OK, I’m outta here.
@futureidentity :)
@sylmobile @derekbarry Much the same ecological niche, so makes sense. Arboreal insectivore.
@futureidentity That’s a telephone. Today is the anniversary of A G Bell’s patent.
@futureidentity @maelorin Jesus Christ! No, there are limits.
@futureidentity As I said to someone else earlier, I’m a descriptivist.
@futureidentity @maelorin The “head†may not be a single letter.
@futureidentity @maelorin “Beneluxâ€.
@futureidentity @maelorin This seems a fair explanation, at first glance. http://t.co/cSJmTBy892
@timpoliti @JohnBirmingham I’ve got about 60 pages of “Resistance†to go. Enjoying it muchly.
RT @timpoliti: @stilgherrian Have you been reading too much @JohnBirmingham? [This is a complicated question…]
RT @KetanJ0: I feel like it ought to somehow feature Harrison Ford doing a terrible Russian accent. [EXACTLY.]
BuzzFeedOz RT if you’re asleep
Unless Christopher Pyne really is holding scientists hostage somewhere, in which case it’s the coolest thing the Rabbit government has done.
This whole “Christopher Pyne holding scientists hostage†thing really is quite bad fanfic.
@timpoliti @maelorin Oh I repeat, @guardian has an fine style guide at @guardianstyle. I just disagree.
@BXGD Oh no! Some of it is fabulous. Not that one though.
@StanDevia @NewtonMark That’s probably a better joke than mine. Needs exploration.
I guess we can all say pretty much anything we like about Chopper Read and Alan Jones now that both of them are dead.
If you prefer the @ABCmediawatch version, “Chopper, Alan and KAK†https://t.co/yLh0WjYl1f
For those who don’t know the history, “Chopper vs Alan Jones†https://t.co/wPgkzY92RC
@haruki_zaemon If it’s good enough for Chopper Read it’s good enough for me.
@haruki_zaemon No, I think “going the full Alan Jones†requires a public toilet.
So that’s the song? Well, it’s shit. Both of them are shit.
Until this week, I had never heard of Blurred Lines or Robin Thicke. This concerns me not at all.
@teek_eh Shit. You’re right. What was I thinking.
@lvlld The blue light will be important, yes. Appreciated. I have the article open in a browser tab, ready for this morning person.
@teek_eh Or, we could fill his pockets with bricks and throw him into a canal.
@AbstractCode I believe he may.
@maelorin @guardian While I might get cranky, I’m more a descriptivist than a proscriptivist when it comes to linguistics.
@maelorin Meh. @guardian gets to use its style guide, and I get to use mine. Unless I’m writing for them, in which case I use theirs.
@lvlld Oh dear. I am seriously out of this loop. Or, since it’s past my bedtime, I’m just being thick. Either way, not a good look.
Is there some reason we can’t just do a hessian sack job on that Jeremy Clarkson arsehat?
AbiWilks The word ‘silenced’ has been gradually losing all meaning over past 6 months or so but this is final nail in coffin pic.twitter.com/88knFcCXUk
@maelorin @guardian I get the theory. If it’s pronounced as a word, it gets written as a word. *Nasa. *Asio. I just disagree.
@lvlld “Libertarian� Um, how so?
@Anthony_Caruana Excellent. I’m assuming we’ll see far too much of each other this week.
@maelorin Your gripe is with @guardian. I’m just the messenger. But look, they can’t even write “NASA†properly, so what do you expect?
“’Space Invaders’ and the birth of Chicago Houseâ€, being a bit of musical history. http://t.co/6mueZI6zi1
RT @NewtonMark: Who is Tue-Sun? [He wrote a famous book, “The Art of Arsehattery”.]
Dear Melbourne, just a reminder that I will be visiting Tue-Sun, so please take all the necessary precautions.
jonkudelka How does anyone stay cranky about the pomodoro thing for this long? It’s just a tomato. Let it go.
“New to nature No 139: Antechinus arktosâ€, the black-tailed antechinus. http://t.co/dcdkSBnW6M http://t.co/Mz98gBWlxm
@kevthecamel Oh thank you! That’s a beautiful critter. I shall retweet immediately.
@fakedonwalker @allthepie @abcnews With the benefit of distance, I’d have led with the circumstances of the body, left speculation to later.
@fakedonwalker @allthepie @abcnews That’s about the awkward first par, I think, but now I’m sitting comfortably with time to reflect.
@allthepie @abcnews I’m guessing that in a few hours the tone of the reporting will change significantly.
@allthepie @abcnews The phrase “domestic situation†is from the police. The ABC can’t add their own interpretation. Yet.
@allthepie @abcnews Well, I didn’t know about that background. But my original comments were meant more generally.
@allthepie @abcnews I’m not defending anyone. I’m just trying to explain the law around media and police reporting.
@allthepie @abcnews The police need to have something better that a suspicion and a feelpinion before they can call it a murder.
@allthepie @abcnews Well, that’s a statement about your belief. The language of the report suggests the police suspect but can’t say yet.
@allthepie @abcnews Same as a person found dead after being reported missing with “no suspicious circumstances†is code for a suicide.
@allthepie @abcnews That’s usually police-report code for them knowing of an existing violence problem.
@InflappableAK @allthepie @abcnews Indeed, homicide covering both murder and manslaughter (1st and 2nd degree murder in US usage).
@safzoro @abcnews Not all suspicious deaths are murders. Once something is clearly a murder, sure, call it an unsolved murder. Go hard.
@allthepie Indeed. But @abcnews can’t report ahead of the statements they have. “Not determined the cause of death� I’d be cautious too.
@AutumnMandrake @jonoabroad No it’s not. I posted a photo of the dead snake some days earlier.
