Sorry for the late reply and thanks for the question,

The Australian 2024 national defence strategy says this: “Our Alliance with the US remains fundamental to Australia’s national security. We will continue to deepen and expand our defence engagement with the US, including by pursuing greater scientific, technological and industrial cooperation, as well as enhancing our cooperation under force posture initiatives”

US has these military facilities in Australia (and more secret ones):

“Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station – located near Kojarena 30 km east of Geraldton, Western Australia. Other U.S. bases in Australia are present and this list does not include ADF bases with U.S. access. The U.S. military has access to many ADF training areas, northern Australian RAAF airfields, port facilities in Darwin, Fremantle, Stirling naval base in Perth, and the airfield on the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean.” Wikipedia

US also has a Rotational U.S. Army, Navy Presence where they bring their submarines and provide financial benefits to many military services they can use (RAAF bases and the assisting in manufacturing of missiles and other weapons). There are 2500 US marines on permanent rotation

According to US gov “The United States is Australia’s defense goods and services partner of choice” and “The U.S. has over $27 billion in active government-to-government sales cases with Australia” most of Australias military equipment comes from the US including their nuclear submarines

Also most aggregiously

“As documented by CIA whistleblower Christopher John Boyce and several authors, including John Pilger,[7][4][6] as well as some Australian politicians,[8] the CIA allegedly backed Governor-General and representative of Queen Elizabeth II in Australia, Kerr, to dismiss Whitlam, due to Whitlam’s perceived left-wing policies[3] including Australian withdrawal from the Vietnam War, as well as his views on Australian sovereignty.[3] His conflict with the CIA is alleged[3] to have come to a head when he discovered several CIA-led operations occurring in Australia and overseas conducted by ASIO and ASIS, leading him to threaten cancellation of the lease on the Pine Gap facility, ending the US-led (nominally joint) operation, which was integral to the CIA’s signals interception operations in the southern hemisphere”

"In a statement to parliament on 3 April 1974, Whitlam said: “The Australian government takes the attitude that there should not be foreign military bases, stations, installations in Australia.”

He was then sacked and replaced by a more agreeing pm by the CIA Wikipedia

There are also numerous traid agreements that leads to Australia relying on US for a lot of its financial security (though it relies on China and Japan as well). And also many Australian companys are US owned/funded

This is all the research I have time to do but there are many, many more examples of American interference and control.

Edit: also America controls most of Australian media including News Corp Australia (owns most newspapers and News Corp is also the controlling shareholder of Foxtel and it owns Sky News in Australia. And much more)

also the American controlled ABC is the most visited site In Australia. And controls a lot of other media

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/how-much-influence-does-the-murdoch-media-have-in-australia-20201015-p565dk.html

What a cute little vacuum cleaner

I mean if you chose a bamboo variety that loves it outside but hates it inside then it will be a big challenge to keep them alive inside (most bamboos you see growing outside won’t like it inside)

My Earina Autumnalis orchid flowered I have also got lots of other plants Im proud of, but I’m away from home so this is the only photo I’ve got.

Your terrarium is looking beautiful! I’m planning on making a large cooled terrarium for alpine plants sometime. All my current tereriums are small so it will be quite a challenge.

As the fungi are wood eaters and their bioluminescents is likely based on their metabolic activity (and is possibly related to the breaking down of lignin in wood) Im just trying to keep the rewarewa branches in conditions similar as to in the bush to be optimal for this fungi’s growth and metabolism. so I am trying to replicate the optimal conditions of the bush, humid, not to hot but still warm (to not encourage hot loving fungi taking over while still maximising metabolism of the fungi I want). I have had the branches in these conditions for a while now. While the mycelium of lots of different fungi are now present, non of it appears to glow.

also I haven’t had any mushrooms growing and some of our bioluminescent fungi only have bioluminescents in there stem (such as Mycena roseoflava) so yea no luck so far in finding bioluminescent fungi in the first place.

When I do find some I will have some petri dishes with Malt Extract Agar in them and will try and transfer it over, I don’t no if it will glow in these conditions but can always feed it sterilised branches if it needs to be breaking down lignin to glow.

All of this being sucsesfull is very wishful thinking on my part, It probably won’t work this time, but hopefully I will learn enough to get it to work eventually.

