Tim Hollo

@timhollo

Climate, democracy, ecology, music, dad jokes Author of “Living Democracy: an ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it.” Blogging at He/they On stolen Ngunnuwal land

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Tim Hollo@timhollo· 4d

Sweeping leaves this morning, this person came to join me. We had a lovely chat as they followed me around, finding tasty delights I was leaving behind.

A magpie stands proudly on red paving bricks, observing the recently swept oak leaves

Magpie crouches towards red paving bricks, about to grab a little snack left behind after my sweeping leaves

Tim Hollo@timhollo· 6d

EJ Swift’s “When There Are Wolves Again” is as beautiful and brilliant a piece of climate literature as I’ve ever read. And I’ve read a lot. It’s also a real a telling of what it feels like to be an activist in a broken and breaking world as I’ve read. I felt very seen. Do read it.

Lovely cover, too. A wolf, sort of in a cage but they’re also maybe trees?

Tim Hollo@timhollo· 25d

I was lucky enough to get to watch a gorgeous little flame robin playing in the trees up on O’Connor Ridge today. Check it out mid-dive on the third photo!

A tiny flash of bright red against the pale blue sky between the boughs of a leaning gum tree

A tall grey gum against a backdrop of gum leaves and a pale blue sky. Halfway up the tree is a tiny bird with a black head and bright red breast

Tall gums, blue sky. If you zoom in, you can see a tiny bird mid dive, with a bright red breast

Tim Hollo@timhollo· 28d

Fresh snow. Fresh footprint. 51 cycles round the sun.

A single perfect bare footprint in perfect fresh snow.

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Jul 20

Back on Ngarigo country, my favourite place. So ridiculously warm for mid winter, with not much snow for the snow gums. But still just stunningly beautiful. Good for the soul.

A magnificent snow gum, eucalyptus pauciflora, with colourful stripy bark, grass poking through snow, blue sky behind

Extraordinary sunset colours - salmon pink clouds, darkening blue sky, silhouettes of trees over snowy hills

Magnificent trunk of eucalyptus pauciflora, snow gum, with snow around it, and undergrowth peeking through around it

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Jul 9

Jillian Segal is absolutely living up to her role as Antisemitism Envoy. Every time she says something like this, she increases antisemitism in Australia. I'm sorry, I have to be facetious about this or I will cry scream. Our community used to be respected. This makes us at best a laughing stock.

Screen grab from Grauniad news digest reading "'Very serious perception' in Jewish community that ABC's Middle East reporting creates negative impression of Israel, Jillian Segal says

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Jun 16

This rather unassuming photo marks a truly historic occasion! ACT Greens members are currently voting in the first full membership ballot for the leadership of a Greens party in Australia, with a contested ballot. And we’ve got a real contest of ideas and approaches. Democracy in action! 💚🌎

Three humans sit at a bland table in a bland office space

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Jun 9

Happy 100th birthday to our deeply beloved Oma. Gone ten years now and missed every day. I’m so grateful for her incredible love and strength and wisdom.

Old black and white photo from I guess around the mid 1930s. My Oma as a young girl with a smile and short wavy hair in a spotty dress stands between two stern older ladies - her aunt and grandmother, I think

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Jun 4

Don’t worry, I’m not planning on cooking a succulent Beef Wellington, but can any of my(celium) clever friends identify these fun guys growing in my front yard? There’s not mushroom for error.

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Jun 2

Who else LOVED Barbapapa?! This was absolutely one of the most important books of my childhood. Now I wove it into some thinking about Audre Lorde's "the master's house" and Vanessa Andreotti's "house of modernity", and I'd love it if you'd read it. in-between-days.ghost.io/renovating-t...

Cover of the gorgeous children's book, Barbapapa's New House, by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor

Tim Hollo@timhollo· May 25

My ducks are not in a row. My ibis, however..:

Half a dozen ibis are perched on a breakwater, reflected in the flat water of the reconstructed wetland.

Tim Hollo@timhollo· May 15

Fabulous to see Not Drowning Waving again, after all these years! Playing lots of songs off Tabaran and Claim, as well as the new record.

Tim Hollo@timhollo· May 7

Thank you, Sir David Attenborough, for your love of the world, and for sharing it with us for 100 years. This letter is one of my most treasured possessions. I sent him my book when it came out, with a letter of gratitude, and he replied! Happy birthday!

A letter in spidery hand-writing, dated 1.8.22, reading “Dear Tim Hollo, thank you very much for sending me a copy of Living Democracy. I look forward very much to reading it. And thank you too for the very kind thing you say about my programmes. Best wishes, David Attenborough”

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Apr 13

In today’s other fabulous news, the spotted pardalotes are back in my garden! This is a photo from two years ago - couldn’t get one this morning. They’re too speedy!

