@SnarkyPlatypus Thank you. We shall see.
RT @semibogan: There’s whitehats, greyhats, and blackhats. And now thanks to Certified Ethical Hacker quals, there’s arsehats [Oh dear.]
@natecochrane @zdnetaustralia It’s been interesting seeing how many were gobsmacked by how tone-deaf @tanya_plibersek’s statements were.
Me at @zdnetaustralia today: “Plibersek loses our privacy in a haystack of envelopes”, being about metadata, again. http://t.co/U5CIFkbxmZ
I suppose I should see if I’ll be able to get some sleep tonight, ‘cos I have a radio spot moderately early. Maybe some pluggage first.
RT @TumblrTXT: there are many Otherkin who identify as having horns, and so using “horny†as a sexual slur is kin erasure and kinshaming
@virag064 There’s plenty of them up here.
@bigjonhughes Yep, do let me know how it goes.
@bigjonhughes Check your spam folder. @5at5daily is sent by 3rd-party servers so I can’t troubleshoot in any way.
@virag064 Antechinus are certainly bold, yes. One has strolled across a table, sat 20cm from my laptop, watched me, wandered off.
@gattaca @jturner_ibrs @DarkReading @csoandy Have all the hamster wheels you want!
This is an antechinus. They are carnivorous marsupial mouse-like things and I suppose he will sort out the spiders. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antechinus
I JUST HEARD AN ANTECHINUS I KNEW THE LITTLE BUGGER WOULD SNEAK INSIDE.
@gattaca @jturner_ibrs @DarkReading @csoandy So that’s enough praise for you now, Mr Lewis.
@zackwhittaker Because of the snow. [Nods.]
Vice_Is_Hip “I’ll fucking prove it” - Why Ricky Gervais spent his entire fortune trying to build a time machine to prove that he was once funny
@zackwhittaker Isn’t there other weather elsewhere in The America? I’ve seen pictures and stuff.
@GarvilchMariana I can’t remember. It was a long time ago. It might have actually been an ichthyosaur.
@JM77 Go the Dick Cheney defence. It was an accident, OK?
@Greybeard3 Exactly.
RT @zackwhittaker: C’MON — REALLY? IT’S LATE MARCH. WHY THE HELL IS IT SNOWING OUTSIDE. [You want it snowing inside?]
RT @RugbyLeagueNews Not everyday you see a brown snake at an NRL game #NRLGldNql pic.twitter.com/8hZdq7E5Um [Well, not in the audience, anyway.]
Anyway, dolphins are arsehats.
I’d change my Twitter avatar into a dolphin in protest but that would be worse than crossing the streams.
Dolphins are arsehats.
@sophistifunk @mpesce I had forgotten about that whole… thing… and now you have reminded me.
RT @mpesce: @stilgherrian Did you acquire any super-powers? [The ability to become annoyed with dolphins?]
I got bitten by a dolphin.
Apparently the Attorney-General is now Brandisplaining the ICJ decision we all just heard about on the Twitter. Daw, he’s trying to help.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: At least Japan respects international law more than Australia does. [So, their turn to nuke Melbourne and Perth, yeah?]
firstdogonmoon you see i have a theory about goats - which i have explained to @jonkudelka and other people - it is a good theory and i like it
@SnarkyPlatypus Your parents were on Weekly Wipe?
@kcarruthers Look, @mrgrumpystephen can’t be that special, they had him on that Monday night program which shall not be named.
Stop sweating the details, @mrgrumpystephen, the important thing is hooning around and going on and on about how special you are.
And then we’ll go for a parmy, eh @mrgrumpystephen?
I’ll be your navigator, @mrgrumpystephen.
mrgrumpystephen Maybe I should just drive my ’94 Camry around ramming people as they go to the butcher or maccas or shit
mrgrumpystephen Woohoo no more whales being eaten now you monsters just need to stop being such hypocrites and go vegetarian
RT @paulkidd: Now that we own all the whales, what shall we do with them? I’m thinking sushi.
Vice_Is_Hip “Awful trousers” - We took LSD and savagely critiqued the outfits at Camden’s first gay wedding
@joshgnosis @singult I still think there’d be room for a daily program, “Clive Live at Five”.
@SnarkyPlatypus Il y avait des Coréens impliqués.
@SnarkyPlatypus Non. Je me réfère à cela. http://t.co/xWkydxcBxK Pour cette raison. https://t.co/fVLbK9E6E5
RT @zackster: you know this decision means kevin kevin is going to be come a live thing? [HAHAHAHAHAH IT DOES IT DOES JOY JOY JOY.]
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Nous avons été tenus à l’abri de buffle pour un autre jour. Et vous?
@AngelaAu2 @ABCnewsIntern @tanya_plibersek I ran out of time before deadline, and bandwidth, to find the full thing.
So what you’re saying, @NewtonMark, is that I’m significantly nicer than you are, right?
If you missed today’s @5at5daily, you missed charts, chips, journalism and a mysterious secret plume in New Mexico. http://t.co/FM58rl6WJ1
Me at @zdnetaustralia today: “Plibersek loses our privacy in a haystack of envelopes” http://t.co/U5CIFkbxmZ
New blog post, belated: “Weekly Wrap 199: Lost in the mist and the rain” http://t.co/5UTZcpYtPP
@johnb78 Ah yes, well, the main hook is there. I am happy. And thanks for your compliments.
@johnb78 Thank you. It’s an old line, actually, but it always seems to work. My first use was in 2006. http://t.co/CmmuPGPhSF
@joshgnosis Oh good. I wouldn’t want you to miss out on the full Clive Palmer Experience.
@infinite8horizo It’s crying out to be a snakes’n’ladders style game, isn’t it.
@joshgnosis When I was there, there were THREE channels of Clive. I think you must’ve missed one.
That’s a very interesting series of tweets from @Asher_Wolf just now.
@natecochrane @MsLods So we’re getting the Cochrane Graphic Novel version some time soon?
Davidramli Optus ordered to spend 30 days admitting they were wrong/Telstra was right in shops & papers. Rather brutal bit.ly/1fF6IRm
Laughing at the sense of entitlement.
@docbaty Indeed, having to resort to “Look, it’s actually illegal” seems the wrong end of the bell curve to be sitting.
Of course, law or not, imprisoning children who’ve committed no crime is well below even a base level of human decency. Go, Australia!
“Children in detention: Is Australia breaching international law?” Yes, says @ABCFactCheck http://t.co/Gayw0XX9Nb
Nice pair of stories on @mmalone26’s role in Australia’s early internets. http://t.co/Iivp146ocO http://t.co/PfDUSehsn3
RT @R_Chirgwin: .@Idealaw “Ten UBER-COOL replacements for the opiate of the masses” [You’re wasted at @regvulture…]
@rochuck @ooctoopuss @petedavo_au @DeptOfAustralia Did you see @michellegrattan’s yarn, Abbott named interacting with military as highlight.
RT @Leighlo: How long is a flight to India? [All the way to the airport.]
@Andrew_Zammit Gotcha. I suspect I’m out of date on how the scale has changed, cf US definitions of “weapon of mass destruction”.
@Andrew_Zammit So ALL acts of political violence are now cast as terrorism? That’s a bit of a stretch.
@Andrew_Zammit I suppose a murder charge does the job, without invoking the t-word and adding the possible confusion and defence.
@Andrew_Zammit Agreed, there’s a political motive and fits other criteria. Charged as straight murder I see.
@GarvilchMariana Thanks, I’ll get my… friend… to have a look.
@Andrew_Zammit Oh thanks for all that. Bugger, I’d forgotten about Westgate, I’ll get a correction in. Reading R v Knight now…
RT @jonoabroad: @RealNickHodge @stilgherrian bit.ly/1fERE6c [Oh nice work! Thanks.]
Thank you, @RealNickHodge, but kigu.me has no goat. https://t.co/Rvc6S8FrHc @staticsan found this in the US. http://t.co/5RDIcHwkNZ
@CrumbleNeedy @adambrereton Further research is required, I’m afraid.
If one were to seek, hypothetically speaking, a goat onesie for a moderately tall and less slim than in his youth chap in or near Sydney…
So has Mr Rabbit finished putting his not-a-lizard mask on properly today, @ooctoopuss @petedavo_au @DeptOfAustralia? pic.twitter.com/Iz082D3u4v
RT @ooctoopuss: Tony Abbott greets Republic of Korea Navy Captain Lee Jin-young, RAAF Base Pearce, March 31, 2014. pic.twitter.com/Iz082D3u4v
RT @mpesce: That said, I’m sure some clever LGBTIQ person has already been all over RainbowCoin [Then they should get some tissues.]
@mpesce All will be revealed in a matter of days.
@joshgnosis @R_Chirgwin @dobes Is there some sort of FagCoin you could report on? That should get excellent comments.
@mpesce There there, Petal, wait until a certain podcast returns. Then you will have something to scream about.
