Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian)

Wentworth Falls NSW AU

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September 2017

Transmitters off. See you in Sydney.

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@paulkidd I was booked on the 2pm flight on Wednesday which, it turns out, was three days ago. This proved to be sub-optimal.

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RT @free_facts: Finland is the least important country

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“The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of ‘Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends’” https://t.co/phyBN5fuNA

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MaddowBlog Asking people with no electricity to register for FEMA aid by phone or internet is not a well-considered plan. snpy.tv/2woiAH1

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davpope (Tone Def in his glory days, spinning his hits at the National Press Club after the 2015 Qld election) pic.twitter.com/44hLNdWdXl

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davpope Half time in the marriage equality postal survey
*heads outside for some kick-to-kick* pic.twitter.com/SC9dkubpMk

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RT @wordpressdotcom: We’re proud to announce a 4,294,967,295 character count limit on all https://t.co/eRvNKWrZcZ blog posts.

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ProductHunt Stack Overflow just released a keyboard pic.twitter.com/cBkKHcB2RE

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Sat plan, version 2: 1600 VA859 MEL-SYD; head to Ashfield. That’s DEFINITELY all I can cope with today.

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RadioFreeTom You can all stop tweeting me with your expert views on disaster relief and your plan for PR. All I said was: Berlin airlift analogy is dumb.

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How long should I wait for a reply, I wonder.

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@jodiem Thanks. If it wasn’t the end of the month and gutted account time I’d just fly and then claim back. I am ju… https://t.co/oSOohQRn9I

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Messaging the person who booked the ticket, hoping they’re not at the football, because that would be even more hilarious.

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So I’ve arrived at MEL to discover that my flight back to SYD was booked for three days ago, not today. Laughing.

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@RealNickHodge Oddly enough you’re the second person to point me to that post. Is it something about nuclear reactors?

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Sat plan: 1400 VA849 MEL-SYD; head to Ashfield. That’s all I can cope with today.

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Twice as much Cupboard Boy at a time, eh?

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Me at @zdnetaustralia Friday: “Technology innovation is about knowledge not gadgets” https://t.co/14YaZYd7aH

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RT @GiovanniTorre: Puerto Rico: Help!
Trump: ?
PR: It’s a crisis
T: uhhuh
PR: People are dying
T: Things going well. Great response!
PR: H…

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RT @selectedwisdom: “The alphabet…it’s got letters, lots of them are consonants, lots of them, but some are vowels & we all know what the…

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@garthk Excellent, thank you. I suspect nuclear reactors could be a lot of fun.

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@Gin_ev_ra These are good ideas. There are many reasons to love wedgetails.

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RT @NarratedUSA: Actually, this was the third time this month such a situation had occurred. https://t.co/n5X0jZTzVt

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Wedgetails know what’s what. https://t.co/JHkI3pBfUl

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Locals suggest naming new Melbourne railway stations Brockway, Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, etc. https://t.co/8DqqNmHu2c

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RT @HardDriveMag: Why Spend $80 on an SNES Classic When You Can Install Emulators on Raspberry Pi and Never Shut the Fuck Up About It?
http…

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RT @TimBartholomaus: I have never seen a better photo of an ice shelf (ice sheet gone afloat) than this. Contrast w/ sea ice, which you can…

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@AussiemacJ Yes I really don’t know how you ordinary people get along.

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RT @MalwareJake: Someone, quick record the date! Linux is finally usable (maybe) for home users! https://t.co/RE4EIRaoZR

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RT @GRRM: I’m fine with @Twitter going to 280… more Characters for me to kill.

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@ladyhana @danilic No no, in the context that getting help to Puerto Rico is difficult because of the big water.

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RT @danilic: Who knew islands could be so complicated— https://t.co/cl8cYuv2L7

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Restaurant Manager: How are you this morning?
Me: Dreadful, thank you.
RM: Excellent. Your coffee is coming now.

