Reposted by Tom RichardsonNick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 9hRemember when it was Al Qaeda/ISIS putting execution videos online 36714
Reposted by Tom RichardsonDavid Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026To add to this a bit: in the mid-to-late-00s, military advisors going to Iraq and Afganistan were urged to watch The Sopranos to try to grasp the intersection of honor, family, money, and duty that they would see made manifest among their Iraqi and Afghan counterparts. 61069
Reposted by Tom RichardsonRobert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 07/10/202624 was used as the basis for the Enhanced Interrogation program. Would-be advisors for the ANP watched NCIS in lieu of formal training for the role. Trump-era direct action in Mexico and Latin America is clearly steeped in Sicario, while Yellowstone and Landman shape domestic views. 320937
Reposted by Tom RichardsonErin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Even the kids are getting him 273
Reposted by Tom Richardsonheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/10/2026sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan. 5154561271
Reposted by Tom RichardsonMAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 06/10/2026🔥 Sochi. Claimed as Aframax Rio tanker was carrying crude oil from Novorossiysk to India and was almost fully loaded. 25554107
Reposted by Tom Richardsonwargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026caveman: you see Grong new cave painting? me: let me guess: bison, stick figures caveman: why you no let people enjoy things me: it's derivative 127250
Reposted by Tom RichardsonBrad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Always read Stephen Biddle. He and his co-authors discuss the assumption that war ends in mil victory — and its implications for strategic decision-making, employment of the force, force design, and mob. of the industrial base to support protracted conflict. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... 5337
Reposted by Tom RichardsonTravis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I curated a little bundle of Australian independent games in a collab with ACMI. Friday’s Parallel Play complements our (secret) lineup for Parallels this year with some of the most exciting upcoming titles — while Freeplay Forever shows some of best work that’s come out in the last two years. 2155
Reposted by Tom Richardson𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 ⓘ Rude 🐈 @lucavi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It is too late, I have already depicted myself as the άνθρωπος ίσχυρός and you as the άνθρωπος παρθένος 🫵 161764317
Reposted by Tom RichardsonRichard Dunley @redunley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My new book now has a cover - and I love it! 1308
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Also not really the point but annoying that footy media will take this as justification of their disastrous reporting of his status and the process that led to it 000
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 11917
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. 12585109
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, 324946
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 340461
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. 🤣 6776210
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. 161191503869
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 188136522899
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 · 19/09/2026A podcast trying to make the case for Keating’s foreign policy doesn’t want to linger on the relationship with New Order Indonesia? I wonder why 020
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
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If you’re lucky @redunley.bsky.social is at some kind of social event he’s desperate to escape and will start tweeting about command of the sea instead 010
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 · 12/09/2026It’s funny that we’ve had a series of hyperventilating, brainworm based articles criticising the us alliance in the guardian this week when ‘can’t secure SLOCs anymore’ is sitting right there 000
Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Iraq a more traumatic institutional experience than Afghanistan? 160
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