No team has ever conceded 50 points in a match and gone on to win the NRL premiership

Never drive through floodwaters

“Oscar Piastri Chicken Burger”

One of the nice things about Bluesky is coming here and having some of the greats of olden days twitter playing all the hits and memories. It’s the 1053 2CA of platforms.

It looks like Labor is getting ready to announce plans to expand the size of the federal Parliament, for only the third time in the history of the Australian federation, according to the SMH www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

At the airport

Matt Nable on Who Do You Think You Are? and still yet to say the line “And what about this bloke?”

Hitting a gravity bong in your own bath water is the essence of Origin.

It’s so difficult to maintain what I really do think is the epistemologically correct stance of “it’s a big deal but there’s a lot of bullshit”, because like, there is a *lot* of bullshit

Supercharge beauty

Good bird I just saw

Hearing very good things about the A League

Take an infant. Show him a face? Does he kick it? His choice is made.

The Origin box ticking reveal video would make for tremendous online content

Agree but would expand this to “all rugby league players registered globally”

At the extreme of my eligibility Overton window: all rugby league players registered in Australia tick a Maroon box or a Blue box or not applicable on their 15th birthday and that's it.

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1983)

Origin eligibility rules. I would scrap them altogether. Every rugby league player should be asked a simple question: is your heart blue or maroon? Origin is played with the heart, not the rule book.

Pack it up. We are done.

We have strayed from God’s light

Saw about 8 ibises flying in arrow formation over lake burley griffin. Ominous.

should have waited for a Tuesday, then it's double points

A lotta teams still don't get it. You can get multiple points per slurp juices in a single game

I mean sure why not

Might go to the footy later

lmao

Expecting PVL to book Jive Bunny for the NRL GF amirite

New from the Parliamentary Library: Issues & Insights 2026 www.aph.gov.au/About_Parlia...

These days if you privately own the means of production, you’ll get arrested and thrown in jail

Been watching whatever this is a fair bit recently www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfDt...

New from the Parliamentary Library: Issues & Insights 2026 www.aph.gov.au/About_Parlia...

They’ll be hearing from his father

The new rule changes. I don’t agree. There should be no rules and no match officials. Let the 34 players sort it out among themselves on the field without interference from the eggheads. We all know a try when we see it, when we feel it.

The Washington Post’s management slashed their international teams and their Books section and I’d just like to take the opportunity to say that at @mekongreview.com we love reviewing books and bringing you Asian perspectives and don’t run editorials about how it’s a bad idea to tax billionaires

“Celebrate prosperity and strength”

The attempted bombing of an Invasion Day rally crowd in Perth was a terrorist act, authorities have declared, as the accused's 'pro-white ideology' is investigated www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

I was really glad for the opportunity to interview Hakamata Hideko. It's not at all easy to have to fight for a loved one on death row, and she stuck with it for such a long, long time.

It’s a very moving article

Every English podcast is two posh people

Every English podcast is two posh people

Posh people seem to be doing ok tbh

‘We should retire the Rockwell free speech man meme, to indicate someone giving an obvious opinion or banal observation, and replace it with vernacular equivalents for non-American cultures’

Quick shout out to the allied health professionals, your physios, dietitians and so forth

Fabulous 10/10 no notes