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Rohan Salmond
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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
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Spelling it “thingking”
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Do you have particular Pokémon you always give the same nickname? If I catch a Ghastly, its name is ALWAYS Cheesecake
Gen 1 Pokemon running on a Trimui Brick. Status screen for a Gengar called Cheesecake, level 39. OT/ ROBOAT
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Every day someone new learns that Oscar Isaac was in a late 90s Christian ska band. Who will today’s person be.
Five guys who simply ooze late '90s Florida youth group pastor from every pore, hanging out at a bar. In the center is a young man with a handkerchief tied over his head and a Corona in his hand. Even in these tender years, you can tell this man has got some sauce in the way the rest of his pals don't. It's his stare, his slightly pouted lips. Even if you didn't know who he was, you'd guess he was meant for big things. You'd be right. It's Oscar Isaac.
September 2, 2023 at 2:53 PM
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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...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Summer lewk
A photo of me taken at a high angle wearing shorts, high-top canvas shoes, a sunglasses, a baseball cap and a tie-dyed sleeveless shirt with “House of Darwin” written on it in a zany 80s/90s font where some of the letters are replaced with smiley suns and yin/yang symbols and a smiling mushroom A photo of me taken in a mirror wearing shorts, high-top canvas shoes, a sunglasses, a baseball cap and a tie-dyed sleeveless shirt with “House of Darwin” written on it in a zany 80s/90s font where some of the letters are replaced with smiley suns and yin/yang symbols and a smiling mushroom. I’m throwing a peace sign Edited four panel Peanuts comic. Panel 1: Boy looking at a dog in a huge winter jacket. Boy thinks to himself “Man I wish I had that guy’s fits”. Panel 2: Close up of the boy thinking “But he probably wished he had somebody else’s fits”. Panel 3: The dog thinks to himself “Holy shit i’m getting a fit off”. Panel 4: The dog continues, “That guy Looks like shit”
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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A reminder for the morning crowd, there’s a new edition of my newsletter out.
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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New Modern Relics! These anti-ICE protests are distinctly online, and distinctly religious.

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One big frog! One big frog!
Also, the Rapture didn't happen and Hayley Williams is a True Believer.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Take me back to the weekend 😭
A group of smiling gay men surrounding a very tall, smiling drag queen wearing a sparkling dress A man in makeup wearing a frilly white bodysuit singing his heart out into a microphone A crowd of people watching a band on a stage. A man is holding his arms up and another is holding a guitar Picture of me taken from a high angle so you can see I’m wearing shorts and a sleeveless t-shirt. I have a tablet computer displaying a book and there is a beer and foldable keyboard on the table in front of me
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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To be clear, I genuinely love this bar. But what the fuck is going on with this happy hour poster
A poster with a big cartoon beer on it advertising Happy Hour Monday to Friday $8. There are two emojis, one looking smug and shrugging, and the other superimposed on the beer looking cross-eyed and with its tongue hanging out. Gooning??
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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*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
rjsalmond.bsky.social Rohan Salmond @rjsalmond.bsky.social · May 6
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!
rjsalmond.bsky.social Rohan Salmond @rjsalmond.bsky.social · Feb 14
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
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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
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How the hell is it November and I’m sitting here wearing a hoodie
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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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
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Wait am I going to become an Animal Crossing girlie again
November 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Anyone got preferred activewear brands I want to feel cute at the gym
November 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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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
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When you have a Halloween party on All Saints Day you can actually do both
Me, in a red hoodie and short black wig, holding a laptop computer in one hand and holding the other up like a saint in an icon. I have an aviator sunglasses tucked into the neck of the hoodie and a wire halo framing my head. Saint Carlo Acutis standing with his hands on his hips wearing his iconic red shirt with aviator sun glasses tucked in the neck.
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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This dude got paid more in eight months than I’ve been paid in more than eight years working for the same employer
Guardian Australia screenshot that reads “ABC executive who sacked Antoinette Lattouf paid $836,000 for eight-month employment, annual report shows Chris Oliver-Taylor's remuneration exceeded by former managing director David Anderson's $1.2m package, broadcaster says”
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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My not-a-costume for going to the office today. MEMENTO MORI remember you will die happy Halloween!!
Me, smiling in a black t-shirt with all-caps MEMENTO MORI written on it with my husband in a normal button-up shirt. We are in a pub and there is beer on the table. Perhaps we have had a couple??
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Paid the Halloween Premium for a wig
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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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
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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
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r/religion u/GrayRainfall • 2d Can Muslims and Jews let their characters eat pork while playing Minecraft? Minecraft is a video game.
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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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
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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!
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October 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM