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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 3h

And now begins the customary post-vacation movie marathon/photo editing binge.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 10h

Not really thrilled with the sticker shock as I make a grocery resupply run, gotta say.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 12h

Meiko Kaji (star of Lady Snowblood) struttin' through the subway in the 1970s.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, right, being back home means I need to do things like "cook my own meals" and "do my own housekeeping" again.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 14h

We have such slices to show you.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Home again, home again, jiggetty-jig.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OK, that’s enough air travel for me for a while.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every time I have to make a connecting flight through LAX I swear to myself: never again. And yet, here I am at LAX once again, making a connecting flight, swearing to myself: never again.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

By Any Other Name. Veale Park/Walyu Yarta, Adelaide, #Australia 🇦🇺 The last photo I took before I packed up my camera for the journey home. #birds 🦅🪶

A Rainbow lorikeet perched on a rose bush in Veale Park, Adelaide, Australia. The bird looks like it’s trying to be a flower. ©️ Matt Baldwin

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One thing I’ve learned during this trip is that cockatoos in seaside Australian towns behave exactly like seagulls everywhere else, right down to trying to swipe food right off your plate. (Note: they also have seagulls, which likewise do their usual thing.)

A pair of sulphur-crested cockatoos sitting on the sign for a kabob shop in Lorne, a seaside town in Victoria, Australia. They are pretty much just acting like seagulls. ©️Matt Baldwin

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every Australian I've talked to this morning has asked me how long I'm visiting for, and every one of them has looked sad when I say I'm leaving today.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s my last morning in Australia. And I have to say, spending the last 15 days mostly offline and engaged in meaningful activities that broaden my experience of the world rather than doomscrolling has been…pretty frickin’ great!

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lot of people really need to recognize that the adage “water finds its level” is completely accurate to why Sanders continually surrounds himself with cranks. It’s not because he’s easily fooled or his staff is bad a vetting people; he’s one of them. Arguably always has been.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The BEST part of getting old (and there are many) is that you can ABSOLUTELY miss something wildly popular. Zooshas just flying by while you’re admiring someone’s sensible shoes or whatever. Bliss.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a fucking horse!"

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Must....not....eat...the forbidden ancient....gummi bear....

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well, that doesn’t sound like much of a lark at all, actually.

A sign warning about aggressive birds: CITY OF ADELAIDE
CAUTION
MAGPIE-LARKS IN THIS AREA
MAY SWOOP
(FROM ABOVE OR BELOW)
PROTECT YOURSELF BY;
(1) BEING ALERT TO THEIR PRESENCE
(2) RAISING AN UMBRELLA / STICK / ARM
OVER YOUR HEAD
(3)WEARING A HAT / BIKE HELMET / GLASSES
(4) IF CYCLING, GET OFF BIKE & WALK
DO NOT;
THROW ANYTHING AT MAGPIE-LARK;
IT MAY ATTACK MORE VIGOROUSLY

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh, so this Barker person quit the Democratic party and became a Trumper because of white grievance about the party prioritizing non-white voters? Couldn’t see that one coming.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last full day in Australia. Helluva thing, fulfilling a childhood dream. Sad to leave, but can’t say I’m disappointed, at all.

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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Chinggis Khan rocking a t-shirt saying I'M NOT THE STEPPE NOMAD I'M THE NOMAD WHO STEPPED UP

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I should probably feel bad about how hard I just laughed at this headline.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wryly amused that someone decided a memorial to two early explorers in South Australia also needed a femme angel whose smock is open and whose boobs are clearly visible.

A bronze statue of a feminine angle at a monument. The angel is holding a large palm frond, apparently as a peace offering. Her smock is open down below her shoulders, putting her breast on display.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you're building software that does things like this, the word for your product isn't "intelligence," it's "virus."

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One thing I will say about Adelaide thus far is that it has some absolutely *beautiful* public parks, even over Sydney & Melbourne despite the latter two having Royal Botanic Gardens. And the (completely free) Art Gallery of South Australia houses an astonishing collection of artworks.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saturday update: I don't know if it was the big footie game last night, or the rainy weather, or what, but this whole town feels collectively hung over this morning.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Came to a screeching halt when I saw LOUIE on there. Was it well-written, acted, and often quite poignant? Yes. Was it a vehicle for Louis C.K. to launder his unsavory & predatory behavior into acceptability before the public got wind of how he was treating female comics? Also yes.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*wakes up* *squints at discourse* Iced…coffee? *puts phone back on charger*

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fascinating, grabbing Friday night dinner & a drink out on the town in Adelaide discovery: Australia has its own version of the Valley Girl.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's challenge: figure out whether it's cheaper to pay the tariff fee and ship my souvenirs back to myself in the States, or just bite the bullet and pay the airline weight overage fee.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My hotel is playing Popol Vul's musical score for the Werner Herzog film AGUIRRE THE WRATH OF GOD in the restaurant during breakfast hours this morning. That's an interesting way to start the day.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me road-tripping in Australia: periodically just yelling “FUCK” in the car by myself because a bird species (esp. raptors) that I’ve been trying to spot has just flown into view but I can’t stop to try and photograph it. (This was also me road-tripping in New Zealand.)

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A fun thing about road-tripping in fairly rural parts of a foreign country is opening a dating app on travel mode just for a lark and having the results come back basically, “lol nah.”

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Welp, today I was (placidly, calmly) chased by a living dinosaur. #birds 🪶🦅 #Australia 🇦🇺

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Uh, y'all? I'm spending the night in a quaint Victorian-era bed & breakfast in a small seaside town in rural Australia. It's supposedly booked up, but aside from some creaking floorboards etc., I haven't seen anyone but the proprietor. Am...am I in a Down Under ghost story?

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Welp, today I was (placidly, calmly) chased by a living dinosaur. #birds 🪶🦅 #Australia 🇦🇺

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Being an environmentalist, conservationist, and wildlife enthusiast while traveling in Australia means going for a walk at dawn or dusk and wanting to mercilessly slaughter every single cute little rabbit you see.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did I feel like drinking last night? Not really. Did I pop into this place for a beer just so that I could say I had done it? Yes, absolutely.

A sign posted outside the Great Ocean Brewhouse, Apollo Bay, Australia: “You are standing outside the
SOUTHERNMOST
PUB
of the
AUSTRALIAN MAINLAND CONTINENT”

Yes I had a drink there.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s 6:30am in Australia right now, and it took me a full fifteen minutes of scrolling to realize that the “transplant” discourse on here isn’t actually about medical procedures.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kind of funny how quiet my skyline gets while I’m on the other side of the planet and all of my fellow Americans are asleep. Aussie sky, where you at?

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

……………….ooohhhhhhhhkay…..

A photograph of a kangaroo sculpture, that is painted pink, and has an upside-down melting ice cream merged onto it. It’s all very marsupial-themed body horror.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yeah, sorry, you can’t claim that Mamdani is the vanguard of a new progressive wave supplanting the Democrats and then turn around and claim it’s no big deal that he has a good relationship with a fascist, *even if* taking meetings with a president is something mayors occasionally must do.

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