Gone.
While this is a poignant story (and well put) I’m not sure replying to a tweet from five years ago will have much i..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…rp
gths Somewhere in Moscow, an FSB operative is listening to Trump take a dump.
OK, I’m back at @bunjaree and about to collapse. Just a few more minutes…
@emmackat Mist, not fog.
And down the Great Western Highway we go. pic.twitter.com/3ZLHSR1ZeI
Mists in Katoomba in January. Look I’m sure that’s nothing to worry about. pic.twitter.com/3pJ3HMzEGM
@kcarruthers @HistoryHit @WW2History Look, stop the fangirling, and I’ll stop the fanboying, and we’ll just listen, OK?
Look I’m going to retweet this again because it’s just so perfect. twitter.com/jrhennessy/sta…
@thehistoryguy @kcarruthers Thanks, Dan.
@JohnBirmingham @R_Chirgwin Fairfax softcocks. Meh. We have Alien Side Boob, and we are sated. Mostly.
@dmeeze Jesus Christ no. At least One Nation’s platform was an attempt at human language. EOs are written in legislative process English*.
There’s something quite satisfying about retweeting a @BuzzFeedOzPol tweet because you saw @johnmcternan tweet it…twitter.com/i/web/status/8…iA
BuzzFeedOzPol relatable pic.twitter.com/AjjviBrn2Z
@kcarruthers The one good side of having to take work slowly for health reasons is catching up on @thehistoryguy’s work.
So yeah, @kcarruthers, the excellent @HistoryHit podcast with @WW2History explores how a fringe party took power. historyhitpodcast.com/laurence-rees-…
@DrSallyCockburn Nah they’re inconsistent too. So there goes my sexism theory.
@bigbadave @DrSallyCockburn Are you projecting here, Dave?
@kcarruthers Well I even know that bit. I was plugging @thehistoryguy’s recent podcast on this. Hang on, I’ll grab the URL.
@DrSallyCockburn @bigbadave This works with men too. I usually need to get an L t-shirt in AU, alas, but in the US I get an M.
@Gin_ev_ra @DrSallyCockburn Aha! I should’ve known you’d be across this.
My batteries are running out, so it’ll be ONE more, and not two as @jturner_ibrs suggested.
jrhennessy *italian chef kissy fingers* pic.twitter.com/DdtYeGkjIc
Easy. Science is a boy thing. Dress and shoe sizes are a girl thing. twitter.com/DrSallyCockbur…
Timeless tweet. twitter.com/paulkidd/statu…
One more before heading home? Y/N
@timpoliti I know. I like to live dangerously.
@JaneCaro @abcnewsPerth Now Jane, you surely aren’t saying that you don’t find that man H-O-T? I know I do.
thegrugq I gotta say, if you’re a nation state actor and you aren’t using ransomware as a cover for operations, you’re faili..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…C2
@aimee_maree @kcarruthers Oh, I had to dig out your tweet. I have the word ass*nge on permanent mute.
@ApostrophePong @RichardBarrow @Colvinius Oh God don’t cuddle them! I admire them, their indifference, their… zen. They are what they are.
Note that both @kcarruthers and I called the US election for Trump back around November 2015.
Yeah look @kcarruthers and I said it before, but I’ll say it again. Don’t write of PHON (One Nation) as a funny blip. Be afraid.
@ApostrophePong @RichardBarrow @Colvinius For sure! I admire the motorcy’s skills. But I also like to soi dogs, for some reason.
Hello, ladies! twitter.com/abcnewsPerth/s…
@ApostrophePong @RichardBarrow @Colvinius I don’t know how motorcycles can use footpaths anyway. There’s always a sleeping dog in the way.
ScottyBauer1 Anyone know what these “back_door” strings mean in the Google Pixel Modem? Anyone want to leak me some Modem source? pic.twitter.com/lGitNagCXX
UNTRESOR Trump wants to ban Muslims but if we learned anything from Prohibition it’s that people will just make Muslims in their bathtubs.
