@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je me réjouir de la pluie. Opiacés synthétiques m’aider. Et vous?
RT @forestclock: Conroy dumped for Minister of Broadband! - http://tinyurl.com/dbsy72
Emerges. Cats. Pain. Heavy jets. What else do I notice? Rain. And cut-outs of William Shatner and Stephen Conroy smiling upon me. Wednesday.
[exit]
I’m leaving the trolls. An entire 1st year essay could be written on Lyle Shelton’s faulty logic and invalid rhetoric. All heat, no light.
@dnwallace No, fuckwits like Lyle Shelton shouldn’t be given the oxygen of publicity. Actually, they shouldn’t be given oxygen full stop.
SBS #insight liveblog has descended into a pointless trollfest. ACL’s troll is verballing people and parroting Conroy’s talking points.
@tweetseller No, I’m NOT selling anything, stupid attention seeking robot! http://bit.ly/Vht2u It’s reported speech. Now go away.
@ForsakenDAemon The article comparing Conroy then and now is at http://bit.ly/eaV0F with links to the original material.
@trib I’m assuming the SBS #insight liveblog has been overwhelmed. None of my comments have made it thru moderation either.
The liveblog after SBS TV’sInsight is at http://bit.ly/18ttnj (Scroll down for the CoveritLive tool thingy.) 3insight
Home!
I don’t have the television so I’ll watch #insiggt when the stream goes online. Will join the liveblog after the show tho.
@Jen_Bennett If you do ask her about it, she does have a date picked and a place… enough detail to make it sound legit.
@FortuneGrey She’s been running this scam for years. Been caught for it, but presumably well worth doing. She did door-to-door in Enmore.
@pyrmontvillage Yeah I’ve seen her do Newtown pubs, and tonight was a noodle bar in Haymarket. She does have her patter down perfect.
@maverickwoman “Entrepreneurship”? In my day it was called “obtaining money by deception” and was a crime. ;)
@notanexit @paulwiggins @flashman @Level20EastGuy @maverickwoman Ta for the input. If my food hadn’t just been served I’d have tailed her.
Anyway she’s gone now and I’m eating my pho. No energy to chase fraudsters tonight.
And, this same women has been doing it for ages, with her block of cloakroom-style “raffle tickets”.
It’s a classic. Spiel is “We’re raising funds to send our mob to an indigenous dance festival in North Dakota”. It’s been running for years.
There’s a girl in Haymarket running that old scam, “I’m selling raffle tickets for an indigenous dance troupe”. Shall I report her?
@SBS You are lovely, lovely people and I take back everything I’ve ever said about foreigners.
RT @SBS: Chased up Insight web producer for you, was told “video up tonight - ASAP after the show ends” (final @SBS message for today).
@Nickhodge Old Age Pensioners… the Liberal Party… essentially the same thing? Oh, no, the Libs would be “self-funded retirees”. Snobs.
@middleclassgirl I thought the Liberal Party gave out OAMs and meth as showbag treats? If they don’t, they should.
@SBS Yes, dear, but WHEN? Immediately after the program? In the morning? Auto-tweet FAIL. (Why am I discussing this with a robot?)
@SBS Yes, dear, but WHEN? Immediately after the program? In the morning? Auto-tweet FAIL. (Why am I discussing this with a robot?)
@SBS We’re in that part of Enmore with no TV reception, and I have to watch the program before 1000 tomorrow. Perhaps I visit a friend?
@SBS Thanks for the pointer to where the Insight video goes online. http://bit.ly/77XgZ But WHEN does that happen?
I suppose I’d better go home and watch SBS Insight in just under an hour, assuming it’s streamed. http://bit.ly/18ttnj If not, I’ll whinge.
So why would you want your umbrella handle to look like a dog’s head on a spike?
@kategroom Why would Senator Conroy care what people say on Twitter? He doesn’t see it, and numbers are tiny.
