Reposted by Mark SmithersTim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Listen, cretin. 40,000 soldiers from my country of Australia were deployed in Afghanistan. 47 died and 263 were wounded. This racist dungbeetle probably wants a bravery medal every time he stays awake while his makeup gets applied 1103
Reposted by Mark SmithersHenrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Insightful piece that resonates well with my experience of university governance in the UK. Paywall free link: archive.is/1yFiqarchive.is 1178
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 17/05/2025I’m worried about how the penguins are going to read their tariff letter. 000
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 26/04/2025media.tenor.coma man is riding a horse in a field with mountains in the backgroundALT: a man is riding a horse in a field with mountains in the background 010
Reposted by Mark SmithersMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025America is… cooked. 1614180213782
Reposted by Mark SmithersAaron Dodd @aarondodd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Bloke Who Got Free Uni and Paid $75,000 for $4M House Wonders What’s in Budget for Him #auspol theshovel.com.au/2024/05/14/b...theshovel.com.auBloke Who Got Free Uni and Paid $75,000 for $4M House Wonders What’s in Budget for Him — The Shovel"Try getting a builder to renovate a holiday house in Portsea – they’re booked up until 2026! That’s two years minimum without a second entertaining area over the summer months' 23720
Reposted by Mark SmithersMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 06/01/2025x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump. 27817991718774
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I don't know who made this but it made me laugh. 1112
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Always a delight to listen to Dr. Lisa Marie Blaschke. Here she is keynoting at #ascilite2024 Looking forward to catching up in person. 060
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Settings > Account > Handle You obviously need your own domain to verify. 110
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I just renewed by UK passport and my Australian passport. My UK passport came back in no time at all. The online system was very good. My Australian experience was quite good but I still needed to go to the post office and use snail mail for parts. Oh and it was a lot more expensive. 110
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 17/11/2024www.theguardian.com/education/20... So has Oxford University just caught up with how academia works or is it The Observer?theguardian.comOxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staffLeading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms 040
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Lovely to see this place thriving. If you follow me and I haven't followed you back yet it may be because you don't have a bio or a picture (it doesn't have to be a photo of you). Have a lovely day. 080
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 12/11/2024who could forget Edutech in Perth in 2009? I have a vague feeling I met some people there. 120
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 28/09/2024Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,002,962! 070
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 19/10/2023Playing with ChatGPT vision. Princess Buttercup approves of this use case. 020
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 14/09/2023I had to have my root cannalled or was it my canal rooted? 100
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 14/09/2023Putting Blue Sky down for a little bit as I head to dentist for some lovely root canal work. Looking forward to playing more later. 120
Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 14/09/2023Hello Blue Sky! It feels like spring is in the air. 180