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Dave Dun

@davedun.bsky.social

Language Teacher, Football Coach, Bad Parent, ADHDer. I try to be kind.

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Two things are true about Vini.

1. He’s a bit of a prick.
2. He regularly cops horrific racial abuse.

The first does not excuse the second. Being in a football crowd brings a lot to the surface. One of those things is our latent racism.

I love football, but this really sucks. And it’s everywhere.

17.02.2026 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty sure he’s emblematic of more wrong things than just that…

17.02.2026 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was out your way for a few days a couple of years ago for work and really enjoyed it. It was *not* that hot though…

17.02.2026 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yikes

17.02.2026 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Would be interesting to see how this compares to the summer games; the ratio may not be quite as bad. Winter sports are significantly more expensive to do here so not surprising that there is less working class representation.

17.02.2026 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Feedback can be incredibly important and useful.

Conversely, people are idiots and many are unable to imagine experiences & preferences beyond their own.

Sounds to me like you’re doing a pretty awesome job.

16.02.2026 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Australia. Mid-North Coast of New South Wales (east coast, about halfway up).

16.02.2026 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s important to find medical folk who get ADHD. They exist. I’m now able to reliably get my meds each month because my new pharmacist told me about an app after I tried to get them using a prescription that I didn’t know had expired.

Pointless being judged by your GP over missed jabs for the kids

16.02.2026 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And her β€œcentre” is completely nonsensical. For her, the β€œpeople on the extremes causing problems” are trans people wanting to exist one one side and transphobes who want them *not* to exist on the other.

This is not a β€œcentral” position that can be held in good faith.

16.02.2026 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I played it a while back and remember feeling underwhelmed. Maybe I’ll use a new playthrough to try to break my Cyberpunk addiction…

16.02.2026 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, so I’m an O- universal donor and donate plasma every couple of weeks and whole blood every 12 weeks. For nothing.

Would I be making bank in the States?

16.02.2026 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Beginning to think that it will take a horrendous round of illness and death to remind people why we invented vaccines in the first place.

16.02.2026 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooh. Stealing this. Thank you!

16.02.2026 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whoa. Had no idea. Gonna need to do some kind of deep dive into Bsky lore, methinks.

16.02.2026 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œJust trying to live under the radar”

What is the radar? And why do trans folk need to live under it?

I wish they had the cojones to just say what we all know they mean. The pretence of a civilised centrism is exhausting.

15.02.2026 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting to note that a high school language teacher (me) seems to know more about economics and the nature of intelligence than the head of a multi billion dollar β€œAI” company.

I just wish someone with a real platform would say: Wait. That’s nonsense. Explain again exactly what you mean.

15.02.2026 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m all for social cohesion.

However I’m also for political accountability, the protection of marginalised groups, and preventing genocide.

I eagerly await my state-approved beating. That’s how we’ll get there…

14.02.2026 06:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

14.02.2026 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 24659    πŸ” 2880    πŸ’¬ 1065    πŸ“Œ 495

Fantastic. Great job, Angus.

14.02.2026 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agree. But I’m not sure about the initial analogy. It’s not clear that the family members had any say over who the victim married. They are observers without agency

Can’t say the same about Trump voters.

Forgiveness for genuine repentance? Sure. But the genuine repentance has to come first.

14.02.2026 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooh! I like the sound of this.

14.02.2026 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

100%

14.02.2026 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If it was in Spain it wouldn’t be a big deal. It’s martes 13 that’s the tricky one over there… 😊

14.02.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No, but it should be! Why? Why does this amazing thing not exist?

Funny, I didn’t have β€œcorny bsky joke causing me to feel genuine regret” on my weekend bingo card.

14.02.2026 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In defence of translators (who are all, without exception, amazing): a literal translation of Die Hard into Spanish sounds very, very dumb.

14.02.2026 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Most Spanish translations of Hollywood movie titles are sooooo different. Jaws becomes TiburΓ³n (Shark) but my favourite is La Jungla de Cristal (the Glass Jungle, which is how β€œconcrete jungle” is translated into Spanish). Which, of course, is Die Hard.

14.02.2026 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not cool.

Taking stuff from a museum is cool if it’s a high-tech heist of questionably obtained items from the Louvre or some such.

This was smashing a window and grabbing Egyptian figurines on Caboolture. It’s B&E, not a heist.

14.02.2026 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aussie friends, please read if you think the cops are looking out for you. If they’ve never screwed you over, I’m genuinely happy for you. But they will. They just need the right set of circumstances.

14.02.2026 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from ABC news

Screenshot from ABC news

All you need to know about Australia in one screenshot. The woman in the much smaller article below actually won a gold medal.

13.02.2026 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5

😱😱😱

14.02.2026 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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