@sophblack I suspect the flying monkeys have been distracted by random bananas. As we all are.
@alpharia Don’t worry, I will fix your blog comment and make it moar intelligenter for everyones. ;)
@sophblack If the flying monkeys prove unreliable we’ll have to arrange both spanking and… something.
@irldexter Who’s Mark Pesce?
@rod3000 As always, the best chronicle of what Conroy has said, and the government generally, is Libertus.net. http://bit.ly/1b1w1r
@rod3000 Yesterday’s quote may be paraphrased, but Conroy says they’ve only ever intended to filer RC material, which isn’t true.
@DDsD Glad you enjoyed “We Are The Future”. We had a fun time in the studio with the musicians on that EP. http://bit.ly/H0nyO Ah, 1993…!
@erkpod Maybe someone should make a Conroy Doll with a string that you pull to hear all the inane comments.
Next thing you know, Senator Conroy will be using Twitpic to post photos of his lunch. ;)
@erkpod Nah, I also said on “Stilgherrian Live” that I was getting sympathy for Senator Conroy. Now I just want to slap him.
@HappySinger Indeed, as Senator Minchin said, Conroy’s the one in “Yes, Minister” land. NBN tender process, anyone?
I was actually starting to feel sympathy for Senator Conroy last week but today’s effort is just fuckwittedness.
@sophblack Now, the important question is whether I’m back on Crikey’s “We love you” list so I get today’s email… ;)
@PeterBlackQUT You may wish to provide a more clueful legal comment on my post. http://bit.ly/e1rAN
New blog post: “Is Conroy really this ignorant of his own portfolio?” re his idiotic comment re iiNet. http://bit.ly/e1rAN
@sophblack So, you’re getting paid to read about flappers on cocaine and their “negro lovers”? http://bit.ly/X673T WIN!
@Reemski I may not be totally discredited, but I’m working on it.
Now, how the hell am I going to fit all these ideas into just one Crikey article? In an hour or so? With my pants on?
@andragy No problem linking (it’s the web !) maybe even link direct to the post? It’d be even better if my name was spelled right. ;)
@ShrimpSalad Thanks. My avatar is Grass Mud Horse (è‰æ³¥é©¬) (Cao Ni Ma). Song: http://is.gd/neBm (expand) background: http://is.gd/omSm
@jeamland Lyle Shelton is from Australian Christian Lobby http://acl.org.au/ who represent a certain kind of Christianity.
Latest ACMA “Trends” report: “Social media and IP developments driving technology trends” http://bit.ly/xq730
Last night’s SBS “Insight” on Teh filterz video: http://bit.ly/82X4A transcript: http://bit.ly/14Xf1 liveblog: http://bit.ly/2dAO
@TheMarketerAus I never make recommendations about anything, let alone #fisting.
@PeterBlackQUT Quick heads-up: I’ve sent you an email which is arriving early in your day. ;)
OK, attention limited while I watch last night’s episode of “Insight”. http://bit.ly/82X4A Do I get danger money, @GreenJ?
@Mediamum Remember, though, you now live where 2.3M people are in jail, yet 2 seconds of exposed nipple is a national scandal. #fisting
@seancarmody Well, if you start to talk about #fisting at a serious business meeting, I’m not to blame for your judgements!
New SBS Directors: Ms Elleni Bereded-Samuel and Mr Joseph Skrzynski AO. Also, more details on them to come later from others.
New ABC Directors: Mr Michael Lynch CBE AM and Dr Julianne Schultz AM. More details to come, I’m sure.
@seancarmody http://exectweets.com/ is “real”, though it may be rumour not fact. It appeared some days ago and got a fair bit of coverage.
Wed plan: Put on pants, another coffee; AM watch SBS Insight, write thereupon; PM webby work at my desk; quiet evening.
@SnarkyPlatypus Serez-vous effectuer lLa Danse Spéciale, O Ornithorynque?
I’ve just been told that because I have the electricity I am “bourgeois”. #blackout
RT @kathleen_w: Russian mob blames blackout on Stephen Conroy.
RT @Fifikins: I think the Sydney blackout has something to do with the Anglicans knocking at @stilgherrian’s door. [Obviously.]
I suppose I should have some breakfast.
Oddly enough, Energy Australia’s website is suddenly v e r y s l o w … #blackout
@rnlrobinson The doorknocking is recent. It’s not “convert the heathen”, but “meet the local community”. Sounds like what they should do.
@drunkenmadman @Fifikins thank you for your concern. @stufromoz @adhoctg Hey I was polite to them!
I must say, the local Anglican church is sending much more attractive chaps around doorknocking these days.
@websinthe You know I’m really Conroy’s special sock puppet. The one with a special ribbed texture and added factionality.
@websinthe You’re tempting me to write a piece slagging off ill-informed #nocleanfeed kiddie-zealots. ;)
@HappySinger @WarWraith I’ll respond to your points soon. Lotsa comments coming in at http://bit.ly/sZ7TI but I have an interview at 1500.
@duncanriley Don’t forget to trawl Libertus.net for links to key Conroy statements too. Particularly http://bit.ly/1b1w1r
Oh. I didn’t get my Crikey email reinstated before today’s was emailed. I’ll have to get someone to email their copy for my archive.
@Nickhodge Agreed. I’m appalled by the politically naivety and ignorance of many folks using the #nocleanfeed tag. “RTFM” in politics, too.
Tom Worthington’s observations of Bar Camp Canberra 2. Good points re impatience of Young Turks. http://bit.ly/xmJU #bcc2
@ashermoses If waiting for the trial results is Conroy’s strategy, that’s 4 to 6 more months of being made to look like an idiot.
@shanewilliamson But even if Conroy is “filtered out”, it wasn’t “his” policy. It’s ALP policy. Conroy is not the target, the policy is.
New blog post: “What now for Senator Conroy and the Magic Filter?” http://bit.ly/sZ7TI What do you reckon is Conroy’s exit strategy?
@bengrubb That’s the EXACT quote? No “all” or “completely”? Do you have more context?
RT @bengrubb: “We’ve never claimed the filter would block child pornography: Senator Conroy. [Um, so what IS it for? Make up your mind.]
Winning friends and influencing people.
@Reemski Hey, Freud’s as good a start as any. He’s discredited. So am I. The food blog remains. What does that say? ;)
@Reemski Bah! Posting photos of your food? Please progress past oral stage of online psychosexual development kthxbai. http://bit.ly/2FxkLS
Yes, I tweeted about my breakfast. I am such a loser. At least I didn’t publish a photo of it. That’s truly loserdom.
“COSBA: The government’s Internet filter plans will harm business” http://bit.ly/2odruA Includes comments from me.
@Mediamum Yes, there is toast. I can also confirm the presence of bacon. And mushrooms. And tomato. And a refrigerator truck.
Waiting for eggs (scrambled). There may be bacon. And possibly a sausage. You know how these things go.
DBCDE info on Consultative Working Group on Cyber-Safety: http://bit.ly/2jLl4v That says they report back soon. Is my May meeting info bad?
@ireckon DBCDE has a “Consultative Working Group” on Cyber-Safety, which first meets in May. Yes, test filter before consult. Arse-about.
@ireckon The difficulty with politics is that it all has to look like the Minister thought of it himself. Or through a process he set up.
@martinlau If cost-benefit analysis has been done, no-one’s seen it. “The filter” was chosen as solution before the problem was defined.
@MediaMook I also see I’ve dropped out of the global Top 500 on Cursebird. http://bit.ly/kuezh I am full of fucking FAIL.
Tue plan: A rainy end-of-month, during which I shall retreat to secret locations and send emails; 7.30pm watch SBS Insight on Teh Filterz.
