@GBoroughGrowler @James_Jeffrey That’s… that’s literally the joke.
@awelder @franksting Exactly. https://t.co/Y9wKg88urg
RT @stilgherrian: I’m starting a campaign encouraging everyone to refer to @James_Jeffrey as The Albotroll. https://t.co/57GSZdxX05
@tobermatt My editor is a bit of an enabler.
ChaserInterns Liberal Party officials announce that the ICAC investigation has left Gladys just corrupt enough to join federal politics
@moylecroft @kcarruthers I don’t know who you either.
RT @9BillionTigers: Laws against jaywalking and the word “jaywalking” itself was invented and spread as propaganda by the US automobile ind…
SwiftOnSecurity If I was the USA I’d make an internet with no hackers allowed
@jonkudelka @Breeblenox It might. It might not.
RT @hypervisible: “They are patenting the very part of it that’s in violation of international human rights law.†https://t.co/wo2L6EvxWa
@jonkudelka @Breeblenox And yet we all know several people who fit the bill.
Stop retweeting or even commenting on that arsehat. They have no idea what they’re talking about.
RT @jonkudelka: Best way to get out of any given chore is enthusiastic incompetence.
dysondoc I bet it’s another fucking vape shop. pic.twitter.com/phtW0jOrHc
“Australian politics is unequivocally fucked†https://t.co/hXFrJzfkkq
RT @stilgherrian: @zdnetaustralia Related: “No matter how much you try, you can’t stop people from sticking beans up their nose.†(2015) ht…
RT @stilgherrian: Me at @zdnetaustralia: “No surprise: NSW iVote fails during local council elections†https://t.co/ZwiHJMlkpW Contains bea…
RT @botandy: feeling the room temperature drop and seeing it materialize in front of you, its skinless arms reaching for you, dripping, htt…
RT @direlog: earth: galactic meat cache
@ashabeeeee @rohan_p @dobes That said, Bloomberg does cover money laundering and cybercrime.
@ashabeeeee @rohan_p @dobes So wouldn’t make that the job really easy?
Hey hello to all the commissioning editors who follow me… https://t.co/sS7ymI3T0t
Hey @ashabeeeee @rohan_p @dobes here’s a potential job for you lot. https://t.co/yvS1aXmNxN
RT @BVZZA: HMMM MA’AM, I THINK YOUR CATS ARE BROKEN. https://t.co/2ELPIsJzEt
mrtonymartin The new ‘Matrix’ looks amazing! pic.twitter.com/6deTAODegz
RT @MitchBenn: Given that apparently the Met police “don’t pursue crimes retrospectivelyâ€, next time a copper pulls you over and says you w…
@WaznyRichard Much better.
RT @markhumphries: Australian Writers Guild Awards are tomorrow night. Here’s a taste of something @danilic, @natalietran and I teamed up f…
RT @QStationMedia: Fort Worth & Denver Railway train no. 7 stopping at Quanah, Texas, on December 27, 1958.
Photograph by Fred M. Springe…
s_entainment The future Zuckerberg wants pic.twitter.com/1mYAMbXCMA
@Zytheran You’ve got to admire their enterprise.
I’ve added it to my blog post, “Updated: Australian cyber-related legislation before parliament, plus current inqui… https://t.co/2V0M4zD6L9
“Australia commences work on electronic surveillance law reforms†by @campbell_kwan https://t.co/bGfS7qmhL2
The di… https://t.co/g7MLXjcoPf
@bastardsheep @R_Chirgwin Depends how desperate we get.
@dawnstarau I am so screwed.
Hey @R_Chirgwin it is my sad duty to report that they’ve started eating the house. A suitable strategy will be devi… https://t.co/BBOkEmynr3
RT @icelandcricket: If the 5th Ashes Test at Perth is off, we would welcome the decider on our terrain! Everything was fine the last time w…
@digital_steve Nom nom nom.
Evidence. pic.twitter.com/WW4JCQRsBP
@dawnstarau These two have started to claim they should be fed separately from the main mob.
@deejbah Oh it’s definitely a wattlebird. It’s just a matter of which kind, red or little. (By “little red†I meant “juvenile redâ€.)
