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James McGrath

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#Football hoon. Scribbler, content boi, and UX/CX writer. Perth refugee. Views are obviously his own as nobody else would have them. Personal account.

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Midfield still needs sorting. I think Pennington and Tevere need to be in there but beyond that... it's difficult to see a way forward.

28.02.2026 09:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dragging Colacovski off was a mistake. Pennington was immense. Popovic looked like a baby giraffe. #BRIvPER

28.02.2026 09:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not actively hate-watching, but instead, enjoying watching the Perth Glory?

What is this?

#PERvBRI

16.01.2026 11:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Has FA done any kind of review into The Championship -- how it worked, didn't work, what could improve it etc.?

14.01.2026 03:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My first reaction to Matt Sutton being signed by the Glory: Cool!

My second reaction to Matt Sutton being signed by the Glory: Wait, he's 25 years old? I thought he was 34 or something?

14.01.2026 03:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The moment the Glory lose 3-4 in a row, people are going to turn on Adam Griffiths and his entertaining press conferences *so damn quickly* -- so I guess enjoy them now before they become super annoying #aleague

30.12.2025 00:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A few recent #Japan highlights

22.12.2025 06:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This guy disarming the terrorist at Bondi Beach, Australia, can only be described as hero.

14.12.2025 09:32 πŸ‘ 4769 πŸ” 972 πŸ’¬ 154 πŸ“Œ 129
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Various #Japan things

30.11.2025 23:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In #Koyasan, getting spiritual as heck

28.11.2025 08:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Update from #nara: saw at least 15 gaijin calling deer names and generally being mean

26.11.2025 12:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Update from Japan: natto is still a yeah nah yeah nah nah

25.11.2025 03:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Moustaches give Australian cricketers a mystical power.

#Ashes

22.11.2025 09:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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English Premier League to introduce spending cap next season Premier League clubs agree to the establishment of spending caps in England's top flight, beginning in the 2026/27 campaign.

No real football league uses a salary cap

Wait, I'm being handed a note...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

22.11.2025 02:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A headline from the New York Times reading: 'Trump Says House Republicans Should Vote to Release Epstein Files'

A headline from the New York Times reading: 'Trump Says House Republicans Should Vote to Release Epstein Files'

I imagine enough time has now been bought to clean the files #epstein

17.11.2025 03:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Plur1bus has *the juice*

10.11.2025 10:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bots really must be doing a number -- and I can't help but wonder whether agentic AI is playing a role in any way...

10.11.2025 01:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well cool.

I'm trying to get a ticket for the Ghibli Museum and I've been assigned the 22,084th place in line on mobile, and the 24,013th place in line on desktop.

Cool cool cool.

10.11.2025 01:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What is this 'keeping the ball' thing? We don't do that here #PERvCCM

07.11.2025 11:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Continuing the weird anachronism that is North Korea and youth women's football, they are set to face the Netherlands in the U17 World Cup Final.

A Netherlands side they spanked 5-0 in the group stage.

07.11.2025 02:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Only in truly failed societies is there a trade-off between sustenance and dignity

04.11.2025 23:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Platform being pursued by federal police escapes teen social media ban Roblox, Discord and WhatsApp have been excluded from the ban – for now.

The reasoning offered for Roblox not to be included in the social media ban (by the safety commissioner) seems to be inconsistent. It's not a platform primarily about communication, fine, but neither is YouTube? Also, how is Discord and WhatsApp not on the list?

www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

04.11.2025 23:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

It's almost as if the natural consequence of anonymity and power is corrupt behaviour

www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

04.11.2025 21:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is ridiculous areas #WorldSeries

02.11.2025 03:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Calling it now.

19 innings.

#WorldSeries

02.11.2025 03:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And Ohtani just flies out

Whatever.

02.11.2025 03:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This World Series just keeps on giving! Ohtani on deck but it's Rojas!? Nah

02.11.2025 03:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Liking Shamoon's intent -- not getting hurt going the other way, either #PERvMVC

31.10.2025 11:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I honestly don't care -- I just want to see them try to win. Even if they do concede a goal, not to drop the head and go passive

31.10.2025 10:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Early days, but it would appear that Perth is trying to do this newfangled thing called....'win a game of football'?

#PERvMVC

31.10.2025 10:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0