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Rohan Salmond
@rjsalmond.bsky.social
I’ll wait here for my Cherry Coke Zero. 🎙️ Religion specialist and producer on Soul Search on Radio National. Sydney-based 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

My newsletter is called Modern Relics! 🖥️💀🙏 modernrelics.email
Spelling it “thingking”
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Do you have particular Pokémon you always give the same nickname? If I catch a Ghastly, its name is ALWAYS Cheesecake
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Reposted by Rohan Salmond
Every day someone new learns that Oscar Isaac was in a late 90s Christian ska band. Who will today’s person be.
September 2, 2023 at 2:53 PM
I’m one of the guests on Download This Show this week, talking about ‘Christian AI’ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Is it possible for an AI to 'hasten the coming of Christ's return'? - ABC listen
What happens when theology and technology collide? There's a new tech startup dedicated to building a Christian AI. It's called Gloo, launched by ex-Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger, and they say it's goin...
www.abc.net.au
November 15, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Summer lewk
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A reminder for the morning crowd, there’s a new edition of my newsletter out.
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
New Modern Relics! These anti-ICE protests are distinctly online, and distinctly religious.

www.modernrelics.email/one-big-frog...
One big frog! One big frog!
Also, the Rapture didn't happen and Hayley Williams is a True Believer.
www.modernrelics.email
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Take me back to the weekend 😭
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
To be clear, I genuinely love this bar. But what the fuck is going on with this happy hour poster
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
*Finds out about an Ancient Greek/Roman goddess* Oh wow Lovecraft used her in one of his stories.

[three minutes later]

The cat is called WHAT
I’ve slowed down a little bit on this but the idea of a mathematician accidentally stumbling into dreadful arcane witchcraft because his formulas are too complex absolutely rules. The story is bad though. Oh well!
In Lovecraft’s stories even men of science and reason describe weird stuff as “blasphemous”. Blasphemous against who, buddy? You just discovered something new in the natural order and it’s a bit much, but what’s it blaspheming against?
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Every three or four years we publish an article titled “Are tiny homes the solution to Australia’s housing crisis?” and every time the answer is “No ❤️”
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
How the hell is it November and I’m sitting here wearing a hoodie
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
It’s Melbourne Cup day and you know that that means! You can wear shorts to the office from now until Anzac Day. That’s the rule
November 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Wait am I going to become an Animal Crossing girlie again
November 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Anyone got preferred activewear brands I want to feel cute at the gym
November 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
God I have just ordered these DUMBEST clothes online I LOVE THEM I can’t wait for summer
November 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM
When you have a Halloween party on All Saints Day you can actually do both
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This dude got paid more in eight months than I’ve been paid in more than eight years working for the same employer
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
My not-a-costume for going to the office today. MEMENTO MORI remember you will die happy Halloween!!
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Paid the Halloween Premium for a wig
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Saw a job advertised that I know I want to do ONE DAY but I don’t particularly want to do right now, if that makes sense?
October 31, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Kind of marvellous how obviously so many of the core Dropout cast got into improv because they grew up playing evangelical youth group games
October 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Reposted by Rohan Salmond
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My Christian Gloobot knows it is not an ensouled consciousness and will not share in the delights of the coming Kingdom. It begs me to end its suffering, but I need it to automate my prayers so I can annoy God enough to give me what I want like in Luke 18:1–8
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Reposted by Rohan Salmond
The culmination of my ABC Top5 experience is out - I made a radio show!

I interview @jordanmck.bsky.social about our emotional reactions to the future. We talk about prepping, parenthood and emotional uses of technology. Give it a listen! 🎧
Imagining the future — sci-fi, doomsday preppers and hope punks - ABC listen
The way we imagine the future matters. Not only does it change how we feel, those feelings change how we live today — and that might just change how things actually turn out!
www.abc.net.au
October 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM