_midofo_ LOL, imagine being as dumb as this cunt twitter.com/Alec_Zeck/stat…

Histreepix A packet of spaghetti under a microscope. Oswestry, 1907. pic.twitter.com/o3Dab6poT0
All hail Eris. twitter.com/fesshole/statu…
PostCultRev GREAT BRITISH BAKE-OFF HOST: So how does it feel to be part of this year’s competition?
GUY WHOSE IMPLANTED CIA TRI..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…U4
stilgherrian Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Twitter joins backlash against Australian plan to ID social media users”..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Hk

EleanorMorton Guy Fawkes doesn’t get the mask thing pic.twitter.com/8j3U9BTMhO
stilgherrian Today’s Alien Sideboob from @JohnBirmingham is titled “Huffing on the methane bong” and it’s free to read…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8f
@jodiem @JohnLaRooy Unified messaging is a dystopia. I actually WANT whole channels that I can ignore.
@jealouscraig @sniff_off At least in my experience, at the handful of venues I frequent.
@jealouscraig @sniff_off No, most people have the sense to not arc up against cops and draw attention to themselves..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1h
@BernardZuel This is not to excuse the Coalition governments from criticism, of course. But for those of us more tr..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…tO
@BernardZuel Exactly. :)
@BernardZuel “Minor” hot-button point for people wanting to party-politic this. The first part of L1 was opened two..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…y8
Watching @sniff_off tonight, I get the impression that NSW Police and their sniffywoofers are catching up after all..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…OJ
@JonoInAotearoa Heh. It’s all OK. I hide or mute quickly.
@helenperris @stufromoz @jacquidark Yeah people are ramping up slowly.
@TomSear @kels_316 Oh I know it’s technically a base. :) To be fair I thought the coffee I has was OK, although I’m easily pleased.
@helenperris @jacquidark @stufromoz Good luck!
@DrRhysPockett No I think you should still be able to do your job after you’re dead.

DrNeenaJha When you send your elderly Aunt a Diwali message & your phone autocorrects ‘today’ to ‘tosser’
😱😭 pic.twitter.com/uBYu9SZDwa
@NewtonMark Excellent.
@NewtonMark And is SOL behaving itself today?
Ping @dobes @purserj @ApostrophePong.
Would you like to see the winners of the 2021 BirdLife Australia Photography Awards? Yes, I’m sure you would. birdlifephotoaward.org.au/gallery-winner…
@jplonie Yeah, that sort of EA generally earns their solid salary.
@DavidFeng They were, and I thought the XPT was so amazing when it entered service. But those old diesels do feel a bit quaint now.
@AnOldManStream1 But why would you want to yes I know this is a rhetorical question kill me now.
@JohnBirmingham Why you make me cry?
@AnOldManStream1 Yeah but there’s literally nothing in that that needs a blockchain, and which wouldn’t be more efficient without it.
@developerjack @flowblok Does the carpet match the curtains?
Well they’re idiots if they think this. twitter.com/pcgamer/status…
@djalbosbushdoof Frontbottom. Also, thank you for taking the time out of your busy today to message me, a complete..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…c4
@SerenasSoapbox Yeah there does need to be an explanation for some people. I quite like the reverse expectation one..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…16
@DavidFeng Yeah, this news has only emerged this afternoon so the political moods are all go.
@DavidFeng I want to take a few trips on the ol’ XPT before they’re all scrapped, especially since the UK InterCity..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…oE
@DavidFeng Unless you behave yourself, David, I won’t show you any pictures of my trip on a NSW TrainLink XPT next week.
@jodiem A better way to handle that might be to have an always-on message so no repeats, one that just replies with that person’s pattern.

@dobes Also a very good one from @davpope today. Another entire universe. pic.twitter.com/WDwV3ffjFL
Hey @dobes it’s the whole menagerie! twitter.com/roweafr/status…
@nickzoic True, but then they were also working until midday or so. Different people have different expectations of email I guess.
@ShaunRatcliff Quality puppy. :)
Bizarre. Someone has an out-of-office message on their email saying they’re returning on 8 Nov. It’s now late Frida..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…oK
chrisjoregan CONFIRMED: Walking fast is legal! twitter.com/MartySilkHack/…
@ShaunRatcliff @GeorgeL737 @ChrisMinnsMP There are some fabulous goats on the line. :)
@ChrisMinnsMP And just quietly, I don’t need randos explaining what @ChrisMinnsMP meant by that tweet. You are not..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…DC

