@crikey_news “Rundle on the NRL”? http://is.gd/CfZB That’s one of those new, kinkier positions, yeah?
@steven_noble @neerav Half-hour paid nap rooms in the city? They already have them. In Kings Cross. By the hour. Um, “nap”, yes…
Me in Crikey today: “OECD: Australia’s broadband is rubbish. Who knew?” http://tr.im/m45v (I used a word other than rubbish. Censorship!]
@stephenconroy Am I feeling at all autismy after my vaccinations? How does one tell? I’m not swearing as much. Is that a sign? #toto
@xeyr O hai. Hope your day is awesome and stuffs.
@Pollytics I think I’ll cope. I get so few trolls on my website. I mostly get repressed Saudis wanting to look at Sam Fox’s tits. True.
@thetowncrier Your point about “we like to back winners” is precisely what I said. ;) http://tr.im/m3XJ
@Pollytics Im in ur blogz trollin ur commenterz. [smirks] http://tr.im/m3Xl
@liubinskas Oh, worse than Darwin Boys School for Troublemakers! Prince Alfred College. Which is still standing. http://tr.im/m3Vl
A great question from @Pollytics: Why don’t you vote Green? http://tr.im/m3SJ I’ve already had my say.
Judge reviewing Pirate Bay trial for bias by original judge is removed… for bias: http://tr.im/m3Ga Hat-tip @Selfish_Meme
@liubinskas I’ll join you in a “go back to your school” week if and only if I can add “and burn it to the ground”. ;)
ACCC gives NBN thumbs up, endorses structural separation, predicts end of Foxtel dominance http://bit.ly/jERY7 Hat-tip @neerav
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Belgium must have sweatshops where B-grade DJs and breathy session singers churn out adequate trance pop day and night.
Crikey article filed! And I only swore twice.
New Australian technology records on DVD in 5 dimensions [WTF?]: 2000 movies on a single disc. http://tr.im/m3ly
@seamus Your video report on the new 1.92Tb/s PPC-1 fibre Guam-Sydney is superb. http://tr.im/m3gV I’ll link to it in my Crikey piece.
RT @kcarruthers: The chickens are very restless this morning. [I’m not sure if that’s a euphemism, or a coded message to The Resistance.]
@frankwkelly Hi, my full name is Stilgherrian and I’m from Sydney, Australia. For my followers, it’s for the movie “140”. http://tr.im/m9oC
A $40 Linux computer the size of a three-prong plug adapter? http://tr.im/m9lb Join http://plugcomputer.org/
Emerges. Unsure whether to relate last night’s dream or not. Coffee first.
I think it’s time for me to disappear, for it has been a long, complex and exhausting day. [exit]
@WoollyMittens You’re not the first to suggest that the “drop” re me and Tanzania is literal. Hope not. #toto
@DavidFeng Sorry, you’re complaining about ME not making sense? Are the drugs THAT good in Beijing?
@franksting I don’t follow cricket. My sole knowledge of the Pakistani cricket team is now “genital warts”. Thank you, @leighsales.
@DavidFeng I’d have thought my tweets could be more toxic than @Warlach’s, Chernobyl notwithstanding.
RT @leighsales: Is anyone else surprised that the Pakistani Cricket Board would release this level of detail? http://tiny.cc/6PyLh
@tomewing OK, you also need to be following @SnarkyPlatypus for dodgy pop tweets. Well, “Need” is such a difficult concept.
RT @Warlach: First ever Tweet from Chernobyl? Greetings from the wasteland, world! :)
The grown-up version of what my Tanzania trip is about is at http://tr.im/m5N7 should anyone do “serious” at this hour. #toto
@lelak And sometimes a gnome is just a gnome? ;) Anyway, I will deal with the gnome in the morning. #toto
@JohnBirmingham I’m sorry, Sir, it’s been a long week. People have been attacking my gnome. It’s a cruel world.
Replies are running slightly in favour of the fish. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing.
Hmmm. Médecins Sans Frontières email marked as spam. Good thing I found it.
Which spam should I reply to? The 21yo rich orphan from Cote d’Ivoire offering marriage? Or the one explaining how to use a fish as a dildo?
@SnarkyPlatypus Are you tweeting about how shit your date is?
Not yet viewed, but “Hello Africa” is a 42-min doco about mobile culture in Africa. http://tr.im/m5BK CC-BY-NC-SA #toto
@OneRedSock OK, @tomewing suggested I say hi re my Tanzania project. http://tr.im/m5yw It’sFriday night in SYD, more soon. #toto
@WoollyMittens According to http://tr.im/m5An, Shell is the same size as Portugal. Portugal’s armed forces: http://tr.im/m5Au Shell’s?
