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Once more for good luck
Screenshot of a Google query with an AI response: was 2010 15 years ago • Al Overview 0+: No, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15, as the current year is 2024. To calculate this, you subtract the number of years in the past (14) from the current year (2024), which equals 2010(2024 - 14 = 2010). • • Years Ago Calculator: A simple calculation shows that 14 years ago from 2024 was the year 2010. • Mathematical Check: To check, you can add the years together: 2010 + 14 years = 2024. Years Ago Calculator - AraHR Al responses may include mistakes. Learn more
September 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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King parrots in (one of) the Canberra suburbs.
Parrot with green head, orange beak and reddish body perched on a branch at bottom left of the picture. A similarly coloured parrot is bending over to eat some seeds at the top right of the picture. Behind the birds is blue sky and the roof line of a building. The birds are perched on a tree with lots of dry, pale brown seed pods. Parrot with green head, orange beak and reddish body is stretched out from a branch, reaching for seeds with its head, tail feathers splayed out behind it. Behind the bird is blue sky and the roof line of a building. Parrot with bright reddy-orange feathers covering its head and torso, blending and striping into green feathers towards the tail. There are hints of green feathered wings on either side. The trunk of the tree is directly behind the bird, and there are branches with light brown seed pods surrounding it.
August 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Superb fairy wren (in winter plumage).
A small round bird with brown feathers on the top half and white feathers on the bottom half, with dark blue tail feathers sticking up. It is perched on a metal picket and staring at the camera. There is a blue background (a lake, not that you can tell as it’s out of focus).
June 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Bridge building
Enormous crane next to a bridge structure with a forest behind it.
June 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Blue banded bees (Amegilla species) roosting for the evening and jockeying for the best bit of the dead lemon balm stem.
February 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Male blue fairy wren - Surf Beach NSW.
A male blue fairy wren. Small, round bird with bright blue feathers on the top of his head, under his eyes and on the back of his neck. Black feathers cover the rest if his head and upper chest. Below that are whitish feathers covering his lower torso, and brown feathered wings. He has dark blue tail feathers sticking up behind him. He is perched on a broken branch with green foliage, a slender trunk and a white plastic coated fence wire behind him.
February 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Comet!
Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) appearing as a pale streak near the middle of the photo, above some dark cloud, on a sky fading from blue at the top to orange at the horizon.
January 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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December 2019, Canberra.
A small police boat on a lake with the sky and background obscured by smoke haze.
October 22, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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Aurora australis near Canberra.
Aurora australis in the night sky, bright pink above and green closer to the horizon. A gum tree is silhouetted against the Aurora. Power lines cross from left to right of frame.
October 11, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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Post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
Album cover of Penny Century by the Australian band Clouds. It depicts a round, brass coloured object with a hole in the centre against a blue background
July 31, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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Apparently they would like you to ‘singup’ to their newsletter too.
Screenshot of website for fake Macmillan Publisher with an option to sign up for a newsletter, with the text ‘Newsletter Singup’.
July 25, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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Proof of cat

#ProofOfCat
Meeko, a ragdoll cat, is doing his best to tear open a bottle of sparkling wine with teeth.
June 22, 2024 at 12:39 PM
diprotodon.bsky.social
If you see this, post a wolf.
Shot from Doctor Who of Rose Tyler (portrayed by Billie Piper) with glowing eyes as she becomes the Bad Wolf entity.
June 6, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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Shot from Doctor Who of Rose Tyler (portrayed by Billie Piper) with glowing eyes as she becomes the Bad Wolf entity.
June 6, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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Not to be all smug Apple wanker about it, but the iOS whisky emoji is neat
Whisky emoji from iPhone. The picture is of a whisky glass with amber liquid and no ice.
May 16, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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You’ve been murdered. Who do you want on the case?
Eddie Redcliffe (Madeleine Sami), Dulcie Collins (Kate Box) and Abby Matsuda (Nina Oyama) from Deadloch.
March 23, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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Picture of the sky, with waxing crescent moon hanging in the top left quarter of the picture. Beneath the sky is the top of a power pole, wires trailing left and right from it. There are eucalyptus trees to the left of the power pole. The sky is a clear, but darkening shade of blue as dusk descends.
December 19, 2023 at 3:03 AM
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Fungus posting
A whitish-brownish fungus growing on the bark of a tree trunk
September 29, 2023 at 10:18 AM
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A black and white image of a shadowy tunnel with lights at intervals along the ceiling.
September 10, 2023 at 2:22 PM