Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian)

Wentworth Falls NSW AU

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April 18th, 2018

Goddammit why do these things keep missing? https://t.co/p55zaf0zjC

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@Retrovertigo @beneltham It’s not his fault. He’s just a private in this army. (OK, he signed up for it.)

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beneltham Some poor bloke at News got assigned to writing a whole piece of clickbait about my tweet pic.twitter.com/uuyVuK2iAB

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@DavidFeng @SnarkyPlatypus @kcarruthers @SallyRMelb Don’t you start buying into this, you Commie bastard!

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@itgrrl Not quite, but that reminds me that I’m talking about my cyber weather report thoughts on @abcperth in the… https://t.co/IhfSRYlFFU

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@kcarruthers @SnarkyPlatypus @SallyRMelb I don’t know but I’m willing to go there and take a look.

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@SnarkyPlatypus @kcarruthers @SallyRMelb Seriously, that’s the entire thing. Once a week a C-130 flies in supplies,… https://t.co/J75Ftrlnff

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@SnarkyPlatypus @kcarruthers @SallyRMelb Like I tweeted before, it’s a patch of coral with a weather station, but n… https://t.co/5xtDKZnWoc

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@SnarkyPlatypus @kcarruthers @SallyRMelb The US had it after WW2 but handed it back to Japan in 1968. “The station… https://t.co/0kCAuRw80K

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@SnarkyPlatypus @kcarruthers @SallyRMelb There are no other claims, it seems. See the ’pedia page linked to for the… https://t.co/fI1bqFbkVJ

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@kcarruthers @SallyRMelb Look at the history of that little patch of coral. It’ll be contested before you can say “Spratly”.

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“Researchers propose scheme to secure brain implants” https://t.co/yfCjsXGTuD Which when you think about it isn’t a… https://t.co/o6TH19t6pi

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“The first Sherlock Holmes story was such a hit that Coning Doyle wrote 55 sequels, which is 4 more than ‘The Fast… https://t.co/k15cgFG9h5

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Watching “Cunk on Britain: The Third Episode” https://t.co/iavCSk6BBs

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@engin_eer @kcarruthers @australian I’ve spoken and participated in discussions at a classical liberal think tank. Does that count?

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RT @fredbenenson: @rachelbinx “I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task th…

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Dr_Draper She’s talking about pizza, in case you’re wondering. pic.twitter.com/jZEsfNOKSa

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RT @jpwarren: A week in the lab can save you an hour in the library. https://t.co/5okL6b4JGS

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RT @FailsWork: Who’s bright idea was it to undercoat the wood chipper red. https://t.co/wqNKmdseiM

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“Millions of Apps Leak Private User Data Via Leaky Ad SDKs” https://t.co/nA9O5844G0

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@KarlskiB @JonathanPieNews Dunno if he’s got a Perth show. He does have a home page on the World Wide Web though.

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@PaulMcEwan6 Cool. All I’d be worried about is the date clashing with some annoying large-scale event.

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@indigoid Nothing is set in stone. It’s possible the SEKRIT project will be too busy in May to make it possible then.

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RT @SoVeryBritish: It’s so hot in Britain you could crack an egg on the pavement and it would just kind of sit there all raw
#heatwave

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How much does the @australian pay to write a poorly-researched daily blog? Asking for a friend.

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PaulBongiorno @phbarratt She knows a lot about white privilege

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RT @phbarratt: I think Judith should stick to writing about things she knows about. https://t.co/W1nvSQi6RH

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@JonathanPieNews I suppose I should get myself some tickets to @JonathanPieNews’ Sydney show, but first I need to f… https://t.co/8XMtYeHhAG

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ATTENTION! New @JonathanPieNews “The Cold War Returns” https://t.co/s7wPgm2M5Z It’s good. It’s very good.

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@indigoid I’m thinking about that right now, as it happens. Mid-May is looking quite possible.

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@indigoid Heh. That is all such a wank, so it’s good to see tha@BetootaAdvocatete is on the case.

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RT @CameronAtfield: . @abcbrisbane just reported Barbara Bush was the only American woman to be married to one president and to have given…

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RT @oz_f: Important thing to remember about cannabis legalisation is that once it’s legal everyone will start smoking it, unlike the curren…

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RT @GreenJ: i’m getting the impression that the entire finance sector is basically a racket.

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@R_Chirgwin @ashabeeeee @dobes @JustJimWillDo @rohan_p It’s a PR firm in Singapore that seems to have a LOT of clie… https://t.co/KYqFeoRWvB

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@JustJimWillDo @dobes @ashabeeeee @rohan_p No, that’s part of a brand name, and I should’ve redacted that as well.

