GeckoChamber

Looking for the fly on the wall

[GeckoChamber @gecko_chamber]

@grantcohn Love your insights as a learner :-)

[GeckoChamber @gecko_chamber]

@DailyMailAU Bullshit.

[Todd Hagopian | Stagnation Assassin @ToddHagopian]

This guy is the CEO of Flock

He takes pictures of you and hands them over to the cops

But, he doesn’t want you to know what he looks like

PLEASE do NOT share his photo!

[GeckoChamber @gecko_chamber]

#AFLGrandFinal Belief. And finally, execution. Brisbane Lions in the final minutes. Insanely good. Freo will have nightmares.

[H3LLB0W©️ @iDionHutcheson]

If I’m anything to go by, that game has just brought a whole new generation of fans to AFL 😮

#AFLGrandFinal

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Tonight at an award ceremony, Peter Thiel is asked why he considers himself German.

Thiel mentions speaking German until age 12 but doesn’t say he was not in Germany but SW Africa in an apartheid town pretending to be a Nazi village. The everyday greeting was “Heil Hitler.”

[SeriouslyJo @JustCantEven18]

Kylie nailed it IMO
She was so good
Bit of new and also the songs the crowd wanted
The show was done well considering the wet on the stage
Well done Kylie 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#Kylie #AFLGrandFinal
#FreoLions

[Trip Gabriel @tripgabriel]

The NYT confirms Haaretz's report that Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly warned before Oct. 7, 2023 by the Emirati president that Hamas planned a major attack, per 2 sources

The warning was not shared with Israeli security chiefs, per 5 ex-officials

https://t.co/BCnwcyzg8C

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I don’t understand. Why is no one being prosecuted for this? Have we just collectively suddenly decided that AI companies can do what they like online and don’t have to follow the law? Wouldn’t we be prosecuted if we ‘infiltrated’ a government website??
https://t.co/DvnobB6cjK

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 BREAKING: Leaks reveal Trump’s FCC chair Brendan Carr spent 9 years in a secret sex cult that abused teenage girls.

[Kacee Allen @KaceeRAllen]

Lindsey Isaacs, a 23-year-old from Palm Coast, Florida, testified about being thrown into solitary confinement for more than three days after a Flock license-plate camera wrongly tied her Dodge Durango to a deadly I-4 crash.

Jail staff told her she had to stay isolated because of how serious the charges were. The cell door stayed locked for about 86 hours.

She said she was terrified she would spend the rest of her life in prison for a wreck she knew she hadn’t caused.

At her lowest point she didn’t want to live. She spent nearly two weeks in maximum-security jail before prosecutors dropped the charges.

Flock should be sued out of existence for this.

[Katherine Rowe @katherinearowe]

With the @AFL Grand Final this weekend, I’ve been building out a deeper look at the commercial business behind the league.

One number that stood out: the AFL generated 27.8 regular-season attendances for every 100 Australians in 2026, higher than any of the 11 major leagues in this comparison.

That doesn’t mean the AFL is bigger than the Premier League, NFL or MLB. It shows how deeply the competition penetrates its home market.

Pair that with an average crowd of 37,551 and significant unused capacity across the league’s existing venues, and the commercial potential becomes really interesting.

I’m digging into attendance, memberships, sponsorship, social reach, club revenue and where the AFL’s next layer of growth could come from.

Interested in reading the report when it’s ready? Let me know!

[Toilet Paper Australia @toiletpaperaus1]

Guys, we have heartbreaking news.

The Courier Mail is saying this poor battler “loses home” due to the CGT changes.

The headline frames this as if she’s lost her home, but if you read beyond the headline, turns out she just can’t buy two MORE investment properties.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Hey @kaitlancollins

GREAT WORK TODAY KAITLAN!

COLLINS: “2/3rds of Americans don’t think we’re winning the war with Iran.”

TRUMP: “I’m surprised CNN is here covering me. You shouldn’t be here”

COLLINS: “The UN let us in… When will the war end?”

[GeckoChamber @gecko_chamber]

@grantcohn You are hilarious 😅😅😂 Love it 😍

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Luis Ochoa is 17.
He is a U.S. citizen.

He was driving with another U.S. citizen to enlist in the Marines when he was pulled over and ripped from his car by ICE.

Someone started recording.

This is the horrific video.

While the boys were being beaten, they repeatedly tell the agents they are CITIZENS — and are ignored.

One agent told said, "I don't give a damn. Your parents can't help you now."

Both teenagers were detained for hours before being released.

They were preparing to serve this country - yet their citizenship did not protect them from being beaten, pepper-sprayed, and detained by their own government.

This is what the Nazis did then, and ICE does now.

[GeckoChamber @gecko_chamber]

@andy_andy_aus @SteveMascord Yet there are more tangible metrics. The Swans, for example, attract more people to games than any NRL club in NSW.

[GeckoChamber @gecko_chamber]

@ljcbell @rohan_connolly So the stand rule has reduced congestion. Thx.

[GeckoChamber @gecko_chamber]

@ljcbell @rohan_connolly Via the Mongrel Punt: "When the stand rule was introduced ahead of the 2021 season, its objective was straightforward. The AFL wanted to increase ball movement, reduce congestion and encourage more attacking football by preventing the player on the mark from moving laterally."

[Dave Donovan @davrosz]

DC Crawford and my new piece about Tommy Tate's tantrum over Donald Trump rejecting him at Mar-A-Lago. What a sook!
'Trump dinner reject Tate's foul-mouthed tirade a Towering charade' https://t.co/Efy7g6lSdU
via @IndependentAus with @Darrencanplay