sovietvisuals Not a Soviet visual but a deepfake of Elon Musk singing 1983 Soviet space song “Grass Of Home” by the band Zemlyane..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…qc
@NewtonMark Still might be worth trying to reduce the other fires though? I am no expert.

timurkuran A 56-second overview of the first 5 months of 2020. pic.twitter.com/WRpdHxSc4P
shane25873 Six hour poll….
Do you think Trump still has a real chance of serving a second term as President?
@misosusanowa Yep.
smolrobots Now we’ve slowed down the blades and put up a warning sign, from tomorrow you can safely walk into a combine harves..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…uj

SunApology Flash some cash. pic.twitter.com/nCOYnB1WFl
@misosusanowa Basically anything could happen at this point. :(
@jodiem Of the podcast? That’s just the standard macOS speech synth, with the Australian female voice chosen. Which..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…NY
@arizclint “Don’t think of a hippopotamus.”
NewtonMark It blows my mind that the NRL thinks they have “power brokers.” I mean, seriously? Your stadium development just go..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…yX
Sure. Four more years. And then Jared. So twelve more years. twitter.com/ConversationED…
@jonoabroad Thanks. :) I’m good though. I am used to managing the occasional bad times. How are things your end?
All I really did this week was make two very short episodes of His Plague Diary, the current format for “The 9pm Ed..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…cG
NEW BLOG POST: “Weekly Wrap 522: And now America burns…” stilgherrian.com/weekly-wrap/52… Covers 25–31 May 2020.
This photwitter.com/i/web/status/1…giZs
AnnastaciaMP BREAKING: Start planning your holiday! We’re opening Queensland for Queenslanders from noon tomorrow.
Queenslander..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8P
@HHackenbecker “pspezone”.
@duncanmcdonnell @bgosford @GlennKefford Thanks, Duncan.
@semibogan Hey Erika, my fav!

Lol yeah nah. pic.twitter.com/ttp5TrKbSH
tkerssen Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own fro..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…F8
legind OMG people are calling it the ACAB Spring
rynobi My three-year-old just came out with this. I’ll by thinking about the layers for days.
Q. Why did the chicken cros..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Fk

bubbaprog “Unclear where they may have gotten that cheesecake.” pic.twitter.com/mLfSJvMGvZ
Dali_Yang Quite a find: 1968 Chinese map of black protests against violence in the U.S. twitter.com/yanzhou77/stat…
GabbyOrr_ Pretty surreal scene here. POTUS awaits SpaceX Crew Dragon takeoff as “Macho Man” blasts from speakers on the rooft..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…tO
@republic2809 Possibly.
@MarkRedbeliever Yes, Petal. [Pats head gently.]
“Trump is reportedly insisting the Republican National Convention be held without face masks or social distancing m..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…R9
I’ve deleted my retweet of a video that purports to be a protester in Chicago riding a “borrowed” police horse. Th..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…y6

markhumphries CONSPIRACIST WAREHOUSE pic.twitter.com/SFujqHOgcf
joewilliams_tew Jus heard a reporter on @TheTodayShow
interview a LA local about tensions. He said ‘this country is built on viole..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Bq
@MsLods [Nods] Adopting a sociolect that’s not naturally theirs. A clumsy kind of code-switching. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-swit…
Sun plan, eventually: Laziness; not the shopping, unless I notice something missing that can’t wait until Tuesday;..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ld

grugstan happy 13th birthday to this little angel pic.twitter.com/ZoucQMTH9k
larry_irving Dear God, no. twitter.com/davidjollyfl/s…
This makes sense, and now I’m wondering whether I have memory loss because I should’ve known this. twitter.com/Epigrammist/st…

JoshuaPotash In New Jersey police have literally started marching with protesters.
#BLACK_LIVES_MATTER
pic.twitter.com/w6FJ3qowUG
Apparently it is. There you go. twitter.com/chirpesco/stat…
“Tradies on the tools” is a phrase now, apparently. twitter.com/AlboMP/status/…
@alexdante @_DaveKnowles The general and the specific often work in parallel.