RT @5at5daily: Just published: “5at5 number 24 | 31 March 2014” http://t.co/gXT5zF4FPT Subscribe at http://t.co/jbj90TVJUB
@WarWraith It’s rather special, eh? I’ll do some more digging later.
jeamland Autocorrect just replaced “Pozible” with “Pox oboe”. I think there’s something in that for everyone.
@A_J_Brewster @giddeygirl Please read carefully.
I’ll tweet it again, because this chart is… astoundingly good*… and excellent* pic.twitter.com/UdPmtC42Rr
RT @mattyglesias: Game changer RT @ResistTyranny: ALL of #Obama’s ideas are rooted in #Marxism: http://t.co/15IZXVmelR
@jturner_ibrs @DarkReading I’ve found that Akamai’s security people tend to talk sense. Even @gattaca, well, sometimes.
RT @dobes: Important neckbeard goat-related gaming news: i.imgur.com/KvE0gIq.png [I will finally sleep soundly tonight.]
RT @juhasaarinen: “Rotating chief executives”. Are they they whirling dervishes of the corporate world? [Those chairs with five wheels…]
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Plibersek loses our privacy in a haystack of envelopes” http://t.co/U5CIFkbxmZ
“The complex web of how money gets to Labor and the Coalition: interactive”, by @NickEvershed. Great work. http://t.co/DF3dN0v1nq
“No more NSA spying? Sorry, Mr Obama, but that’s not true”, writes @jjn1 http://t.co/UfvTq2Qxu2 Cf me from January… http://t.co/jUDLVednez
RT @PeteLawler: @stilgherrian @charispalmer I thought they’d already knocked back euthanasia laws? [This is more a third-party thing…]
RT @charispalmer: Law Reform Commission proposes a ‘right to be deleted’ http://t.co/rTyyiYPp94 [Can we suggest people to ‘delete’?]
Google AdWords explainified proper good, like. http://t.co/j4rcFQBRdG
RT @SisterMorphine If people ignore your “No Junk Mail” sign, you’re allowed to go around to their house and set it on fire, aren’t you? [Y]
I have just provided @zdnetaustralia with a… what’s the right word? “Rant”? Yes, that’ll do.
@michaelneale It’s pretty much all I can do these days.
jonkudelka Surely this time people will start listening to the scientists hahahaha no of course we won’t we’re all going to die pour me more whisky.
Ranting for money.
@SnarkyPlatypus The Securities and Exchange Commission has done WHAT with 16 year olds?
@reselsnark Well, I had seen the relevant thing first via Twitter. But then it turns to Professional Anger.
Email from editor: “Did you see [X]? Does it make you angry?” That’s what my story commissions look like now. (For the record: Yes. Yes.)
Wow, @barryofarrell, it looks serious. Sleeves rolled up and everything. Angling for a knighthood, I guess?
barryofarrell SES briefing at Blue Mountains hospital about o/night storm damage in Katoomba, Penrith & Mt Druitt areas #WestSyd pic.twitter.com/kMNZVl4sVu
@RaniaG I couldn’t see any vice-regal presence on the roof whatsoever. We must be truly unimportant.
RT @meganfinger: THANK YOU Central for my awesome email address and username…… Like really😒 http://t.co/G6ab4Ikoik
I have finished conducting illegal work practices and have returned safely to ground level.
Asteroid impact? instagram.com/p/mL4rsmiFiw/
The Culprit instagram.com/p/mL4ZiViFiJ/
“I can see Russia from my house.” instagram.com/p/mL4LGmiFhy/
Breaking so many OH&S rules it’s not funny.
I am now going to climb onto a roof that isn’t important enough for prime ministers.
QJernalisms Always need to keep abreast of who the Melbourne elite hate. pic.twitter.com/w0LnIA7weW
I am nearly prepared for the dangerous* mission.
RT @s_bridges: Don’t let Muzlim plasterers into your home. http://t.co/DTS00KB2oX
s_bridges I DISCREETLY FOLLOWED A MOSLEM COUPLE AROUND pic.twitter.com/Ciu06sSEEQ
RT @OfficialBedale: don’t take a panorama picture whilst your dog walks past pic.twitter.com/Odk0iqMzzB [Or, conversely, do. HT @gths]
CyberPrefixerAU Japanese cyberwhaling decision to be handed down by international cybercourt
It would seem that Prof Marios Evriviades is not enamoured of Alexander Downer (June 2013). http://t.co/4vnjR7XI4Q
DavidParis Since she wants to know, you probably should tweet all of your thoughts and movements to Tanya Plibersek directly.
RT @garystark: Point of order, sir: the word “grubby” should be silent in that context. [Yes, conceded.]
RT @garystark: The repeal of the vote for women. [Well we shouldn’t distract the ladies with grubby politics. Look what happened last time.]
So it’s nearly 0945 AEDT. What has Mr Rabbit announced today? Egg rationing? Internal combustion a realty? Napoleon vanquished?
“Martin Ferguson? Isn’t that an old-fashioned tractor?”
explanoit You know there’s some guy out there smoking weed nailing his cousin and posting on news articles complaining about gay marriage being legal.
@cafuego @GoodGameTV I am probably the least qualified person to do a game review. Also, it only comes in Windows.
RT @CraigLuna: The real side of software development pic.twitter.com/XIcgWcqlmu [Yes, this is my experience.]
railey180 #NewtownBuffulo status report. All clear. Thanks to the Newtown Fire Service. / @mayorofnewtown pic.twitter.com/GcC4eCCOfK
So Goat Simulator has its own game-within-a-game called Flappy Goat… http://t.co/H9z4SHYRZB http://t.co/j7FE0zscNj
I definitely must have the cow before I can do anything else productive. Stand firm, Bessie! No wait.
Mon plan: 0815 radio (done); cow; finish writing for @zdnetaustralia; many planning, comms and sysadmin loose ends; @5at5daily; evening TBA.
RT @dahowlett: RT @adrianpear5on: Xero chosen by KPMG as platform for new smb services division http://t.co/2soLTl7oaPâ… <quite something eh?
RT @drearyclocks: @stilgherrian how is Stilgerribabby formed? [I think I have some intriguing instructional videos I could send you?]
RT @snerdish: @stilgherrian only if you’ve sat on a public toilet seat [Oh. I have.]
Nausea and headaches for three days now. Ladies, does that mean I’m pregnant?
“… And we’re going to keep pulling objects out of the Indian Ocean until one of them turns out to be a Boeing 777.”
And… the radio is done. Thank you, ABC @1057darwin. I’ll post some audio of that late today.
On hold for ABC @1057darwin to talk ID and security. There’s an audio stream at abc.net.au/darwin/
RT @servantofchaos: The sun bursts through but #Sydney is already alive to its own incantations instagram.com/p/mLnR0yjmaM/ [Gin? You mean gin?]
Oh. @1057darwin is playing THAT band. I should charge extra.
I’m talking ID and security on ABC @1057darwin in a few minutes, and there’s an audio stream at abc.net.au/darwin/ so there.
@robcorr Fair points all. I don’t think NSW Ambulance is fudging, but I’d like to see absolute numbers and the rest of the regions.
I shouldn’t be picking on @SBSNews in particular. It’s an AAP story. And I think the “newspapers” started this malarkey. @NewtonMark
@robcorr @SBSNews @NewtonMark That is utterly my point. We do not yet have official, QA-checked figures for the period. Just feels.
We already have a way to spread unsubstantiated hearsay, @SBSNews @NewtonMark. As Madge says, “You’re soaking in it.”
But but but, @NewtonMark @SBSNews, a Man with a Job Title told us his Feels! That’s “News. Or, as a lawyer might put it, “hearsay”.
Stilgherrian uses and recommends NSW BOCSAR’s online crime statistics tools. http://t.co/a3xCfd8lSo @SBSNews @NewtonMark
So, @SBSNews @NewtonMark, it took me two minutes to get and chart official numbers. And it’s too early to know. pic.twitter.com/N3S2EnnEfx
This stuff just writes itself.
“Rob Ford discovers International Horn Day”? No, it just doesn’t bear thinking about, @CanadianOpera @Horndaytoronto. #InternationalHornDay
RT @CanadianOpera: Happy @Horndaytoronto! #InternationalHornDay pic.twitter.com/cSMbHR8Kqg [Jeez, nobody tell Mr Ford, OK?]
MT @SBSNews: Hopes pinned on black box detector […] bit.ly/1iPc6Fk pic.twitter.com/YvLcyJ8N9m [And after that, a tail on the donkey.]
Sorry, I seem to have experienced a rush of blood to the head.
@PeteLawler @sylmobile I once worked with a “creative” who seemed to think that once he’d had an idea then the work was essentially done.
