Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian)

Wentworth Falls NSW AU

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February 2019

Anyway, I’m gorn.

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I too have failed to reach a nuclear deal.

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@R_Chirgwin @drzax We may just have to get used to it, Simon.

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RT @NewtonMark: Did you hear that, everyone? No more uncertainty! Thank Christ. https://t.co/nBVBZ9Qb62

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@flowblok I’m happy to be convinced by arguments (the other kind) but we’re making each layer very complicated here.

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@jtwyman @zdnetaustralia @CyberGovAU I have been learning way too much about government cybersecurity compliance.

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@jtwyman @zdnetaustralia @CyberGovAU Yep. I wrote up the ISM changes in December. https://t.co/M7HrhzfdQJ Significa… https://t.co/B95au7QGiy

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RT @stilgherrian: Me at @zdnetaustralia : “ACSC
[@CyberGovAU] tightens access controls for Australian government systems” https://t.co/sFi…

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RT @soledadobrien: Um he was your finance chairman. https://t.co/VWXPJU2WtN

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FYI, the podcast originally scheduled for today has been put back a week because reasons, so while this audio is no… https://t.co/5uHk8wD86s

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@twiddlekins Thanks. I hadn’t realised they came with those distinct dorsal markings on the abdomen. I’ve only ever… https://t.co/Gou778OJ4T

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OMFG! “Each [of these people just introduced] is a hostile agent of the worldwide Sino-Soviet intelligence network”!

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Watching “Espionage Target: You”, a 1964 US Armed Forces training film https://t.co/iE2SdlofWP

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@Mikenicholls88 @dobes @rohan_p @davidgerard I too will show you some thing I made three months after you give me l… https://t.co/pCSilluVzP

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RT @stilgherrian: Dear Arachnophiles, could one of you identify this spider for me? A leg span of maybe 20mm. https://t.co/egcr71Avi8

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@patstokes Are we no longer in that simpler time? (Please do not provide links.)

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I’m assuming, @dobes @rohan_p @davidgerard, that it does all this on the blockchain. https://t.co/WJ78lOkig3

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RT @objectsgame: Objects in Space is coming 1st March. That’s… *counts on fingers for an inordinately long time* tomorrow! If you like sp…

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@KoparaFallsKid There were certainly clues that they weren’t prepared, but maybe he just wanted to get home.

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@expectproblems If it’s an orb weaver then it should be ashamed of that tangled mess in the corner of the window there.

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@KoparaFallsKid Following DPRK news is one of my… hobbies? I was looking for any clues about what happened today.

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OK, so I listened to all of Trump’s press conference and now I feel much more stupider than when it began.

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@JustJimWillDo TBH I’ve used it for so long I don’t remember what is BTD and what is vanilla.

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@JustJimWillDo Not that I’ve seen, but I may not have turned it on.

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RT @NewtonMark: “Not even wrong.” This is an out and out lie, why do you people just make shit up like this? https://t.co/b1xDREI7Fb

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Sounds more like Brilliant Mode to me! https://t.co/2XXjJOAQ8Z

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@jpwarren @Shahbahraz Don’t try this kind of expertifying at home.

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Enjoying Trump throwing in random trivia facts about the KP-RU border, which he has obviously just learned, as if t… https://t.co/FzFYR03a8F

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@itgrrl @Joflixen I am not, so thank you, but I see that it doesn’t yet have the Dec 2018 and now Feb 2019 editions.

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@Shahbahraz @jpwarren Or, ideally, combine it with all the other words we love into the one presentation.

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@reselsnark We’ve put it back to next week, because reasons, but I’m sure we’ll have some solid ideas.

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So that question was whether there’d been an agreement about what denuclearization means, and the waffle that ensue… https://t.co/5SriFd2sZ2

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Yep. Pompeo uses the phrase “denuclearization of North Korea”, while Kim talks about “denuclearization of the Kore… https://t.co/4DDcn1rXcV

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What’s the Korean for “Brexit”? https://t.co/pjEvZcKH9u

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@kirstinferguson @abcnews @mjrowland68 For me it was a brief 10-day work trip to Ho Chi Minh City just on two years… https://t.co/rpaAJE8kSC

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@BZB @stufromoz That would be worth watching.

