A open challenge to the MCC. Ban News Corp sports journos from the MCG for SOO Game 2. Force them to cover the game via a screen elsewhere to punish them for the Courier-Mail's blatant attempt to interfere with RL decisionmaking.

Nightcap Hotels: Archer Resort, Nowra NSW. #motelart cc. @spencerhowson.bsky.social

What Ashley Klein did before #origin tonight.

Someone should inform Seven that the 2026 CG is only in Glasgow... because Victoria got the hosting rights... and failed to use the democratic approach of a referendum when they realized they'd be bled dry.

Quality Inn Dubbo International, Dubbo, NSW. #motelart cc. @spencerhowson.bsky.social

Kaputar Motel, Narrabri, NSW #Motelart cc. @spencerhowson.bsky.social

Meanwhile: the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas has apparently closed down. youtu.be/jucVR7tf6_g?...

News Corp launching a "Back Australia" reboot... just as they stab subscriber loyalty in the back. News Corp's +Rewards benefits program set to be shuttered on July 1. Consumers pay $32 a month for news from News Corp. Love to know how much News Corp charges our pollies for access.

There has to be a story somewhere about whose idea it was to flood Barry Manilow with RL fans in Brisbane back in June 1996. Was it the Broncos... or the Manilow concert's promoter...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngaT... Wine-powered vehicles would give new meaning to drink driving...

Really big missed opportunity for Pokopia: instead of finding Sudowoodo in the grass under a tree: you could have had 6 different formes (similar to getting Tatsugiri): all done as various berry trees, that for some strange reason: can't be headbutted, but go crazy after you use Water Gun on them...

Who needs subs? (Got fixed for the digital edition though!) cc. @debritz.bsky.social

If you are a #WWE fan, you’ll figure out straight away when Pat McAfee is coming back after the WM clusterf**k with Orton and Rhodes. Baton Rouge is not far from MITB… in New Orleans.

This is going to be a interesting idea: but, have the Australians coming off the hantavirus cruise, that are headed to Sydney's biocontainment facility, get on a chartered flight from Perth... into WSI and do the ambulance transfer to Westmead from there. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I reckon WWE has just let a money match land in Tony Khan's hands. I guarantee Kofi and Xavier will end up in AEW at the end of their no-compete... and give us the main event of All In in London. Young Bucks v New Dawn. And you can build their arrival just like WWE built Jericho in 1999.

From someone who remembers vividly 9/11 news being interrupted in Australia by Ansett's collapse in September 2001, this moment has striking parallels. Spirit's restructuring team... has effectively said they are done. #RIPSpiritAirlines www.spiritrestructuring.com

If you've ever wanted to see a airline die in real time: go over right now to the Spirit Airlines Reddit page. Last Spirit Airlines flights have just landed in Dallas. #RIPSpiritAirlines

I somehow think KFC have screwed up their SOO field marketing this year. Someone forgot to tell marketing that Hot and Spicy chicken (and therefore Zingers) are prepared differently dependent on which side of the NSW/QLD border the KFC is located. It should be "Divided By State and Zingers"

A challenge to any Australian (with the new Planet Coaster 2 update). Deliver a near perfect replica of Grundy's on the Gold Coast from the eighties.

And then the rumors about Roman's contract being up. Imagine Brock V Goldberg heat... in your Wrestlemania main event. Especially as Roman could well end up joining Moxley in Jacksonville if the Roman Reigns contract expiry story is air tight.

Tonight was the first "Night 1" I've missed of Wrestlemania since the move to a two night event (outside the Rhodes/Orton finale). I somehow think if WWE were to run a WM Riyadh promo tomorrow night... it'll be soundly booed by the Vegas audience. #WM42

Joe, already starting to see any PokéTuber worth their salt trying to see the CoroCoro stuff as "news". 100% guarantee that it's going just be a rehash of Feburary's Presents reveal, nothing more, nothing less. If anything: the first tangible news re. Gen 10 will be in San Francisco, at Worlds.

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Local Hungry Jacks is proudly announcing their lack of beef. With Wendys expansion... consumers should rightly ask: where's the beef?

Blackpool Pleasure Beach railway station. The Pleasure Beach Express within the park actually has better per hour frequency than the National Rail station bearing the theme park's name (a single train per hour each way). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackpo...

Playlunch's next hit with Barry Hall: "Herald Sun Spelling". It'll be #hottest100 worthy for sure.