The weather is acceptable today. pic.twitter.com/h06m5e4RSI
Sunday. Do not trust anyone with an inflatable head. Sunday.
Given all the things that are happening in the world right now, whinging about Finnish gin is WAY down the priority..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…cp
@franksting @mikko @iblametom @Kyrodistillery OK, so I am now being a sook about Finnish gin. But hey this is how I work.
@franksting @mikko @iblametom @Kyrodistillery I am not. But @mikko is (nice chap) and whatever goddam distillery is.
@franksting @mikko @iblametom @Kyrodistillery THEN WHY DON’T I HAVE ANY?
Honk.
@mikko @iblametom @Kyrodistillery If Finnish gin is a thing then I am happy to sample it.
@mikko @iblametom @Kyrodistillery I am happy to forward my address.
@SnarkyPlatypus Don’t pick on Wilfred.
@TomSear @kcarruthers @joannejacobs And here we are. #twelvemoreyears
@kcarruthers @joannejacobs I believe I have already said something along these lines.
@joannejacobs @kcarruthers Correct. Twelve more years (including relatives).
JayHulmePoet The damage Little Britain did (and continues to do) to the perception and acceptance of trans women in the UK is in..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ul
@SnarkyPlatypus And yet here we are.
@SnarkyPlatypus I’m sorry for “and his wife” but I’ve been drinking and I forgot her name. I do know she’s a human in her own right.
@SnarkyPlatypus The idiocy is that Obama and his wife have been making statements all day.

catcontentonly Goodnight from Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/2Le7WKvJOi
@irisherself Correct.
@developerjack I like the look of your rings.
Wait? There’s a series of “Archer” I haven’t seen?
@DrRhysPockett Yeah I know. But here we are.
@MarcusDCook The you need to extend your range.
Not the best sex toy ever. twitter.com/MarcusDCook/st…
@TiktaalikD Yeah well that won’t happen.
@steampowerednet “Here we are”, I meant before automangle got to work. And yes.
This does show how good the original theme is, as well as the remix. twitter.com/SnarkyPlatypus…
CcpBureau BREAKING: British Foreign Secretary offers Beijing straight swap, Northern Ireland for Hong Kong, in a move designe..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…in
@steampowerednet Yet hereby we are.
@HHackenbecker @InsidersABC Look it could have it’s moments.
@TiktaalikD Isn’t it just.
@expectproblems Look, Ma’am, I just pass on the news. I am merely the messenger.

What the fuck is this bullshit? pic.twitter.com/4myZM06iiw
PMBarraclough What does this even mean? Wtf is a proper political hack? I think Insiders is so inside that it’s inside its own ar..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…wT
botandy everything is accelerating
botandy Sascha, have you been…to Europe twitter.com/BigSascha/stat…
MichaelH_PhD Park Life! twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/…
@R_Chirgwin @bgosford I’m glad* she can’t turn her head because she’d kill me with a glance.
* Obviously I am not glad of this.
@purserj @SnarkyPlatypus Hahahaha right. So the key story facts are: (a) This is the $3 billion cost; (b) person no..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…HT
@SnarkyPlatypus Well to random single-source “small business owner” apparently it is. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
@SnarkyPlatypus I’m also loving how the person tagged as “small business owner” is trying to fit up the state gover..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…5q
@SnarkyPlatypus LIVING THE NIGHTMARE.
@R_Chirgwin @bgosford Why wouldn’t I credit that? I’ve met her. I know this is the truth.

shane_bauer 880 freeway in Oakland. #GeorgeFloyd pic.twitter.com/8hjCXiKWOq
@_midofo_ Exactly. I mean, it’s Lancashire.
@SnarkyPlatypus Correct. And you weren’t even there! :)

