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Ja Morant has been one of my least favourite players to watch over recent years. I suppose there is always a bounce when a player joins your team, but having him play in a point-guard-committee set up seems to free him from his ago, at least at the moment, concentrate on right plays, passes

Let’s see if the Clutch Free Throw Yips from last year show up in these last 4 minutes #ripcity

What is the story with the Blazers always playing less and later preseason games than any other team?

Not a great outing for Ja. Doesn’t look like a guy who has been playing a lot of basketball.

A few familiar but out of place faces on the NBL post-game tonight. In town to watch Cole Anthony and Joe Ingles for Melbourne United fail to stop Cairns doing whatever they wanted.

Braided Bell fired for offensive tweets made as 16 year old, by a loan shark who built an empire of predatory lending and who just traded for a guy who bashed and pulled a gun on a kid and rose to fame in a team that chanted “whoop that trick”… is something. Idpol shields power once again #ripcity

I’ve neve lived permanently in America but the current Blazers imbroglio has reminded me of it the insanity of there being (at least!) 4 levels of government in US cities. And what? schools and Transport are still somehow outside those governments? I don’t get it, don’t want to. It’s inane #ripcity

Tom Dundon is such a thunder twunt. That people are looking back fondly on the half decade of poorly managed decline by our Seattle-based owners. In my eyes the Blazers are dead. I’m going to make a trip it late November or January/February to pay my respects, one last hurrah in the rose city

I don’t think the people of Portland should fund this billionaires renovations, since they are only renting a team. There is life after the NBA. This team is not even genuinely competing in the the NBA, and won’t be able to any time soon #ripcity

Why are Americans pluralising “offside” every time they say it? It’s the single most confusing thing about this World Cup.

I checked out on the Blazers more or less at Christmas, for my sanity and because a general decision to cultural divest from America. Checked back in recently on how things were going in Ripcity and dear god, the worst thing is they’re still fans doing that American fan toxic positivity policing.

I really don’t like bitching about commentators. That also seems to be this movement where people bully female commentators. Having said that. Sometimes I have to wonder if Candace Parker is watching the same game I’m watching.

Patricia Karvelas on ABC politics podcast actually laughing when suggesting a likely “tsunami” of “very devastating” voices, on Labor’s NDIS cuts. She is a ghoul. #auspol

I was blocked by people on here after expressing serious concerns when Dundon bought the blazers (which isn’t uncommon any blazer interaction on here gets blocks if it isn’t delusional happy clapping). The guy is a loan shark, with no connection to Portland. It’s terrible for Portland fans.

Well done Splitter and the boys for getting a win today. Did themselves proud (I only watched the final quarter, on a stream), still down on NBA

The trail of disasters across all her portfolios from a collapsed mental health system, to an ever growing public housing waiting list and shrinking stock of homes, now this... Rose Jackson may be the most incompetent politician in NSW history. #nswpol #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlandsFrogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

I’ve never heard of Clavicular or Looksmaxxing before today. How can anyone take these dweebs seriously

I note the annual migration of over- preened online women who don’t seem to do much except shill skincare products between occasional trips to Dubai, or eutopean megayacht hubs to Coachella is occurring. One of the world’s great annual migrations .

I’m not sure I could give less of a fuck about a news story more than a few yanks doing a lap of the moon. Thank gods it’s over the ABC in Australia treated it like the biggest story on earth. It’s a nothing.

My town in Northern NSW just broke its April heat record for before this week by 4.2c and it was a a degree hotter getting to 38c (100f) at my place out of town It’s wild to be getting this heat in mid April up here.

The US president threatened one of the biggest crimes against humanity in history, and the American people didn’t even muster up the interest for a fucking rally. As much as Australians can’t trust the Americans as military ally. We also can’t trust the American people. They enable this #auspol

Even for the ABC, referring to Hezbollah as “Lebanon” is pretty egregious and deliberate #auspol

I have to say since leaving the NBA behind. And not consuming American media, I have felt a lot better, happier. I didn’t realise how annoyed the NBA was making me. I love basketball. The NBA is bad sport, played, administered reported on and followed by people with really different values to me.

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And this is where I will have to leave the Trailblazers (and likely Bluesky as I’m only really here to talk Blazers) I can’t support anything American anymore. I cancelled my league pass and Disney+(ESPN) today Good luck everyone. Stay safe Portland. Hopefully I’ll be back further down the road

You know how you can just go to Google Maps and see there earth and where everything is. Is that not the same in America? Why do they seem to have such monumental difficulty identifying where things are on world maps?

There is nothing more cringeworthy than astronauts prepared lines. It’s been that way since that mug Armstrong bungled his ‘small step’ line.

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If a rich guy has an opinion, he gets an op-ed in a major newspaper explaining why we must keep him rich. If someone with actual value to society - a nurse or a delivery driver - has an opinion, we never get to hear it.

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On Sunday morning, the 19th of April in Melbourne, men can show they care about the dignity and safety of women and children who have had to escape male violence. I believe there’s lots of good men out there who feel just like me, that male violence against women and children is a men’s issue.

As much as Albo’s address was pointless last night, at least it’s not whatever this dribble is from Trump #auspol