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Nakia from Sydney

@nakia01.bsky.social
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Live in Asia, have voted since the 80s and am getting increasingly worried about how things are turning out. Convinced that the arc of history does not bend towards justice. Reader, fanatical runner, miss Sydney.

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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social amazing death-defying run by the Blues, what a story. Growing up in Perth watching The Winners I was such a fan of The Buzz and Kenny Hunter, I've always been a proxy Bagger. Next year I hope you win 24-0 and belt Hawthorn by 100 points in the Granny.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social comments from the supercoach?
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social Let the war begin.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social well young Jess, Matthew Lloyd reckons we are your bunnies. What say you? I honestly can't pick this one. I just watched Scotty burbling shite at the Press conference and all I could think was "please shut up". You have a big out but so do we. Anyone's game I reckon.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social shaky start but Frankie Say, Fear Not. Coach won't be panicking.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social da-da-da-da-da ....
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social Frankie Evans, cult figure.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social I was just thinking, you are running 10-2-1 since Fraser. If you discount the first half of the season, you're the form team! Not impossible that you could win the whole show. Imagine that. Very pleased to see young Frankie do well. Binned by us/Port, found his niche.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social You have a new coach! Absolutely deserved (what a game that was yesterday!) God, the news re Sydney is simultaneously disgusting and depressing.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social I just realised you guys lost your first 8 out of 9 games, and after you sacked the coach, have gone 10-2. That is so wild. I really do feel sorry for Voss, it's quite humiliating, even though you definitely can't pin everything on him. What a strange season.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social Go the Baggers!!!!
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social you beauty! Cmon the baggers!
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social kick it ... Ah jeez!
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social bloody hell Cripps you right there?
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Hey @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social go the blues! Nothing would thrill me more to see you bury the Mayblooms.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
@rohanconnolly65.bsky.social was just watching Howie and Dunstall's top 5 and Paul Kelly was on. He said some very nice things about your brother and his lasting influence. I'm sure you've seen it. It was a lovely tribute.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
So farewell then Sir Keith Starmer. Your catchphrase was ... Nothing comes to mind.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social Geelong + umpiring Jeremy Cameron appreciation squad v Gold Coast!
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social what a game! Well done the baggers!
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social bloody hell!
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
26C dew point on my 13km run in tropical Asia this morning. If you've never experienced this, your sweat simply cannot evaporate. An absolutely sodden mess when I got back in, and beat all to hell. The things we do for the love and discipline of running!
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
AI will never be able to do this. Here's Patti Smith writing about her friendship with the impossibly gifted Sam Shepard. Wonderful writing. open.substack.com/pub/pattismi...
open.substack.com
My Buddy
Remembering Sam Shepard on his birthday
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
For God's sake, Albo, (I know you won't do it), insult Trump so he gets the hump and shuts down Pine Gap and cancels AUKUS to punish us.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This is all getting freaky. All my life I've wanted the Yanks to piss off out of Australia and would not have cried if they left Europe either. Also, I cannot believe we are STILL using fossil fuels. And here's Trump, removing troops from Europe and spurring the world to renewables. Damn.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The Spanish PM: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.” Imagine Albo or Wong saying this. Lol.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
How much more shit can Americans take before the country buckles under and slides into the sea.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... An excellent, beautifully-written set of observations by @iandunt.bsky.social
open.substack.com
Trump vs Nasa
This week offered two different futures for humanity. The first was based on self-pity and ignorance, the second on reason and common humanity.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The media sanitising of the unchecked aggression of Israel and the US is par for the course. Every ridiculous, unwarranted invasion by aggressor "allies" of ours since I was born in 1969 has been reported the same way; it's a "conflict", not a thuggish attack for no good reason. Screw you, Guardian.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social I was teaching this afternoon and hadn't time to look at the footy score until now. Oh man. I'm genuinely sorry. Damn.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I know this seems unbelievable, but the heat index in Bangkok next week could hit 60C. 60C!