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Hey @dobes @ashabeeeee @rohan_p, remember when words actually meant things? pic.twitter.com/2EY2itnKMM

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Great @abcconvos: “How Australia’s first female detective took on Sydney’s razor gangs” https://t.co/Y30KVCejXm Lil… https://t.co/LO39Rpm5xm

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@twiddlekins Brisbane is lovely. What are you on about?

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Dear Brisbane, is there any reason why a Public House Forum podcast recording in your town on the afternoon of Sat… https://t.co/eIe91TF4A4

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Nice discussion of “Tariffs & trade wars” with Marc Palen on the latest @HistoryHit https://t.co/NiYp1qDfZC

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@BXGD That might be at the refining stage, I don’t know, but I do know that the ore deposits are limited. China and… https://t.co/dxdyfEphLX

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If you haven’t listened to this podcast yet then you should. https://t.co/T600z0OmGW

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@voltagex @jxeeno @DCoopes That sounds like a very @jxeeno challenge. ;)

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RT @SixthTone: Woman found out the hard way that posing as a food courier and selling heroin with fried rice gets you a 4-year prison sente…

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RT @TechnicallyRon: Lifehack: Turn any noun into an insult by simply putting ‘You absolute’ before it.
Examples:
You absolute drum
You abso…

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“A-29s Carry Out One Third of Afghan Airstrikes” https://t.co/wxPxzlBPNr You can’t but love an aircraft called the… https://t.co/dQtdoqDCxT

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Most voters want Turnbull government to tax more and reduce inequality, poll finds” https://t.co/yPiGbopght Sure, b… https://t.co/kt4YSyASzy

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RT @jxeeno: Whipping together some quick before/after for #NBN FTTC in the Sydney region… (@DCoopes is probably working on more extensive…

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@timfdavis @SnarkyPlatypus Interesting thought. I haven’t been following JP politics.

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@eddit0r Definitely Pretty Abundant And Not At All In Demand Elements.

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@voltagex I will not argue against this. Also, I’m covering @ASPI_org’s “Building Australia’s Strategy for Space” c… https://t.co/T4w66QB8Bi

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I want it to last for ever and ever. https://t.co/VqGGVao9zC

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@dobes @SnarkyPlatypus It’s the sexiest 16 million tons of biogenic calcium phosphate grains in seabed sludge that… https://t.co/Xe4GFu8VHR

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@SnarkyPlatypus America will be pissed off they handed that little chunk of coral, back to Japan. REOs are a seriou… https://t.co/bawVzT232T

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@SnarkyPlatypus At least that means stability and coherence of diplomacy. More so than Certain Other Nations, anyway.

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@SnarkyPlatypus Oh and look, it’s only Japanese territory because there’s a tiny military base,… https://t.co/AsSxwJmKTR

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@SnarkyPlatypus Because hey let’s ramp up East Asian trade tensions, right?

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“Centuries worth of rare earth elements found in Japan’s EEZ” https://t.co/g9mEGgutbe This is kinda big. https://t.co/Gz6OBMTmEn

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“This Unicorn-Themed ‘Inflatable Island’ in the Philippines Is the Magical Vacation Destination of Your Dreams”… https://t.co/sdkPmSPCsV

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“Microsoft, Facebook, dozens more sign Cybersecurity Tech Accord: At the start of the RSA conference, major technol… https://t.co/ej38zvXxf2

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@TheEconomist @SnarkyPlatypus People have been floating this question, though.

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@TheEconomist @SnarkyPlatypus Oh. I thought the “No” was all there was. I didn’t realise it needed further argument.

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When @TheEconomist writes a troll op-ed, it writes a REALLY troll op-ed. Click through for the full effect. Attn:… https://t.co/RblBqco1iS

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RT @NickyWill100: This needs the Beetoota Treatment https://t.co/Bj4lOsqxlG

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JohnBirmingham I hated Morrissey before it was cool.

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@dobes @jpwarren @munin I think I will be buying the whole book momentarily, assuming there’s a convenient electric version.

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@dobes @egadheg @patbcaruana People who know how the alphabet works?

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“Fiverr offered a glimpse at the new model worker: a fat, depressed con artist forever scheming against his comrade… https://t.co/qxgt4fQTIa

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This story has the most excellent description of Yelp: “a website that allows anonymous semi-literates to post crit… https://t.co/Ms0V1Wb1C2

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@jpwarren You should social that up like a complete digital. Ah yes, so we did.