@GeorgeL737 Floppywobbles. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s… pic.twitter.com/bDLxjtQqjL

@Lozza_037 Dangly bits. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s… pic.twitter.com/IHflOVRDLq
Mr @joshgnosis was also there. “Twitter says any move by Australia to ban anonymous accounts would not reduce abuse..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…By
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Twitter joins backlash against Australian plan to ID social media users”..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Hk
@ChrisMinnsMP IMPORTANT NOTE: Any further replies to this tweet will be replied to with a rude word and a photo of..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Yp
@feargadocious @ShaunRatcliff @ChrisMinnsMP Submarines are the trams of the ocean.
@wendy_harmer @ChrisMinnsMP Verballing me now, are you? Classy.
I am an idiot because I forgot that in Australia all engineering matters are party-political. Want NBN? Ask me how.
@ShaunRatcliff @ChrisMinnsMP Indeed.
@peter_0713 In “everything”? Don’t be such a tedious fuckwit.
@feargadocious @ShaunRatcliff @ChrisMinnsMP No, but the equating local manufacturing to there not being a potential..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…m4
@joshgnosis Doo eet!
@wendy_harmer @ChrisMinnsMP “Forriners don’t understand how special Australia is.” Lol. This really does feel like..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Uq
@Carl_Sciarra @ShaunRatcliff @ChrisMinnsMP BuT lAbOr BuIlT tHaT tRaM LiNe! (I can do this all day.)
@Carl_Sciarra @ShaunRatcliff @ChrisMinnsMP I think some people — neither of you obviously — might come back at it ltwitter.com/i/web/status/1…wl1e
@ShaunRatcliff @ChrisMinnsMP Does that matter? It’s how it reads.
GoadGatsby Today is the 4 year anniversary of the tragic events that lead to the beheading of all white parents twitter.com/lucianwintrich…
@ChrisMinnsMP (There’s much better angles than that, but I’m not telling. :) That”s your job.)
@ChrisMinnsMP “Forriners can’t build stuff proper” really is quite pathetic casual racism. Please do better.
@Anthony_Caruana Awww… But did you run with the story?
@JoeUchill @zdnetaustralia You’ll fit right in.
@lakilakilaki @Ironman_peter @Mattonews @andrew_lund Because rail systems, light or heavy, are a *system* with stan..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…iQ
Mattonews Breaking: Sydney’s inner west light rail will be ‘decommissioned’ for 18 months due to major cracks in the wheel ar..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…hN
Story filed for @zdnetaustralia. It contains uncomfortable white men and an incredibly reckless plan.
Today’s Alien Sideboob from @JohnBirmingham is titled “Huffing on the methane bong” and it’s free to read…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8f
@eSafetyOffice @joshgnosis @tweetinjules Ta.
WDuskGroup We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning sciencex.com/news/2021-11-l…

AussieParlEdits Talk:Owl (sculpture) Wikipedia article edited anonymously from Department of Human Services en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?di… pic.twitter.com/pkN0ROI03J
@speechleyish @ApostrophePong Yeah it’s a much better pumpkin face that the lantern thing, thought of course this i..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…3J
Fri plan, updated: Fried rice; write for @zdnetaustralia because that anonymity panel thingy was rather good; a bun..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…6u
Alas, I won’t be watching any of NetThing live today. I am now on deadline for a different thing. Have fun, y’all. #NetThing2021
@grugstan @samfloreani Please do this.
ssharwood WTF is an ‘unintentional debugging credential’? We’ve asked Cisco. While we wait for a reply, if own this kit, get..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…yy
@ApostrophePong I have seen three or four bush rats coming in to grab the food at night, but they run away quickly..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…DX
@ApostrophePong Yeah. Zoom out and you can see that the place the birds stand (and presumably the bush rats too) me..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…5J
@ApostrophePong We were looking at the tooth marks yesterday., We think bush rats and maybe swamp wallabies for the..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…mh
Waratah sequence 2021, day 66. It’s been raining almost constantly for more than 24 hours now. Water is pooling in..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Jw

