Reposted by Tom RichardsonRichard Dunley @redunley.bsky.social · 20hMy new book now has a cover - and I love it! 1287
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This sucks. Not well remembered but he was almost BOG in the 2022 prelim and played a great GF as well. Hope his health holds up. 100
Reposted by Tom RichardsonErin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The increasing collabs between Southeast Asia's governments in enforcing each other's authoritarian streaks looks like it may be coming home for Australians. One to watch here: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comMelbourne human rights activist disappears in Cambodia as wife urges Albanese government helpTran Hiep, a 50-year-old Vietnamese Australian anti-human trafficking campaigner, not heard from since 18 September 11816
Reposted by Tom Richardson🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade has released footage showing heavy multirotor drones airlifting and deploying unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) behind Russian lines. This is the very method recently revealed by the 3rd Army Corps as part of Operation Vivaldi on the Lyman axis. 12582109
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Is there any uglier part of Australia than the final stretch of the Hume into Melbourne? The combo of dying pine tree stands, yellow brick 70s houses in the middle of paddocks and collections of dumped trash are all deeply triggering 020
Reposted by Tom RichardsonDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is good, and has an appropriately acid punchline. www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...thedriftmag.comThe Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal BudapestBy Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times. 512026
Reposted by Tom RichardsonDan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026[sees a guy eating a sandwich] nice to meet a fellow bread head! yeah, i can’t go a day without a slice or two haha. got a pretty sick toaster setup at home, thinking about upgrading to four slots – heard good things about breville’s 2026 lineup. entry-level marg is so tasty now, 324846
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sorry to be a bleeding heart but this rules www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auPremiership winner Ah Nee Nwe wants to be first Karen AFL playerSeven years ago, Ah Nee Nwe had barely heard of the AFL. Today, the teenager is a grand final winner eyeing a place in history. 173
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Mate from uni, who is a salesman, saw this recently. Slept through chunks because he was drunk/high, woke up for the end, then allegedly said to his companions ‘he just needed to fucking work harder’ 053
Reposted by Tom RichardsonMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I do feel bad for the sailors, overwhelmingly already people with very hard lives coming from developing countries, who are bearing the brunt of this 340462
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There’s a reason kids love octonauts and paw patrol 000
Reposted by Tom RichardsonDagger John @thesloopjohnm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Okay but what if the scenario in the Joint Warfighter Evaluation is forcible opening of a key sea lane of communication. 2586
Reposted by Tom RichardsonRob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 22/09/2026Jason Benetti gets absolutely roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. 🤣 6776208
Reposted by Tom RichardsonSwamp @sirswampthing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Rhys Stanley calls time Players to have won a V/AFL Grand Final and a V/AFL Grand Final Sprint Geoff Ablett Jared Crouch Patrick Dangerfield Beau McCreery RHYS STANLEY #AFL 1132
Reposted by Tom RichardsonSteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 159190993840
Reposted by Tom RichardsonPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188136402889
Reposted by Tom RichardsonDave Bath @davebath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When you kick a goal from technically the back half of Victoria Park it surely has to make the bigots who say women can't kick a football shut up. Aishling Moloney, take a bow. www.afl.com.au/aflw/video/1...afl.com.au'Get the tape measure out!': Cat's extraordinary CENTRE-SQUARE goalAishling Moloney launches an absolute monster, with the footy bouncing past everyone before somehow rolling through for an unbelievable major 001
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Had something like this in the SLV, packet of family photos lodged in the back of an Australian diary that has been looted from a dead German in 1916 020
Reposted by Tom RichardsonWaitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 17/09/2026In the Belarussian State Archives in Minsk, a collection that can best be described as "Stuff We Took Off Dead Germans" including these bloodstained documents. 1406
Reposted by Tom RichardsonStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This is definitely one of my top 10 favorite Al Qaeda facts 415938
Reposted by Tom RichardsonDemon King of the New Platform @clothedvillainy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Was that Defence official being absurd when she didn’t want footage to be clipped for social media? Are departmental secretaries afraid of scrutiny? Is a law professor creating posts in a lab to troll me? Answers to these questions and more on my blog: clothedvillainy.substack.com/p/the-wacky-...clothedvillainy.substack.comThe wacky morning DJ says democracy’s a joke... Will the revolution be live-streamed?We will probably need to settle the debate on parliamentary proceedings and court proceedings first 001
