Jane
@seejanecricket.bsky.social
all round geek, special nerdery reserved for cricket and words.
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The voting for our #WordOfTheWeekOfTheYear2025 is going apace. You can vote, but you can also come to the live show if you're a patron — even a free one.
Just follow this link to find out when it is, and sign up. Thanks to all our patrons for your support.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The voting for our #WordOfTheWeekOfTheYear2025 is going apace. You can vote, but you can also come to the live show if you're a patron — even a free one.
Just follow this link to find out when it is, and sign up. Thanks to all our patrons for your support.
www.patreon.com/posts/145354...
Just follow this link to find out when it is, and sign up. Thanks to all our patrons for your support.
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
(Hard mode allows for Shakespeare, fortunately)
(Hard mode allows for Shakespeare, fortunately)
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
(Hard mode allows for Shakespeare, fortunately)
(Hard mode allows for Shakespeare, fortunately)
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"Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country."
December 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country."
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate
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starc making more runs than he conceded
functionally took 6 for -2
functionally took 6 for -2
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
starc making more runs than he conceded
functionally took 6 for -2
functionally took 6 for -2
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If I was a West Indian cricket fan I'd 100% be posting about how sad it is to see the decline of English cricket and how the world needs a strong England.
December 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
If I was a West Indian cricket fan I'd 100% be posting about how sad it is to see the decline of English cricket and how the world needs a strong England.
@leaguetees.bsky.social any chance of an ‘I’m here to see Alyssa Healy’s husband’ shirt? credit to @crystallised-cricket.com who helped me pin down what I wanted
December 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
@leaguetees.bsky.social any chance of an ‘I’m here to see Alyssa Healy’s husband’ shirt? credit to @crystallised-cricket.com who helped me pin down what I wanted
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Ooo look at me, I’m Mitchell Starc and I’m going to win a day/night test match all by myself.
Grow up.
Grow up.
A superb innings from Mitchell Starc comes to an end 🙌
Truly making these Ashes his own 🔥
Truly making these Ashes his own 🔥
December 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Ooo look at me, I’m Mitchell Starc and I’m going to win a day/night test match all by myself.
Grow up.
Grow up.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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The Nobel people should start a football prize and just hand it to some random tennis guy
December 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The Nobel people should start a football prize and just hand it to some random tennis guy
Chico is ready for his close up, Mr Fenelon
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Chico is ready for his close up, Mr Fenelon
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He's not going to nuke London, he owns half of it 🧐
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
He's not going to nuke London, he owns half of it 🧐
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It’s time for my annual thread of Australian poetry books you should buy ppl for Xmas. No one buys poetry partly cos it’s intimidating. It rarely makes xmas book guides. But poetry is an ethical gift that: supports underfunded writers; wins brownie points with gift receiver; improves the human soul
December 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
It’s time for my annual thread of Australian poetry books you should buy ppl for Xmas. No one buys poetry partly cos it’s intimidating. It rarely makes xmas book guides. But poetry is an ethical gift that: supports underfunded writers; wins brownie points with gift receiver; improves the human soul
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Excellent reporting by @joshtaylor.bsky.social and @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Excellent reporting by @joshtaylor.bsky.social and @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
the water wars are coming, sign #437
Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
the water wars are coming, sign #437
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Australia is paying $750m to a US prison company and $2.5bn in a secret deal to Nauru, yet the hundred or so asylum seekers in Nauru are starving.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
‘Day by day I lose weight’: asylum seekers on Nauru get $115 a week, but a bag of grapes costs $20
Forbidden from working, people sent to the island by Australia say they are struggling to survive because food is so expensive
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Australia is paying $750m to a US prison company and $2.5bn in a secret deal to Nauru, yet the hundred or so asylum seekers in Nauru are starving.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
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I dream of the day that we defeat fascism and also neutrals
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I dream of the day that we defeat fascism and also neutrals
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My kids keep begging for an elf to visit our house like they do their friends’ houses but like I’m sorry you will not be pleased when you wake up and the milk has curdled and our cattle die of miasma exposure but that’s what happens when you invite the duine uasal into your home.
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My kids keep begging for an elf to visit our house like they do their friends’ houses but like I’m sorry you will not be pleased when you wake up and the milk has curdled and our cattle die of miasma exposure but that’s what happens when you invite the duine uasal into your home.
aww Star Trek did an Enemy Mine ep. thanks to that nerd out there who had the same VHS my family did.
December 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
aww Star Trek did an Enemy Mine ep. thanks to that nerd out there who had the same VHS my family did.
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EXCLUSIVE: Funding and support plans for national disability insurance scheme participants will be generated by a computer program and staff will have no discretion to amend them, under a major overhaul of the NDIS to be rolled out next year, @australia.theguardian.com can reveal.
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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This is going to be an absolute disaster. It is colossally stupid, unethical in the extreme, and it’s going to ruin lives.
EXCLUSIVE: Funding and support plans for national disability insurance scheme participants will be generated by a computer program and staff will have no discretion to amend them, under a major overhaul of the NDIS to be rolled out next year, @australia.theguardian.com can reveal.
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is going to be an absolute disaster. It is colossally stupid, unethical in the extreme, and it’s going to ruin lives.
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Like, when Baudrillard describes a process wherein we lose access to the Real entirely and get trapped in an infinite discursive hall of mirrors, that's supposed to be understood to be bad! You're not supposed to do it on purpose!!
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Like, when Baudrillard describes a process wherein we lose access to the Real entirely and get trapped in an infinite discursive hall of mirrors, that's supposed to be understood to be bad! You're not supposed to do it on purpose!!
ABC's kids news show BTN surveyed 17,000 9-16 year olds about the social media ban:
- 70% said they think it's a bad idea
- 72% said they don't think it'll work
- of those with social media accounts, 75% said they plan to keep using it
- 190 said they were 67 (6-7) years old
www.abc.net.au/news/...
- 70% said they think it's a bad idea
- 72% said they don't think it'll work
- of those with social media accounts, 75% said they plan to keep using it
- 190 said they were 67 (6-7) years old
www.abc.net.au/news/...
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM