Don’t forget that someone has gotten up from bed and is wobbling over them trying to take a picture before they move, right at breakfast time.

But you’re probably right. Sometimes they like each other.

What now?

I don’t know. I have taken some time of work and have been in tears a few times. I am currently trying my best to support some of the other volunteers, but I’m obviously not doing great myself. A museum being seized and destroyed is unquantifiably unthinkable. Even the thought of destroying a single artefact would tear the average historian apart, let alone thousands of them. The precedent this sets for museums in NSW is terrifying.

I have written a letter to the NSW Minister for Heritage, similar to this blog post, and I hope to hear back from them soon.

If you want to help then please read and share the charity board’s statement requesting a re-evaluation of the rationale for the seizure and the plans to destroy the ship. It refutes several things the NSW government has publicly stated.

Seizing a museum, including all its collections on loan from other groups, and then stating they wish to destroy it… is this really who the NSW government is? Is this what they want to do from now on?

https://seaheritagefoundation.org.au/blog/media-release-regarding-the-nsw-state-seizure-of-mv-cape-don

It doesn’t look bad at all (referring to other comment). That US warship that returned from 200 days in deployment looks just as bad. Metal rusts in the ocean.

I hope you get the answers you need.

Yeah, I know what the song was about (I’m that old) but it needs a re-write for the now-now times.

I’m going to put the blame squarely on every individual in an American truck.

Which generation though? Seems like all of them have an ever increasing amount of cookers.

But, it’s the <1% creating this doubt, let’s never forget who the enemy is.

Syncthing running on both setup to push files one way perhaps?

Reduce mown open space, increase canopy cover and mid story density.

A walk to the shops should include large sections of crawling, climbing, and sliding.

Fallen logs should prevent most cars from travelling and only the bravest and largest of now completely necessary urban diesel 4WDs may traverse thereby finally being somewhat useful for day to day.

Magpie problems solved.

Vomit emoji. This is an affront as an Australian.

Haha, I have the same photo in my gallery back when it was taken except I cropped maybe too aggressively. Great minds…

This is just in the past. You’ll be happy to know that everything worked out ok.

Mum was hyper friendly to the detriment to her feeding children, was desexed, and found a home quite quickly. She disappears from photos on my phone quicker than I remembered. Her first and only litter, she was a young Mum.

Yes, drip is the most efficient for defeating hydrophobia and penetration. And it would shorten the dry periods by the time the truck gets back. It’s a good idea.

They look interesting from a cursory search I did after reading. We still drive laden trucks and manually water because there is no such thing as a fuel crisis. Bags are not something we do here or have seen done.

As the El Nino keeps forming and hitting record temps, mortality will increase and our urban soils, due to sprawl, are heavily modified with negative characteristics not really compatible with tree growth/health which makes that survival harder.

That said, we just had a record bout of rain for a Spring El Nino (usually hot and dry), another first/record broken for climate change.

There is plenty more photos I will drip post.

I can spoil the end, everyone was adopted (the mum, Zoe, was desexed and adopted first). We held on to kitties until 10-12 weeks because the runt got ringworm from her Mum (outside feral) and couldn’t be desexed while infected. 2 bathings per week and pills which they did not enjoy. Besides that, they got snapped up from the local RSPCA when they were ready.

You can edit the post and title as you see fit, it’s not like other platforms.

All good, mate. It really comes down to how we define the words used and I like your second choice over the first; low impact vs sustainable.

We won’t be feeding the population nor having any ecological benefit but eating kangaroo in that situation is definitely lower impact than any other farmed meat.

Just splitting hairs with you, not looking for arguments. Enjoy the meal.

That’s they way I understand it too. Kangaroo “overgrazing” directly relies on other animal agriculture to create the food sources that they need to thrive since we don’t manage the land in similar ways any more. Kangaroos also like a nice golf course/sportsfield/lawn/road edge which is fossil fuel dependent.

Back to the drawing board it seems.

Same old story, in parts of Australia, beef would outnumber any other terrestrial animal in number and weight.

We are winning mammal extinctions for a reason.

This is an interesting thought experiment.

Pork comes in after chicken in the traditional meats as it can be farmed intensively to reduce land use impacts and can eat waste streams. Besides the ethical concerns of murdering an intelligent animal in pork, kangaroo farming would take a fair bit of space and some unusual fencing. Could you even herd them well to be factory efficient?

Now if everyone dropped their meat consumption to near zero and we stopped land clearing and started fire stick farming to create palatable pick for kangaroos then used targeted hunting, I guess it would be sustainable? Certainly less erosive than beef/goat/sheep.

Just thinking out loud. Thanks for sharing regardless. Butcher or hunted kangaroo, where did it come from?

Beef is Australia’s beef.

Source: I live here.

I work in the industry and this doesn’t align with our results at all. I suppose if you paint everything with a broad brush, the shitty urban areas kept swept up in with cities that actually look after and care for their trees.

In my perspective, we aren’t doing enough for both areas but I’m from a bogan area of Australia so maybe the outlier. If it ain’t beef or gas/coal, or a crisp new diesel dual cab ute, fuck looking after it.

I’m sorry. My entire knowledge of America is based on a short clip in the 1992 seminal classic, Wayne’s World.

It’s like people only do things because they get paid. And that’s just really sad.