Would you care to comment, @ApostrophePong? (Speaking as you do on behalf of every Thai.) #verythai twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
Hah! I was in Bangkok when they rolled out the first signalled pedestrian crossing. Nearly got killed…twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Uf
@cxi Thanks. As as random travels is your wont, you too.
Seriously, read this from @JananGanesh. It’a a seriously sharp piece of analysis. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
@cxi This is probably a good move. It’s depressing enough from this side of the planet. (Tho I’ll be in SFO 12-19 Feb if all goes to plan.)
@cxi Anyway, good luck to you and everyone in The America.
franksting How many Executive orders has President Breitbert issued today?
@cxi Hahahaha! I forgot that you’re actually in Portland. I just picked a city.
@cxi 17 / F / Portland.
@cxi My pleasure. In this part of the world I’m considered an expert in adding “cyber” to every possible word.
Yes you can. If you’re a professional, that is. #cyberguacamolecloud twitter.com/cxi/status/826…
cxi Porn gives people an unhealthy and unrealistic idea of how quickly a plumber will come to your house.
@JohnBirmingham @R_Chirgwin I can go with that. Also, loving your work in Alien Side Boob.
Ouch! @JananGanesh doesn’t mince words re Theresa May at @FT. ft.com/content/3ab969… pic.twitter.com/kEoicuahkL
Either way, it’ll be streamed live from 2100 AEDT at stilgherrian.com/edict/live/ and then podcastified in the usual places.
I think my plan for “The 9pm Edict” on Thu night is to open a bottle of gin and just list everything that’s happened in the last 10 days.
NoahShachtman DOD better hope to freakin’ God that roster never gets hacked. It becomes an ISIS kill list if it does. twitter.com/wjhenn/status/…
Timeless tweet. twitter.com/tashlee/status…
blowdart Firewalls will protect us. pic.twitter.com/m6QmBVOqpi
arieldora Dear [EDITOR], unfortunately my referee report for [JOURNAL] is late because I have recently had to start regularly protesting fascism…
@R_Chirgwin It’s OK. With @JohnBirmingham one falls into and out of favour in seconds. Fickle is the word, I think.
ICYMI earlier… twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
@R_Chirgwin @JohnBirmingham I am so going to get grief for that.
@R_Chirgwin @JohnBirmingham Well that’s what you get for pinning your hopes on a failing writer on a failing masthead. Sad!!!
duckoftheday 23 Jan 2017 pic.twitter.com/acrHts4EKU
@paulwallbank No, it’s a culture thing. Science and technology are only incidental to gaming. They just forget the new media forms.
@R_Chirgwin @purserj @joshgnosis That said, I like receiving invites from new PR people and responding “Oh, I thought I was blacklisted.”
lottelydia As a historian, I would like to say: THIS IS TERRIBLE ADVICE. My evidence is: ALL OF HISTORY. twitter.com/kurteichenwald…
@NuclearAnthro @munin Well your Larry the Thermal Pulse Llama is trumped by Pierre the Celebrity Llama. pic.twitter.com/D94tWRxxKT
@benmoretti Yep yep.
Because camels are cunts. twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/…
OK, I’m conceding that Brexit is in the same ballpark. Ask me again in two or three weeks.
You’re right. Outside UK/EU or the business press, we were seeing Brexit as an amusing spectator sport. We are idio..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…RJ
@wine_o_phile And no international aspect.
@wine_o_phile Not exactly post-2003.
@cthon1c Ah. Yes. And that was 2001. The Iraq War was the “response” in 2003. I reckon we’re starting to identify the landmark events.
@steampowerednet I’m glad to say I have no idea what you’re talking about.
@R_Chirgwin @Gatorau No. Most people don’t have immediate access to feathers. Photos, maybe. If you give them the photos.
@voltagex There is. But can I be bothered?
OK look I don’t know what I’m talking about. I’ll quietly read you replies until I have something coherent to say.
