Just got visited by a resident Crimson Rosella :,D they’re just the cutest feathery friends

Incredibly time has rushed to complete the first quarter already o_0 but much has happened too, and a lot of it was nice o/`
As a third culture kid -raised in a culture other than my parents’- I have never truly felt a sense of belonging to any particular place. It’s a feeling of statelessness, living in society but always as an outsider.
Even after 25 years in Australia, I am deeply grateful and respect my family’s heritage but I don’t belong to any of them. I love living in Australia because of the her sublime nature, the beauty of the Australian bush, the multiculturalism. But I don’t belong here either. I don’t belong anywhere, other than the earth beneath me. And I’ll do my best to protect her the best I can.
Hello from Sydney’s Botanical Gardens o/`
Travelling up the kangaroo valley to see Bowral’s tulips and cherry blossoms was the perfect way to celebrate the spring equinox :*D
Love this article <3 (because I love pebbles :D)
“During the ice-age when Australia was nearer the South Pole, glaciers dominated the landscape. As glaciers bulldozed through the landscape, rocks and debris were picked up and carried along in the weight and movement of ice. When the glacier reached the ocean, chunks carved off into icebergs. The stones frozen in the iceberg floated offshore.
As the iceberg melted, the stones dropped into the ocean. The glaciers pick up that material, move to the edge of the continent, then move out to sea with it, then drop it. That’s why Geologists call these stones dropstones, or ice rafted debris, and many such pebbles have washed up on the strip of coastline that includes Singing Stones Beach.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-31/epic-history-behind-famous-singing-stones-beach/104148526
can’t wait to go back to that big tub of salty water xx
today is 24-04-2024 ··· a good day to permanently hug someone or sign up somewhere (just hurry up)
Cory Doctorow majorly switched on again : 2024’s public domain is a banger – excerpt below, read his post full here pluralistic.net/2023/12/20/em-oh-you-ess-ee/#sexytimes
First in 1976, and then again in 1998, Congress retroactively extended copyright’s duration by 20 years, for all works, including works whose authors were unknown and long dead, whose proper successors could not be located. Many of these authors were permanently erased from history as every known copy of their works disappeared before they could be brought back into our culture through reproduction, adaptation and re-use. (Copyright is “strict liability,” meaning that even if you pay to clear the rights to a work from someone who has good reason to believe they control those rights, if they’re wrong, you are on the hook as an infringer, and the statutory damages run to six figures.)
Works that are still in our cultural currents 50 or 70 or 90 years after their creation are an infinitesimal fraction of all the works we create as a species. But these works are – by definition – extraordinarily important to our culture. The creators who made these works were able to plunder a rich public domain of still-current works as inputs to their own enduring creations. The slow-motion arson attack on the public domain meant that two generations of creators were denied the public domain that every other creator in the history of the human race had enjoyed.
The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
This book was originally a series of letters to student workers who were being attacked during wartime to remind them of the essential discipline of following one’s breath to nourish and maintain calm mindfulness, even in the midst of the most difficult circumstances.