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A Quokkarchaeologist
One Short Of An Even Dozen
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eleven shiny green-blue Emu eggs in a nest - bed of leaves on a forest floor
A batch of Emu eggs in the Marrinup State Forest, south of Perth. Discovered during an archaeological survey we were doing in there. Dad would have been lurking around somewhere but wasn't seen. Mum shot through a while ago, as is the Emu way.
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That’d be a big carton.
I’d ask how the omelette tasted but I imagine there’s some massively Aussie curse around consuming those things and one just doesn’t.
@MackReed They’re mostly like enormous duck eggs. The only emu-based curse we have is more… general purpose. https://youtu.be/UL5cA4-z...
Daily Affirmation
New lair just dropped
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What looks like a giant steel long, triangular shape, with many windows on the one side. It is perked on the very edge of a large mountain, with a sheer drop next to it.
Santnerpass Hut is perched on a sheer cliff and resembles a giant Toblerone still in its foil – an eye-popping hit of modernity and innovation’. Photograph: Andrew Gilchrist
Picture from https://www.theguardian.com/travel...
Picture from https://www.theguardian.com/travel...
I love your title because you just know location scouts are drooling to put a James Bond antagonist at this site.
Peak Evanston
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Alt text: **A cyclist wearing a yellow jacket crosses an urban intersection on a cargo bike, towing a trailer carrying two large black dogs. The bike has an American flag attached to the trailer, and cars, traffic lights, trees, and brick apartment buildings surround the intersection.**
source: ba's wife
oh my lord, the LABRADORS license plate bolted on there is either the cherry on top or the last nail in the coffin (take your pick)
@nikkuneko didn't even notice! I was too busy trying to work up a yoga mat joke/reference about the flooring...
@ba hah, oh man!
spoiler alert, the dogs' names are probably NAMASTE and COEXIST
spoiler alert, the dogs' names are probably NAMASTE and COEXIST
They don't write 'em like this any more
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The paperback cover to the classic science fiction novel "I Missed the Space Space Bus to my Space Office" by Gary Flapbutter, Author of "I Fell Asleep Watching Space TV."
local friend had a "my house is turning 200" party and the snack table was off the chain
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an impressively long table absolutely full of cookies and cakes and little numnums of all description. It is under a tent and the sun is shining. People are eating numnums
An older friend of mine had a big party nominally about her house's bicentennial but really just to hang out and eat indecent amounts of snacks. I showed up two hours into a three hour party and this was "all" that was left. 😂 House is in the background, it's a nice house. This lady calls me whenever she needs to update her email signature file.
Oh you Eaterners! I brag about my 150 year old house out here in the Rockies but 200... for America, dang! That's purdy old.
I am loving the sense of community in this pic.
Oh, I'll have the whole little orange topped cake! Wonderous!
How I feel on Yom Kippur
arrivals
keeping time
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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matchbox cover for "tokyo jazz club" with an illustration of an octopus floating above a drum kit, with three sticks
Saved to T-shirt ideas!
this is excellent
I'm wondering about that detached arm at the bottom, partially behind the snare drum. Did it drum an arm loose?
Bird of the Year
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Close-up photograph of a small black bird, giving an impression of roundness and fluffiness, perched on a branch. It has tiny black eyes and a tiny black beak.
source: https://www.cnn.com/2026...
"Small, shy and clad head-to-claw in black, New Zealand’s karure, or black robin, has been crowned the country’s 2026 Bird of the Year.
"The critically threatened bird is found only on the remote Chatham Islands, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of mainland New Zealand. The karure finished at the top of the pecking order with more than 25,000 votes, beating previous winners the kākāpō, a large flightless parrot, and the kārearea, or New Zealand falcon, into second and third place, respectively."
Photo by Oscar Thomas
"Small, shy and clad head-to-claw in black, New Zealand’s karure, or black robin, has been crowned the country’s 2026 Bird of the Year.
"The critically threatened bird is found only on the remote Chatham Islands, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of mainland New Zealand. The karure finished at the top of the pecking order with more than 25,000 votes, beating previous winners the kākāpō, a large flightless parrot, and the kārearea, or New Zealand falcon, into second and third place, respectively."
Photo by Oscar Thomas
i love how it looks like a house sparrow that's going to the bauhaus show
Steamed Hams but everything is fully explained
The PET Family Tree (1982)
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a hand-drawn family tree of computers, starting with the 6502 chip in 1975 and ending up with Commodore's BX range, which was unreleased at time of writing (1982)
by the late and much-missed Jim Butterfield
cleaned up from source: https://www.tpug.ca/tpug-med...
cleaned up from source: https://www.tpug.ca/tpug-med...
All in just five years, by a handful of people.
In hindsight, absolutely wild.
In hindsight, absolutely wild.
I want to go back. Just for a visit.