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RT @TKoutsantonisMP: Tell @TurnbullMalcolm he is the PM of the entire country not just Sydney. Grow up & do your job or get out of the way…

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RT @UnburntWitch: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah…

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RT @NewtonMark: We are mere hours away from Tony Abbott being asked what he thought about the Macklemore performance. #nrl

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GonzoHacker Meanwhile, at Peter Thiel’s compound pic.twitter.com/6mqfXuKMZX

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@max_au Yeah they doled them out to the media when Twitter opened its Sydney office. Massive suck-up.

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@Davelennonabc Yeah I think it must’ve been.

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I’m pretty sure I can blame someone else for this.

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Je suis very untidy.

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Sat plan, very early draft: 1400 VA849 MEL-SYD. That is literally the only thing I need to or even could focus on today.

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TechnicallyRon Men: Feminists are ruining what it is to be a man and making us look like fools
Also men: pic.twitter.com/sjvCWyAFEp

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I’m fairly sure I’m not dead. Despite how I feel. About 80% sure.

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That thing where you have to use Find My iPhone and Google Maps to reconstruct the last few hours.

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Saturday. You are in for a big surprise. Saturday.

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Melbourne is cunt of a city.

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@Asher_Wolf Well exactly. Terrible people have been involved. Terrible people.

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This will not end well.

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YES OF COURSE I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING.

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This is the other relevant thing I wrote this week. https://t.co/jPil4Uixul

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This is one of two relevant things I wrote this week. https://t.co/aOmUV3npBJ

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@JohnBirmingham There is that. How could any of us hope to achieve Danger 5?

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Hey Melbourne! Here’s some more general advice, from the same toilet cubiclepic.twitter.com/2mV2PFvQHiHi

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Hey Melbourne! Here’s some info for ladies who might want to make games, courtesy of toilet graffitipic.twitter.com/p7uPxcpfKpKp

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@JohnBirmingham Indeed. Maybe an Axis of Time reboot should do a Danger 5 into this universe.

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@scarlett_scarr The pulp fiction era had so much lesbian and S&M imagery, something that’s often forgotten.

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“Space Sluts” 2pic.twitter.com/vk4acreslTeslT

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Still, at least the Muskotykes can look forward to having a crane. The crew of the Luna from “Destination Moon” jus… https://t.co/TcJ6E88Nkv

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Of course the French have also proposed this sort of mission. pic.twitter.com/H0Zoqzm9AY

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… and here’s NASA’s Mars Excursion Module (MEM) concept from 1964. https://t.co/pAeD7Xplu4 https://t.co/uI14TxBOfn

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So there’s this image… https://t.co/9Ml1fWGwEs

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I particularly like this one, because the artists ran out of ideas — but didn’t think of “fpic.twitter.com/MXGdwDAA5HGdwDAA5H

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Some of us have seen previous drawings of spaceships. pic.twitter.com/x9U4neUato

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To be clear, it’s a drawing of a big spaceship. https://t.co/NPW4Raq5n0

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RT @deadfirstwife: christ… you can’t even be alone in death without a man coming over and going “so, is this seat taken?” while sitting d…

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@pietro159456 @davispg That’s where I was coming from, but with added snark.

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Should anyone be interested, I’m at The Workers Club, where a couple of old friends will be joining me in about an hour.

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The cult of personality building around Elon Musk is embarrassing. I hereby name these people Muskotykes.

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Melbourne has a few more examples of the British council flat genre than Sydney. This one is very well known, eh ki… https://t.co/BryqcGbqja

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@MsLods I haven’t. Is that the same building where Senator Conroy’s office used to be?

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Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens. Completed in 1880, when gold made Melbourne the world’s second-richest… https://t.co/5e77GF5NR1

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This is clearly a new usage for the word “amazing”. #maybetroyneedstogetoutmore #maybeheneedstoliedown https://t.co/aWFRwkKYDf

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I Tried to Fight Racism by Being a ‘Model Minority’ — and Then It Backfired” by @yassmin_a at @TeenVogue https://t.co/qXXw5ilpuj

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@alfiedotwtf @abcnews I know, but that doesn’t answer the question.

