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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

this is absolutely not ok. And the police spokesperson dismissing genuine concerns with the old “If you aren’t carrying a weapon, you don’t have anything to worry about” shows how little they regard human rights. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months

Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in a move criticised by human rights groups

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Wordle 1,604 4/6* Under the circumstances, I think 4 is pretty good ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

So these “rare earths” we’re gonna be digging out of Australia belong to all of us, right? Sounds like it might be lucrative. Wonder if there’s any taxation plan to benefit from our good fortune? Or does Gina keep it all?

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The publishing of my weekly podcast has been haphazard of late, and I apologise. But the good news is that you get last week’s episode today and you only have to wait 24hours for the next one! And they’re both crackers! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

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Old Boilers with Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore

Podcast Episode · The Saturday Quiz · 16/10/2025 · 43m

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

They haven’t even dragged the air stairs over, but sure, stand aggressively in the aisle

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

You should probably all listen to this week’s episode of The Saturday Quiz podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

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Kinky Boats with Laurence Boxhall

Podcast Episode · The Saturday Quiz · 22/08/2025 · 49m

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Hey @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social my kid demanded to dress as Beverly the Sourdough Starter for book week

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The Saturday Quiz is back this week (sorry for the unplanned hiatus) with a delightfully meandering episode. Whats the opposite of a lightning round? podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

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Listening to Paint Dry with Duncan Fellows

Podcast Episode · The Saturday Quiz · 15/08/2025 · 46m

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Today’s NYT Connections Green category has one word that absolutely has never been used in that context.

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Right, so the cops are dropping the charge that they weren’t authorised to use at the peaceful protest they shouldn’t have been at which they turned violent, resulting in serious injury and probable loss of sight. But we don’t need to worry about the right to protest

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I mean… it’s hard to know where to begin with what’s happening, but First Dog on the Moon has a knack for crystallising the point

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World War 3!? Whose idea was that? | First Dog on the Moon

The world is up in arms and maybe even ending! What is going on. I’m frightened!

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

heartwarming video of man who just received cochlear implant hearing the video of the lady who fell and hurt herself stomping grapes on the news for the first time

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Ugh. James Paterson on ABC Insiders just making shit up. Has exactly the same “I’m being completely reasonable and everyone else is wrong” demeanour as Scott Morrison used to have.

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Stop using AI to create art. You’re destroying the planet to make what will only ever be slop www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/13/audible-unveils-plans-to-use-ai-voices-to-narrate-audiobooks?CMP=share_btn_url

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Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Audible’s AI will be nothing but slop. Translator Frank Wynne said “No one pretends to use AI for translation, audiobooks, or writing because they are better; the only excuse is that they are cheaper. Which is only true if you ignore the vast processing power even the simplest AI request requires.”

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Connections Puzzle #703 🟩🟪🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 I admit it. I fell for the Keanu trap

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

If the Exclusive Brethren are so desperate to influence politics, why don’t they just let themselves vote?

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Unsurprising, but no less shocking to hear Rhodes Scholar and former PM Tony Abbott glorify the colonisation of Jan 26, 1788 as a day “the rule of law, notions of freedom & equality, came to a country that didn’t have anything like the same thing” First fleet didn’t like Welcome to Country either

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Pause a moment to remember that on Friday, Dutton rightfully condemned the neo-nazi who booed a Welcome to Country at an Anzac service. By Monday, he was essentially saying “the guy’s got a point”

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The whole exclusive brethren thing is so insidious, but then you read this: “A number of the men have been photographed at polling booths wearing shorts despite Brethren doctrine that “God takes no pleasure in the legs of a man”

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

If you can’t join the dots between the leader of the Nationals celebrating the defeat of the Voice referendum, and the booing of the Anzac Day Welcome to Country…

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Haven’t posted one of these in a while. But look at that! Wordle 1,388 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A couple of very brainy guys on this episode of The Saturday Quiz. George and Pierre were an absolute delight to have on the show. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

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Sandwichfest with Pierre Novellie and George Fouracres

Podcast Episode · The Saturday Quiz · 04/04/2025 · 54m

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The cop who was found guilty of manslaughter for tasering a frail 95 year old woman 3 minutes after he was called to the scene, just got sentenced to bugger all. What a joke

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It’s a double episode weekend for The Saturday Quiz - and effectively a battle of the generations. Listen to both now! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

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The Saturday Quiz

Society & Culture Podcast · 6 Seasons · Updated Weekly

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I’ll say this about Adelaide, it knows how to be really fucking hot

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

My dog didn’t know that getting tangled in all those cables from my computer would disconnect those external hard drives and delete all that work. So I can’t be mad at her. Still annoying though.

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Wake up babe, the new coals to Newcastle just dropped

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

There is some truly awful stuff going on in the world right now, so I’m making my podcast again as a place of escape for a little while. Episode 1 of season six is a delight. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

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Night in Tunisia Bird with Eddie Perfect and Elise McCann

Podcast Episode · The Saturday Quiz · 21/02/2025 · 45m

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Well, der. Robodebt is precisely the kind of thing the Nacc was created to investigate. The original decision NOT TO was always bonkers! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Nacc to investigate six referrals made by robodebt royal commission

National anti-corruption commission to relaunch investigation after independent review

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Spectacular effort by Creative Australia to head off a prolonged and divisive debate about the role of politics in art by generating a prolonged and divisive debate about political interference in our arts organisations.

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

If you listen to my podcast - The Saturday Quiz - or even if you don't, I'd really appreciate you taking this audience survey so I can deliver more of the stuff you like and less of the stuff you don't. bit.ly/thesaturdayq...

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The Saturday Quiz Survey 2025

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Why Creative Australia look at what’s going on with Antoinette Lattouf and think “we want some of that”?

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

In my youth, Leila Hayes was a fantastic drama teacher. Vale to one of the most influential people on the course of my life tvtonight.com.au/2025/01/vale...

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Vale: Leila Hayes | TV Tonight

Veteran actress Leila Hayes best known for Sons and Daughters and Prisoner has died.

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Ending the year strong: just cleaned out the filters on my vacuum cleaner

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Is it just me, or has the Ticketek site shat itself?

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Gee whiz, I know Labuschagne isn’t the tallest guy in the team, but umpire’s call for lbw when it hits the thigh pad is pretty tough #AUSvIND

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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The most annoying part of today’s NYT connections puzzle is that I knew what all the categories were, but when there is more than one thing in a picture, and the thing itself has multiple names, how am I supposed to know which word the tiny arrow is pointing to? (I’m looking at you, fudge)

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