Disclaimer of continuing Australian bitterness but negative shoutout to F1 again reminding me why it’s more disagreeable than agreeable these days. So much stupid shit.

There is an extraordinary sense of entitlement behind the belief that there ought to be political party that aligns 100% with your own opinions.

Not a comfortable recommendation given the history of evil fomenting with neglect but for so much political hot air generating noise these days

I knew about them deep in the back of my mind but I’ve rediscovered and been going through tons of 2003–06 photos I took when I first had a digital camera (a biggish life-tracking deal in the age before smartphones). It's been a bit eerie and I think the closest I’ll ever feel to time travelling.

Since the World Cup, NZF has done nothing to bring Ferns games home, and just twiddling their thumbs hoping that participation rates alone would mean more awareness. The Ferns programme has regressed, exposure is almost nil, with tonight’s performance the result of the above. Embarrassing. #AUSvNZL

Ninja Turtle Base. DONE. This is the one to repost, folks!

40! I made it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6hG...

TEN STRAIGHT MINUTES OF A TALK SHOW GHOST FOLLOWING AN ANT FUCKING PEERLESS

Been awhile since hail that heavy. Yikes.

They called me a madman. #Ashes #AUSvENG

I don't know who you are but I clipped it for you

New upload: Les Murray and Peter Vlahos 1990 story on the creation of ... Hi-Definition football broadcasts ! youtu.be/zU0dVT6YOEg

Live your life in a way so that 30 years down the road you can proudly post: I wrote all the Klugman stuff.

Stuck between feeling very warm about Scotland and their fans being back at the WC and morbidly fascinated in seeing if they can continue their ridiculous run of failing to get out of the major tournament group stage (even with several having best 2/3 of third-place teams progressing, like this).

...bloody hell, VAR prevents a heart-breaker of conceding a final-seconds penalty for Curaçao on the brink of qualifying.

No-ticker gloves...

RIP to a games industry pioneer and legend, Rebecca Heineman (@burgerbecky.bsky.social) If your unfamiliar, look her up. Her career is like the story of videogames itself.

If I was editor, my reply would be "we would apologise for the error but the bigger issue is that you need to get a life."

Anyone else here get thoroughly sidetracked pondering Ancient Rome, in its timeframe, managing to get to an industrial revolution.

It's an especially less trendy thing to highlight after his off-field legacy shopping, but Cahill's work on Lugano here never got highlighted enough. Genuinely the only time all night someone got the better of a top defender, and it + the pass through to the Dukes/Harry linkup was sneakily crafty.

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Can we get around to a Fox and a bunch of solid long-term assets for Giannis trade already

I forgot the third favourite reductive and self-fulfilling crutch to use in place of more uncomfortable and introspective scrutiny of our brain thinking in football ‒ "this is just how international football is, don't expect anything pretty". We can and should be better. #VENvAUS #Socceroos

Half of it is Irankunda needing to learn/improve his temperament obviously, the other half is...the dissonance of playing reactive passive ball while wanting to turn him into a starter. But hey Poppa knows what he's doing, look at his record etc. [/RBA] #VENvAUS #Socceroos

My favourite thing is when it mixes together with, well... www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZiT...

Getting back to my bullshit about games in our national leagues kicking off too early and our scheduling being too AEDT-based... Bemused shoutout to this #AUSChampionship round's night game #MCEvSMB being delayed by a storm for 90 minutes and...still kicking off at 7:30pm local/real eastern time.

Billionaire buys football club and puts his daughter in charge? That glass ceiling has been well and truly smashed!

Angels United are a football club built out of unspeakable grief. They're also turning loss into legacy and Oldham Athletic are helping them. A story to make your heart swell. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Half-baked (and will also piss off many purists) solution to NBA players not wanting to hurt their 3P% with non-critical long distance heaves until those attempts were lamely allowed to not count individually this season: Make shots from one's own half-court qualify for four points instead.

This again stokes my recurring ambivalence over what the ALW's ultimate place and purpose is and should be (in the foreseeable future, anyway), as a bonafide fully professional league of significant standing or just a part-time thing that essentially operates as mere reserve football to the Tillies.

ABC, giving up on their gaming youtube account with 416K subs (having already given up on their gaming tiktok account with 66K subs): how do we reach younger viewers?

Happy Birthday to George Lowe George Lowe was the phenomenal primary voice of Space Ghost from his casting in 1994, to his passing in 2025; and was also known for his contributions as a radio announcer, folk artist and folk art collector Lowe would have turned 68 today

This was the stuff/copout from tactically-deficient coaches I grew up with a quarter of a century ago that then eventually lead to people conversely placing too much importance on tactics in football as a subconscious overcompensation.

Yes but also...what.

The AFL's new Wildcard Round reminded me of the bonkers trivia fact that in 1916 Fitzroy won the wooden spoon and the premiership in the same year. Only four teams played due to WWI so even though Fitzroy finished on the bottom they still made the finals, then won the grand final.

- Appointing Merrick after talking up the need for a fuck-you technical director - Appointing and persisting with Gustavsson right to the end of the most important Matildas cycle - Reappointing Arnold *with greater NT program oversight* - Appointing and persisting with Vidmar as Olyroos coach (1/2)

On one negative hand, and as much as GTA is historically worth the extra polish and consequent delays, the ridiculous workload required by so many big AAA titles is a worsening stain on modern gaming for which one increasingly questions if and how much the trade off of higher parameters is worth it.

Very nice areas from Messrs Howe and Viduka: www.facebook.com/andrew.howe/...

This is one of those things that I didn't notice it at the time, but my brain probably did. There's so many details in this movie that really sell the illusion that these cartoon characters are interacting with real people. You're caught up in the world and don't question it.

Lighting and storyboarding and animation and staging and soundtrack and mixing and color grading and acting and directing all had to show up and it had to have been a mega pain in the ass and it's perfect. It's a perfect movie. They literally don't make them like this anymore.

Shoutout to OKC, even with two of their main guys missing a lot of it so far, starting 8-0 themselves and already looking a solid bet to win 70-something games themselves, which is absurd in the West. And yet, I stand by all the quoted ponderings come May/June. Going to be damn interesting season.

Incredible. And absolutely the type of stuff I lament not being in sports video games that instead strived for realism (and then the plague of microtransactions) far too much to a fault. Even if they can't be as...improper as this, I want the option of goofiness, DAMMIT. Video games should be fun!

I hope that my nostalgia podcast will help maintain your Spurs fix when you can't stomach any more thought about the current day. It's completely timeless and always will be! If you've not listened yet please give it a try and if you have do help me to grow it further. podfollow.com/1839783424

Aus: 1. France QF overall. Being at both, big Nov 16 2005 vibes + parallels 2. Denmark Ro16. Devoid of the stress/remnant dismay of the Nigeria defeat, much less stress than the France game. Kind of the sweet spot of that campaign 3. Foord in general #StandingUp with her magnificent all-round play

Where there's a Will there's a Ring.

wheeeeeeeeee!

Beautiful. (Although it also makes my Brisbane, Australia self yet again lament summer not really being a desirable thing here, with our big summer sport equivalent in cricket always being more of a mental relief to how awful summers can persistently be and winter instead being where it's at.)