Tom Swann
Don't worry, everything can always get worse.
- Hear me out. The Blowback podcast should be less earnest and go back to the banter and sketches
- Reposted by Tom SwannSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Biden levels of incoherence but many times more dangerous
- Reposted by Tom SwannWhy does nobody talk about all the people we didn’t execute
- Announcing a new podcast by Goalhanger: The Rest is... the Rest! A podcast about Goalhanger podcasts
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- Reposted by Tom Swann🎉 Yesterday, Florence city council voted to join Amsterdam in banning fossil fuel advertising in public places, becoming the first city in Italy to do so.
- let's just wrap up all the writers festivals at this point? save us all a lot of grief?
- 🫳✨"allegedly"✨
- the Northern Territory at risk of losing mantle of most incompetent mendicant jurisdiction
- Ok how about ice cream, which is delicious, with another thing that is delicious, like kimchi. This idea is patented under the I will damage you act.
- What does it take to get a Liberal government to defend “our hard-working public servants”? They first appoint a publicly racist head of state. (representative of the) Only in the NT
- Eugenics, should we get back into it? Ninefax investigates
- Reposted by Tom Swann“The aroma of infatuation, the perfume of the forbidden…DOJ is proud to unveil its new signature Jeffrey Epstein fragrance, Crave by Jeff,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said at a press conference
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- Reposted by Tom Swannthey should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
- Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. bit.ly/4rmRhrK
- these people - quite literally - dream of reconfiguring the maximum extent of the universe into some kind of hyper intelligent computer
- Reposted by Tom Swann#Morgan ALP 30.5 L-NP 20.5 ON 25 Grn 12.5 Ind/other 11.5 2pp respondent prefs 56-44 (ALP vs L-NP, down 0.5) last-election prefs 54.5-45.5 (=) www.roymorgan.com/findings/997...
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- Reposted by Tom SwannThis is why we run everywhere. It’s quite literally my life’s work to support underfunded dems running in Red America. They speak truth to power, organize their communities, give voters a choice and a voice - and make progress. And sometimes they show the whole country what’s possible. ✨ LFG. 💙
- The govt's fill-in-the-blanks on the new Enviro Laws are vague, discretionary, offset-heavy, and built to accommodate destruction rather than stop it." thepoint.com.au/opinions/4755
- One Nation can't keep itself together as a minor crossbench party. I can't see how more big egos in the room is going to make it more credible and effective. But we live in strange times... www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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- Reposted by Tom SwannCalifornia seems to be building a massive amount of renewable energy and storage while not building a massive volume of new data centres. That seems to be having the effect of actual drops in greenhouse gas emissions, particularly as batteries cut deep into gas
- We went from a high of 41 on Sunday arvo to a low of 8 this morning. My house is gloriously cool. Thank the weather gods.
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- Reposted by Tom SwannICYMI, good coverage on "Jewish and Muslim groups joined forces" to legally challenge the Herzog visit. The Israeli president is credibly accused of genocidal intent. Does Albanese not know how stupid he sounds when he says "people don't want conflict brought here"? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
- Canberra is going from a high of 41 yesterday to a low of 8 degrees at sunrise tomorrow. Wild
- There is an old tale about the NT. It's that all fossil gas infrastructure there is leaking, and no government ever does anything about it. Here's just the latest example www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
- Turns out this is also true of every state lower house except Queensland. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline...
- Reposted by Tom SwannWrap of #Heatwave Maximums for 30 Jan 2026. SA 50.0 °C Port Augusta 2:43pm NSW 48.1 °C Smithville 3:32pm Qld 47.3 °C Ballera 1:59pm Vic 45.6 °C Mildura 6:01pm ACT 40.4 °C Tuggeranong 4:12 pm Tomorrow conditions will start to retract then ease on Sunday
- Reposted by Tom SwannDemocrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants theonion.com/democrats-condemn-i…
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- What actually explains the rapid rise of the One Nation vote?
- Canberra is really quite nice
- Except for the principle of being extremely funny
- The best argument for moving Australia day is we especially have cooked the planet it's now trying to kill us in summer and basically any other time would make more sense to be chill and think about the shit we have done.
- Reposted by Tom SwannRenmark in South Australia reached 49.6C and had 67km/h wind gusts.
- Reposted by Tom SwannNew all-time record set for Victoria, Walpeup 48.9°C, noting that Ouyen won’t report until tomorrow as it is a manually recorded site. reg.bom.gov.au/places/vic/
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- "Large-scale batteries are set to make up a greater share of Australia’s electricity grid than gas by 2027" Astonishing www.afr.com/policy/energ...
- A lap of cancon is always good as a cautionary tale not to go any further or maybe have already gone too far. But it's always fun.
