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A platypus of many talents, he/him, šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ šŸ‡ØšŸ‡³šŸ‡®šŸ‡©šŸ‡¦šŸ‡ŗ (is that enough flags), politics, food, pop music and women’s basketball.

created June 21, 2023

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Hold a march and people in Australia start frothing.

2/9/2025, 4:04:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Envoys are ridiculous but adjacent bureaucrats exist

2/9/2025, 4:03:52 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel you today lol

2/9/2025, 3:55:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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WNBL announces new television deal with all games (including finals) broadcast on Channel 9’s streaming platform and ESPN (which includes Disney +). Curious deal but it will get them a large potential audience.

2/9/2025, 3:55:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am not a huge ramen fan tbh (prefer the SE Asian noodle soups) but I can see the appeal.

2/9/2025, 3:32:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was crankier in the morning for reasons but stir fried noodles help a lot.

2/9/2025, 3:25:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

Not just media. Posters here too.

2/9/2025, 3:21:45 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

I think I am a regular enough customer now they understand I like a bit of chili.

2/9/2025, 3:16:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lunch: vegetarian pad kee Mao. Lots of chili šŸ˜

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2/9/2025, 3:14:47 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oooh more data allowance with my ALDImobile plan (resold Telstra)

2/9/2025, 3:11:07 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Merging their council with Waverley will be the final victory.

2/9/2025, 3:04:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I too wish I could be so ineffective and have all this money and resources thrown at me just because.

2/9/2025, 2:07:15 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Victorian Police can’t find anybody lol. How mysterious.

2/9/2025, 1:40:55 AM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Definitely prefer to interact with people face to face for important conversations.

2/9/2025, 1:35:13 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No.

2/9/2025, 12:37:37 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Excellent, beating up work stress like a piƱata.

2/9/2025, 12:33:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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An album of covers of old songs! I liked it.

1/9/2025, 10:58:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This envoy thing has broken people’s heads (amongst other things)

1/9/2025, 10:38:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Harris (@michaelsharris.bsky.social) reposted

This just feels a bit sad.

1/9/2025, 10:31:31 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

This SovCit doesn’t seem to have harmed anybody else? Don’t think this incident deserved the nationwide panic response.

1/9/2025, 10:21:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Birthright citizenship šŸ˜›

1/9/2025, 10:14:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s very odd how some people think white supremacists are bogeymen. No, they are people just like the rest of us.

1/9/2025, 10:11:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Morning. Hope you have a good day!

1/9/2025, 10:06:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Going to miss crossing the bridge daily.

1/9/2025, 10:03:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Crossing a bridge

Cars crossing a steel arch bridge under a blue sky
1/9/2025, 10:01:52 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, Sam played well too. But Sam’s game was also prone to these meltdowns too as we saw in her other Slam final against Schiavone.

1/9/2025, 9:59:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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De Minaur reminds me of Caroline Wozniacki. Think he will need a bit of luck to win a slam (but this is always the case - see Emma Raducanu lol)

1/9/2025, 9:47:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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People responding like headless chickens to marches is a 2025 phenomenon I do not like.

1/9/2025, 9:45:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A lot of white people really have no resilience when it comes to confronting issue in their own community and it is starting to get very irritating.

1/9/2025, 9:33:14 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The country to the north is having proper political ructions. This is nothing compared to that.

1/9/2025, 9:30:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some minor march occurs and white people make dramatic statements about Australia’s social cohesion fraying. Sort out your shit, white people community. Nobody has time for this nonsense at the moment.

1/9/2025, 9:28:54 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am here for these eucalypts of terror.

1/9/2025, 9:26:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John B (@johnb78.bsky.social) reposted

If LOTR were set in Australia rather than implicit GB/NZ, the ents would be the worst villains in the whole literary universe

1/9/2025, 1:06:08 PM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

I slept through it. Shame!

1/9/2025, 9:22:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I see the police have reached the begging stage in their hunt for the SovCit in Victoria.

1/9/2025, 9:19:17 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good morning all. A bit of a misty start to the day in Cammeraygal Country-Sydney. There was an unexpected 33 mm of rain overnight, mostly occurring from 12 to 2 am. Weather, eh.

The risen golden sun shines in a blue sky and a band of white clouds behind it over an urban landscape
1/9/2025, 9:15:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Night all.

1/9/2025, 10:54:51 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

Having been there recently, the area is not short of roads.

1/9/2025, 10:40:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

I don’t know about Bluesky’s longer term viability but I am sure it’s not dependent on the feelings of a sooky tech writer.

1/9/2025, 10:28:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤮

1/9/2025, 10:09:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They need to do a nude calendar or something to keep them busy

1/9/2025, 9:56:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I listened to 1980s Sally Yeh and Anita Mui albums while at the office today and they definitely have not aged well.

1/9/2025, 9:48:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have your parrots delivered yet?

1/9/2025, 9:36:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

Brioche is horrible IMO.

1/9/2025, 9:02:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Chasing .

1/9/2025, 8:57:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Chariotswood.

1/9/2025, 8:49:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Crossing a bridge.

Illuminated buildings behind white horizontal lines
1/9/2025, 8:35:07 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

I loved Lidl when I lived in the UK.

1/9/2025, 8:33:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

Modi šŸ™„

1/9/2025, 8:32:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So is going to Tesco like a threat?

1/9/2025, 8:24:18 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

Looks fantastic.

1/9/2025, 8:11:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reposted reply parent

Like if I was allegedly an ally to a marginalised group, why would I voluntarily repeatedly expose them to bigoted content? Some of you need to think through your behaviour better:

31/8/2025, 11:04:58 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reposted

Why are people on here so enthusiastic about posting other people’s racist opinions? We know they exist, dear.

