Stephen Rowley

@sterow.bsky.social

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Urban planner, and author of “Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs” and “The Victorian Planning System: Practice, Problems and Prospects.” Also, cats, AFL (Essendon), Lego, films. www.sterow.com

AFP story about Dan Murphy CEO Jayne Hrdlicka.
Bulldogs 26 indigenous jumper. It is substantially blue and red.
YouTube video for the Sounding Board footy podcast with Craig Hutchison and Damian Barrett’s grinning faces over the text: SHOULD THE SHOWDOWN BE MOVED TO THE MCG?Is Damo's controversial idea a WINNER?
Odds for the Essendon / Bulldogs AFL game this weekend showing the Bulldogs paying $1.00 for a win.
Shot of the AFL state of origin. Ads for AAMI and the event itself have been superimposed, made to look as if they are painted on the turf.
Headshot of a woman applying lipstick. It has been used to illustrate a story with the headline “APPARENTLY YOUR PERFECT LIPSTICK SHADE IS ACTUALLY THE COLOUR OF YOUR NIPPLES.”
Wikipedia article extract reading as follows: There were no further notable Cooper imitators until July 11, 1980, when Glenn K. Tripp seized Northwest Orient Flight 608 at Seattle-Tacoma Airport, demanding $600,000 ($100,000 by an independent account), tWo parachutes, and the assassination of his boss. A quick-thinking flight attendant drugged Tripp's alcoholic drink with Valium. After a ten-hour standoff, during which Tripp reduced his demands to three cheeseburgers and a ground vehicle in which to escape, he was apprehended. Tripp attempted to hijack the same Northwest flight on January 21, 1983, and this time demanded to be flown to Afghanistan. When the airplane landed in Portland, he was shot and killed by FBI agents.
Alan Kohler on an ABC (Australia) news segment suggesting AI may kill us all.
Shot of an AAMI logo seemingly painted on to the ground in the Brisbane Gold Coast game.
Shot of the Gold Coast Suns in sickly pink gear.
The “it might work for us” meme from Arrested Development with the following exchange: Tobias: THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD HAVE AI DO COMPLEX TASKS AND THAT THEY COULD SOMEHOW SPOT THE ERRORS IT MADE Lindsey: WELL DID IT WORK FOR THOSE PEOPLE? Tobias: NO, IT NEVER DOES, I MEAN, THESE PEOPLE SOMEHOW DELUDE THEMSELVES INTO THINKING IT MIGHT, BUT… BUT IT MIGHT WORK FOR US.
Screenshot of email sent by Essendon. The words “team selection” are written in childlike handwriting and there is a paper cutout with a child’s drawing of a player.
Screenshot of an Apple iPhone notification reading “A new episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is now on Disney+.”
A quick loop from the movie What’s Up Doc? In which Ryan O’Neal’s character, resigned, walks out of a hotel room. The room behind him is chaos and partially destroyed, with multiple people engaged in various fights and some putting out a fire.
Photo of my TV of Australian election coverage, highlighting the ABC coverage showing Dickson as an ALP gain.
Photo of a supermarket shelf full of dishwasher tablets. There are a couple of small bottles of dishwashing powder barely visible.
Screenshot of the AFL app showing Port beating Hawthorn 63 to 8.
Grey tabby cat looking perturbed.
Table showing costs for various medications in Australia with Atorvastatin shown as $2600AuD in the US compared to $21 in Oz.
A sign at a Melbourne train station promoting some kind of app - the slogan is promising “All your planned disruptions in one place.”
Screenshot from Essendon club email reading: Darcy Parish did not play against Werribee with the club opting to be precautious.
Shot from AFL 360 showing the leader board in “Gaz’s player of the year.” Four players all have three votes.
Diagrams showing two site plans with a few dotted trees, showing how 10% tree canopy can be met.
Chat GPT response reading: Determining if your book was used to train Al models is challenging, as companies often do not disclose their training datasets. However, you can search for your book in databases like Library Genesis (LibGen) to see if it's available there, indicating potential use in Al training. Additionally, monitoring Al-generated content for similarities to your work and consulting legal advice on copyright infringement are advisable steps.
YouTube thumbnail screen for “The Footy Furnace” with pictures of North Melbourne winning and the all caps headline “The Future is Now”
