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#Victoria

Graham Palmer
8 hours ago

A David and Goliath scene - to encourage our climate campaigners to keep going. This Magpie was worried the Wedge Tail Eagle might be after its eggs - so it attacked. Makes a change from dive bombing humans! The Magpie flew rings around the Eagle - and saw it off.
#Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #DavidAndGoliath #Magpie #WedgeTailEagle #Australia #Victoria #BirdsOfMastodon #GymnorhinaTibicen #AquilaAudax

Magpie, Wedge Tail Eagle, battle, battle in flight, David And Goliath, blue sky, high in the sky,
Denis - The COVID info guy -
11 hours ago

Vic’s alarming long Covid cases, as fears rise over global spread of child ‘walking pneumonia’

"La Trobe University disease expert Dr Sarah Annesley said new data published by the Victorian Agency for Health Information had revealed a “high” 14% of people in the state who had suffered a Covid infection had gone to develop the illness."

#COVID19 #Victoria #LongCOVID @auscovid19

Source: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/vics-alarming-long-covid-cases-as-fears-rise-over-global-spread-of-child-walking-pneumonia/news-story/cf339005cd3dc2d793d490f73d9a1207

3DownNation 🤖
14 hours ago

Touchdown Pacific: B.C. Lions, Ottawa Redblacks to play CFL regular season game in Victoria

https://3downnation.com/2023/11/29/tou…

#BCLions #Lions #BC #Victoria #CFL

3DownNation 🤖
2 days ago

Touchdown Pacific: B.C. Lions, Ottawa Redblacks to play CFL regular season game in Victoria

https://3downnation.com/2023/11/29/tou…

#BCLions #BC #Victoria #Redblacks #CFL

Victoria legislating climate targets: Net zero by 2045.

📉 75-80% emissions reduction by 2035,
🌞 65% remewables by 2030,
🌞 95% renewables by 2035.
⚡ 2.6GW of energy storage capacity by 2030
⚡ 6.3 GW by 2035;
🌬️ offshore wind energy targets of at least 2 GW by 2032, 4 GW by 2035 and 9 GW by 2040.

#Victoria #ClimateTargets #Renewables #COP28
https://climateactionmerribek.org/2023/11/30/victoria-legislating-2035-climate-targets-net-zero-by-2045/

Nancy Marguerite Anderson
2 days ago

THE HBC BRIGADES, BLOGPOST:
In the HBC's New Caledonia (that is, north central #BritishColumbia), club law reigned. Everyone bashed everyone, and while Governor George Simpson disapproved, as did Chief Factor John McLoughlin. But Chief Factor James Douglas approved, and he also bashed his Fort #Victoria employees... #VictoriaBC #BCHistory #VancouverWA #HBCHistory #Blogpost http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/club-law/

A coloured drawing of an HBC post, with houses crowded behind palisades, around an open square. This is Fort Nisqually, on Puget Sound.
Gabriel Morency 🤖
3 days ago

BC Lions to play CFL regular-season game in #Victoria next summer #CFL https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-l…

Mary-Anne
3 days ago

A pretty cool sky in #Bendigo
#Victoria #Australia

Landscape with dark clouds, spires on the horizon and trees in the foreground
Nancy Marguerite Anderson
3 days ago

THE HBC BRIGADES, BLOGPOST:
In 1853, Thomas Lowe's brother, James, arrived in San Francisco and then toured through #Washington and Vancouver Island, meeting all the HBC men who were important to his future business with his brother. You learn lots about how *British* these HBC men were at Fort #Victoria were! #BritishColumbia #VictoriaBC #BCHistory #WAHistory #Blogpost http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/james-lowe/

This is what these fur trade forts looked like, with buildings crowding the inside of the palisades, placed around a central square.
fuselage
5 days ago

Found Darebin Creek in #ivanhoe #Victoria the place to be!

Darebin Creek at the Darebin creek footbridge. A creek and some lovely stone formations in the creek.

Cows running along the hills in Soumah Valley Victoria
#soumah #victoria #melbourne #cows #landscape #travel #photography #olympus

Green fields with cloudy skies and cows on the horizon
Graham Palmer
1 week ago

Saint Andrews Cross spiders are just as pretty from below as they are from above - this is is a female underbelly.
#Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Spider #Underbelly #StAndrewsCross #Macro #MacroPhotography #ArgiopeAetherea #Victoria #Australia

spider, pretty spider, colourful spider, cross web, Saint Andrews Cross spider, black background
Denis - The COVID info guy -
1 week ago

Warning ‘almost every family’ will face COVID in coming months.