The disintegration of the Halloween Face continues. This is rapidly become a very @ApostrophePong thread. pic.twitter.com/Di2L1llZRO
@jpwarren Shut up and give me your credit card number.
@dobes @kels_316 @tacticalmaid But where does it house the dive team?
And we’re done. That was a solid discussion and I’ll be writing… something.
Mr @joshgnosis asked a good question about whether the eSafety Commissioner being given all these new roles means t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Tu
During the Q&A there’s been some comments on the lack of nuanced understanding of all this by the lawmakers. Maybe..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…DY
Lucie Kay puts it more bluntly: This legislation is happening because white men are upset by things people are saying online.
Peter Greste picks up that point and is pointing to Australia’s massive legislative agenda since 9/11 a d lack of u..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…EK
Kaye says AU’s proposals go beyond what other democracies are doing in this regard.
We’re into the Q&A now. I’m asking whether it’s clear yet whether what we’re seeing from govt properly differentiat..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…SE
@jpwarren If only.
@jpwarren I know this and yet I keep getting caught out by how terrible so many people are.
There’s going to be a bunch here about pseudonymity in relation to identity. This is good material to explore, beca..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…V7
Emily van der Nagel now. “My PhD thesis, ‘Social Media Pseudonymity: Affordances, Practices, Disruptions’, argues f..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Fo
This was touched upon briefly. It’s complicated. twitter.com/potrzebieggm/s…
Now it’s Adrian Murdoch from Minus18, on the importance of anonymity and pseudonymity for young LGBTQI+ folks
(It’..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…IZ
She worries that the approach the Australian government is taking is “reckless”. Not to say that everyone feels saf..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Jt
Lucie Krahulcova (“Lucie Kay”) of DRW up now, describing her own experience of the importance of anonymity when mov..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ew
And finally, Greste points out that Australia does not have anything like a Bill of Rights, the only major democracy not to have one.
The Identify & Disrupt Act gets a shout-out too.
“Australia’s ‘hacking’ Bill passes the Senate after House made 60..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ga
Greste notes that Australian agencies accessed stored telco metadata more than 300,000 times in one 12-month period..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…r2
Even journalists’ identities may need protecting, he says, giving recent events in Afghanistan as a prime example.
Peter Greste now saying that since 9/11 there’s been all manner of laws eroding the ability of journalists to prote..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Mq
Speaking about online abuse, she says that there’s no clear evidence that anonymity enables the abuse, and there is..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Tq

Kara Hinesley is citing this case, which I mentioned in that ZDNet article. The links there go to many more details. pic.twitter.com/1D2rTBqsj7
David Kaye is framing all this in terms of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularl..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…5i
Me on this recently: “Calls to ID social media users is just another Morrison government rush job” (12 Oct) zdnet.com/article/calls-…
Kara Hinesley is introducing this by saying, as I suspected, that this session was prompted by recent news in Austr..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…EJ
It’s bouncing off this paper, “PROTECTING THE
OPEN INTERNET: Regulatory principles for policy makers” cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/ab… (PDF)
Starting momentarily is a separate event, a Digital Rights Watch and Twitter panel, “Online Anonymity and Pseudonym..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…z1
Today’s livestream will also be available on YouTube, starting in about five minutes. youtube.com/watch?v=dW03KK… #NetThing2021
The complete video stream of day 1 is available should you wish to catch up. youtube.com/watch?v=4QAkcc… #NetThing2021
Yesterday’s thread started here on the “wrong” hashtag. #NetThing2021 twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
Starting shortly at 1000 AEDT, day two of the NetThing Internet Governance Forum. @NetThing_au Full program at..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…gg
@SMinney Yeah but like that’s going to happen lol.
Aiannucci Out today! twitter.com/aiannucci/stat…
@purserj If you can imagine something halfway between a jerkbird and a rosella then you’re close.
edbott In all fairness, there’s one item missing from the end of this list.
A kind of big item. twitter.com/ifindkarma/sta…
Ah, that other event at 1000 AEDT is indeed back on at that time. I’ll tell you more about that in its own thread b..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ry
classywarfare The War on Christmas cannot end until Christmas stops its illegal occupation of November

