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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 24/05/2025

While X has gone to hell as a platform, it still has frustratingly compelling doomscroll content, but I've lost all enthusiasm to post. Need to be more active on here.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 18/05/2025

That's an insanely good move by Verstappen 🥵 #ImolaGP

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 08/05/2025

In an age where we can access almost any information within a few seconds on our phones, it's incredible to see the election of a global leader announced with a literal smoke signal, and there's still an hour-long wait for the detail. Tradition is cool.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 11/04/2025

Literally any other sport: "WHAT THE FUCK, GET THESE RIDICULOUS FLOWERS OFF MY SCREEN, WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING??? SHOW ME THE ATHLETES AND THEIR FREAK ABILITIES!" #TheMasters: "Beautiful. Gorgeous. Poignant. Love this. Take a moment, smell the petals. Life is a journey."

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 09/04/2025

At a glance, paying $1.11m for a modern baseball card seems crazy 🤯 But when you dig into the numbers, this Paul Skenes autograph presents a shrewd investment, marketing, brand and sales opportunity for the buyer, DICKS Sporting Goods. My take 📰➡️ www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-us...

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/02/2025

Not many podcasts are good at integrating ads. It's either crude brand slaps or clumsy planted promo under the guise of native. Refreshing to see how @footballcliches.bsky.social integrate theirs. The only pod I won't just mash the "skip 15s" button multiple times when the sponcon begins.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 24/12/2024

No matter how many years we are away from home, Carols by Candlelight in Melbourne is an annual tradition, and this year.... we have family here and our hearts are so full 🥰

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 11/12/2024

Yep, but the developer is super responsive and always improving the software :) @gildaswise.com

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 06/12/2024

We are also eternally grateful for the expertise and dedication of Dr Maria Viola - because of whom, we are able to hold our miracle IVF baby Ava in our arms today. Fertility isn't talked about openly enough, and my DMs are always open and confidential for anyone who wants to chat x

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 06/12/2024

I felt 10-feet tall walking out of this place ❤️

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 06/12/2024

Today, it's cuddles and milk-drunk snoozes. Tomorrow, it's showing her the world and all the wondrous potential it holds for our strong, fearless, determined daughter. And somewhere in between, taking an eternity to enjoy moments that will pass in the blink of an eye.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 06/12/2024

Welcome, Ava Anneke Hogg ❤️ Born on 26/11/24 at 8:40am, Ava made quite an entrance into the world and ensured she was center of attention from day 1. After a short NICU visit to give her little lungs a helping hand, she is now thriving & settling into life, filling our home & hearts with happiness.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 06/12/2024

What's the primary resistance? Too hard? CBF? Other priorities?

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 06/12/2024

I'm surprised - even several weeks later - how many large publishers, leagues, teams and "notables" haven't verified their domains here. Even without direct access to your DNS, this should be a relatively simple process for authenticity and clean handle branding.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 05/12/2024

Ha, yeah, if they were still a listed company.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 05/12/2024

There aren't many companies on earth that would see their share price INCREASE after the CEO is assassinated before the market opens.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I came onto Bluesky an hour ago, and the first two things I saw were posts providing useful context for understanding the imposition of martial law in South Korea—the exact kind of thing that Twitter used to be so useful for in a developing crisis.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 01/12/2024

Did that seriously just happen? 😳 #QatarGP

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 28/11/2024

It's not that you think a meal will appear, but rather the lowering of your standards a second and third time until tomato and cheese on toast becomes acceptable 🤣

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Time to give @bluesky props. As I write this, there are 560 quotes and replies to the post below. Of those only 4 call me names and give me shit. About 15 do the same towards Trump. The remaining 541 are on topic and add value. 👏👏👏👏👏

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 28/11/2024

Any chance we can get custom email alerts for stats? For example, when a certain player: - HRs in consecutive games - Hits in x consecutive games - Hits for the cycle - Gets promoted/demoted/IL'd - OPS hits a certain threshold - Reaches x SB Etc. would be amazing for prospect tracking & fantasy.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 27/11/2024

Really enjoying your chase! How are you storing them? Displayed, or binders?

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 25/11/2024

11pm. Wired. Can't sleep. Becoming a first-time dad in a few hours. I'll probably never sleep again. The irony is not lost on me 😅

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 25/11/2024

I heard a great analogy over the weekend. Australia banning teens from social media is like banning people from the ocean instead of teaching them to swim, training lifeguards, planting flags and showing kids how to spot rips and dangers. It defies any common logic.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 25/11/2024

The whole proposal is absurd and the fact that teens would be banned from LinkedIn - at a key juncture of their lives for network building and job seeking - is simply insane. What are you doing Australia?

