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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Critics of the social media ban love to point out that kids will find a workaround, as though that hasn’t always been the case with any age related restrictions. A fair chunk of social media is more dangerous than sneaking into an MA 15+ film, but no one thinks we should do away with film ratings
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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 · 07/11/2025
And what, completely ignore sand and steel?
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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 · 01/10/2025
This is exactly how i feel — I love my em dashes! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too
The humble em dash is being used as a tell that something is written by a large language model. But it’s James Shackell’s favourite piece of punctuation, and he’s not ready to lose it
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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 · 22/08/2025
Oh, sorry. Not sure what’s happened there. Seems to be normal on my end.
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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I’m more embarrassed for the subeditor - EVERYTHING from tennis racquets to golf balls? That range doesn’t seem that vast. Sound like they’re taking tennis balls and - at the most - golf clubs as well.
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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 · 30/07/2025
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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I maintain that a mnemonic has to be memorable - and yes, technically that has been “remembered” but only by rote. You could say the times tables is a mnemonic in that case. Rather than say, Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit… y’know?
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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Thanks Graham. Yeah, I wouldn’t want to do it that way every week either. It’s much more fun with other people!
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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 · 28/06/2025
It’s gotta be, right?
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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The hardest thing about cattle rustling in the modern age is learning to tie a teeny tiny lasso to catch the sperm! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australian man charged with cattle theft after $100,000 load of bull semen found
Grafton man faces 20 charges after police uncover embryos, a tank of semen and the alleged deceptive sale of wagyu cows
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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
You can only beat the opposition in front of you? Which he did. But seems to have been punished for not beating a better opponent
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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 · 26/05/2025
Quite a few who I had literally never heard of before tonight
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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Two things we can agree on: ice cream is the best. Don’t starve children to death www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Ben & Jerry’s co-founder arrested for protesting Gaza blockade at US Senate hearing
Ben Cohen and others interrupted RFK Jr at hearing to protest Israel’s Gaza blockade and Medicaid cuts
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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
“Daddy doesn’t let me vote, so I’m gonna bully you into doing it for me”
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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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Tony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
'Jorly horky sticks, I'm a working class normal'. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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High profile Liberal candidate Amelia Hamer who pitched herself as a renter admits she owns two properties
Amelia Hamer, who is running in the Victorian seat of Kooyong, has also opposed construction of new apartments in Melbourne
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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 · 01/04/2025
Little glimmer of good news amongst the shit. When WB shelved a completed movie to earn a tax write off, my blood boiled. Can’t wait to see this www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...
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Coyote vs Acme: $70m Looney Tunes film to be released after being canned by Warner Bros
Live-action animated film starring John Cena and Will Forte will hit cinemas in 2026, after it was controversially shelved in favour of a $30m tax write-down
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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 · 20/03/2025
Honestly, all the photos of Dyson Heydon look like he's being played by a Hollywood A-lister in some turgid Oscar bait. Like they're just too obviously sex pest. www.theage.com.au/national/a-k...
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A kick in the guts for women: The legal profession’s re-embrace of a disgraced judge
What message does it send when judges and lawyers lionise former High Court judge Dyson Heydon, who was found to have sexually harassed a number of associates and who drove women from the profession?
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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 · 28/02/2025
Maybe the AI, being governed by Asimov’s 3 Laws of Robotics, will recognise the inhumanity of the system and not be able to function?
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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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grahamwkidd.bsky.social @grahamwkidd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
And we are back! Season 6 @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5D9t...
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Night in Tunisia Bird with Eddie Perfect and Elise McCann
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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 · 21/02/2025
Ugh. I’m so sorry for you at this terrible time.
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Johnnyjohnleary @johnnyjohnleary.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Somehow not a @thebetootaadvocate.bsky.social post.
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