RT @nprmonkeysee: Once you start to see it, it’s inherent to many teakettle designs. This is a cat waving. http://t.co/u29l1qCRaB
The Google recommended that I watch this video of BAE Systems’ mach 10 rail gun, and who am I to argue? http://t.co/MCgWyDxElR
Wait. What if the asbestos is a false flag operation?
@expectproblems Look, Human, this is YOUR planet.
“Have you been talking about me?” instagram.com/p/aGGIYuCFrI/
So how do you get an invite to DG ASIO’s titanium jacuzzi? And are ‘shrooms involved? Does @davpope know?
@darrenpauli Filthy hacker.
@kcarruthers Actually, I think Taiga should do a book on road safety, or a healthy diet book.
@kcarruthers That’ll probably be after I do my sequel to “The Little Book of Calm”, based on my tweets.
newswithnipples GoT is doing a good job at getting rid of the boring characters. Couple more to go, so keep up the slaughtering.
I think it’s really, really important to be angry at what you imagine someone said courtesy of three levels of retweets. It’s adult, clever.
@indigoid I think I am meant to be in a different country on those dates, but I shall consult my psychomaster.
@expectproblems You should be following @RedWeddingTears, you know.
Where “thill” is a word whose meaning is to be determined by committee.
I thill think this @davpope cartoon is something we should all inhale deeply. http://t.co/YgsyxOK31a
Official mouthpiece of China’s ruling Communist Party condemns outbreak of giant yellow ducks. http://t.co/ehtiFu7aS0 HT [PROTECTED]
@indigoid I don’t have things planned that far ahead. Do we have dates yet?
@GyanS @mrdanielrose Oh, then I won’t tell the story about the Senator and the bongs, or the one about the rent boy and the Speaker’s chair.
Hang on what? Is @SenatorLudlam doing burlesque again? It’s #lca2012 all over again…
And “emerging threats”, @indigoid? Same as they always were: people in your network what shouldn’t be there. Piss ‘em off and fix the hole.
Now, can the mainstream media fucking well get over the SHOCK HORROR that networks are ATTACKED and catch up with the current decade?
Gosh, attacked a dozen times since lunchtime from eight different countries. JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER DAY FOR THE LAST DECADE.
“lfd on [REACTED]: blocked 209.239.114.160 (US/United States/usloft1128.serverloft.com)” OMFG I’M BEING ATTACKED BY THE AMERICA.
“lfd on [REDACTED]: blocked distributed sshd attack on account [root]” OMFG I’M BEING ATTACKED BY CHINA SOMEONE CALL THE AFR.
@NewtonMark @j_hutch Heh. True, but last time I contradicted a presenter on-air that harshly they went into a huge sulk. Not worth it.
@NewtonMark @j_hutch I’ve had to correct at least one interviewer about the copper and the duct lease thing before a radio spot.
@NewtonMark As I said to @j_hutch, that belief is strong Out There. Dunno where it came from, but the punters believe. Even some media.
RT @snare: @stilgherrian bro you’re gonna give shrooms a bad name [Oh, sorry. But I have Seen Things.]
@j_hutch The NBN-is-buying-copper meme is strong amongst the punters. I hear it on talkback and in pub conversations. Dunno its origins.
Sorry, that’s most unfair. Everyone knows it’s Tony who ‘shrooms up on those long, lonely bike rides in the pine forests.
And where did this “The NBN is buying Telstra’s copper” hallucination come from? One of Malcolm’s ‘shroomfest weekends?
No matter how much I drink, I can’t see how shitty asbestos in Telstra’s shitty ducts is the NBN’s fault. Do politicians get better drugs?
PeteDotAscian Someone actually made a film about interns at Google? Have we come to this?
Oh yeah I just remembered why. All pretty low grade, really.
Suddenly realising I haven’t followed many people back on Instagram. There’s a #SMEG KPI failed right there.
RT @SenatorLudlam: 2013: a parliament odyssey instagram.com/p/aF9BXkoQ4z/ [Pro Tip: Don’t get into the pod.]
RT @andymangold: xkcd 937 has come to pass. http://t.co/ysy5wKeD5i and
https://t.co/cD3YT9nt85 http://t.co/EynD8nXE86
Oh thanks for the reminder, @tscribe! twitpic.com/cv1v26
IPAOGTFO.
RT @PeteDotAscian: @stilgherrian @R_Chirgwin How do you pronounce JIFF? [Like this: Å‹utÉ™kiËtʃ]
@R_Chirgwin All JPEGs are fake. Only JIFFs are jenuine.
@R_Chirgwin Have you been huffing all the clue sticks again?
KerriSackville Oh. My. GOD RT @MissTara_O: One for your next twitter class @KerriSackville pic.twitter.com/yHreLos8fd
RT @ben_hr: Outstanding. There’s a Bilderberg Fringe Festival with David Icke & Alex Jones speaking benhr.net/11yJt3c [I WANNA GO!]
I see @BernardGaynor is handling his sacking from the Army Reserve with dignity. HT @macleanbrendan
@PocketwareApps I feel that I may bore readers with another article about privacy this week.
@PocketwareApps I do not mean to single out this one app. It is very common for apps to ask for vastly more permissions than they need.
@PocketwareApps This is my point, yes.
Hang on, I’ve been doing some other things. What am I meant to be angry about now?
@PocketwareApps Nor would I install an app whose privacy policy is in a language I can’t read. A flashlight’s job is light, full stop.
@PocketwareApps A flashlight doesn’t need network access, the ability to take photos, or to test access to protected storage. It’s a switch.
@PocketwareApps Wow, there’s some excessive permissions to turn on a light.
RT @ivovic: @stilgherrian must find that one butterfly and KILL IT. [I don’t think I can stop at just the butterfly.]
I don’t have a searchlight.
The previous week’s “Safeguarding the Integrity of Racing in NSW” is also especially particular. http://t.co/i8qnXH7oD3
I say, the latest Clarke and Dawe is particularly especial. http://t.co/h2YqW2NkQW
Apropos of nothing, “The Rabbit of Seville” http://t.co/8DCOyk1Arw
I do not like the weather forecast.
BernardKeane Methodological note: the “cyberwar”, like the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, is not designed to be won, but to be permanent.
RT @oberonsghost: I’m seeing this become a series of kiddie picture books for grown-ups. [This is not a silly idea.]
So it’s now a Flickr set: “Taiga Goes to the Pub” http://t.co/Us749J1pGz
@dobes The Googles are with me today.
Thank @dobes for the reminder: “Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century” http://t.co/xLq2tAUOag
Ah, Duck Edgar Dumas Aloysius Eoghain Dodgers! Is there anything he can’t fix?
RT @dobes: Malcolm describes how asbestos leads straight to NBN Co: http://t.co/oUb59i13Ld
SnarkyPlatypus There’s emotional involvement in stories and then there’s @RedWeddingTears.
RT @mpesce: Also: Python sockets programming at 35,000 feet. It doesn’t get better than that. [Well at least the medication is working.]
reselsnark I shall expect an endorsing retweet from @SenatorAbetz and @chrisberg for that last tweet. @Colvinius and @stilgherrian may choose not to.
reselsnark Pls specify who is paying @stilgherrian as evidently that is essential to whether it is art on not. Exception: toenails are never art.
It’s true, Yorkshire Airlines does have an outside loo. I stand corrected. http://t.co/BQIeX4fbkv HT @pingudownunder Ping @simonhackett
Can someone just provide a list of which body parts and bodily functions are OK for art and which ones are not? Preferably an economist.
This art stuff is so confusion.
Wait. Did Skywhale do a poo?
@intrepidfear @SnarkyPlatypus I just got this thread confused with the one on Bulgarian airbags. @DeeApostolova @PeteDotAscian @R_Chirgwin
OH, on phone: “We [now] have a PR agency we trust enough to send emails.”