@jimboot I think examples like DRM and TOR, while true, won’t resonate with punters. They hear techblur vs fear-for-children. Latter wins.
@swbs Ah, man! Some days I could strangle clients! I cleared out this week for “urgent” work. Now they’re not ready. Billable hours FTL.
@irldexter [nods] I get that the online conversation evolves the arguments, but I (personally) see too much of that, not enough emerging.
Dear Client, please don’t rush me to get a proposal to you in 2 days if you’re not even going to look at it for 2 weeks. Rude cunts.
(The brevity of tweets means that I may be talking at cross-purposes here.)
@irldexter “Activists” can be hyperconnected as they want amongst each other, but unless that’s leveraged into action it’s all just a wank.
@irldexter I’m not sure what point you’re making, but politics IS people. By “real” politics I mean what strategies actually effect change.
New blog post: “The Future was 1993” http://bit.ly/H0nyO Have a listen to some music I “encouraged” into the world.
@NathanaelB What pisses me off about “activists” is that too many think the adrenalin surge they get from a fight is anything but selfish.
@NathanaelB The elected politicians are the ones who can effect change. Pissing them off makes them disinclined to help. Human nature.
@NathanaelB There is a distinct lack of communication between #nocleanfeed and… well, everyone else. And an ignorance of REAL politics.
Reading and thinking about the many comments to my blog post about Senator Conroy’s exit censorship strategy. http://bit.ly/sZ7TI
RT @neuraxon77: “Spanking ‘brings couples together’”: New Scientist: Get out those whips! http://tinyurl.com/d7veaj
@SnarkyPlatypus Vous avez résumé toute ma vie, O Ornithorynque, Ami des Éléphants! Réjouis-toi!
@SnarkyPlatypus Est-ce que vous remplissez votre mission d’espoir ou de peur? Est-il neiger?
@SnarkyPlatypus Je pleure l’utilisation incorrecte ou incohérente des majuscules.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Il est le dernier jour du trimestre. Il sera … intéressant. Je suis prudent. et vous?
@Alegrya is quite right: “it wouldn’t be BarCamp without Hodges.” http://bit.ly/P5Xx #bcc2
@BernardKeane Oh dear. I have attributed to you words written by the great Mungo Wentworth MacCallum. How careless of me.
Emerges.
Disappearing off grid. Sleep calls. [exit]
@BernardKeane WTF? “Julia Gillard is the secret mistress of Kim Jong-Il”? Well that DOES explain… (Can I have some of what you’re on?)
@kerryank @stinginthetail @smperris You are all sick, sick people. I don’t want to play with you any more.
@mr_billiam Ah no, look, you’re confusing “documentary” with “dromedary”. Again. This MUST stop.
Uhoh. It says “Erk Pod episode 174” and guests include “Stilgherrian” and recorded at “Kelly’s On King”. I worry. http://bit.ly/QiplS
OK, so someone used the word “sprinter” and I read it as “sphincter”. I probably need more sleep.
Oh poo! The Platypus Speaks the Truth. There IS such a weird-arsed new band. http://bit.ly/F9Yul
@SnarkyPlatypus Oh FFS! Now you’re just starting to MAKE UP this music news!
@alpharia Hey! How come you have such accurate insight into the visual aspects of my dreams? http://bit.ly/1ppnZF
@firstdogonmoon Thank you for inventing “Captain Nodule and his Intergalactic Sockdrawer of Love”. It was necessary. Very necessary.
@SnarkyPlatypus You realise this means a massive t.A.T.u tribute episode this Thursday night. ;)
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: t.A.T.u have apparently broken up. One pole of the Pseudo-Sapphic Axis is gone :( [Les Veroniques sont désolé!]
Wow. Great comments on my post “What now for Senator Conroy and the Magic Filter?” http://bit.ly/sZ7TI What is Conroy’s exit strategy?
