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RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Maybe you should do a special NSW election Edict. [Maybe I should hurl myself off a cliff.]
RT @ben_hr Actualising our collective potential, driving a forward-looking agenda, being incrementally better. It’s stirring stuff. [Moist.]
There’s also a 30-second version of “Keep New South Wales Workingâ€, twice as interesting* because half as long. https://t.co/nt2KaL8KNF
“Keep New South Wales Working†is the catchy title of this interesting* Liberal Party of NSW election advert. https://t.co/ipmPhhPq5A
“Delivering the Benefits†is the catchy title of this interesting* Liberal Party of NSW election advert. https://t.co/DcZn973GB5
ToConservatives I don’t make fun of Conservatives.
They don’t need my help, they do it to themselves.
#TweetTruth
#UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/uTvJ7YzcQP
New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 247: Attacked by car, leech, and diarrhoea†https://t.co/cDR0E0hMTp http://t.co/ycT83XvMvy
R_Chirgwin Try this political parties. Put forward someone who’s smart enough to go on TV without talking points, and more engaging than a milk carton.
@johnb78 Ah yes. Fair point.
The Labor chap managed to include both an economic “sugar hit” and a “fiscal cliff†in the one sentence. What a master of stupid cliché!
Ah. Both the NSW Treasurer and his opposite number are nothing but clockwork robots re-bleating their talking points. Why bother.
These two NSW politicians on ABC TV right now must’ve both been to the same make-hand-gestures course. They both look daft.
So NSW Labor has put a lizard in charge. Why all these lizards?
The threatening letter “also makes repeated references to plans for a new mosque in Adelaideâ€. So there’s that. http://t.co/Jrc16QYh9t
The “Adelaide Islamic State Mujahideen†is claiming responsibility.
Well, I should say @JacquiLambie’s response to someone claiming to be ISIS. From what’s been reported, I’m not convinced.
Hah! @JacquiLambie’s response to ISIS: “You can get stuffed.†Fair enough.
@Steve_Lockstep @NewYorker @cooneymj I still want to see how the basic debt bomb works before moving on to the swallowing debt bomb.
cooneymj ICYMI - lol. The swallowing bomb. If only the Dambusters had thought of that. pic.twitter.com/5foAGvxrLM
@GordyPls Ah, yes. Well, maybe send her a selection of photos of scary-looking insects. Even mites and fleas look scary close up.
@GordyPls It’s only good advice if Science works for her.
@GordyPls Explain to her that she’ll end up breeding a race of super-resistant insects that’ll eat her in her sleep.
I thought the D’harawal Calendar might help me understand Sydney’s weather, but no. http://t.co/fah8gSaXZK
SBSNews Screening of Fifty Shades of Grey shut down after woman loses control of bodily fluids. bit.ly/1DF2maF pic.twitter.com/sTahZtZa4r
Back at @bunjaree, burning dinosaurs because arsehats.
Racing a car through the rain down the Great Western Highway instagram.com/p/zrGxZSCFo2/
Also, I am completely saturated.
Ah no, just as the guard was explaining that, the train regained power. #purpletrain is go!
Oh. That lightning strike was very close and the #purpletrain has lost power.
Il pleut shitloads.
Much, much thunder. And the rain is starting to arrive at Katoomba.
The Hotel Gearin faces the storm instagram.com/p/zrFEtcCFmh/
Right. Let’s see if I can get back t@bunjareeee before this storm hits. I reckon I have a 30% chance.
mscott Sydney assuming the brace position. RT @joeobrien24: Wild weather hitting Sydney now #Tamarama pic.twitter.com/6r2rN3uimv
WenleiMa On a ferry and barely outrunning what looks like will be a massive storm. #sydney pic.twitter.com/nAhSxP8yUa
RT @rpy: You know it’s a good storm whepic.twitter.com/HMZSvHJjcucu [Tru dat.]
