Rob Cosby

Just endlessly curious. Artist. Dreamer. Oh and I like spiders. I wear a mask.

[Jacinta Allan @JacintaAllanMP]

Sexism just has no place in our political debate, full stop.

A billboard truck using sexist language has been driving around Melbourne as part of a secret and well-funded political campaign.

People are entitled to disagree with me. That’s democracy.

But I care that this attacks women.

And I care about who’s next.

The political debate in this country has become corrosive over the last few years.

So much so that behaviour which would once have been condemned is now just another part of life.

Media don’t call it out.

They report on this like it’s fair game, like it’s normal.

But nothing about this is normal.

If you don’t take a stand against this creeping culture, it has a tendency of taking over.

You only have to look at America to know that.

I cannot stand back and let Victoria become a place where this sort of language is fair game against any woman at work - or any woman in leadership.

If we don’t draw a line, the line will keep moving.

At the end of the day, I just want my kids to grow up knowing that women deserve the same respect as men.

I want girls to know that they should never need to aim lower just to feel safer.

And I want boys to know that they don’t have to put women ‘in their place’ to make their own way in the world.

Sexism hurts everyone.

If the media won’t call out it, I will.

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@xyphophorus @ScarlettOTara1 @Angry_Staffer You may be right about the light.

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@SandyHorne61 I'm in recurrent treatment for an incurable rare cancer. One of the biggest frustration is not having the energy to do all the home and garden maintenance I want to do. I say start the job, do what you can, in time you'll get to the end. Always feel the sense of achievement.

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@ScarlettOTara1 @Angry_Staffer He didn't have the strength to straighten up. He walked off all hunched over.

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@JaredLeto Show us the whole 17 mins ❤️🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

👏👏👏

[bradpsychology @bradpsychology]

I'm probably not John Howard's biggest cheerleader, but gun control was a better response than a ridiculous ballroom.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Australia leads the world in mammal extinctions, but the govt could let the Saving Native Species Program fall off a funding cliff on 30 June.

This is the program fighting invasive species like the yellow crazy ants, and protecting endangered species like the Koala.

You can't do long-term conservation work on short-term funding cycles, and a one-year Band-Aid won't cut it. We re part of nature and if nature goes down, we go down with her.
https://t.co/1LZ7KPjgj0

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@JasonHa80535499 @SistaRuthDOPD @AlboMP I've waited 5 years to get edible fruit from a fig tree. I really don't think the average struggling family has time to become primary producers but congratulations on your citrus crop. I hope you are sharing that bounty.

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@guidaactually @GracieBrownxox @SistaRuthDOPD @SerkanTheWriter @AlboMP You could have checked yourself and seen that Westgold is a NZ butter, but you chose to be snarky instead.

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@DSparks1109 @JoJoFromJerz Your sad little obsession with defending the morally corrupt turd you voted for says nothing about him and everything about you. I hope one day the delusion will drop and you will finally see what you've become.

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@Shan851065 @lrozen @atrupar Russia

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

Seems like a legit response to punative tarrifs, killing school kids and generally being a**holes

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

🚨 NEWS ALERT 🚨
The US Embassy in Canberra has been ordered by Washington to recruit Australian opinion leaders to work for them, alongside the US military’s Psychological Operations unit, to strongly increase US propaganda efforts in Australia.

▪️“The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda.

▪️“The cable, signed by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Monday, also suggests the embassies and consulates work alongside the US military’s Psychological Operations unit to address the problem of rampant disinformation.

▪️ “Embassies are told to recruit local influencers, academics and community leaders abroad to carry counter-propaganda messaging — an approach designed to make American-funded narratives feel locally organic rather than centrally directed.

▪️”The State Department said it…had made countering foreign “anti-American” propaganda “a top priority” — and the department would take “an assertive stance on this pernicious issue” by “fully harnessing every tool in our diplomatic toolkit”.”

Details -> https://t.co/4uXCLCPFzL

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@nitz016 @ChinaNow24 Not China. The Ocean Clean-up up is a Dutch non profit. China is not involved.

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@SandyHorne61 Nature is the most creative artist 💚💙🩵💛

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@manfromroto @SandyHorne61 I just had this exact experience for a PET scan last week. I was tempted to answer differently each time just to see if anyone was paying attention 🤔

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@Angry_Staffer Why does everyone assume drugs when people smuggling is more likely with so many on board?

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@RexPanterra @OJoelsen So you're ok with your taxes paying for medical care to the citizens of another country, just as long they are not undocumented.

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

I never realised what he'd survived to stand on that start line. He epitomises the never give up ethos that is characteristic of winners. Absolute Aussie legend.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It annoys me that so many people are under the impression that this guy, Steven Bradbury, is some subpar goober who lucked his way into gold.

That could not be further from the truth.

This is one of the most satisfying victories in the history of the Olympics if you know the full backstory.

This medal final was during his fourth Olympics, in Salt Lake City in 2002.

Earlier in his career, he was among the best athletes in the world in this specific event, the 1000 meter short-track men's speed skate.

But despite his talent, he just had some of the shittiest luck in the sport. We're talking a decade of shit luck.

In the '94 Winter Olympics, he was considered the odds-on favorite to take gold, but he fell in his heat after getting illegally pushed by an opponent (who was later disqualified). He didn't get a re-do. That was it. He got shoved by some asshole, and his Olympics was over.

Then in the '98 Winter Olympics, he was a favorite to at least medal in the same event but got caught up in a collision that wasn't his fault and failed to advance.

In 1994, he got his thigh sliced open by a competitor's skate during a race, which required 111 stitches and 18 months of recovery time.

In 2000, he broke his neck during training because a skater in front of him fell and tripped him up. That required a bunch of screws and plates being inserted into his skull and back and chest.

And doctors told him that he should stop skating. But he didn't wanna give up. It meant too much to him.

So, there he was in Salt Lake City in 2002, past his prime, a walking erector set, going up against opponents who were faster and younger and in their prime.

He manages to win his heat and advance to the quarterfinal but then has the shit luck (yet again) of having to go up against the best two athletes in the quarterfinal and only the top two advance.

He finishes third and thinks: "Damn, I gave it my best shot." But then, the second place finisher is disqualified, so Bradbury gets to advance to the semifinal.

Now, at this point, he's thinking: Well, shit, I'm not as fast as these younger guys, and I got a bad habit of getting taken out by crashes that aren't my fault.

So, he consults with the Australian national coach, Ann Zhang, and they decide that he should hang back from the pack and hope the pack crashes.

That is a perfectly valid strategy. If you crash, you lose, but speed skaters risk crashing to gain an advantage in order to win.

It may not feel exciting, but it is a valid strategy and just as risky: avoid crashes entirely and hope that pays off.

It paid off in the semifinal: the pack, including the defending Olympic champion, jostled too much and crashed. Bradbury wins and advances.

So, he's improbably in the final and takes the same approach, and it works: the entire pack jostles too much and crashes, and Bradbury's risk of hanging back pays off.

This victory was not some un-athletic schlub lucking his way into gold.

It was a journeyman athlete who never gave up and played smart after a career of shitty luck and finally got his due after it being snatched away from him so many times.

Hands down, one of my favorite Olympics stories.

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@dog_rates Sounds like a great tool for stalkers.

[Rob Cosby @Rob__Cosby]

@TrumpDailyPosts Who signed the 1600 Jan 6 insurrectionists pardons. I want video proof it was done by POTUS hand.