@_midofo_ Hahahahahaha. pic.twitter.com/MTldbeeMU2
@_midofo_ Well no I am looking at this and if it is a “shepherd’s pie” no of course there is no tomato in it. What..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…46
@bgosford I was often supervising producer for the 0900-1200 classical music programs that followed. We had to be t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…lc
@bgosford Oh fuck yeah! Even by 1981 in Adelaide, at what is now Radio Adelaide, at 0800 Saturdays there was a “Yug..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…sh
@_midofo_ Not in a cottage pie, I agree. But the local bakery does a bacon, egg, and tomato pie which is a very goo..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ar
@SnarkyPlatypus @sylmobile For the meaning of “Ersatz” please see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ersatz_go….
@SnarkyPlatypus @sylmobile Is “Ersatzkrautwein” racist? I know that “Kraut” for “German” is literally “cabbage”, bu..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…N7
@SnarkyPlatypus @sylmobile Oh wait, I see they got it made in France. Somewhere.
@_midofo_ But of course! :)
@SnarkyPlatypus @sylmobile Sure, but since this is some Ersatzkrautwein why not choose a name that reflects Germany..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…jp
@sylmobile @SnarkyPlatypus Lol. It’s like Veuve Darren.
@_midofo_ I’m thinking as an amateur — in strategic analysis not masturbation@SnarkyPlatypuss — that the PLA’s maintwitter.com/i/web/status/1…gthQ
@cathywilcox1 File for a divorce now.
@_midofo_ So yes people are bringing this to my attention. [Rolls eyes.] I really don’t think this is the PLA’s main problem.
@SnarkyPlatypus I think I’ve seen this video.
Agreed. But let’s not make all this about journalists.
(Sorry, hot button issue dating from major mastheads’ cover..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…w3
@glengyron @ChrissieM @SuperCroup @SnarkyPlatypus I am refraining from commenting on that.
@bgosford [Nods] Our friends at Crikey did a spotter’s guide to the far right not long ago. It seems that most of t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…F9
@bgosford Thanks, Bob. I hadn’t realised the Klan made it here.
@glengyron @SuperCroup @SnarkyPlatypus The Jacob’s Creek is good, yes, but I also have some 12yo single malt to hand for Ron.
@realCarrickRyan Thanks for this thread, Carrick.
realCarrickRyan Seeing what’s happening in the USA, I thought I’d create a thread of all the acceptable peaceful protests that we a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…p7
bgosford Part 2 of my look at the Klan in the NT: Constable David Jennings. NT cop and Ku Klux Klansman: From KKK “White Gia..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…u2
bgosford Part 1 of my look at the KKK in the NT: Constable David Jennings. NT cop and Ku Klux Klansman:..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…mX
@jeamland RTYI. But not just them. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
@bgosford I suppose I could read the linked-to article…
@bgosford I’ve missed the start of this, Bob? When was this? Newspaper typography looks 1970s.
@kels_316 @JustJimWillDo There’s a lot of that about. And our friends in St Petersburg will be working double shifts right now.
@nickheathsport This first one has some superb footage of feline psychological warfare. youtube.com/watch?v=bvEM_9…
@kels_316 @JustJimWillDo @Qld_Steve [Nods] I keep forgetting that, being more towards the other end of the richness..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…aS
unixbigot Which emergency service do you call if you find out one of your kids has brought home a sourdough starter?
@hereforthehops @SnarkyPlatypus I know of a bar that will serve doubles of navy strength gin, at least when you loo..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ou
@hereforthehops @SnarkyPlatypus Alas no. I think I’ll fix that mistake next week.
@kels_316 @JustJimWillDo @Qld_Steve So, can you just make up your own police forces?
NyadolNyuon If conversations about racism make you feel uncomfortable, you can do two things:
1. ignore; or
2. ask yourself ab..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…td
@SnarkyPlatypus I have a bottle of gin which should see me through, though I may switch to whisky later.
I hadn’t realised that @nickheathsport is now doing weekly #LifeCommentary compilations. youtube.com/watch?v=uuKl-r…
@JustJimWillDo @Qld_Steve And universities.

Crashingtv “Finally some signs of spring today in Norway. The cars are beginning to show up again.” pic.twitter.com/SqGKlDXpuJ
@JonoH @kcarruthers @annie_parker “An ample sufficiency.”
Awesome. twitter.com/tomgara/status…
@kcarruthers @JonoH @annie_parker Well yes you can, and you end up shitting out bright red jelly-like fragments for two days.
@JustJimWillDo I knew the Texas Rangers were still a thing. And I knew the “Here, have some hand-me-down military k..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…2l
NickyWill100 Monkeys attacking lab assistants and stealing Covid-19 test samples was not on my #2020BingoCard @kcarruthers
abc.net.au/news/2020-05-3…
@SnarkyPlatypus I sort of got that at one point, but then the fascination came back as I absorbed the sheer scale of the damn thing.
@SnarkyPlatypus Awww… Poor little young person with no attention span… :P
“The Swish Machine: 70 Step Basketball Trickshot (Rube Goldberg Machine” youtube.com/watch?v=Ss-P4q… (3m19s)
You may h..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ZN
@JustJimWillDo I once saw an excellent piece by a guy who was either 82nd or 101st Airborne saying that local cops..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…v5
@JustJimWillDo Yeah I was very impressed with how she handled that. Maybe because it contrasts so much with the inc..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Gt
Let’s just open fire because someone is blocking traffic. Sure, at the ground with what I assume are rubber bullets..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…33
annie_parker Wow. The whiteness. It’s overwhelming. twitter.com/luisguapo/stat…
The white woman in the background of this video is the police chief in Atlanta. She’s been down in the streets in h..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Yg
@reselsnark I don’t know what to think any more. I’m just confused.
@TamikaDMallory This too is quite astounding. twitter.com/mentnelson/sta…
arizclint Trying to avoid schadenfreude here … twitter.com/fox4kc/status/…
According to the thread this is @TamikaDMallory and this is one hell of a speech. twitter.com/RicWilson/stat…
“Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil War: Armed extremists are showi..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…S1
This data visualisation of US vs CN trade is excellent and very @SnarkyPlatypus @dobes @glengyron areas.
It’s from..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…3F
NewtonMark He didn’t quite make the grade for his inauguration, but it’s great to see that Trump has finally managed to draw a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…dl

