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Michelle
@effinghardy.bsky.social
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she/her, wasting time waiting for the jug to boil. Plant overbuyer, op shop lover.
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Tadpole feeding frenzy in my pond this morning. #WildOz
October 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Imagining Kevin calmly taking a cup of tea into his office that evening, settling himself at his desk, and beginning to plot. After he’d smashed up the entire house in fury.
www.betootaadvocate.com/world-news/k...
Screenshot from the Beetoota Advocate website article in the link. A photo of an unimpressed looking Rudd superimposed over a conspiracy whiteboard with a photo of trump taped to it. Headline below: Kevin 27: Rudd immediately gets to work mapping out vengeful plot to topple smart-mouthed president.
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
effinghardy.bsky.social
What kind of frog do green glitter tadpoles grow up to be #WildOz? 😂
October 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
effinghardy.bsky.social
Extremely unwelcome addition to google searches.
Is there even an ai free search engine out there?
A Google search for “what the fuck is this bullshit”. The horizontal menu doesn’t just give you the options of All Images Videos etc anymore, the first option is AI mode.
October 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🤔
Screenshot from article: Danby is related to NT Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby, who has been accused of a conflict of interest in not publicly disclosing the family relationship when speaking about the case to media yesterday.
September 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
effinghardy.bsky.social
Yarra, with hot jam donut. #art 😆
The lower third of this photo is taken up by a hot jam donut held vertically, with a large uneven bite taken from the top. The background is blurred but is the Yarra river in Warburton, stretching away, lined by bushy green trees. A filter has been used to make the scene a little darker and the colours more saturated.
September 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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And if you have an iphone, when you look at the image you can long hold the icon in the bottom corner then a copy all button will appear. This will copy the text for you. Or screen shot something & copy the text from the tool in the camera roll. (Also cast an eye over it as you said just to be sure)
Screenshot of the last block of text with a red circle around the relevant icon in the corner. Same screenshot but now the icon is blue and there is a copy all option in the bottom left hand corner, both badly circled in red.
September 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
effinghardy.bsky.social
Love to see it
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Screenshot of headline. Law, Crime and Justice Father Ted creator Graham Linehan arrested over transgender posts on X
September 3, 2025 at 4:52 AM
effinghardy.bsky.social
Katter’s going to tell us he punched Wikipedia next.
Screenshot from katter’s Wikipedia page: Katter's father was raised in Cloncurry where he ran a clothing shop and managed a local cinema. He was elected to Cloncurry Shire Council in 1946 and to federal parliament in 1966.[5] Katter is of Lebanese descent through his paternal grandfather Carl Robert Katter (originally spelled "Khittar"), who was born in Bsharri and immigrated to Australia with his parents in 1898. He was naturalised in 1907, after previously being refused naturalisation under the White Australia policy.[6]
August 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
effinghardy.bsky.social
Wall, with warning.
2025.

Australian art.
#AltText
A museum sign for this might read something like: The central medium of this artwork is an unpretentious piece of brown paper. On it, written neatly in black texta and entirely in lowercase letters, are the words “beware of magpies”, underlined with an arrow pointing to the left. The childlike simplicity of the letters belies the seriousness of the warning they are imparting. This simple sign is attached precariously to a light blue painted wall via thin and unevenly cut strips of sticky tape placed along each edge. This seemingly haphazard method of affixing such an important warning, using the type of gift wrapping tape found in any kitchen drawer and a piece of scrap paper, shows the urgency the unprepared victim of a magpie attack might feel as they rush to warn other potential victims of danger using any items that come to hand.
August 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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@pinkagendist.bsky.social our friends quest picture makes us look like we’re up to something
Our two Duolingo avatars side by side, the expression on the one on the right especially looks like he’s up to no good.
August 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Shameless boast. 100 weeks of diamond league.
Screenshot of the part of my Duolingo profile that says diamond league week 100.
July 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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I don’t really buy chicken flavoured snacks, but if I had to choose one it would be Jumpy’s. They are tiny kangaroos, very salty. Used to get them for the boys school snacks sometimes.
A five pack of Jumpy’s. Pack is green, a happy cartoon kangaroo on the front.
June 23, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Alive with flavour! 😂
Picture of a box of the Australian version of chicken in a biscuit
June 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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“Just a joke.” 🙄