Storms coming in from the west. The first wave passed well south of Katoomba. The next one, not so much. pic.twitter.com/QmcrqXLHa2
I have just been informed which of the butcher’s apprentices is the evil one. Apparently one in every butcher shop. It’s a tradition.
So about those food labelling laws… instagram.com/p/zq9urjCFrL/
Approaching doom instagram.com/p/zq8hS1CFpG/
The lane way, or something instagram.com/p/zq6uPkiFmD/
We all are. All of us. There is no dissent. instagram.com/p/zq6gBLCFll/
The will be rain later this afternoon instagram.com/p/zq5XDCiFj9/
RT @glengyron: Ping @JohnJohnsonson RT @notthatCate: Chatswood Chase is being evacuated. No idea why as yet. [Because it’s just terrible?]
RT @ApostrophePong “What Celebrities Would Look Like Based On Their Worst Fan Art” http://t.co/aiwpGSKYfm [This is terrible and wonderful.]
RT @Steve_Lockstep: @stilgherrian @kcarruthers Looks like something out of Doctor Who Series One. [None of us remember that. How dare you.]
And there’s nothing wrong with this scenario either@kcarruthersrs. Nothingpic.twitter.com/an7IHUleVGVG
Here you go, @kcarruthers, and I’m sure there’s nothing at all wrong with this scenarpic.twitter.com/EBvakMtLEqtLEq
@jeamland I was going more for “Union of the Snakeâ€, but YMMV.
BrandsSayingBae If your brand hasnt awkwardly shoehorned the dress thing into a tweet by now in a desperate attempt at relevancy then just pack it up
OH, 4yo boy to mother: “So do you know what my father looks like?”
I think @mscott and @kcarruthers will both be grateful if I choose not to do an image search at this time.
RT @kcarruthers: Why no adult sized Peppa Pig gear at ABC shop. Are you being discriminatory @mscott? [For adult sizes, try adult shops.]
@garystark If you were a member of Duran Duran, we would ALL be disturbed. Very disturbed.
@garystark @SnarkyPlatypus @oberonsghost @19bk69 I am indeed rather shocked by this news. Perhaps I need to investigate after all.
One of the most disturbing events this week was discovering that Morrison is a Duran Duran fan.
Arrangements have been made.
@yinettesys @NewtonMark Oh you think?
K-town. On a sunny Sunday. This will be hell.
@NewtonMark Only the essentials get marked on these charts, I remember that much.
@elronxenu @MsLods Endpoints are a key part of the internet, and vendors’ attitudes to “consumer” endpoints are appalling.
@NewtonMark Back when part of my job was maintaining the office copies of NOTAMs, I could read those charts properly.
@oberonsghost @19bk69 Oh ta. I’m guessing it runs once every three months, phases of the Moon permitting.
#purpletrain, briefly.
@NewtonMark See, “Brazil” was a documentary…
@NewtonMark You could still go for it for South Maroota. It’d take them ages to scramble the F/A-18 cover.
@PlaneTalking Oh really? South of Adelaide, where I lived, those years were heat wave and drought, IIRC.
@NewtonMark It doesn’t look like a place to visit without a car or a helicopter or a sense of daring when choosing a landing spot.
Hmmm. That phone’s camera really doesn’t get how green works in Australia.
Walking to the village… pic.twitter.com/AcHmo7cpu1
Mobile.
RT @RealNickHodge: Looks like the town they shot “The Cars that Ate Paris†in. [Most of Australia looks like that, though.]
Those asking questions like “Where is this?†might like to just scroll back a bit and look.
Yeah I’ve kinda gone off that idea.
The restaurant district, aka The Stone House Cafe. pic.twitter.com/NgaTHAJNpU
Ah, no, here’s where it’s all happening. The transport interchanpic.twitter.com/JrLwWsjoMgjoMg
The hive of activity that is beautiful downtown Maroota. Another invisible pub. pic.twitter.com/PHfFxCvU8x
For some reason, the pub in South Maroota seems to be invisible on Google Street View. How does this work? pic.twitter.com/9wLjJ0afEF
@staticsan Oh I’m fine with a bus. I have hey to look to see just how appalling the service is.
