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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bastardising that old saying, the fights amongst the Australian Greens are so brutal because the spoils of victory are so small. Would be really nice if they could not do that now with Larissa standing down. 12 percenters don't always have to 12 percent

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At very real risk of self-quoting, the gags in that week's Foreign Desk Explainer pretty much wrote themselves.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make.

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The rest of the world - "Why, yes. unit roots are a problem" The US finance world - "What club do I have to join and how much does it cost to get one?"

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'Power is its own constituency. It exists to protect itself.' Authoritarianism sounds scary, but it arrives bit by bit. We're already doing the work for some grim future. Will be talking about this and more at Sydney Opera House's Curious program this Sunday. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/28/r...

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Don't think Australia is immune to authoritarianism

Nobody wakes up to sudden authoritarianism. We relinquish ourselves to it by allowing our favoured government to get away with bending norms and rules. Over time, these bends become clean breaks.

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The best thing that could happen to the NRL is for the Knights to win this weekend - because the NRL has been getting too many royal family vibes lately. And if we could follow that up with the PNG team beating the Dolphins in their debut year in the final, we'll clean that shit out for good.

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Anyways - bring back the biff, and spear tackles, and shoulder charges, and ball rakes, and real charge downs, and contestable scrums. What did the Romans ever do for us? Well, apart from aqueducts, sanitation, roads etc the Colosseum blood sports! (Half serious - people have agency in pro-sports)

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That tackle on Nathan Cleary is just what happens in contact support. The hip drop rule is pretty stupid in that way, because in every tackle, as the tackler, your body moves with the momentum of the person you're tackling. You don't get to control that. It's not like a chicken wing.

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The true weirdness is that the Brisbane Lions are the Melbourne Storm of the AFL. But it's too embarrassing for the institutional hearts of either league to admit it.

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Whichever one of you lot put me on to Grace Cummings - thank you. It's the best mowing music I've ever heard, which is also probably the weirdest compliment one could ever give.

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I have only watched 12 of these shows fully. Another dozen I started and went meh pretty quickly. And I wouldn't consider any of these in the best 20 shows of the 21st century with only maybe Andor and Justified being exceptions for the last few places. All kinds of kinds!

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qt what you bring to interviews instead of iced coffee, wrong answers only

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I'm sitting here writing at the moment and I'm stuck on getting the right word. I refuse to use a thesaurus, so I've been walking around for 20 minutes to get it (scrofulous was what I was after). AI should be AO - adults have agency, kids should be forced to develop their brains autonomously

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You know what's politically funny from an Australian perspective about our next general elections? <no - not those things> The UK is pressuring Burnham to clarrify if he will run to full term.... which is 2 years and 11 months in the future. Longer than most of our Australian government terms.

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Pity Party in two words. Hard to beat

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rugbaloig @rugbaloig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have to buy a nice bottle of bourbon to store next week for a bet. In 2040 my opponent reckons the Beetaloo Basin gas fields will be a complete white elephant. I reckon that's too harsh - I reckon only 99% of it will be a white elephant, but there'll be a helium plant on it.

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Statistically the Dolphins will have it uphill against the refs. Adam Gee: -7.80 Phins, +6.79 Chooks. Ashely Klein (Bunker): a whopping -14.05 against Phins, but almost neutral on the Chooks. Up to you how much weight you give the stats. afltables.com/rl/misc/Adam... #NRLDolphinsRoosters

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Rugby League Tables / Adam Gee - Referee

Rugby League Tables - NRL Stats & Tables

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't really do Qld politics anymore because political dogs shouldn't return to their own vomit. So saying, if I were advising the broad left in Qld, I would be planning now for a metro vs rural contest, and if you win Brisbane and urban areas, you win a parli plurality vs LNP and One Nation

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wait up ELEVEN THOUSAND?!? In one state? What the fucking fuck?

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A story you don’t read about coal mines 😏

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You know what really irks me about our politics? Garbage like this which is deliberately aimed at low information voters. Every single independent central bank in the world does this because we can't figure out a way to do it better. But that's a hard problem. Talking shit to idiots is easy.

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Silver Sky Defender Limited Edition - 2026

For those of you who know about Fender trying to sue every man and his dog over bullshit about their stratocaster shape - this is epic level trolling by PRS Guitars. I think the best I've ever seen in the corporate world prsguitars.com/electrics/mo...

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“Teaming up with Defender to offer the Silver Sky guitar in their legendary Defender colors is a dream come true. I’ve always chosen colorways based on…

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How terrible - another racist little goblin has bitten the dust. Suddenly - Correct Heaven - False Bound for Glory - False We Can't Be Beaten - Lol Being buried in a kid size coffin facing Mecca - priceless.

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Dr Steve Robson modelled an economic cost benefit analysis for a scenario in which GLP-1’s were fully government funded without means testing in Australia

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May I remind you all that the only successful political use case found for him after he chucked a tanty and left Parliament was being made US Ambassador, where he could hang out in Trump world and finally have the chance to be the smartest political person in a room for the first time in his life.

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Former treasurer says economic reform in Australia will take 'financial crisis'

The hide of chronic political deadshits like Hockey having "budget thoughts". He gave us gigantic deficits, while trying to dismantle superannuation that provides large forward pension savings, and supported a zoo of tax expenditures fucking the budget line for decades www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

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Former treasurer Joe Hockey says meaningful fiscal reform is not possible in Australia as it often conflicts with voters' economic self-interest. He says it will take a "crisis" for governments to ena...

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Tom MacDonald @tscmacdonald.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've gradually been coming to a view that there are two meaningful decarb policies: sinking green capital and stranding fossil capital. Anything else can (and will) be repealed or overturned, but built infrastructure stays built and closed infrastructure stays closed. www.afr.com/policy/energ...

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Coalition unveils plan to dismantle Labor’s net zero agenda

The federal opposition says it will drive a bulldozer through Labor’s climate agenda and force regulators to prioritise affordability and reliability.

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"Earl Spencer" sounds like a brand of tea

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I've never got the whole David Pocock thing. I've never once seen him in any interview where he was able to answer a question intelligently that wasn't on his very specific talking points list. Is it his vibe, his marketing, his choice of talking points? I just don't get it.

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The actual solution is that the US needs to fuck off out of the middle east yesterday, and charge Israel for the bill. The US broke it, they have neither the capability nor capacity to fix it. The longer it takes them to leave, the more people will die from energy insecurity and push costs higher.

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In Season 72, Episode 19 of the usual suspects not understanding ALP government political appointees going back to Andrew Fisher in 1908, I bring you:

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Mango season is so close I can smell it.

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