This is not to distract from the obvious, terrible issue of violence against women, but don’t trash the criminal justice system en passant.
So, folks who are shouting at @abcnews, you know you can’t legally describe a suspicious death as a murder until after a murder conviction?
@rachelcallachor @SnarkyPlatypus Wait, what have I done now?
“BBC boss likens Jeremy Clarkson to Jimmy Savile after establishment supportâ€, so there’s that. http://t.co/EVOnIjF6Of
@EX_V19 @NewtonMark Apparently they’ve got two of them, and they arrived in 2009. http://t.co/1WJ4mSKek5
@EX_V19 @NewtonMark Oh that. Silly me. I wasn’t expecting it either. It’s real, ex-US Army, flew in Gulf War I. I forgot to ask.
@EX_V19 @NewtonMark Qantas gave them one last weekend. VH-OJA. hars.org.au
I can hear dinosaurs burning, so something must’ve gone according to plan.
@NewtonMark Yeah that bloody 747 gets in the way of everything now. I was trying to pretend it didn’t exist, but it had other ideas.
#purpletrain, briefly, again.
RT @NewtonMark: If you haven’t spoken to your MP about #dataretention yet, first thing tomorrow morning is the time to call their office. T…
RT @NewtonMark: This week, Abbott wants to get through #dataretention and mandatory minimums for gun offences. EVERYTHING will be cast as a…
I suppose I’d better organise that extra accommodation in Melbourne at some point.
@SnarkyPlatypus Probably not. I don’t really want to go now, but rearranging everything seems like a pain too.
@PeteDotAscian @MarkRWheeler2 I’ll try to remember, but there’s no guarantee. If only there were some sort of remembering machine.
Also, “Mawson Lakesâ€. Lu@9NewsAdelAdel
RT @9NewsAdel: A brown snake has been found in a Mawson Lakes backyard with its head stuck in a beer can. pic.twitter.com/AgzsZPmdcg [Idiot.]
RT @lukehopewell: I’ve spent two hours trying to change a toilet seat. Fucking hell I hate everything. [But did it want to change?]
New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 249: A snake, a seal and some aeroplanes†https://t.co/cs8iPmCYmL http://t.co/20Q7uDqk0h
I’ll post the full-resolution photos in due course.
Here’s the rough images I posted yesterday from Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) at Albion Park. https://t.co/sYdq3wx5c4
@SnarkyPlatypus This Korean cafe only has a BYO license, and it seems poor form to drink soju alone.
Well here we are again… instagram.com/p/0PTpffiFj6/
What’s the Korean word for “rootrat”? Asking for a friend.
Awaiting noodles instagram.com/p/0PSzOwiFjW/
OH, American accent: “Manly Beach is an amazing place. It’s like a giant frat party.” Yes, I suppose it is.
#purpletrain, briefly.
So @jonoabroad, will you finally accept that this snake is dead? instagram.com/p/0PKaQmiFqF/
I think I might go to Katoomba and have some noodles.
Sadly internetcafeorurinal.tumblr.com is no more, but Tumblr’s error page is suitable mesmerising.
@SnarkyPlatypus That idea has been kicking around for a while. A little book of wisdom.
@stufromoz No, no I remember that occasion. Things were indeed getting that desperate.
Re-living my past through my Twitter archive.
Apparently I tweeted this. http://t.co/4L6Nob9OzB
24 August 2012 must’ve been a difficult day. https://t.co/9D2peR4d2d
From 24 August 2012: FREEDOM FROGS! instagram.com/p/Osf1BeCFsz/
RT @JohnBirmingham: A big bag of red frogs and a double maths class. #FormulaforJuniorJihadi
@PollHereford Nothing so honourable.
Reviewing a contract. Discovering the phrase “a Delaware corporationâ€. Laughing. Yes, of course it is. Shaking head slowly.
I think you’re right@SnarkyPlatypusus. My mistake has been to write only about things I actually know something about.
I wish I were ignorant enough to be paid to be a lifestyle columnist.
“The Pyne Ultimatumâ€, one of Robert Ludlam’s less-successful novels.
“Bae come over my parents aren’t home.†http://t.co/6i9zQ9PA92
benpobjie Miranda Devine dreams of a world where all children say their prayers before bed, and all parents plough doggedly on through their misery.
jessradio What’s really wrong with the modern world? People get paid to write stuff like this: pic.twitter.com/1S5VCDXLcs
Oh.
cathywilcox1 Foreseeable in hindsight. pic.twitter.com/6j4PAj89jJ
@Steve_Lockstep You seem to be making some sort of argument against the gassing of Balmain.
whitequark “any of these cases” pic.twitter.com/IhBpeqVlYI
@vealmince Indeed.
I tell you what, if I were Tsar of Sydney, it wouldn’t just be bunker oil fumes I’d be gassing complaining Balmain residents wi#abcrnbcrn
@virginia Indeed.
Charles Waterstreet is still a thing, apparently.
“The rise and rise of Tony Abbott as an international laughing stockâ€, writes Charles Waterstreet. http://t.co/XMTns5YsNu
Sun plan, draft: Tidy up all the loose ends on this table, and plan out my week in Melbourne (from Tue, since you asked), plus Sunday lunch.
RT @paulkidd: About time someone targeted the cripple supply. http://t.co/8AJLrTgDjM
Someone seems to be reading their school project on lemons on the radio. #abcrn #citrusfacts
TheMediaTweets With ‘You’re Back In The Room’ ITV has taken another step towards the inevitable day when it just shows people soiling themselves for money.
Sunday. The statistics are being analysed, and you will be assigned a score for this week’s effort. Do not expect a large number. Sunday.