Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian)

Wentworth Falls NSW AU

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November 5th, 2021

RT @_midofo_: LOL, imagine being as dumb as this cunt

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Histreepix A packet of spaghetti under a microscope. Oswestry, 1907. pic.twitter.com/o3Dab6poT0

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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…

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EleanorMorton Guy Fawkes doesn’t get the mask thing pic.twitter.com/8j3U9BTMhO

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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…

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@jodiem @JohnLaRooy Unified messaging is a dystopia. I actually WANT whole channels that I can ignore.

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@jealouscraig @sniff_off At least in my experience, at the handful of venues I frequent.

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@jealouscraig @sniff_off No, most people have the sense to not arc up against cops and draw attention to themselves… https://t.co/ZVvidSRL1h

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@BernardZuel This is not to excuse the Coalition governments from criticism, of course. But for those of us more tr… https://t.co/CUezbXaotO

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@BernardZuel “Minor” hot-button point for people wanting to party-politic this. The first part of L1 was opened two… https://t.co/jQ0XB1G0y8

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Watching @sniff_off tonight, I get the impression that NSW Police and their sniffywoofers are catching up after all… https://t.co/OfHltGa7OJ

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@JonoInAotearoa Heh. It’s all OK. I hide or mute quickly.

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@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.

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@DrRhysPockett No I think you should still be able to do your job after you’re dead.

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RT @DrNeenaJha: When you send your elderly Aunt a Diwali message & your phone autocorrects ‘today’ to ‘tosser’

😱😭 https://t.co/uBYu9SZDwa

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@NewtonMark And is SOL behaving itself today?

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Would you like to see the winners of the 2021 BirdLife Australia Photography Awards? Yes, I’m sure you would. https://t.co/08nFhPqM0G

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@jplonie Yeah, that sort of EA generally earns their solid salary.

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@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.

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@AnOldManStream1 But why would you want to yes I know this is a rhetorical question kill me now.

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@AnOldManStream1 Yeah but there’s literally nothing in that that needs a blockchain, and which wouldn’t be more efficient without it.

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Well they’re idiots if they think this. https://t.co/cja9hDMMtf

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@djalbosbushdoof Frontbottom. Also, thank you for taking the time out of your busy today to message me, a complete… https://t.co/DNPjcpUSc4

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@SerenasSoapbox Yeah there does need to be an explanation for some people. I quite like the reverse expectation one… https://t.co/MDUsbY1G16

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@DavidFeng Yeah, this news has only emerged this afternoon so the political moods are all go.

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@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

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@DavidFeng Unless you behave yourself, David, I won’t show you any pictures of my trip on a NSW TrainLink XPT next week.

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@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.

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@dobes Also a very good one from @davpope today. Another entire universe. pic.twitter.com/WDwV3ffjFL

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Hey @dobes it’s the whole menagerie! https://t.co/o7spMB1nFs

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@nickzoic True, but then they were also working until midday or so. Different people have different expectations of email I guess.

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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

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RT @chrisjoregan: CONFIRMED: Walking fast is legal! https://t.co/BAAUlVvKxo

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@ChrisMinnsMP And just quietly, I don’t need randos explaining what @ChrisMinnsMP meant by that tweet. You are not… https://t.co/Re3Qj5CrDC

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Mr @joshgnosis was also there. “Twitter says any move by Australia to ban anonymous accounts would not reduce abuse… https://t.co/onPLI0t9By

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Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Twitter joins backlash against Australian plan to ID social media users”… https://t.co/0iHUUtxnHk

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@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

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I am an idiot because I forgot that in Australia all engineering matters are party-political. Want NBN? Ask me how.

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@peter_0713 In “everything”? Don’t be such a tedious fuckwit.

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@feargadocious @ShaunRatcliff @ChrisMinnsMP No, but the equating local manufacturing to there not being a potential… https://t.co/clax429nm4

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@wendy_harmer @ChrisMinnsMP “Forriners don’t understand how special Australia is.” Lol. This really does feel like… https://t.co/yD6ujYYOUq

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@Carl_Sciarra @ShaunRatcliff @ChrisMinnsMP BuT lAbOr BuIlT tHaT tRaM LiNe! (I can do this all day.)

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@Carl_Sciarra @ShaunRatcliff @ChrisMinnsMP I think some people — neither of you obviously — might come back at it l… https://t.co/le05Fswl1e

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@ShaunRatcliff @ChrisMinnsMP Does that matter? It’s how it reads.