Germanwings certainly evolved fast, but it really only affected the people, um, affected. We didn’t see constitutio..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…od
The Paris attacks? This is where I wish I’d clarified my metric. twitter.com/voltagex/statu…
That and the fact that my computer and phone got stolen in a dodgy-feeling theft and my garbage was stolen.
My personal memories of the 2003 Iraq War are coloured by the fact I was doing daily updates for an energy risk new..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…6n
Not Brexit, from memory. The lead-in was slow, and then after the vote the politics was quick but kinda obvious. Do..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Qm
Nah, Fukushima was a straightforward disaster yarn, and the political angle only unfolded over months. twitter.com/purserj/status…
The last time I remember news breaking and shifting and re-breaking this fast was the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Anything really since?
@joshgnosis @russellmahoney @purserj There is that. However it’s covered, it has to start by repeating their framing.
ProfMESmith Breaking: Trump fires entire US Department of Defense. twitter.com/sjasmith/statu…
Me at @zdnetaustralia Mon: “Singapore business cyber confidence is probably cyber delusion” zdnet.com/article/singap…
“Trump shuts down borders and Turnbull sits right on the fence”, writes @JohnBirmingham brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/blunt-…
eSafetyOffice Save the date! Only 1 week until #SaferInternetDay. Get involved in the activities esafety.gov.au/SID2017 #SID2017 pic.twitter.com/plcsgXQ2vg
DPJHodges Could those people saying “Trump can’t be a fascist, he’s been elected” please read a little history.
@joshgnosis @purserj I get the feeling most PR / lobbying types don’t realise how good journalists (and spooks) get at this stuff.
@troyhunt @voltagex Eventually this will just be sending the message “You have been pwned” to every email address on the planet.
matthew_d_green I’ve read technical manuals with more content than this IBM statement. pic.twitter.com/lhefRZWxxi
@franksting Right then.
louisgray Dear Tech CEOs:
I don’t want to hear about material and economic impact to your businesses of a refugee ban. Say it is morally wrong.
twholman Made a programming sim, so everyone can play along at home! - codepen.io/tholman/full/Y… pic.twitter.com/eLfbsXAiY0
@franksting Thank you for your assistance.
@stufromoz @NewtonMark How soon they forget the man in the embassy…
CasparLS “It’s as if history is being collapsed into a black hole & everything is happening faster than the speed of light.” theguardian.com/us-news/2017/j…
@Aiannucci This is all moving so fast you presumably won’t even have time to satirise it? Where does this leave you?
Aiannucci Blimey, it took Nixon six years in the Whitehouse to get to that stage. He was gone not long after. twitter.com/newyorker/stat…
@vealmince Indeed.
I’ll be ba down in Sydney for a bunch of tomorrow (Wednesday), so is there anyone I need to catch up with?
@vealmince The blackboard of craft beers here has SO many of them mentioning “loads of hops”. Subtle as all not-fuck.
“US military botches online fight against Islamic State” bigstory.ap.org/article/b3fd72… Just starting to read this. HT @intelwire.
jpwarren Centrelink Fuzzy Matching Is Broken By Design buff.ly/2kORSRW #notmydebt
MaxineWaters I’m leading my colleagues in a press conference tomorrow at 8:30 am (ET). We are taking on @POTUS ties to Russia! We have a bill #resist
_cingraham So, yeah. This tweet hasn’t aged well. twitter.com/_cingraham/sta…
@sgh2512 Indeed. Whatever the show might be.
Words from the Nixon White House Counsel, ladies and gentlemen. twitter.com/JohnWDean/stat…
@mjos_crypto Let’s not speculate.
Lulwut? twitter.com/vicenews/statu…
“For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II” (Jan 2013) smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40…
@NewtonMark Hah. Nah. ASD is already outsourcing routine sysadmin so their folks can concentrate on operational stuff.
@GeorgeWHerbert @NuclearAnthro I’ve seen the Lockheed plant in Mountain View from the Caltrain as we rumbled past.
@GeorgeWHerbert @NuclearAnthro Oh yes, a mate of mine who’s ex-RAAF intel visited the Nike base a while back and recommended it.
