Gorn.
@MarshmallowDen @JohnBirmingham I think I am less confused now. At least about this matter.
@MarshmallowDen @JohnBirmingham Now I’m very confused.
@Twittaacount Yeah, look, reading a @JohnBirmingham sex scene kinda does that to me. It’s not very… not very “appopriateâ€.
@jon_lawrence Thank you.
@jon_lawrence Ah. That’s jus@stripepe’s standard form, loaded from their server, so I don’t really have any control. But I’ll recheck it.
joshgnosis Jason Clare seems to indicate only press gallery media organisations should be covered by metadata warrant amendments.
@NicholasFryer Nah, @R_Chirgwin is 100km from where I am, and beyond any reasonable possibility of control.

joshgnosis NSW Greens buying ads around democracy sausage. I see. pic.twitter.com/8I1nhV9CSk
RT @ModernToss: Fuck Mondays (also line managers): http://t.co/RmYBo56J8S http://t.co/ZolTf0OxjG
@jon_lawrence Well, I wasn’t planning to crowdfund anything.
RT @BennettArron: Rich parents angry that they can’t buy a good Ofsted report…. http://t.co/JZfLpUOOVN

Approaching Springwood instagram.com/p/0R85xLCFq9/
Which do I like most? The Horsepoodle of the Apocalypse? The My Little Pony? The Horse’s Arse? I can’t choose! http://t.co/xvE8UVCKoh
@pleaseuseaussie My pleasure. That’s just the rough cut. There’ll be better images in due course.
@nigel_castle Dead mammal, I think.
humphriesmark I’m joining the cool kids at @TheFeedSBS tonight to discuss Guy Sebastian’s Eurovision song. 7:30pm, @SBS2.

Crossing the Nepean, again instagram.com/p/0R59zDiFoK/
#purpletrain, again.

Penrith instagram.com/p/0R5D3NCFnV/
BernardKeane .@David_Speers asks @cpyne how he will fund his $150m backflip. Pyne replies “How I have funded it is not really your concern.”
TroelsOerting Princeton boffins sniff Tor users’ IDs from TCP ACKs and server sweat. zite.to/18R4bpU
RT @xntrik: My timesheets are just filled with ‘thought leadership’ [Help is available throlifeline.org.auz946 or phone 131114.]
RT @bengrubb: What the AFP responded with when I asked them for # of times they accessed journalists’ metadata to uncover sources https://t…
RT @joshgnosis: AFP wouldn’t tell me if they’d ever accessed journalists’ data. They told the media union that they have. Repeatedly. http:…
@mumbletwits I have long since given up trying to find a path of logic through this data retention arsehattery. I just laugh now.
RT @mumbletwits: Journos appalled that authorities try to identify & stop unlawful leaking of information? [I know. Terrible business.]
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: #nannysaurus xv yg yu yu gym yg mau hfhk
[I know, right?]
whiteswine Christ (!) Pyne will lose his seat. He’s dead meat all over Norwood Parade, but even the carrion crows won’t dirty their nails in his guts.
RT @bengrubb: Australian Federal Police admits to @mediaalliance it has “repeatedly” been asked to hunt down journalists’ sources http://t.…
NewtonMark It’s all very well to say AGD needs a warrant to access JOURNALIST data, but every communication has two surveilled parties. #dataretention
RT @NewtonMark: What about needing a warrant to see if a non-journalist has been talking to a journalist? http://t.co/vcx55o9drw #datareten…

Lulwut? Both “OK†and “Cancel†leave me looking at the web page I’d left open in the browser. Whpic.twitter.com/rdCE9Y1bkbrdCE9Y1bkb

WombatOnPatrol Is making an Antechinus do chin ups for meal worms a breach of any animal welfare laws? In trouble if it is. #wildoz pic.twitter.com/umWGsKeL0V
RT @firstdogonmoon: Oh my stirrups it’s the Horsepeople of the Apocalypse in today’s F Onthemoon cartoon! http://t.co/Fy9DRh1TCU (With bonu…