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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

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@ChrisMinnsMP (There’s much better angles than that, but I’m not telling. :) That”s your job.)

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@ChrisMinnsMP “Forriners can’t build stuff proper” really is quite pathetic casual racism. Please do better.

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@Anthony_Caruana Awww… But did you run with the story?

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@lakilakilaki @Ironman_peter @Mattonews @andrew_lund Because rail systems, light or heavy, are a *system* with stan… https://t.co/sVhjwUpXiQ

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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…

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Story filed for @zdnetaustralia. It contains uncomfortable white men and an incredibly reckless plan.

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Today’s Alien Sideboob from @JohnBirmingham is titled “Huffing on the methane bong” and it’s free to read.… https://t.co/Fy01hMa38f

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RT @WDuskGroup: We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning https://t.co/szmYWfKy25

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RT @AussieParlEdits: Talk:Owl (sculpture) Wikipedia article edited anonymously from Department of Human Services https://t.co/IeXy0RZd6Z ht…

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@speechleyish @ApostrophePong Yeah it’s a much better pumpkin face that the lantern thing, thought of course this i… https://t.co/LDBUPPSv3J

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Fri plan, updated: Fried rice; write for @zdnetaustralia because that anonymity panel thingy was rather good; a bun… https://t.co/QSyRHalx6u

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Alas, I won’t be watching any of NetThing live today. I am now on deadline for a different thing. Have fun, y’a2021

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RT @ssharwood: WTF is an ‘unintentional debugging credential’? We’ve asked Cisco. While we wait for a reply, if own this kit, get patching.…

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@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

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@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

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@ApostrophePong We were looking at the tooth marks yesterday., We think bush rats and maybe swamp wallabies for the… https://t.co/f4QBDddnmh

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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

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The disintegration of the Halloween Face continues. This is rapidly become a very @ApostrophePong thread. pic.twitter.com/Di2L1llZRO

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@jpwarren Shut up and give me your credit card number.

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@dobes @kels_316 @tacticalmaid But where does it house the dive team?

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And we’re done. That was a solid discussion and I’ll be writing… something.

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Mr @joshgnosis asked a good question about whether the eSafety Commissioner being given all these new roles means t… https://t.co/2CPp9HEUTu

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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

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Lucie Kay puts it more bluntly: This legislation is happening because white men are upset by things people are saying online.

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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

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Kaye says AU’s proposals go beyond what other democracies are doing in this regard.

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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

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@jpwarren I know this and yet I keep getting caught out by how terrible so many people are.

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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

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Emily van der Nagel now. “My PhD thesis, ‘Social Media Pseudonymity: Affordances, Practices, Disruptions’, argues f… https://t.co/BvOiIWX7Fo

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This was touched upon briefly. It’s complicated. https://t.co/Fjw0j8HMVl

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Now it’s Adrian Murdoch from Minus18, on the importance of anonymity and pseudonymity for young LGBTQI+ folks

(It’… https://t.co/91MveNBTIZ

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She worries that the approach the Australian government is taking is “reckless”. Not to say that everyone feels saf… https://t.co/gcLxPvQxJt

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Lucie Krahulcova (“Lucie Kay”) of DRW up now, describing her own experience of the importance of anonymity when mov… https://t.co/qIPcEIkQEw

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And finally, Greste points out that Australia does not have anything like a Bill of Rights, the only major democracy not to have one.

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The Identify & Disrupt Act gets a shout-out too.

“Australia’s ‘hacking’ Bill passes the Senate after House made 60… https://t.co/2VO324Y9Ga

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Greste notes that Australian agencies accessed stored telco metadata more than 300,000 times in one 12-month period… https://t.co/EjakhGxRr2

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Even journalists’ identities may need protecting, he says, giving recent events in Afghanistan as a prime example.

