S. K. Riley
Writer, PhD, gardener, educator, tree planter, and so forth.
www.skriley-author.com
Lover of Australian wildlife, re-wilding, mythology, music, cinema and democracy. 🇦🇺
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- These brushtail possums get into everything, are incredibly cheeky, and detested and admired in equal measure by farmers and gardeners. They make a nice change to hearing about the latest world horror! #turnoff #wildlife #Tasmania #Australia #goodnews
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- Purple seems to be a lovely way to end a week. If I was going to pick a colour it would be this or orange. I hope everyone enjoys their day 😊 *Purple leadwort Cape leadwort Lead vine Blister bush Blue plumbago Cape plumbago. #Photography #Australia #MacroPhotography #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin
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- Archaeologists find evidence of Hannibal's war elephants www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/arch...
- "It's not sexist. Roger Ailes used to tell us that." 😭
- I learned about Roger Ailes's sexual harassment from Megyn Kelly!!
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- William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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- Socialism built your roads, it built your rail, it built your healthcare, it built your power stations and power lines, it built your houses. Everything that works was built by socialism, everything that doesn't work is owned by capitalism.
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- The new 'highly transmissible' COVID-19 variant: what Aussies need to know NB.1.8.1, an Omicron sub-lineage, is now widespread across Australia. It is highly transmissible, spreads faster than earlier Omicron variants, has a shorter incubation period, and causes a sharp, stabbing sore throat early.
- So weird how this keeps happening. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...
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- I don't talk about it often enough, probably, but a few times a year I'll bring this up. Ppl RIGHTLY talk about the disproportionate abuse that cops target at black men, but Deaf ppl get **even more** abuse bc cops hate it when you don't obey, even if you have no way to hear their commands.
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- “Zane T was mowing the lawn outside the shop when he saw the #crocodile's head pop out of the water… Dylan put a rope around its neck 2 pull it out b/e we didn't want it 2 get hurt. He then asked if anyone could help secure the reptile &, when nobody else volunteered, Ms Wehipeihana stepped in…”
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- Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
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- The Supreme Court now understands the need for an enforcement mechanism for ethical obligations. Not for the President or for their own code of ethics, of course; this is more of a “snitches get stitches” enforcement for staff members. www.rawstory.com/supreme-cour...
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- Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today
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- "The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference" "there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies" "2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year" A win!
- gifting this article because it made me laugh, which is hard to do in this context. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/n...
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