Gorn.
juliamacfarlane Headline of the year twitter.com/washingtonpost…
liamvhogan [the subeditors, as one, breathe in and out, satisfied, as for a worthy job, well done] twitter.com/CrapLocalNews/…
@reselsnark @twiddlekins Well if it’s compulsory that’s OK then.
HolidayComplain “I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts.”
HolidayComplain “On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food.”
HolidayComplain “I’m sure I’ve stayed in this hotel room in a previous life. I cannot stay here again.”
HolidayComplain “The plane flew higher than I expected it to”
HolidayComplain “The beans on my toast weren’t Heinz.”
HolidayComplain “It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England. It took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair.”
HolidayComplain “The train in Thailand didn’t have Yorkshire Tea.”
HolidayComplain “The holiday brochure never mentioned taking suntan lotion”
@SnarkyPlatypus @coriole Oh! And @coriole has a Mixed Italian Dozen on special at the moment! coriole.com/wines/italians…
@SnarkyPlatypus @coriole For those who don’t know, @coriole is one of my favourite wineries, and their Sangiovese o..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Xe

lanesainty There are high vis vests! pic.twitter.com/pMXTYddDbs
Hey @SnarkyPlatypus! 1995 @coriole Sangiovese! twitter.com/coriole/status…
@jeremycorbyn @johnmcternan Thanks, @johnmcternan. If I can’t have a fun night here in the Blue Mountains, I might..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…TS
robmanuel Stupid bot I made in 15 minutes last night.
twitter.com/randombrexit/s…
lozdee yeah nah twitter.com/smh/status/909…
Why do people even do things like this? It’s the TV equivalent of a church fete pony ride with a mangey, flatulent..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…4v
@jonoabroad [Blinks]
@PeteLawler Long ago.
That’d be a great Labour fundraiser, I reckon. £50 a go to hit @jeremycorbyn with a taser. Whaddyareckon, @johnmcternan?
I originally read this is “introductory taser session” and was kind of up for the idea. twitter.com/WhitHealth/sta…
True, but the photo is eminently suitable for a caption competition. twitter.com/jamesrbuk/stat…
Seems sensible. twitter.com/waferbot/statu…
Definitely in a big sulk now.

Meanwhile, over at Stan… pic.twitter.com/z7RrFLOIKc
@ajhill_alan You want me to list the Netflix catalog? They kinda have a website that does that.
@twiddlekins Sam, why do you even know this? twitter.com/Sam_Hickey/sta…
Under “Titles related to: Fail-Safe” Netflix suggests “Star Trek: Voyager”, “Schindler’s List”, and Eddie Murphy’s “Coming to America”.
They remade “The Day the Earth Stood Still” with Keanu Reeves? I assume he plays the blank-faced robot.

timothy_mcd Sydneysiders would have nightmares about this. “Uber, but with huge bin chickens”. pic.twitter.com/6FNsMi220Y
Oh well here’s an idea. twitter.com/free_facts/sta…
@SteveMolk @BlogsofWar @CovertContact @zencastr I’ll be giving it a got in future projects. Once I figure out what they are.
Netflix has neither “Dr Strangelove” nor “Fail-Safe” so I can’t even have that fun.
NewtonMark Prediction: Survey will yield 68-70% “yes.” Wingnuts in the libs will completely lose their minds, and delay legislation ‘til next election.
@miranda_maybe @ResignInShame @SallyRMelb Rock on, ma’am.
@_midofo_ Perhaps, though it’s already such an economic and policy basket case I’m not sure it can really get much worse. #didijustjinxit
michaelkoziol Govt minister Concetta Fierravanti-Wells: “Difference is not discrimination. There is no discrimination of LGBTI people in Australia.”
michaelkoziol Cory Bernardi also gets a standing ovation before he starts speaking. One woman chanting “Cory, Cory, Cory!”
@SallyRMelb @ResignInShame He’s 10km away. That’s $30 taxi each way, or a lot of faffing about outdoors with the ap..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…O5
@servantofchaos How dare you “clarify” the situation and provide “context” while I’m complaining about random thing..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…lG
Aelkus hopefully not explosions, like the other one twitter.com/CNET/status/90…
TweetDeck tells me the hashtag is #hack4homelessness not #hack4homeless, but I blame @servantofchaos for that. He i..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…lY
Yeah I’ll come back to that metaphor later. #hack4homeless
What if every developer chipped in $5k/year to pay someone’s rent. Your hammer of code doesn’t mean everything is a nail. #hack4homeless
Or step outside, meet them, listen to their stories, offer them a coffee, a shower. Or — and this is revolutionary.twitter.com/i/web/status/9…B0s
michaelkoziol This is extraordinary. Matt Canavan says he believes it may become illegal to even express the view marriage is between a man and a woman.
e_kaspersky I have accepted invitation to testify before US House of Representatives & address allegations about KL. Hope to ge..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…xb
@DrRhysPockett I have no idea what that means, but if it involves putting whisky into my coffee then I support it.
Bored. Sulky.
TimWattsMP Why is everyone always silencing him? twitter.com/michaelkoziol/…
I wonder what proportion of my followers don’t realise that my current avatar is ironic? Or do I mean sarcastic?
@lanesainty Goodness me. twitter.com/lanesainty/sta…
This is an interesting thread. @lanesainty at the Coalition for Marriage launch. twitter.com/lanesainty/sta…

