Joanna Holman

In Bronze Age Britain, artists made a 100 metre long picture of a horse using trenches filled with chalk. For 3000 years people have regularly repaired the artwork, removing stray plants and topping up chalk. There’s something very beautiful about a chain of people with such wildly different experiences of the world preserving beauty and creativity across millenniums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffington_White_Horse

Getting into #bonkwave lately. It's the only genre I know of who can trace its founding to a mastodon rant

https://words.key13.uk/thats-not-bonk-wave
https://bonkknobrecords.bandcamp.com/

I appreciate how New Holland Honeyeaters almost always look startled and confused. It’s a mood

#birds #birding #wildoz #wildlife

It’s kinda impressive to create an offer that unappealing

I find it sort of fascinating that TED talks (both the official conference and the semi official TedX events) are still a thing. While they’ve been going since the 80s the current format feels very rooted in early 2010s optimism about tech and the world in a way that feels out of step with the current mood to me

So, high on my list of bird species I've wanted to see in the wild is Gang Gang cockatoos. I've been looking for them for ages but being an endangered species in Victoria they've proved elusive. I was just taking a quick wander before i caught my bus home from Warrandyte when I heard a weird screech. It was TWO Gang Gang cockatoos!

#birds #birding #wildlife #wildoz #melbourne

Thinking of all the poorly paid, tightly controlled migrant and maritime workers in the Middle East who don’t have the freedom to leave their potentially at risk locations

It’s possible to emphasise the seriousness of recent events without showing pictures of dead bodies. Not showing those pictures can be a way of showing respect to the dead and to care for your audience. If the pictures must be included or are likely to show in a link preview, please use a content warning. I saw some images of a bombing victim without warning here earlier I wish I could unsee

I think of Geordie and his passion for taking on his dodgy apartment block Body Corporate every time I have to deal with mine and I get a little bolder. I think he would have been amused by that legacy

#rememberinggeordie

I was recently in a meeting where a slide with this picture of a Plains Wanderer was on screen for quite a while. Got distracted thinking about how it looks like they’re wearing a scarf. That thought prompted designing and creating one of the sillier crochet projects I’ve ever made. Will definitely be wearing it when I get the chance to go search for these adorable and elusive critically endangered birds.

(Plains Wanderer photo by JJ Harrison via wikipedia)

#birds #birding #craft #crochet

#melbourne people: if you’re in search of something to do this weekend, St Kilda Festival is the place to be. It’s free, has a fabulous music lineup, the most eclectic set of additional activities I’ve ever seen at a music festival (medieval combat demonstrations! Fishing Lessons! Kids circus workshops!) and it’s right on the beach

https://www.stkildafestival.com.au

Came across this striking art piece in Bourke St Mall, #melbourne called Paid Attention by Huei Yin Wong. It’s designed to comment on the way the advertising industry profits from constantly taking our attention at no benefit to us. If you sit making unbroken eye contact with the messages about our attention choices on the screen, it pays out the equivalent of minimum wage for the time watched. Sitting there conspicuously staring at something silly in public for even less than 2 minutes was weirdly unsettling even though we’re constantly looking at silly stuff on screens

Gloria in excel sheet deo