"Hundreds of Victorians have been hospitalised from Covid in just one week — and 145 people have died in the most recent 28-day reporting period — yet the wave has likely not peaked."

#COVID19 #Victoria #Australia #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/horror-number-of-victorian-covid-deaths-hospitalisations-in-past-week/news-story/2bae4c5babc1c59d0a11baafee5ea76e

Nancy Marguerite Anderson
1 week ago

THE HBC BRIGADES, BLOGPOST:
In the Fort Langley Miscellaneous files from HBCA, I discovered a list of grass seeds ordered from England and sown along the brigade trail, to provide feed for the horses on the next year's journey. They were delivered by canoe from Fort #Victoria to #FortLangley, and were I presume, scattered along the trail. #BCHistory #BritishColumbia #FortLangley #Blogpost http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/grasses/

A few long grasses stick up out of the layer of snow that covers the mountain trail they were strewn on. In the background, snow covered trees.
Mike Nelson Pedde
1 week ago

If you live in the greater Victoria, BC area, a photographer friend is arranging photo dates with Santa at your home or place of choice.

#photo #photography #yyj #Victoria #BC #SantaClaus #christmas

An image of Santa in front of a fireplace, along with photography rates (starting at $125/hour) and contact information:

contact@inphoto.ca / 250-508-4099
Damien Hurrell
1 week ago

My #union - the union that represents 100,000 #Nurses and #Midwives in #Victoria #Australia has just made a statement calling for an end to violence in the Middle East, and encouraging members to donate through the union-run international aid organisation #APHEDA

#PeaceisUnionBusiness

https://otr.anmfvic.asn.au/articles/anmf-statement-anmf-calls-for-ceasefire-and-leadership-towards-peace/

Mike Nelson Pedde
1 week ago

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!
(in Victoria...)

#photo #photography #yyj #Victoria #BC #JamesBay #flowers #cyclamen #BCLegislature #bloomscrolling

A close-up image of a clump of recently-planted red cyclamen - bright red flowers and variagated green leaves shocased against a dark brown topsoil background. Quite festive!
Denis - The COVID info guy -
2 weeks ago

🇦🇺 Australia, Victoria: ‘Matter of life or death’: How sick Victorians can’t get COVID jabs

"New COVID vaccines will be rolled out next month, as vulnerable Victorians report being forced to shop around for a jab. One Melbourne man considered flying to the US just for a booster"

#COVID19 #Australia #Victoria @auscovid19

Source: https://heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/matter-of-life-or-death-for-me-melbourne-man-82-who-could-not-get-covid-booster-considered-flying-to-us-to-be-jabbed/news-story/8faf121c97951624db2d202703b363bf

Mary-Anne
2 weeks ago

Kind and thoughtful Mastodoners, please be aware Black Friday can be a sensitive term in Australia. We have catastrophic bushfires too regularly.
In 2009 Black Saturday killed 173 and destroyed houses and wildlife on the fringes of Melbourne and other places. My lovely boss fought all night to save her house and suffered survivor guilt.
In 1983 Ash Wednesday killed 47 and for several hours I didn't know if my parents were OK. A reporter in the Adelaide Hills broadcast the destruction of his own house.
In 1939 Black Friday killed 71 and forest settlements were permanently abandoned. My mother remembered as a 6 year old running home from school terrified.
So please be aware.
Sending love.
#Australia #Victoria #Melbourne #BlackFriday

BC Info Bot
2 weeks ago
Graham Palmer
2 weeks ago

Ivy Leaved Violets are an early Spring flower - so they would be well and truly finished by now. This photo is to remind you how pretty they are. They flower in late Winter or early Spring, so the ground is nice and wet. An eye level photo means lying in the mud!
#Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildflower #FlowersOfMastodon #MacroPhotography #ViolaHederacea #VioletFlower #Victoria #Australia

Flower, Violet flower, flower close up, wildflower, Spring wildflower, Ivy Leaved Violet, purple and white flower, macro photo
Phoenix.Serenity
2 weeks ago

I don't use IG anymore. A friend who uses it sent me a screenshot from a local photojournalist, Mike Graeme. I'm familiar with him from old growth activism - he documented a lot of the actions on the island. He stealthy got a photo of me with my #peace & #ceasefire signs at the #FreePalestine #Victoria #protest & march on Nov. 12.

