Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
I’m not exactly sure that this is true
writer, teacher, working on our communication goals
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view profile on Bluesky Leena 🌵 (@leena.reuben.games) reposted
they’ll just move him to a different parish and he’ll do it again
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
good example of a headline that gets worse as it goes on
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
I think if in trainspotting every time Ewan McGregor’s character Chef Casper said ‘I’m cooking up’ and then made a cubano sandwich, to the enjoyment of everyone, instead of just taking heroin it would have been a very different movie
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
no idea what this means but I trust you
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
lowered our son’s graphic settings so he could run around the house smoother and now kids at school are teasing over his low poly count
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
most of our problems stem from being unable to sit alone in a room without also going on the computer
wargen (@funeralpig.bsky.social) reposted
my dead wife better be in this stupid fog-shrouded town
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
They should have a section at the bookstore for books they think are bad
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
the novelisation of the Bluey movie is just under 350 pages and has a long section about how the expansion of Brisbane's public transport for the 2032 olympics will raise the crime rate and sink the Heeler’s property value
maple cocaine (@maplecocaine.bsky.social) reposted
It's very telling that the far left refuses to support huge pieces of shit who everyone hates
don't (@aynrandy.boontavista.com) reposted
The old world is dying, and the new world is so fucking stupid dude
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
and driving, it can be about two things
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
you’re right, I forgot it’s about a guy who’s sick of walking
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
The Cars had a massive hit with Drive because it was the first time they sang about what a car could do, the machine they were named after
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
4am sharp getting on the loom to weave my prophecies before any of the other monks have wakened
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve been getting a lot of these ads on instagram
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
Pretty cool that the camera in your car that beeps when something passes too close in front of you is writing screenplays now
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Pork & Beans actually a stern warning
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
Foreword: *crying* I know you haven’t read the book yet but please listen to me Afterword: you’re very smart for finishing the book and here’s why I support you
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
The virgin Foreword vs the chad Afterword
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
these are the books I read growing up that helped make me really annoying
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
Would be pretty cool to be a teacher in queensland next week when we strike on wednesday
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
getting a lot of americans replying to this, which is something I did not consider
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
we’re living in pretty unprecedented times but luckily in Australia we have some of the worst journalists in the world to help navigate us through the waters
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
I think a lot about Steve Irwin stumbling into his own personal Greek myth
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
not to let England off the hook but this is clearly the mind of an american
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
They had a lost decade of coke
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
dead wrong, try and start drinking water so your liver doesn’t collapse
Apple Bottom Jings (@afraidofwasps.bsky.social) reposted
Me bringing Ahab out of his quarters at 4am to look at a black clump of seaweed
little lamb (@puddleofbrain.bsky.social) reposted
Snapple facts under the cap, nutrition facts along the side…… this bottle is teaching me a lot about this crazy world of ours
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
then Sunk Loto appeared and nothing was the same
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
the first time James Bond walked onto screen and fired at the camera at the start of the movie audiences panicked and started blindly shooting back
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
mums love to become politically awakened by a twenty minute discussion from guy at the markets who runs a honeycomb stall
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought it might be
onion person (@junlper.beer) reposted
it’s so cool how almost everything is a scam and is simulatenously killing us
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
Australian publishing is in celebration mode as Anh Do secures a 50 book deal about the mushroom trial
Adam (@kels316.bsky.social) reposted
broke: a voice to parliament for indigenous Australians. woke: a voice to parliament for Benjamin Netanyahu.
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
for me this is the correct take
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes this is the concept of the book
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
to my child just to clarify
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
narrative maxxing by reading a novel and simultaneously listening to the audiobook while my wife scrolls a big pdf on the tv in time with me
Benny Feldman 🪸🫧🐠 (@feldfrog.bsky.social) reposted
You know libraries hate to see my oral tradition ass coming
John Attridge (@johnattridge.bsky.social) reposted
The reading crisis is worrying because if people stop reading Henry James's late novels they will completely lose the capacity for moral decision making
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
The journalist just adding ‘my wife left me’ into a headline about the mushroom poisoner has broken my brain
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m real
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
I really messed up becoming a teacher at the same time I had a child entering school-age. Look at what I gave up.
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
when I read someone’s juvenilia I get sick in the tummy
Blue sky nice guy (@rajandelman.bsky.social) reposted
When you gotta kill the Alien from Alien (1979)
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve never been to Ashgrove my pick would probably be Lutwyche
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
I have visited the 20 minutes from the CBD by bus shopping mall only in my dreams
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
this was my grandmother’s name and she was always talking about how the name fell off
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
enjoying this ten year old’s drawing from the Erin Patterson trial
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
you wouldn’t be using capital letters in the title of your poetry collection would you mate?
oldfriend99 (@oldfriend99.bsky.social) reposted
"Send in the clowns"? The clowns are not sitting around at our beck and call. They have lives
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
bro are you okay you seem like you’ve been containing multitudes recently
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
I have a pretty strict schedule for posting on here but we’ll see
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
dead wrong mate
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
the best thing about teaching at a public school is I have two weeks off right now to sit at home and make my opinions worse
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
me in 2008: hope I get to Video Ezy before all the good new releases are gone me in 2025: hope I’m not signed up to streaming service that directly funds the IDF
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
It’s the last day of term and I’m going to drive my car around on the oval while the students throw old tomatoes and cabbages at me
Blake ™ (@neilnevins.bsky.social) reposted
last night I went to an advanced screening of M3gan 2.0. After the movie, M3gan herself came out as a surprise, but most of the audience booed her.
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
no I don’t think so
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
family group chat going off right now over whether or not it was ethical for my uncle to show up at the lunch my aunt was hosting without also telling her he was bringing along 6 frozen pizzas
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
checking out the shadows on the cave wall is enough for me, whatever happens to be casting them is simply none of my business
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
my uncle has made us all sick with his foraged lasagne
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
like many in the generations before me, I am going to go drink beer at a primary school
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
pretty bad imo
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
surely what’s good for a common goose isn’t also good for me, a successful and popular gander
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
the tertiary sector should band together to buy me a house
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
When you get up to the story the collection’s named after
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
they’re making it the law that the pasta packet has to have the little picture of a pot on it with the cooking time stamped on it
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
wait until she jumps on Catholicism after like a single encounter
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
Incredibly powerful email forward from my mother in law
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
No uni near me brother, what’s your point
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
I love to be a teacher at a public school in a metro area and slowly get priced out of rentals in a metro area.
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
Ali Smith tapping on the computer like she’s in the Matrix while increasing the font size of her 25,000 word novel
Tom Studans (@maximumwelfare.bsky.social) reposted
When I find myself in times of trouble, Beatles Chord Guy comes to me Top 5 Paul McCartney Songs in C
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
twice now I’ve heard that zoomers are reading a novel and listening to the audiobook as they read to really ‘lock in’ to the book
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
The last time someone said ‘as soon as I saw this, I thought of you’ before giving me a gift was last year and it was a tie-in Volleyball from the 2000 movie Cast Away
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
Your cats or dogs should be able to hit fav on your posts
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
nothing is more artistically valuable to my six year old than a post it note that she’s made a hole in the middle of with a 2B pencil
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
every time I’m forced into accepting a schema change I get sick in the tummy
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social) reply parent
it’s getting a bit colder finally, we’re all hoping it sticks
Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville.bsky.social)
That one friend whose magnetic field is polar opposite to yours and if they try to enter your kitchen with you in it you get thrown against the fridge