dobes Listen up you lot.
Either spooks get to go through your metadata, or you have to wear this stupid hat.
Your choice pic.twitter.com/K8LafrZNCD
chrisberg the real winners are the weird people who have paper.li accounts
5at5 number 162: A new critter, an old utopia, Chicago House’s Australian connection, 5-day work, and “ideas peopleâ€. http://t.co/WJS0n00iJe
I assume that the Rabbit government is getting all the loopy stuff out of the way before @4corners airs tonight. http://t.co/8XCsRwgkWd
@ChrissieM @prestontowers Correct. And I am at the incorrect pub.
RT @murpharoo: Everything today is just that teensy bit crazy. [I think that’s official government policy now.]
Rob_Stott If I understand correctly I’m now exempt from all laws
@ChrissieM I may have had to get the train quickly, so I started here. I may go to the correct pub shortly.
@ChrissieM I’m fully aware of that.
Speling.
purserj I’m a journalist and so is my wife
This data retention legislation isn’t just a dog’s breakfast. The dog has shat out its breakfast and then eaten it again.
RT @jdub: “Son, either get a warrant for the target journo’s metadata, or call it a special intelligence operation like we usually do.†#da…
RT @joshgnosis: Also just an hour ago Brandis said journos should be treated like everyone else. [So, very in the loop.]
@DrRachie Look, it was a cosmetics shop in the Westfield Penrith shopping mall. I don’t think you can even get more sciency than that.
Cue legislative argument over who constitutes “being a journalistâ€. Though that was addressed in the whistleblower legislation.
latikambourke PM agrees to Labor’s demands. Police will need a warrant to access a journalist’s source under new metadata laws. Story up at @smh soon.
@DrRachie Hang on. You know science and stuff. This has got to be an actual thing, right?

swearyanthony *blinks* what. pic.twitter.com/9shJvjDRmG
@GreenJ It’s the button labelled “log inâ€. Or do you mean despising other people?

Afternoon tea time instagram.com/p/0Roy0giFn1/

What could possibly go wrong? instagram.com/p/0RnkRlCFmw/

Science instagram.com/p/0Rmhe2iFlZ/
Sulking.

So, is everybody happy now? #walletshaming pic.twitter.com/6y8TYzxLNT
Stop judging me.
RT @ruminski @stilgherrian nothing a bit of gaff won’t fix. [Exactly.]
RT @OaaSvc @stilgherrian “but it’s comfortable!” [SOMEBODY UNDERSTANDS.]
Indeed, said manager of Bags Plus Penrith has marked the price down $10, saying I can’t go out looking like that.

The manager of Bags Plus Penrith is so offended by the state of my wallet that she’s insisted I buy a new one. pic.twitter.com/SxwP8Rqvne
And here we are in beautiful downtown Penrith.

Crossing the Nepean instagram.com/p/0Rfuh1iFrR/
@jturner_ibrs I have a very long memory.
@Viss I feel like I have done a good thing here today and I will not actually get arrested for anything.
@SnarkyPlatypus Everything IS an eternity.
RT @rpy: Got in touch with my local member just like Uber asked http://t.co/U19G7OArpA
@Viss BTW, the same director made Italian Spiderman. http://t.co/YYocp4IK8w
@Viss Could the world cope with a third series of @danger5tv? Maybe as 90s cybers? @TV_Rev may know something.
@Viss Yeah, that’s pretty much how it works. Series 1 o@danger5tvtv only partially prepares you for the mind assault that is series 2.
@SnarkyPlatypus This musical observation was made by an apprentice chef, so aged between 16 and 22 tops.
@Viss Why McKenzie is a white tiger who speaks only Japanese is not entirely clear. needs more cocaine.
@Viss McKenzie is my favourite character from series two.

michaelhallida4 @murpharoo “I don’t usually signal with my eyebrows. Am I doing it now ? ” pic.twitter.com/5dBoUMRjdi
@jturner_ibrs Oh. You’re going. #CLMel
OH, lads at station: “Do you remember that song from years and years and years ago, ‘American Boy’?”

MarkDiStef 24 hours is a long time in politics… pic.twitter.com/4IcIY7OszQ
RT @rpy: hmm thanks for the reminder to contact my local representative asking they enforce the Passenger Transport Act 1990 http://t.co/jY…
SwiftOnSecurity “Why would you want to install grep on an Apple Watch?”
*Linux user takes a hit from bong*
“It’s about PRINCIPLES, maann! takin our freedom”
Burgered.
@RealNickHodge @feraldata And I’m off to lunch and then to Penrith, which is not feral at all.
Mobile.
@feraldata A quick Google suggests there’s some feral ostriches near Port Augusta, but the flock is being “harvestedâ€.
@feraldata Ponzi, you mean? ;) The same thing happened with ostrich farms in Australia, I believe.
“Emus are apparently part of Austin ’ s greener future … and yet FERALâ€, @feraldata’s photo. https://t.co/oJL4SRxneM
Sneezing.
Mon plan, reworked: 1130 interview; lunch, Wentworth Falls; errands, Penrith; @5at5daily; return for a quiet evening, without sneezing.
“Full spectrum defence: Re-thinking the fundamentals of Australian defence strategy†http://t.co/FRmfHNBQdF
@kcarruthers Possibly my day was deranged to begin with.
Rearranging the day yet again.
Peter Beattie in Peter Beattie being an arsehat shock.
RT @WSJphotos: In Istanbul, male belly dancers, or ‘zennes,’ are back in vogue: http://t.co/rllb4Nto13 (photos) http://t.co/GM0U8SztO8

