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@nondescriptive.bsky.social
Politics, running, running politics from an ill-informed perspective. Keep my informed opinions out of this. I enjoy neo-pronouns, they/them and she/her.
Impressive setup for tracking runners at UT Kosciuszko! Marnie Ponton (marathon PB 2:31, idk if she's done much trail racing?) looks to be running with the leaders in the 100k
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UTMB Live - Ultra-Trail Kosciuszko by UTMB 2025 - Kosci 100
Follow the race Ultra-Trail Kosciuszko by UTMB 2025 Kosci 100 live
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November 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Impressive setup for tracking runners at UT Kosciuszko! Marnie Ponton (marathon PB 2:31, idk if she's done much trail racing?) looks to be running with the leaders in the 100k
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There are three women/girls named Piper in the Australian under 20s cross country race tonight
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
There are three women/girls named Piper in the Australian under 20s cross country race tonight
If you look closely you can see me and @old-black.bsky.social 😎
Solidarity to UTS members for their huge strike yesterday. Members were out in force to show management that staff deserve better and will keep fighting for much-needed improvements to job security, workloads and fair pay.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
If you look closely you can see me and @old-black.bsky.social 😎
if australians have to be bombarded with 'black friday' ads, we should also be given time off work to focus on baking projects
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
if australians have to be bombarded with 'black friday' ads, we should also be given time off work to focus on baking projects
This is being a NSW person in Melbourne and the place names are AFL teams
To be an American travelling around London by tube or the country by train is to encounter lots of place names one vaguely knows from books/ movies/ TV shows in which the place name is meant to immediately evoke some highly particular class/ culture/ accent/ norms matrix, understanding none of it.
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This is being a NSW person in Melbourne and the place names are AFL teams
This is really sad. Guy thought it was a residence not a synagogue and was in the midst of a delusional episode, probably very scary in itself. He has already spent longer in jail than the time he's been sentenced to, has been homeless, and again, is very unwell
A man who set fire to a Melbourne synagogue in July while worshippers were inside was motivated by mental illness rather than antisemitism, an Australian magistrate said.
Australian judge rules synagogue arsonist was motivated by mental illness, not antisemitism
An Australian magistrate says a man who set fire to a Melbourne synagogue door while worshippers were inside was motivated by mental illness rather than antisemitism.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is really sad. Guy thought it was a residence not a synagogue and was in the midst of a delusional episode, probably very scary in itself. He has already spent longer in jail than the time he's been sentenced to, has been homeless, and again, is very unwell
Reading this I find it hard to envisage a similar reaction if the same thing happened today. Hard to wrap my head around the implication 2000 was a high point in radicalism? 🥴
Partially because it feels like something that could happen again now, I was just thinking about the controversy leading up to the 2000 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, when there was a confederate flag flying over the Capitol in Columbia, South Carolina, the host city.
www.nytimes.com/2000/02/17/s...
www.nytimes.com/2000/02/17/s...
OLYMPICS; Running Into Controversy (Published 2000)
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Reading this I find it hard to envisage a similar reaction if the same thing happened today. Hard to wrap my head around the implication 2000 was a high point in radicalism? 🥴
That's 15% of students enrolled...
21,000 K-12 students in Charlotte, North Carolina
missing on Monday as ICE terrorizes the city
btw news isn't covering this as it's hidden from them
but ABSOLUTELY CERTAINTY there are "KIDS IN CAGES" again
just this time the monsters learned to hide them
from press and protesters on military bases
missing on Monday as ICE terrorizes the city
btw news isn't covering this as it's hidden from them
but ABSOLUTELY CERTAINTY there are "KIDS IN CAGES" again
just this time the monsters learned to hide them
from press and protesters on military bases
Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say
Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.
www.wbtv.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
That's 15% of students enrolled...
Truly disturbing insight into the cruel bureaucratic paternalism of our "welfare" system
The department's focus on behavioural change, via mutual obligation punishments, is criminally deranged.
“behavioural change can be achieved quickly” through “unanticipated life-threatening events (such as surviving electrocution after touching live electrical wires"
Fuck me dead
“behavioural change can be achieved quickly” through “unanticipated life-threatening events (such as surviving electrocution after touching live electrical wires"
Fuck me dead
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Truly disturbing insight into the cruel bureaucratic paternalism of our "welfare" system
what was it that bob brown imagined the greens to be? "not left, not right, but a two-winged bird flying straight ahead" (??) well
An analysis of the changing pattern between 2010 and 2025 of Greens support across electoral divisions, and the continuing increase in the flows of Green preferences to Labor. antonygreen.com.au/comparing-gr... #auspol
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
what was it that bob brown imagined the greens to be? "not left, not right, but a two-winged bird flying straight ahead" (??) well
"uncurated list of grievances political elites have litigated for decades" is the perfect description of this material, with the exception that it also includes business elites' grievances. (Business council quoted whinging about how hard it is to calculate payroll taxes klaxon!)
The SMH is doing a new long form policy series (good) on federation reform (great) but today’s first edition feels a little like an uncurated list of grievances political elites have litigated for decades. Tomorrow’s solutions article sounds promising but I struggled to find new insights in today’s.
Overgoverned, overtaxed and overcomplicated: How Australia was set up to fail
Our three levels of government will collect a record $1 trillion in taxes this year, but the federation is failing.
www.brisbanetimes.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"uncurated list of grievances political elites have litigated for decades" is the perfect description of this material, with the exception that it also includes business elites' grievances. (Business council quoted whinging about how hard it is to calculate payroll taxes klaxon!)
