Barbecues Galore is in administration. The clearance sale is obviously next. youtu.be/-hLAPK4KtzE?...

@joemerrick.bsky.social Pokemon 30 Superbowl commercial in tonight's game... Big push for 27/2 incoming...

US medical team doing line dancing with Vonn pre-training. I'd bet you the Australians in Milan would school them in the Nutbush. #nbcolympics #TeamAUS

@debritz.bsky.social: no surprises here: the sudden cancellation of Winter Olympics coverage by the Washington Post was a warning signal…

Dr Seuss's lost Lorax sequel, set after the Onceler gives Ted the last Truffla seed called Maslow's Hierarchy of Thneeds

A tip to Youtube: Bring back the "sort by most recent upload" feature in your search.

Interesting to hear that the mascot for the Indianapolis Colts has snuck into Australia (presumably for Super Bowl work in Darwin). Answers to the name "Blue". Has been spotted recently in Sydney and the Blue Mountains.

A interesting note for TfNSW: What's going on concerning the A6 between Carlingford and Heathcote? People are increasingly spotting coverplated signs with "A11" (extending the Northconnex route number to Heathcote) along that corridor amongst road-sign enthusiast Facebook communities

A bold prediction: WWE is going to get a hard reckoning in ECW's heartland on Monday night post-Saudi Rumble, that may get TKO to have second thoughts about Mania next year in Saudi Arabia... Netflix's beep button better be on autoclick...

🎵Real Civil Engineer won a Golden Log, Didn't need any hype to get people to vote, It's the "incidents" that keep people coming. Don't let Paddy chew on the award. It's your just reward for excellence... and just being yourself.🎵 "Timberborners" sometime in the next week.

@debritz.bsky.social Very interesting story: awfulannouncing.com/newspapers/w...

If I were a canny Blue Mountains fish and chip shop near a train station, I'd secretly look at opening all night 29/30 Jan until after the final V-Set Chips departure, to cater for hungry gunzels.

A interesting side note: the final V-Set Blue Mountains services will most likely be the eponymous "The Fish" (dating back to 1880) and "The Chips" morning inbound services between Lithgow and Central of Australian high school maths textbook fame.

A update to Geo Racers... Galway to Rome now available! cc. @politicanimal.bsky.social I finished 272nd in the race from Galway to Rome with a time of 3d 2h 55m 28.7s! Can you beat my time? Join the fun at geo-racers.com

Just wait until they bring out t' Yorkshire AI. It'll start directing tourists to t' Leeds International Airstrip to catch a Yorkshire Airlines flight, and get a ferret on t' way through. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VLY...

Going to be interesting if Starlight Express makes it's first Australian stops in 40 years during the impending world tour post-UK close. www.whatsonstage.com/news/starlig... cc. @debritz.bsky.social

Very interesting to hear: Sunshine Plaza set to get the third non-airport Lego Store in SEQ (fourth in Queensland), due to open in March.

Basically, it's from the week before they sent Gary Hardgrave to Stanthorpe. 25/06/84!

You know, @jayforeman.bsky.social: they are asking about you (or at least Map Men) in the comments!

Birmingham: if you want to stop these spontanious events happening... actually deliver a council sponsored event on NYE. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Mayor weighing... might see a few SEQ Mayors get into shape if that sort of thing were introduced in Queensland. cc. @spencerhowson.bsky.social

Meanwhile: the slow Australian newspaper copyright expiry crawl that has stifled Trove since inception in 2009 has finally begun. As of 1 January 2026, copyright covering Australian newspaper content published in 1955 has expired. trove.nla.gov.au/announcement...

A very interesting watch this New Year's Eve: the funeral for New York's MetroCard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNnQ... Last swipe, swipe is set for NYE (early 1/1/26 in Australia): and already, eBay is packed with MetroCard sales.

We alluded to #ProjectBlackjack in the #kwNetworkSelect that was posted earlier today (kuttsywoodscouch.blogspot.com/2025/12/kwne...). The clue is in the name itself. Project Blackjack.

Spencer suggested you, @debritz.bsky.social to answer my question... quoted below.

@spencerhowson.bsky.social Have I got this right: January 12, 2001: the date Peter Beattie swam with sharks in the leadup to 2001 QLD election being called weeks later? Trying to pinpoint a exact date for a Youtube video, that thinks it's June 2001!

The big question now lies: how does cash strapped Merlin Entertainment respond, let alone Disneyland Paris across the Channel (who will be now pushing like hell for cross-channel services to resume at Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy: axed by Eurostar three years ago).