Smirking.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: OH: My friends who are 22yo are holding a onesie party. [This so needs to be gatecrashed by 40-50yos. In onesies.]
Oh great, @PeteDotAscian @R_Chirgwin, now I know that “Bulgarian airbags” is a thing. http://t.co/QXcLp9lFKM
liamvhogan Show me a boss who sacks people on the basis of a minimum wage raise; I’ll show you an unsustainably marginal business plan
@R_Chirgwin I did see that, and thought it best not to draw attention to your mammary-related error.
And why am I only just now discovering that you can talk to @theskywhale_ on Twitter? And the website? theskywhale.com
Ah good, @Wired has discovered Skywhale. http://t.co/ApYGc7CNVi HT @R_Chirgwin Ping @gattaca
RT @scottcarson1957: Indeed. pic.twitter.com/KNN7KFCPFG [Hah! And who said the Atomic Age wasn’t classy?]
@scottcarson1957 Oh wow. OK, there goes my next few evenings!
You know you’re too old when you start reminiscing about the Atomic Age. ;) @scottcarson1957 http://t.co/ijS17ortYf
@scottcarson1957 … which is why I think an oral history of the Atomic Age would be fascinating, to hear about the mindset and fears.
@scottcarson1957 And yet what strikes me about both US and UK tests was the sense of ca-do that seemed to run through everything …
@scottcarson1957 Oh, yeah, so much would’ve been hidden. I remember that was a huge problem faced by the Royal Commission on Maralinga.
@scottcarson1957 What keeps striking me is the sheer scale of it all.
@scottcarson1957 Oh I knew nothing you post would be SEKRIT (you’re not an idiot), but I’m enjoying your informed choices.
@scottcarson1957 The imagery is such a thing of its time. I’m reminded of those in Peter Morton’s book on Woomera. https://t.co/gYbN1McCJs
At least @scottcarson1957 is cheering me up with more pictures of nuclear explosions.
RT @dobes: you want to live in a country whose first article of its constitution is “a/s/l?” [Yes. Yes I do. And if you were honest…]
“Lambast” is another of those things that only journalists reckon people do.
Beaker OH: “94.8% of the wankers who write these articles lambasting “Silicon Valley” would be writing for “Pets Weekly” were it not to exist.”
Cyber republic. And you want me not to stab people. You’re doing it wrong.
kissane It looks like @matingmind has deleted his amazing #diversityisourweakness tweets. But I screengrabbed them earlier. twitpic.com/cv09tk
@Hung_Mung Nope, a huge screech. Audio at http://t.co/g10I3edkx1 The family of three cruise the valley at dusk. http://t.co/bZarmZjo43
@ashermoses Lovely. Up here at @bunjaree we tend to get monstered by crimson rosellas. http://t.co/XqrMC7Rr8a
@Hung_Mung I wouldn’t say “common”, but they’re not rare. They usually stay at least 200m from the houses though. Aust’s biggest parrot.
@lhjh70 The nearby screech is what drew my attention to the vast black shape only 5m away. He/she didn’t stay long once I was seen.
tweeveetv There were no RTs. pic.twitter.com/jTe4YK45qW
New photo: “Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus)”, who appeared momentarily. Such huge birds! http://t.co/shdArXjHV4
Something special just happened.
glengyron RELEASE THE JUDITH SLOAN!
OMFG THE ABC PRESSED A WRONG KEY THAT WAS NEXT TO THE RIGHT KEY THIS JUST SHOWS THE NEED FOR SCRUTINY.
thewetmale Anthony Albanese oral sex what? pic.twitter.com/y6c1PYai2M
snurb_dot_info No comment. RT @tweeveetv: 4% of #GoT Tweets posted in the last 10 minutes have included the term “holy shit”.
BernardKeane “That’s why, today, I am pleased to announce that Geelong will become the new capital of this great nation.”
snurb_dot_info (I wonder if those other universes have social media ? If not, they’re clearly inferior to ours. U-ni-verse ! U-ni-verse !)
