RT @_midofo_: LOL, imagine being as dumb as this cunt
Histreepix A packet of spaghetti under a microscope. Oswestry, 1907. pic.twitter.com/o3Dab6poT0
All hail Eris. https://t.co/MBFRpRh7z5
RT @PostCultRev: GREAT BRITISH BAKE-OFF HOST: So how does it feel to be part of this year’s competition?
GUY WHOSE IMPLANTED CIA TRIGGER WO…
EleanorMorton Guy Fawkes doesn’t get the mask thing pic.twitter.com/8j3U9BTMhO
RT @stilgherrian: Today’s Alien Sideboob from @JohnBirmingham is titled “Huffing on the methane bong†and it’s free to read. https://t.co/d…
@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… https://t.co/ZVvidSRL1h
@BernardZuel This is not to excuse the Coalition governments from criticism, of course. But for those of us more tr… https://t.co/CUezbXaotO
@BernardZuel Exactly. :)
@BernardZuel “Minor†hot-button point for people wanting to party-politic this. The first part of L1 was opened two… https://t.co/jQ0XB1G0y8
Watching @sniff_off tonight, I get the impression that NSW Police and their sniffywoofers are catching up after all… https://t.co/OfHltGa7OJ
@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.
RT @DrNeenaJha: When you send your elderly Aunt a Diwali message & your phone autocorrects ‘today’ to ‘tosser’
😱😠https://t.co/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. https://t.co/08nFhPqM0G
@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. https://t.co/cja9hDMMtf
@djalbosbushdoof Frontbottom. Also, thank you for taking the time out of your busy today to message me, a complete… https://t.co/DNPjcpUSc4
@SerenasSoapbox Yeah there does need to be an explanation for some people. I quite like the reverse expectation one… https://t.co/MDUsbY1G16
@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… https://t.co/29GSTwsjoE
@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! https://t.co/o7spMB1nFs
@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… https://t.co/pNDj80kSoK
RT @chrisjoregan: CONFIRMED: Walking fast is legal! https://t.co/BAAUlVvKxo
@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… https://t.co/Re3Qj5CrDC
@GeorgeL737 Floppywobbles. https://t.co/lpJ8FRhdCy https://t.co/bDLxjtQqjL
@Lozza_037 Dangly bits. https://t.co/lpJ8FRhdCy https://t.co/IHflOVRDLq
Mr @joshgnosis was also there. “Twitter says any move by Australia to ban anonymous accounts would not reduce abuse… https://t.co/onPLI0t9By
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Twitter joins backlash against Australian plan to ID social media usersâ€â€¦ https://t.co/0iHUUtxnHk
@ChrisMinnsMP IMPORTANT NOTE: Any further replies to this tweet will be replied to with a rude word and a photo of… https://t.co/FUA8H1esYp
@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… https://t.co/clax429nm4
@joshgnosis Doo eet!
@wendy_harmer @ChrisMinnsMP “Forriners don’t understand how special Australia is.†Lol. This really does feel like… https://t.co/yD6ujYYOUq
@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 l… https://t.co/le05Fswl1e
@ShaunRatcliff @ChrisMinnsMP Does that matter? It’s how it reads.
RT @GoadGatsby: Today is the 4 year anniversary of the tragic events that lead to the beheading of all white parents https://t.co/X3JEC73SZX
@ChrisMinnsMP (There’s much better angles than that, but I’m not telling. :) Thatâ€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… https://t.co/sVhjwUpXiQ
RT @Mattonews: Breaking: Sydney’s inner west light rail will be ‘decommissioned’ for 18 months due to major cracks in the wheel arches of a…
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.… https://t.co/Fy01hMa38f
@eSafetyOffice @joshgnosis @tweetinjules Ta.