@NewtonMark Heh. Wel, they’re on top of it as anyone can be, though my understanding is that AU punches well above its weight in this stuff.
@NuclearAnthro @GeorgeWHerbert OK, Martin, in theory I fave a weekend free in SFO. What Cold War stuff can I see on a day trip or overnight?
@NewtonMark Well that too, unless he has some discretion in allocations within existing budget totals? This is way outside my ken.
@NewtonMark That would make sense. There’s certainly nothing especially controversial in there, but we know the US has “the best cybers”.
@NuclearAnthro Yeah fair point.
@timpoliti No distaste. Or at least not any more. The language has evolved. And I use the word excessively mostly to piss people off.
@NuclearAnthro Why am I not surprised that you have random bits of a nuclear weapon?
@dobes @GordyPls That makes sense. In theory an EO can’t direct anything outside the law. Some presidents have had different view on this.
@timpoliti Pained? Not at all.
@coreyscottallen No, that’s further down towards Sydney. But already I’ve said too much.
@GordyPls Indeed. And this is working day number six for the Trump administration.
@MikePresland @Susan_Hennessey That’s unfair. Whether or not his art is good is a question, sure, but he’s genuine in his motives AFAIK.
@GordyPls I don’t know the answer, but a similar question applies to the first f ew weeks of Gough Whitlam as PM and his tiny cabinet.
@NuclearAnthro Just looking at the Mark 17 Wikipedia page now… I assume it’s a gun design given the length?
GIANT ATOMIC PIG. twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/…
I’m at The Old City Bank, should anyone in the upper Blue Mountains care.
I agree. There’s some wonderful photograph of Shot Simon. twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/…
@TristanRayner Oh the emergence of modern battle fleets before the First World War is fascinating. See you next month.
Apparently this is (maybe) a draft of Trump’s Executive Order on Cyber Security, to be signed Tuesday US time. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3424… (PDF)
@TristanRayner Well, it would’ve burned a boatload of coal. Possible several.
@TroelsOerting This is an alleged draft of that EO that’s been circulating. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3424…
JohnBirmingham For a second I didn’t realise this was made up. twitter.com/thinkpiecebot/…
@vealmince Heh. No, thank the gods. The review from highlandlad matches my feels. ratebeer.com/beer/katoomba-…
American politics gets weirder by the minute. twitter.com/benpobjie/stat…
@NewtonMark @oliyoung Hey hey hey look, I praised Google for their quick response on that occasion.
And here’s more on the USN Great White Fleet, which circled the world 1907-1909. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Whi… pic.twitter.com/H6GRLr7ghj
Here is said Great White Fleet American Pale Ale. ratebeer.com/beer/katoomba-…
Susan_Hennessey Note that George W Bush now spends time painting portraits of service members harmed while carrying out his orders. pic.twitter.com/eEcqOvFC4m
I have a beer, specifically a pint of the Katoomba Brewing Company’s Great White Fleet American Pale Ale.
@seamus I think it was “existing on Twitter”, their random-unfollow bug bit, and I didn’t notice until recently.
@oberonsghost Yep, and the main library workbench is just behind me there. The clouds are my view at work.
@NewtonMark @oliyoung You mean like this? crikey.com.au/2009/02/02/goo…
Sadly, @oberonsghost, it’s less precipitous than I’d hoped. pic.twitter.com/ZMlqHln2hb
Twitter keeps telling me I should follow @seamus but nah fuck that.
GreatDismal Thing about the weaponization of incompetence is that we’re about to find out exactly how effective a tactic it is
@oberonsghost I’ll send you a photo in a little bit.
@jplonie @NewtonMark It’s email from me. Of course it’s important.
@oliyoung @NewtonMark I tell you what, wiping out DNS records is always such a satisfying experience.
@oliyoung @NewtonMark And the domain.
@NewtonMark Way ahead of you.
I am not in the mood for reworking a bunch of SPF records. I may just throw myself off a ledge, and there’s a handy one just outside.