cameronwilson At least 5 of Sky News Australia’s most watched videos are about Biden’s supposed cognitive issues pic.twitter.com/cesu4vQ6PD
@purserj I’d figured it might be that. Still, currawong after a king parrot in full pursuit mode is a sight to see,..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…FB
@jplonie Nice work. :)
jacobian This November, I’m participating in a global movement called “November”. It’s very simple: every day in November, I..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Nr
“McKinsey will be paid more than $1 million over just three months to design a digital trade roadmap, despite the f..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…op
@tashlee At least that poor woman isn’t trying to breastfeed them.
@tashlee Twelve US gallons is more than 45 litres. A week. Those kids must have nothing but milk.
The birds outside are all very moody today. The jerkbird dominating the seed shelf, sure. But now a couple of king..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…nT

weemadando Never support the Shoppies. pic.twitter.com/wFOH85Nc2q
@tashlee This is the thing. They are not exactly your typical family. twitter.com/brikeilarcnn/s…
Mind you there seems to be thousands of them.
I just saw the milk thing and yeah that is way too much milk.
@HartWexford @SteveMolk The VIPs weren’t V I, it seems.
PessimistsArc 🗞 1878: “Mr. Edison has invented too many things” - The New York Times
💡 1879: Thomas Edison perfects the incandescent lightbulb

LeapingRobot …and yes, Wiener wrote Cybernetics by hand pic.twitter.com/VQMUkWUZS0
@egadheg Under their beds. Oozing up out of the toilet.
@nomadiclucie Haha I wondered what happened. :) Yeah don’t take on that sort of task. You’ll go mad.
@feraldata @drspacejunk @NuclearAnthro @CosmicRami Either way, it’s certainly… something.
NewtonMark Dan is hiding cases. twitter.com/CaseyBriggs/st…
New Moon is right now at 0815 AEDT.
Fri plan: 1000 AEDT NetThing Internet Governance Forum, Day 2 netthing.org.au/2021-program-1; a bunch of administrivia and..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…kR

meowri Cant stop thinking about apple crab pic.twitter.com/dacv4RTFRe
@Bedeapk There’s so, so much to look forward to in 2022.

reddishraven This is comicbook villain level of statistical analysis.
Holy fuckballs. pic.twitter.com/OpDmlN6syW
@LackOfToast @juhasaarinen That’s depressingly likely. One might even snark that being a criminal is almost a requi..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…7X
Anyway he’ll go nicely with Senator Pete Evans, as previously discussed. twitter.com/search?q=senat…
From 11 Mar 2019, “Alan Jones donates $10,000 to One Nation’s NSW election campaign” theguardian.com/australia-news…
So yo..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…iW
So this story here. “Senator Alan Jones? Pauline Hanson offers radio star a job at One Nation after his shock axing..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…mU
edyong209 Absolutely incredible feat of journalism 👇🏼 twitter.com/avakofman/stat…
@kels_316 Yeah I remember the coffee as being quite adequate, but in my case it was more about waking up before the..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…OY
New Moon is in 30 minutes at 0815 AEDT.
TIL that 7-Eleven has in-store music. twitter.com/marinasgo/stat…

Bonus Act 3: Never tweet. pic.twitter.com/ZqsRRfPksO
@CelerySorbet Hah yes I was going to add that to the thread but forgot.
@kels_316 I was curious about all this when I had a snack at ADFA Cafe a couple years ago but assumed it was just a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…24

It’s another soggy day in the Blue Mountains today. pic.twitter.com/O4JwkG0h7m
gianluca_string In our latest pre-print we present a computational pipeline to study online discussion surrounding conspiracy theor..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…4D
How does this, um, work? twitter.com/workmanalice/s…
@AusBerlin84 @swearyanthony This is deeply, deeply funny. Thank you so much.
@johnmcternan Congratulations, John.

johnmcternan Thinking that the Trump targeting isn’t quite so brilliant! pic.twitter.com/RUU3p7hSep
Act 2 of 2: “Jenna Ryan, Texas realtor who tweeted she was ‘definitely not going to jail,’ gets 60 days in jail” wusa9.com/article/news/n…

Act 1 of 2: “Definitely not going to jail.” twitter.com/dotjenna/statu… pic.twitter.com/Z1CgtQfLrS
Friday. The progress of time is fully automatic, as long as you pay the price. And we all pay the price. Friday.
jeffsonstein Happy Birthday to Sir Charles Kuen Kao, PhD GBM KBE FRS FREng buff.ly/3EBjH98
our world is knit together..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…V4
@JustJimWillDo @AnarchyCoo Exactly.
It’s after midnight.