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Watching the @abcnews feed from Hanoi reminds me that I want to go to Vietnam again soon.

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@dobes I did ask @macgibbon about it when we last we spoke, in December I think, but it was new to him at that time.

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@JustJimWillDo Grab yourself the plug-in Better TweetDeck. It, um, makes TweetDeck better.

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@stufromoz @BZB Hardly surprising, since he’s dead.

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RT @jennijenni: Hi! I’m still looking for a short-term freelancer in Sydney. Position requires hands-on digital producing work (think: home…

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@paulbam3 Indeed. There seems to very little ability to see the world from anyone else’s point of view.

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Thanks to https://t.co/zs3n5fkUpv I can confirm that the changed to the Information Security Manual (ISM) itself ar… https://t.co/XavZ57eIky

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Hey @dobes, this may not be clear, but the person-in-the-middle battle has made it to the ISM. Dec 2018 on the left… https://t.co/dwaoFmoxRf

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“Denuclearizing” does NOT mean DPRK giving up its nuclear weapons while the US remains in ROK.

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So folks do know that by “denuclearizing” Kim means “removing all nuclear powers from the peninsula”? Which means t… https://t.co/3oN1Zi3zHL

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RT @glengyron: Still neck and neck. Will India and Pakistan or NKorea vs USA be today’s nuclear war. https://t.co/oCM78QQwkI

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@JohnBarronUSA @abcnews It’s just AEDT. As opposed to AEST. Please don’t make me cry, John. https://t.co/pBybTXy28r

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The Sound of America (2019)
mixed media https://t.co/pQP2EXk1Wn

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RT @ZekeJMiller: HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Trump, NKorea’s Kim Jong Un depart summit early without scheduled lunch; US leader to hold news conf…

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RT @ChrisReason7: Now Chairman Kim’s convoy has been seen leaving the hotel

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chadocl Awaiting now the emergence of Trump.

Just one mic on the podium. pic.twitter.com/hohI446g29

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Stumpy-tailed lizard is stumpy-tailed. https://t.co/j3ySPbsLtS

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StephenJonesMP Nobody does irony like @chriskkenny
This opening paragraph is magnificent. pic.twitter.com/yMDqbiEzFD

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I agree with @DecayRSO, we should call this “The Vulva Monologues”. https://t.co/TgRuRlpGjz

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Honestly, in what universe do people write sentences like that?

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Pro Tip: Plug in all the things. pic.twitter.com/MVl4aayHGU

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@jpwarren @purserj This is because students need to be broken, like a horse.

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@purserj @jpwarren So THAT is your first question about this diagram?

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Wow. YouTube REALLY hates me today. pic.twitter.com/zNlhfAncDi

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@Epigrammist Nope. For reasons, I have a solid knowledge of the Bristol Scale.

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@juhasaarinen It’s a universal law. No matter how fucked up something is, a standards committee can find a way to make it worse.

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@Epigrammist Ha, surely it has to be all liquid to be a 7.

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@juhasaarinen They must be handing out the Bad Drugs this year.

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@sleepingdingo Please let’s not encourage him to continue for one second longer.

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Also never forget, though I’m sure* this is someone different. https://t.co/upzan20JX5

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Dear Arachnophiles, could one of you identify this spider for me? A leg span of maybe 20mm. https://t.co/egcr71Avi8

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@AdrianAtRedHat Fortunately it’s on the outside of the window. Probably.

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@DecayRSO Goddammit that’s good. :)

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@zdnetaustralia @CyberGovAU Remind me again how to get the diffs between two PDF files?

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@zdnetaustralia @CyberGovAU HEY KIDS! There’s been some revisions to the Australian government’s Information Securi… https://t.co/IpG6v7pHPG

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@buckleup No idea. I don’t know spiders. But actually the centipede is about 15 to 20mm long, for scale.

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@AndrewThorpe For some value of “wonderful”, I suppose…?

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@maxcelcat The centipede had lost before it even knew it was in a fight.

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And the ratio is exactly what you’d expect it to bepic.twitter.com/uAyzF2aCHkHk

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Christ, this guy is STILL going! https://t.co/TgRuRlpGjz

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As you may have surmised, the centipede lost that one. And to answer the inevitable question, the spider is about the size of a small dog.

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Australia Today: Spider vs Centipede, near my desk just now. pic.twitter.com/VZaSDJ7sSg

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Me at @zdnetaustralia : “ACSC
[@CyberGovAU] tightens access controls for Australian government systems”… https://t.co/0INPfuCaY7

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@CptHollingworth @expectproblems It didn’t look enticing, but now I can appreciate the sheer animal sex appeal of i… https://t.co/pjKsNqMloW

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This thing, this Emissions Reduction Fund, is bloody awesome, eh. https://t.co/1uz52pWMsp

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@CptHollingworth @voltagex We can be heroes, just for one day!

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@TheRealMoebius Thanks. I’m good, just fiddling with the meds a bit to fix some shitty sleep patterns. We’ll see wh… https://t.co/dAXv4evIXP

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@dobes I’d forgotten that was happening. Should I grab the Hansard, or will I want to kill myself?

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@JustJimWillDo @craigthomler @ashabeeeee Wasn’t that more or less like being an Instagram Influencer?

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@CptHollingworth @voltagex Now all we need are a stupid company name, a room full of bean bags, and cocaine!

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@TheRealMoebius My sympathies. Mine’s more brane-related, but still not fun.

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@CptHollingworth @voltagex So, not such a bad idea, really.

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@dobes WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON TODAY.

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@ashabeeeee “[Uber] has asked for cooperation from Australian governments so it can demo Uber Air in the country as… https://t.co/xWv20VkPhz

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So @voltagex has brought this to my attention. Look closely. https://t.co/PfUNXY3zaF

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@CptHollingworth @jpwarren @dobes I don’t understand why we all don’t work in advertising.

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@dobes @CptHollingworth “Continuity with change,” surely.

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@dobes Pleased that my story will start with the words “Tighter yet more flexible”.

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OK kids, I’m going to get back into that writing befor@dobeses has a sook.

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Is one of them “defenestrate”? https://t.co/6PjhbU0XG8

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@dobes @jeamland @rohan_p It’s one of those up there, I think, but it starts at around 3.5 hours (yes, hours) into today’s show.

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@CptHollingworth @expectproblems Oh. “Discovery”. Not actual disco. Sigh.

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RT @scanlime: the trouble with telling folks to learn by reading the linux source code is that it’s written in C and has no unit tests and…

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RT @PaulLeeTicks: @realDonaldTrump This is how EVERY negotiation you have with Kim Jong-un has gone and will ever go, from here to ETERNITY…

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I can’t imagine who this might have been. https://t.co/kBV0MgRo8o

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RT @joshjonsmith: Wild story out of Spain: A group of unidentified men entered North Korea’s embassy in Madrid last Friday, bound and gagge…

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@dobes @rohan_p Seriously, when it’s not that itâ@jeamlandland’s fucking video about systemd.

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Oh great, @dobes, now the Tube of Ewes is recommending I watch endless Joe Rogan and Alex Jones clips. @rohan_p

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malloc8 stop expecting people to give a shit about blockchain.

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@MatthewBevan Not quite the same, really, is it.

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Hmmm, some of the things that are on fire are not meant to be on fire.

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Hey @dobes, I see that @binchickensc has its own Twitter account now. https://t.co/qpZjPHlbN5

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RT @MWhitbourn: Fresh from the swearing-in ceremony for the new Court of Appeal president, @binchickensc trots across to the King Street co…

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Wait, this guy was giving evidence just last month. https://t.co/Ib2hmHMOsI

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RT @HeerJeet: I can’t find it now but a few months ago I did a tweet that President Tucker Carlson would have Michael Tracey as press secre…

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@R_Chirgwin And this is just from the little ants. There’s also those red and black ants which are, what, a metre and a half long?

