Dear Planet Earth, it’s 2018 and we’re arguing about whether we should kill the Nazis? Really? Have you not been pa..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…fM
franksting “Look how dumb I am” twitter.com/Boogie2988/sta…
@JustJimWillDo Let’s not go there. But the new gins coming out of Tasmania are awesome.
Strait Tasmanian Sloe Gin is not at all dreadful.
@davidgwynnjones I saw that.
@sfmnemonic @DobsonJan Agreed, you don’t need that, and I’m sorry for my gratuitous Hitler reference. There’s far m..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…bI
Definitely not having been drinking with the publican.
GuardianAus My life in sex: ‘I’ve had sex only once, 20 years ago’ trib.al/FCAezMn
@Davelennonabc @TheRealKerryG @SallyRMelb @TalisaDaKisser @abchobart @tasmaniatalks My understanding, just confirme..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Ip
OH: “If you get an email about pork, salt, and gelatin, don’t open it. It’s spam.”
BIG GALAH. twitter.com/KetanJ0/status…
Well this is the point of that fact check. But there are other games being played and I’m not sure how many of the..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…qV
@nickorloff I may have been unclear. Labor says money is drained to the mainland from the pokies. Liberal says that..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…rp
This is now my understanding too. I was just being cautious earlier. twitter.com/LovelyCorrine/…
Thank you also to the person who reminded me why Mr Walsh is a wild card here.
In case I forget later, thank you to everyone who’s contributed to this thread, here or in Tasmania or in The Grand..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…a5
@YodaSG1 Thank you. Tasmania’s pokies environment does appear to be unique. And yes, it really is the focus of campaigning.
Ask and ye shall receive. The “3000 jobs” claim doesn’t hold up. abc.net.au/news/2018-02-2… Surprise! HT @zackster. pic.twitter.com/O5W9p26cV7
@SnarkyPlatypus My experience was that Tasmanians “get it”, but of course that’s the kind of people I was spending time with.
Could someone find this fact check for me please? twitter.com/SallyRMelb/sta…
Nothing surprising in these stats but this shows why it’s a live issue in Tasmania right now. twitter.com/LovelyCorrine/…
@nickorloff I heard “mainlander” as a term of abuse. YMMV.
Nothing surprising in these stats, but again it points to why this is a live issue in Tasmania.
Here’s some evidence of the way the Farrell brothers are playing this… hardtwitter.com/LovelyCorrine/…qC
There’s a separate thread over here about pokies and TAS and WA which is worth reading, but here’s a key point abou..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…q2
My mistake for using the lazy term “fearmongering”, sorry. I agree that this is a powerful and genuine argument giv..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…lP
I agree here, but the campaign adverts I heard* emphasised the out-of-state aspect.
* Quite possibly a bias in the..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…pG
This one comes back to my point. If neither Labor nor Liberals will do a coalition deal, then a hung parliament bec..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Cg
… and here’s the second. Also, “Godwinism” is definitely a word, righ@sfmnemonicic? ;twitter.com/DobsonJan/stat…Rk
OK, some important clarifications of the Labor-Greens horror story coming in now. Here’s the first..twitter.com/LouiseASaunder…vM
Yes, for another layer of complexity, add in Mr Walsh’s influence here. This is fascinating stuff. twitter.com/jamesdunlevie/…
@jamesdunlevie Thanks, James, yes that fix is already in the thread.
Correct. Look up how these systems work. They’re a fascinating way to “improve” democracy that few places have adop..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Ar
@DamienCWalker Please correct.
OK, now we get to the good bit of Twitter, when everyone fixed the over-simplifications and straight-up mistakes th..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…qH
@TalisaDaKisser @abchobart @tasmaniatalks End of my story. I’ll look at your corrections and clarifications and thread them in momentarily.