Seems fair. “One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts will be grilled over his ‘state of mind’” trib.al/qfiR9eC pic.twitter.com/SmvpDvNZDx
JacktheInsider Only five more sleeps @SenatorMRoberts twitter.com/australian/sta…
@HistoryHit @shrabanibasu_ I hadn’t realised that the Indian populace loved Victoria, just hated the British admini..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…UZ
@HistoryHit @shrabanibasu_ Victoria wrote 13 volumes of journals in Urdu, part of learning the language…twitter.com/i/web/status/9…M0
Latest @HistoryHit is @shrabanibasu_ talking about “Victoria and Abdul”. Abdul was her servant, taught her Urdu which she wrote and spoke.
sando88 Laurie Oakes - “But the PM’s current problem, in my view, is that he isn’t very good at politics and never has been” - so true.
craigthomler Watch out for #malware mobile scams for #marriageequality vote - SMSes with dodgy links like this cc @ABSStats..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…De
@allisonr There are many questions.
It’s always good when your balls are fresh and clean on a sunny Saturday, @OrkneyLibrary. twitter.com/OrkneyLibrary/…
@PeteLawler I choose to think that it’s the 19th giraffe, which is why it’s hiding out of the way down there to the left.
@PeteLawler So here’s the thing. I don’t recall a giraffe at all, let alone how many there were.
@NuclearAnthro @CARROT_app No no, that’s how @CARROT_app Weather provides its forecasts. See also… twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…

I just found this photo from 3 Oct 2009 and I have no idea what it’s referring to. Fuckin’ giraffe! pic.twitter.com/mWnZ1aAdqg
@NuclearAnthro @CARROT_app It’s pretty fuckin’ bleak when your only joy on a Saturday night is copping existential..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…9Q

SwedishCanary Clown’s gone… pic.twitter.com/pcaQ6iKnNp

So @NuclearAnthro, it seems like @CARROT_app Weather knows the score. pic.twitter.com/GV5XMR0ZqR
And a comment about Theresa May a little further in. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
Here’s a Frankie Boyle gig I listened to last night, and an early joke. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
“The 9pm Edict” podcast should return very soon, I think. Listening to all this Frankie Boyle lately has cheered me up.
free_facts Robots take over the world tomorrow

mesmerizing_nat Norwegian Forest Cat chasing a Fox. pic.twitter.com/KajbB0MwaC
And then pushes her off stage, as she is no longer required. twitter.com/CaitrionaPerry…
@nick_thyme @JoshButler Ah, that old trope. [Pats on head gently]
On @abcnews Thurs: “Facebook bans ads on news coverage of hate speech” with @mumbrella & me. abc.net.au/radio/programs… Haven’t listened yet.
@weigh4d See, that’s different. That’s obviously pleasurable.
@SnarkyPlatypus Can you do that? I mean as in can one do that?
To be honest, my feelings are not entirely negative when I think about Greg Sheridan” and “hate-fuck”. twitter.com/JoshButler/sta…
JoshButler So dawns day SIX of Ben-gate. The Aus, sad they can’t hound Yassmin anymore since she moved overseas, have found a..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…pr
buzzandhum “1 can of… boned chicken.” twitter.com/70s_party/stat…
@munin @drearyclocks But you’re… odd.
drearyclocks Saw a Pete Evans knife set in a store. It was just a box of loose flints and shit.
@R_Chirgwin @bigbadave Huh? What are you reacting to? Read the whole thread.
@bigbadave @R_Chirgwin Part of me wants to see how stubborn he’s going to be. I mean, he knows me and my smell, and knows I’m harmless.
So it’s not just a boy thing, @SnarkyPlatypus. twitter.com/AMEquality/sta…
@bigbadave @R_Chirgwin Nah it’s not that. He’s just spooked by me. We should’ve done some familiarisation before th..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…kQ
@R_Chirgwin Idiot cat.
@R_Chirgwin Which I will, obviously. So instead of eating, he bolted back outside. And when I went outside to get f..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Pt
@R_Chirgwin You cat Bones is an idiot. Comes in, finally, to the sound of food. But he won’t eat ‘cos he’s afraid I’ll close the door.
Gateway drug. twitter.com/techoglot/stat…
ericallenhatch Find a man who looks at you like Harry Dean Stanton looks at the vast desert expanse separating him from the love h..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…PV
“How the US Navy’s fleet has been on a collision course for years” (27 Aug) defensenews.com/naval/2017/08/…
Ah yes, if you want to understand the 1980s, you have to understand ABLE ARCHER 83. That, and Bananarama. twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/…

