Oh FFS.
@kcarruthers What bullshit.
RT @The_Shovel_: “From Now On You’ll Do As I Say†Abbott Tells Putin, In Hard-Hitting Imaginary Conversation http://t.co/eHMAdlmUSQ http://…
Oh this is terrible. I have made a grave error.
I am judging you by your tweets. You do know that.
I NEED TO KNOW WHAT I AM MEANT TO DO WITH A POTATO.
The thing that worries me now is that I’m not a millennial, so I don’t know what I should be doing with a potato.
ChristianMcCrea the five types of millennial potato consumer according to the US Potato Board pic.twitter.com/dD67xACOXX
@SnarkyPlatypus It’s brilliant.
@Gin_ev_ra Thanks, but I’m pretty sure I nicked that line from someone, years ago.
RT @BadAlbumCovers: “@realarsenalism: @BadAlbumCovers accurate t-shirt scenario http://t.co/a1kuP2Y1ha”
It’s a bit early for that!
RT @KetanJ0: Stony Gap wind farm in SA was just approved. This is from the hearing (p29). http://t.co/eZ4B4NTUKI
*headdesk* http://t.co/…
@Omshadiddle @Asher_Wolf @walkleys Again, thank you, but no, there’s nothing I’ve done thats even close.
@Asher_Wolf @walkleys Lulwut? Hardly.
Hey @jeamland, the lists of “current senatorsâ€belowtheline.org.au7pPP are no longer current. Sadness ensues.
“Ed’s hole is much deeper than that,†apparently.
RT @AviationSafety: Prop blade in Edmonton Dash 8 landing accident punctured fuselage http://t.co/GQsb4MpfHH https://t.co/0BQs4xlIpU
@NuclearAnthro Well, without addressing that question, it is fair to say that Australia’s electoral system is, erm, unusual.
@NuclearAnthro I failed to vote once ’cos I unexpectedly had to work and hadn’t organised a pre-vote, and that was accepted.
@NuclearAnthro The fine is $20, or $170 is you fight it and lose, there are valid excuses. But you can just leave your ballot blank, say.
@NuclearAnthro This explainer isn’t too bad. http://t.co/L2kGp2EfkA
@NuclearAnthro But most of those informals are down to the preferential voting system and people not being able to number in sequence.
@NuclearAnthro Yeah I saw the mess in the US mid-terms. Voting is compulsory in AU, just a few % of ballots are “informal†i.e. invalid.
@NuclearAnthro Hah! Well things are OK in my patch. But it’s two years until the next federal election, unless something weird happens. Joy.
@profsarahj Not so much of direct relevance to your interests this week, I suspect.
Listening to the latest “You Are Not So Smart†podcast, on the Sunk Cost Fallacy, one of my faves. http://t.co/x4POeMZBPt @notsmartblog
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: The Gold Standard - why are people fixated on this? Sheesh. [Dunning-Kruger Effect, surely.]
Oh, and @5at5daily returned this week too. Here’s the archivetinyletter.com/5at5/archiveCu Subscribe atinyletter.com/5at5/mS
Maybe I should turn the Weekly Wrap into an email as well.
“Weekly Wrap 231: A purple flower, and the events pile upâ€, links to the rest, and plans for the coming week. https://t.co/DodMUSDiRf (4/4)
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Customer data protection is a corporate social responsibility†http://t.co/Zg4NAJ3aiw (3/4)
Me at @crikey_news: “Malicious software spreads seeds of doubt in Apple’s magic gardenâ€, on WireLurker etc. http://t.co/uhTxujQF4n (2/4)
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Putting people at the centre of enterprise securityâ€, a 2500-word thing. http://t.co/WqdoxMcgrL (1/4)
Since it is Sunday night and some of you are a bit behind the times, I shall now tweet links to the things of mine you might have missed.
@jonoabroad @SnarkyPlatypus Please explain.
figgled Stop having low self-esteem, you ugly boring weirdos
RT @karinakeisler: Shut up Michelle Bridges. Just shut up. [I have no idea what this is about, but it’s a sensible idea.]
MT @NuclearAnthro: A kt or two in this shit hole would fix things right up. [This is true in so many circumstances.]
RT @NuclearAnthro: Where is the terrorist improvised nuclear device when you fucking need it?!? [I ASK MYSELF THIS QUESTION EVERY DAY.]
@SnarkyPlatypus He doesn’t do long-form interviews often, doe@theharryshearerer, but when he does they’re fascinating.
The guest on @theharryshearer’s “Le Showâ@StephanieKeltonKelton, editneweconomicperspectives.orgXCkTXy. She made much sense.
