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

?Stilgherrian? ?@stilgherrian.com? ? 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/ 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. ALT 2 2 ?Stilgherrian? ?@stilgherrian.com? ? 7/8/2024 Reply to you Follow along with our analysis of our 2024 bingo cards at stilgherrian.com/essay/bingo-.... 1 ?Stilgherrian? ?@stilgherrian.com? ? 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. ALT 1 2 ?Stilgherrian? ?@stilgherrian.com? ? 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. 1 ?Stilgherrian? ?@stilgherrian.com? ? 6/25/2024 Reply to you 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/? 1 ?Stilgherrian? ?@stilgherrian.com? ? 4/20/2024 Reply to Snarky Platypus We need to review our bingo cards. stilgherrian.com/essay/bingo-... 1 1 ?Stilgherrian? ?@stilgherrian.com? ? 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. ALT A grid of 25 second-choice possibilities. Click through to the the website for the text version. ALT 6 6 15 ?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. ?Stilgherrian? ?@stilgherrian.com? ? 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. ALT 1 ?Stilgherrian? ?@stilgherrian.com? ? 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. 1 Stilgherrian ?@stilgherrian.com? Home Explore 1 Notifications Chat Feeds Lists Profile Settings New Post Following Discover Popular With Friends More feeds Trending Clayton Kershaw Gavin Newsom Jasmine Crockett Severance NPR Funding Superman Movie Feedback ? Privacy ? Terms ? Help 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.

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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 Dreams of American Empire with Associate Professor David Smith

Associate Professor David Smith smiles in the face of an increasingly dangerous world. (Photo: US Studies Centre)

There’s a lot going on in The America. You may have noticed. So as the summer series grinds on — way behind schedule — we’re joined by Associate Professor David Smith from the United States Study Centre.

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The 9pm Secrets of Dinosaur Club on Ketamine with Snarky Platypus

A vast strange robotic creature only vaguely like a whale drifts through an aquatic environment. In the foreground, silhouetted against the bright blue scene, is a crowd of onlookers.
China’s aquariums utilise robotic whales to reduce the costs associated with keeping live animals. Photo: SCMP composite / Shutterstock / Weibo. Platypus inset photo by Taronga Conservation Society Australia / Chris Wheeler. Digital composition by Stilgherrian.

No, we’re not really on ketamine. But as the spring series continues we’re going sideways with a bonus episode featuring my good friend Snarky Platypus and many, many topics.

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