And the suggestion that the offended person was just of the wrong generation to get the Capper humour makes me feel like the ‘joke’ was about an adult person young enough to be his granddaughter. Ew.
"He did make a light-hearted joke to somebody in the room, but not with any ill will. He definitely didn't walk up and say it directly to her. "He knows he needs to pull his socks up with some of his jokes, but under no circumstances would he want anyone to be offended. He was making a joke and it was overheard and offence was taken."
June 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
effinghardy.bsky.social
Lol

"I simply followed the lead of the [National Anti-Corruption Commission] in that it allows members of the public to make complaints," he said.
Screenshot: He alleged Ms Deeming made financial inducements to guarantee preselection and requested IBAC conduct a thorough investigation into whether any rules or election laws were broken and whether her actions constituted "corrupt conduct by an elected parliamentarian". He said he was not a member of the Liberal Party and was not involved in the dispute in any way. "I simply followed the lead of the [National Anti-Corruption Commission] in that it allows members of the public to make complaints," he said.
June 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
effinghardy.bsky.social
Coffee to go.
Pho for breakfast.
Street art.
Businessman sitting in Bourke Street Mall with a giant paper mache carrot.
Woman shooting up in the Elizabeth Street underground toilets.
American on the gpo steps with a microphone shouting anivax bullshit to an audience of none.
A very #Melbs day.
Looking up a wide alley. On the left are two skip bins, on the right furthest away is graffiti, closest and facing out of the alley is a large angry gorilla (head and shoulders), mouth open wide, gold crown tilted back on head. Has fist outstretched, crushing a spraycan.
June 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
effinghardy.bsky.social
Excuse me, abc news, please consider this my official application for the position of proofreader in your news department.
I also write alt text.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Screenshot from article. What's next? Authorities are watching the nearby Lonza River bed for the possibility of damned water flows.
May 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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I love some of the sentences it gives you 😂
Screenshot from my Duolingo feed. Ses oreilles sont plus grandes que ses pieds. His ears are bigger than his feet.
May 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Sitting on the steps, enjoying the #WildOz sunshine. Skink walks across the step, squiggles its tail, and does a poo. Walks away then looks me right in the eye because it dngaf about manners 😂
Looking down to a wooden step with leaves, weeds etc in the background. To the left is a small lizard. To the right is a tiny blob with a line pointing towards it and the text poo.
April 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Saw a friend out on my walk today.
#DangerNoodle #WildOz
Looking down a wide light coloured gravel track, in the middle ground is the wiggly shape of a dark snake. Closer view of the snake on the track. Zoomed in, not walked closer.
April 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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In the least surprising news ever, we might’ve seen the last us election for a while. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Screenshot. US President Donald Trump says he is "not joking" about trying to secure a third term as US president, indicating he is considering ways to circumvent existing laws that prevent him from doing so when his second term ends in 2029.
March 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Make America Go Away hats are an excellent touch 😂.
Screenshot: Polls have shown that nearly all Greenlanders oppose becoming part of the United States. Anti-American protesters, some wearing "Make America Go Away" caps and holding "Yankees Go Home" banners, have staged some of the largest demonstrations ever seen in Greenland.
March 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Everything going well with the US these days, they’ve got a good grip on their security and the world looks up to them as leaders 😂.
Screenshot of four headlines, each has a thumbnail on the end photo relating to the headline. Group chat blunder won't help the world's fading faith in America Trump officials accidentally texted a journalist war plans Chinese EV company BYD takes fight to Tesla, as Elon's global sales slump Treasurer says more 'competitive' Australia best defence vs Trump tariffs
March 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Shopping in Daiso today and noticed that they had a full range of Spanner sticks.
@spanner.bsky.social
A rack of walking sticks in a shop, some wooden, some patterned.
March 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM