Lee Murray

@leemurray.bsky.social

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Australian English sociolinguist in the wild -- former resident word-nerd at By Lingo! @ thebigissue.org.au -- academic-skills coach -- send me your weird-to-tree sentences for #syntaxtreeoftheweek -- they/them

Screenshot of a small part of a pathology testing form. The question "Appearance of Cervix" has two checkboxes next to it. One checkbox says "Benign" and the other says "Suspicious". The words "appearance of cervix" and "suspicious" are highlighted in yellow.
Headline reads: Australian State Proposes Jail Time for Dogs Left in Hot Cars. The headline is written in white text over a photograph of a large dog sitting in the back seat of the car
post by @liamvhogan@aus.social reads: Aside: the other week I heard someone refer to the project feasibility study process as 'got to pass the feaso'. My god Australian English is a beautiful horror
Text reads: Lindsay Lohan bitten by snake on holiday in Thailand. Image below text: Lindsay Lohan - a young, thin white woman with long blonde hair and wearing pink and black bathers - poses in front of a swimming pool
A black and white cat sits with his back to the camera, staring intently at a TV playing a video of mice running around.
text reads: You think you've seen it all and then your 13-year-old blind beagle throws up the French flag in the middle of the night. There are two photos below the text: a beagle with severe cataracts, and a dirty, crumpled French flag sitting on a tile floor.
@DawgBelly: A small joy in my life is that my sis is dating a guy with tteh same name as her cat & human Nigel hates that we all call him human Nigel.
A thin white person with a dark mullet hairstyle, glasses, and a party hat stands in front of a PowerPoint projection that reads: "The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out".
Black text on a white background reads: “Somewhere on the journey, the message that carrots are good for your eyes became disfigured into improving eyesight,” Stolarczyk said. His digital museum, full of surprising and obscure facts about carrots, investigates how the idea became so dominant, tracing its roots to propaganda shared by the British government during World War II.
Woman slams selfish paragliders who 'made her think Hamas were invading Doncaster'. A woman panicked her village near Doncaster was under attack when she spotted a number of paragliders flying over her home and thought they were from Hamas
The logo for the social media platform Threads, in white on a solid black background. The logo looks like the "at" symbol with a schwa in the middle instead of a lowercase letter A.
Headline reads "Are you missing underwear?"
Photo is an extreme close-up of a tuxedo cat who has his face inches away from the camera. He is so close to the camera that only one eye, one ear, and his nose are in frame. Behind the cat is a computer screen with multiple windows/programs open.
Road sign reading: HITCHHIKERS MAY BE ESCAPING INMATES
Trump Demands Murdoch is Deposed in Epstein Suit
Post by @gayeddietruther reads "they call me the information withholder for reasons i won't get into"
Headline reads "Physicians Aroused Over Gland Theft"
Headline reads "Gland Larceny: testicle theft a real problem in 1922 Chicago". Author is Dale M. Brumfield, dated Dec 13th 2020.
A black and white cat draped over the far edge of a rectangular cat bed. Most of his body sits below the edge of the bed and can not be seen. His face rests on the edge of the bed and one paw is stretched out on the bed with claws visible, resembling Gandalf in the Balrog scene of LOTR. He is looking directly into the camera.
Post by @SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe reads: Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government
A Kleenex tissue box photographed from above, opened by tearing away the perforated section of the box top. The cut-out section is shaped like the body of a wug. Two wug legs have been drawn on the box, at the bottom of the cut-out section.