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Obviously this was meant to read “as we used to call it”, but my phone decided to help*. https://t.co/LiwAt6lPuB

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@munin Yeah that’s all still unfolding too.

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We also had verbs other than “drive”, but I don’t think anyone remembers any of them any more.

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Or as we’re uses to call it, “word of mouth”, back before “people talking to each other” became some sort of spooky… https://t.co/zYGiWaJ8kH

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Aha! “Adapted from ‘Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley’, published by Metro… https://t.co/rBcdFlAUEh

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RT @Serrels: Breaking: people donated actual real life money to buy a billionaire a couch. https://t.co/W2ngPeBMwE

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@dobes @rohan_p Have you thought of starting a yarnspace startup called Yarnr?

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“How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley” https://t.co/gungENwtho “Corey Pein @coreypein took his half-baked startu… https://t.co/0K67eUVTsk

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So seL4 now supports RISC-V. https://t.co/HzuL3JXVGo “This is a guide to setting up the 64-bit RISC-V tools and run… https://t.co/06OC9m99Qb

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@dobes @SnarkyPlatypus I, too, have an approachable passionfruit sweetness. https://t.co/CbiClYuxL9

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@dobes @SnarkyPlatypus “The Great Passion Pop Tour of 2018”!

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@dobes This is wonderful news and @SnarkyPlatypus needs to know about it. https://t.co/CbiClYuxL9

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@NewtonMark Nicely done. Maybe I should review some key locations, in order to help* the process.

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@dobes @liamosaur @ashabeeeee @zackwhittaker @zdnetaustralia Remember when I was an Easter Rabbit on the television? https://t.co/NUG5zAbgdU

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Fizzy drinks are the ultimate reality.

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The Wikipedia entry needs updating, but the 2013 revenue of Monster Beverage was US$2.246 billion. https://t.co/Pay0g5T51P Fightin’ the Man!

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… this is reality. Monster Beverage sold all its non-energy drink brands to Coca-Cola in 2015, in return for Coca… https://t.co/sdLQI4iVyj

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So, kids, this is satire, of course, but… https://t.co/96xl16XaxA

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@ashabeeeee @dobes @zackwhittaker @zdnetaustralia Black rabbit hacker, white rabbit hacker. (Should we bring… https://t.co/srYVqq2hCz

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@CptHollingworth It’s worrying that they’ve taken over Hansard.

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@SnarkyPlatypus Also, it’s fair to say that the Lutherans were more evangelical, wanting to convert the Indigenous… https://t.co/oRJ6JlBjSI

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@SnarkyPlatypus See later in the thread. It was Calvinists vs Lutherans rather than Catholics vs Lutherans. Check t… https://t.co/s4zTzhCGyh

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RT @deerscritches: i cant stop thinking about that shoebill that just picked up a duck and threw it because it was in the way. power move.…

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RT @KarlskiB: It’s almost like twitters “”””data science”””” division are a bunch of engineers and coders with zero stats experience who ar…

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Hey @dobes @ashabeeeee I have a suggestion for the @zdnetaustralia style guide. https://t.co/wH2kgp6Cng

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RT @sholtomac: Centuries worth of rare earth elements found in Japan’s EEZ https://t.co/1WnfTO44qA > interesting story. clanger of a senten…

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Wed plan, third draft following a rubbish morning: 1200 phone meeting; 1315 train to Katoomba; 1400 another phone m… https://t.co/F9mz2YxW44

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RT @CptHollingworth: “Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun.” https://t.co/KZFjRxcyTY

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RT @TonyWarren1: @BOM_au I love this. A 21 page analysis of what is actually going on using data. Sure beats the hell out of inane stories…

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RT @BOM_au: We have published a Special Climate Statement exploring the highly unseasonal hot spell experienced by much of Australia at the…

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RT @pleasedontatme: looks like inner west council publishes maps of where the NIMBYs live https://t.co/JTy3DzBgrK

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RT @larry_irving: Cambridge Analytica and the Internet Research Agency aren’t notable because of sophisticated new techniques, but for how…

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RT @carolecadwalla: Wow. This is BIG. @Arron_banks, are you listening to Brittany Kaiser give evidence? She’s talking about transferring da…

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Brefugees @rach0907 @carolecadwalla @Arron_banks @LeaveEUOfficial @jdwtwats @Dyson And a few others for posterity… pic.twitter.com/ZFzVpGZyCW

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RT @Brefugees: @rach0907 @carolecadwalla @Arron_banks @LeaveEUOfficial @jdwtwats @Dyson Got a few here because they remained cached on my d…

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RT @Brefugees: @rach0907 @carolecadwalla @Arron_banks @LeaveEUOfficial @jdwtwats The crux of the thread was that Wetherspoons deleted their…

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RT @MalwareJake: When the infosec team has to drag the business to adopting security - and they lack the budget for even the most basic too…

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Well that kinda worked, I guess.