Pretty much. pic.twitter.com/J9kX06zvHr
@republic2809 Pyjamas, batons, and riot shields. Let’s get the full list out there.
CNNPR This is not accurate - our CNN crew identified themselves, on live television, immediately as journalists. We than..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Jg

Via a PROTECTED account… pic.twitter.com/ZeSGAxqt8e
Perfectly normel country, The America. twitter.com/foxwoundband/s…
@OurNewHomecoach @PaulHenry524 @SnarkyPlatypus It’s certainly a tough call.
ratemyskyperoom This room is a feast for the senses. One of the kindest and most philanthropic humans on the planet, @DollyParton w..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…yF
@PaulHenry524 @SnarkyPlatypus @OurNewHomecoach Fwiw the History Channel offers these 8 points. Is this more reliabl..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…T7
Have you subscribed to @cameronwilson’s new newsletter? It contains rare plant crime! webcam.substack.com/p/1-rare-plant…
@manindotblack @dobes @davidgerard @rohan_p Thanks, that one has been kicking around for a while. Needs a bigger audience I suspect.
Looks like a thread to follow. twitter.com/cameronwilson/…
Pinboard If I had a libra for every time some brain fart from inside Facebook was reported as actual news, life would pretty..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…32

TheOnion Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement bit.ly/3ch6B2j pic.twitter.com/s56Dfg08yJ
QUOLL! twitter.com/davidghamilton…
@PeteLawler I did not. Situation normal then.
Chocolate fudge. twitter.com/GuardianAus/st…

b3ta “Us…… and them….” by Bod- - just FP’d: ift.tt/2MdOMXm pic.twitter.com/UFo5PPsyq6
@JustJimWillDo @DavidFeng Oh lying down Grass Mud Horse
Oh running wild Grass Mud Horse
They defeated river crabs**..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…lW
@JustJimWillDo @DavidFeng There is a herd of Grass Mud Horses*
In the wild and beautiful Ma Le Desert**
They are li..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…fa
@JustJimWillDo @DavidFeng Dr Feng is not very harmonious.
@JustJimWillDo @DavidFeng Well now you know why soft-toy alpacas or llamas are commonly seen in the windows of cars..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…hF
Sat plan, an outline: Chores; fried rice; reading; podcast listening; gin (maybe). I know I’ve had some lazy days b..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Vh
xor I can’t tell you how many times, when I was working on police drone policy, law enforcement reps would get upset ov..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Tm
@JustJimWillDo River Crabs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism…
See also this, which I has perhaps mistakenly assumed you knew..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…oD
@JustJimWillDo Ah. Good. If there were actual River Crabs they might have had three wristwatches. 和谐.
@JustJimWillDo Are they River Crabs?

ScottFitzG One of the many beyond deluded Trump supporters. Be a shame to lose the 80 mil from the Twitters. pic.twitter.com/t27Xb095wy

Waiting for the Sun to emerge fully. I am hopeful that this will happen. pic.twitter.com/H49cgmoTKr
@joannejacobs Thanks, but it’s OK. It’s just everything being as things usually are. :)
@joannejacobs I want to cry.
ellehardy Three years ago, I was investigating the small but growing industry of insurance and reputation management for indi..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ni
Correct. twitter.com/mrdkirton/stat…
Saturday. Think about where you would put a staircase. Saturday.
Things are a bit crazy around the world right now so I’m going to bed and I expect everything to be sorted out by the morning.

JamColley ‘it’s something good ruined by americans’ pic.twitter.com/FUre84uZKh
glengyron Very weak. He should be begging them to arm themselves like covid19 protestors. twitter.com/mitchellvii/st…

AstroKirsten On one hand, the scientist hand, COOL.
On the other hand, HELL NO. pic.twitter.com/FolXplPDVz
@R_Chirgwin I don’t think I care enough.
@dmsbriz I think you overestimate how well coordinated different divisions of an organisation are. :) But yes it ca..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…B8
@R_Chirgwin I have no idea what any of this is about.
WilliamYang120 A sticky note that #Taiwan President @iingwen left at the new Causeway Bay Bookstore in #Taipei - A free Taiwan wil..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Dj
Wow what timing! (No I am not suggesting it’s anything other than coincidence. Stop being so paranoid.) twitter.com/ChristineMidda…
“A student activist highly critical of the University of Queensland’s ties to Beijing has been handed down a two-ye..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…iK
NickGjerde Camera is now on the ground as entire camera crew is arrested and led away. No explanation given. All handcuffed an..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…7G

NickGjerde CNN producer and camera crew are all being arrested. They’re all being led away. pic.twitter.com/7Qm5Nx9bHL

NickGjerde Police are arresting a CNN reporter live on air. pic.twitter.com/kjmRYqH5Va