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Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Technology innovation is about knowledge not gadgetszd.net/2xCpqwoSLGZ

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pet_upgrades pic.twitter.com/4yZXhGR2aQ

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Boeing B-17 bomber pre-flight checklist, from “Life” magazine, 24 Aug 19pic.twitter.com/lruPENNAX9NAX9

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Column filed for @zdnetaustralia. It contains pirates, an old Greek man, and iatrogenic deaths.

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“I think the parties probably do need a good cyber disaster to focus on this issue, as is now happening in the United States.”

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“Former ASIO head questions why political parties are exempt from breach disclosure” by @ashabeeeee https://t.co/JUuICVD56b

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RT @dobes: If I am reading this right, next time he talks about refugees, Dutton will give equal air time to a people smuggler! https://t.c…

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TheNTNews ANOTHER IMPORTANT EX-CHEW-SIVE ON P3 OF TODAY’S PAPER bit.ly/2yvWD9D pic.twitter.com/tyLPsno5Ku

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@dobes @Taco_Lad @joshgnosis So for some reason my brain just threw up the phrase “anthracite dildo”.

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RT @_robcorr: PLEASE somebody ask Dutton to name the anti-SSM song he wants to see performed https://t.co/bcHEhVh5U1

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RT @free_facts: There are more atoms in your brain than there are in the whole universe

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@abcnews But “audio surveillance”, @abcnews? You haven’t confused metaphorical “listening” to radio transmissions e… https://t.co/O7U4Z6BcYH

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“Australia launches $10m satellite program to help spy planes detect warships, asylum seeker boats”, from @abcnews https://t.co/QTOlbxMglI

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Fri plan, draft: Eggs (now); write for @zdnetaustralia; lunch TBA (anyone?); 1600 drinks with old friends (+ others?), Fitzroy; dinner TBA.

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The other day I said it’s less a dog whistle, more a hog klaxon. The better gag would have been “hog horn”.… https://t.co/JcT3HWjFyn

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@expectproblems I’m sure this would be in breach of any non-interference treaty.

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Wow, a Russian Meddling Probe sounds like some pretty cool space technology. https://t.co/F5CLb7sNZm

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RT @riskybusiness: 200???

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 https://t.co/XRlOcRSwnv

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SofieHagen A male comedian told me that three years ago, he got a really mean tweet. I was like ‘aw shame’ and showed him this pic.twitter.com/f4eFNYJMok

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“Lorem ipsum” is the new “#!/usr/bin/perl”. https://t.co/2vDgTz40M1

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MuckRock Amtrak offers up a solid contender for greatest redaction of all time buff.ly/2xzzV3L pic.twitter.com/7vIGr93YLd

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LizHackett Screech up to a yard sale. Ask if they have any haunted amulets. Yell at the dog in your backseat, “I’m GETTING the spell reversed, Greg!”

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This @onthemedia extra is a must-listen for journos. “OTM live at the Texas Tribune Festival: The Journalists”… https://t.co/qVcPCZrnn4

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I would support this institution. https://t.co/ZUyvbfXNPn

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There’s an evil superhero under there, you just know it. HT @umairh. https://t.co/iRB0T1Cqva

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Fri plan, supplemental: I know it’s a holiday here in Melbourne, but revenue has been a bit shit this month. Sigh.

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RT @SimoneGiertz: Guy comes up, points at the shelf & asks @thephysicsgirl if she can figure it out

She was like: did you just ask if I ca…

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Fri plan, early draft: Data wrangling; write for @zdnetaustralia; lunch TBA; 1600 drinks with old friends (+ others?), Fitzroy; dinner TBA.

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Histreepix Chickens were first invented in the 1950s as a way to smuggle chicken meat out of farms. Wyoming, 1954. pic.twitter.com/usQjXFTNFB

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RT @NinaDSchick: One of my favourite statements on Brexit ever. Don’t think she meant it ironically. https://t.co/j0p1AsyIaG

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I say that ’cos initial reactions can tend to be based on reactions to reactions to people who may not have read the details. Or not.