RT @WDuskGroup: We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning https://t.co/szmYWfKy25
RT @AussieParlEdits: Talk:Owl (sculpture) Wikipedia article edited anonymously from Department of Human Services https://t.co/IeXy0RZd6Z ht…
@speechleyish @ApostrophePong Yeah it’s a much better pumpkin face that the lantern thing, thought of course this i… https://t.co/LDBUPPSv3J
Fri plan, updated: Fried rice; write for @zdnetaustralia because that anonymity panel thingy was rather good; a bun… https://t.co/QSyRHalx6u
Alas, I won’t be watching any of NetThing live today. I am now on deadline for a different thing. Have fun, y’a#NetThing20212021
@grugstan @samfloreani Please do this.
RT @ssharwood: WTF is an ‘unintentional debugging credential’? We’ve asked Cisco. While we wait for a reply, if own this kit, get patching.…
@ApostrophePong I have seen three or four bush rats coming in to grab the food at night, but they run away quickly… https://t.co/kpUxaNncDX
@ApostrophePong Yeah. Zoom out and you can see that the place the birds stand (and presumably the bush rats too) me… https://t.co/pFhyV1W75J
@ApostrophePong We were looking at the tooth marks yesterday., We think bush rats and maybe swamp wallabies for the… https://t.co/f4QBDddnmh
Waratah sequence 2021, day 66. It’s been raining almost constantly for more than 24 hours now. Water is pooling in… https://t.co/gVzGkzKzJw
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… https://t.co/2CPp9HEUTu
During the Q&A there’s been some comments on the lack of nuanced understanding of all this by the lawmakers. Maybe… https://t.co/dD1rJq8zDY
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… https://t.co/TotpRnIREK
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… https://t.co/nkHomHFdSE
@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… https://t.co/BTttY09LV7
Emily van der Nagel now. “My PhD thesis, ‘Social Media Pseudonymity: Affordances, Practices, Disruptions’, argues f… https://t.co/BvOiIWX7Fo
This was touched upon briefly. It’s complicated. https://t.co/Fjw0j8HMVl
Now it’s Adrian Murdoch from Minus18, on the importance of anonymity and pseudonymity for young LGBTQI+ folks
(It’… https://t.co/91MveNBTIZ
She worries that the approach the Australian government is taking is “recklessâ€. Not to say that everyone feels saf… https://t.co/gcLxPvQxJt
Lucie Krahulcova (“Lucie Kayâ€) of DRW up now, describing her own experience of the importance of anonymity when mov… https://t.co/qIPcEIkQEw
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… https://t.co/2VO324Y9Ga
Greste notes that Australian agencies accessed stored telco metadata more than 300,000 times in one 12-month period… https://t.co/EjakhGxRr2
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… https://t.co/yQTzueijMq
Speaking about online abuse, she says that there’s no clear evidence that anonymity enables the abuse, and there is… https://t.co/tsKIoHhiTq
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… https://t.co/C1ENQhMw5i
Me on this recently: “Calls to ID social media users is just another Morrison government rush job†(12 Oct) https://t.co/sdhQYZUoQF
Kara Hinesley is introducing this by saying, as I suspected, that this session was prompted by recent news in Austr… https://t.co/C1OqCV1dEJ
It’s bouncing off this paper, “PROTECTING THE
OPEN INTERNET: Regulatory principles for policy makers†https://t.co/i7tsCflDA2 (PDF)
Starting momentarily is a separate event, a Digital Rights Watch and Twitter panel, “Online Anonymity and Pseudonym… https://t.co/MwFHr5mwz1
Today’s livestream will also be available on YouTube, starting in about five minutes. https://t.co/dh71CVDwjL #NetThing2021
The complete video stream of day 1 is available should you wish to catch up. https://t.co/RXZvR8sZOG #NetThing2021
Yesterday’s thread started here on the “wrongâ€Â hashtag. #NetThing2021 https://t.co/oMJ5AvIMVl
Starting shortly at 1000 AEDT, day two of the NetThing Internet Governance Forum. @NetThing_AU Full program at… https://t.co/Rzf3aclHgg
@SMinney Yeah but like that’s going to happen lol.