I would not put it past TPCI to have the Western debut of the Pokemon/Hatsune Miku concert event at PokemonXP (Saturday night at the Chase Center perhaps) later this year. Very slick product. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGsd... cc. @joemerrick.bsky.social

A interesting question to raise: the future of lotto licence holder-led sales of lottery products. Digital sales for the Lott are now at 43% of total revenue. Could significant moves happen if digital direct lottery sales end up being 1/2 of Lott revenue? www.newsagencyblog.com.au/2026/03/10/t...

Very interesting to hear that WSW will be running the first significant wrestling card in Brisbane's inner city (Grand Slam Australia 2025 got transferred to Boondall from Suncorp) in nine years on October 30. First ever wrestling event for Hutchies "Festival Hall successor" in Fortitude Valley.

Struggling Patreon user here: to the point that it's lead segment is now over at Substack just so it can get more views every week by being a freesheet into your inbox every Sunday. www.patreon.com/c/kwcouchone

If you think our situation is bad with fuel: try the US state most reliant on imported fuel (i.e. no pipelines to Hawaii from the US mainland: too expensive/lengthy). Hawaii is currently the most expensive state per gallon (equal to 3.78L) in the US. A gallon there: $5.50 USD (near $8 AUD)

If I were the RAS: 2027 would be the right time to axe the COVID-forced ticketing limits concerning the Royal Easter Show. Next year's Sydney Royal will be outside school holidays entirely: and encouraging more visits outside school trips should be priority #1.

One for @joemerrick.bsky.social to ponder. Have spotted UTme Pokopia patterns at Uniqlo in Australia.

Alton Towers's long-term issues are all coming to a head. It isn't just the Universal threat at Bedford. It's coming from all quarters. Every part of the AT business is at significant threat of disruption.

The new £100 note in the UK should be emblazoned with Roland Rat. "Give me a Roland" would become the new phrase for giving someone 100 quid! England, instead of letting money get eaten by rats, put a rat on your money.

Wild news in NSW train circles: apparently a throwback XPT livery (back to eighties candy, L7 and all) is currently in the works. www.tiktok.com/@nswgrstudio...

Am hearing there are significant fuel shortages at Wallangarra.

After discovering the Nugget Bridge glitch on the Switch FRLG: I kind of wonder... where the hell did Team Rocket got their endless supply of Nuggets from!

I guarantee, this reboot will likely head to the west. Wouldn't be surprised if a western Plakoro playtest ends up in PokemonXP's Play Lab later this year. There's precedent. The arcade version of Pokken was demoed at '15 Worlds in Boston long before it's WiiU/Switch ports were dreamt of.

I wouldn't be surprised if a near 20yr old football stadium at Robina in Queensland will be newsworthy this week for many local news outlets wanting to onsell stories globally. All of Iran's group stage games in the Womens Asian Cup this year are being played on the Gold Coast.

@joemerrick.bsky.social Apparently Winds/Waves website is live. And we have names for those Pikachu at the start of the trailer... "Mr Windychu" and "Ms Wavychu". windswaves.pokemon.com/en-us/

Somebody should tell the IOC to actually make violating the Olympic Truce by a IOC member state (as the 2026 edition not due to expire until March 22, a week after the end of the Winter Paralympics) a punishable offence of the highest order. See what happens. www.olympics.com/en/milano-co...

@dogasusbackpack.bsky.social Really big missed opportunity by Hanshin here with the big Pokemon 30 promotion in Japanese baseball: Elebuus themed baseball gear. Could also surprisingly translate well to the west...

I think Game Freak are confident enough in Pokemon Champions (and a renewed Mega format) to release Gen 10 in '27. Yes the leaks were right... but the rumored release date was wrong. #PokemonDay #PokemonPresents

Very interesting that the apps are being blasted through quickly. Last 15mins will be very important... #PokemonDay #PokemonPresents

Predictions for tonight's Pokemon Presents, brought to you by the letter B, and Dorkly's "Kanto Fried Chicken". There is a gag inside the ALT btw. #PokemonDay #PokemonPresents

As for the Stardew move to add Clint and Sandy as marriage candidates in 1.7: I reckon they are there to demonstrate rumored new mechanics.

I reckon the real reason for the Timberborn 1.0 delay: Disney's latest Pixar film... about robotic beavers!

I somehow think @joemerrick.bsky.social at Serebii quietly hopes for this to happen…