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Sooty
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Court reporter, musician & birder. Hyperlexic, autistic & Australian. Proudly boring.
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Me in line for the Tokyo National Museum
A simple clay figurine on display in a museum. He has a churlish grin, smiling eyes and both hands pressed to his tummy as if he's rubbing it. Other clay items are visible in the background.
October 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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I'm confused by this part. They say 30% of cases identified a woman as the perpetrator, and then refer to misidentification of women as perpetrators.

So is 30% an overestimate? The AIHW website indicates 23% of women and 7.3% of men have experienced DV since the age of 15, so 30% isn't far off. 🤔
August 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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A meme starring Bianca Del Rio and Trinity K Bonet. Bianca (labelled as "everyone") asks "What do you do successfully? Quickly." Trinity (labelled as "LLMs") looks confused.
July 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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A photograph of an Australian king-parrot perched on a bare gum tree branch, looking down at the camera with a bit of sideeye. The bird is bright red with green wings. The sunlight is bright and the background sky is blue.
April 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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I love butcherbirds, they're always so attentive to what's going on. ♥️
April 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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This year, treat yourself to a puck of devon. You've earned it.
Two pale hands hold a hockey-puck sized chunk of devon (aka low quality pink lunchmeat) over a white stone bench. The devon chunk has a bite taken out of it. (Jam jars are visible in the background - this is unrelated. Don't be getting notions now.)
January 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Is there any way to reverse this trend? I know I'm just the old man yelling at clouds but I hate it so much.

To clarify:
"How it looks" ✅☺️
"What it looks like" ✅☺️
"How it looks like" ❌👺🙅
A google ngrams graph showing prevalence of the phrase "how it looks like over time" from 1950 to 2022. The line stays low until 2015, when it rises dramatically and has not yet levelled off.
December 9, 2024 at 10:35 AM