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I swear, @R_Chirgwin, this entire building is going to disappear into a sink-hole. pic.twitter.com/RFicQDFynN

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@ddowza @bunjaree Wait. Sunlight to electricity and then back to heat? Alas, I must inform you that I just hung my… https://t.co/1eF8qnCoGz

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And here’s another one for the CV. It can go with that one from a @zdnetaustralia commenter which said I had a head… https://t.co/ZMgUafRqCU

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@fictillius @AlboMP I have just one word to say: Silver Emu.

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“HyperloopTT reckons it can get you from Sydney to Canberra in 22 minutes,” writes @ashabeeeee, who should now be g… https://t.co/pMhzoogh1L

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@SnarkyPlatypus I guess you’re having Singapore Noodles?

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@raaahbin Sure, it’s not as good as Opal, but it’s not THAT bad.

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@shenmaxiu @HappySinger @midsomerplots THIS. HAS. NOTHING. TO. DO. WITH. ME.

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@SnarkyPlatypus Ask for Pad Thai, that’s Asian.

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@cafuego @bunjaree The one @dobes was going to buy for me? He’s been a bit slow to deliver on his promise.

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RT @jaketapper: For those intrigued by the reference — “Matthew Calamari, the organization’s chief operating officer, was recruited in 198…

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@raaahbin I have. I have a Myki card right here. [Points to wallet]

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This is the thrust of the early narrative of both the Wolff and Woodward books. The accidental president whose reno… https://t.co/NoHf0xJOXo

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@joelpmichael @bunjaree Hey look I can definitely think of ways to overload the solar system*. @R_Chirgwin Son the… https://t.co/R1lICnMAAn

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RT @kath_krueger: think they’re just called “podcasts.” FOLKS https://t.co/NkVIDfrZ25

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RT @johnb78: One of the great msysteries of history is why the Romans crucified people based on their Myers-Briggs type cc @ChrissieM @Supe…

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RT @anthonydever: Over twenty minutes he visited and scrolled Trump’s twitter three times. In between he visited and read articles on Briet…

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RT @anthonydever: Being a left wing nut job who works in creative industries and lives in Inner West Sydney, you don’t really encounter the…

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@aimee_maree @anildash @voltagex Hah! That’s WAY better.

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SnarkyPlatypus Important poll. Who is better?

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@anildash @voltagex “Do you love me?”

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@SnarkyPlatypus Let’s see what happens. Isn’t it the ALP rule that Caucus chooses the ministry, and then the PM assigns portfolios?

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The solar panels at @bunjaree are generating so much electricity today that the battery is full, I’m running the wa… https://t.co/brOIy1hr0T

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@SteveMolk Heh. I see what you did there.

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@dobes @rohan_p I should not have started listening to that on a day when I’m adjusting my meds. All that shouted stupidity isn’t healthy.

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@dobes @rohan_p I have turned it off now because even I have my limits.

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@dobes @rohan_p Well obviously I am already thinking this but there’s just so much woo-woo in this that it’s already destroying my brain.

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@dobes @rohan_p Well he’s got a point.

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@dobes @rohan_p So, their argument is that they, personally, are too stupid to comprehend evolution, and somehow no… https://t.co/2DNwiDYFOc

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@dobes @rohan_p THIS IS AWESOME! “Nobody programmed a worm to pop out the ass of a grasshopper.”

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@dobes @rohan_p Yeah I can’t roll back yet because I am SO into this narrative.

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@dobes @rohan_p Pressing “PLAY”. How far should I roll back?

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NSW Greens members accused of coordinating something shock. https://t.co/0mediJAS9Q

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@expectproblems And having spent all that time with submariners she really knew the meaning of going down.

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All this research on crisper babies is fascinating, I’m sure, but personally I don’t like them that crunchy. https://t.co/Tq662HfSXd

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RT @tshanahan83: This is such bullshit. @unionsnsw couldn’t even find Northern Sydney on a map, let alone know how much development is occu…

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RT @SICKOFWOLVES: SURE ANIMALS USUALLY DIE BECAUSE SOMETHING IS EATING THEM OR WHATEVER BUT AT LEAST THEY NEVER LIE AWAKE AND WONDER IF THE…

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In case you’re wondering about Ivy Bells, she was a British cabaret performer who ran honey trap operations against… https://t.co/xqLGz4fWSx

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