Plan B is to go after rain to one of our rainforests in hopes of finding some and transfering it to a Petri dish.

Feel free to ignore me but:

Alfred “Alfie” Joseph

Bengiman “Bengie” Oliver

Maya Oliver

Persephone “Percy” Elm

• in greek mythology Persephone was taken by hades (in an unwanted arranged marriage of sorts arranged by her father zues) to control the underworld with him, becoming the queen of the underworld. her mother sad to lose her causes winter and apon Persephones return to her mum every year, summer returns.

Also

“The myth of a goddess being abducted and taken to the underworld is probably Pre-Greek in origin. Samuel Noah Kramer, the renowned scholar of ancient Sumer, has posited that the Greek story of the abduction of Persephone may be derived from an ancient Sumerian story in which Ereshkigal, the ancient Sumerian goddess of the underworld, is abducted by Kur, the primeval dragon of Sumerian mythology, and forced to become ruler of the underworld against her own will.” Wikipedia

I also like the name lucida

These are just random names that popped into my head just before sleeping so feel free to ignore or pluck what you like (also I spent way longer thinking about the first names then the last names so I’m not set on my last names)

Wdym Australia last, they are practically controlled by the US already

I’m preparing to grow some enoki in autumn as they prefer the cool (autumn is pretty soon where I live), until then I’m trying to culture fungi found in the rotting wood of rewarewa (naturally fallen branches), as I have heard that bioluminescent fungi can occasionally grow in it. No luck so far, I guess I will have to look elsewhere

I really don’t understand the allure of Kiss launcher, but I guess its not for me.

I’m trying out heliboard since everyone is recommending it. It does seem very good. Might be my new main keyboard.

And I will definitely try out antenna pod as you give it so much praise

Thanks for your recommendations, also btw your auxio link links to aves instead of auxio

Thanks for sharing your favorites, I will definitely try some of them out.

I have tried Kvaesitso launcher before, However as I don’t use many widgets I really don’t think it was made for me. (the only widget I use is the music widget and I can access that via a notification)

Also in terms of notes apps, I really need something that syncs effortlessly with no setting up required (preferably for free). My notes app is probably my most important app I use, and I need it to not need both devices to be active to sync (which Syncthing does need).

SimpleNote fullfills all of these requirements. My only problem with it is it’s poor markdown implementation.

I still love syncthing for other things and I also use what I think is your favorite notes app for non on-the-go notes and to copy in important simplenote notes. As it has much better markdown then simplenote and better organization features and local storage of files.

Thanks, I’m trying out NewPipe right now but haven’t quit got the hang of it, though Im not giving up yet, I just don’t feel I can rank it yet.

Also i agree those Fossify apps are great that’s why I included the Fossify suite in A tier. I realise now that maybe they arent all A tier so Here’s my ranking of Fossify apps that fits in with the prior ranking:

Low S tier: Contacts, phone, SMS messenger

A tier: Gallary, file manager, Calendar, Clock, calculator

B tier: paint, voice recorder, keyboard, camera, launcher

Haven’t used enough to rank: notes - no sync and no markdown :( Music player - just haven’t used it much

Its outdoors, it can be to warm inside for these orchids to be happy

5 is probabably Asplenium monanthes due to the shape of the leaves and singular sori (info from http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200004143)

Also your photos are so beautiful

Thank you, it’s native to New Zealand. I am growing it on spagnum (spagnum seeweed mix), the spagnum is dried, not killed, so it does not rot easily and may grow again if kept in the right conditions.

The spagnum is also apparently sustainably harvested in New Zealand. however I have my doubts on how sustainable it actually is, so Im trying to grow future batches myself (grows so slow, and im pretty bad at re-aliving it)

Thabk you! I love them to.

Thank you! I was so happy when I saw flowers with the new shoots. I think it loves it there now :)

Yea I was quite amazed when I found out about it to, ferns are so fascinating. Please share with me anything you find in your research, there is still a lot more for me to learn aboat ferns and I would love to know whatever you find.

More on the wild side I love bilberrys! and they are native to the UK. Delicious and great garden decor

It emerged from fortunate accident alongside a stream in the middle of a forest