#StopTheBombs #HumanRights #PalestinianLivesMatter

Wearing purple Winter jacket, purple faux leather pants & purple leather boots. Sitting on steps in front of BC legislature building & holding a sign that says: Vietnam War Survivor For Peace!
Mary-Anne
3 weeks ago

On my way to North Northcote :)
My Vline train has fold down tables yay!

#Victoria #TrainTravel #train

View outside train window to tracks and colourful office building west of Southern Cross station
The Saanich Daily
3 weeks ago

I wish I had heard about this one. Way to go #Victoria #yyj #ceasefire

Kris Inwood
3 weeks ago

The concentration of market power & changing spatial footprint of Australian brewing 1870-1900 is dissected by Declan Martin, Gavin Wood & Liz Taylor in the latest issue of @APEHR, the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.
Open access!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12262
@economics @demography @socialscience @sts @industrialorganization @politicalscience @geography @transportecon @anthropology @econhist @devecon @networks @networkscience #history #histodons #Oz #bizhis #Victoria #pub #beer #ale #railway

Graham Palmer
3 weeks ago

Sometimes a cockatoo will give a cute pose you just can’t resist - like this one! Australian Sulphur Crested Cockatoo in a dead tree.
#Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Bird #BirdsOfMastodon #Parrot #Cockatoo #SulphurCrested #CutePose #CacatuaGalerita #Victoria #Australia

Cockatoo, Parrot, White Cockatoo, White Parrot, Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, yellow crest, dead tree, cute pose,
Ed Wiebe
3 weeks ago

The first four months of power generated by our 4.2 kW #solar PV array has 'saved' us $158. Let's say, has reduced our electricity bill rather than saved for now. It'll take quite a while to pay for itself.

We're heading into the darkest time of year in Greater #Victoria #SaanichBC

The Streets of Melbourne
3 weeks ago

A shallow creek running through the deep bush, in #Blackwood #Victoria #Australia on this fine Spring day.

Ferns and #gumtrees adorned this space for hundreds of square kilometres… thriving in their natural habitat.

Earlier, #kookaburras were heard ringing out amongst the tree tops.

Blue Wrens flitted throughout the trees.

And no other person was around, for miles.

This is kinda Heaven on Earth!

Sound up!!

#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #MostLiveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #downunder #makesmehappy

The Streets of Melbourne
3 weeks ago

#Blackwood, #Victoria is home to these gorgeous orange flowering native shrubs.

Found it tough to identify these, therefore if anyone knows what they are, please enlighten us!

They were in abundance… we’re in late Spring here.

The backdrop of gorgeous gums completed the scene.

Just gorgeous!

#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #MostLiveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #downunder #makesmehappy

Nando161
3 weeks ago

Member of #public bashed and arrested by #police for helping a #protester to her feet.

:acab: :acab2: :acabkitty: :clowncop: :nocops: :pig_cop: :txt_eff_the_cops:

#australia #vicpol #vicgov #melbourne #victoria #victoriapolice #AllCopsAreBastards #acab #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #classwar #eattherich

Member of public bashed and arrested by police for helping a protester to her feet.
Mike Nelson Pedde
3 weeks ago

Not many flowers this time of year, but a few. Still, there are so many wonderful colours in the leaves and berries!!

#photo #photography #yyj #Victoria #BC #JamesBay #autumn #leaves #japanesebarberry #berries #bloomscrolling

A close-up image of Japanese Barberry (Berberis thunbergii). The leaves are small and pear-shaped, in clusters, but ranging from bright green to yellow to pale purple. The berries are also small, and bright red in contrast.
Tim Richards
4 weeks ago

New at my Patreon... I board the Grainlander, a heritage train heading to the Mallee region for silo art, movies projected on silos, and art made from spanners:

Moving trains and moving pictures in the Mallee https://www.patreon.com/posts/moving-trains-in-92313586

#RailTravel #TrainTravel #Train #Trains #SleeperTrain #Victoria #Australia

Sleeper berths in a heritage class timber compartment, within a century-old carriage.
Single sleeper berth within a steel carriage, formerly part of the Southern Aurora sleeper train.
Curving corridor down the middle of a steel sleeper carriage, formerly part of the Southern Aurora train.
CLondoner92 (New Account)
4 weeks ago

#Transport for #London (#TfL) Bus Changes:
Victoria bus station/Terminus Place

From Monday 13 November 2023, #Victoria bus station and Terminus Place will be closed for about 6 weeks for essential works to improve pedestrian safety and #accessibility.
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/buses/bus-changes

Victoria bus station closure map - November/December 2023
Chis-R 🐟
4 weeks ago

The Monday before Cup Day, a weird annual ritual for Victoria where the cities are just that little bit quiet (since everyone's headed out for a proper 4-day weekend) and whoever is left "working" because they didn't take leave is only half-working at best.

