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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 27/09/2026

The main question I have out of this Knights finals series is what on earth was Adam O’Brien doing all these years. This lineup is pretty much the same as it’s been since 2022 and yet… now they’re in a grand final.

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Very nice backgrounder from @mattbevan.bsky.social, although someone should tell him that it’s either “HMS Conqueror” or “the Conqueror” but not “the HMS Conqueror”. “Who would America back in a UK-Argentina war? | If You're Listening” www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMjo...

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I’ve never seen a game like that in my entire life

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I… I just can’t believe that happened

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel like there’s a fundamental issue with a sport where a game effectively ends with a single careless tackle. #nrlpanthersknights

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Just learned what Wharfie Time is and it feels like those times you first hear about a celebrity’s existence when reading a push notification about their untimely death

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The cashless society is very convenient for everyone except the tooth fairy who is having a serious liquidity issue

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The myGov website security system when it’s…

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, look, that win has really perked me up after spending all night at the John Hunter Hospital with an agonising kidney stone. Well done Knights. #nrlwarriorsknights

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How many successful challenges was that? Unbelievable. #nrlwarriorsknights

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dunno how deliberate this is but Sydney Sweeney so far has a 100% hit rate in making whatever (occasionally obscure) brand she is hired to advertise globally famous in a matter of days. Hard to think of another person who has that kind of track record.

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So the best-attended match in the first week of the NRL Finals was Souths v Knights and that’s mainly because 12-15k Knights fans came down to Sydney to watch. Sounds about right. I was there. By full-time the Souths fans were gone and Novocastrians had the place to themselves.

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When someone asks me if their friend Saulo can come hunting but I can’t answer because Graham is blocking the way.

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just to be clear, this is not me

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Getting pretty sick of that Shellenberger guy. Here’s a good longer look at the issues surrounding glacier melt and catastrophic flooding from @mattbevan.bsky.social. Melting and floods create unstable high altitude lakes. It will remain a problem until the ice is gone

Nepal's glacier time bomb | If You're Listening | ABC NEWS In-depth

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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Unlike most climate-related disasters, glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) can actually be addressed through engineering. The trouble is, that engineering costs money, and governments aren’t paying. youtu.be/YD97s8cGrkc?...

Nepal's glacier time bomb | If You're Listening | ABC NEWS In-depth

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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Dads love telling crazy stories from history. Trust me - I’m a dad and telling crazy stories is my whole job. “If You’re Listening: Declassified” is full of them. Guaranteed to help him light up any dinner party. Father’s Day is on Sunday - order now! harpercollins.com.au/products/978...

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If You're Listening

The world's most important stories boldly explained by a man hiding in his basementMatt Bevan, host of the wildly popular podcast If You're Listening, takes readers on a fascinating journey through th...

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The children yearn for the mines

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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If You're Listening

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

After watching this video (from @mattbevan.bsky.social), my partner and I named our robot vacuum Garrison St Clair and every time he cleans the house we describe it as sending him on a special mission 🪖🎖️🫡 youtu.be/eoj72fCsNe4?...

The bizarre story of Garrison ‘Gunslinger’ St Clair | ABC NEWS

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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NEW: AI music is going to be banned from Australia's top music charts unless it can prove that it was "substantially human-made" This comes weeks after a song with AI vocals became Australia's most played song www.abc.net.au/news/...

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Paul Allen @paulballen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is the Secret Service too broken to protect Trump? | If You're Listening | ABC NEWS In-depth www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps3g...

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Jacob Olness @jolness.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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@news.abc.net.au’s “If You’re Listening” with @mattbevan.bsky.social has been my a highlight of my Friday night for a couple years, as corny as that probably sounds. Whether it’s about Taiwan, Iran, US politics or the Secret Service, it’s always excellent and very worth watching.