A very clear view on Trump too. But then we all have that view now, right? pic.twitter.com/a5EVUUwATD
“Spies Like Us: A Conversation With John le Carré and Ben Macintyre” (25 Aug) nytimes.com/2017/08/25/boo… Nice view on..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Cs
@DanielOCnr Well some have the uplifting goal of destroying humanity.
Or everyone, really. twitter.com/MikeIsaac/stat…
So “Rick & Morty” S03E07, “The Ricklantis Mixup”, is not a happy story.
So if you’re still deciding what to get me for Christmas… twitter.com/xinfengcao/sta…
You probably need some of these stickers in your workplace. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
jeffsonstein I want this sign twitter.com/queenofthinair…
TEL is transporter-erector-launcher.
That is to say, DPRK is confident to launch in a pseudo-operational way, rather than test mode. They try to avoid b..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…iJ
@BlogsofWar @CovertContact @SteveMolk @zencastr Nah, I’m good thanks. I’ll probably pop into the village later this afternoon.
9NewsGoldCoast #BREAKING Reports Migaloo, the white whale has been sighted off the Gold Coast. Live stream available shortly…twitter.com/i/web/status/9…0q
@06eleven Well Flo was certainly the brains of the outfit.
@SaxonTheHound @RedFiddler @oberonsghost @GreenJ No. That’d cause way too much splashback.
@06eleven Whacko. When I was presenting on Triple J in Adelaide, a journo got Joh to do a program ID / endorsement..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…nu
@dmeeze @SnarkyPlatypus I meant specifically and only in the “Joh for PM” campaign messaging.
@SnarkyPlatypus The racism wasn’t as overt, but there was certainly the idea that Queensland common sense could sort thing out.
@SnarkyPlatypus It was sort of Hanson v0.1, I guess. twitter.com/thisMattWilson…
@BlogsofWar @CovertContact @SteveMolk @zencastr I’m completely sober right now, John, I can’t do philosophy.
tinybaby The dystopian future robot cop company said I can’t tweet this pic of their cop dildo because they haven’t done a p..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…DB
@BlogsofWar @CovertContact @SteveMolk @zencastr I was a guest on @SteveMolk’s “Humans of Twitter” a while back. Epi..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…9T
@SnarkyPlatypus It was a strange time. The Fall of Joh happened when I was at @abcadelaide, so I kinda watched it from afar.
Young folks won’t remember when Joh Bjelke-Petersen was Premier of Queensland and maybe half his cabinet ended up in jail for corruption.
Joh always was a class act. twitter.com/couriermail/st…

OK then, @CARROT_app Weather. pic.twitter.com/CDevDyHNkt
@BlogsofWar @CovertContact @SteveMolk Found it. @zencastr. zencastr.com Trouble-free, is my understanding. @SteveMolk uses it.
@BlogsofWar Lol. I just bought the Kindle edition.
@BlogsofWar @CovertContact Heh. Cool. BTW, there’s a tool for recording at both ends of a Skype call and syncing th..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…an
Can you help us here, @LyleShelton? twitter.com/SnarkyPlatypus…
The @ruxcon program is shaping up well. ruxcon.org.au/speakers/ I should probably sort out my logistics for getting..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…fx

