’s Gilead
Rupert Murdoch\’s America Read More »
So, I\’ve just joined the Twitter that isn\’t owned by Elon Musk. I have no idea whether this is a good idea/useful. But here is an invitation link if you want to join me there. In the absence of #linkedin this may be a good social network for me. Or not. https://mastodon.social/invite/aPA7wkrF
Hey, I\’ve been banned from linkedin after years of extensive posting and commenting. No warning, no explanation, no obvious way to appeal, and certainly no way to let 950 connections know what has happened. Rumours of my physical demise greatly exaggerated, facts of my linkedin demise not so much.
Sometimes, when I am sorting my old English postage stamps, I wonder if this one or that one was a stamp my great great grandfather might have used.
Philatelic thoughts Read More »