Reposted by Tom RichardsonOsmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Western progressives can tell you about primaries for obscure municipal elections in the US but not massive social movements that democratically topple governments in the Asia-Pacific 210116
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The NYT not accepting dickhead from this is genuinely outrageous. Please respect my culture 011
Reposted by Tom RichardsonHugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Absolutely incredible to write a review of a play in which you complain about audience behaviour, and just not mention that your partner strangled someone for a bit during the showing 69631
Reposted by Tom RichardsonJack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'd go a step further and say this question, "do you think the Norman Conquest of 1066 had a positive or negative impact on Britain", by being so uniquely pointless, is a perfect encapsulation of the popular attitudes towards history, where all events are judged through the prism of 'good' and 'bad' 2530548
Reposted by Tom RichardsonMin Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026🕯️ Taipei Zoo holds yearly memorial services for deceased animals since the 1920s, including for fallen war beasts like horses in WWII during the Japanese colonial era. This Sept, the zoo honors the memories of the newly passed, such as Wobbuffet the pangolin, Wolf the wolf, and Wolverine the koala. 12611
Reposted by Tom RichardsonJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's amazing the extent the train and the turnpike completely changed our sense of geography and what is close; to the extent this now seems absurd 1926153
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Imagine having your Pokémon card collection confiscated as proceeds of crime. You’d be spewing 000
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Just saw a video in which an American journo refers to the MCG as ‘the Cricket Ground’, cmon man 000
Reposted by Tom Richardsonhuck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026me: hey, aren't you jack reacher? reacher: poster. mid-tier, by the look of it. you were on twitter until it became x. now you're just on one of the knockoffs, most likely bluesky, because you don't have the self-confidence for instagram or tiktok. me: ok t— reacher: peaked in the buzzfeed era. 252620301
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Here’s the thing: I do not understand how you can love these as an adult. Even beyond all the good reasons, everyone in them acts incredibly stupidly all the time! 110
Reposted by Tom RichardsonThe English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Richard Dunley @redunley.bsky.social reviews 'Arms for Russia and the Naval War in the Arctic, 1941–1945', by Andrew Boyd academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @penandswordbooks.bsky.socialacademic.oup.comArms for Russia and the Naval War in the Arctic, 1941–1945, by Andrew BoydOne would be hard put to suggest that the Second World War’s naval war in the Arctic was a forgotten campaign; events including the destruction of convoy P 023
Reposted by Tom RichardsonBo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 01/09/2026reading this in a niles crane voice 47617
Reposted by Tom RichardsonB. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Joint Force has been built since 1947 to win big decisive battles. It was so successful no one will face us in big decisive battles anymore. They’ll fight us in other ways. But we don’t know how to do anything else anymore. No amount of money will fix that. 518919
Reposted by Tom RichardsonSubscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's funny trying to put a summary of Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the bloodless New York Times style. Like having a rabbi write about bacon www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/a...nytimes.comAdult Swim 25th Anniversary: 6 Defining Animated ShowsFor 25 years, it’s been an outpost for unhinged mayhem. These six signature shows helped turn low-budget TV into a surreal comedy powerhouse. 1667
Reposted by Tom RichardsonJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/08/2026Now THIS reporting on the concentration of royal power in Liechtenstein is why I pay my FT subs. What they don’t mention is this means more power for the millennial prince who also has the Jacobite claim on the British throne. WHEN WILL THE FOREIGN OFFICE WAKE UP. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comLiechtenstein prince tightens grip in succession shake-upPrince Alois expands his authority while loosening checks within Europe’s wealthiest ruling family 2932675
Reposted by Tom RichardsonNicole Townsend @townsend-nic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My latest piece in @aunz.theconversation.com examines the ongoing threat posed by landmines and explosive remnants of war in light of unexploded munitions located amid fires and drought in Europe. Check it out here: theconversation.com/landmines-an...theconversation.comLandmines and remnants of war pose a serious threat, and more needs to be done to solve itLandmines from wars can stay hidden and a threat for decades. Climate change is making the risk even greater. 011
Reposted by Tom RichardsonPaweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 27/08/2026My last article covers latest developments related to Badakhshan and how signs out of Afghanistan are nothing to scoff at,amid Iran war and Pakistan multiple mini-wars, with headaches multiplying for the Taliban. Open access, so feel free to read (yay!). fronts.co/article/the-... 36411
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Worlds greatest sporting club vindicated again, haters and losers in absolute shambles 000
