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You are here: Home / Nature & Respite / Late Night Respite Open Thread: SPY QUOKKA

Late Night Respite Open Thread: SPY QUOKKA

by Anne Laurie|  June 27, 20201:52 am| 39 Comments

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Everything is terrible, so here’s a quokka having a snack… pic.twitter.com/qTm4aZCvSs

— Nature & Animals ?? (@AnimalsWorId) June 19, 2020

Desperate times, desperate measures…

Also, apparently the Australians have developed a "Spy Quokka," which is a robot imitation of a quokka they use to get close and spy on them, which is actually a mildly terrifying perversion of science.

— Starfish Who Just Wants To Grill (@IRHotTakes) June 26, 2020

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— Starfish Who Just Wants To Grill (@IRHotTakes) June 26, 2020

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  1. 1.

    Kropacetic

    June 27, 2020 at 1:57 am

    What is this magical creature? How have I never seen on before?

  2. 2.

    Yutsano

    June 27, 2020 at 2:00 am

    @Kropacetic: The cuteness quotient of Australian wildlife can be off the charts. At least quokkas don’t necessarily want to kill you.

  3. 3.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    June 27, 2020 at 2:06 am

    Reposting this from below:

    Putin choose to pursue easy, low cost, and relatively safe strategies to disrupt the US and UK. However, I contend that what Putin did was extraordinarily dangerous and irresponsible of him to help Trump be elected. He essentially put a toddler in charge of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. How did he know Trump couldn’t have started WW3 with China for example?

  4. 4.

    Kropacetic

    June 27, 2020 at 2:20 am

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): How did he know Trump couldn’t have started WW3 with China for example?

    Lack of personal benefit for Trump. If Putin orders it, however, it will be so.

  5. 5.

    Kropacetic

    June 27, 2020 at 2:23 am

    @Yutsano:The cuteness quotient of Australian wildlife can be off the charts.

    A truly special place I’ve always wanted to visit.

    At least quokkas don’t necessarily want to kill you.

    Less true, perhaps, of all the animals where the size quotient is off the charts.

  6. 6.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 27, 2020 at 2:27 am

    Ah yes; the noble quokka.

  7. 7.

    Anne Laurie

    June 27, 2020 at 2:28 am

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Open Thread is open, but:  You do realize you could just keep debating Putin’s crimes in the Putin/Russia-centered thread, right?

    I have to keep working on the daily (nightly) coronavirus update, but I was kinda hoping to give people looking for a respite some kind of break between horrors…

  8. 8.

    Anne Laurie

    June 27, 2020 at 2:31 am

    @Major Major Major Major: I want to see quokkas replace all American political commentors currently making more than $1million per annum.  They would make every bit as much sense as the Cillizzas and Karls, and yet be much more audience-friendly…

    (gotta go aggregate!)

  9. 9.

    patrick II

    June 27, 2020 at 2:38 am

    @Anne Laurie:

    Not to ruin your day, but Putin has put out a hit on any quokkas with American sympathies.

  10. 10.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    June 27, 2020 at 2:38 am

    @Anne Laurie:

    Sorry, it seemed like that thread was dead….

  11. 11.

    smike

    June 27, 2020 at 2:53 am

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Couple of replies to you below. Still alive, somewhat.

  12. 12.

    Jay

    June 27, 2020 at 3:00 am

    Heaven Flush With Cash After Trump Administration Sends $1.4 Billion In Stimulus To Dead Americans https://t.co/ko5a62jgRz pic.twitter.com/fOYgMVZ4n0— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 25, 2020

  13. 13.

    Origuy

    June 27, 2020 at 3:01 am

    And now, the news for quokkas.
    No quokkas were involved in an accident on the M-1 today when a Lorry carrying High-octane fuel was in collision with a bollard. That’s a BOLLARD and *NOT* a QUOKKA. A spokesman for quokkas said he was glad no quokkas were involved.

  14. 14.

    TS (the original)

    June 27, 2020 at 3:01 am

    And I just got an add which said “Buy Australian made”

    Google – the all seeing everything

  15. 15.

    piratedan

    June 27, 2020 at 3:04 am

    @Origuy: lovely Python shout out… tyvm… now the news for wombats…..

  16. 16.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    June 27, 2020 at 3:05 am

    @Yutsano:

    The cuteness quotient of Australian wildlife can be off the charts

    Except for the snakes, spiders and salt water crocks that will all kill you quickly.

  17. 17.

    Jay

    June 27, 2020 at 3:15 am

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA:

    don’t forget blue ringed octopuses, platapus, and 999 more creatures,

  18. 18.

    opiejeanne

    June 27, 2020 at 3:25 am

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA: I think the quokkas are possibly the only Australian animal that doesn’t want to kill you.

    Maybe wombats don’t want to, either.

  19. 19.

    opiejeanne

    June 27, 2020 at 3:30 am

    @Jay: There’s a nasty spiny shrub with toxic secretions that cause real agony that an Aussie friend was telling me about. He said they use them a lot in landscaping, which surprised me because who wants to be working in the garden around something like that?  He said I was silly and that Aussies were smart enough to stay away from them in the landscaping.