…and instead told us newly-discovered things that helped us understand how the world actually works. @NewtonMark @SBSNews
Imagine, @NewtonMark @SBSNews, 21st Century news that didn’t run political announcements at all ‘cos we can all subscribe to them direct…
I shall probably name that segment “Hallucinating Goldfish”, after my preferred metaphor. http://t.co/sa5CqLXMD2
So did I say that I’m putting together a @Pozible to re-launch “The 9pm Edict”, with one segment debunking exactly this sort of thing?
Of course, the AAP story used by @SBSNews fits a tabloid’s political narrative, job done, move on… so much easier that uncovering truth.
I stand corrected, the NSW Ambulance figure is “compared to the same period last year”. Now, can we check the weather?
And there’s no mention of actual numbers, just one percentage and the rest is hand-waving. “Dramatically” != “statistically significant”.
Then there’s the little issue of anyone judging the “success” of a significant social policy after just four weeks being intellectual fraud.
For a start, summer also just ended, bringing as always a “sharp drop” in assaults. Then there’s the lack of comparison with other regions.
I’ve retweeted that @SBSNews story as a reminder to myself to write about how misleading such reportage can be, and probably is.
SBSNews Violent assaults in Kings Cross have fallen sharply since the start of lockout laws: police bit.ly/1pEHY0c pic.twitter.com/Jy1R2V9llf
RT @PeteLawler: @sylmobile @stilgherrian pic.twitter.com/QjzF0GO3JI [I’ve had all manner of ideas, including a breakfast podcast…]
I’m talking ID and security on ABC @1057darwin at 0815 AEDT / 0645ACST, and there’s an audio stream at abc.net.au/darwin/ so there.
Mon plan, draft: 0815 radio spot; finish writing for @zdnetaustralia; many planning, comms and sysadmin loose ends; @5at5daily; evening TBA.
@garystark They are such liars.
RT @augrunt: @stilgherrian fatal error: slumber.exe not found. Please contact your Sleep Administrator. [All too true, alas.]
@garystark They are bastards.
Monday, and 67 minutes since the New Moon.
Attempting slumber.
@jturner_ibrs “Money and cocaine”, right?
RT @j0hnburns: Australians rally on Reddit to warn a Canadian about the vicious Drop Bear. Told you @dianabeabout http://t.co/V3Nu5kpzYE
RT @RobWauters: @stilgherrian and Jane Fonda [Yes, Jane Fonda would be an ideal addition.]
“Barbarossa is set in a fictional WWII setting in which cute German military girls rush against Moscow to defeat the evil magician Stalin.”
“Barbarossa Anime Card Game from Japan!” https://t.co/QgO0gCRvR3 HT @johnb78 Ping @RealNickHodge @yinettesys
Noticing a punchable moment.
@ClintonDucas @GuardianAus @guardianstyle It’s not something I’d have in my own style manual, but there’s coherent argument for it.
@ClintonDucas @GuardianAus No, that’s in accordance with @guardianstyle for initialisms said as a word. They write “Nasa” too.
“The best agent MI6 has in the field, Her Royal Highness transmits back to headquarters without attracting attention” http://t.co/g1favEx9cI
“The Fabulous outfits of Quentin Bryce” quentinbryce.tumblr.com HT @bairdjulia
@SoftKittyWarm @R_Chirgwin What’s in that story is all I know.
Roof collapse at Katoomba Hospital? http://t.co/TJnhrMjgrB I guess @R_Chirgwin can share the misery.
@phantomdiorama Well, the ISPs do have all the data, it’s a matter of what a mandatory retention scheme would record from that stream.
Betfairpoker BEE FACT: Bees make their distinctive buzzing noise to drown out other sounds, just in case someone nearby is listening to Mumford & Sons.
RT @kateiselin: @stilgherrian @R_Chirgwin Looks like it’s haunted, if you ask me. [This is also quite likely.]
@sylmobile @R_Chirgwin I’m not completely stupid.
@R_Chirgwin I think that’s probably enough good news for one evening.
@R_Chirgwin Wet carpet extends out to the bathroom door.
@R_Chirgwin The water is about 5mm deep on the desk. Walking on the carpet to get there makes visible puddles around one’s feet. Joy.
So, @R_Chirgwin, carpet and desk in the back bedroom are splashably saturated, the ceiling is imploding. pic.twitter.com/jdZpPIiP5c
Oh dear, @R_Chirgwin, it appears that the storm was too much for the roof. Investigating the extent of the puddles.
In which Tanya Plibersek re-bleats the fallacious analogies of the intelligence hawks. http://t.co/jjKjun7pWW