Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian)

Wentworth Falls NSW AU

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November 2nd, 2021

The two genders:
1. Silver bullet
2. Red herring https://t.co/r3sDAETWEc

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Histreepix Kurt Cobain arrested whilst supporting women’s suffrage. London, 1910. pic.twitter.com/wMAgUHxeeO

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RT @fesshole: When my little brother & I were to have our own bedrooms I convinced him there was a spiders nest in the much bigger bedroom…

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quendergeer *peeling the label off an apple and sticking it to something else* that’s an apple now

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colettecello Architect: “we should break this down into 6 microservices”
Me: “you have 6 teams who hate each other?”
Architect: “how did you know that?”

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direlog i love how the luxury goods industry is controlled by giant snakes

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RT @WorldBollard: WE GOT ANOTHER ONE!!!
Sorry everyone, it’s a Jaguar.
#WorldBollardAssociation https://t.co/Kya1WlQrQS

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I’m slightly late to this but @akira100p has done some Halloween videos. Here’s the first one.

Halloween Part.1🎃【N… https://t.co/FSHFH1H17R

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@jonkudelka I have now adjusted Better TweetDeck so it’s harder to accidentally block people.

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Oops I accidentally blocked you, @jonkudelka. I have unblocked you but you not following me might be sensible.

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@joelmcourtney How… how would that work, exactly?

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Tomorrow, Wed 3 Nov, is Jellyfish Day. https://t.co/1XyQ2s8UcN

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@Tasdevilsrgr8 @markhumphries @DavidHuntGirt Which shows how you should never judge a scene from a single frame of… https://t.co/Tp57B33dLf

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@Tasdevilsrgr8 Um, I am neither of these people lol. This is @markhumphries and @DavidHuntGirt.

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@JustJimWillDo I assume this relates to a certain large East Asian country?

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RT @_BertHandsome: Fuck off. People are allowed to visit the supermarket pissed off. It’s fine. Having feelings that aren’t happy is fine.…

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Coming to you live from cupboards across the nation! pic.twitter.com/oUng17tP9V

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@JustJimWillDo True, true, and I am familiar with the concept of traffic analysis. ;)

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This is the link that works. https://t.co/YfQzrIFOuD It’s already started.

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RT @FXMC1957: 2 November 1982. Channel 4, the fourth British terrestrial TV station, began broadcasting. The first programme was “Countdown…

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@JustJimWillDo Really? Surely the vast majority of communications intercepts are… mundane?

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@noreasonspec That… that is magnificent. Home Affairs continues to reveal itself as time unfolds.

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RT @RonFilipkowski: Josh Hawley says more men today are watching porn and playing video games because their masculinity has been criticized…

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@leahrobinn @OzKitsch Sounds about right. :)

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Mind you I just pulled the Operation Keppel exhibit list and there’s a LOT of telephone and SMS intercepts. https://t.co/Fx4N75rDgB (PDF)

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And I still think his should be a thing. Maybe I should edit it and offer Maguire a split of the profits. https://t.co/77oXUrriof

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I was reminded of this via Samantha Maiden’s recent tweet. https://t.co/2W0IkQJ08n

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Should you need everything related to the recent ICAS amusement, “Former NSW MP for Wagga Wagga — allegations conce… https://t.co/O6umB01pAN

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@OzKitsch That is wonderful! Why do you know these things?

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RT @TheTNHoller: Q: “What’s the most important issue in this Virginia Governor’s race?”

VOTER: “Teaching Critical Race Theory to our chil…

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Here’s a lovely summary. https://t.co/JPMRKu59a1

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“How a monkey belonging to Jeff Banks’s girlfriend became a viral story during ‘Monday Night Football’”… https://t.co/6YOPDNj1Re

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@ari_hall And this rides a fine line between funny and wrong. :)

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It’s about time Australia elected a horse to the Senate.

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@she_jedi @markhumphries It’ll be a struggle.

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@reselsnark @markhumphries Convergent evolution is an amazing thing.

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@reselsnark @markhumphries We could do that, although literally none of these birds are actual corvids. They are co… https://t.co/fwhpXvo8Uc

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@markhumphries Also, if you’re a podcast supporter with TRIGGER WORDS or a CONVERSATION TOPIC to throw in, please l… https://t.co/wbPrYBgwyZ

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It just so happens that I’m starting to put together the running sheet for tomorrow’s recording of “The 9pm Edict”… https://t.co/e5awlfVC6E

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RT @LBFlyawayhome: The modern world in old Ladybird books.
“The digital computer is like a gigantic cash register” (1972)
#RobertAyton htt…

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RT @NewtonMark: Well, it all started with Scott Morrison lying, and then … https://t.co/CxFMlhMqw8

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jeamland Hearing that JFK Jr will be announcing his candidacy for the Victorian state seat of Kew tomorrow.

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“Like an idiotic Icarus, Tim Smith has flown too close to the sun. Or rather, driven too close to another car and t… https://t.co/Jk8zQvU4nC

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@ReadPete Well they’re jerks, certainly, particularly those two.