Of course, as psychic mini goat @TalisaDaKisser predicted on my podcast and @abchobart and @tasmaniatalks, it’s goi..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…To
Plus, of course, Labor may choose not to “do a deal” until, well, they do. Or even without a deal, the Liberals mig..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…sM
IMPORTANT POINT: Labor needn’t “do a deal” with The Greens, necessarily, because unlike the mainland, Tasmania uses..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Se
Hence the Liberals’ simple rhetoric. Liberals = jobs. Labor and/or Greens = not jobs. And both sides have dragged i..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Kk
Remember, in Tasmania, The Greens are worse than Hitler. They’re against mining, they’re against logging, and they..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…KH
Labor, meanwhile, campaigns with two arguments. (1) Pokies suck hundreds if millions out of the state annually, $30..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…mM
The Liberals reckon that if the pubs lose their pokies revenue then 3000 jobs will go. Every* Oasis pub has signs l..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…qy
So here’s how the campaigning is going…
The incumbent Liberal government is terrified that this alliance of Labor and The Greens on this issue will give th..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…rd
Until now, both the Liberal Party and the Labor Party have resisted The Greens’ call to ban the pokies. But this el..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…QH
Certainly wherever I strolled in Launceston and Hobart, and whenever the coach paused in between, the signs on most..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…7c
Here is the first key clarification. twitter.com/PeteLawler/sta…
Oasis, I am told*, has the license for all the poker machines in Tasmania, including those in pubs owned by, say, W..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…cw
So Federal Hotels, a firm owned by the Farrelly brothers in Sydney, owns the Wrest Point Casino, a huge number of p..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Fs
My understanding is that none of this is really a secret to Tasmanians either. Only us mainlanders are this clueless.
My current understanding of why poker machines are the big issue in tomorrow’s state election in Tasmania. Correcti..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…As
@SnarkyPlatypus Yes I thought you’d be interested. None of this is secret, but this is how the whole thing works.
@darrenpauli Mate, we GET Mr Rock to roll you a fake death certificate. We know how to do this.
Apparently this week people discovered that airlines do group discounts and corporate rates.
@darrenpauli Would you like me to arrange a hit on you? I’m sure I can organise a freebie.
Yep, this is how it works. twitter.com/semibogan/stat…
@SnarkyPlatypus More Tasmania/pokies intel emerging, in the front bar and via the internet. Details soon.
I’d missed this photo. Magnificent, @ellinghausen. twitter.com/ellinghausen/s…
@smartbrain If you ever get the chance to meet a quoll you must do so.
@PeteLawler True, and that’s actually where he is right now.
NewtonMark Remember those heady sun-drenched lazy days of yore when Mark Latham was the worst thing about Australia? No wonder boomers get nostalgic.
@Mr_Spock It worked @ though.
JoshBBornstein Good to see the @AICDirectors join me in highlighting the disgraceful conduct of the @BCAcomau in its fanatical pur..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…rC
I should have taken Nathaniel to the pub to introduce him to the locals. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
@jonoabroad If I spit out the gristle, sure.
@da_terry @jonoabroad I agree. Russian torpedo technology has always been… interesting, and if they’ve actually buitwitter.com/i/web/status/9…WkKn
@MikeyRobins Wentworth Falls needs something to perk it up, and I’m prepared to be Patient Zero.
I think I’ll head into the village for dinner. I probably shouldn’t for fever-related reasons, but I’ll go stir-crazy if I don’t.
@RealNickHodge Thank you for helping.
ABC Big blast brings down two giant smokestacks at a Canadian power plant on the shores of Lake Erie in Nanticoke, Onta..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…EP
That’s is to say, Putin reiterated the usual stated purpose of nuclear weapons.
(Accusations of being a Russian t..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…QT
IndigenousXLtd “I wish I was a little bit taller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a white ethnostate
I wish I had a girl
If I di..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…wz
@munin @dobes Exactly that. Everything is about Trump’s tiny attention span, “wide-ranging ignorance”, and personal..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Dn
@dobes This is from an internal White House email in April, supposedly citing one Gary Cohn. pic.twitter.com/1nlN71LHXI
@dobes Meeting strategies, everything, are all about him not thinking you’re boring, or that you’re lecturing him,..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…m4
@dobes Have you read “Fire and Fury”? I’m about 18 pages from the end, and yes, the way in which ads are placed to..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…wh
In which Silicon Valley decides that the way to handle racial diversity is to compile a database categorising their..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…27
@peeyooshchandra The ambitions of the early Cold Warriors knew no bounds.
Could one of my NATSEC followers please recommend a good book on the history of дезинформация / dezinformatsiya / d..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…f6
@stacejarman Kind of, yes.
abcbrisbane Queensland Rail invited vision-impaired people to test their new train — it never arrived.ab.co/2CS1949Wpic.twitter.com/tJNt2k4ipFF
Timeless tweet. twitter.com/SnarkyPlatypus…
@SnarkyPlatypus Yep. Dental says “Saturday 8am - 1pm” and also to 7pm on Thursday nights.
@SnarkyPlatypus You don’t want to go with the Antler-Dentists?
@lukeweston @patstokes I know from bitter experience to not get into an argument with a philosopher about these thi..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…qu
@SnarkyPlatypus How come you are on the loose so early? You’re not a freelancer, or a journalist.
@dobes @alikoneko @ashabeeeee @e_blyler @jpwarren Agreed.
rohan_p My job involves penning a lot of polite electronic mails to people pic.twitter.com/GXMONI10MB
ben_hr Our dystopian future is ever-surprising twitter.com/uber/status/96…
patstokes Enactivists would have a field day with this tweet. There’s good arguments to say if alive, this CNS would not be t..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…VB
da_667 shitpost life is the only life. pic.twitter.com/9pYPEaFe4Q
@peeyooshchandra Some of the early Cold War technology proposals were only s l i g h t l y insane.
@NuclearAnthro For the most awesome value of “awesome”.
In which @dobes explains why Adrian Turner is the kopi luwak of Australian science governance. zdnet.com/article/data61…
“NSW government agencies barely pass Auditor-General’s security probe”, writes @ashabeeeee, surprising nobody. zdnet.com/article/nsw-go…
@dj2mn That can be arranged. That should be arranged.
@jpwarren @alikoneko @dobes @ashabeeeee Oh was it a joke? I though it captured the precise essence of what actually happens.
@ashabeeeee @dobes @jpwarren Not even.
Project Pluto was an AWESOME idea. A pre-programmed nuclear-powered ramjet drone that laid down a barrage of nukes…twitter.com/i/web/status/9…zS
@ashabeeeee @dobes @jpwarren Nothing stops those cunts.
@juhasaarinen @garthk @NicholasFryer Juha, if you’re too lazy to look up one of your own stories then you’re too la..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Qv
HAHAHAHA. @DrCraigEmerson used “Turnbull government” and “strategy” together like they were an actual thing. Good o..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…hB
@juhasaarinen @NicholasFryer Heh. I made exactly the same decision re stories on distraction attacks. And given tha..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…3s
oz_f Days after the PM went to the US to plead with Trump not to reinstate steel tariffs, Trump has reinstated steel tar..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…s3
LibyaLiberty Issue wasn’t that Muslim women had to remove hijabs for mugshots, it’s that men were present. This headline makes i..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Jf
@NicholasFryer @juhasaarinen Oh, we also forgot extortion. “Hello, you don’t know me, but I see your website is hav..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…sO
@NicholasFryer @juhasaarinen Yeah, the core issue is that DDoS is just so goddam cheap. They’re also good to distra..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…ku
LilyDAmbrosioMP Oh David.
A/ They were never secret
B/ You spelt diesel wrong
C/ Everyone knew where they were
D/ They were never..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…xL
@JustJimWillDo @dobes @jonkudelka This is a great place to end the game.
@NicholasFryer @juhasaarinen Theory: If you prevent people distributing a critical software patch, it gives you mor..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…qZ
@NicholasFryer @juhasaarinen I can’t be arsed scrolling back, Juha, but are you referencing the Akamai blog post? blogs.akamai.com/2018/03/memcac…
@NicholasFryer @juhasaarinen We’ve also seen DDoS against legit software download sites so some punters will go to..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…kp
@NicholasFryer @juhasaarinen This is possible, yes. Or we’ve seen attacks bought by a kid who ran an online sneaker..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…dN
@bastardsheep @dobes @jonkudelka Nice.