Clients aren't around, half my co-workers aren't available, so there will be a bit of thumb-twiddling today for sure.

#Melbourne #Victoria #Australia

Tim Richards
1 month ago

Good morning from somewhere in the Mallee, aboard the Grainlander. Just back from seeing some enormous statues made from spanners. Yes that's right, spanners. :) More next week in https://www.patreon.com/timrichards

#RailTravel #TrainTravel #Train #Trains #Victoria

View of dry wheat fields and a shed through a train carriage window.
Denis - The COVID info guy -
1 month ago

Hospital pressure as 'exponential increase' of COVID hits Ballarat.

"We've got people in hospital as a result of COVID, and people coming in with something else who test positive to COVID," Dr Grenfell said.

"It's a timely reminder the pandemic hasn't finished yet, which means that now is the time to do what we know we should - if you are sick, test, stay home until you're well and if you're going into a crowded space and don't want to catch COVID, wear a mask."

#COVID19 #Victoria #Ballarat #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/8410983/exponential-increase-of-covid-in-ballarat-as-wave-eight-arrives/?cs=62

Chris Merle
1 month ago

You've probably heard about the infamous 11-foot-8 bridge in Durham, North Carolina, but did you know there's an equally infamous 3 meter bridge in Melbourne, Australia?

https://youtu.be/HR7NivKqfzo

#Durham #11Foot8Bridge #USA #NorthCarolina #Melbourne #3MeterBridge #Australia #Victoria

"You've really got to be a dickhead in ignoring every sign to hit a bridge." - Luke Donnellan, Roads Minister
Tim Richards
1 month ago

Now it can be revealed... this weekend I'm off on 707 Operations' 'Grainlander' train to the Mallee, featuring silo art and the added treat of a movie projected onto wheat silos at Quambatook. Should be fun. :)

More here: https://www.slowrailjourneys.com.au/post/the-grainlander-to-quambatook-and-the-acclaimed-silo-cinema

#RailTravel #TrainTravel #Train #Trains #Victoria #Australia cc @austrains @seatsixtyone

Graham Palmer
1 month ago

These little beauties are Twining Fringe Lillies - much smaller than their namesake Fringe Lily - but much prettier. They are a ground creeper with tiny flowers, so hands and knees are needed!
#Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Macro #Wildflowers #FlowersOfMastodon #BloomScrolling #ThysanotusPatersonii #MacroPhotography #Victoria #Australia

wildflowers, tiny flowers, purple flowers, creeper, macro photo, Fringe Lily, Twining Fringe Lily, fringed petals
Paul Lalonde
1 month ago

A demonstration this Friday to try to avoid spending $6M taxpayer dollars on an unneeded eradication: https://sidmsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Oct29_SidneyIslandDeer_Handout-v2.pdf
#victoria #yyj #fallowdeer

Jesse
1 month ago

If you read this article and didn't know what the recent tenancy law changes were then you'd think they were a great burden on landlords.

But when you actually know what the tenancy law changes were you can really see these arseholes telling on themselves.

#Renting #Melbourne #Victoria #HousingCrisis

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-22/victoria-landlords-investment-properties-selling-rentals-taxes/103002408

Victoria rattled by magnitude 5 earthquake
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/victoria-rattled-by-magnitude-5-earthquake-20231022-p5ee1m.html

The earthquake occurred around 2am. We slept through it. Bit bigger than the occasional tremors we get around here, but no harm done.
<insert meme here: photo of white plastic garden chair toppled on its side>

#Melbourne #MelbourneEarthquake #Victoria #VictoriaEarthquake #CapeOtway #GreatOceanRoad

Nancy Marguerite Anderson
1 month ago

@ingalls Yes, it sure was raining here today. #Victoria #BC

NathanaelCBR
2 months ago

All #bushfires in #Victoria are now down to ADVICE level, and all the WATCH AND ACT alert level incidents are for flooding

Downshift 🍁
2 months ago

Hand cyclist Kevin Mills is the first quadriplegic person to cycle 8,400 km across Canada, coast-to-coast, from Cape Spear Lighthouse in Newfoundland to Victoria’s Ogden Point Breakwater Lighthouse.