RT @Aiannucci: Out today! https://t.co/KAiCAGD751
@purserj If you can imagine something halfway between a jerkbird and a rosella then you’re close.
RT @edbott: In all fairness, there’s one item missing from the end of this list.
A kind of big item. https://t.co/clfqYxDv7V
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… https://t.co/eeGLEGMqry
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,… https://t.co/2iL2a2m8FB
@jplonie Nice work. :)
RT @jacobian: This November, I’m participating in a global movement called “November”. It’s very simple: every day in November, I’m going t…
“McKinsey will be paid more than $1 million over just three months to design a digital trade roadmap, despite the f… https://t.co/F8Lwdx24op
@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… https://t.co/bz0KdkfsnT
weemadando Never support the Shoppies. pic.twitter.com/wFOH85Nc2q
@tashlee This is the thing. They are not exactly your typical family. https://t.co/BAcGtnILo6
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.
RT @PessimistsArc: 🗞 1878: “Mr. Edison has invented too many things” - The New York Times
💡 1879: Thomas Edison perfects the incandescent…
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.
RT @NewtonMark: Dan is hiding cases. https://t.co/flOK9JN9FS
RT @sexenheimer: 🧠https://t.co/Yd7t6b74vS
New Moon is right now at 0815 AEDT.
Fri plan: 1000 AEDT NetThing Internet Governance Forum, Day 2 https://t.co/cgVCNyf709; a bunch of administrivia and… https://t.co/2gJDL5jYkR
meowri Cant stop thinking about apple crab pic.twitter.com/dacv4RTFRe
RT @AndyDW_: Today. https://t.co/PfIy6n2Mqq
@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… https://t.co/w0rUzYE47X
Anyway he’ll go nicely with Senator Pete Evans, as previously discussed. https://t.co/gzxkRgeskR
From 11 Mar 2019, “Alan Jones donates $10,000 to One Nation’s NSW election campaign†https://t.co/7sYMcgst0M
So yo… https://t.co/bo0ZqkxHiW
So this story here. “Senator Alan Jones? Pauline Hanson offers radio star a job at One Nation after his shock axing… https://t.co/G5Bv9cLzmU
RT @edyong209: Absolutely incredible feat of journalism 💇🼠https://t.co/Pw3rbz9lcu
@kels_316 Yeah I remember the coffee as being quite adequate, but in my case it was more about waking up before the… https://t.co/l7PARAQyOY
New Moon is in 30 minutes at 0815 AEDT.
TIL that 7-Eleven has in-store music. https://t.co/dNVEpQNr5T
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… https://t.co/8O0NxDIW24
It’s another soggy day in the Blue Mountains today. pic.twitter.com/O4JwkG0h7m
RT @gianluca_string: In our latest pre-print we present a computational pipeline to study online discussion surrounding conspiracy theories…
How does this, um, work? https://t.co/yz0qKWrmTo
@AusBerlin84 @swearyanthony This is deeply, deeply funny. Thank you so much.
@johnmcternan Congratulations, John.
RT @johnmcternan: Thinking that the Trump targeting isn’t quite so brilliant! https://t.co/RUU3p7hSep
Act 2 of 2: “Jenna Ryan, Texas realtor who tweeted she was ‘definitely not going to jail,’ gets 60 days in jail†https://t.co/JzO5djtmNq
Act 1 of 2: “Definitely not going to jail.†https://t.co/eKphENhtbF https://t.co/Z1CgtQfLrS
Friday. The progress of time is fully automatic, as long as you pay the price. And we all pay the price. Friday.
RT @jeffsonstein: Happy Birthday to Sir Charles Kuen Kao, PhD GBM KBE FRS FREng https://t.co/38FGmdEWgQ
our world is knit together by you…
@JustJimWillDo @AnarchyCoo Exactly.
It’s after midnight.