Kate Bowles

@sokate.bsky.social

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Exploring experience design for uncertain situations. Higher education sceptic. Climate worrier. Mostly over at aus.social.

Still from original Star Trek episode “The Trouble with Tribbles” (1967). Youthful William Shatner chest deep in small furry animals. He’s looking at the camera, perplexed and overwhelmed, seeing our future.
It’s a green rotary dial telephone at second hand market. At the centre of the dial, the original number and the words LISTEN FOR DIAL TONE.
Post 1 describing ad in which man is mid skip in socks and undies powered by peppermint oil, but the even weirder thing is that he’s skipping along with folded arms (who runs like this?)
Empty BlueSky profile: no self, no name, no clue, no nothing. Just the anonymous white icon in a blue circle. Peaceful. What if this was all we had to go on, would we start to recognise each other by how we write?
Constellation of small Marguerite daisy flowers in different shades as they age, from dark rose to pale streaky pink.
Road sign on white post reads: NUCLEAR MISHAP. B-52 transporting two nuclear bombs crashed. Jan. 1961. Widespread disaster averted; three crewmen died 3 mi. S.
View across sand, some kind of pipe work, and water to a rod of trailers and the illuminated sign MARRY ME propped on the beach.
Roadside motel (?) sign on a snowy road: WE PRIDE IN CLEANLINESS
Two red Waratah flowers, maybe 2 metres, reaching up among eucalypts. A waratah flower is bigger than a fist, smaller than watermelon, and a strong red.
Small creamy flowers in a tree with shiny sharp-shaped leaves. Not pretty, but very fragrant.
Echium candicans has a spike of pale pink flowers, here it’s only half opened from the bottom and already two bees are busy. Background of more stems and green spiky leaves.
Bright yellow cone of multiple tiny flowers — it’s an aeonium. Bees love it.
Lighthouse against pink clouds.
A right hand angled turn in a wild footpath over a small creek that has been reinforced with packing crate panels. The unseen hand of community in action. (Also terrible alt text UX for anyone with poor memory of the actual image.)