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pharsicle

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I live in Brisbane, Australia, on the onceded lands of the Jagera and Turrbal people.

I work as a software developer at Thoughtworks and sometimes also get paid to sing. I sing mostly choral music and sometimes opera.

I am an irregular road cyclist and occasional golfer. I have taken up photography again, with an interest in nature and birds in particular.

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pharsicle, to macrophotography
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I have no idea what this tiny brown insect is. It is no more than 1mm long. It appears to be carrying around some rubbish it collected.

I found it crawling on a container of figs packed in Childers, Qld. It didn’t pose for the photos!

Front view of very small, brown insect with translucent legs, on crimped plastic edge of a clear plastic container.
Side view of very small, brown insect with translucent legs and abdomen, on the edge of a clear plastic container. It appears to be carrying a brown crumb and some white fluffy substance.
Inverted front view of a very small, brown insect with pincers raised, on a rough brown background. It appears to be carrying a brown crumb and some other white material.

pharsicle,
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My homebrew #MacroPhotography flash diffuser. I am sure @andrewrock has something a bit fancier than this!

pharsicle, to random
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Yesterday I saw one of your friends, @alexpsmith, at The Knoll, Tamborine NP.

timbray, (edited ) to random
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You know what’s a really great feeling? When you fat-finger some precious data out of existence (in this case, merged a bunch of Photoshop layers without noticing then saved the file) and restoring from your neglected-for-years-at-a-time backup system Just Works. (ArqBackup BTW.)

pharsicle,
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@timbray Time Machine?

pharsicle, to macrophotography
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A couple of Blue-banded Bees coming for some nectar on our Holy Basil plant.

#MacroPhotography #AustralianInsects #ownpic #WildOz #Brisbane

A bee with blue bands on its abdomen on a small, pale purple flower with a few bright orange anthers. The flower is next to another in a whorl on an angled stem that also bears some green, hairy leaves. There are other stems in the background.

pharsicle, to random
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A couple of Little Corellas having a scrap on UQ St Lucia campus.

Two white parrots with blue skin around the eyes and pink around the bill having an apparent fight on a lawn. One bird has wings spread and is on top of the other, which is on its back on the ground. Their claws are grasping each others.

pharsicle, to random
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This Grey Butcherbird is one of a family that we feed in our front garden. I love the detail in the grey feathers.

pharsicle, to random
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Just hangin’ around!

#ownpic #WildOz #FlyingFox #bat

pharsicle, to random
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Young turk(ey). This one came up close so I took his portrait.

pharsicle, to random
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Enjoying a spud for breakfast!

You might like this, @alexpsmith.

Sulfur-crested Cockatoo in early morning light, against a grey sky, looking to the left. It is perched on a thick electricity wire with its right foot and holding a potato that it is eating in its left foot.

kcarruthers, to random
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Yesterday I was thinking I needed a new handbag with certain characteristics. But then I remembered I already own it. So I dug it out and gave it a polish.

@jodiem would be proud of me 🤣

pharsicle,
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@mpesce @stufromoz @kcarruthers @jodiem Moi aussi

GeePawHill, to random
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Here's a lovely thing.

"By and large", as in, "by and large, pizza is good", is a nautical expression, dating from the 18th shading back into the mists of the 17th century of English sailing ships.

"By" means "tending opposite the prevailing wind", and "large" means "tending with the prevailing wind".

So, "by and large" means "no matter which way your ship is headed relative to the wind".

I'm a poly-dork, and one of my dorkeries is language.

I cherish this fact.

Also, I cherish pizza.

pharsicle,
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@GeePawHill I reckon @grammargirl would love this (and probably knows about it already)!

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    pharsicle,
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    @decryption Are you listening to Amplio music?

    pharsicle,
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    @decryption Music for deaf people: https://ampliomusic.com/

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    i really enjoy https://archive.today

    pharsicle,
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    @josh @phocks A few redirects there!

    pharsicle, to brisbane
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    Go away, you big bully! Torresian Crow being swooped by a Willie Wagtail at Oxley Creek Common, .

    Swede1952, to ilaughed

    This is an image of an osprey that I took at Gulfport, Mississippi. It didn't come out very well. But here it is anyway.

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    @Swede1952 @Onlineadviser I didn’t get one!

    We were sitting at lunch overlooking the water today and I had decided to not take my camera.

    Only 10 m away, an osprey swooped and caught a fish near the surface, then flew away to its nest or roost on top of a building, pausing to shake water from its wings while in flight. I didn’t have my camera!

    We had seen it shortly before the swoop so I would have picked up my camera and had it ready. If I had taken it.

    pharsicle, to random
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    This handsome Yellow-tailed black cockatoo was enjoying her breakfast this morning when I passed by.

    pharsicle, to random
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    Found a couple of fans today.

    Rufus fantail with its tail fanned on grass in dappled sunlight.

    golgaloth, to climate
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    But seriously, what are we going to do to stop the impending extinction of the human race?

    pharsicle,
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    @golgaloth Please credit @jonkudelka for the cartoon.

    pharsicle, to brisbane
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    A rainbow lorikeet visiting our front garden yesterday.

    Parrot with green back, yellow nape, blue head, orange chest, red eye and red bill head-down in a bottlebrush tree, chewing on a red flower.

    briankrebs, to random

    One of the more limiting things about Signal is you have to give out your mobile number to everyone. Even if it is a burner, I still don't want to advertise to the world that it's mine.

    Was happy to read today that Signal is now beta testing a new username feature.

    https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866

    pharsicle,
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    @briankrebs @stufromoz Not requiring a phone number is what attracted me to Threema. But their cryptography is suspect, as I understand it.

    timbray, to photography
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    Autumnal.

    pharsicle,
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    @timbray The colours are wonderful in Seattle right now (photos soon). I’ll compare them to the Vancouver colours on Thursday when I get there.

    pharsicle, to random
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    You can check out any time you like …

    overcastfm, to random
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    Small blip in new-episode crawling this afternoon. Sorry about that!

    Fixed now — episodes should roll in over the next hour or so.

    pharsicle,
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    @overcastfm Thanks! I had wondered why some expected episodes were missing.

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