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Dr Jones
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Ex-tronomer, Australian in Europe, Essendon FC fan. Views all my own. He/him
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Ladder prediction #AFL #GoDons

There
Is
No
Way
That
Anyone
Can
Accurately
Predict
Any
Teams’
Positions
This
Early
In
The
Season
Richmond
Ladder prediction #AFL

Hawthorn
Carlton 🏆
Brisbane
Fremantle
GWS
Geelong
Adelaide
Gold Coast

Collingwood
Sydney
Melbourne
St Kilda
Western Bulldogs
North Melbourne
Port Adelaide
Essendon
West Coast
Richmond
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July 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Great thread describing what 1987 was like in the UK for gay people. I was 15 at the time. Genuinely, although I’ve thrived in my life I don’t think I’ll ever not be a bit scarred by this period in my life.
Section 28 didn’t come out of nowhere.
It came from a society where 75% thought homosexuality was wrong.
From a society that feared the sight of a man in drag would corrupt.
From a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of gay lives.
🧵 1/16
June 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Given the injuries, the doctors are the winners here…
May 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This is really interesting. And how they vote themselves to irrelevancy.
Tony Barry nails it.

As long as Sky After Dark remains the Liberal Party’s policy incubator, expect more trash-tier pre-selections and policy ideas straight from the bin.

Extinction awaits.
May 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
What's your dancing style?
May 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Simply too sad for words.
Farewell Adam Selwood.
May 17, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Please enjoy these shelter pups reacting to getting a kiss. Some are bashful, some have butterflies, and all deserve approximately 10 million more. 14/10 for all
May 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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You think what's being done to land-based ecosystems is bad?

Take a look at what's happening under the sea. It's as if all birds and other wild animals were being hoovered out of forests for our mass consumption, shredding the trees and everything else in the process.

Out of sight, out of mind.
I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Yeah, I was reading about a killer crab. Did it kill other crabs? Or humans? I mean, to be convicted, surely it had to kill humans, right? And if so, how have I not heard about it?!? 😂
*crab-walked
May 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Oh my god
May 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I know it wouldn't change anything but just once when a Trump lackey gets up there and blames the Biden administration for their obvious destructive fuck-ups I want a reporter to just ask something like "does this get embarrassing for you, this obvious bullshit?"
May 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”
May 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This is a record that, as an @essendonfc.bsky.social supporter, that I’m happy to see broken…
Port +22 inside 50s and + 27 clearances for a combined differential of +49.

This is I believe the new record for a losing side, eclipsing Essendon 2012 R11 v Sydney, who won i50 by 28 and clearances by 20.
May 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This is a record that, as an @essendonfc.bsky.social supporter, that I’m happy to see broken…
Port +22 inside 50s and + 27 clearances for a combined differential of +49.

This is I believe the new record for a losing side, eclipsing Essendon 2012 R11 v Sydney, who won i50 by 28 and clearances by 20.
May 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I’ve never actually liked corgis
Baby shoes, never worn: SOLD!
don’t touch my drum set
May 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Baby shoes, never worn: SOLD!
don’t touch my drum set
May 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing.

I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.

Dark, dark stuff.
May 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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oh I see, when the pope chooses a new name, Christians are all for it and address him as such, but a TRANS person chooses a new name—
May 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I have to admit as an atheist, the Catholic Church certainly got it right in communicating the results of the papal elections for the information age. I don’t care, yet “what colour is the smoke?!?” I think when I see a news alert on my phone. 😅
May 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This is possibly the most brilliant post I’ve seen. Even if it’s fake, it’s still great. The names, the 2 nines, the wrong city names in the wrong places, the terrible map that’s consistently wrong, but still familiar. Brilliant, no notes…
Who can forget the Swiss-Austrian Union, or its famous capital - Istanbul.
May 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
One of my favourite episodes of the Simpsons ever. Hits so much on the head so well, yet I still find myself liking Homer.
#OnThisDay May 4, 1997, "Homer's Enemy" (S08E23) first aired on the Fox network.

Dir: Jim Reardon. Wr: John Swartzwelder. EP: @thatbilloakley.com & Josh Weinstein. #TheSimpsons
May 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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In the Biden economy Rubio needed only one job to make ends meet
I believe Marco Rubio is now:
Secretary of State
National Security Adviser
Acting USAID admin
Acting archivist
May 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Shoes off is the only way to go.
May 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM