AnAustralianPhotographer

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[–] AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The details of the Boulton Paul Defiant mk1 might be floating around somewhere... And a Catalina too.

Some owners were tamer. Burnouts weren't required. They sometimes had a parade through the city, blocking off streets and cops as part of it. I did notice at the end of it was a truck with a tilt tray so a break down of a car just doing 40-50kmph along a city road was planned for.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Might not be what your after, but the cars I'll point you to run well ... Until they don't.

We have an annual car show over here, have a search for "Summernats" for videos. They have a burn out pad where you can melt some tyres.

Some people restore cars and take them there for show. Some have excellent paint jobs , but a typical Summernats one has more horsepower than the original. This usually leads to a few redlining on the pad and exceeding a limit so that they catch fire or can't be driven home.

Or at least, so I've heard...

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

And Dave likes free USB sticks.

This is just the warm up. HAL 9000 is up next.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not a bad option. A service call from the NASAA would take over a week. Easily.

Is that a 1st edition Chonk Chart?. Didn't know they went back that far.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The Swedish Chef. I only have some of the ingredients to his chocolate moose recipe .

I'm just now realizing it's Sesame Street.... Well it's my favourite from the expanded Sesame St Cinematic Universe.

Spiral is my favourite pre-Escher period staircase type.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mmm. Dimmies. Nicely shot too..

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 44 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Did I fail to mention my previous character had many siblings?

USA tests novel ASW attack platform.

 

I tried, but when I clicked create, it didn't proceed or give an error message, more details below.

I'm looking to create a new community, so i clicked on the 'Create Community' button on the top.

I entered in a community name (all lowercase, no spaces) and then a display name.

I added a short description and selected english.

I clicked create and got a hourglass like icon for about a second and then nothing. A new page didnt appear, i checked my profile and cannot see the new community name.

I checked a post a few hours ago in Lemmy World support and someone else is having trouble.

Ive also tried on two devices, desktop & mobile.

p.s. on mobile there is a issue that could result in butting heads where if you hover over the create community textbox it gives text of 'lowercase, underscores and no spaces' but these constrains are not listed in the ? next to Create community. When i was on mobile i wasnt able to get the hovertext and if it was my first time creating a community, i may not have been able to see this info.

Thanks.

 

Was out on a walk earlier today and wanted to do something sort of Christmas related and try and help people pass on virtual presents in the form of community suggestions.

What is a community you think more people should be subscribed to and why?

My answer is https://lemmy.world/c/superbowl ( Superb Owl, not Superbowl. It's a community about birds, not americal football) and there is frequently high quality images of owls posted which I find cute and I wish I could take shots like that. P.s. I know birds aren't everyone's thing, but I wanted to use it as an example.

And I the community is NSFW but the name isn't obvious, flag it as NSFW.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23520195

I was out recently noticed two Tawnys in a tree, i was surpirsed as the last i saw any was around a year ago and it was just one where i’d always seen two together.

These two looked very tired. The one on the left was more awake and i felt like i was being glared at. ‘Dude, I’m watching you, I don’t like you and if you come closer, we might have to move, and we really, really don’t want to do that’.

So i came close enough to get this shot and left them in peace but am keeping an eye out for them the next time in the area.

 

I was out recently noticed two Tawnys in a tree, i was surpirsed as the last i saw any was around a year ago and it was just one where i’d always seen two together.

These two looked very tired. The one on the left was more awake and i felt like i was being glared at. ‘Dude, I’m watching you, I don’t like you and if you come closer, we might have to move, and we really, really don’t want to do that’.

So i came close enough to get this shot and left them in peace but am keeping an eye out for them the next time in the area.

 

Mods: Sorry if this doesnt fit the sub, but I think people commonly mistake Tawny's for Owls, and they're the closest animals to owls Im likely to see. The image is Original Content (taken by me). Let me know and i'll post to birding or just pics.

I was out recently noticed two Tawnys in a tree, i was surpirsed as the last i saw any was around a year ago and it was just one where i'd always seen two together.

These two looked very tired. The one on the left was more awake and i felt like i was being glared at. 'Dude, I'm watching you, I don't like you and if you come closer, we might have to move, and we really, really don't want to do that'.

So i came close enough to get this shot and left them in peace but am keeping an eye out for them the next time in the area.

 

Hi Lemmy.World Admins and Support Staff,

I like this place a lot and wanted to give you a heads up pollies down under passed some new laws.

The govt wants a ban on social media for everyone under 16. This week was the last sitting week of parliament and a few bills were passed by both houses and are set to become law. (See link).

I'm not after any immediate reaction or actions, but looking to bring it to your attention for you to discuss (edit:internally) how you would react. I haven't seen the legislation and don't know how this is meant to be mechanized and it seems pretty hard to do.

Some other tech giants have already made statements as this appears to be a worldwide first.

Edit: I might have a look at the laws text and put some details here as a comment

-AnAustralianPhotographer

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13133290

Another cockatoo was also eating in another tree. I got the feeling they knew they were being photographed, but one of them screeched an alarm shortly after and the whole group flew off. I saw a flock well over a hundred flying around the suburb later that day.

 

Another cockatoo was also eating in another tree. I got the feeling they knew they were being photographed, but one of them screeched an alarm shortly after and the whole group flew off. I saw a flock well over a hundred flying around the suburb later that day.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13130743

As I was walking past, i saw the three Sulphur Crested Cockatoos on the street light and I lined up to get a shot of them early in the morning, but i didnt expect the two magpie-larks to photobomb the shot.

 

As I was walking past, i saw the three Sulphur Crested Cockatoos on the street light and I lined up to get a shot of them early in the morning, but i didnt expect the two magpie-larks to photobomb the shot.

 

Behind the Sydney Opera House is Circular Quay, which is the hub of ferry traffic in the harbour. There's also private vessels, cruise ships, , a floating bar and the occasional military vessel.

There are several classes of ferry in the fleet, including rivercats (on the left) which have a shallow draft as they travel up the river to Paramatta.

The largest class of Sydney Ferry are the Freshwater class which travels to Manly and back near the Sydney Heads which can lead to a bumpy ride if there's a swell.

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