@jplonie Fuck off.
@staticsan I’m sure. The issue is whether there is any kind of transport service using those roads.
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BuzzFeedOz Well then pic.twitter.com/hGylE4mlhX
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: L/*”4_-#__&)_@-_@&(6 6 6 & $16 #$20 230 20 #0 200 $230 230 20 0 - ####$#$&6 3 $230 #__ [Agreed.]
Now I want to go to South Maroota (in red), demographic centre of NSW, but how would you even get there? pic.twitter.com/c5ikFLNlak
jennysclothes Abolishing the ABS would deprive us of brilliant cartoons like this. Then what could be base public fear/policy on? pic.twitter.com/aNsqH89fJh
All that said, let’s move ALL the museums to South Maroota, the demographic centre of NSW. And you stop whining about deals made months ago.
Still, you go on making your planning decisions based on data out of data by two decades, because it’s your fuckin’ right, right?
A spot NW of Parramatta was demographic centre 15 or 20 years ago, from memory, but there’s been CBD, “inner†and inner west growth since.
The demographic centre of Sydney is Ermington, not Parramatta, but hey facts what even are they. http://t.co/MBCge0gGAx (PDF, 2012)
In other words, in the period in question, many (most?) surveillance warrants were issued without the paperwork being read in full.
“With thousands of surveillance warrants sought statewide each year, there simply wasn’t time or the resources for the judges to cope.”
Particularly worrying are the comments to the effect that NSW’s system for obtaining surveillance warrants is completely broken.
This story on the NSW Police surveillance scandal by @DanBox10 is disturbing reading. http://t.co/W3K5x6TkB4
@bigbadave @R_Chirgwin @SnarkyPlatypus Rule 34.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: The idea of Christopher Pyne pinatas suddenly came to mind. [So it this an Etsy thing? Or Redbubble?]
RT @expectproblems: Uber, but for making fun of libertarians. Oh, wait…
RT @umairh: Ok this is peak douchebag right? “@FastCoExist: The IV Doc wants to be the Uber of hangovers: http://t.co/hoK4LVRp16 http://t.c…
@BundyB @R_Chirgwin Sometimes it is necessary to take one for the team.
RobinFlavell Nice use of capo pic.twitter.com/l40HZ4lCQ0
Sun plan: Blog post; shopping, Katoomba; writing for @zdnetaustralia; and yes, given how I feel today, that’s already far too much plan.
Routine reminder: Have YOU punched Christopher Pyne TODAY?â€pic.twitter.com/aSIvEZ2lZyZy
@AbstractCode I have yet to notice any sort of correlation between those hashtags and “politeâ€.
RT @derridalicious: I can’t believe it’s April Fools Day already
If you’re one of those people who hashtags all your political “wisdomâ€, you all but guarantee I won’t see it. I consider this a bonus. (2/2)
Given the on-ness, I’ll mention again that I have all the political hashtags and those for the usual-suspect TV programs muted. (1/2)
@SnarkyPlatypus I think it is OK, thanks. I just feel… I won’t say drained… just exhausted.
Friends don’t retweet tweets with photos of David Marr where friends might see them.
Sun plan, draft: Blog post; shopping, Katoomba; writing for @zdnetaustralia; given how I feel right now, that’s already too much plan.
edhusicMP After working his magic in NZ, PM Lucky Charms offers to help Mike Baird. Punchline: Baird accepts! pic.twitter.com/jHDKarATEk
“Liberal Party faces three-way tussle if leadership spill calledâ€, writes @samanthamaiden http://t.co/n0SlmFUPdm #itisquiteon
RT @dbgrandi: OH: “Do programmers have any specific superstitions?â€
“Yeah, but we call them best practices.â€
Sunday. Another summer is over. Your steady decline towards death continues. Sunday.