artologica They found Putin! He was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert. pic.twitter.com/3EUnmsCqde
@R_BurtonBradley Life can be very, very difficult at times.

stephanieando Well, someone at the @dailytelegraph is in trouble this morning… pic.twitter.com/fwfiKAAHuT
RT @jturner_ibrs: “@Rory_Medcalf: I float idea of a cyber security reserve in today’s Australian, ahead of major speech @NSC_ANU tonight â€
…
I had a weird dream last night. Somebody held a tech conference yet nowhere on the program was a video appearance by Edward Snowden.
@oberonsghost Indeed. Though aqua Lacoste shirts were a thing back then. Apparently.
RT @PHP_CEO: I DON’T BELIEVE YOU’RE REALLY A SECURITY RESEARCHER
WHERE ARE THE ENDLESS BLOG POSTS DEMONSTRATING YOUR SASSY, DEVIL-MAY-CARE…
“Are streaming music services about to bite the dust?â€, from @KernelMag http://t.co/Je9tK3J2nj
“The demons that drive Alan Jones†(Oct 2006), extracts from Chris Masters’ book. http://t.co/3lLt2HCLXh
@dobes That would be this item, which had blipped up a few times. I suppose I should listen then. http://t.co/2jj6Qpfapk
I’m in Melbourne from Tuesday to Friday, and my Weekly Wrap explains why. https://t.co/cs8iPmlmYb
Mon plan: Laundry (done); communications and plannings; 1130 interview; lunch & errands, Katoomba; @5at5daily; quiet evening.

SavedYouAClick Don’t fall for these. pic.twitter.com/Il4tcK1Wt8

humphriesmark Coming soon to @GuardianAus…
I’ll be presenting a limited run of weekly @TheRoastTV headlines. pic.twitter.com/5dbtWpeVdu
“Will it be the end of the line for Newcastle’s train, or for Baird?†http://t.co/yBOcHtN3Ds

cathywilcox1 Weird science. pic.twitter.com/OnoJHHX4ha
Brick!
SwiftOnSecurity Hackivism:
1.) Scan Internet for vulnerabilities
2.) Exploit vulnerabilities
3.) Make up reason they deserved it
For a moment there I thought mosquitos were loose in the room. Annoying high-pitched whine. But no, it’s just Christopher Pyne on the radio.
@antfarmer There’s sexism at the Liberal Party? No, that can’t be right.

Routine reminder: “Have YOU punched Christopher Pyne TODAY?pic.twitter.com/aSIvEZ2lZy2lZy
I love* how in our modern, safe and healthy times, “Your farm is diseased, sort it out†has become OMFG BIOSECURITY.
Someone on ABC Radio news was just quoted as calling Peta Credlin the “Horse Woman of the Apocalypseâ€. I missed who it was. Gawd.

RT @juhasaarinen: @stilgherrian @DokterW @DesiJed pic.twitter.com/15cXld1hL4 [See, at least THIS image is real.]
@BXGD It’s a Christmas Miracle!
I suspect that image posted via @DesiJed @DokterW is a fake — note the convenient whiter background — but what the heck.

DesiJed Glad he’s such a prolific writer pic.twitter.com/85qMMJ8Bgz
shanghaiist Thai celebrity pushed around by queue-cutting Chinese tourists at Jeju airport, goes on epic rant shst.me/a2u

The people posting spam comments masquerading as compliments aren’t even trying any more. pic.twitter.com/DMcUGOfaz4
Mon plan, draft: Communications and plannings; laundry; 1130 interview; lunch & errands, Katoomba; @5at5daily; quiet evening.
TumblrTXT we need for people who just want to experiment and see if transness is for them.
RT @kashhill: Post-it notes are now a crucial anti-surveillance tool. Take them next time you rent a car: http://t.co/b8eVMgLUwm
Monday. It seems quiet, but you are mistaken. They are still watching. Observing. Taking notes. Judging. Monday.