RT @kalgoorliekid: About to head to Sydney with a rifle and a bag full of snappy one-liners. [See, at least someone’s got some sense.]
I also notice people are trying to trendfist the #zombies. #blackout #fisting Good luck. Can you beat 0.52% of all tweets?
RT @franksting: Well the trains are running on time so we know something must be wrong. #blackout
@FortuneGrey I was thinking of tweeting via laptop, Bluetooth, 3G phone etc. But then, as I say, I have the electricity. #blackout
Photos of Parliament House, Canberra, by @ApostrophePong, including a loitering-with-intent @Nickhodge. http://bit.ly/74uE
@iain_chalmers I don’t think it’s even POSSIBLE to take things out of context when they involve #fisting, is it?
@wolfcat The #fisting wager has been paid. @mpesce’s honour is intact. Photographic evidence at http://bit.ly/ERhOU
@courtney_gibson Oh course, I missed the obvious joke: “I didn’t know Harold Bishop was a dentist!” Le Sigh.
@courtney_gibson Oh touché! But surely we shouldn’t be making fun of The Logies? THEY will com and spank us?
Mon plan: A longish day at my desk to sort out the billion loose ends that threaten to choke our city’s water supplies. Also, coffee.
Which leak has most impact on our democracy? ACMA blacklist? http://bit.ly/7HX55 The Logies? http://bit.ly/vgQlR Discuss.
@maenad_au That is a whole different world of dots. http://tinyurl.com/37dcb5 I know not that world.
@Yin_0x7f Isn’t it curious? Computers are “everywhere”, and yet MSM reportage still treats it as jolly-superficial. Politicians too.
@SnarkyPlatypus Also, dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. http://bit.ly/dhhiX
@SnarkyPlatypus S’il vous plaît ne les avertir! Ces tentacules sont super-puissant, comme elles ont été faites par un artiste japonais.
@SnarkyPlatypus Les tentacules sont inévitables. http://bit.ly/2LYX6s
“The snooping dragon: social-malware surveillance of the Tibetan movement” [PDF] http://bit.ly/aZJyW
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. J’ai été passer trop de temps avec les tentacules. http://bit.ly/elgMH Et vous?
Emerges. Dots. More dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots. Dots.
Circular Quay. Museum of Contemporary Art. I am so respectable.
Departing Enmore for Circular Quay. Destination: Museum of Contemporary Art. http://is.gd/psK1
I think Crikey’s last piece on Victorian ALP factions was this one from January. http://bit.ly/vQieA
@chaosboi Ta for those links. Going back even further, to 2004, we have this profile of Stephen Conroy: http://bit.ly/Wd2wF
@andrewbarnett Nah the Filter was never intended to be a factional thing. It was a preferences-winner for Family First.
@maenad_au Conroy is Victorian Catholic Conservative Right of the ALP, but my knowledge of those machinations is… limited.
@maenad_au “Why would Conroy be set up to fail?” Any number of people would want his job, or he or his faction to look bad. You choose!
@simontsmall But one’s view of Twitter is defined by who you FOLLOW, i.e. who you choose to see. [shrugs] Too hard to explain briefly. ;)
@simontsmall Twitter has “followers” as a metric on display, yes, so (some) people will see that as the goal. They are losers.
@SnarkyPlatypus Oh, I like “tonally-challenged alpaca”! You know that means I have to play the song, though. http://bit.ly/79C7g
RT @chaosboi: It has been rumored that Senator Conroy has been setup to fail with the Filter, Labor want a spectacular public failure 4 him.
@simontsmall “I’m concerned about the competitive nature of the community itself.” Competition for/over…? [puzzled]
RT @jeffsonstein: Sometimes one just has to say “no” to morally bankrupt orders. [Couldn’t agree more. And that is Conroy’s bind.]
@jeffsonstein The policy wasn’t Conroy’s personally, but Labor Party’s. As Minister, he must implement. I’m told PM orders him to fight on.