Chat GPT Apple Intelligence screen reading: When was the Carlton football club last win / As of March 19, 2025, the Carlton Football Club's most recent win was on March 14, 2025, against the Richmond Tigers in the opening round of the AFL season. Carlton secured a narrow victory with a final score of 12.14 (86) to Richmond's 12.9 (81), winning by 5 points at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Leigh Montagna on AFL 360 suggesting it’s possible to have “too much talent on one team.”
Screenshot from Duolingo offering me a lesson called “Argue with a roommate.”
Promotional image for Disney+ showing the poster for 28 weeks later with the the Disney / Disney+ logo right underneath.
List of goalkickers from Geelong Essendon practice match, with Kako kicking 4 and Caddy 3.
Survey question asking “do you want to hear songs after goals?”
Newspaper headline reading “This sarcasm study is really interesting.”
Paragraph from The Age reading “One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has confirmed she asked former National Party leader Barnaby Joyce to join her party after the episode in February last year in which he was filmed mumbling obscenities while sprawled on a Canberra footpath late at night.”
David King on radio in front of a background reading FIREBALL. Unfortunately his head partially blocks the text and it looks like FU—-ALL.
The front page spread where Peter Dutton and his wife pose under the heading “He is not a Monster.” Dutton’s face has been photoshopped into that of a hideous monster.
Age article with headline “Melbourne home prices continue to nosedive.”
Guardian headline reading “We tried out DeepSeek. It works well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan.”
Screen shown when you try to cancel a Microsoft 365 subscription. It offers a plan for $AUD 109 without AI, and a plan for $159AUD with AI. The only difference in the list of inclusions are AI services like copilot.
A still from the movie What’s Up Doc? Ryan O’Neal is saying “That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard.”
Credit card for an old Mr Ed episode with Clint Eastwood’s name. The L and I in Clint are closely spaced to look a lot like a U.
A screenshot from Duolingo. It is asking me to translate, from German, a sentence that translates to “do you love mayonnaise or do you love me?”
Column by George Brandis in The Age, reading: Amid the welter of commentary and post-mortems among Democrats to explain Kamala Harris's loss to Donald Trump, there is one theory that has received widespread acceptance. The Democrats made a serious tactical mistake in concentrating too much on Trump, and spent too little time promoting positive messages about Harris. Admittedly, Harris was an awful candidate - hectoring, annoying, a platitude-mongering avatar of political correctness, faced with the difficult task of defending an incumbent administration at a time when most Americans felt worse off after four years ofthe Democrats. She was hard to sell.
Guardian headline reading “Republicans baffled after Trump picks ‘reckless’ Gaetz for attorney general.”
The shot of Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development, used in memes, scornfully asking how much a banana could cost.
Quote from The Nightly: "Everyone calm down, it is not a catastrophe"
Shot from the Simpsons where Bart is watching TV and saying “Woah. This is where Die Hard jumps through the window.”
Screenshot of Bluesky settings page with the following setting: Show Posts from My Feeds Set this setting to "Yes" to show samples of your saved feeds in your Following feed. This is an experimental feature.
Stop sign in Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Australia, that has been altered to read “Greg. The Stop Sign”
Email from the Essendon Football Club with subject line “Only 18 sleeps to go...”
A computer monitor being elevated by being placed on top of several books, one of which is mine.
Screenshot of a tweet from 2009. In response to a tweet saying “Richmond have picked Dustin Martin with pick No. 3 of the AFL National Draft.” I retweeted with the words “Poor Bastard.”
Screenshot of marketing email offering that “Your new Al legal assistant is here.”
Image of the character Cassandra from Doctor Who. The “last human”, she is a horrific stretched piece of skin with a face in it.
Black and white tuxedo kitten with bright blue eyes and a black speckled nose in a 1970s lounge room surrounded by toys.
Cover of the album of the score for Ghostbusters.