@tfswebb

dour bureaucrat at a public broadcaster

 Sydney, New South Wales
Joined April 2011
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I went long on the late, great David Stratton for Sydney Review of Books. Spent the end of last year reading all of his books and thinking about what sort of writer he was and what kind of library he leaves behind. sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essa…

‘Oh, David!’ | Sydney Review of Books

When David Stratton died in 2025, Australian film lost not only a stalwart, but also, as Sam Twyford-Moore writes, one of its most devoted chroniclers. What does Stratton’s vision of the past fifty...

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Tiger Webb@tfswebb24 Dec 2016
SISTER: [opening xmas gift] this is just a copy of bloc party's 2005 album "silent alarm" ME: have you heard it recently tho. it holds up
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When my daughter eats, it is with joyful abandon. Her behaviour is helping me unlearn toxic standards for women | Léa Antigny | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfre…

When my daughter eats, it is with joyful abandon. Her behaviour is helping me unlearn toxic...

Watching my daughter’s strong sense of self has forced me to reflect on my own adolescence through the wildly misogynistic early 2000s

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Tiger Webb@tfswebb15 Sep 2020
mum says the members of INXS used to work at a car wash near her work in the 70s and were always hassling her to come to gigs. “diz, we’re going to be famous!” they would say. and she’d roll her eyes and say “yeah right michael hutchence”
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How Q&A personified a brave and experimental ABC, by @timburrowes open.substack.com/pub/unmade…
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“Live moderation of the 18,000 tweets per hour around the #Q&A hashtag was no mean feat. The late Leslie Nassar deserves to be remembered for his contribution to the developing technology.”
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good for him!
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hey man, nice mill! how are your grist levels?
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Tiger Webb@tfswebb14 Apr 2025
never in a million years will you guess the verse that inspired this post
Public Universal Foe@jimsbyyy13 Apr 2025
Replying to @AutismRonin
Mind you, all these were dropped in the same year. Completely different ballpark
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never in a million years will you guess the verse that inspired this post
Public Universal Foe@jimsbyyy13 Apr 2025
Replying to @AutismRonin
Mind you, all these were dropped in the same year. Completely different ballpark
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never thought i’d say this but please come work for me! the abc is hiring a researcher to assist in the task of providing timely and accurate language guidance to staff careers.abc.net.au/en/job/50…
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two days left to apply for this role! ask me any questions about it you like! @ linguists !! @ style mavens !! @ language workers!!
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New mums are being ‘strongly encouraged’ to take regular exercise and get more sleep. Hahahaha | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfre…

New mums are being ‘strongly encouraged’ to take regular exercise and get more sleep. Hahahaha |...

New guidelines are well intentioned, but as parents of babies know, finding time to look after yourself is impossible, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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The thin-obsessed world is growing more vicious by the minute. But fat people aren’t going anywhere | Rebecca Shaw | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfre…

The thin-obsessed world is growing more vicious by the minute. But fat people aren’t going anywhere...

It’s time to open up your big fat mouths and push back against fatphobia

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there’s a type of bowling they only do in new england and it looks like the bowling alley you’d see onboard the battlestar galactica
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had a moment today where for a second i was genuinely unsure whether this was somehow dan hentschel
Jiankui He@Jiankui_He11 Mar 2025
Ethics is holding back scientific innovation and progress
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extraordinary
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from apple.news/AeR8ZDXFSQ-6o6Gjz…

How Australia's housing market spun out of control — and what we can do to fix it

Property investment is ingrained in the Australian psyche, but is it too easy to cast landlords as the villain in our housing crisis?

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Why I’ve Decided to Retire from Presenting Elections Plus a few words of thanks antonygreen.com.au/why-ive-d…
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