#geelong — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #geelong, aggregated by home.social.
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AFL boss Craig Drummond apologises over Geelong concussion waiver: ‘The club went too far’
By Martin PeganCommission chair won’t be involved in any AFL assessment of the case
#AFL #Geelong #Concussioninsport #Australianrulesfootball #Australiasport #Sport #TheGuardian #MartinPegan
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AFL boss Craig Drummond apologises over Geelong concussion waiver: ‘The club went too far’
By Martin PeganCommission chair won’t be involved in any AFL assessment of the case
#AFL #Geelong #Concussioninsport #Australianrulesfootball #Australiasport #Sport #TheGuardian #MartinPegan
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AFL’s tepid response to Geelong’s secret waiver neglects the true cost of concussion
By Jack SnapeThe Cats’ deal with a player raised uncomfortable, existential questions. The answers are a price the game must pay to save footballers from themselves
#AFL #Concussioninsport #Geelong #Australianrulesfootball #Australiasport #Sport #TheGuardian #JackSnape
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AFL’s tepid response to Geelong’s secret waiver neglects the true cost of concussion
By Jack SnapeThe Cats’ deal with a player raised uncomfortable, existential questions. The answers are a price the game must pay to save footballers from themselves
#AFL #Concussioninsport #Geelong #Australianrulesfootball #Australiasport #Sport #TheGuardian #JackSnape
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@ejstacey
There's still a maintained German language cemetary over in Grovedale. -
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I'll be trekking up to the Bareena Bowling Club in about an hour for the monthly Sleepy Hollow Blues Club afternoon. The usual jam session followed by headliners "Miss Lou's Blues (Feat. Travis Winters."
#blues #sleepyhollow #geelong #wadawurrungcountry #misslou #traviswinters #bareena
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I'll be trekking up to the Bareena Bowling Club in about an hour for the monthly Sleepy Hollow Blues Club afternoon. The usual jam session followed by headliners "Miss Lou's Blues (Feat. Travis Winters."
#blues #sleepyhollow #geelong #wadawurrungcountry #misslou #traviswinters #bareena
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Interesting replies. I figured #Geelong had some dark history (like most places) when it came to colonisation, but I didn't realise we still used references to it in street/area names (Bell Post Hill, Boundary Road)
What is the weirdest or most interesting piece of local history you know about Geelong?
https://old.reddit.com/r/Geelong/comments/1uv3oh7/what_is_the_weirdest_or_most_interesting_piece_of/ -
Interesting replies. I figured #Geelong had some dark history (like most places) when it came to colonisation, but I didn't realise we still used references to it in street/area names (Bell Post Hill, Boundary Road)
What is the weirdest or most interesting piece of local history you know about Geelong?
https://old.reddit.com/r/Geelong/comments/1uv3oh7/what_is_the_weirdest_or_most_interesting_piece_of/ -
https://www.lovenhl.com/1576870/ ZACH MERRETT | So You’re Telling Me We’re A Chance? #afl #AtlanticDivision #AussieRules #EasternConference #FloridaPanthers #Football #footy #geelong #GeelongCats #ZacharyUens
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GWS Giants save their best for the best to show they are capable of a deep finals run
By Jonathan HornThe Giants pegged back a 39-point deficit against an injury-ravaged Geelong to add another scalp to AFL wins over Fremantle, Brisbane and Melbourne
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2026/jul/13/afl-gws-giants-geelong-cats-finals-run
#AFL #GreaterWesternSydneyGiants #Geelong #Australianrulesfootball #Australiasport #Sport #TheGuardian #JonathanHorn
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@casablanca I'm as close to bears as I want to ever be.
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@casablanca I'm as close to bears as I want to ever be.
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@nxskok @joannaholman This is true.
And the size of the oval at senior AFL level is not standardised, even today.
So you have something like GMHBA Stadium (aka Kardinia Park) in Geelong (170 m × 115 m), which is 35 metres narrower and 10 metres longer than the MCG (160 m x 140 m).
This has a measurable impact on games.
Sam Mitchell (Hawthorn's coach) has a tactic where he spreads out the other team's defenders by having his players deliberately kick the ball across the width of the ground.
(If you ever watch a Hawthorn game and you see the Hawks kick the ball from side to side, or you hear the commentators say they're "stretching" the ground, that's what they're talking about.)
That works a *lot* better at the MCG than at Geelong.
To make the situation worse, the AFL doesn't just use cricket ovals.
Engie Stadium, the GWS Giants home ground, is the former baseball stadium from the Sydney Olympics.
Which is why it has straight sides that converge in a nearly triangular shape at one end (you can see it in this photo): https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/973894393236795877
#AFL #sport #football #Australia #WesternSydney #Geelong #Hawthorn -
@nxskok @joannaholman This is true.
And the size of the oval at senior AFL level is not standardised, even today.
So you have something like GMHBA Stadium (aka Kardinia Park) in Geelong (170 m × 115 m), which is 35 metres narrower and 10 metres longer than the MCG (160 m x 140 m).
This has a measurable impact on games.
Sam Mitchell (Hawthorn's coach) has a tactic where he spreads out the other team's defenders by having his players deliberately kick the ball across the width of the ground.
(If you ever watch a Hawthorn game and you see the Hawks kick the ball from side to side, or you hear the commentators say they're "stretching" the ground, that's what they're talking about.)
That works a *lot* better at the MCG than at Geelong.
To make the situation worse, the AFL doesn't just use cricket ovals.
Engie Stadium, the GWS Giants home ground, is the former baseball stadium from the Sydney Olympics.
Which is why it has straight sides that converge in a nearly triangular shape at one end (you can see it in this photo): https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/973894393236795877
#AFL #sport #football #Australia #WesternSydney #Geelong #Hawthorn -
‘Amazing idea’: locals back push for Armstrong Creek rail http://dlvr.it/TT2BFQ #RailNews #VLine #ArmstrongCreekRailLine #Geelong
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‘Amazing idea’: locals back push for Armstrong Creek rail http://dlvr.it/TT2BFQ #RailNews #VLine #ArmstrongCreekRailLine #Geelong
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CW: Intro post - many hashtags
Hi, I'm a masc-y enby Dane living near #Geelong. I've called Australia home for almost 12 years.
I have been writing software professionally for ~20 years in a wife variety of programming languages; including but not limited to: C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Go, Erlang, VBScript.
I've worked in a range of different industries but have had most fun when the outcome was to enrich peoples lives.
Occasionally I'll post about my #beagles on #DogsOfFedi #DogsOfMastodon (see photo attached for dog tax)
I'd like to do more #electronics and #embedded projects both in my free time and at work. So I keep my #kicad, #freecad and #RustEmbedded/ #RustLang skill trees full of points.
#BoardGames are often being played with my wife and friends.
Trying to find #ttrpg buddies for afk playI don't post much about #baking or #sourdough, but I have a starter that I've kept around for a number of years now. My wife and I make pizzas and burgers weekly. We both love cooking and entertaining guests with elaborate meals.
I used to do a lot of #SCUBA #diving before 2020 came around. I even trained to be an open water instructor.
I dream of a #SolarPunk future and to live in a society where hate doesn't fill every heart with darkness.
Recently picked up #LockPicking as a fiddle activity while waiting for $job things compiling (Building #NixOS on aarch64 takes a long time)
Wish to ditch my phone for an open computing platform and I secretly want to develop an OS too but that does require a lot of spoons that I currently don't possess.
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CW: Intro post - many hashtags
Hi, I'm a masc-y enby Dane living near #Geelong. I've called Australia home for almost 12 years.
I have been writing software professionally for ~20 years in a wife variety of programming languages; including but not limited to: C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Go, Erlang, VBScript.
