Hopefully now @bookshopaddict.bsky.social we get the best time of all as footy fans. The pressure free season where you know your team is good and getting better each week, but there's no stress about finishing top or anything. Just the joy of watching them go.

CIA planning detailed missions on sensitive Russian targets for Ukraine to execute: "Haha fuck yeah! Yes!!" CIA assessing damage from Russian assisted Iranian attacks: "Well this fucking sucks, what the fuck."

I don't think the IDF has this in them. Their infantry brigades are already beat to shit and Hezbollah still lots very experienced guys. IDF mutiny is a very possibility.

Newmarket station. Hood still be real.

Walk up start in the team of best players I've ever seen.

Apparently Sydney had this nine years ago. I suppose when you live in the 22nd best city in the world these things are a big deal. In the world's best city we're like, ok, whatevs.

North supporters, while we still have tens of hours of glorious hope left before our first game, spare a thought for our Essendon counterparts who are already grappling with the futility of their season. Let that thought be "Soz cunts"

Making Merrett stay then dishing up this shit (after a massive good old days pre game tugfest) just modern Essendon in a nutshell.

Jack Ginnivan whiting his hair for the occasion just so good.

If you read the list of the world's best cities out aloud - starting with Melbourne at 1 - it takes just over an hour til you reach where Sydney landed.

Heh, excellent.

Takes a special sort of sook to not love Marvellous Melbourne.

This despite Ben-Gurion having an airport trane

Being reminded @picketer.bsky.social that old mate Crassus of the private fire department ended up at the mercy of the Persians because his troops ran out of arrows. Where the Persians who were fighting close to home could easily resupply their archers.

The South Koreans copped billions in Chinese sanctions for agreeing to host these. Now they're gone and Seoul is left more exposed to North Korean attacks.

I remember that so vividly, the little girls in the Man U Beckham shirts. He is no loss to humanity. His accomplice/victim Maxine Carr apparently in Australia under witness protection after her release.

Go here if you want to get your head punched in by an ex AFL player with a drug problem.

Turns out Iran has filled the Zagros mountains with these but IRL and waaaaaay more advanced and effective l.

If there's going to be fuel availabiity issues in Australia, then international flights departing Sydney should be the first halted.

Barney Ronay

Getting early days of COVID vibes.

Things definitely going well when you need to hire extra staff to manage the personal effects of dead soldiers.

Remember to put your footy tips in folks.

Happy start of shit footy season day!

Interesting thing about Kyle and Jackie O is it marks the death of Sydney soft power/cultural influence. Rest of the country looks at it as an overpriced tourist trap. Most folks living there want to leave It's only wealthy (read hateful) finance bro type flogs who actively enjoy living there.

National Accounts are out and Victoria is the second fastest growing state, while Queensland is the weakest. The economic narrative you see in the AFR and elsewhere is nonsense.

Trump taking on Lloyd's and apparently making US taxpayers the world's default maritime insurer is quite something.

They used to have Gladys on to mock Victoria during COVID. So we knocked their careers. Don't come into the big kid's yard speaking shit then sook when you get belted.

Ummm sorry team, we used up all the stocks in a fight over which language is used for announcements on the Kharkiv metro.

Pretty ordinary form by the Sydney Swans to ditch Qatar in the emirates hour of need.

Imagine Daesh killed the Pope

Sadly Twitter still has breaking ness juice this joint doesn't

Cunts can stop squeaking about Ukraine and uNpRoVoKeD aTtAcKs once and for fucking all tyvm

Either Israel or the Islamic Republic of Iran will cease to exist at the end of this. Reckon its even money too. This isn't going to be like anything we've seen before.

most shockingly of all, the alien craft was reportedly adorned with a sort of bumper sticker that said "Earth Hoes Cant Fuck"

Penguin's Law: IF something happens in Melbourne that's actually standard for a city this size (crime, COVID, infrastructure costs) but is blown out of all proportion for base political reasons ... THEN one year later that exaggerated version will manifest as reality in Sydney. Every single time.

Partner, Snizzle and I at Arden Street for kids sport stuff. The North W team were winding down from a preseason session. My partner genuinely stunned at Ash Riddell and Taylah Gatt core strength. Like "I do exactly the same stretch/exercise in my program at the gym, how in fuck can she do that?"

Its so funny when you click these "Melbourne wasteland horror numbers revealed" and the third party is this.

Jamarra blossoming now he's away from the headcase Bevo.

The inability of one of the leading footy journos (Mitch Cleary) to understand basic injury management techniques (receipt George Wardlaw) is quite astounding.

The AFL changing the rules every off season?

Just saw its kitten youtu.be/LjE7qsn-QGE?...

Hah. An enemy on another social media platform has suffered an embarrassing reverse!

Funny that the gop used to be the party of “fiscal responsibility” which apparently means raping children, in politics talk

Hmmm, as punchy as it is, the "Epstein Class" can kinda be read multiple ways no. Rootless cosmopolitans etc

It won't be long before James Young appears on Sam Newman's podcast to complain about how woke culture cancelled and silenced him.

It's odd how the "corruption is part and parcel of getting things done in a big city, Gladys is being unfairly hounded" crew appear to have changed position.

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

Was planning a family holiday up to Crimeney around a footy game and to see some friends. No chance now! Every day a new gangster or gun disaster up there. No wonder everyone leaving. Why pay $600k extra to live in 80s LA, gunshots ringing out daily as coke wars rage.

When you're on a beach holiday and one day it rains - which you welcome as it gives you the opportunity to catch up on washing/cleaning/admin.