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 23/11/2024

📍 Majlis GC Dubai, UAE 🇦🇪

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 23/11/2024

How's the real estate industry in Australia right now you might ask? Well, one agent labelled a school inside a youth prison as "nearby college" as a selling point 😬 via r/melbourne

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

That's it (for now). I'll add anything interesting as I discover it, and can only help this influx of users creates more ideas, innovation and product updates! 🦋

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

DATE RANGE 🗓️ To find posts within a date range, you can use "since" and "until" commands. Useful for filtering popular topics (such as sports, or major events). Eg. if you want to re-visit Australia's rugby triumph over England, you could search: wallabies since:2024-11-08 until:2024-11-10

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

LANGUAGE 🗣️ If you have audiences in different countries, you can search for language-specific content by using the universal language code, along with your desired term. For example: Searching lang:ja "basketball" will show me any post mentioning "basketball" in Japanese.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

USERS 📧 If you want to find posts from a specific account without visiting their profile, simply add from: to the front of their handle. For example, searching from:alistairhogg.com will show all of my posts. Unfortunately, these do not stack to add multiple accounts.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

DOMAINS 💻 Preface any website with domain: and it will find content with articles linked to that website. For example, domain:fiba.basketball will show any post with a link to content hosted on FIBA's website which is useful for anyone looking to track brands without them necessarily being tagged.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

We can only hope this is rolled out in the future for even more power and flexibility, but for the time being, Bluesky has a short article offering some tips & tricks to search: bsky.social/about/blog/0... A few of the more useful ones include... 👇

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Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky

Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

SEARCH 🔍 Unfortunately, Boolean search does not seem to work (but it doesn't on Bluesky natively either). For example, "Olympics" AND ("Handball" OR "Archery") should return any post that mentions "Olympics" or either of these sports, but it does not.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

BOOKMARKS!!!!!! 🔖 While this feature is still missing from Bluesky natively, you can add any post to your Blue Deck bookmarks for easy retrieval and viewing later.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

Speaking of brands, you can connect 3 free accounts to Deck Blue. If you subscribe to their Patreon, you can add extras: 4: $1 /month 6: $2 /month 8: $3 /month 10: $5 /month UNLIMITED $7/month These tiers come with additional perks such as scheduling & color customization: www.patreon.com/deckblue

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Get more from deck.blue on Patreon

Get the most out of Bluesky.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

If you manage different accounts and take any action on a post (like/reply/repost etc.) the action will always come from the column 'owner'. For example, if you are logged into your personal account AND your brand account and 'like' a post in your brand's @ column, it will come from your brand.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

You can toggle these individually for each column, which is very useful to get everything exactly how you want it. For instance, you might manage a brand that gets a lot of shares and reposts, so you can easily toggle this to cut through the noise and focus your experience on what you need to see.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

Other column settings are extensive and give you the option to curate your feed exactly how you like it. - Labels - Notification sounds - Filter your own posts - Compact mode - Column, font and media size - Show/hide media and embeds - Refresh rate - Language preference - Muted words

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

By default there is a "CLEAR" button at the top of each column that does exactly as it suggests, which I accidentally clicked several times. IMO it's annoying, so if you don't want this to appear, it's an easy toggle in column settings.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

If you ever used Tweetdeck, configuration and visuals are almost identical (which is a very good thing). It's clean, easy to understand, uncluttered and allows you to organize your accounts and columns exactly as you like.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

So I was SUPER excited to discover @deck.blue last night. It looks (and functions) EXACTLY like Tweetdeck did, giving you full control over your accounts and allowing you to get the most out of Bluesky. A short thread 👇🧵

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 22/11/2024

Woah, Bluesky has a deck, that functions EXACTLY like Tweetdeck did: deck.blue I am very, very optimistic about this site!

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Get the most out of Bluesky with a multi-column layout

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 21/11/2024

Everything I loved about original Twitter, slowly coming back. Life finds a way 🥰

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 21/11/2024

One of the biggest differences for me is that I'm actually seeing cool stuff on my feed here, compared to the most vile and controversial shit on the other platform designed to stir rage and clicks. And I feel like getting involved in conversations again.

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Alistair Hogg @alistairhogg.com · 21/11/2024

You've done lekker considering 😅

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