Simon Reus
@reussimon.bsky.social
Football, travel and beer. Living on Wurundjeri county. 2nd disciple.
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35 years ago today, Homer Simpson jumped Springfield Gorge on Bart’s skateboard. “Bart the Daredevil” premiered December 6, 1990. #TheSimpsons
December 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
35 years ago today, Homer Simpson jumped Springfield Gorge on Bart’s skateboard. “Bart the Daredevil” premiered December 6, 1990. #TheSimpsons
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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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Australian children held in increasingly “militarised” displacement camps in north-east Syria have been told they will be shot if they try to breach the fence line, as Australia refuses to issue its citizens with passports so they can be repatriated.
#auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’
US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Australian children held in increasingly “militarised” displacement camps in north-east Syria have been told they will be shot if they try to breach the fence line, as Australia refuses to issue its citizens with passports so they can be repatriated.
#auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements. Read more: satpa.pe/h3OmIrz
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements. Read more: satpa.pe/h3OmIrz
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Spoke to Tanya Oxtoby on her move from Northern Ireland to Newcastle. Why the time felt right, what challenges she faced at NI, why she feels she’s the right person for #nufc and how their ambitions align. ✍🏻 👇🏻
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
WSL 2: Tanya Oxtoby swaps Northern Ireland for Newcastle
Stepping away from international football to manage a club in England's second tier was a decision Tanya Oxtoby
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December 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Spoke to Tanya Oxtoby on her move from Northern Ireland to Newcastle. Why the time felt right, what challenges she faced at NI, why she feels she’s the right person for #nufc and how their ambitions align. ✍🏻 👇🏻
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Revealed: Myanmar junta ‘crony’ given key role behind Fifa peace prize
Revealed: Myanmar junta ‘crony’ given key role behind Fifa peace prize
Inaugural prize expected to be handed to Donald Trump but ‘process’ for choosing future winners to be proposed by controversial tycoon’s committee
It was the timing that set off the first alarm bells. With Donald Trump brooding over missing out on the Nobel peace prize, and shortly before Gianni Infantino, the president of world football’s governing body, Fifa, was due to meet the US president in Miami, an announcement was made.
In a press release and a post on his personal Instagram account last month, Infantino said Fifa would launch its very own peace prize, to be awarded each year to “individuals who help unite people in peace through unwavering commitment and special actions”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Revealed: Myanmar junta ‘crony’ given key role behind Fifa peace prize
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Fifa are supposed to serve the voters, the national associations, not the other way around.
How many will speak up about how the World Cup has been used to make highly politicised points, and push specific agendas?
How many will speak up about how the World Cup has been used to make highly politicised points, and push specific agendas?
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Fifa are supposed to serve the voters, the national associations, not the other way around.
How many will speak up about how the World Cup has been used to make highly politicised points, and push specific agendas?
How many will speak up about how the World Cup has been used to make highly politicised points, and push specific agendas?
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Well here we go! The #Socceroos will play USA and Paraguay and the 2026 World Cup!
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Well here we go! The #Socceroos will play USA and Paraguay and the 2026 World Cup!
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This will vary for everyone, my personal fave is
December 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This will vary for everyone, my personal fave is
And yet the APS is under pressure to cut costs (i.e. sack people)
Australia is paying $750m to a US prison company and $2.5bn in a secret deal to Nauru, yet the hundred or so asylum seekers in Nauru are starving.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
‘Day by day I lose weight’: asylum seekers on Nauru get $115 a week, but a bag of grapes costs $20
Forbidden from working, people sent to the island by Australia say they are struggling to survive because food is so expensive
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
And yet the APS is under pressure to cut costs (i.e. sack people)
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oh your spotify wrapped music age is 86?? and yet you think age estimation technology is accurate???
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
oh your spotify wrapped music age is 86?? and yet you think age estimation technology is accurate???
Why is it that when a group of people all get together and make noise at the cricket it's the greatest thing ever, but when it happens at the football they're all terrorists and every police officer in the state is deployed to stand guard.
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Why is it that when a group of people all get together and make noise at the cricket it's the greatest thing ever, but when it happens at the football they're all terrorists and every police officer in the state is deployed to stand guard.
England has allowed Australia back into this but the question is do I trust our batters? The answer is no.
December 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
England has allowed Australia back into this but the question is do I trust our batters? The answer is no.
Mel is such a good interviewer. Love that Lyon didn't hide behind platitudes.
December 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Mel is such a good interviewer. Love that Lyon didn't hide behind platitudes.