Not my circus, not my monkey, Tasmania, but really? Pig, poke, etc. #tasvotes twitter.com/ben_hansen/sta…
@dobes @jonkudelka Off-game, but this 2014 image by @cochl is gorgeous. pic.twitter.com/rK2MrGk4N4
@dobes @jonkudelka OK, then let’s see… HAHAHAHAHA. pic.twitter.com/eoEuLWDZwi
@dobes @jonkudelka Does this count? pic.twitter.com/xpD2wH1k1N
@dobes @jonkudelka Wow. That’s damn superb, that is.
ButtCoin perhaps if your industry would stop rapidly cycling through the 1920’s securities scam playbook on an endless loop..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…7q
@dobes @jonkudelka GODDAMMIT. That doesn’t count because it was a side comment to Kudelka.
@jonkudelka @dobes BUT WE HAVE BARELY BEGUN. pic.twitter.com/YTaYQhQkqe
@PeteLawler @AntonyGreenABC Mate, Pete, are you electionsplaining @AntonyGreenABC?
@SnarkyPlatypus OK, so that’s my turn to take you serious. Me for you on data security, you for me on racism. How does that work?
“Tasmanian election: Liberal poll-eve plan to relax gun laws” theaustralian.com.au/national-affai… pic.twitter.com/6loQwC5FP8
@dobes This is an excellent thread.
@munin @dobes Probably in the same way that yours seems more fun to me: because there’s no skin in the game. Also, fewer guns.
@SnarkyPlatypus What for? I’d advise not having one.
@AntonyGreenABC That doesn’t answer the question, you evasive psephology you!
@munin @dobes Politics in both our nations is insane, though in ways reflecting the unique character of each one.
@AntonyGreenABC I know you don’t do predictions, but how confident are you about being able to call it tomorrow night?
PrettyBadLefty Zizek is way more interesting than Peterson. Peterson is a run of the mill huckster using his degree in a semi-rela..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…8I
You say “shrapnel-shooting airbags” like it’s a bad thing. twitter.com/ChrisKeall/sta…
@NuclearAnthro Yeah but a Doomsday Torpedo sounds pretty damn cool. Very Buck Rogers.
@Tim_Beshara Was drinking the water in Tasmania a mistake? What is wrong with you people?
@dobes We must not allow a whiteboard gap!
@AntonyGreenABC To be fair, both @AntonyGreenABC and I had both been sitting at the same table, and I was also a fa..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…tn
@AntonyGreenABC REMINDER: This happened when I was in the @abchobart cafe on Tuesday. I still think it’s hilarious. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
I have been told that given the complex counting and postal votes, people are pencilling in a six-week delay before..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…pZ
For some reason I had the Tasmanian election in my calendar for 10 Mar, not 3 Mar. No wonder it was so bloody stupi..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…1N
This is pretty fucked up. twitter.com/jturner_ibrs/s…
James_Jeffrey The digital wizards at @australian have turned Michaelia Cash’s new entry at theaustralian.com.au/404 into a moving..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…iC
jonkudelka Grown Up Government kudelka.com.au/2018/03/grown-… in the @australian pic.twitter.com/2eCYzXnLDf
@sjsmith_au You’re behind the case, but thank you. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
@PaulMcEwan6 Quolls aren’t lumps. They are lean and stealthy and have great big teeth.
Full Moon in five minutes, at 1151 AEDT.
@Sunsplashsun @AntiPovertyN_SA @Asher_Wolf @thetreemugger @not_my_debt @munin @jpwarren I know. That’s my point.