  20. 20.

    Jay

    June 27, 2020 at 3:48 am

    @opiejeanne:

    had a house in YVR where there there was a propensity of POI’s jumping the back fence to elude John Law and use my yard to R-U-N-N-O-F-T.

    a hedge of rugosa roses in the alley, and mixing them into the back greenery, put a stop to that.

  21. 21.

    Pete Downunder

    June 27, 2020 at 3:53 am

    @opiejeanne:

    The gympie stinging tree. A nettle that grows to a full size tree. The large leaves have little stingers that are painful enough to send you to the hospital. Typical Aussie flora.

  22. 22.

    Viva BrisVegas

    June 27, 2020 at 4:52 am

    @opiejeanne: There’s a nasty spiny shrub with toxic secretions that cause real agony that an Aussie friend was telling me about. He said they use them a lot in landscaping

    I think he must have been having a lend of you. I’ve never heard of anybody having a stinging tree in their garden. It would certainly be a talking point, especially on the trip to the hospital.

    The tree looks a bit like a ratty mulberry tree with fuzzy leaves and is not exactly photogenic.

    There is no way to safely handle one. Even long dead botanical specimens have been known to sting people.

    Wombats are cute. Way cuter than stinky koalas.

  23. 23.

    Aleta

    June 27, 2020 at 5:08 am

    lolly @lollyadefope

    i auditioned to be the next james bond

  24. 24.

    Gvg

    June 27, 2020 at 5:15 am

    @TS (the original): I have been getting Biden ads whilst searching for how to videos for various things like garage door opener troubleshooting.

    i have been sending my mother Biden ads to cheer her up and she keeps saying “why aren’t these on TV?”. I guess I need to tell her I don’t watch much TV so I won’t be able to find that kind of ad, and TV isn’t going to reach all voters like it used to…she is in her 7o’s and to her only TV and newspapers count.

  25. 25.

    blackcatsrule

    June 27, 2020 at 5:52 am

    @Aleta: I was so sorry to hear that you did not get good news about your dog.  I haven’t been on BJ as much as usual but I was trying to follow your story because my sweet boycat has been going through something so similar the past two months…abscesses that wouldn’t heal, rounds of antibiotics…and last week we got the same bad news, with the same time frame of weeks, months if we’re lucky.  So I know what you’re going through and please give your companion a hug from me.

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    June 27, 2020 at 6:00 am

    @blackcatsrule: I haven’t been keeping up on all the threads this week.  Can you point me to the news about Aleta’s kitty?

  27. 27.

    Aleta

    June 27, 2020 at 6:04 am

    @blackcatsrule: Thanks so much.  I’m sorry you and sweet boycat ‘ve been going through it too.  Is it a fibrosarcoma?   I  guess we just have to keep streaming love at them.  Sending some from here to your cat.

  28. 28.

    satby

    June 27, 2020 at 6:09 am

    @blackcatsrule:  Sorry to hear your sad news too. Last year my 15 year old cat Wookie had the same thing, but we were able to have a couple of good months together where he was babied and spoiled before we had to say goodbye. Hoping you get that kind of time with your furbaby.

  29. 29.

    satby

    June 27, 2020 at 6:11 am

    @Aleta: It’s all you can do, loving them and spoiling them until they let you know it’s time. All the best to you and your furbaby too.

  30. 30.

    Aleta

    June 27, 2020 at 6:16 am

    @WaterGirl: Hi WG, I mentioned my dog’s cancer on John’s thread two nights ago.   Sympathetic comments from so many good people here were like a balm for my hopelessness that night.  Thanks gang, it helped.

  31. 31.

    Aleta

    June 27, 2020 at 6:19 am

    @satby: Thanks, and for the night before last too.  This dog here has been amazing every minute since he’s been here.

  32. 32.

    blackcatsrule

    June 27, 2020 at 6:32 am

    @Aleta: Thank you, and yes, a fibrosarcoma.

  33. 33.

    blackcatsrule

    June 27, 2020 at 6:35 am

    @satby: Thank you, I am so hoping he gets the longest amount of time possible and will do everything to make sure he does…love the name Wookie, you can just picture the cat that belonged to that name!

  34. 34.

    scribbler

    June 27, 2020 at 6:37 am

    @blackcatsrule:  So, so sorry abut your news.  Hugs to you and sweet boycat.  I hope you still have some good time left to be together.

  35. 35.

    blackcatsrule

    June 27, 2020 at 6:47 am

    @scribbler: Thank you from both of us ❤️

  36. 36.

    WaterGirl

    June 27, 2020 at 7:16 am

    @Aleta: I just found the thread.  I am so sorry.  At this point, every day is precious.  Hugs.

  37. 37.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    June 27, 2020 at 7:18 am

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA: you forgot the box jellies!

  38. 38.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    June 27, 2020 at 7:19 am

    @Aleta: virtual hugs if you want them. I am so sorry.

  39. 39.

    Aleta

    June 27, 2020 at 9:42 am

    @WaterGirl:   @EmbraceYourInnerCrone:  I do want them! Thanks.  🦴 🦴

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