Have heard, the starters pistol has fired concerning the Universal Great Britain development in Bedford. Although, I'd be really bringing out the ploughmans lunch when the first sod is turned: one step further than other projects like the London Resort, etc. had tried to achieve.

Will be interesting to see what QIC ends up doing concerning Castle Towers losing David Jones. www.davidjones.com/stores/castl...

Wonder why such a contest couldn't take off in Australia? Because Foxtel's comedy channel is run off a hard drive, not with actual people. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A interesting idea. My vision for improving road safety: zero tolerence for any alcohol on a drivers breath between December 20 and January 10 (Christmas/New Year) every year. See how many end up deciding to leave the car at home to get a jar at the pub at Xmas time just to avoid a fine...

@vook64.bsky.social Question: any idea what happened to “Nintendo Man”, as seen in this video? youtu.be/iyti8w21tRI?...

Who needs subs, Bruce Highway edition. Posted by TMR today… but has a closing date of January this year. One for @mattdennien.bsky.social to lob at Mickelburg tomorrow, during #qldpol perhaps. cc. @debritz.bsky.social

Flixbus set to unleash itself on Brisbane from December 18: first targets being Brisbane-Cairns and Brisbane-Sydney. $9.99 to travel Brisbane-Cairns: a equivalent distance as that between Seville in Spain to Paris in France, will be seeing a significant take-up. www.busnews.com.au/flixbus-laun...

A open suggestion to the people at Crikey: make this piece, free for all, so it can be spread far and wide: perhaps it can drive the message to some crazy people out there that think a digital ID is coming enmasse. A AI-powered digital ID ain't coming for you... it's coming for your children.

Missing: 25.3t of sandstone blocks. Last seen: Friday afternoon. If found: contact the Lake Macquarie City Council: because they kind of, want them back... and the council also wants to know how they were actually stolen in the first damn place. cc. @molk.bsky.social

Bold prediction: next Saturday, will be the seed for Gunther V Randy Orton at WrestleMania in 2026. Next step: tease a moment in next year's Rumble, that sees Randy and Gunther fighting over eliminating a wrestler under a legends deal. That's when you push a Legend Killer V Legend Killer match.

Who needs subs? #NHL edition. Anaheim Ducks playing... Oregon Ducks (a college team for the University of Oregon) used as the catch image. A quackup if I've ever seen one. cc @debritz.bsky.social

Let me present a proposition to you. This is no Gruen pitch. It's a actual social media ban for politicians and registered political parties in Australia. Former politicians can keep their accounts as long as they are personal and private. See how quickly they react. cc. @molk.bsky.social

100% expecting that 50,000 Australian users to have a 1 or 2 in front of it by Christmas. December 10 will do for Bluesky in AU the same attraction of what the Black Saturday fires in Victoria did for Twitter in AU in 2009. I just hope @bsky.app is somewhat ready... cc. @molk.bsky.social

A strine A-Eye: It’ll struggle with the potato and devon matrix. Much like hamburger earmuffs I’m afraid… anybody can make them, but only the smartest figure out the pickle matrix.

@joemerrick.bsky.social: probably the most unusual Legends ZA video I've seen since release... This one is examining the urbanism... of Lumiose. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlmt...

You know, @defunctland.bsky.social: if you’d waited until Disneyland Paris’s Olaf animatronic announcement yesterday, you could have gotten a even 4:20:00…

Openly expecting the game plan for American Truck Simulator will focus on getting the rest of the Midwest finished post-Louisiana, then work on Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida (finishing the I-10 corridor (Santa Monica-Jacksonville)... and kicking off I-95 once Florida is finished.

Am hearing word, Allan Moffat: a car racing name at his peak: was as famous as Peter Brock, and who won Bathurst four times in the 1970s (including solo efforts in 1970 and 1971 (500mile race), the first metric 1000km Bathurst in 1973, and 1977), has passed away at 86.

Who needs subs: Black Friday edition. Woolies notification sending people on a time warp. cc. @debritz.bsky.social

And you thought that was bad: Here's how they described Westfield Chermside in the article itself: (www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensl...) Definitely needed subs before it went out! cc. @debritz.bsky.social

Who needs subs: Courier-Mail with their big Toombul scoop... The third picture is of Fairfield Gardens Shopping Centre from the 2022 flood. Another retail geography fail from the same publication that labeled a image of Westfield Carindale as Westfield Chermside in July. cc. @debritz.bsky.social

@flemishdog.bsky.social It might be a good idea to archive Mirvac's Toombul Renewal website in the next few days. Already sent the Irvine Group sale announcement to the Internet Archive

If you want to know the two reasons why Menulog is being shuttered, read this thread.