“Crypto wars 2.0: Intelligence agencies and tech firms have little choice but to compromiseâ€, writes @TheEconomist http://t.co/DujUlnBzxH
Fascinating explanation of US economy vs China in @theharryshearer’s “Le Show†this week, starts at 9m 47s. http://t.co/og8CeqVWVZ
MT @AnthonyClarkAU: Definite highlight of my day: an echidna. In our backyard. http://t.co/JANHvPiR8o [And how nice and shiny it is!]
@SnarkyPlatypus Maybe that’s the premise for another o@JohnBirminghamam’s absurdly unlikely techno-thrillers. [Ducks.]
CaseyMalone GAMERGATE OFFICIALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM PARODIES OF GAMERGATE pic.twitter.com/RqH9QsRYf1
@SnarkyPlatypus I believe China has already had a whinge about Australia doubling the size of its submarine fleet.
@SnarkyPlatypus Also, cheap.
@SnarkyPlatypus Also, cost. Vietnam is buying from Russia, for example, because they have an established submarine export business.
@SnarkyPlatypus There’s at least three reasons why that wouldn’t work: bad reputation, we may be a potential enemy, therefore maintenance.
@SnarkyPlatypus In any event, that article’s observation that everyone’s arcing up with submarines is pertinent.
@SnarkyPlatypus Yeah, but war is great for the arms business. Follow the money.
@SnarkyPlatypus The Lowy Institute remains one of the best sources of strategic analysis of this region.
“Phony Trump University delivered ‘neither Donald Trump nor a university,’ suit claimsâ€, $40M fraud alleged. (29 Oct) http://t.co/TGZa7UEmIi
@SnarkyPlatypus “US and allies outgunned in South China Sea,†that sort of thing? http://t.co/iZQigANP2i
@SnarkyPlatypus It’s part of the US-led “Asian Pivotâ€, I assume.
@thegrugq That’s not Thailand. If it were really Thailand the dog would be asleep and you’d have to step over it to get anywhere.
@0x1C Almost that useful, but not that.
@MikeCarlton01 @BernardKeane Nah, “Stop the Boats†set to the the of Hues Corporation’s “Rock the Boatâ€. https://t.co/5szYGHaKU9
@BernardKeane You could send it to me. I have a podcast. It specialises in anodyne.
Suddenly realising something moderately useful.
Sulking.
KattWillFerrell on earth: a magician puts his hand in his hat
in the rabbit realm: The Hand emerges. it is time. the rabit council must choose a sacrifice
@19bk69 @SnarkyPlatypus And that’s why you get good pricing. The middle has to go cheap if they’re selling more of the ends.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Which S Club 7 song was played at the Vic Libs’ campaign launch today? [This is the key political issue of our time.]
I should stop looking at Bangkok maps and flights because it’s making me sulky.
Tavurvur Crazy incident at Hoskins Airport today. Man with bush knife boarded @PXPNG plane wanting to chop up a passenger #PNG pic.twitter.com/2W1EFLsAH3
cxi No! You will not take used tampons out of the garbage! *smack* instagram.com/p/vKwgTgEO7G/
BernardKeane Just in case you didn’t have enough reasons to loathe Russell Brand yet dailym.ai/1xbmJLU pic.twitter.com/2O4TU9LkIl
@sleepingdingo I’ve answered all this already. But hey, just go thipmunk.comGX and punch in destinations.
@sleepingdingo Really.
@SnarkyPlatypus I do know that Australian consumer confidence is down. Unemployment up etc. Adult government.
@SnarkyPlatypus I couldn’t say.
@SnarkyPlatypus Qantas/Emirates.
Hmmm. SYD-BKK for $720 return.
@RealNickHodge @SnarkyPlatypus No no, you can have that sort of thing done in your own home.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: @RealNickHodge If Amanda Vanstone can do it, you can do it too. [Another life lesson for everyone here, people.]
If you were any kind of acceptable human at all, you would now listen to this week’s @CBCThisIsThat and learn stuff. http://t.co/NpS2jbWbH5
I see that @SwiftOnSecurity is currently relating an important and dramatic story.
@ClintonDucas @snurb_dot_info @TheRoastTV The rest of the Australian media should be compelled to do a great many things. I have a list.
“Twitter is Paying Executives Not to Flee the Struggling Companyâ€, says @valleywag http://t.co/2bx18jhiaE
Yes. Obey the @SnarkyPlatypus. Watch this summary of Australian politics from @TheRoastTV. https://t.co/9O5en85BkD
@snurb_dot_info If you want to dig back, it’s all o@TheRoastTVTV’s YouTube channel.
