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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Putting Pete Hegseth quotes over Zapp Brannigan pics goes pretty hard. #secdef #futurama

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💫Pyxelmajick✨💫 @pyxelmajick.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Father's Day to All The Cat Dads 🐱💕

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is EXACTLY why we won't import Seppo beef. Well, one of the reasons. Trump threw a tantrum over the fact we don't Mexican Screw worm.

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Scott Patrick, PhD @neimanmarxist.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I didn't quite make #insiders this week, but my phone and left hand did. #auspol #australia

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norman emailer @maximumchips.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Grand Designs Australia goes entirely against the ethos and appeal of the original Grand Designs, which is a show about English twits spending astronomical amounts of money making a crap house in a damp paddock and going so far over budget that they get divorced

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Nothing could better sum up where we are as a culture

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

NT News headline tomorrow morning: Great Head beats dud Root every time. #ashes

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

If Melbourne University Publishing doesn’t want to keep publishing Meanjin, they should hand over the journal to someone worthy of the responsibility. Me in The Conversation theconversation.com/the-decision...

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The decision to close Meanjin misunderstands its wider importance. Australian culture deserves better

The decision to close Meanjin is the latest in a string of recent decisions that suggest universities are not safe harbours for priceless cultural institutions.

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Do you want a second Sepoy Rebellion?!

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

You think this is bad, pity the poor National Guard bastard who has to be Trump's official toilet-seat warmer.

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The reason Silicon Valley is now offering monarchy money for AI experts who are in the reasoning area is exactly because of things like the recent suicide guidance. They’ve created a complex parrot that has no ability to know what it’s saying. Its goal is to fulfil a user request. It’s not thinking.

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

Nothing lasts forever, and that includes the Roman Empire.

The Fall of Rome-Scented Candle smells like cypress trees and red wine. Light it and watch the Roman forum melt into a puddle of wax while you quietly contemplate the impermanence of civilizations and/or candles.

Do you think individual Romans understood that their civilization was collapsing? Or did it happen so gradually that they were able to ignore the warning signs—international trade breaking down, the senate becoming a rubber stamp for the supreme leader, and political violence becoming expected during transfers of power?

It’s hard to say, because it’s impossible to imagine being in that kind of situation. In any event—hope you enjoy the candle!

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 21/08/2025

The Men Who Killed the News, a book about the disturbing power of media moguls by Crikey publisher Eric Beecher, has been longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year. Read this exclusive extract.

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My flirtation with Murdoch only lasted two years before my moral compass became too dysfunctional

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

RIP David Stratton. Half of the biggest voice in Aussie film criticism.

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I feel these chirons really sum up the issues in a way the government didn't intend. Brainrot? Bad. Teeth rot? Fine. #auspol

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I take the piss out of him a bit, but he's right.

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

What the actual- who knew that one of my favourite childhood books led down the path of degeneracy I enjoy today?

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

It's not quite tank man but it's not quite not

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I will never understand why it’s Germans specifically who always get lost in the middle of nowhere Australia.

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

@davemilbo.bsky.social Hey, Milbo, can I trouble you for some knowledge of the suburbs of Melbourne? Need it for a piece I'm writing.

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

See, thing is, middle-Australia, middle-class suburbanites don't find institutionalised racism as salacious as a the mushroom trial. THINK OF THE TRUE CRIME PODCASTERS, PEOPLE.

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

White South African to lecture Australia on racism.

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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

this is a modern australian novel

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

ABC: "We're not biased." Also ABC:

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

@birmo.bsky.social Watching the Joh: Last King Of Queensland on Stan right now, and gotta ask: did you get interviewed for this? Or did they have to cut it for language unbecoming even a Queenslander?

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Not even the most beautiful thing the De Havilland family produce.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I was grinding through some edits on Sleeper Agent 3, and Word's stupid AI *desperately* wanted to help. My copyeditor didn't like the 'sighs of history' phrasing here: "Outside, the neighbourhood swelled with life and the sighs of history..." So I finally let Super Clippy have a go...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I should get credit for not attending Jeff Bezo's wedding even though I wasn't invited.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

To me the broader story is the neoliberalisation of cultural capital A neoliberal dress sense is atomised from fashion history & group solidarity. It only invokes older, shared identities to assert the wearer’s superiority to them. What it says most of all is, “I am always-already all I need”

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Obsolete Sony @obsoletesony.com · 24/06/2025

The future was 15 years ago.

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Tom Plevey @parkerfiftyone.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Chinese penicillin. Not feeling great, hope this helps.

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