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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

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Speaking about online abuse, she says that there’s no clear evidence that anonymity enables the abuse, and there is… https://t.co/tsKIoHhiTq

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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

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David Kaye is framing all this in terms of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularl… https://t.co/C1ENQhMw5i

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Me on this recently: “Calls to ID social media users is just another Morrison government rush job” (12 Oct) https://t.co/sdhQYZUoQF

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Kara Hinesley is introducing this by saying, as I suspected, that this session was prompted by recent news in Austr… https://t.co/C1OqCV1dEJ

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It’s bouncing off this paper, “PROTECTING THE
OPEN INTERNET: Regulatory principles for policy makers” https://t.co/i7tsCflDA2 (PDF)

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Starting momentarily is a separate event, a Digital Rights Watch and Twitter panel, “Online Anonymity and Pseudonym… https://t.co/MwFHr5mwz1

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Today’s livestream will also be available on YouTube, starting in about five minutes. https://t.co/dh71CVDwjL #NetThing2021

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The complete video stream of day 1 is available should you wish to catch up. https://t.co/RXZvR8sZOG #NetThing2021

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Yesterday’s thread started here on the “wrong” hashtag. #NetThing2021 https://t.co/oMJ5AvIMVl

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Starting shortly at 1000 AEDT, day two of the NetThing Internet Governance Forum. @NetThing_AU Full program at… https://t.co/Rzf3aclHgg

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@SMinney Yeah but like that’s going to happen lol.

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@purserj If you can imagine something halfway between a jerkbird and a rosella then you’re close.

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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

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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

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classywarfare The War on Christmas cannot end until Christmas stops its illegal occupation of November

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cameronwilson At least 5 of Sky News Australia’s most watched videos are about Biden’s supposed cognitive issues pic.twitter.com/cesu4vQ6PD

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@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

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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…

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“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

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@tashlee At least that poor woman isn’t trying to breastfeed them.

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@tashlee Twelve US gallons is more than 45 litres. A week. Those kids must have nothing but milk.

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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

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weemadando Never support the Shoppies. pic.twitter.com/wFOH85Nc2q

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@tashlee This is the thing. They are not exactly your typical family. https://t.co/BAcGtnILo6

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Mind you there seems to be thousands of them.

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I just saw the milk thing and yeah that is way too much milk.

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@HartWexford @SteveMolk The VIPs weren’t V I, it seems.

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RT @PessimistsArc: 🗞 1878: “Mr. Edison has invented too many things” - The New York Times

💡 1879: Thomas Edison perfects the incandescent…

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LeapingRobot …and yes, Wiener wrote Cybernetics by hand pic.twitter.com/VQMUkWUZS0

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@egadheg Under their beds. Oozing up out of the toilet.

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@nomadiclucie Haha I wondered what happened. :) Yeah don’t take on that sort of task. You’ll go mad.

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@feraldata @drspacejunk @NuclearAnthro @CosmicRami Either way, it’s certainly… something.

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New Moon is right now at 0815 AEDT.

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Fri plan: 1000 AEDT NetThing Internet Governance Forum, Day 2 https://t.co/cgVCNyf709; a bunch of administrivia and… https://t.co/2gJDL5jYkR

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meowri Cant stop thinking about apple crab pic.twitter.com/dacv4RTFRe

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@Bedeapk There’s so, so much to look forward to in 2022.

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reddishraven This is comicbook villain level of statistical analysis.

Holy fuckballs. pic.twitter.com/OpDmlN6syW

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@LackOfToast @juhasaarinen That’s depressingly likely. One might even snark that being a criminal is almost a requi… https://t.co/w0rUzYE47X

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Anyway he’ll go nicely with Senator Pete Evans, as previously discussed. https://t.co/gzxkRgeskR

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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

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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

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RT @edyong209: Absolutely incredible feat of journalism 💇🏼 https://t.co/Pw3rbz9lcu

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@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

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New Moon is in 30 minutes at 0815 AEDT.

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TIL that 7-Eleven has in-store music. https://t.co/dNVEpQNr5T

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@CelerySorbet Hah yes I was going to add that to the thread but forgot.

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@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

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It’s another soggy day in the Blue Mountains today. pic.twitter.com/O4JwkG0h7m

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RT @gianluca_string: In our latest pre-print we present a computational pipeline to study online discussion surrounding conspiracy theories…

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@AusBerlin84 @swearyanthony This is deeply, deeply funny. Thank you so much.

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RT @johnmcternan: Thinking that the Trump targeting isn’t quite so brilliant! https://t.co/RUU3p7hSep

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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

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Act 1 of 2: “Definitely not going to jail.” https://t.co/eKphENhtbF https://t.co/Z1CgtQfLrS

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Friday. The progress of time is fully automatic, as long as you pay the price. And we all pay the price. Friday.

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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…

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It’s after midnight.

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