Matt Bevan

Matt Bevan, Australian journalist and presenter, discusses Taiwan’s precarious position in relation to China in his latest ‘If You’re Listening’ podcast. He also makes a brilliant joke about it but you might need to be Australian to get it. “Taiwan is girt by Xi” love a pun!
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I am generally against Test Cricket turning into a demolition derby like that Perth test, but at least it allowed me to give my 5yo some interesting answers when he asked every hour who was winning. #ashes

Have England Spent The Last Four Years Practising How To Lose Faster? Musings on the first Ashes Test from an anonymous former Australian Test cricketer

Have England Spent The Last Four Years Practising How To Lose Faster?

Musings on the first Ashes Test from an anonymous former Australian Test cricketer #Ashes 🏏

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a man wearing an apron and a plaid shirt is scratching his head in a kitchen . ALT: a man wearing an apron and a plaid shirt is scratching his head in a kitchen .

The Perth Stadium groundsman watching today’s play knowing he’s going to get a call from accounting in the morning #ashes

Has England ever considered… bowling at the stumps? #ashes

Anyone on Bannerman Watch with Head this innings? #Ashes

He’s Joe Root rendered in a knockoff cricket video game

Can’t get over the impression that Gus Atkinson looks like Joe Root if he got swole #ashes

Look, that’s a travesty. How can you spend 8 minutes watching the same 3 frames of footage and then decide you’re certain it’s out? #ashes

(Splashing hydrochloric acid on myself while doing pool maintenance) “Hey, that’s Bazball, baby!”

Wandering around saying “That’s Bazball, baby!” every time I do something unfathomably stupid. #ashes

Enjoying watching the #ashes so far

Yeah but is he Joe Root English or Jonny Bairstow English?

Seeing Zak Crawley get repeatedly humiliated by Mitchell Starc would be a lot more fun if I knew anything about Zak Crawley. Like… is he a good dude? Does he deserve this nightmare? #ashes

I thought we had dealt with this problem #ashes

Australia: Spends 6 months debating who’s going to open the batting in the first #Ashes test

Also Australia: Inadvertently ends up with Smith and Labuschagne at the crease 3 balls in.

How dare you!

Anyone got an ETA on these files? I've got some pretty immovable deadlines in the next week or so...

Mark Epstein is alive and contactable btw

The Paris Agreement works! In 2015, our current policies pathway led to 3.6°C of warming by 2100. 10 years later this has dropped by around 1°C. This framework has rewritten the rules of global climate action - sparking investment, innovation, & reforms that would simply not have happened without it

I can’t explain why but reading the news feels like this at the moment

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."

JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth Is the AI boom another Dot-Com bubble about to burst? | If You're Listening

The last two episodes of @mattbevan.bsky.social’s “If You’re Listening” are relevant here.

1. “Is the AI boom another Dot-Com bubble about to burst?” www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIbE...

2. “How much energy, water and money is the AI boom consuming” www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mJL...

Awkward eyes monkey meme

Every other public broadcaster in the world watching Trump attack the BBC

It's merely frustration that when English language news reporters go to any other European country to report on an interesting event (like a museum heist, for example), the locals will give them quotes in English. The French will give excellent quotes, but insist on doing them in French.

My wife and I both work from home.
Me just now: You know, I reckon tha-
Her: I'm about to start my meeting.
Me: Oh, never mind.
Her: I've got a second if you need to tell me something.
Me: Oh, no I was just about to voice an opinion about the French.
Her: I'll start my meeting now.
Me: Ok.

LP cover of John Laws, You've Never Been Trucked Like This Before, which features three scantily clad women waiting on Laws in front of a truck

John Laws is dead, so as well as remembering him for outrageous on-air statements and the cash-for-comment affair, let me take this opportunity to remind everyone that in 1976 he released an album of country music covers called You've Never Been Trucked Like This Before

It reached 69 on the charts

The water that goes down the drain just while she waits for it to get hot would be the equivalent of like 300,000 ChatGPT prompts