Dear Melbourne, this looks good. Developers, you need to know how your creations affect real humans. You need to le..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…7M
@Asher_Wolf @thetreemugger @not_my_debt @munin @jpwarren From a personal perspective, I didn’t bother finding out i..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…6A
Newcastle, Australia, does have its moments. twitter.com/carolduncan/st…
@maelorin Yep, @jpwarren had these figures earlier. I haven’t clicked through yet. twitter.com/jpwarren/statu…
@AntiPovertyN_SA @Asher_Wolf @munin @jpwarren All these things, yes. And thanks for the thread, @Asher_Wolf. These..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…t3
Thanks heaps to Paul McElwee for being the first supporter of “The 9pm Hometown Forum”. Adelaide, you need to lift..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…zV
Stonekettle Thursday in America. twitter.com/APEastRegion/s…
They might have been guinea pigs. I don’t know. Is there a taxonomy of all those stupid fur lumps that people have as pets?
My vivid-dream side effects were more vivid that usual last night. In one dream, I had to use an axe to defend myse..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…9Q
Fri plan, outline draft: Tidy up loose ends caused by that bout of presumed food poisoning, so to speak #duckramenrevenge; quiet evening.
“We need to talk about peace again” by @Scottludlam, the first in his new fortnightly columns at @GuardianAus..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Z3
@niltiac Not in the least. :) (Hi, @Scottludlam.)
Truly the end times. Is there no escaping this man? twitter.com/gabriellecj/st…
@Asher_Wolf @jpwarren @munin Ta, I was about to start hunting for that figure, :)
Compare this to, say, the percentage of people buying an investment property who lie on their loan application, or..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…0Y
@jpwarren @munin Ms @workmanalice has been committing acts of journalism. Again. There are people who wish she’d stop.
@jpwarren @munin OK, @jpwarren and @munin, you need to work this out. But he was asking whether we know the cost of..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…v0
@BrigadierSlog @wordfence @troyhunt @haveibeenpwned Credit to @troyhunt for creating the API, and credit to those i..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…dd
@wordfence @troyhunt @haveibeenpwned If you host your own WordPress site(s) and don’t already use @wordfence then y..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…TY
The excellent @wordfence security plugin for WordPress now also checks for known compromised passwords against..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…XY
edbott From the No Shit Sherlock file:
Lots of people trying to get out but “no one is really hiring people with Trump W..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…DT
@munin @jpwarren Yes. But then that’s not the real goal, right? It’s to convince middle-class voters that the gover..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Cm
@munin We’ll know that soon, if we don’t already. If the Senators can’t dig it out in the current Estimates hearing..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…zy
This is 0.053% of those investigated. Half of a tenth of a percent. Or as it’s traditionally written, three-fifths..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…7u
awelder What a waste of time and resources twitter.com/samanthamaiden…
samanthamaiden I spoke to one of the Coalition staffers at the centre of rumours she had an extra marital affair with a minister o..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Ki
@LindyBurns Happy Friday.
@dobes @ashabeeeee The ultimate though, @RealNickHodge, would be bees. Bees! BEES!
zerogeewhiz “He is strong like ox, descended as he is from the gods. Our Dear Leader is attractive, musky, irresistible.”
What..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…NR
@LindyBurns This thread might be fun too, @LindyBurns. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
Same thing here. Screwing around with myostatin inhibitors will appeal bigly to the steroid gobbles at your local g..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…12
This is the genetic engineering technique that some biohackers are talking about doing with humans. I wrote about t..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Jt
lauraolin Tammy Duckworth is the first sitting U.S. senator to give birth, and she has some questions:..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…b1
jturner_ibrs Excellent commentary on security vendor pricing twitter.com/chrisplummer/s…
@gattaca @rik_ferguson Someone whining on Twitter? Unprecedented!
Friends don’t let friends read Clive Hamilton. twitter.com/egadheg/status…
@LindyBurns We can certainly do that. We can add to that the synthesis of audio from samples of someone’s existing..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…oW
SandiHLogan .@SenPaterson trust me, you are no professional as claimed on @abc730. You’re a paid IPA dolt. You’ve never done a..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…xx
westhamster2 Want to feel old?
This is what The Eurythmics look like now. pic.twitter.com/4biAJJbf4b
Friday. Make a list. Get someone you don’t know to pick a number. Friday.