Snarky Platypus
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A platypus of many talents, he/him, 🏳️🌈 🇨🇳🇮🇩🇦🇺 (is that enough flags), politics, food, pop music and women’s basketball.
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Snarky Platypus
@snarkyplatypus.com
· Dec 10
Love this pic I took in 2016 (I found it through Twitter search believe it or not )
Chris Minns lol. Anyway there are plenty of ludicrous right wing micro parties in Australian politics so meh.
Members of the National Socialist Network, a group of neo-Nazis who promote deporting 'non-white' Australians, say they intend to register a political party.
'No scope' to block neo-Nazis from registering as federal political party
Members of the National Socialist Network, a group of neo-Nazis who promote deporting 'non-white' Australians, say they intend to register a political party.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Chris Minns lol. Anyway there are plenty of ludicrous right wing micro parties in Australian politics so meh.
I predict something as nonsensical as Dutton’s hot mess of an energy policy
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I predict something as nonsensical as Dutton’s hot mess of an energy policy
I was originally planning to visit New Zealand Aotearoa this year for the first time but I think that will have to wait for a few years.
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I was originally planning to visit New Zealand Aotearoa this year for the first time but I think that will have to wait for a few years.
Liking the longish locks of hair at the moment but I think a haircut is going to happen on the weekend.
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Liking the longish locks of hair at the moment but I think a haircut is going to happen on the weekend.
Rudd and Gillard did this better.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer will fight any attempt to replace him, friends say - BBC News
Friends of the PM are worried his job might be under threat, perhaps as soon as after the Budget in a fortnight.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Rudd and Gillard did this better.
Blissfully ignorant about so many American discourse writers.
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Blissfully ignorant about so many American discourse writers.
Cars who don’t stop for pedestrians at pedestrian crossings - automatic licence ban for 12 months.
November 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Cars who don’t stop for pedestrians at pedestrian crossings - automatic licence ban for 12 months.
Depends on your workplace obviously (it is definitely different working for a profit making org vs government and non-profit orgs) but the social value of work and interacting with people you may not ordinarily interact with is very underrated IMO
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Depends on your workplace obviously (it is definitely different working for a profit making org vs government and non-profit orgs) but the social value of work and interacting with people you may not ordinarily interact with is very underrated IMO
lulz, very short mid cycle performance review.
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
lulz, very short mid cycle performance review.
Chris Minns gives off incompetent school principal energy.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Chris Minns gives off incompetent school principal energy.
Hoping optimising the scanned pages in this PDF will allow me to print the damn thing at a reasonable speed #BureaucratLyfe
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Hoping optimising the scanned pages in this PDF will allow me to print the damn thing at a reasonable speed #BureaucratLyfe
The ABC embracing #KillAllBoomers
Deceased estates are often a mixed bag, but the latest offerings in property market hot spots have got Queensland buyers excited.
Property hunters snap up bargain beachside and waterfront homes
Deceased estates are often a mixed bag, but the latest offerings in property market hot spots have got Queensland buyers excited.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The ABC embracing #KillAllBoomers
lol America. At least things are clearly improving on this front in Australia
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
lol America. At least things are clearly improving on this front in Australia
Coldest November morning on record for parts of southeastern Australia 🥶
Coldest November morning on record for parts of SE Australia
Canberra was one of many places in southeastern Australia that just registered their coldest November morning on record.
www.weatherzone.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Coldest November morning on record for parts of southeastern Australia 🥶
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BREAKING: Menulog is closing in Australia
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
BREAKING: Menulog is closing in Australia
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Blyth, after months of hearing evidence about SA’s devastating algal bloom, says re net zero “I don’t think that we can be stewards of the environment if we can’t afford it.”
Australia news live: Liberal senator says nation ‘can’t afford’ net zero target as party gathers to debate policy; banks tip $43bn into fossil fuels
Follow live
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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It’s cute when white people think racism isn’t always a lurking background factor affecting many things.
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
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UK politics live – latest updates
Decades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.
Speaking to GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It’s cute when white people think racism isn’t always a lurking background factor affecting many things.
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I think this says more about country music and its audience than anything else really
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I think this says more about country music and its audience than anything else really
Crossing a bridge
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Crossing a bridge
Temperature aside, it is yet another glorious morning in Sydney.
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Temperature aside, it is yet another glorious morning in Sydney.
Breakfast - char kway teow 😍 A very good start to the day
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Breakfast - char kway teow 😍 A very good start to the day
Now on ABC Breakfast, they are talking about a new book called ‘The Australian Wars’ about the Frontier Wars between the European colonists and Indigenous people in Australia.
Australian Wars - Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray and Henry Reynolds (eds)
Australian Wars - Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray and Henry Reynolds (eds)
www.allenandunwin.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Now on ABC Breakfast, they are talking about a new book called ‘The Australian Wars’ about the Frontier Wars between the European colonists and Indigenous people in Australia.
Bridget Brennan is interviewing that fedora guy photographed near the Louvre on ABC Breakfast. It’s a little odd.
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Bridget Brennan is interviewing that fedora guy photographed near the Louvre on ABC Breakfast. It’s a little odd.
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TIL Australia used to have 'drop crocs', crocodilic ancestors that would (probably) climb trees then jump down on unsuspecting victims. Shame they died out really. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
55m-year-old eggshells unearthed in Queensland may be older relative of infamous ‘drop crocs’
Scientists believe new discovery to be the oldest crocodilian eggshells ever found in Australia
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
TIL Australia used to have 'drop crocs', crocodilic ancestors that would (probably) climb trees then jump down on unsuspecting victims. Shame they died out really. www.theguardian.com/environment/...