nktpnd @ISNJH Different angle of the Hwasong-12 IRBM with a better view of the engine. pic.twitter.com/Rzsla4v1Nh
PPantsdown Comms on “Coalition for Marriage” page, brought to you by @TonyAbbottMHR, @LyleShelton & the @australian. Why moder..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…G8
As Major Charles Emerson Winchester III said on M*A*S*H, that’s “roughly comparable to being the finest ballerina i..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…RQ
@BlogsofWar @CovertContact Two very good episodes there, @BlogsofWar. I’m glad to be catching up, finally.
Also worrying is that May has to put her comments on TV for Trump to notice them. twitter.com/mattmfm/status…
mattmfm Our closest geopolitical ally just had to publicly chastise the President for his behavior during a terrorist attac..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…73
@BlogsofWar @CovertContact @alexzfinley Onto another @CovertContact podcast, “Beyond Russia: Overlooked Counterinte..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…08
@munin I agree. I’ve had the crocodile tail steaks that are available at our local supermarket.
“Chengdu man stores live crocodile in community pond, planning to eat it for dinner later” shanghaiist.com/2017/09/15/cro…
@JuliusFlywheel @NSLpodcast Oh I’ve met enough of these folks, and their colleagues, at cyber conferences and the like.
@sylmobile Wow.

HuffPost Firefighter says saving one dog is “more important” than a million black people huffp.st/a2GbNQv pic.twitter.com/HKJTMTTpsr
@sniff_off It is indeed. I dunno whether you saw Thursday’s tip, but I saw that you were already across that operation earlier in the day.
@BXGD @Brasilmagic All too true, now that you point it out.
@zackwhittaker @NSLpodcast M’pleasure. I listen to podcasts rather than daily news. I only dip into the latter when..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…7T
@zackwhittaker @NSLpodcast @Robyn_Greene Thanks, Zack. This is what I want. Gerstell gave the glossy version, but I..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…g8

Brasilmagic Imagine how they felt pic.twitter.com/qPrAk0cjey
@JuliusFlywheel @NSLpodcast Oh cool. I do listen to Lawfare, but not consistently. I’ve added that one to the list.
@sylmobile Ta, will listen later up.
@kim_weatherall @SnarkyPlatypus @rgibli That’s certainly the thrust of the @SixthTone yarn I just read. As they say..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…r3
@BlogsofWar @CovertContact @alexzfinley So @alexzfinley’s novel “Victor in the Rubble” sounds hilarious. Both terro..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…19
Listening to the latest @BlogsofWar @CovertContact podcast, “Deep State Conspiracies” with @alexzfinley covertcontact.com/2017/09/11/dee…
JoshButler “You don’t have the freedom of speech to defend yourself”, Margaret Court says in a media report defending herself thewest.com.au/news/wa/same-s…

acdiploMatt “The Ascent” -@AustraliaObike, 2017, metal on wood pic.twitter.com/03E67zT2ih
@kim_weatherall @SnarkyPlatypus @rgibli Thanks! One of my recent yarns on Chinese cybercrime skipped copyright, but..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…1c
jodiem What happens 2 monthsafter you hand over your beautifully crafted CRM system. They are so used to their old inflexi..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Bv
@NSLpodcast So that’s an hour with the NSA general counsel on s702. Anyone know of an alternate view, an informed o..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…zQ
@NSLpodcast The NSA rules and procedures for s702 make the AFP metadata rules and procedures sound like rubbish. Oh wait.
@NSLpodcast FISA is the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_I… s702 is about bulk collec..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Ol
Latest @NSLpodcast is an interview with NSA general counsel Glenn Gerstell on FISA s702. Listen, tinfoilers. nationalsecuritylawpodcast.com/episode-36-nsa…
bengrubb Day … five? twitter.com/australian/sta…
@mazt_t @GreenJ This thread answers the question. But yes. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
@oberonsghost @GreenJ Some modern ones have a fly, not a bee, missing the point. worksthatwork.com/1/urinal-fly Either way..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…UA
@oberonsghost @GreenJ Of course Victorian-era urinals, and some modern ones, have a little bee at the target point,..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Sh
@oberonsghost @GreenJ I’m still not sure about the paddle wheel. I get that they’re making it into a piss-game, but..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…zM
FrBower My support of #SSM is what bullying looks like to the ‘NO’ advocates. They should try being a gay kid in hospital a..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Ue
OK, so here’s yet another lovely thing. twitter.com/gpdawson/statu…
@GreenJ I hear they’re all the rage in Cronulla. #letsgosharks