I've worked in a range of different industries but have had most fun when the outcome was to enrich peoples lives.
Occasionally I'll post about my #beagles on #DogsOfFedi #DogsOfMastodon (see photo attached for dog tax)
I'd like to do more #electronics and #embedded projects both in my free time and at work. So I keep my #kicad, #freecad and #RustEmbedded/ #RustLang skill trees full of points.
#BoardGames are often being played with my wife and friends.
Trying to find #ttrpg buddies for afk playI don't post much about #baking or #sourdough, but I have a starter that I've kept around for a number of years now. My wife and I make pizzas and burgers weekly. We both love cooking and entertaining guests with elaborate meals.
I used to do a lot of #SCUBA #diving before 2020 came around. I even trained to be an open water instructor.
I dream of a #SolarPunk future and to live in a society where hate doesn't fill every heart with darkness.
Recently picked up #LockPicking as a fiddle activity while waiting for $job things compiling (Building #NixOS on aarch64 takes a long time)
Wish to ditch my phone for an open computing platform and I secretly want to develop an OS too but that does require a lot of spoons that I currently don't possess.
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“Laura Alice Bracken, a #Geelong-based artist, started building her own cyberdeck as an extension of her creative practice, in which she was experimenting with #MIDI controllers that take #biofrequencies from #plants and transform them into #soundwaves.
But Bracken, 39, wanted something she could take out into #nature and, after falling down a rabbit hole online, her mind started to widen to the world of #cyberdecks.
The device she is making – housed inside a vintage abalone shell – will also double as an e-reader.
“I just found out my #Kindle is about to be made redundant,” she says (Amazon recently announced they would no longer support #eReaders made before 2012).”
“It is a perfectly good Kindle ... so why is it suddenly going to be trash? It’s because they want to sell new ones.”
#PersonalComputing / #computers / #hardware / #DIY <https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/the-young-women-building-their-own-computers-as-a-middle-finger-to-big-tech-20260424-p5zqvv.html> / <https://archive.md/t0DR4>
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“Laura Alice Bracken, a #Geelong-based artist, started building her own cyberdeck as an extension of her creative practice, in which she was experimenting with #MIDI controllers that take #biofrequencies from #plants and transform them into #soundwaves.
But Bracken, 39, wanted something she could take out into #nature and, after falling down a rabbit hole online, her mind started to widen to the world of #cyberdecks.
The device she is making – housed inside a vintage abalone shell – will also double as an e-reader.
“I just found out my #Kindle is about to be made redundant,” she says (Amazon recently announced they would no longer support #eReaders made before 2012).”
“It is a perfectly good Kindle ... so why is it suddenly going to be trash? It’s because they want to sell new ones.”
#PersonalComputing / #computers / #hardware / #DIY <https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/the-young-women-building-their-own-computers-as-a-middle-finger-to-big-tech-20260424-p5zqvv.html> / <https://archive.md/t0DR4>
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Despite calls Geelong line electrification delays continue http://dlvr.it/TSM5Zd #RailNews #VLine #Geelong #GeelongLineElectrification
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Despite calls Geelong line electrification delays continue http://dlvr.it/TSM5Zd #RailNews #VLine #Geelong #GeelongLineElectrification
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‘Third world service’: Jacqui Felgate takes V/Line to task after ‘chaotic’ disruptions http://dlvr.it/TSJ8S1 #BreakingNews #RailNews #VLine #Geelong
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‘Third world service’: Jacqui Felgate takes V/Line to task after ‘chaotic’ disruptions http://dlvr.it/TSJ8S1 #BreakingNews #RailNews #VLine #Geelong
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Critics call it a "sovereign risk." Australia currently relies on imports for about 90% of its fuel. If those two refineries go down—or if shipping lanes are blocked—the country has very little domestic buffer. The government has actually had to step in with billions in subsidies just to keep these final two open until 2030 to ensure "fuel security."