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There’s a change in YouTube’s linking policy. What this means in practice may or may not be exactly as described in… https://t.co/bIvpF5Vaq4

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@NewtonMark I get confused very easily.

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@NewtonMark Why do you always have to make things worse?

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SenJeffMerkley Hey @washingtonpost, everyone in Puerto Rico is American. pic.twitter.com/BHgzYS0PDw

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Friday. You don’t think you’re a prat, which is quite endearing, really. Friday.

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CrapLocalNews Breaking news: pic.twitter.com/pB5xaaX43D

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This is genius. “Lingua::Romana::Perligata — Perl for the XXI-imum Century” https://t.co/hQCahFypqk HT @heycam

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“Sassy Loses His Fucking Mind In Alabama” by @serafinowicz https://t.co/AE8G3TSY0E

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I quite enjoyed this week’@getkrackinshowow, for obvious reasonspic.twitter.com/Hf5zLqUpkIkI

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@oliyoung @jonkudelka Well I think I’m @stilgherrian, but some days I’m not sure.

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RT @helveticade: “Former Googler” is becoming tech capitalism’s “Florida Man” https://t.co/jN2nTq0lW5

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@engin_eer @StrtegicRetweet @JoshThomas87 I’m pretty sure Josh isn’t in the Illuminati. I haven’t seen him at any of the meetings.

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@BennettArron If it helps, I think that gag is in the category of “Compulsory floor exercise for 10 points”.

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@BennettArron So, you reckon that gag is worth retweeting? Good on ya, champ.

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RT @JohnJohnsonson: I never thought “I wish the president had the grace and class of Hugh Hefner” was a sentence I’d say but here we are. h…

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@PeteLawler Don’t you fuckin’ dare.

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RT @oliyoung: This can’t possibly be bad can it? https://t.co/Z6uZWceqVw

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RT @jrobertlennon: Hi so I’m calling about the baby shoes? Are they still available? Great! I just had a baby and, you know, haha, baby nee…

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@PeteLawler I’m sure he knows my number.

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@juhasaarinen @GreenJ Yes, the internet is surprisingly technical. I’ve been speaking with people.

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@kheitman_au Oh excellent! Thank you. That’s probably overkill, but I’ll stick the feed into my calendar.

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RT @PRESlDENTBANNON: Day 251

Wall length: 0
Tax reforms: 0
Clintons jailed: 0
Golf club visits: 60
Hands: tiny
Swamp: vast
Healthcare: Oba…

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@oliyoung You’re a fool. @TheCalebBond has got it all sorted. He says so himself.

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The dynamic of so many stories coming out of DC right now. https://t.co/HoyQseApcC https://t.co/0stJTBd0Mp

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RT @Pollytics: He reckons he’s found a safe space https://t.co/HaSCMTtn8R

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RT @free_facts: Your phone is bad for you if you eat the whole thing

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“Good Morning America,” indeed. https://t.co/qpzCB9mZs5

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Hey @juhasaarinen, Bing is failing @GreenJ and me here. Can you assist? pic.twitter.com/WQccogidji

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@GreenJ Isn’t late-1920s to early-1930s Futurism just wonderful!

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@kcarruthers @tacticalmaid Almost impossible to jam.

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@pelagikat My flight out is 1400 Saturday, a time I chose quite deliberately.

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BernardKeane Which is your favourite place that @TonyAbbottMHR wanted to invade? VOTE NOW!

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RT @TrainsInfo: We hope you’re all enjoying tonight’s stunner sunset! Thks for sharing Nina. #ILoveSydney #seesydney https://t.co/UPSyen1ApJ

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@pelagikat I was booked into a speaking gig last night, and just stayed for a couple days. All this other stuff was unknown to me.

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The next two days will be unbearable. https://t.co/5JJKEhX8ZT

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RT @nehadk: Because of course they did. https://t.co/amNCvLSbRt

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And the Editor did smile upon the Pitch, and all was good with the world.

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@JustJimWillDo Thank you. I’ve got a lazy one planned, although I did just think of a quick column I could pitch to @dobes. Sigh.

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