Tag yourself? I am "P" Series
The Shark Nebula
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Murky golden brown gas clouds partly hides three blue stars
The Shark Nebula, located in the constellation Cepheus.The stunning image was chosen as the overall winner of the Royal Observatory Greenwich's 18th ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.
Photo - © Ali Alobaidly
https://www.livescience.com/space...
Photo - © Ali Alobaidly
https://www.livescience.com/space...
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Haumea, out past Neptune
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Dwarf planet Haumea
Out in the Kuiper Belt, beyond Neptune, there’s a dwarf planet called Haumea.
Haumea doesn’t look like a planet at all. It's ovoid and has a ring system and two satellites.
https://www.threads.com/share...
Haumea doesn’t look like a planet at all. It's ovoid and has a ring system and two satellites.
https://www.threads.com/share...
it egg!
whoa, TIL about this one.
a couple of wild factoids from NASA that tripped me up:
"If Earth were the size of a nickel, Haumea would be about as big as a sesame seed."
"Haumea takes 285 Earth years to make one trip around the Sun. As Haumea orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 4 hours, making it one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system."
a couple of wild factoids from NASA that tripped me up:
"If Earth were the size of a nickel, Haumea would be about as big as a sesame seed."
"Haumea takes 285 Earth years to make one trip around the Sun. As Haumea orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 4 hours, making it one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system."
@scruss "can i offer you an egg in this trying time?"
Nankeen Night Heron
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A Nankeen Night Heron, standing on a partially submerged tree branch, looking into mossy water for a feed.
Did a Bird Watching Walk at the local lake (Herdsman Lake) and had a great time.
ooh, self guided or are they offering tours? I'm def moving into my old man bird watching phase. Bird Count coming up on the 19th of this month, can't wait
@Argie https://www.wagouldleague.com.au/event-de... was the one we did. Couldn't see an October one, but it should be up soon. It was really good. They have binoculars to borrow as well if you don't have any.
@jordanbrock ooh cheers, now on my to do list
SEPTEMBER!!! by Earth Wind and Fire (Pomplamoose cover)
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video of Pomplamoose singing Earth, Wind & Fire's "September"
My favorite cover of this song
chicka chow
Go Grandma!
The overThinker
Not The Onion
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I... I feel like I've stumbled into a weird timeline.
I had no idea "Idiocracy" was a documentary.
I had no idea "Idiocracy" was a documentary.
"Breaking Maths News: what's going on with millennium maths problems?" | Stand-up Maths
It's been a time
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A tan dog laying on a red upholstered chair next to a woman in a T-shirt and shorts. The dog is intently looking at the camera.
I post this mostly to scream into the void. Our dear dog, Pippa, was diagnosed with a tumor on her spleen several weeks ago. This is basically a death sentence, but we were very lucky to find out about it before it burst. We were given the opportunity to give her a peaceful goodbye on Saturday, the 5th.
On the 3rd, I got a call from my mother that my dad was in the emergency room. The cancer he has been fighting for 18 months had started affecting his lungs and he was having trouble breathing. They decided to put him on hospice, and he returned home on the 4th with a pile of morphine.
We said goodbye to our dog and then packed up to drive down to our parents the next day. There is still dog fur all over the apartment. My father has rapidly declined, from needing a little help to move between the living room and the bed to now being barely there. I'll spare all the gory details in between.
We're looking at hours to days left for him, but my wife and I have decided we need to go home after two weeks with little sleep and acting as the primary support for my mother. Other family is arriving tomorrow. We're expecting to return in a few days, but we need to swap clothes and grab some essentials we forgot in our haste.
It's been a time
On the 3rd, I got a call from my mother that my dad was in the emergency room. The cancer he has been fighting for 18 months had started affecting his lungs and he was having trouble breathing. They decided to put him on hospice, and he returned home on the 4th with a pile of morphine.
We said goodbye to our dog and then packed up to drive down to our parents the next day. There is still dog fur all over the apartment. My father has rapidly declined, from needing a little help to move between the living room and the bed to now being barely there. I'll spare all the gory details in between.
We're looking at hours to days left for him, but my wife and I have decided we need to go home after two weeks with little sleep and acting as the primary support for my mother. Other family is arriving tomorrow. We're expecting to return in a few days, but we need to swap clothes and grab some essentials we forgot in our haste.
It's been a time
I'll give my pups a few extra scratches behind the ears tomorrow. And I'll call my folks this weekend.
Love to you and yours. Loads of long distance hugs from internet friends. Sorry that you’re going through it. ❤️
yeah i took my dog to the foot of the Rainbow Bridge before a two week stay seeing my father to his.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
current state of hollywood
not once
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'YOU WOULDN'T OPEN FOR ED SHEERAN'
source: fyneqock
Years later your “source” variations still crack me up
Barchaeologist
earlier this evening
🌼
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Some flowers I saw on a walk yesterday
A Visitor