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@manicspider.bsky.social
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Australian. Into law, history, photography,TTRPGs, video games, music, knitting and tennis. I work from home and have become extremely interested in the lives of the birds next to my window One of the voices of the Bombshells Podcast

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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The incel wannabe poet in the Orwell book I'm reading has just introduced his girlfriend (who won't sleep with him yet) to his very rich friend and I am 1000% sure I know what happens next. He'll blame it on money, but in reality is because the other guy isn't a cranky jerk
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My #cat = very uncertain about the wisdom of getting out of her carrier at the vet #catsofbluesky
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
In #Darwin #Australia #photography #macro
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
In #Darwin #Australia #photography
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
In #Darwin #Australia #photography #macro
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
In #Darwin #Australia #photography
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It's raining today and someone has gone all puffy #birds
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Rosella around today, brought one of his kids but he's making them sit up in the tree on lookout #birds #ausbirds #photography
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Spotted Dove from yesterday has come back and brought a friend #birds #photography
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
#Birds #AusBirds this time actually a #magpie for sure lol
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Hey #Birds and #ausbirds I have been informed that what I previously thought were magpies are in fact pied currawongs. I learned that in time to understand today that the turf war outside my window was between two magpies and two currawongs, not four magpies. #apologies for the misinformation
Picture of a CURRAWONG - definitely NOT a magpie, as you can tell by the eye colour
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
New bird in the yard! Very shy spotted dove that flew off before I could get a good shot #birds #ausbirds #photography
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
#Two beams of light illuminating a building #BlueSkyArtShow #photography
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
#Two pelicans from Darwin for the #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #birds #ausbirds
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Ten years ago, the thought of acknowledging other intelligent life in the universe if it exists was fraught with concern about political and religious stability etc. Now everyone would be like "those fuckers were probably in the Epstein files too"
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Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
babe the question is irrelevant, you can't afford to be a worm
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skinskin @skinskintainan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
#UrbanGaze #EastCoastKin よぞらのはな #art #photo #photography #nightphotography #nightsky #oldbuilding #flowers #bougenvillea #LightAndShadow #Tainan ©️skinskin
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
My cat is loving watching the birds from my lap while I work #photography #cats #catsofbluesky
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
@spacetwinks

doctor: treatment is simple. go see orville, very funny clown

pagliacci: what about pagliacci?

doctor: pagliacci? man i could not name a more suckass clown

pagliacci:

doctor: just downright dogshit of a clown
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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I imagine it was extremely disturbing
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
OMG guys they are making friends! #birds #ausbirds #photography
A magapie and a rosella forage next to each other in Australia
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
#birds #ausbirds #magpie #photography
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Col J Photo Art @coljphotoart.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Sitting in solitude beside an Australian outback stream #photography #Australia #landscape #travel #nature
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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake And a happy year of the whores to you all
BBC News screenshot with the subtitle "Welcome to the year of the whores. People around the globe celebrate..."
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Chinese practice for today #熟能生巧
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Rosella couple are regular visitors now - I'm thinking of what else I can plant in the area to make them happy #birds #ausbirds #photography
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Architecture @architecture.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The grand entrance hall of the Museum Building at Trinity College Dublin
The grand entrance hall of the Museum Building at Trinity College Dublin
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Cohesion. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Chris Minns stands beside a massive tonne weight marked NSW POLICE being lowered by a crane. Visible sticking out from under the weight are hands, legs, a woman’s face, a keffiyeh and placards saying “NO TO GENOCIDE”, “FREE PALESTINE”, “HERZOG OUT”, “NO TO VIOLENCE” Minns says, “Thst should socially cohere them nicely.”
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The old Rosella from the other day has bought a mate around - putting a little bit of water outside my window in this heat has paid off so much #photography #birds #ausbirds
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
You couldn’t make CITIZEN KANE today because it doesn’t have Pedro Pascal in it.
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
#Sunlight #BlueskyArtShow #photography
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
My first blocking project last week was a small square baby blanket. "Why not try blocking my lace-type shawl?" I thought "How much harder can it be?" #knitsky #knitting
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I can't see a screenshot from Marty Supreme without my head starting to sing "I want to be the very best, like no one ever was"
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My style reference is always and forever 1984 Punky Brewster
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Working from home and this is the view from my window #birds #AusBirds #photography
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 03/02/2026
Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)
A photo of a bunch of NASA research documents, with titles like "STRUCTURAL MARGINS OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO EXCEEDANCE", "PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF UNEXPECTED WOBBLE IN A RIGIDLY NON-WOBBLING SYSTEM", "OBSERVED PERFORMANCE OF COMPONENTS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN INSTALLED BACKWARDS", "COGNITIVE LOAD IMPLICATIONS OF ACRONYMS REFERRING TO OTHER ACRONYMS", "THRMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS DESCRIBED AS 'PROBABLY INFLAMMABLE'", "ON THE REPEATED SURVIVAL OF SYSTEMS NEVER INTENDED TO WORK", "THE EFFECT OF CLIPBOARD ON PERCEIVED AUTHORITY IN TEST ENVIRONMENTS", "MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES EXPOSED TO REPEATED MEETINGS", "ANOMALOUS RESULTS WHICH PERSIST DESPITE STRONG MANAGEMENT DISAPPROVAL", and "A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MOON'S APPARENT DISINTEREST IN OUR ACTIVITIES"
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A craft store called Maslow's Heirarchy of Beads
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New houseguest eating all the bugs on my fern #photography #macro #prayingmantis
A close up shot of a green praying mantis among some fern leaves
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Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Never seen a #moth with this colouring before! #photography #macro
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Kim Dracula tonight was incredibly awesome and you should go to their next show and buy all albums they put out #MusicSky #KimDracula
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
@verybusymonkey.bsky.social Hello! I am knitting your Tessallate Socks and they are awesome! It's my first time doing lacy socks :) But I have got to the gusset and it mentions having four needles? I've only ever knitted circular, do you know of a way to convert for two needles?
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I saw this and all I could think is
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a man in an orange jumpsuit says there 's a good chance
ALT: a man in an orange jumpsuit says there 's a good chance
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Is…is that a threat? #Canberra #Australia
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
At the vet's this morning #photography #spring #macro
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Visitor this evening #photography #macro
Close up photo of a very pretty shaggy white moth
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manicspider.bsky.social @manicspider.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This makes me feel physically ill. It's like tell me you've never met a trans person without telling me you've never met a trans person. Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation search.app/wRvfp
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Advocates condemn NT leader's comments on trans women in female prisons
The Northern Territory government has doubled down on its stance against detaining trans women in female prisons, as a local LGBTQIA+ group says it is "horrified" by the comments.
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Greg T @gregt314.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"Nearly" all 12? Let me get AI advice from Judas Iscariot, you cowards.
Screenshot of social media post from AFP News Agency, posted October 3, 2025 at 2.59 am.  Text reads: "Virtual Jesus?  People of faith divided as AI enters religion.  One app, which is called Text with Jesus, has thousands of paying subscribers.  It lets people ostensibly ask questions of Mary, Joseph, Jesus and nearly all 12 apostles.   u.afp.com/SmoK"  Image shows a phone with a Jesus Christ chatbot.
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