RT @simontsmall: The bigger Twitter gets the more impersonal it becomes. [No, it’s about YOUR circle, not Twitter itself. You choose.]
@jeffsonstein As I said on “Stilgherrian Live” http://bit.ly/2P7eZJ I’m now starting to pity Senator Conroy.
@jeffsonstein As @NewtonMark noted, the entire censorship debate seems to be eating him up inside. http://bit.ly/3yLGqH
@jeffsonstein Senator Conroy has certainly copped the ridicule this week. http://is.gd/paT3
@jeffsonstein The story’s become a joke with “a site belonging to a school cafeterias consultant”, but it may have been hacked.
@SnarkyPlatypus Il ya des raisons économiques fondamentaux communistes ont de mauvaises dents. Il n’a rien à voir avec les pommes de terre.
@jonseymour Correct. Ross Wheeler’s final quote in that Time article is probably incorrect.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Fluoration est le plus monstrueusement conçu régime Communiste et dangereux que nous ayons jamais eu à faire face.
Time: “A Blacklist for Websites Backfires in Australia” http://is.gd/ps0f Portrays it as a scandal and a joke. Hat-tip @SilkCharm.
Great. Now I’m reading about damaged nuclear weapons. I tell you, the bus is the wrong way to transport the fuckers, even if it is cheaper.
@jeffsonstein We have two kinds of cockroaches. Big American cockroaches you know. The little German cockroaches are immune to all weapons.
THUD! FFS, people! “Hello? ‘Nuclear weapon?’ WOULD YOU MIND BEING A LITTLE BIT CAREFUL THANKS?” God, people are stupid.
There were also cockroaches. Man, many cockroaches.
In my dream there were budget cuts. We had to transport nuclear weapons on the bus. I had to keep telling people not to bump them. Idiots.
Emerges.
Off-grid until the morning. [exit]
Drifting home.
@Yin_0x7f I know nothing about these “ALIEN SPACE PARTIES” of which you speak. #MELONS
Why is the jukeboy playing “Jingle Bells”? I’m not used to space-time disturbances.
RT @wraptinweb: Filter would destroy NZ culture http://adultsheepfinder….
Mobile. Enmore Rd / King St / @SnarkyPlatypus / gym / late lunch / Redemption / Illumination / Apocalypse. Well, if we have time.
@benmoretti Correct, David Penberthy was in Marxist group CISCAC, the Committee in Solidarity with Central America and the Caribbean.
RT @stephenconroy: Transcript of the Triple J / Radio National piece about fake politicians on Twitter: http://is.gd/plGe [Audio too.]
I fuckin’ knew those goddam Japanese were up to something! Giant fire-breathing robot death! http://is.gd/plGm
@benmoretti Don’t you think “right wing crap” and “ex-Commie” are rather outdated ways of discussing politics? Clichés and old slogans.
@stephenconroy Maybe they should have gone with the fictional magazine title on “Stupid Stupid Man”: “COQ Magazine”.
@SnarkyPlatypus Depends what you mean by “value”. This is commercial media: the “value” is in the eyeballs it pulls for advertisers.
@bengrubb “The Punch” is one hell of a name to live up to, though. http://is.gd/pl73 There will be live tweets on the website part too.
@maenad_au I can’t see a News Ltd band under Penberthy being like http://counterpunch.com. Far more populist, accessible. “Punchy” writing.
As I said in Crikey yesterday, “The Punch” is also News Ltd’s SEKRIT online-print-TV politics etc brand to launch in May, led by Penbo.
@SnarkyPlatypus As discussed, Mr David Penberthy’s new column, “The Punch”. http://is.gd/pl0o
@SnarkyPlatypus Your theory from a couple months back does indeed fit everything that’s unfolding. You’re such a clever monotreme! [pats]
@druey Ah, the “what’s simmering under the radar” for Conroy and the Internet is something I’m working on. ;)