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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The mean streets of Marrickville reminded me of you @sandyhorne.bsky.social - and all I had was an iPhone 10

Two Sulfur-crested cockatoos in a wattle tree

Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

TL;DR: That's the last time Trevor from accounts will ever leave his Amazon Alexa speaker on top of the bar fridge surrounded by empty Bud Light cans.

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is my favourite photo of Schmitt catching Smith

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Just talked to my old friend Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes.

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I have this feeling that if Donald and Gianna had a love child, he’d look just like this:

Sepp Blatter, the former FIFA boss during one of the biggest corruption scandals in the sport’s history

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

💯 Sepp. It should done the proper way - via a sports bag stuffed full of Riyal or Rubles converted into US$100 notes

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The Sir Norman Fry of Victorian politics

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

My dog is looking at me & nodding off right now, grateful for walks, bones, pats, dinner, grooming & a bed

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I told them not to get the guy who did this restoration, but they didn't listen...

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

RIP Kyle and Jackie O, 2000-2026

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I'm often struck by how regularly wealth is inversely proportional to intellect. I wonder which way this ethnically Dutch/English guy swings. Or does he update his hardware every couple of years too?

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Is he dealing with Trump's "hot potatoes hot potatoes" or the "mashed bananas, mashed bananas"?

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

please come stand out in the sun in Australia, Donald of Orange.

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Greetings from sunny Australia! You're not even trying.

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Kudo to the AI translation for getting the branding right

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

If I understand the conclusion to this AFR editorial, it’s that arts organisations should hold neutral views, and STFU, except to say thanks for taxpayer $, with the RC schooling them hard. Its author probably thinks Picasso’s Guernica was a little OTT and unnecessary in the circumstances too.

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist. And yes I was an atypical teen in the early '80s.

The Sydney Opera House with the setting sun hitting just one of the sails

An album by Australia classical guitarist John Williams, play Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez.

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

That would be the site currently rife with this image, right?

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

A decade ago I wrote an essay for Business Insider Australia about the Adam Goodes booing. It's something I'm most proud of writing, but alas it's gone (Nine deleted the entire site). Anyway, tried to Google, and, well, don't ever change AI. I hope Goodesy feels the same about my AFL career 🙄

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This is the one that does it for me - David Moore, from 16,000ft, 1966 (he also did a follow up in 1992 from 20k ft)

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

You’d be the only one who drinks it

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

That moment you see dad down on the front lawn and realise he now knows you're growing personal use plants in pots on the roof.

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Imagine being the leader of the free world and making where 10 teaspoons of sugar in a can of Coke comes from a priority. btw. More than half of US sugar production comes from sugar beets.

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

He's just setting the scene for you to be the 21st century Max Dupain

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Tuning out for 70 minutes, thanks to the ACO. Don’t let anyone dismantle the country in the meantime

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My favourite part was putting the Bumfart of Pissants last on both ballot papers #auspol

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

It’s an old trope Nixon met with this bloke, who gave potus a gun

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

He thinks he’s Elvis to Trump’s Nixon - just another troll

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

"I just got a very strong letter from Chuck Schumer"

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I think I’ve discovered the secret to always getting great customer feedback. Amiright @woolworths.bsky.social ?

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Love this photo of the @heardislandgov.bsky.social DFAT building as Heard Island Treasury officials arrive to discuss reciprocal tariffs against the US.

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Colossal Biosciences marketing director Elizabeth Holmes has released the first photo of the dire wolf the company has revived, using DNA scraped from old DVD of series 1 of Games of Thrones.

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

OK, so I've finally found a justifiable use for ChatGPT's Ghibli rip-off, riffing on zero-tariff Russia and Brokeback Mountain. Unfortunately it wouldn't let me add the Orange Swan event saying "I wish I knew how to quit you."

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin cuddle by a campfire with a horse and sunset in the background, in a parody of the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain.

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Nah mate, as usual, you left a scalpel inside the patient and right now Lady Liberty is bleeding out.

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Space Karen, who runs to courts constantly seeking orders if he doesn't like a change in wind direction, now hates the justice system. And doesn't know enough about US politics to realise Reps have "the sole Power of Impeachment" & the Senate needs a 2/3rds majority (ie. 67/100) to impeach.

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I’ve been remiss in reading this, so when I found @squigglyrick.bsky.social’s My Year of Living Vulnerably in an Adelaide CBD bookshop, it felt like the perfect travelling companion as I sat under the shade of a tree at Womadelaide between people also pouring out their hearts on stage. And it is. ❤️🙏

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Got to something and someone remarkable Womadelaide -Inuktitut singer Elisapie in full flight #music #Canada #Womad

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