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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 3h

I am suddenly back in Year 9.

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arseblog @arseblog.com · 7h

Excellent stuff from Lewis. Go read. 👇

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading about Socrates, apparently he was horrific to look at and was still having kids in his 60s. Unbelievable game. Imagine you're at the bar and a man who looks like a beluga whale hits you with "The only thing I know is I know nothing" and you're just powerless to resist

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An historian is someone who tells true stories about the past. “Academic historian” is a subset of “historian”.

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hey come quick we’re dunking on JJ Abrams again.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Of all my internal shitposts that reality keeps proving true, “English politicians will do literally anything to avoid thinking about Ireland” is the most true.

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#MusicBrownlow @musicbrownlow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Voting is open in the #AdamSimpsonMedal. We want to know your three favourite songs from The Simpsons. Give us your 3-2-1.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Share an actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it…

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have not given up hope of a genuine Benoit Blanc murder mystery with the muppets. Just, not addressing at all that it's been in a shared muppet universe this whole time.

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I Suspect Foul Play Knives Out

ALT: I Suspect Foul Play Knives Out

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For Newcastle Knights supporters trying to describe their feelings tonight, this may help.

Part of Nick Hornby’s chapter “The Greatest Moment Ever” from Fever Pitch.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Empire Records (1995) has about six interwoven versions of (1), a single version of (2) (Rex Manning, although arguably Rex’s assistant too) and pivots to (3) in the last part of the film. This is why it is one of the all-time greats.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bolton a little surprising for Norm Smith. Not wrong - there wasn’t a clear standout BOG. I would have gone Zorko or Young personally. But Bolton was good.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Freo playing really dumb at the moment. Slow down. Hit targets.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ABC radio not syncing up and I won’t listen to Channel 7. So mute it is.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love a Grand Final Day when I can relax because neither of my teams* are playing. *Carlton, and Whoever's Playing Collingwood.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Which in international terms puts it around 198th

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a student handwrite "Autobahn Bismarck" as part of an answer on a test. I wanted to give extra credit, but restrained myself.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Occasionally TV channels get it right. Like putting an ad for a funeral parlour in The Departed.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes, high school students are harder to motivate than Year 1 students. But have you considered it’s because high school teachers don’t give out scratch-and-sniff stickers for good work?

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For anyone sitting around not sure what they want to do this evening: rewatch Hot Fuzz. It’s just as good as I remember.

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My patrician told me Phoenicians keep eating his consuls so I asked how many consuls he has and he said he just goes to Fields of Mars and has a dictator for elections send him a suffect consul afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding consuls to Phoenicians and then Two started crying.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The looks: Melania - detective in a Law and Order spinoff Trump - shortsighted elderly man squinting at something ten metres away Xi - movie Hong Kong mob boss

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Honourable mentions: TIE Fighter, Space Quest IV

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How pithy can I make this? In the neoliberal era most things are cheaper in real terms. This is a massive achievement. However, this has not allowed people to work less because (a) housing is far more expensive and the biggest cost and (b) the safety net is mostly gone, meaning fear.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There’s a decent chance that the early 2030s moral debate is “whether the risk is okay that a few innocent people are punished to make sure the many guilty people are punished”.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can it really be true that no one is legally responsible for AI agents? Criminal responsibility is one thing, but surely the company that makes it has civil liability? theconversation.com/an-openai-ag...

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An OpenAI agent hacked Medicare. Will anyone be held responsible?

This is unlikely to be the last time an AI agent hacks a government system.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 24/09/2026

I propose a moratorium on news stories describing AI* tools as “going rogue” as if they have intent and moral agency. Instead, let’s describe the events in terms of the companies’ negligence.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m genuinely interested in what happens next. All the Anglophone countries have signalled they like racism more than money. So where do Indian and Chinese students go? I know the push to learn abroad is less than it was, but it’s still there.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m astonished to learn this book came out in 2020–astonished, that is, because this exactly the sort of book ChatGPT would be used to write.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"His Holiness decrees that the Spanish and Portuguese empires shall be divided at the Hobart-Perth Line. Those English savages can have the Brisbane Zone."

Terrible Maps - world map image of the closest Australian city

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Book revisions. I tell that anecdote about Brutus and return to the Sullan civil war. After typing "Back in 82" I have to force myself not to follow it up with "I could throw a pigskin a quarter mile".

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It just struck me that if you REALLY wanted to make Star Wars echo the fall of the Roman Republic (even more than it already does), you'd make Anakin's paranoia about Obi-Wan having an affair with Padme real, and then you'd have Luke (= Brutus) side with Vader against Obi-Wan.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For when the results in November seem wildly divergent from the polling.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Putting fake signs on empty stores. Lol

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jacks don’t care about your feelings.

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