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Tom Richardson

@teric.bsky.social
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Lecturer in military history and strategy at UNSW Canberra.

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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 9h
Remember when it was Al Qaeda/ISIS putting execution videos online
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15h
@Amtrak_CA

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson

@porkbelt

.@Amtrak_CA With all due respect, this is terrible advice for trains
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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To 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.
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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
24 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.
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
lmaooooooo
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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Even the kids are getting him
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/10/2026
sorry. 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.
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MAKS 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.
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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
caveman: 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
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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Always 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...
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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I 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.
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Embrace Prespakis-Scheer thought
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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 ⓘ Rude 🐈 @lucavi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It is too late, I have already depicted myself as the άνθρωπος ίσχυρός and you as the άνθρωπος παρθένος 🫵
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Richard Dunley @redunley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My new book now has a cover - and I love it!
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ronald Searle was ahead of his time
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also 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
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This 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.
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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 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...
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Melbourne human rights activist disappears in Cambodia as wife urges Albanese government help
Tran Hiep, a 50-year-old Vietnamese Australian anti-human trafficking campaigner, not heard from since 18 September
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ukraine’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.
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Is 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
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is good, and has an appropriately acid punchline. www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Dan 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,
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sorry to be a bleeding heart but this rules www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Premiership winner Ah Nee Nwe wants to be first Karen AFL player
Seven years ago, Ah Nee Nwe had barely heard of the AFL. Today, the teenager is a grand final winner eyeing a place in history.
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mate 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’
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do feel bad for the sailors, overwhelmingly already people with very hard lives coming from developing countries, who are bearing the brunt of this
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There’s a reason kids love octonauts and paw patrol
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Dagger John @thesloopjohnm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Okay but what if the scenario in the Joint Warfighter Evaluation is forcible opening of a key sea lane of communication.
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Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 22/09/2026
Jason Benetti gets absolutely roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. 🤣
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A man stands at the ticket counter of a movie theater. An employee asks if he’d like to upgrade his ticket. “Would you like to upgrade to Cinema VIP? You can pause the film for bathroom breaks.”  Our man is intrigued by the offer. Next slide. Inside the movie theater. The film has been paused and the movie screen lets the audience know: “PAUSED FOR VIP.” Our man stands at the center of the theater with his hands raised and a VIP badge attached to a lanyard around his neck. He’s part of the Cinema VIP program but at what cost? The other patrons have become increasingly upset with the pauses. A chorus of angry voices rain down on the VIP from around the theater. “Sit down, toilet boy,” one woman yells. She’s had enough of his potty breaks. “Oh COME on.” “Get this guy outta here.” “He ruined the trailers, too.” “Take his badge.” “3 times?!” “Put a diaper on.”
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Swamp @sirswampthing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Rhys 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
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@Very__Regular

george lucas, 1975 (in tunisia, severely dehydrated, over budget) sure, yeah. put the little blue guy in the background. is alec still in his trailer

guy who gets mad for money on youtube, 2024: and now disney made Deebo Threebo green. that's how little respect they have for you
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a 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
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Dave Bath @davebath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When 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...
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'Get the tape measure out!': Cat's extraordinary CENTRE-SQUARE goal
Aishling Moloney launches an absolute monster, with the footy bouncing past everyone before somehow rolling through for an unbelievable major
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A 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
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Had 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
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 17/09/2026
In the Belarussian State Archives in Minsk, a collection that can best be described as "Stuff We Took Off Dead Germans" including these bloodstained documents.
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No Context Achewood @achewoodnc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is definitely one of my top 10 favorite Al Qaeda facts
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Demon King of the New Platform @clothedvillainy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Was 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-...
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The 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
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If 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
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Osmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Western 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
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’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
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Houthis themselves proved this before Iran my man
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Iraq a more traumatic institutional experience than Afghanistan?
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Tom Richardson @teric.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The NYT not accepting dickhead from this is genuinely outrageous. Please respect my culture
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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Absolutely 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
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