Did you know, @GreenJ, that you can get potty training devices that ensure your boy learns to pee like a man? pic.twitter.com/rPWkODbsPH
Next week: Potty training. twitter.com/mira_adler/sta…
@SnarkyPlatypus Oh I looked up the origins of copyright at one point, but this is really @rgibli and..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…c6
Oh I’ll retweet it. “How to: Vote YES for marriage equality via snail mail” from @amnestyOz is dreadful but needed. youtube.com/watch?v=ddXseQ…
@alexkidman Putting the coffee issue aside, I see your point. This is a problem.
@alexkidman Is there a problem with that, Alex?
Susan_Hennessey Imagine having the world’s most powerful intelligence operation at your fingertips and choosing to get your intel f..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…KE
“Lately, Chinese corporations have even come to seeing copyrights as a source of profit.” twitter.com/SixthTone/stat…
@SnarkyPlatypus Especially with Vietnam making such rapid economic progress — well, Thailand no longer so cheap because rising middle class.
The latest @RatlSecurity podcast “The ‘Boris and Natasha Buy a Facebook Ad’ Edition” also has lots on Equifax. lawfareblog.com/rational-secur…
Perpetrated by cybercatastroclwns? twitter.com/zackwhittaker/…
zackwhittaker Catastropwn.. twitter.com/swiftonsecurit…
Oh shut up, Donald, you’re really not helping. Go play golf and leave this shit to the grow-ups. twitter.com/RealPressSecBo…
I see that @riskybusiness is currently experiencing what we call “Australia”. twitter.com/riskybusiness/…
@SnarkyPlatypus Yep. Thailand took what it wanted — constitutional parliament, architecture, engineering — but then behaved as kinda equals.
@SnarkyPlatypus Ah. And Thailand had that too, just at a smaller scale. Though that’s a gap in my knowledge of Thai geopolitics.
@SnarkyPlatypus Thailand is doing just fine. It just happens to be a monarchy cum military dictatorship, but econom..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…aY
@SnarkyPlatypus China had the sheer mass, I guess. But then so did India.
@SnarkyPlatypus So what did they have in common, then?
@AusRob @SnarkyPlatypus When Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin met at Encounter Bay in 1802 they thought they wer..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…uX
@AusRob @SnarkyPlatypus Europe had been dealing with some significant wars in the preceding decades.
@AusRob @SnarkyPlatypus There was a global strategic imperative, more important to lay out the naval bases and trad..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…g4
@SnarkyPlatypus “[In the] Scramble for Africa, Ethiopia was the only territory in Africa to defeat a European colon..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…3e
PPantsdown 2nd panel ? Shelton : “If they allow black people on buses, people might assume that I’m black!”
maddow Warner’s office confirms: they really did pay in rubles. (FB’s crack investigators took a year to figure out those..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…av

PPantsdown Remember folks, Lyle Shelton is the real victim here!
#RealVictims #MarriageEquality #OnYourBike pic.twitter.com/YRJmZaS832
bintiM RT if you know why twitter.com/newsone/status…
Occasional Reminder: Aphex Twin is better than you ever will be. Now playing: “Surfing on Sine Waves 2” youtube.com/watch?v=htt1fN…
“It’s Called ‘Columbusing,’ And It’s The Latest Teen Craze That Has Kids Sailing The Globe In Search Of Spice”..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…ab
Sat plan, early draft: Eggs; tidy all the things (software updates, backups, kitchen, inbox, bin, etc), order TBA; listen to podcasts.
JohnBirmingham I think this is my favourite @NewYorker cartoon ever. Even better than the internet dog one. twitter.com/NewYorker/stat…

GossiTheDog Somebody just leaked me the script of the 2018 The Matrix reboot. pic.twitter.com/w7D4Z7MfTG
Indeed. twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/…
Oh this is cute*, and a reminder of the actual key drivers of Africa colonisation. Ping @SnarkyPlatypus. twitter.com/histknowledge/…
RVAwonk Wow —> Director of the National Security Archive says the WH “overrode career lawyers” in their decision to hide M..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Bz
jowens510 They hired FireEye on Aug. 2.
CFO sold shares on Aug. 1.
Equifax said CFO had no knowledge of breach, discovered Ju..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Ot
NuclearAnthro EMP, DRINK! 😍 twitter.com/empdrink/statu…

AaronTheH The new David Lynch film looks like his oddest and most disturbing one yet. pic.twitter.com/WpxtnwflQY
@CARROT_app I would like to thank @jeamland for introducing me to @CARROT_app Weather, a weather app that speaks my..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…J9
The Cyber Hexagons have come for them. twitter.com/ptrancyber/sta…

Thank you, @CARROT_app Weather. pic.twitter.com/I1HV3p6vv9
free_facts You are wasting your life

Histreepix Victims of identity theft wait in line for replacements. Beaminster, 1903. pic.twitter.com/mpDq4h1Koz
I dreamed we were with Barack Obama, and a nearby town had 3-for-2 gelato. So we assembled a bamboo and paper aircraft to fly there.
Saturday. ONE two three four five six SEVEN. Correct. Saturday.