combo meat puppet/cosmic dust; sports tragic ⚓️💜 💙🏉 Cott rugby/Western Force; Freo Dockers; (retired) English teacher; wadjela on Wardandi Noongar country.
Bunbury, Western Australia
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Fair to say I do not jump on the bandwagon of success.
3 clubs combined ≈160 years in 3 competitions, 2 premierships in 1921/2 (Go Bears!).
Luckily, I’m a patient man & not dependent on the success of others for my own self-esteem.
@freodockers @NthSydneyBears @westernforce – at Bunbury, Western Australia
And so it begins. America votes, Australia watches.
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
My own experience with Tiananmen was more peripheral - I arrived in Wuhan in August 89 to teach medical students but my classes were delayed while students were re-educated. 👉
I Covered the Tiananmen Square Massacre. It Still Weighs on Me. nytimes.com/2026/10/30/world… via @NYTimes
But some of them told me later, when I gained their trust, about their experiences not just in Wuhan, but also in Beijing, & particularly what they witnessed. Some, who had been more active participants, had their language classes cut back. 👉
This was a specific punishment as their textbooks from 3rd year on were in English. Later I judged a spoken English comp where a student read Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind, emphasising the lines ‘If winter comes, can spring be far behind’. They still had hope. @NickKristof
I wish that giving blood were so commonplace, so everyday an event that I didn’t feel the need to humblebrag my donations in an attempt to guilt people into following suit.
Once again, if you can give blood, & I know some people can’t, you should consider doing so. @RedCrossAU
As I’ve often said to my partner, who is dubious at best about my book-buying habit, what if there comes a time when I can’t afford to buy new books? I’ll have literally (& I mean that literally) hundreds of unread books to choose from. #itsnothoardingifitsbooks
Trump’s going to be furious when Putin beats him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
“Calling Putin a humanitarian is like calling Hannibal Lecter a humanitarian, although there is more of a case to be made for Hannibal because he does, at least, subsist on people.” @petridishes on Steve Witkoff’s recent remarks to the Russian president: theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
Our mutual friend Mr de Ceglie had his sticky fingers all over this, @OBBY001, through his roles as editor of The Worst, & then as director of news & current affairs for Seven West Media. (Starting at the Collie Mail might be viewed as a triggering event though. IYKYK)
A lot of work went into this one: abc.net.au/news/2026-10-21/s…
I know most of you know me as a woke urban sophisticate, but I really did have a feral childhood in the NT after my family moved back to Oz after 10 years in the UK. ➡️ roo & buffalo hunting; swimming at UDP Falls (Waterfall Creek); snake charming; armed & dangerous (to myself).
Did Graham & Switta sign a post-employment non-disclosure agreement to protect our intellectual property rights? One for you, @FreoLou @conversacean
I’m genuinely curious how this works when coaches & players change clubs.
Seems legit. It’s always Jones’s fault. Alan, Eddie either/or.
@wallabies #bledisloecup #edenparkcurse #stolenfromfacebook
Carn @wallabies !
That was my first beer in nearly six months. Beating the ABs in Perth, in front of their ‘home’ crowd, made it even sweeter. Having it with Mark ‘Cowboy’ Shaw was even betterer. #bledisloecup #smashthehoodoo
They think Bedendo is taking O’Driscoll’s spot, but he’s actually replacing 🇨🇭🐮⛷️ in the ‘mangle the surname’ role. #foreverfreo #wallsyspecial