@SaschaV Yes, population density vs manners. Also, firepower vs manners. There’s a reason the US “Wild West” was so polite.
@tomewing O hai. Not QUITE exactly on your “African mobile culture” but, yes, I’m going to Tanzania to “do stuff”. http://tr.im/m5yw #toto
RT @megpickard: The music in this cab reveals that they have vocoders in Eritrea, too. And how.
@WoollyMittens Yes, oil companies get away with murder in the Niger Delta, through proxies. But maybe not forever.
@thegrenville I’ll be interested to see how many in my “remote rural” Tanzanian drop zone speak English. Locals, not aid workers. #toto
@thegrenville Discussion of Tanzania is WAY ahead of my briefings. That’s the power of the “naked conversations”! Loving it. #toto
@thegrenville If the aim is to link to Western donors, then blog in English. If network locally, blog in Swahili. (Off cuff answer.) #toto
@neerav One of the most powerful video artworks at the Sydney Biennale was about the Niger Delta. Confronting.
@neerav I would’ve gotten to that @newmatilda story eventually, but you piqued my immediate interest and get the hat-tip.
Michael Palin on comedy in times of despair and “the perils of political correctness”. ;) http://tr.im/m5kX #toto
“Shell charged with torture, extra-judicial killing & crimes against humanity by US federal court” http://bit.ly/2yqbU Hat-@neeraverav
@thegrenville Wikipedia says Tanzania’s effective official language is Swahili, though English is used in courts, universities. #toto
@thegrenville There are Tanzanian bloggers, says Wikipedia, but I haven’t made contact or looked at sites yet. http://tr.im/m5fC #toto
@djmattyg007 @hockeyalltheway Indeed I did! The whole #fisting episode is documented at http://tr.im/m5eh
@NereadersDigest Indeed, the question of who supports the Tanzania bloggers, and how, has yet to be discussed. #toto
While I have yet to respond properly to calls to ban topless Gnaomi, Bob Bain raises an interesting point. http://tr.im/m577 #toto
@mpesce “I don’t recall this ever happening before” is because you’re suffering memory loss. Again.
@franksting I’ve decided it’s to wet and windy out, so already en route back to my village.
Meeting finished! Can has beer?
I see! @archielaw and his crew have declared war on Gnaoimi! http://tr.im/m4wb I’ll have more to say about this, I assure you! #toto
@danpatmore It’s most definitely ugg boot weather. Grafton evacuated. Meeting here delayed.
@sylmobile Thanks. Yes, there’s a flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos here. They come to Victoria St to be fed each evening by a local woman.
Kings Cross. Gap in rain. Cold wind whips hotel flags. Cockatoos ride the gusts, soaring, screeching, just for fun. Grey, grey, grey.
RT @hughjm: Order to evacuate Grafton http://viigo.im/EDq
RT @GreensMPs: Why dig up the most toxic substance on Earth? http://tinyurl.com/onnmhb [What? Julie Bishop’s hair spray?]
Mobile, but slowly. Enmore Rd / Newtown station / Kings Cross station / 1600 Darlinghurst client meeting. And so it goes.
@crikey_news And who decided that my “droolworthy” should be “drool worthy”? I’m warning you, I’ll do a Giles! I AM NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH!
@crikey_news If Guy Rundle looks for “hooker” in the NRL, he’ll be bitterly disappointed. Unless… no, I won’t name teams.
@firstdogonmoon Your “Speed dating in the Animal Kingdom” is rather sweet. http://tr.im/m4b1 I didn’t know squid ate chocolate biscuits.
@Selfish_Meme @dfg77 @seancarmody @rvowles @michaelmeloni @ambermatson Thank you all for this vital information. I think.
@EnexTestLab Oh ta. No, I don’t need bra sizes tested. I’m sure you’re very busy with my friend Senator Conroy’s Internet filter thingy.
OK, professing a gap in my knowledge here, but do bra sizes get bigger along the alphabet, or smaller?
@steven_noble I thought I understood how Twitter’s @reply changes work. I read the explanation and am now confused. Botheration.
@SnarkyPlatypus Ah, mais, bien sûr! Comment stupide de moi! C, A, N, U, T, E. Oui.
@SnarkyPlatypus Oui, mais les six lettres qui restent? Comment pouvons-nous choisir?
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Il ya trop de mots à lire. Il ya trop de mots à écrire.
@frankwkelly It’s possible I may be in remote Tanzania on 21 June rather than Sydney, though. Dates have not yet been set. #toto