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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 )

Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · Dec 10

Found it!

Kookaburra in front of Sydney Harbour in 2016

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 3h

Night all. A long and busy day tomorrow in the inner SW again.

Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 4h

Tomorrow for me! (wine anyway)

Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 4h

It’s always squabbles about land.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 5h

Are you in Australia, aged 20-70, with an increased risk of #BreastCancer via family history, prev ADH or LCIS on biopsy, or other reasons? Hurry to your GP for referral to this FREE, TELEHEALTH service recently started by Prof Kelly Anne Phillips to discuss medical prevention. #ASBD2025

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Preventing Cancer with Medications
(PCMed) Service

Peter Mac

• Frec consultative, telehealth service for healthy women anywhere in Australia at
increased risk of 1" BC

• Primory focus is to initiate BC prevention medication and ensure well-tolerated

•Discharge women to primary care to complete the 5-year treatment course

Support women, referring clinicians and GPs throughout treatment trajectory
(hotline service)

Embedded implementation study to assess feasibility and effectiveness of the
Service (uptake 55%)

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Who is suitable?
Female
Aged 20 to 70years.
No invasive BC or DCIS.
Increased BC risk
LCIS or atypical-hyperlasla
Remaining lifetime BC risk >20% or 10-year risk >5%

And a QR code for referral information

Prof Kelly Anne Phillips appealing at podium

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 5h

I think ABBA have done well. Well enough to sell this kind of weirdness

ABBA Voyage - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 5h

No #facetious

Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 5h

The Coalition and One Nation fighting over rural votes is very funny and also shows they are both poor at basic arithmetic (need Asians to do some adding up for them, obviously)

Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 5h

#Redbridge ALP 34 L-NP 29 Grn 11 ON 14 IND/other 12

Their 2PP 54.0 to ALP (+0.5)
My estimate for these primaries 53.9 (-0.8) which is the lowest for this term from anyone

Sep 25-Oct 7

www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Coalition’s catch-22: Caught between teals and One Nation surge

Polls show One Nation’s vote is rising in regional and rural areas. But is pandering towards the far right a fool’s errand for the Coalition?

www.afr.com

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 5h

The only type of racism police put any real effort into pursuing.

Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 5h

Gonna write my article about how ABBA have been criminally underrated FOR DECADES.

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 5h

I have literally no opinion on this.

Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 5h

It’s 2025. Write something more relevant for the times.

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 5h

Oh, the author works for the Economist. Enough said.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 16h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 5h

Are you stuck at home on Friday evening because you have no friends and no personality? Why not let @snarkyplatypus.com and I amuse you for a while?

Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 1d

NEW PODCAST: “AUMP 00004: Songs About Places” with @snarkyplatypus.com and me (1h24m11s) anotheruntitledmusicpodcast.com/00004/

Look for “Another Untitled Music Podcast” in your podcast app of choice, but not YouTube yet.

Like it? How about a tip? anotheruntitledmusicpodcast.com/products/

Against a blurry background image of an audio mixing desk sits, at a jaunty angle, the square cover image for a podcast, looking a bit like an album cover. The text reads: Another Untitled Music Podcast with Stilgherrian and Snarky Platypus.

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 6h

Less rich NIMBY donors would help.

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 6h

The wind by the water is cooling too.

Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 6h

Barangaroo, 18:28. A taste of summer.

The golden sun slowly descends over a shimmering blue harbour.

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 6h

It’s a time of multiple transitions at the moment. I was feeling more stressed about it earlier on in the week but feeling better about it now.

Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 6h

Office week is over! A busy weekend awaits, but hopefully a bit of relaxation somewhere in there.

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 7h

It’s clear Medicare rebates need changes, but as per usual, TOO HARD for the current batch of politicians and bureaucrats.

Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 7h

Inner West Greens are a special breed lol. Anyway, glad the Inner West ALP finally got their act together (we will see ongoing)

Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 7h

They’re similar to the ALP in that neither is willing to cede much ground to the other in order to get stuff done. It’s very Australian and frustrating.

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 7h

Many people from NZA are coming here 🤔

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Kitty/Inner West Hansard @tiredhottakes.bsky.social · 8h

I remember maybe three? four? years ago, before the YIMBY stuff really kicked off, I’d point out that someone like McKim was a part of the problems we face and people responded with ‘but the Greens are actively helping to solve it!’. Turns out, they aren’t. Instead they’re the biggest roadblock.

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 8h

Lewisham station after heavy rain lol

Every Sydney Station @sydneystations.bsky.social · 8h

What is Sydney's worst, most frustrating station?

For me it's Lidcombe - a very busy interchange. To get from T7 to the new apartment complex next-door you cross the street, walk 500m, cross the street again, go upstairs, thru the gate, downstairs, along two platforms to get back where you started!

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 13h

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day phonakins.com/2025/10/10/t...

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

I’ve written plenty before about how different aspects of Australia’s public health care and social welfare systems have helped or hindered my mental health. Getting DSP was a huge fact…

phonakins.com

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