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RT @dappergander: The JFK Jr wing of QAnon has become convinced that the Kennedy family is going to make some sort of grand reappearance in…

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@JustJimWillDo Yeah that’s not going to happen lol.

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RT @rothschildmd: Big day tomorrow. JFK Jr. back, Trump reinstatement and resignation, new VP Michael Flynn, and Trump becoming God. Rest u…

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@DanielJBatt Ah well @bunjaree has 12 hectares of near-native scrubland. More than 50 species have been sighted here.

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@expectproblems Lol that is a rare event. I value what little sanity I have left.

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@JustJimWillDo Idiot bird threw the feather away though. He has a lot to learn.

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I have stolen his feather. Silly bird needs to build a bower first, and then collect all the blue things.

I’ll put… https://t.co/dOF0iHaKWP

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Alas I didn’t get any imagery of the earlier part of his dance. He was really turning it on.

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The young female was unimpressed.

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Here’s a random video of what it’s meant to look like. He did have some of these moves down pat, though. My video i… https://t.co/pS1oNVIyuA

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OH WOW OH WOW OH WOW! I just saw a young male satin bowerbird still in juvenile colours practicing his mating dance… https://t.co/MFMGBKgTGo

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I’ve got a “focus space” downstairs too. Right boys? ;) https://t.co/K13p9i685i

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RT @CNN: A US nuclear-powered submarine that struck an underwater object in early October had hit an uncharted underwater mountain, an inve…

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@ben_hr Well, I mean he *said* he was a nurse…

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@AnOldManStream1 I’ll check with the neighbours.

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Also, my GP is of the opinion that I am still alive.

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RT @adamconover: The BBC published a puff piece promoting a new cryptocurrency three days before its creators disappeared with every dollar…

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RT @SaintSluggo: I don’t care what you say it is I’ve decided to pray to it https://t.co/eHn8gQBh4K

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@purserj @dobes After yesterday’s scrag fight in jerkbirdland, these were left overpic.twitter.com/fttx5LGWZyZy

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@yourseconddraft I mean you’re right. It’s just RIGHT THERE and full of seeds. But this one bird really is starting… https://t.co/JEnddSNizP

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@TimWattsMP @SwiftOnSecurity You’re not sorry, @TimWattsMP, I know this for a fact. But at least @SwiftOnSecurity i… https://t.co/2sWoWWPxNB

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The jerkbird is the one who’d been causing this ruckus yesterday. https://t.co/iLeFkRVFDu

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When I stepped outside just now, waiting for me were a pied currawong (image distorted by the wide angle lens and t… https://t.co/7dWveOl4RT

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@jxeeno @garystark @juliette_io @liampearson Thanks, Ken. I’ll hit them directly from now on.

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Leo_Puglisi6 meanwhile pic.twitter.com/UYB0sshUzw

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@purserj Sure, but what about the tweet?

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@garystark My gut feeling was that there was an easing back into activities not a sudden rush. IU’d love to see the… https://t.co/gIGA7LOb99

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Sigh. I have deleted tweets about a Tim Smith MP press conference because it was from a parody account that was cle… https://t.co/Q5uCaP6lff

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In a way, that tweet is also a Rorschach test.

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This will be interesting, what with the lags between when restrictions change and any resulting change in case numb… https://t.co/r75CNpOE0n

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“In response to the faster-than-expected rate of vaccination, the NSW Government will further ease rules for those… https://t.co/Q37YwKNl3r

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TimMedin At no point did I know what the next word was going to be.
For any of it. pic.twitter.com/71He1B7Jxj

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Waratah sequence 2021, day 63. Today, three closer views of the flower in question showing the various bit are fari… https://t.co/JbhBFrwPA5

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@TonyThefathippy There used to be Daddoes, of course. I wonder what happened to them.

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RT @Popehat: Wife: What are you writing about?

Me: I’m subtweeting monkey-related legal advice to a stripper.

Wife: Fine, don’t tell me.

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Lol one that I am most certainly not going to post here. https://t.co/hs9LVr6On0

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@CptHollingworth Maybe they’re actively aiming to get onto Mad as Hell these days. @dr_nic

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@AncientSpoonbil @DDsD Probably still do, if they’re as active. :) My Hung are pretty solid fabric traders by all accounts.

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@AncientSpoonbil @DDsD I did like this line in their FAQ. (I am not into fabric, but when I saw they were the store… https://t.co/AgPecdVagZ

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@AncientSpoonbil @DDsD They’re still in Cabramatta (original store), Hurstville, and Parramatta. https://t.co/LTeKhNC5xz

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@dobes No just describing something. This pig is not a tortoise.

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cameronwilson remember when Clubhouse was the next best thing? that was feb lol

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@GordyPls @dobes That is frighteningly beautiful.

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Linguistic note: Describing something is not an “insight”. Very few of the things your random executive has to say are “insights”.

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Rik has said what I have been thinking, except with more thought and less swearing.

Like the PR people who say “Ou… https://t.co/DsaUFBY27C

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@dobes @GordyPls Eventually we could replace all knowledge with very large random numbers.

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@TheNehad Lol. Stock photography is such a big business up here.