Oh. And now they are eating the house. pic.twitter.com/7AGJmKEKNy
Except one of them decided to try biting my foot. pic.twitter.com/vgDrGgkLfA
Meanwhile, over here we are just two jerkbirds standing around and definitely not causing any trouble. pic.twitter.com/U61NWiek7H
Hello inquisitive little red wattlebird, for I think that’s who you are.
(It has pink legs but no developed wattle… https://t.co/MJkSwJCx4e
@Gtrain62 It’s certainly worth a try.
@meyerjef Excellent. :)
@Rhys_Needham Dune on (Sp)Ice.
And then as stage musicals. https://t.co/Cb91HTRW5q
@IndelibleFink @expectproblems My eyes have certainly been opened.
@funranium I was enjoying the Japanese fleet fighting its way up the Red Sea.
@IndelibleFink @expectproblems How have I never realised this before?
OMFG China will have a base that is… [checks notes]… more than 1000km further away than bases they already have… https://t.co/7epbU0q428
More seriously, the distance from Equatorial Guinea’s capital Malabo to Miami is 9,717 km per Google Search. The di… https://t.co/6vsaXWJYrt
Wait until they hear about the Antarctic Great Wall Station, opposite the US Alaskan coast. pic.twitter.com/Ciw4vKtUtc
Anyone who thinks Equatorial Guinea is “opposite the U.S. East Coast†needs to stop huffing paint. https://t.co/KdDjWvdzzn
@NathanaelB The phrase “elk hunt†is one of those phrases you shouldn’t say too quickly.
What puzzles me is how such enormous arseholes can still be full of so much shit. https://t.co/2j0A7OIBjK
Then again, maybe it isn’t so much blatant pork as blatant porkies. Lol. https://t.co/ij9YMjPQ9T
Imagine being proud to put your name to such a blatantly inappropriate doling out of largesse. https://t.co/cV406Zfzmd
@NathanaelB Does this answer your question? https://t.co/uO2aW6X7Jl
@morebento See web address on every image. ;)
Waratah sequence 2021, day 97. My guess is that progress will be slow again for a while as the bulges become seed p… https://t.co/ld9YG0GwSR
@dobes @purserj Our new overlords. pic.twitter.com/VY9Xy8T9SB
@dobes @purserj And now “steampunk”, allegedly. pic.twitter.com/iuF8XoL0t2
@ktxby I don’t, but it wasn’t a clear up/down situation. It was a load thing. So whenever the load was over a certa… https://t.co/Ozv9NEIal9
@dobes @purserj Different style setting. pic.twitter.com/T3BnVqkIf4
@James_Jeffrey Poor thing. Full of snails.
AstroKatie This is what is known to space scientists as an orbital burn pic.twitter.com/oUUNO5W0zL
This is disturbing, @dobes @purserj. pic.twitter.com/J0dMXOh3wM
BCDreyer what even are words pic.twitter.com/qZm6G4KwL1
@James_Jeffrey Well played.
I should not be permitted to run AI art apps.
Herewith, “Sexual space snails in the style of Chris Fossâpic.twitter.com/G0aQIJ6bCb6bCb
RT @mclayfield: Larry stands on his own spider-like legs. The nameless sheep is built around a building. It’s a faux-woollen tea cosy. Vote…
RT @MeredithAlberta: It’s “ich fühle mich jetzt genug besucht” and it’s very regional, not widely common :)
RT @MeredithAlberta: Yesterday I learned there’s a phrase in German meaning “I am feeling visited enough” that you can say when you want co…
@handyjellyfish @zdnetaustralia Yep, or even just being on call. Or “I’m sickâ€.
@zdnetaustralia Related: “No matter how much you try, you can’t stop people from sticking beans up their nose.†(20… https://t.co/eCmd6fznqS
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “No surprise: NSW iVote fails during local council elections†https://t.co/ZwiHJMlkpW Contai… https://t.co/sFhQa5rLHd
lilydont This is how NFTs work pic.twitter.com/jGKxGlIGAe
IT’S THE GRAND FINAL AND WHILE I WON’T TELL YOU HOE TO VOTE I WILL SAY THAT YOU DON’T WANT TO BE A SHEEP. https://t.co/T1yiplle31
@jsleeio But of course. :)
@MatthewBevan @verbaliza Are you familiar with Whamageddon? whamageddon.com I’m doing OK so far#Whamageddonon
Hey @dobes, a true fact here about @TimeGhostTV. pic.twitter.com/9fuUb4UdH4
@jsleeio Yep. I’m also fascinated by the relationship to the family areas and the staff areas. There’s even a separ… https://t.co/gtoKc9NsBA
@FionaKatauskas To be fair, this entire year has been exactly the same as the last one.
