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Stokes. #Ashes

I'm not denying that Marnus chirping away may have some morale effect for players on the field but I don't see why I, 1200km away, need to listen to it. #Ashes

That is line ball with Carey. They may err on Root's side to compensate for yesterday, which they probably shouldn't, but you could perhaps understand it. #Ashes

If this is out, revising my funny stakes for #Ashes

LMAO LMAO LMAO #Ashes

Look, early days, but it looks like England may be gonna England #Ashes

The sound of the SSssssssssschweppes is imprinted on my mind from childhood cricket. It is being dislodged by O'Keeffe wheezing at his own jokes and I'm not thrilled about it. #Ashes

Just had a weird flashback to that guy at the old place who, without fail, every year would post about the Brisbane Riverfire rehearsal with some kind of weird "insensitive 9/11" post and every year would get the engagement he clearly planned for.

Scenes of a happy, relaxed team where people can be themselves to play well #Ashes

Carey must now take a seven-fer to regain the ascendancy. #Ashes 🏏

Seeing a StandUptoHate ad fronted by Kyle Sandiland and Nova Peris before the #Ashes has made me cackle with delirium.

I'm prepared to give Frydenburg a bit of a pass because I think the anger and grief is genuine and he is a member of the community. Ley, Abbott, Howard, Hastie et al... no such grace. Get in the bin. An appalling 24 hours and a serious breach with how Australia has typically handled these times.

My prediction is that Minns will pass an anti-protest law easily next week and, like the previous one, it will be drafted in such a rush that it will fall at the first court challenge in 2026.

This is my area. Another one of those moments over the past few days which is causing quite a few things to roil round the ol' noggin. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I am- not sure of the right word, fascinated feels too glib- that some of the heroes of Sunday night don't fit the neat model migrant narrative that everyone loves. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

In very Kayo areas, it crashed and needed a hard reboot so I missed Carey's 100 #Ashes

Going to be very funny when Australia have to go and bat again this time tomorrow. #Ashes

The really important addition I would make to this is note that nowhere here is the word 'but...', which is something some poasters would do well to remember.

You could literally publish this headline at almost any point over the past 18 months.

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

Australia would like these two to get to tea. Or, based on what happened earlier, the second over after tea. #Ashes 🏏

I feel like it's going to be very Khawaja areas to bat an innings-rescue total after all the chatter leading to Adelaide #Ashes

I'm not defending Howard but antisemitism- and particularly as the last acceptable prejudice among the Left- predates the disastrous invasion of Iraq.

I think those of us on the Left, need to be very very careful navigating the very real anger and also the bad actors. Multiple things can be true at once.

No! No!!

Wait England isn't supposed to get first ball #Ashes wickets wtf

I know we all have a lot on our plate right now, but I need you to know that #Ashes lunch break is very excited about Gen AI videos of Mark Waugh dancing maniacally with a cricket bat. This followed a segment of when reporters have their live cross interrupted by animals.

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

Unusuable. I don't want to read the next article, I'm trying read this one, where I can find it between the videos and links.

Someone trying to reunite the loose dogs in that park in Bondi with owners and being successful for all but one dog, as his owner had been killed, has ruined me this evening.

It's probably fine that one of our major parties has decided to light a fuse under social cohesion in the immediate aftermath of a terrorist attack.

Friends don't let friends read Massola.

This is very interesting. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Small thing, but I'm really fascinated at how, as a nation, we grapple with a hero who doesn't have the model-migrant backstory that would make it easier.

Ah yes, that's where a recently unemployed 24-year-old bricklayer, who spent years hanging around Australia's pro-IS network, and his 50-year-old migrant father were radicalised: university anti-genocide protests 🙄 Be fucking serious for a moment.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

To give a sense of how the tendrils of this horror show reach through this part of Sydney, this doctor is my husband's cardiologist. www.smh.com.au/national/the...

I'm not saying I'd do any better obviously, but I always find the transition from the PUMPED UP Big Bash commentators to the minute of silence to be grimly funny.

media in this country is so completely cooked

I know it's part of the gig now, but it's very Australian to dedicate significant reporting to OTHER COUNTRIES ARE NOTICING US even during something horrific.

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Weird sort of morning where the ongoing bin fire that is Yanks arguing about speed limits is oddly comforting by comparison.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

If there is a "but..." in your quick-to-the-presses poast you are a grub.

The Greatest Movie Ever Made Citizen who?

I think about this tweet every day

I don't want to lose my membership of The Geighs but I don't think the new Kylie XMAS single is much chop. It brings me no joy to say this.

Fucking hell

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