31/8/2025, 10:57:03 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

This stuff should be eaten from a trough.

1/9/2025, 6:42:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Scrape those arteries good!

1/9/2025, 4:37:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

An older one?

1/9/2025, 4:24:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Very funny when there’s plot spoilers in the headline of press releases relating to the re-release of video/computer games.

1/9/2025, 4:00:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

Even the southern half of Queensland outside of Brisbane is getting close. The Coalition is cooked.

1/9/2025, 3:35:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

I am unfollowing people on here who obsess over it.

1/9/2025, 3:24:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope they enjoy climate change 😘

1/9/2025, 3:23:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There wasn’t any incarceration or sports involved so clearly a waste of time and money

1/9/2025, 3:07:42 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

Are rising sea levels going to make developing those suburbs all that appealing?

1/9/2025, 3:02:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

We have state government as an extra tier of government here. Difficult to do a like for like comparison with the UK IMO

1/9/2025, 3:00:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Owen (@oysta.au) reposted

They should set up a 6 o’clock swill situation again in this country by turning off the internet at 6pm every night

1/9/2025, 1:48:39 AM | 7 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Stephanie Russo (@drstephr.bsky.social) reposted

I'm giving a research seminar on Wednesday 17 September at 3pm with one of my PhD students on unhinged women fiction (mine will specifically be on unhinged women's historical fiction). DM me if you're interested!

1/9/2025, 1:35:51 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

Interesting framing happening here.

1/9/2025, 1:26:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

Can definitely agree with her tho - don’t feel the urge to burn my mouth off when eating most foods. Just occasionally for me.

1/9/2025, 1:13:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Currently listening to this artist and her answer to the last question in this interview made me laugh

1/9/2025, 1:08:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am a fan of abolishing elected local government at the very least. Focus on service provision and less an outlet for unhinged locals.

1/9/2025, 1:07:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

More mergers pls.

1/9/2025, 12:58:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

This is very silly behaviour from this cafe visitor. Just move on, mates.

1/9/2025, 12:46:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jay Allen (@gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social) reposted

People need to stop dismissing racism in Japan as generalized xenophobia. Whiteness is reified here. White people don't experience the same discrimination in housing and police stops, e.g., as Chinese, Korean, and non-light-skinned residents do. Exhibit A: unseen-japan.com/japan-africa...

1/9/2025, 12:23:38 AM | 188 52 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com)

Thank you Seek for letting me know about a job in St Ives, but no.

1/9/2025, 12:30:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

It’s going to be a busy September. ā€˜Excited’ might be a little strong lol

1/9/2025, 12:16:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kookaburras šŸ˜

1/9/2025, 12:11:07 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

Happy birthday Gloria! She released a new album this year so still going strong.

31/8/2025, 11:44:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Currently listening to (I enjoy how much this isn’t like her music in English or French. Also, so late 80s/early 90s!):

31/8/2025, 11:32:11 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin Cook (@erincook.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

It's such a weird thing to do! 'i hate this sooo much I'm going to show it to as many people as I possibly can' ah ok

31/8/2025, 11:06:00 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

šŸ’Æ

31/8/2025, 11:06:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

Like if I was allegedly an ally to a marginalised group, why would I voluntarily repeatedly expose them to bigoted content? Some of you need to think through your behaviour better:

31/8/2025, 11:04:58 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

White people love to post racist shit over and over even if they don’t apparently agree with it which is just bizarre.

31/8/2025, 10:58:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com)

Why are people on here so enthusiastic about posting other people’s racist opinions? We know they exist, dear.

31/8/2025, 10:57:03 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

It is anxiety of some sort. They should get it treated.

31/8/2025, 10:46:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

My parents come from a country where they had this shit imposed on them with encouragement from Americans so I certainly have a different view on this than many others on here.

31/8/2025, 10:34:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

Oh I remember that volcano. My manager at the time got caught in it so we had a job interview while they were stuck at an airport. Good times.

31/8/2025, 10:30:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They’re going to search our baggage and scan us personally for asylum seekers.

31/8/2025, 10:11:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Noooooo we have enough Brits here already

31/8/2025, 10:07:32 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The United States is going to descend into an authoritarian theocracy under a hail of shitty memes.

31/8/2025, 10:01:09 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Crossing a bridge.

A yellow double decker bus seen diagonally.
31/8/2025, 9:57:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Too much text in this meme.

31/8/2025, 9:54:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

The obsession that some people have with *correctly* categorising something will never cease to be amusing to me.

31/8/2025, 9:52:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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lol

31/8/2025, 9:50:27 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

Oh no. Hope you recover quickly from it,

31/8/2025, 9:32:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

1) The algorithm of Threads promotes visibility of this rubbish. 2) I am sure ASIO are aware of it.

31/8/2025, 9:32:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good morning all. A stock standard dawn over Cammeraygal Country-Sydney today for the first day of Australian spring. Happy Monday everybody.

Blue and orange sky over a dark urban landscape. Slightly paler blue and orange sky over a darkened urban landscape The rising orange sun is distorted by a cloudy haze in front of it The golden sun shines in a blue sky full of wispy white clouds.
31/8/2025, 9:29:46 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Night all.

30/8/2025, 10:27:49 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There is always the fear that something like this could turn into an anti-Chinese riot like in 1998. I don’t think it will this time but a concern about this is very valid IMO,

30/8/2025, 10:23:01 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Anyway my family group chat is now partially a live protest update stream. I still have some extended family living in Indonesia, of course.

30/8/2025, 10:16:49 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Snarky Platypus (@snarkyplatypus.com) reply parent

lolwut

30/8/2025, 9:49:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I knew it was steep but that’s ridiculous.

30/8/2025, 9:48:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view