@snurb_dot_info It’s very good, isn’t it. Maybe it’s because we knew the end was near, but I found the entire we@TheRoastTVoastTV was top.
@semibogan @matalaz Uhuh. I can’t watch that video just now, but the title tells me it’s exactly the kind of not-at-all-a-troll I’d guessed.
Brief nap was brief, but much needed.
vivekspike IE devs asked the community to vote on the next feature to implement. The community chose death. pic.twitter.com/TUHPqaXTQx
I’ll probably be at the Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers conference this week, so be warnedetouches.com/ehome/avar2014/Yr
@FreespiritAUS @ACT_Community One of 25 species of Patersonia, yes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patersonia
RT @feed_the_chooks: @dannolan oi what are bronies [This is why we can’t have nice things.]
RT @gths: … although I did also attend Officeworks [Worst. Private. School. Ever.]
LeeLinChinSBS As a single woman people ask me if I ever get lonely. Sometimes I do, but thankfully I’m on TV so I can pretty much pick up any man I want.
RT @drearyclocks: I wonder why people haven’t asked me what I was wearing and why I own a phone if I didn’t want it stolen or is that only …
RT @drearyclocks: Cool, I have a working phone again. Maybe don’t steal my phone while I sleep on a train, rando shitbird.
@stokely Oh now THAT’S an interesting thought experiment! A very brief one, ’cos the result is obvious, but yes.
I might write a quiz, “Tumblr_txt or Guardian headlineâ€. E.g. “I find older women attractive. I decided that youth doesnt stop at 30.”
Still laughing.
Laughing. Just laughing. But laughing rather a lot.
RT @RealNickHodge: Nor animals, for that matter RT @dannolan @Closetbrony521 Bronies should not be let near children [Tru dat.]
@y011 A human-powered one, it seems. @FlowerChecker
RT @FlowerChecker: @stilgherrian It is called “Patersonia serica, Bush Iris”, details: http://t.co/bKAikkOLKc [Thank you.]
New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 231: A purple flower, and the events pile upâ€, this week’s links https://t.co/DodMUSDiRf https://t.co/M0VWxMY68c
@ladyhana I may just label is a Patersonia species, and leave it at that. I’ll take more photos in coming days.
I might go with Patersonia fragilis, since the sparser flowers on smaller plants fits what I can see out there. http://t.co/AV30mvrn8w
I’m going to go “nah†to Patersonia occidentalis, th@chromosundriftndrift, ’cos we’re outside its range. Another species, I suspect.
Thanks, @chromosundrift @R_Chirgwin, Patersonia it is. Purple velvet, purple flag, flag lily etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patersonia
@chromosundrift Bingo. Thank you very much.
No, @safzoro, the flower is not called Roger. I just tried, but it does not respond to this name.
Can anyone tell me what this flower is called? pic.twitter.com/m95H0z6uqm
@BernardKeane @Thetribalmind @Colvinius Companies spray buzzwords like a squid sprays ink, and for the same reason: to hide vulnerability.
@SydneyTom_ I hope you won’t let this come between us.
Someone has just SMSd me to say that kookaburras are arsehats. I agree.
@expectproblems If only it were that easy.
After that, I think we’d all like to speak with them in relation to their fashion choices.
“Police want to speak with this couple in relation to a taxi driver assault in Essendon [VIC]†http://t.co/OyW84bxFSZ http://t.co/Jp0MVryJxB
EpcotCentre We are fully cooperating with authorities.
@SwiftOnSecurity Everything is a language. The real issue is whether it’s Turing-complete.
SwiftOnSecurity No, I don’t know what time it is in Australia. I don’t keep track of how wrong you are compared to the one true timezone. America Time.
SwiftOnSecurity Wake up, Australia. You haven’t embarrassed yourselves yet today. It’s going to be hard to match this. pic.twitter.com/yMkJgO0A6w
Oh FFS what now.
@SnarkyPlatypus Je sais. Cela entraînera moi d’être ajouté à une autre liste. http://t.co/Bwlsb851yw
Tout brûler!
MT @NewtonMark: I feel like Rebecca Gibney has been on my TV my entire life, when will it end? [Tout brûler.]
Tout brûler.
@SnarkyPlatypus Non, rien sera sauvé. Je l’ai eu assez de tout cela. Tout brûler.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Elle a commencé. Les montagnes sont plus chaudes que les plaines. Tout doit brûler. Et vous?