“It’s the philosophy that’s bullshit. Eat what you want. Just leave the damn cavemen out of it.” http://t.co/E9di4uxa9J HT @SnarkyPlatypus
“Astronomers Find First Evidence Of Other Universes”? Oh great, even more bloody misery. http://t.co/ucSdoi6OOh
It’ll be so hard to do “scrutiny” of the ABC. If only the ABC’s work was made public somehow.
Oh FFS.
RT @joshgnosis: @stilgherrian I have another phrase from estimates for you: education on clouding. [Our species is well and truly fucked.]
RT @leslienassar: A new ep of #GoT just started in US and it’s already at 1,600 Tweets-per-Minute. [Our species is well and truly fucked.]
@wgwau I didn’t actually say “take some personal responsibility” was the answer, it was an observation about what reasons you were giving.
@wgwau I agree all that’s tough, but it’s also just what’s happening everywhere. Geelong’s special treatment is galling.
@wgwau … and I think it reflects at least some views outside the subsidised magic land of the auto industry. Their jobs went, like others.
@wgwau Because there’s almost nothing in what you said that indicates people talking responsibility for their own future…
@wgwau Oh Ford has taken money under false pretences, IMO. But having to find work ‘cos an industry no longer needs you? That’s everywhere.
@wgwau Or, to flip it, they’ve had a decade warning that things are dodgy, and they’ll have to go to where work is like everyone else?
So which electorate is it again that I should stand in to sort that out? The sodomite one, or the other one?
Seriously, if the ONLY thing they can do is one very specific kind of job in one very specific kind of factory, fuck ‘em. Burden, etc.
I wish I could be sacked in Geelong after decades of doing nothing to improve my job skills.
RT @jayrosen_nyu: Astonishing fat-shaming tweet, since deleted, from an academic, @matingmind. The mind boggles. http://t.co/KLe93DEjHm
💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜💚💛💙💜ðŸ’
RT @peterjblack: “‘Social Media Is The Worst Menace To Society’ Says Turkish PM” pjblack.me/11bVueM [Finally, the sheeple awaken!]
RT @ozdj: Dive, #Apple #AAPL, diiiiiiive. Pretty graph in today’s #AFR. instagram.com/p/aEvA4BB85s/ [Always thought they were way overpriced.]
RT [PROTECTED]: Can we make a Ford worker the next Governor General?
TumblrTXT Extrovert privilege is everyone idolizing people like Neil Degrasse Tyson
Of course we need Social Media Editors, say Social Media Editors. Lulz. http://t.co/48aaL4Mq8A
RT @k_mazzle: J-Lo exercising her American 2nd Amendment rights. http://t.co/Ra9PtAd8GI #righttobeararms
@SnarkyPlatypus Ou encore: «Je me prépare à un papillon de nuit étrange et stressant.» J’aime mieux cela.
@0x1C @alexkidman @LandcareTim @notrez @R_Chirgwin What a shame! That’s a damn good password!
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je me préparais pour un mois étrange et stressant. Et vous?
RT @sabinewolff: @leslienassar “I was shocked to learn an iPad isn’t in fact a substitute parentâ€
Mon plan, draft: Primarily, de-stress; secondarily, plod thru the comms backlog and turn that into a pretend plan for June; kill them all.
I love how this article says @simonhackett’s plane has an “interior lavatory”, ct those aircraft with outside loos. http://t.co/fq6Xiglc6R
Thanks for your help. Apparently I need to engage in some “Vengeance Conan vendetta politics”. @alexkidman @LandcareTim @notrez @R_Chirgwin
@R_Chirgwin And adverbs. Especially adverbs.
@R_Chirgwin If I’m the only one suffering from this then more adjectives need to be added.
RT @R_Chirgwin: “Energy particles originating in space” @amworldtodaypm ? FFS. [Yes, like a new Bill is “words originating in Canberra”.]
So much for my de-stress sleep-in. What’s that word for “revenge”, but with far more bloodshed?
0812 AEST battery level 46.4V, no power reticulated for… how long? Don’t know. Generator fuelled and started.