David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 14/10/2026@radiofreetom.bsky.social Tom, it’s your time to shine: 000 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026(If you don’t recognise the name, Wilfred Brambell was Paul’s grandfather in A Hard Day’s Night) The backseat byplay between the three supports would be out of this world. 100 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026PG was the mistake here. Otherwise this would be Dirty Rotten Scoundrels territory. 100 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is far too optimistic. “Which votes get counted as valid” is where the steal happens, I think. Because the Supreme Court can be relied on to throw out any group of ballots it is asked to. Also, that has been the main play since 2000. 000 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I for one am ready to join the Papal brigades in the fight against the machines. 0143 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My daughter and her friend are watching anime. This is what I’m thinking as the characters deliver their serious internal monologues: 060 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Share an actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it… 270 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026For Newcastle Knights supporters trying to describe their feelings tonight, this may help. 011 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Honourable mentions: TIE Fighter, Space Quest IV 250 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One of the good dumb movies of the early 2000s. 020 0
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." 091 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Someone randomly liked this, just now. I haven’t the faintest idea what this was about. You know how often you can reconstruct the earlier bit of the conversation, at least in part? Here: nope. Not at all. 0100 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It just struck me that this meme is exactly the same style of humour as Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which may be why I love it so much. 071 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026What‘s the example of perfect casting? (“Oh Mr Collins!”) 190 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Suffragia non olet. (Lit. “Votes don’t stink”. Calling out the emperor Vespasian who, when challenged on the whiffiness of collecting tax on public toilets, replied “pecunia non olet” - money doesn’t stink.) 030 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Um, no. The CEOs are already too much like tyrants, and their ability to read deeply is…limited. 140 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Is anyone getting this for @gilduran.com or anyone else? I’d wanted to mention that he got a major write up on the ABC front page today: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... 511 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 01/09/2026There are people who say this attitude is divisive and counterproductive. Those people are wrong only because they believe the regime can be removed by internal forces. It (very likely) cannot. Only by external forces. 020 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This both (a) true and (b) why Bluesky is the natural home for academics (and former academics) in their forties. 090 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The Unfinished Tales one in particular. (The one you quoted was my PB edition from when I was a teenager until it started to disintegrate a few years ago) 010 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 29/08/2026When’s the last time a team had five posters? #AFL 140 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I’ve thought for years that Trump is just a combination of Homer and Burns (without either’s redeeming features), but perhaps he is more Bart in this specific Treehouse of Horror? 192 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 27/08/2026These are the opportunities headline writers dream about. 062 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026And discover it’s just this repeated 4000 times. 060 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009). 030 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The final scene, when the captive vampire is pleading eloquently for his freedom in a boardroom of corporate types. 0182 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I've got an alert set up for "Roman Republic" on something similar to Google Scholar (but not). So why do all these titles sound like they're the manifesto of a mass shooter? 030 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The Crows’ banner people have been spending too much time on Reddit. #AFL 280 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If you look up “tantalising” in the dictionary, you find this image. 0110 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026A first-year undergraduate describing themselves as “in the antepenultimate year of my degree”. 0121 0
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 01/08/2026That might be the most fun I’ve ever had watching football. #AFL 031 0