This is actually beginning to scare this koala while I'm listening to it. https://youtu.be/K-99jdtQHEQ

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Nature deciding to agree with the topic of this community.

Hi, I'm feeling upset, and I'm not sure who to contact that I can talk to. I'm in a bad situation where I was involved with a summer play with an autism group where I found out today I had been removed from the play itself, not the group, over a disagreement over a single line. This is a play where they allow you to choose what character you want to be, and I ended up choosing one of the Disney Gummi Bears over something that was suggested to me a month ago.

I tend to end up getting myself involved with these plays due to many ideas that I have, and right now I'm wondering who I can reach out to that I could at least send my ideas out to who might be interested in them and will want to get back to me to talk about them and perhaps will want to do something with them. I'm not sure if there could also be an ADA violation over what happened to me either, but I feel I need to talk to someone since I'm a higher-functioning autistic.

I'm trying to find out where I can get help for a friend of mine who is on Bluesky Social. He has been trying to post about his situation over on the r/BlueskySocial subreddit, but his posts kept getting deleted by Reddit's filters, and I don't know who he can contact to get help and I'm wondering who can help me.

If you follow media coverage of koalas, you could be forgiven for feeling confused.

Recent stories describe a “koala paradox”: endangered in the north of Australia, abundant in the south; genetically diverse in some regions, genetically depleted in others.

Koala populations are often described simultaneously as being in crisis or overabundant. These accounts attempt to capture the complexity of this species across different histories and geographic locations. But they also reveal a deeper problem with how we assess genetic risk in wildlife (the likelihood a population will go extinct because it has lost too much genetic diversity).

Our new research shows relying too heavily on genetic indicators—how genetic diversity and inbreeding are measured—can be misleading. And we found the koala to be a powerful case study for a much broader lesson in conservation.

According to this, the first comprehensive koala survey conducted in New South Wales suggests populations of the endangered marsupial are higher than previously thought.

The NSW government’s statewide survey, released on Thursday, estimates there are 274,000 koalas across the state.

More than 1,000 locations across national parks, state forests, and private land were surveyed, using new tools such as heat-detecting drones and acoustic recorders.

The number of koalas in NSW was previously uncertain, according to the state’s 2022 koala strategy, with estimates varying from 15,000 to 30,000 koalas.

I'm not sure where to post this and thought that maybe here is okay, but if not, let me know.

For some reason, I got this idea from where I had heard about five-year-old Liam and his father in Minnesota being taken to an ICE Detention Center there. It came from seeing his blue bunny hat and finding out his middle name is Conejo, which means rabbit.

The idea it had given me is about a similar boy wearing a blue bunny hat like Liam's who has gotten the nickname of Conejo Rabbit, and the story it gave me is about ICE taking a little boy away in the middle of an unauthorized home invasion because their ICE rulebook said he was an unauthorized immigrant. At the center of it are two self-appointed immigration enforcers who chose power and Trump policy over a traumatized boy's life.

But what they didn't know is that the boy's father isn't just a grieving parent; he is the District Attorney, and he has the law on his side. What I imagine following is a courtroom reckoning involving one hell of a release order from one pissed-off federal judge, a media firestorm, and a brutal unraveling of a Trump system drunk on control. And just wait until you hear how I imagine this battle ends, because justice doesn't just knock; it kicks the whole damn Mar-a-Lago door in.

Anyway, I have been thinking a lot about this lately after reading through the articles I have seen so far and feeling compassionate for him. I wish there was some way to reach out to him or even his father to speak with them because I was imagining Liam getting a pair of footed pajamas that are the matching color blue to his blue bunny hat seen in the picture of him, perhaps fuzzy, have feet that look like bunny feet, and have a white cottontail on the back of them. After he got out of that hellhole they call a detention center, he would feel warm and comfortable in them after his ordeal.

And I was imagining him getting a large stuffed blue bunny with the word "Conejo" embroidered on its belly that could feel like a guardian to him, maybe even a superhero if combined with what he has on his backpack. These are just thoughts that came to my head since the word 'Conejo' is 'rabbit' in Spanish, and he has a blue bunny hat that is seen in the pictures of him, such as this one.

If you think it's an adorable idea and maybe something that can be put together as a charity or something for Liam while finding a way to reach out to Liam's father to make certain it's right and accurate, as I feel it may help comfort him from his traumatization and know who I could talk to about this, please let me know.

Absolute beauty at Whites Hill Reserve, Brisbane. Amazing to have a healthy population in a relatively small suburban park.

A hidden cluster of my brethren has been found, with the use of thermal drones, at Avonside in the NSW Snowy Mountains.

There were doubts if koalas lived in the area, following a bushfire more than two decades ago.

According to this, the New South Wales government has unveiled plans for the Great Koala National Park, a 475,000-hectare reserve to safeguard an estimated twelve thousand of my brethren and dozens of other threatened species, which is definitely good as they need this for their safety, survival, and well-being.

• The New South Wales government has unveiled plans for the Great Koala National Park, a 475,000-hectare reserve that combines existing protected areas with 176,000 hectares of state forest to safeguard an estimated 12,000 koalas and dozens of other threatened species.

• The move comes with a moratorium on native forest logging, $140 million in funding, and promises of new tourism infrastructure, though legislation to finalize the park is not expected until 2026 and is contingent on approval of a carbon credit scheme.

• Supporters hail the plan as a landmark conservation step that could boost biodiversity, generate carbon revenue, and create more sustainable jobs through ecotourism, while critics argue it sacrifices timber workers and delays certainty for communities.

• The decision reflects broader shifts in Australian forest policy, as states retreat from native forest logging, balancing ecological imperatives with political pressures from unions, industry, and rural constituencies.

Few animals tug at Australian hearts like the koala. Yet the marsupial, once common along the eastern seaboard, was declared endangered in New South Wales (NSW) in 2022. Habitat loss, climate stress, and disease have driven populations down so far that a parliamentary inquiry warned they could vanish from the state before 2050. The proposed remedy is ambitious: the Great Koala National Park (GKNP), a 475,000-hectare protected area stretching from Kempsey to Grafton and inland to Ebor. If delivered in full, it would stitch together 176,000 hectares of state forests with existing reserves, creating a landscape on par with the Blue Mountains or Kosciuszko.

The plan, formally unveiled in September, represents a once-in-a-generation conservation decision. Australian Premier Chris Minns justified choosing the largest option, insisting “koalas will go extinct in the wild by 2050 unless we make this decision.” The announcement came with a moratorium on logging across the proposed boundaries, immediate funding for worker transition, and a promise of new infrastructure to draw tourists. To environmentalists it was a long-awaited breakthrough. To timber workers it was a crushing blow.

I'm trying to edit to fix a post I made in Ten Forward, but it keeps giving me 'Error' when I try to save the edit. It doesn't appear to have gotten locked or anything like that, because I checked for that, and there is nothing in the ModLog there about it either. So, I'm wondering if there is some sort of bug.

Here is some interesting NASA Data I just found to program into the ship’s computer, since there looks like they could be some Class M Planets in it worth having the Helm on the Bridge set a course to, and continuing the mission of exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilization, and to boldly go where no one has gone before.