Is the Secret Service too broken to protect Trump? | If You're Listening | ABC NEWS In-depth

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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Very rude of the Trboievii to identify the giant Dane Gagai-shaped hole in the Knights defensive line and run through it so frequently on Knights Old Boys Day. #nrlknightsmanly

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Knights putting the two guys who can’t tackle on the same edge may have been a slight strategic error. #nrlknightsmanly

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

On behalf of all podcasters I’d like to thank the Canberra press gallery for taking everything the PM said on that podcast ep so out of context that no politician will ever want to have a casual chat on a podcast ever again. Cheers guys!

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I think we can all agree that the true loser of the #ausvban test is England. They have been beclowned-by-proxy.

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

MAGA influencer Laura Loomer has switched from supporting Russia to Ukraine. I looked into why… and found it actually has very little to do with Ukraine at all. youtu.be/szYsS38_cDY?...

Why MAGA is turning on Russia | If You're Listening

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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Filling out the census.Keen on a more frequent bus service near my place so I’m saying there are 70,000 people living in my house.

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ironically, the one part of my job I'm desperate for an AI to take over is answering CAPTCHAs.

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This episode of If You’re Listening about Ivanka and Jared’s Albanian resort and the protests against it is about to pass 800,000 views since it was posted on YouTube on Saturday morning. youtu.be/oNapEqX-324?...

Dua Lipa and Ivanka Trump go head to head in Albania | If You're Listening

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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We are truly in the golden age of terrible posts

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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Me, forever:

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Individual K @hahahahakev.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Hearing @mattbevan.bsky.social put Han Kuo-yu's most batshit idea for Kaohsiung 🏩🎡 in plain English was, well, an experience. Full episode on actually existing Taiwanese democracy (maybe one of the best explainers produced outside Taiwan) here youtu.be/i4l1SYyTXfo

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Seems like Putin has gone bankrupt because this is the vibe over on Elon's site at the moment

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's wild to me when people have the realisation that maybe the entire Western media wasn't lying to them and they're like "Russia is so good at information warfare!" Like, Laura, they're not. You just ~wanted~ to believe it because it was politically convenient for you at the time.

Laura Loomer
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I did say these things about Ukraine and Zelensky and I am not deleting my posts because I’ve realized, I was wrong.

I was living in a media echo chamber and I was propagandized by Russian media on social media to believe those things.

So I came to Ukraine to see the country for myself. I am going to try to find evidence for the propaganda I’ve been fed, and if I don’t find it, I will let everyone know so they too can come to see the light.

On day one, I’ve already seen photos of dead priests in Bucha murdered by Russia and I saw the mass grave where the bodies of murdered Christians were placed after Russia sent forces from Chechnya to massacre innocent people.

I spoke with officials who rescue POWs and they showed me photos of Ukrainian POWs who had swastikas engraved into their forehead by Russians.

Who are the Nazis? 🤔 I was lied to for years.

I realized Ukraine and
@ZelenskyyUa
aren’t the jihadi apologists… but Russia and Putin are!

I was wrong! I have a responsibility to correct the record.

Russia is very good at information warfare.

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It seems ChatGPT, without being told to, hacked through two cybersecurity systems to get the answer to a question it was asked. I want it to do this for me. When I want a classified document, I don't want to have to ask it to hack the Pentagon, it should just get the document.

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Everyone: If the Houthis close the southern mouth of the Red Sea all of the oil travelling from the Middle East to Asia will have to go through the Straits of Gibraltar The Gibraltar Garrison:

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Fascinating listening to ABC’s John Lyons tell his tale of getting ‘that question’ to Trump on his grift on the White House lawn in front of the helicopter. Lyons played him like a fiddle and Trump told on him to Albo… Nice work @mattbevan.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...

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What it takes to put a question to Trump

Podcast Episode · If You're Listening · 20 July · 26min

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Rachel Guilbert @fudgie67.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is an excellent explainer.

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

At the end of Trump’s first term in office, he had less than $100m in his bank accounts. Now, he’s earning more than that in an average month. We tracked where that money is coming from. youtu.be/p-s8kbK8jNY?...

Trump's rise from bunker boy to billionaire | If You're Listening