Matt Armstrong

In *Room 101*? Bit quiet part out loud there isn’t it…

YouTube video by Remco Vroom Snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan failing big time at this Virtual Reality game

We’ll always have Ronnie O’Sullivan falling over, tho. youtu.be/OMceVbo3Tm4?...

YouGov survey question: “The United Nations has stated that the Israeli government's deliberate blocking of food, medicine and water into the Gaza Strip has created a "hunger crisis" amongst the civilian population resulting in children starving. Which is closest to your view about the prevention of food, medicine and water reaching civilians in Gaza: • It cannot be justified • It is justified in this case” Starvation of a civilian population is a war crime, a crime against humanity, and an act of genocide according to modern international criminal law.

Just a totally normal survey question asking the Australian public if a literal war crime is ok or not…

Opposition leader Peter Dutton projected to lose the seat of Dickson.

All of the LOLs.

Passed away at Moe’s Tavern, presumably.

Absolutely baffled by the strategy from Advance here with this letter drop. Is this supposed to be anti-Greens advertising?

LOL. Can’t imagine why…

So much to love here… three armed shopkeeper, open closed sign, someone’s vote being literally snatched away from them before they can put it in the ballot box…

YouTube video by David Jones Armando Iannucci's Time Trumpet - University challenge spoof

Venezuela. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKQ2...

Headline from The Guardian: “Move over Myki, Victoria will soon get ticketless public transport fares”

I mean if you’ve ever caught a tram in Melbourne you’d be forgiven for thinking we’ve had ticketless travel for some time…

Screenshot from Duolingo with the phrase “Your fingers look like small sausages” in English and French.

*Finally* all the vocab I need to talk to King Charles in French.

Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...

I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

On ios you can download from a different country’s app store just by creating a separate itunes account in that region. (I have UK and US apps alongside AU ones on my phone, for example). Like the social media ban I guess it will be trivially circumvented but adds a layer of friction.

The four wives of Henry VIII…

Of course on paper this is a good result for Dyche, if you add “not being sacked” to it.

A touching tribute.

Took the UK’s only magazine @thefence.bsky.social to visit some fancy bridge…

Dunno how that’s going to help, but glad they’re having fun I guess…

Photo of Woolworths self checkout that reads “Wombok Baby”

Picked up some groceries for Austin Powers.

I mean on the one hand grr I’m in yet another breach, but on the plus side apparently I’m French now? Fantastique! Where do I collect my passport @haveibeenpwned.com ?

Lovely selective stat this that conveniently doesn’t include the 15 goals we shipped in Aug/Sep and totally ignores how few goals we’ve scored…

They took the NFTs, and put em in an NFT museum…

ABC News caption that reads “Hundreds of Syrians cue at Lebanese border”. Except that’s the wrong spelling of “queue”.

Big snooker game is it ABC News?

Ha. Brilliant.

Photo of a red lid domestic general waste bin with handwritten note taped on top that reads “put dogshit in your bin!!”

Yikes. Is this compulsory now? I don’t even have a dog…

Screenshot of an “I am human” challenge asking user to “click on the shiny object”, followed by a picture of some rings, none of which are shiny.

I think I might be a robot after all. Genuinely have no idea what I was supposed to do with this one…

Screenshot of NME website with quote: ‘“But I don’t care if it cost me $1million (£789,440), I would have done it,” he concluded. “This is a great honour. It really is the greatest honour.”’

Gosh thanks NME. If you hadn’t converted that I would have had *no context whatsoever* of the upper limit of what Rod Stewart was prepared to spend to play Glasto.

Define success.

So one day for submissions and a three hour public hearing? Yep. Seems totally reasonable. Democracy in action…

Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Jonathan Liew As the bombardment continues in Gaza, bodies such as Fifa and the IOC have evaded taking a stand. But fans’ solidarity with Palestinians is growing and should not be ignored

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