I’m starting a campaign encouraging everyone to refer to @James_Jeffrey as The Albotroll. https://t.co/57GSZdxX05
RT @James_Jeffrey: Some similarities here with next year’s parliamentary sitting calendar. https://t.co/sWq4Wd28fx
Story filed for @zdnetaustralia. It contains a meltdown and some beans.
@jsleeio These are important questions. Also, Kintail is quite the home. I am not permitted to say anything about t… https://t.co/VEOw24zvjZ
RT @UrbanFoxxxx: A recently completed Troll A platform being towed out to sea, Boknafjord, Norway, 1996
Pål Christensen / Stavanger Aftenb…
RT @UrbanFoxxxx: Offshore platforms are true architectural icebergs - Troll A has an overall height of 472 metres but the underwater concre…
RT @UrbanFoxxxx: Inside the platform’s ‘legs’ https://t.co/hgUqss5TuV
RT @UrbanFoxxxx: Troll-A gas platform, Norway. Built in 1996, it is still the tallest and heaviest structure ever moved by mankind, its con…
@zaploi I’m not sure that it’s particularly American. I would write “the band is playing†and consider it normal and right.
@LeonieGSmith See earlier in the thread. ;)
@funranium I don’t know the reference but that arrival on the log is very bowerbird.
@LeonieGSmith A satin bowerbird, yes. But h hasn’t got his adult colouring yet, so he’s four or maybe five years ol… https://t.co/OX3Gjsi95s
@Thongdam07 That’s… bold. Wow.
@jamesrbuk Yeah, as the Chronicle has written it it felt jarring. I think I’d have introduced the fact that they’re… https://t.co/aZOrAT2wk4
It’s hard to see in this photo unless you know what you’re looking at, but that’s the bower just there, past the bo… https://t.co/Sma9bpBD43
My plan is to put my phone on a tripod near the bower. It’s only 15 metres from my window so that’s within range of… https://t.co/zffMSVmWqg
The bowerbird is spending quite a bit of his day working on his dancing and, to a lesser extent, his bower. I’ll ge… https://t.co/twDlWQpVgM
The story also contains a fascinating conundrum of subediting / copyediting. Is a couple single or plural? pic.twitter.com/BYNwNn0Sn6
Here’s a link to the actual story.
“A Black couple ‘erased themselves’ from their home to see if the appraised val… https://t.co/mZiRR7SdQC
@19bk69 And the bloke wearing black business shoes. Because we all wear swimsuits under our work clothes.
RT @snyff: Mark Zuckerberg enters the room… https://t.co/4EN7b8Y54g
RT @PizzoHistorian: Thus began the Great Shark Insurrection of 2022: ‘Sharks are amassing’: Tracker shows great white sharks gathering on E…
Monday morning racism, part 2 of 2. https://t.co/vXCfOZriAx
Monday morning racism, part 1 of 2. https://t.co/Jy3be6aGW5
@19bk69 Heh. I see what they were trying to do, but it does seem to have backfired.
Less amusingly, I updated my list of cyber-ish stuff that Parliament is working on, or was until it went on summer… https://t.co/RLxnYAVEMf
And don’t forget that we wrapped up the Spring Series of “The 9pm Edict†podcast last Tuesday. https://t.co/i8KwNiiYle
Further alleged plans may be found in the Weekly Wrap, of course, along with links to interesting things. https://t.co/r4hXsvgNFm
Mon plan: Write for @zdnetaustralia; a whole bunch of administrivia and planning; quiet evening. It looks like a si… https://t.co/PjfL6DZQhQ
RT @aflashbak: Salesman on motorised roller skates - 1961. On his back is a single horsepower air-cooled engine. He holds a clutch, acceler…
RT @Absolutego13: @DarnelSugarfoo A typical American “office” in 1985
We used to be a country. A proper country https://t.co/jFrQvO8cZh
In the Blue Mountains the Great Sog continues for yet another day. Repeat this statement for another week. pic.twitter.com/ktWRFSNKki
Monday. In the City of Dancing Snails every day is special. Monday.