@twiddlekins @dobes This is true, although as you know the topic isn’t new to either @FionaPattenMLC or myself.
MarkDiStef :silently screams: twitter.com/AmyFeldtmann/s…
glengyron So here’s Nixon’s attorney: twitter.com/johnwdean/stat…
Look, @dobes, how come I get associated with teledildonics? @FionaPattenMLC is also to blame here. twitter.com/dobes/status/8…
Ah excellent*. I have fucked up one of my domain’s SPF records. This explains why no-one has replied to those emails. Crying.
TimWattsMP If anyone can find me a real life bar staff member in my electorate who will say this on video I’ll buy them a beer..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…dA
@spottytwit Milo.
dobes Nauru will say whatever you want, just cut it a cheque. twitter.com/Bencjacobs/sta…
AUSFestivus Someone should tell Trump that we have a great AG thats available at short notice.
@doctormcdougall @johnb78 OK, OK, I’ve noted my possible error there.
Or maybe more cocaine. I’m not sure about that bit.
The in-breeding of the Trump administration is like a bad episode of “Rake” with nastier characters, less cocaine, and no Richard Roxburgh.
samdastyari Dear conspiracy theorists. Piss off. I renounced my (birth) Iranian citizenship. Most can’t as expensive and difficult. I’ll stand with them
@Thongdam07 @FrankThrings There is that.
GreenJ ‘aussie mum’ twitter.com/Sandra_Sully/s…
@Thongdam07 @FrankThrings Nah, Wilfred was smart.
May I recommend once more @theharryshearer’s “Nixon’s The One”, recreating conversations from the Nixon tapes. youtube.com/watch?v=f9HtoW…
joshrogin That’s a long way from denying there’s a draft EO circulating. twitter.com/MaryEmilyOHara…
WearyKatie Before any of you decide to punch a Nazi, stop and think about the harm you may be doing.
Keep your wrist straight..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…M3
Separated at birth? (From an idea by @FrankThrings) pic.twitter.com/wlAub0ivhh
@FrankThrings Wow.
The former President of Mexico continues to call it as he sees it. twitter.com/VicenteFoxQue/…
TimOBrien Can somebody call the White House and see what’s going on over there?: (202) 456-1414
Never forget. twitter.com/Chris_Hanna/st…
TrainLinkWest Sydney it is not only hot it is now windy. So pls, pretty pls carry water with you & if you feel unwell staff can a..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…bH
gilbertjasono **set of The Apprentice**
TRUMP: You’re fired for years!
PRODUCER [rubbing temples]: That doesn’t…it doesn’t maketwitter.com/i/web/status/8…wQql
SCMP_News 100 Chinese firms sponsor Times Square billboard wishing Trump a happy Lunar New Year buff.ly/2kNH0ni pic.twitter.com/kYozXU50wJ
@ChazFH You can do better than that.
@ResignInShame @shamaroo @abcnews You can do better than that.
TheFix The anonymous quotes about Reince Priebus in this piece are B-R-U-T-A-L.
washingtonpost.com/politics/from-…
IMPORTANT QUESTION. twitter.com/Tarale/status/…
TeenVogue In a series of tweets, Ashton shut down the #MuslimBan on behalf of his wife, actress Mila Kunis tnvge.co/HIdQZ1A
dobes KPIs smashed! twitter.com/maura_healey/s…
I don’t even own a tie. Or a suit.
edatpost To review: Acting AG fired. House GOP staffers worked with transition w/o bosses knowing. And a bobcat is still on the loose in Washington.
ChrisMurphyCT We refuse to back down. Joining @SenWarren @SenJeffMerkley @CoryBooker to hold the Senate floor tonite to protest #MuslimBan. I speak at 10.
“‘Wrinkled sack’ with huge mouth, no anus could be our oldest ancestor”, reports @abcnews ab.co/2jOQm1L pic.twitter.com/kbB6BO9WGK
“Culleton asks High Court for stay on removal from Senate”, reports @abcnews.
ab.co/2jNnae7 pic.twitter.com/2WmbewtmSP