The 9pm Half-time Bingo Card Update 2025 with Snarky Platypus


?Stilgherrian?
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· 7/12/2024
ICYMI MONDAY, A PODCAST: “The 9pm Half-time Bingo Card Update 2024 with Snarky Platypus” 
@snarkyplatypus.com
 (1h21m13s) the9pmedict.com/edict/00224/

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Photograph of an old-fashioned bingo card from Milton Bradley Company against a background of wooden bingo stamps stained with red ink, and in the top right corner an inset showing a platypus.
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?Stilgherrian?
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· 7/8/2024
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Follow along with our analysis of our 2024 bingo cards at stilgherrian.com/essay/bingo-....

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?Stilgherrian?
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· 7/8/2024
NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Half-time Bingo Card Update 2024 with Snarky Platypus” 
@snarkyplatypus.com
 (1h21m13s) the9pmedict.com/edict/00224/

Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app.

Like it? Please tell your friends and maybe even consider a tip at the9pmedict.com/tip.
Photograph of an old-fashioned bingo card from Milton Bradley Company against a background of wooden bingo stamps stained with red ink, and in the top right corner an inset showing a platypus.
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?Stilgherrian?
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· 6/28/2024
Tomorrow 
@snarkyplatypus.com
 and I are recording a podcast looking back at out bingo cards for 20924 to check progress. stilgherrian.com/essay/bingo-...

We have plenty to talk about, but if you’re  supporter with TRIGGERS WORDS or a CONVERSATION TOPIC, by midday Saturday please.


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?Stilgherrian?
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· 6/25/2024
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On Saturday I’m recording an episode with 
@snarkyplatypus.com
 to see how 2024 is going versus our bingo cards for this year. A least one of these things has happened already! stilgherrian.com/essay/bingo-...

Supporters with TRIGGER WORDS or a CONVERSATION TOPIC by 8pm AEST this Friday please. 3/?

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?Stilgherrian?
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· 4/20/2024
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Snarky Platypus
We need to review our bingo cards. stilgherrian.com/essay/bingo-...


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?Stilgherrian?
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· 1/1/2024
NEW BLOG POST: “Bingo Card 2024: Which of these things will happen?” by 
@snarkyplatypus.com
 and myself. stilgherrian.com/essay/bingo-...

We chose 50 possibilities and produced a Top 25 set and the reject set.

A grid of 25 first-choice possibilities. Click through to the the website for the text version.
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A grid of 25 second-choice possibilities. Click through to the the website for the text version.
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?Stilgherrian?
 ?@stilgherrian.com?
· 1/1/2024
Mon plan, New Year’s Day edition: Sleep in (done); eggs (soonish); post the Bingo Card 2024; certain new-month routine tasks; remainder TBA but it’ll probably be laziness because it’s a public holiday.

Further alleged plans and other things are in the Weekly Wrap.

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· 12/31/2023
NEW BLOG POST: “Weekly Wrap 709: Closing off the Year of the Magpies, although other things probably happened as well” stilgherrian.com/weekly-wrap/... Covers 25–31 December 2023 but there will be more about this year during the coming week.
Two juvenile Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen) sitting on a tree stump at Bunjaree Cottages, photographed on 20 September 2023.
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?Stilgherrian?
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· 12/31/2023
Sun plan: Lazy morning because Sunday and last night’s weird dreams; lunch and shopping, Katoomba; ponder the week ahead, the year ahead; Weekly Wrap; 2024 Bingo Card; apathetic cheer; bedtime, finally.



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Illustrative stock imagery of a bingo card and bingo player stamps, with an inset image of a random platypus.
Illustrative stock imagery of a bingo card and bingo player stamps, with an inset image of a random platypus.
Main image by Rudonni via Pixabay. Foreground bingo card originally by Milton Bradley Company, photo by Abby Hendrickson under under a CC-BY 2.0 Generic license. Platypus inset photo by Taronga Conservation Society Australia / Chris Wheeler. Digital composition by Stilgherrian.

Back at the start of the year, my good friend Snarky Platypus and I created a bingo card for 2025. A set of 25 things that might happen. Well, we’re half-way through the year, so let’s see how we went.

Continue reading “The 9pm Half-time Bingo Card Update 2025 with Snarky Platypus”

The 9pm AUKUS and the Echidna with Sam Roggeveen

A middle-aged white bloke wears a black jacket and t-shirt and, with arms folded, looks straight into the camera. An inset shows a book cover reading: “The Echidna Strategy: Australia’s Search for Power and Peace by Sam Roggeveen”. And it has a picture of an echidna.
Sam Roggeveen (Photo: Petri Kurkaa). Inset: The cover of The Echidna Strategy. (Image: Black Inc Books)

Any moment now, Donald Trump might cancel AUKUS, the massive defence agreement which among other things would see Australia buying eight nuclear-powered submarines. AUKUS has become the big thing in Australia’s defence procurement, but do we need it? Sam Roggeveen thinks not, and he’s our guest today.

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The 9pm Remembering Valentina Tereshkova and Bonus Aliens with Dr Alice Gorman and Rami Mandow

Left: Dr Alice Gorman. (Photo: Simon Royal/ABC) Right: Rami Mandow. (Photo: Supplied; Post-processing: Stilgherrian). Not the best ALT text, I know, but yeah a white women and a man "of Middle-Eastern appearance".
Left: Dr Alice Gorman. (Photo: Simon Royal/ABC) Right: Rami Mandow. (Photo: Supplied; Post-processing: Stilgherrian).

With massive budget cuts to NASA, claims that we’ve found alien life, and an important anniversary coming up, it’s time once more to talk about Space! My guests, therefore, are space archaeologist Dr Alice Gorman aka Dr Space Junk, and astrophysicist Rami Mandow.

Continue reading “The 9pm Remembering Valentina Tereshkova and Bonus Aliens with Dr Alice Gorman and Rami Mandow”

The 9pm Australia’s Most Important Relationship is with Indonesia with Erin Cook

A white woman with her long brown hair tied back wears a yellow and black top, sunglasses, and a smile like the Mona Lisa. Behind her stretches out a view of a tropical landscape and, eventually, the ocean. It’s Erin Cook!
Journalist Erin Cook towers above South-East Asia. (Photo: Supplied)

Let’s kick off the Edict‘s mid-2025 series with a look at Australia’s relationship with Indonesia, because Jakarta was the first international city prime minister Anthony Albanese visited after his re-election. Our special guest is journalist Erin Cook, who specialises in South-East Asia.

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The 9pm Triple Mammal Chinese Spy Ship Panic with Snarky Platypus

On a bright blue sea against a bright blue sky is a modern bright blue ship with white superstructure. The bow is high and rugged-looking. The stern has cranes and such.
Chinese marine research vessel Tan Suo Yi Hao. (Photo: Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering) Inset: A platypus, but not that one. (Taronga Conservation Society Australia / Chris Wheeler)

The summer series is dragging on, and there’s still so many things on our minds. So joining me for a bonus episode is my good friend Snarky Platypus.

Continue reading “The 9pm Triple Mammal Chinese Spy Ship Panic with Snarky Platypus”