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Unscheduled nap time. Back soon.

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RT @JoshBBornstein: Unemployment has not improved & under-employment has hit a record high https://t.co/IleBJyn6Ls

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“Sydney plans ignore problems facing residents to sell city to the world” https://t.co/I8VzwWx7LQ In other news, it’s a day with a Y in it.

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@R_Chirgwin @CARROT_app @nancycato1 Yes thank you, Richard. I just went outside for a moment, copped a lungful of b… https://t.co/8KFmN7bpPI

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This is an excellent poll that deserves to be retweeted to and voted on by a wide variety of people. https://t.co/nLds2IazAJ

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RT @alliecoyne: The number of Amazon and Google IPs Russia has banned in an attempt to block Telegram has now risen to 16 million (!) https…

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@nancycato1 @CARROT_app Will this goddam asteroid never come?

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Utopiana *snort* pic.twitter.com/hRi9VXohQr

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Rob_Stott How do I get on The Oz’s “fuck sharks” beat pic.twitter.com/w3HyVWEhnK

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matthew_d_green The outcome of the Telegram/Amazon/Russia blocking fiasco will be:

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I strongly support Ms Cato’s Modest Proposal. https://t.co/qmrLpMpVay

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TheLoveBel0w I feel like this needs to be posted periodically to refresh people’s memories. pic.twitter.com/ZqB4PX4tlv

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@bastardsheep I can’t look at it unbiasedly. I strongly believe that employment (or anything else) should not const… https://t.co/nSBhlxDuys

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@RanTLaw So I guess Commcare is off to the… High Court? Or Federal Court first?

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RT @Thetribalmind: It may often be biased and sensationalist, but you have to enjoy the way the Daily Telly does its corrections. @GreenJ h…

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RT @samanthamaiden: Bad Santa @ScottMorrisonMP rang the Acting PM (seen here dressed as a Christmas elf) at 11pm at night to berate him for…

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“Distorted crankcase” I guess. https://t.co/cXKMHPhaBo

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This strikes me as an important legal decision. https://t.co/6GZYBmSm3P

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RT @lanesainty: Former public servant Michaela Banerji was sacked for tweeting about Australia’s refugee & asylum seeker policy. Four and a…

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paul_haine Rare photo of a hippo standing on a piece of Lego pic.twitter.com/NuPqFOTTpL

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Can you 3D print a blockchain? I’m guessing you’d need AI to do that.

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damnyouwillis all aboard threepio’s Fuck Bus pic.twitter.com/a8beBlEobo

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RT @sallymcmanus: She’s really not my type. https://t.co/7aA1T6hab5

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Wed plan, second draft: Slow start, alas, but there are reasons; head to Katoomba library for SEKRIT project work,… https://t.co/lMr8DnTNjp

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@awelder I’ve sometimes described to students to “human centipede of news” but this is a slightly different topology.

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I just heard @BobbyChesney on @NSLpodcast use the term “the trolletariat” and I approve.

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RT @NatReconOfc: The Poppy’s mission, 1962-1977, was to search for & collect electronic intelligence signals, known as ELINT, from Soviet U…

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“Liberal stalwart expected to resign over link to alleged mobster” https://t.co/XHjFawqnke Mr Tony De Domenico “co… https://t.co/Bgh3J2Qhg0

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Pandamoanimum This, to me, is still the best ever opening paragraph on Wikipedia. pic.twitter.com/jiJpM90Slu

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Wed plan, first draft: Write for @zdnetaustralia; breaks at 1200 and 1400 for SEKRIT project work, and also at othe… https://t.co/EYDQqPpXMw

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RT @j_hutch: Because nothing says “legitimate investment” like an ICO by Cambridge Analytica and a Macau gangster named Broken Tooth. https…

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This would never work in Australia, because half the political “journalists” don’t know any other kind of “journali… https://t.co/iGr1uV71Y8

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RT @JohnJohnsonson: Telegraph editor: “How can we keep the Liberals in power? I know! We’ll make Scott Morrison look like he isn’t the worl…

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keano81 I feel like this might be a bit much, even for East London pic.twitter.com/cReZRIqzPe

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David_Cormack Not a good take. pic.twitter.com/cUhTAyNBDq

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@PeteLawler Fountain pen is also allowed.

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Wednesday. Take a copy and join the dots. Wednesday.

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