@Thetribalmind @Colvinius @BernardKeane Do we tell Seven that “circling the wagons†is a last-ditch defence against overwhelming firepower?
@feed_the_chooks @drsimmo @IBTimes @cammo_t This is basic stuff, Martin. If it were the Rapture, there would have been trumpets.
@drsimmo @IBTimes @cammo_t @feed_the_chooks See, I knew YOU at least would understand science, and the danger of chemtrails.
@SwiftOnSecurity @twitter @TwitterEng This is why I say the entire model of app permissions is backwards. http://t.co/GjniBq2Ngf
Renzo_Soprano “I’ve waited my whole life for this moment.” pic.twitter.com/LqOvxwSSSr
“Thousands Of Australians Notice Giant UFOsâ€, reports @ibtimes, featuring @cammo_t @feed_the_chooks et moi. http://t.co/Bwlsb851yw
RT @joshgnosis: At least it’s not a giant gerbil in Hyde Park.
jackseale Cannot stop thinking about Steve. What a guy. pic.twitter.com/NbvIgcaMa5
@petstarr @NewtonMark I suspect this makes us bad people.
@skwashd Well played. Though it took me a while.
edbott Beaudelaire, y’all RT @Paul_Bettany: pic.twitter.com/fNYzRhNc79
RT @NewtonMark: This is pretty fucked up. arseh.at/7rhd [Yeah, the plural of “company†is not “company’sâ€.]
Woof.
@purserj Cory is always right.
@purserj There is something really creepy going on here. I’m calling the authorities.
@leena_green @David_MacLean Oh dear.
suttonnick As you can see, Sunday’s papers don’t make good reading for Ed Miliband. #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/aBO8pedso9
@NewtonMark @RNBBing @danilic See, now we’re talking. They’d clean up that dirty, dirty coal straight away.
@kcarruthers @phbarratt You should listen to this from the 15m27s mark as indicated. https://t.co/5rEksT0XdK Transcription coming tomorrow.
@NewtonMark @RNBBing @danilic Clean Coal would’ve worked if they’d just all worn Power Balance wristbands, but did they listen? No.
@BXGD Damn.
I should use the word “cowed†more often today. For obvious reasons.
What @ibbers @withtimferguson @leslienassar just tweeted is true. ABC has been successfully cowed, @mscott fighting a fine rearguard action.
RT @courteneyh: you can’t fault the algorithm from facebook on this: they are all pretty much exactly the same. http://t.co/XNcAK5F9CX
RT @adam_leigh: Is it just me, or does that look like a giant, er, er… RT @b_judah: Putin’s cavalcade. http://t.co/BVAwTV9GXv
Zero2Infinity chief José Mariano López-Urdiales is highly critical of Virgin Galactic, but he’s not disinterested. https://t.co/GnkC8hsFma
RT @mumbletwits: Tony must now accost Putin at G20 or he will “lose faceâ€. “Losing face†very important to understand Neanderthal political…
JamieDMJ Creating a password reminder just keeps getting more and more emotionally draining. pic.twitter.com/zeldY6Y7zE
HillelNeuer Oh, boy. The all-time worst CNN typo of all time: pic.twitter.com/6yTsBvI9pF
The very best* way to gain an understanding of Australian politics is to watch a pair of bitter, dogmatic old men bickering on a couch.
RT @GordyPls: *twitch* http://t.co/0iAhpGQL7A
RT @joeobrien24: The new Margaret and David @ABCatthemovies @insiders pic.twitter.com/BOZmPq76Yp [The headline in the crawler is apt too.]
@Irrapattanna I suspect so. I switched to a Lumia 925 for more than a month a whole back and was impressed. https://t.co/4td9pGbgoX
@RalphBassfeld Precisely.
@Irrapattanna This is just a loaner so I can look at the camera, specifically, but I’ll poke around other features if I get time.
As I’ve said many times before, dull literalism will be the death of our species.
I do love* self-righteous but clueless pedants who try to “correct†other people’s language use based on feels and ignorance.
RT @feed_the_chooks: When people watch Insiders is it out of self-loathing or because they have given up [Important question, this.]
Sun plan, draft: Set up workflows in Lumia 830; pre-production for “The 9pm Edictâ€; Weekly Wrap; interspersed with idleness and pain relief.
Oh. They’re having Television Program Feels in Britain. Maybe I should just mute the whole country until it grows up.
RT @johnthelutheran: Yes. Well. Shall we all just pretend that didn’t happen? [Important life principle, this.]
Sunday. It begins as an indistinct numbness, but soon progresses into a dull ache, a pervasive pain, agony. It is called “life”. Sunday.