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You have exactly 24 hours to do this. https://t.co/DqMJZRNTv8

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@franksting I thought Iron Man was fictional, a comic book character.

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Ah. There’s a series of Chris actors who are interchangeable. That explains it. https://t.co/ZZ9awXInlX

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To be honest I’m not entirely sure who Chris Pratt is. Yes, an actor, I know that bit. But I’d have trouble picking… https://t.co/m1gBmEX0iv

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RT @rudeism: the year is 2031. you wake up and put on your Chris Pratt Voice Filter. you say hi to your neighbor, also voiced by Chris Prat…

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RT @__papa_: BREAKING: Chris Pratt confirmed to voice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the upcoming biopic about the late Supreme Court Justices glas…

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RT @TechnicallyRon: The year is 2032. Chris Pratt voices every character in every film. Even the actors. You go to see Fast and Furious 18,…

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@viveka If only there were people tasked to find out the truth.

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That said, it’s good that they’re experimenting with new boy band lineups.

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Magnificent captioning effort here from the Express. https://t.co/CHSFI9YffG #GlobalBritain https://t.co/EFTUEWm1vv

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@jpwarren @AndrewRJamieson Well I don’t know about any vulnerabilities in my product, so it’s all good.

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RT @Botanygeek: Wrapping broccoli in a material that slows down its respiratory rate doubles it shelf life.

Going for the unwrapped versio…

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@jpwarren Related: “No stars for Australia’s missing IoT cyber stars” (29 Nov 2019) https://t.co/huIXMiwfG6

Obviou… https://t.co/l0kUDlNGr3

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@jpwarren Wow. Apart from “Hello, Cyber Stars!” and memories of 2016, this is a brilliant concept. “Consumers shoul… https://t.co/AHj999bGio

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Scott Morrison’s untrustworthiness was known well before this week and probably well before he even became a govern… https://t.co/SaNhaR9eaK

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@cameronwilson A little more than 24 hours, in recent experience.

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RT @bubblekittea: i’ve been laughing at this for 5 mins https://t.co/0jad9rXhLS

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RT @danilic: For the first time in years Australia has a pavilion at COP.

There’s a lonely coffee machine and flat screen TVs that don’t w…

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lizardschwartz Normalise saying ‘wow, it seems like you really need to work on your time management skills’ to people who brag about how long they work

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political_alert Australia’s National Statement @ScottMorrisonMP pic.twitter.com/adMnW8uBqh

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RT @kcarruthers: Yup. With all their diplomatic finesse 🙄 https://t.co/4rEDxhUd12

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cxi Have you ever heard of the “Banana Problem” as it relates to IT? :)

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cathywilcox1 When in Rome.
My @smh @theage cartoon. pic.twitter.com/TMMp4hy9Su

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RT @pets468: “Adopted pit bull into cat household. He now thinks he’s a cat.”🙄 https://t.co/r9j9t7wtr5

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RT @BirminghamAg: @PhillipCoorey I’m looking forward to your next expose “The woman who saved ICAC”

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RT @jeremy_gans: This is such a weird framing. If ScoMo authorised the release of the texts, then it isn’t a ‘leak’. And if the texts contr…

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advadnoun Dark Flows pic.twitter.com/MAVCcM4gaF

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Wow I managed to get that last tweet done without using the phrases “shit-faced disgrace” or “self-righteous cunt”. I must be getting old.

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Tue plan, supplemental: It’s also Australian Horse Enjoyment and Opinion Day. Please entertain yourself in the way you prefer.

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As always there are further alleged plans in the Weekly Wrap. https://t.co/tEzTmEgQK8

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Tue plan: Slow start with chores and administrivia; podcast pre-production for tomorrow’s recording; 1530 GP via el… https://t.co/jZa8YwndcJ

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@AusBerlin84 @FrKarlSinclair But will this masterwork bring them back into fashion?

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RT @hughriminton: Important reporting from ⁦@camstewarttheoz⁩ - document shows the US knew France wasn’t informed the sub contract was a go…

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@FrKarlSinclair Hmmm. I should probably cut down on the trolling of Fr Karl since I’m going to visit him next week. For the podcast.

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Here you go, @FrKarlSinclair. Something for you to ponder this morning. https://t.co/EiJbmNT4a0

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@manindotblack @dobes But sadly they found nothing to eat.

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It’s a fairly ordinary spring day in the Blue Mountains today, which is adequate for my purposes. pic.twitter.com/jDAtkeWHDR

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RT @TheShovel: Scott Robertson SC: “Did you suspect you may have been Gladys Berejiklian?”

Gladys Berejiklian: “I didn’t know whether I wa…

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RT @TheShovel: Gladys Berejiklian cannot recall if she knew she was Gladys Berejiklian at time of taped phone calls
https://t.co/yJ14KHmItD

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Lol good luck with that, Your Maj. https://t.co/4B3XuDLPw8

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Yes this is definitely how it works. https://t.co/s3aJ4WCCba

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Tuesday. A combination of logic and biscuits will save the day. Watch an old television program. Apologise. Tuesday.

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