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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 30/09/2026

Wordle 1,928 5/6* yesterday, 29 Sep The bot guesses SCRAG on third try, skill 99. I guess SCRAG (still possible solution) on fourth try, skill zero. 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle Bot chooses SCRAG and rates its own skill 99

Wordle Bot (my skill rating 0): There was only one possible solution left — and this wasn’t it. SCRAG is a valid guess and you have a great vocabulary, but I don’t consider it a likely solution.

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 28/09/2026

Did we ever really know ... things ... before Google's AI summaries? NRL Grand Final will kick off at 1:30am and "Sydney Roosters has won 37 games"

Google's summary claims the Grand Final will kick off at 1:30am and that "Sydney Roosters has won 37 games"

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 28/09/2026

Pet hate: variable-width digits in accounting software and tabular data in general. How did ANZ Bank approve this website redesign?

A column of right-aligned currency values with the decimal points and dollar signs misaligned.

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 15/09/2026

What are AI shortcuts doing for the Herald Sun's brand? Hamilton Place is my local; it looks nothing like this vacuous slop. Clearly this article is targeted at people like me, but it is actively repellent. Who is it appealing to?

Shopping carpark with a CAFE CULTURE sign on a raised dining platform. AI-generated

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 11/09/2026

JFC! It's doubling down on horoscopes and using my Bayesian knowledge to try to convince me. Troubled. You can keep telling it to move into science, and get wholly specious patterns

"The ABS birth-month distribution is a /very/ weak prior"

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 22/08/2026

I was wrong. Twitter does still have a purpose: easy identification of the worst men in the country

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 14/08/2026

Christoph ("Football Hackers") Biermann's latest book has been translated into English. I love the title: "Die Tabelle Lügt Immer" / The Ladder Always Lies. Unfortunately it's been retitled as the bland "Game Theory: How Luck and Analytics Shape Football" www.readings.com.au/product/9781...

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 31/07/2026

Don't go back to the bad place. Top of my feed: this risible AI story with 100s of slopbot replies & a million views. All maximising their bluecheck engagement metrics without a human in sight. Maybe this is the new Turing Test, like whether I should walk to the nearby mechanic to get my car fixed?

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 24/06/2026

This is a nasty drought on its way to eastern Australia, and I don't hear it in the thirsty data centre debate www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/w...

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 13/06/2026

Melbourne lad makes billionaire friends, commits to class warfare on their behalf. This story is incredible. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 26/05/2026

Aaron Sandilands sought as new Essendon coach

TALLBALL Scatter plot of 2026 AFL Win Percentage vs Height of the coach. The four ex-ruckmen are all in the top right. Correlation 0.54

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 23/05/2026

Ahh Westralian, never stop Westrailing! (article: Eagles would've considered taking him ahead of Hurn if Collingwood and seven other clubs had passed)

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 05/03/2026

North Melbourne: Underperforming Low Expectations Since 2017™

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 19/02/2026

So many recruits in the off-season that I totally missed we snagged Curnow and McDonald

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 14/02/2026

Yowza! Welcome to Compilation City. Here's Copilot celebrating your achievement with a lousy PNG that I gave up on after half a dozen iterations. It lost the 'I' in 'BIG' in the third draft and could never be convinced to return it.

Hideous AI-generated image of a keyboard attached to a pen, saying B(i)G REWRITE, supposedly the size of an office tower

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 10/02/2026

Norway, population 5.6 million, has won as many Winter Olympics gold medals in four days as Australia has in 90 years of competing. Our 2026 squad (54) is only 32% smaller than theirs (80)

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 30/12/2025

5. cor anglais French: 'English horn' Not a horn; not English. Basicallly an oversized oboe. In turn, the English are alone in calling the true horn French, even though the orchestral 'French horn' was mostly developed in Germany (Waldhorn = forest horn)

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 18/12/2025

My first deliberate use of Chrome's AI mode is giving reverse-centaur vibes. You need ME to switch off how many disparate checkboxes?

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 28/10/2025

They should really play sport here on a day like this, not just #STWS

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 26/10/2025

Why hire John 2DR 6RS? Because he's eminently qualified

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 21/10/2025

FV raises female player fees with the novel argument that this will make clubs (which don't receive any part of this fee) somehow find better facilities for them

Football Victoria justifies female player fee increases by saying they sometimes get allocated poorer facilities

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 16/09/2025

Welcome to Japan National Stadium for Night 4 of the World Athletics Championships! Hoping to watch the impossible: Jess Hull besting Faith Kipyegon in the 1500m final

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 15/08/2025

Objectively this is utter bollocks. *Sellers* are the ones advantaged by lack of comparable stock, not buyers. In a non-fantasy economy anyway

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 02/08/2025

This is such a weird comment. Who better to deliver a message to a player than the person responsible for their welfare? Melbourne is not the only club doing it.

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 10/06/2025

The Australian congratulating the CCP on its labour management practices in the occupied country of Tibet. Then throwing money at Elon to advertise those congratulations.

Advertisement from The Australian on Twitter

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 28/05/2025

Round 11's data point fell on the regression line and Gold Coast won by 19 points (14 exp). Rowell handballed to Anderson 4 times and received 2 back. The number of passes between these two is an unreasonably strong predictor of team performance in their 77 games since 2022 (6.7±2.0 points per pass)

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 23/05/2025

I'm going to put this graph here and reveal the context on Monday with the latest data point added. See if you can guess from the axis labels. The slope is about 6, but it's unrelated to goals. Simple regression has p < 0.003 using either Shot Equity or actual points margin.

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 04/05/2025

Albo promises to crush seals, wtf sort of policy is that?

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 29/04/2025

"Top 75" Draft Prospects, showing the stubborn Relative Age Effect with only 17 born after July. www.codesports.com.au/afl/afl-draf...

Graph of Dates of Birth of Draft Prospects, showing a large deficit compared with a linear date

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 04/04/2025

Doesn't matter if the AI can detect 100% of weapons. If it is throwing up thousands of false positives vs literally two guns in the history of the sport, it is functionally useless. Blaming the staff is the ultimate punch down.

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 25/03/2025

TIL: correct use of a semicolon on a sign

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 18/02/2025

I have uncontrollable giggles. "Honor Omnia" translates as "Honour Everything". That plus the dinkum Aussie lion surprised to have a trumpet shoved in its gob

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 01/02/2025

ALCOHOL SECTOR IN CRISIS!!! (full-strength beer might cost one cent more)

Yahoo! Headline: New ATO alcohol price rises revealed for Aussies from Monday: 'Sector is in crisis'

Brewers and distillers say they'll all be rooned

Increase is 0.4%, about 1 cent per full-strength beer

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 16/12/2024

Welcome back! After a self-imposed break of 2+ years from Twitter, I feel like this #graphcrime shouldn't be my first post on BlueSky. Yet I am compelled.

The assorted graph crimes here would make sighted people go blind. I have no desire to inflict it on those with already impaired vision

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