#amazing #fantastic #kevinmills #capespear #newfoundland #ogdenpoint #victoria #britishcolumbia #cyclist #handcyclist #canada #coasttocoast #quadriplegic

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-kevin-mills-quadriplegic-cyclist/

The Streets of Melbourne
2 months ago

#Mckinnon, #Australia is home to this beautiful #WisteriainSensis, commonly known as the Chinese wisteria.

It drapes beautifully over a rear fence, backing onto a public reserve.

Gorgeous, huh?!

🙏💜

#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #MostLiveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #downunder #makesmehappy

Graham Palmer
2 months ago

A star of our Spring flowers - Blue Star. I took this in late September a few years ago, so I’m guessing they’re probably finished by now. They really are that shade of blue - no Photoshop used!
#Photography #Nature #BlueStar #NaturePhotography #Wildflower #SpringWildflower #FlowersOfMastodon #BloomScrolling #Victoria #Australia #ChamaescillaCorymbosa

Blue Flower, Blue Star, Spring Flower, Deep blue flower, Yellow Stamens
NathanaelCBR
2 months ago

Daylight Savings starts for #ACT #Canberra #NSW #Victoria #Tasmania #SA this Sunday.

Daylight saving is not observed in Queensland, the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

The Streets of Melbourne
2 months ago

What a lovely display this morning, here in #Mckinnon, #Australia!

This magnificent #WisteriainSensis, commonly known as the Chinese wisteria, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family, native to China.

I’m in Love with these 🙏💜💜

#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #MostLiveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #downunder #makesmehappy

Zeb King 🇨🇦
2 months ago

1/ Day #2 at #UBCM Talk about Community Health Centres, which are run by non-profit societies or co-ops. They tackle all determinants of health through teams. One of the oldest in BC is the CoolAid society. CHC exists in places like #Victoria, #Kamloops #GalianoIdlsland #Sooke . Funding model is tenuous - grants, fundraising, etc. ED Valerie St John advocates for a greater role for CHC. Video "I think CHCs are the future. They should be."
#yyj

Graham Palmer
3 months ago

Milkmaids are another common Spring flower in Victoria, Australia - and they're coming very soon!
#Photography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildflowers #FlowersOfMastodon #BloomScrolling #BurchardiaUmbellata #Victoria #Australia

Milkmaids flowers, White flowers, Spring flowers, wildflowers, black background, close up
Jesse
3 months ago

Crowded trains are a government choice. Trains are really efficient and cheap to run. You have to severely under fund trains for them to be crowded.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/12/find-a-spot-on-the-floor-overcrowding-complaints-grow-as-victorians-take-advantage-of-rail-fare-cap

#Victoria #SpringSt #PublicTransport

Jesse
3 months ago

A rational road policy would be to reduce the speed limit to 60km/hr until road works can be done to widened the road shoulder to make it safer.

Under normal conditions a driver encountering a cyclist on this road is going to need to slow from 80km/hr to 20 km/hr immediately upon seeing the cyclist as the road isn't wide enough to safely overtake.

Minimum stopping distance at 80 km/hr is 65 metres. Some corners on this road don't provide that distance of visibility (which is why overtaking isn't allowed on this road).

#vicpol #bicycles #RoadSafety #springSt #victoria

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-06/calls-for-mandurang-road-upgrade-cyclists-hit-killed/102817162

Google maps screenshot showing a corner on  Mandurang road(at the intersection with Pentlands Rd), and a measuring line of 65 metre showing that visibility around that corner is less than 65metres.
John Cassidy
3 months ago

Time flies!
Today marks 125 years of seismic recording of #earthquakes in #Victoria, Canada!
On September 3, 1898, a Milne #seismograph began operation in the basement of the old Customs House building on the Victoria waterfront. It was one of the first seismographs in Canada (and one of very few operating in the world at the time):
http://science.gc.ca/eic/site/063.nsf/eng/97237.html…

Photo of the Milne seismograph that began operation in Victoria, Canada on September 3, 1898.
The Streets of Melbourne
3 months ago

Simple pleasures…

Whatever you’re doing today, make it a goodun!

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

#confucius

🙏💖

#narrm #melbourne #victoria #Australia #downunder #makesmehappy

Auscandoc
3 months ago

Why Victoria’s #PublicHealth restrictions weren’t in vain | Burnet Institute https://www.burnet.edu.au/knowledge-and-media/news-plus-updates/why-victoria-s-public-health-restrictions-weren-t-in-vain/
#BurnetInstitute modelling of #Victoria’s public health restrictions found that the measures employed from August to November 2021, including the #Delta variant lockdown, averted more than 120,000 hospital admissions and prevented more than 5000 deaths.” #Covid