This is disgusting and so... recognisable 😕
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This is disgusting and so... recognisable 😕
Sydney Morning Herald ("here's to reason") doing the exact same thing today, next to their reprint of a Telegraph oped about the ban
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Sydney Morning Herald ("here's to reason") doing the exact same thing today, next to their reprint of a Telegraph oped about the ban
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The modern olympics was founded on the exclusion of women, good to see some traditions never die 🙄
"Nous estimons que les Jeux Olympiques doivent être réservés aux hommes. Et d’abord, en application du proverbe fameux illustré par Musset : il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée. (1/2)
"Nous estimons que les Jeux Olympiques doivent être réservés aux hommes. Et d’abord, en application du proverbe fameux illustré par Musset : il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée. (1/2)
Les femmes aux Jeux Olympiques.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The modern olympics was founded on the exclusion of women, good to see some traditions never die 🙄
"Nous estimons que les Jeux Olympiques doivent être réservés aux hommes. Et d’abord, en application du proverbe fameux illustré par Musset : il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée. (1/2)
"Nous estimons que les Jeux Olympiques doivent être réservés aux hommes. Et d’abord, en application du proverbe fameux illustré par Musset : il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée. (1/2)
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I'm not reading anything beyond the headline, i don't care if there's redeeming or less horrendous details, I'm logging off and reading Caster Semenya's autobiography instead
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I'm not reading anything beyond the headline, i don't care if there's redeeming or less horrendous details, I'm logging off and reading Caster Semenya's autobiography instead
✨️fuck this✨️
IOC moves closer to ban transgender athletes from female events in the Olympics: report
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IOC moves closer to ban transgender athletes from female events in the Olympics: report
The International Olympic Committee moves closer to ban transgender athletes from the female category in the Olympics in time for 2028.
amileaminute.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
✨️fuck this✨️
Times like these i could really use a US politics filter
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Times like these i could really use a US politics filter
The woman characters in these two, on the other hand... johnny mnemonic's was ok. Chain reaction's was the most useless yet
CHAIN REACTION (1996) is easily in this category with an oddly HOME ALONE vibe
JOHNNY NMEMONIC (1995) has an "Alanis Morisette as God" vibe
JOHNNY NMEMONIC (1995) has an "Alanis Morisette as God" vibe
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The woman characters in these two, on the other hand... johnny mnemonic's was ok. Chain reaction's was the most useless yet
Watched a couple more on the list this week and enjoyed them both. Action movies pre-CGI are generally a good bet. The plot and the effects can be quite silly and you still have a good time
Watched BROKEN ARROW (1996) as part of my project to very belatedly and slowly work through the films featured on @jamellebouie.net and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social Unclear and Present Danger podcast.
Highlight: The first time during this project I've encountered a...
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Highlight: The first time during this project I've encountered a...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0115...
Broken Arrow (1996) ⭐ 6.1 | Action, Adventure, Thriller
1h 48m | R
www.imdb.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Watched a couple more on the list this week and enjoyed them both. Action movies pre-CGI are generally a good bet. The plot and the effects can be quite silly and you still have a good time
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For a while, I was following a story about potential salary cap violations in the NBA by the Clippers. Mark Cuban & others were like, "The Clippers are owned by Steve Ballmer! He was CEO of Microsoft! You think he broke the rules?" Uh, yes? Are you unfamiliar with Microsoft?
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
For a while, I was following a story about potential salary cap violations in the NBA by the Clippers. Mark Cuban & others were like, "The Clippers are owned by Steve Ballmer! He was CEO of Microsoft! You think he broke the rules?" Uh, yes? Are you unfamiliar with Microsoft?
This guy's rescuers were my kind of rescuers
He hasn't had food or water for 2 days, not much for shelter, and...
He hasn't had food or water for 2 days, not much for shelter, and...
![The man used a sail to make a makeshift tent but had no food or water. He was finally spotted on Sunday morning by a passing yacht, whose crew raised the alarm. A lifeboat team from Andijk brought him safely ashore.
According to the KNRM, the man was slightly weakened but otherwise in good condition. [highlight begins] He was given coffee, a shower and dry clothes [highlight ends] in Andijk before being taken to a hotel to recover.
He told rescuers he was extremely relieved to see them, as he had begun to fear he would not survive the ordeal. The KNRM said the case highlights the importance of having emergency equipment such as a marine radio, phone or flares on board.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:onsek4fqz6qmex2txy4rx5qf/bafkreidtbej4jogxcruzfqfvgjyckew5rnjwkm5cspbr5o77vn4attjquq@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This guy's rescuers were my kind of rescuers
He hasn't had food or water for 2 days, not much for shelter, and...
He hasn't had food or water for 2 days, not much for shelter, and...
@tresantes.bsky.social hello!!! when is your next run!!
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
@tresantes.bsky.social hello!!! when is your next run!!
To be fair, Microsoft's accounting practices *are* questionable
Why is the CFO of OpenAI claiming that something disclosed in Microsoft’s earnings (was originally reported as $11.5bn) - that OpenAI lost $12bn in q3 CY2025 - was “way overestimated”? This is disputing the accounting of a $4tr public company!
HT @gerritd.bsky.social
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HT @gerritd.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
To be fair, Microsoft's accounting practices *are* questionable
FIFA found a new form of bribery they hadn't tried before!
I don't know if FIFA awarding Trump a "peace" prize is a piss-take or a slap-in-the-face (consolation prize). Either way, believing FIFA is about caring for humanity is a stretch of the imagination. #FIFA
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC
Fifa unveils a new Peace Prize to be awarded at the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, citing a mission to honor efforts to end conflict
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
FIFA found a new form of bribery they hadn't tried before!