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Normally I'd be absolutely thrilled by the ALP caning the Liberal Party in any jurisdiction. But I don't like Albo, or Minns, or that smug Shoppie SA Premier and his sleazy behaviour during the Writer's Festival. They're all bunch of bootlicking rentier Tories in my opinion. At least ONP failed.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Good morning. Woke up. Read again, like every day, that the President of the United States is more insane than any person I've met since being born in 1969. Going for a jog. It's 27C at 4.30am, and the hot season doesn't start for a few weeks. Hawthorn won. The world is bleak.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
28km run this morning, up at 3am to beat the Bangkok heat. Made the dumb mistake of doing laps in a huge park midway though, super confusing and very humid. 32km next week and then the Wollongong Marathon. It is going to be total luxury running in dewpoints of 13-14C.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social looking good young jess.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Good grief. youtu.be/DeRETBWnNWA?...
youtu.be
Jeffrey Sachs: We Are Now in the Early Days of World War III
YouTube video by Glenn Diesen
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
#running half marathon this morning in central Thailand. Dew point 24C, absolutely brutal conditions. Made it through at a decent clip but was absolutely saturated when I finished, even my shoes were squeaky with sweat. Raced many times in Asia but these were the worst ever conditions.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Surely this can't be right. Surely. But, sadly, horribly, I fear it may be.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
An Iranian ship at a joint Indian naval exercise, where all vessels were required to be unarmed, paraded its sailors along other participants, including the US. The US then withdrew at the last minute, torpedoed the Iranian vessel, and refused to rescue survivors. 87 sailors killed, 60 missing.
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U.S. submarine torpedoes Iranian ship in Indian Ocean, reportedly killing at least 87 sailors
Attack off coast of Galle, Sri Lanka, set off rescue efforts
Thomson Reuters
Posted: Mar 04, 2026 6:36 AM PST |
Last Updated: March 4
Listen to this article i
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Workers in Galle, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday unload the bodies of Iranian sailors from a vehicle, after they were killed when the IRIS Dena warship sank outside Sri Lanka's territorial waters. (Eranga Jayawardena/The Associated Press)
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social ah strike me pink.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Looking good @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
@beccabalintvt.bsky.social Can we replace the entire craven Australian government with you please. Many thanks.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
@jonathanhorn.bsky.social That was a wonderful tribute to Dennis Cometti. Thanks Jonathan.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Dennis Cometti was erudite, funny and engaging. His witticisms could fill a library | Jonathan Horn www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2.... A wonderful tribute by this fine writer.
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Dennis Cometti was erudite, funny and engaging. His witticisms could fill a library | Jonathan Horn
Look back at football’s defining moments and Cometti did them all justice – he didn’t miss a beat and always had the perfect one-liner ready to reel off
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
@jlcauvin.bsky.social hey J-L, sorry you didn't get the opportunity to be a rep. Next time! I've been listening to you for many years now and I really appreciate all your work in these dark times. Thanks for skewering those ghouls week after week, it helps keep me sane.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
@ournewhomecoach.bsky.social I just saw the ppm stat in your bio. When I was born, CO2 ppm was 324ppm and it has since grown 33%. 33%! Good job we are being so responsible these days.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Stop pretending to be dumb: the Iran War is about Greater Israel, not “liberation” theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
theshot.net.au
Stop pretending to be dumb: the Iran War is about Greater Israel, not “liberation” - The Shot
There is a map. There is a plan. There are quotes. There is evidence, both historic and fresh.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
@tonymartin.bsky.social Fuck'n Reg Tankwater is runnin' the fuckin' joint now.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
@albomp.bsky.social you're the Prime Minister and you've just gone all-in with the President bombing another country without Congressional approval. They've just killed dozens of kids in a school. Disgraceful. How can you live with that? You don't speak for us.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I got up, read Australia had again backed a completely unjustified decision to drop deadly explosives on another nation's citizenry, and went out on my scheduled 26km run. Packed it in at 19, heart wasn't in it. Fuck it, it's only 7am here, I'm going to get drunk.
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Nakia from Sydney @nakia01.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
@bronwynhill1.bsky.social hey Bronwyn. This is depressing, of course, and says so many rotten things about our times, but I thought the reporter eloquently expressed the depth of the current misogynistic ideology. Thought you'd appreciate as a former scribe. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
The most disturbing revelation so far
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