A tiny jewel of a bird, with yellow belly, black wings and cap with white spots and a splash of red tail feathers perches on a shrub outside my window

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Apr 11

This coming Thursday evening, I’m running a session for the Degrowth Network Australia on Direct Action as a path to Degrowth (and broad economic, social and political transformation) Register here: events.humanitix.com/strategy-wor...

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Mar 6

And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…

Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Feb 23

Advertise your account with just one image.

Photo of poster with bastardised Gramsci “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of Monsters” above a photo of Elmo

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Feb 9

More and more of us willing to put our names to this

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Jan 26

Always was. Always will be.

Photo of crowd and speakers at Invasion Day / Survival Day rally on Ngunnuwal Country today

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Jan 12

Conversation with a corvid cousin.* Turn the sound on! * Hollo means raven, so we’re definitely cousins

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Jan 11

BREAKING: gouging out your eyes with a rusty fork could reduce glaucoma risk - but it could come at a cost

New Scientist
Environment

Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2
Cutting down boreal forest and sinking the felled trees in the depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove up to 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year – but it could come at a cost to the Arctic ecosystem

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Jan 9

Some of the new friends made this week

Fluffy baby eastern grey kangaroo, with mum behind, in the shade on a hot day

Rather larger lizard - a goanna close to 6ft long - clambers up the slope beside the beach

Magnificent grey gum in the Monga National Park, with a twisted trunk with a great big hole in it, but standing tall above

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Jan 9

The world is a fiery mess, and my heart breaks But my partner & I spent much of this week deeply immersed in nature, making friends furry, scaley & leafy, skinny dipping in rivers & bays & ocean, and the grief subsides. If more of us got our kit off and jumped in the water, the world would improve

Me from the waist up, standing naked on a beach, the sandy shore curving around behind me, with thick Australian bush ringing the beach

A small stretch of the Mongarlowe River - a beautiful wild bit of bushland with cool water to plunge naked into.

Stunning orange and yellow and purple sunset clouds through eucalyptus trees.

Glimpses of blue sky through the curves of a spotted gum

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Dec 10

Actual Bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from 50 years before you were born Joan Miro, The Harlequin’s Carnival

Midi’s The Harlequin’s Carnival. Impossible to describe, sorry

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Dec 8

What the everloving fuck is this They wonder why people think government is a sick joke Nah, we won't stop funding fossil fuels, or stop gambling ads, or regulate AI. We'll do an unworkable and idiotic social media ban for kids... Oh and here's a pile of cash for private equity because Tim Tams.

Government fund lends $45m to Arnott’s to help Tim Tams go global
Patrick Commins
The government’s National Reconstruction Fund has lent Arnott’s Group $45m to help support the Australian name to take Tim Tams worldwide.

The money will be used to refinance $1.75bn in debt that comes due in 2026, which is earmarked for “planned future growth capital expenditure”.

Tim Tams are already stocked in all major British supermarkets and are reportedly selling well – Brits have bought more than 5 million packets since the biscuits hit shelves in April 2024.

The NRF has $15bn in taxpayer money to invest in the country’s manufacturing capability, and recently also lent $36m to the country’s biggest meat pie maker, Patties Food Group.

Arnott’s has been around since 1865 and employs 2,500 people across five facilities.

While Arnott’s is an iconic Australian name, the company is owned by American private equity giant KKR, which bought the company from Campbell Soup Company in 2019.

Arnott’s has not been Australian owned since 1997.

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Nov 20

This is a hugely famous public figure. I absolutely could not have told you it was him, even while reading the article. In fact, despite the caption, I’m not sure I believe it. What’s going on?

Middle aged white guy with a white beard in a black three piece suit delivering a eulogy

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Nov 16

Who’re you calling slow? I’ve got two pieces I’ve been working on for a while almost ready to go up on the blog/letter: “On the necessity and limits of left populism” and “ACAB includes (climate) COPs”. Subscribe here to get them in your inbox: in-between-days.ghost.io

Very close up on the face of an Eastern Longnecked Turtle, little beady eyes looking at you, shell nice and shiny

Same turtle from a distance. On the grass, urban wetland behind him, blue sky above

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Nov 9

Zohran banner, but it’s Hamlet - to sleep perchance to dream. Aye there’s the rub. FOR in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Nov 9

Hehehe, there’s a Zohran generator homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...

Zohran for New York City but it says “Just for shits and giggles”

Tim Hollo@timhollo· Nov 5

31% of Jewish New Yorkers voted for Mamdani. To me, this says the absolute dominance of Zionism in the diaspora has broken. As New York goes, the rest of the diaspora follows. This is massive.