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Terence MacManus

@terrytalks.bsky.social
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Archaeologist, Opera Singer and Author. Sadly not a zany space adventurer (yet). Pictures by Robin Hall

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
....aw Tale as old as time - got to move fast enough so the insane weight of the planks for the next staircase up doesn't kill me, can't move too fast or the character launches themselves off the little ledge at the top of the stairs and the weight means the single-storey drop kills me anyway 😭
A project Zomboid death screen showing a poor sucker squelched flat after falling off a set of stairs. A complex base setup can be seen in the background.
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
...ummm...
A screenshot from the Project Zomboid video game where the player character has discovered an item described as "photograph of a Person Who's Tied Up"
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Was not expecting versions of "The Turtle Moves" á la Didactylos to be all over my feed today
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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Why are the socks SO upsetting
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You know. In the far off days of 1997, the American government just straight-up executing people in the streets was considered so alien an idea it was satire
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Absolutely incredible this reel of comedian Chuck Nice railing against modern tech enabling people celebrating being stupid ended up with a chatGPT ad running at the bottom of it. Absolute cinema
A still image from a Chuck Nice set against the modern celebration of stupid, showing an advertisement for chat GPT independently running at the bottom
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
It's loquat season, and after the best crop I've had in years there was nothing for it but jam! (Except for that last one, somehow I was worried it might make the batch taste a bit...salty 😅)
A man overwhelmed by a surfeit of loquatsNine bottles of freshly-made loquat jamA loquat and stem that looks suspiciously like a dick and ballsack, complete with the scrunchy end of the fruit resembling an arsehole
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
What a delightful way to discover the game you're playing is unquestionably Australian
Odina, a character from the Final Profit video game, expresses "Hey woah! No need to pull a Harold Holt, we can just take the road around" when confronted by a lake
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Goddamn AI bullshit
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
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perry the platypus says " i know what we 're gonna do today " in a cartoon
Alt: Phineas and Ferb discuss their plans for the day
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Team Cherry really had the temerity to deny Hornet used gamerspeak like "Git gud" for 6 years and then released #Silksong where every time she heals she holds up her needle and calls it her Fren
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
My God, the trip back to the enraged Conchfly in #Silksong (just to die immediately, of course) is so tedious
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Oh my God, this red fruit parkour in Hunter's March is *KILLING* me. All my Hollow Knight muscle memory keeps telling me to hit straight down instead of on the angle #silksong
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Hornet immediately claims #Silksong's first kill
Photo shows little green gremlin facepalming on the Steam error code page
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Silksong, let's GOOOOOOO...oh
Photo shows little green gremlin facepalming on the error code page for the Steam store. Hornet claims her first kill
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Who else out there is playing through the Pantheon of Hallownest for the next two and a half hours?
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Incredible feed serendipity
A skeet referencing cats sleeping above an unrelated, independent skeet featuring a cat sleeping
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Two very different countries only two letters apart, doing two VERY different things with mushrooms 😅
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
A completed copy of the form stating "I found Undertale at a low point in my life, a time when I *needed* to hear that everyone was deserving of love, compassion, and understanding. I cried through the entire finale
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This perfectly encapsulates a visceral frustration I feel any time I see a news article
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
For me it was Oni - played it on the PC, loved it, basically nobody I ever mention it to has heard of it... It was weird and silly and the levels felt mostly empty space, but you could shoot people while doing ninja flips and so teenage me was enthralled
Box art for the video game Oni
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Shit, that reminds me, I need to catch up on Gunnerkrigg Court and El Goonish Shive
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Ah, Oblivion. I'm so glad that even with a new coat of paint, you haven't changed a bit.
Baurus, stalwart protector of Emperor Uriel Septim the third, pictured insistently talking to me (the player character) by shouting into the back of the Emperor's head
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I have a sudden idea for a new and improved ice bucket challenge
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
See also: the success of COVID control measures
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I am *gasping* for air
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Seen a lot of people praising Cory Booker's marathon filibuster, but can someone explain the purpose of it for those of us outside the US? Was it to block something, or was he making a general statement?
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I thought this said "Fix Your Ordie" and assumed it was some kind of Geordie hospitality worker slang when someone ordered something they considered wrong.
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Red Gold spotted in Ballarat on the way back to the car
Holding a fistful of cherry tomatoes next to a bag hanging from a residential fence, under a sign saying "organic tomatoes - free"
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I can't believe they got @codyjohnston.bsky.social to present this
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer. Hard mode: No villains
Han Solo looking laconic (as usual)
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Perfect juxtaposition of posts in my feed, no notes
Screenshot of two Bluesky posts, one a sarcastic point about devout Christians wishing certain people to die and the other being a joke proof of dogs having souls because the jokester discovered their evil soul-sucking sword worked on someone's dog
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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 05/03/2025
Like most people with no grasp whatsoever of real economics, Mustrum Ridcully equated 'proper financial control' with the counting of paperclips. - Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Oh my God
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Jobst does great work, while managing to keep what *could* be a rather dry examination of minutia consistently entertaining; this is another great watch
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What a wild post to have at the top of my feed with zero context when I opened the app this morning
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This humour is way over my head
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Prince Orlofsky with a bit of light side stage reading waiting to charge on for the Act 3 Finale of Die Fledermaus! I have been utterly captivated by @kateforsyth.bsky.social's phenomenal retelling of the myth of Psyche and Eros - review coming soon 🤩
An opera actor dressed in traditional Russian attire standing in a garden next to a side stage gazebo. He holds a book under one arm - Psyche, by Kate Forsyth
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This game CANNOT be serious
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
All set up for a wild Friday night in the Geelong CBD, lol
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Ah, 3pm in December - the moment when all incoming emails slide into "tomorrow's problem" 😊
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
At least the Germans jailed their fascist between the failed coup attempt and the successful grasp for power.
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
To my dear American friends and colleagues this evening: *Deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Love from, An Australian.
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Janeway, like all of us, sits at her desk, staring intently at a small device in her hands.
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
Never before have I seen this series of words arranged in this order
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
I have a joke about archaeology! I really dig it
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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
Thank you to the stunning Rex Theatre in Charlton for our opening performance of Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri - look how gorgeous those sets look under the lights!
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