Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian)

Wentworth Falls NSW AU

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March 29th, 2022

ChristnNitemare Good morning! pic.twitter.com/hvOyEUN05f

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RT @BillKristol: “I have never obstructed justice…I am not a crook.”
— Richard M. Nixon, Nov. 17, 1973

“I have no idea what a burner…

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matttburke Budget? What Budget? pic.twitter.com/Q7jfmbKPn8

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lowcostcosplayy D U N E pic.twitter.com/h0QXZGDIF6

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@RDNS_TAI My pleasure. I appreciated how you directly addressed some of the myths.

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@VTeagueAus Apart from the OAIC nudge I just tweeted about, there’s this. I didn’t check education and such. https://t.co/HqaUioNohK

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On a related note, may I recommend “Morrison’s economic lies” by @rdns_tai. https://t.co/4xkHoCQEXz #Budget2022

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Putting it another way, and factoring in the need for recruitment and training, the government could clear the OAIC… https://t.co/1UgGTi6rJt

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Specifically, for OAIC and its FoI and privacy work, the message is clear: The government has no intention of impro… https://t.co/HR2Gb11atL

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So, as usual, a few percentage points here and there is just faffing about at the edges. Same as with giving pensio… https://t.co/sAiptKcjej

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A 6% increase in resources means that it would take at least 16 years to clear the backlog. That assumes no increas… https://t.co/RgiNA5gjqF

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Now, some basic maths. If you want to NOT have a 12-month backlog, you need to do a full year’s worth of work on to… https://t.co/FknYrP6xWt

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But look at this. Performance targets are not being met, even these rather generous KPIs of resolving 80% of matter… https://t.co/sBIXuNEoov

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The extra funding means they get a whole 9 new staff members to handle all of these functions. pic.twitter.com/hXAVo8mvem

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So, looking at this question of whether the extra finding for the Office of the Information Commissioner might sort… https://t.co/8mblNzbFaX

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RT @BernardZuel: Daughter watching Fierravanti-Wells on Morrison: “I’m getting the impression she’s met him.”

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Earlier I said the place for the initial detail is “Budget Paper No. 2”. If you want to drill down further you need… https://t.co/TFDBPhBeL2

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My attention has been drawn to the middle of the five icons. Is it just me, or…? pic.twitter.com/5ek7IkOHFL

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@artywah If anywhere it’ll be in the ATO statement here. https://t.co/2KUnNPa7Vp

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@coldsnacks @GrogsGamut Welcome to how the Budget works and how to analyse it properly. :) Also, pass it this way.

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@coldsnacks @GrogsGamut Yep. Or rather, the Budget is based on the assumption that this is what will happen. That s… https://t.co/VFzDejAG7x

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Well spotted, Hugh. Though I’d phrase it as “The Budget hopes for” rather than as “Treasury forecasts”. #Budget2022 https://t.co/EX7M5u01dC

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RT @PhilipRucker: Breaking —> White House logs from Jan. 6 turned over to House show gap in Trump calls of seven hours and 37 minutes
 
The…

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It’s… it’s what now? https://t.co/sNCKR3JPr6

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@michaelneale @skwashd @NewtonMark Ah. Here we are again. It’s probably best if I don’t comment.

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@SuperCroup Good luck, Adrian. *waves*

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@jpwarren This is the PDF you’re after. Looking through it now. https://t.co/ued1ERmuMG

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RT @JoshButler: The important context here is that the senator “has recently been relegated to an unwinnable spot on the Liberal party’s NS…

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RT @JoshButler: Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells just launched an incredible attack on PM Scott Morrison and Alex Hawke in the Se…

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@GrogsGamut Thanks, Greg. Same story though, eh. Sigh.

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CORRECTION: A “data flub” — that’s a technical term — in the graph I posted. Here’s the correct version. #Budget2022 https://t.co/hFWxwVetiq

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Big shoutout to the cybersecurity company who managed to send out a press release commenting on the $9.9 billion fo… https://t.co/jdOVNvtegO

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RT @stephendziedzic: Breaking - @latingle is reporting that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address federal parliament at 5.30pm…

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@danilic And this is just the *additional* funding for REDSPICE, above what’s already there.

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“Federal budget 2022: six graphs that reveal the sugar-hit election strategy” by @GrogsGamut… https://t.co/xa2q7aU6YW

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@VS_ I did stumble across that game earlier. Looks like a… a classic?

But yes, Cyber Troll Pty Ltd. $20 million please.

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@michaelneale @skwashd @NewtonMark Ah yes, I also see you understand how to list things on the receipt. I had lessons in that.

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“Australian Budget 2022 delivers AU$9.9 billion for spicy cyber” by @campbell_kwan https://t.co/kf3tnvPBWt #Budget2022

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Arts was one of the areas I’d skipped over because I knew others would look. Nick has looked. #Budget2022 https://t.co/07igAkylDY

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@skwashd @NewtonMark I see this isn’t your first Budget.

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@CosmicRami There may be more detail over here, if not more money. https://t.co/ZGdrtLGcp7

Next year I’ll have to… https://t.co/bWrVrICZSd

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@jpwarren Hah! Let’s look over here in the A-G’s Portfolio Budget Statements 2022—23… https://t.co/XH5vgVx7Gt

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@justinrhendry Clearly Justin was in the lockup, so he’s got a bunch of storiesitnews.com.au/tag/budget2022b22

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“All the tech in the 2022 federal budget” by @justinrhendry https://t.co/7WapKIuOBb #Budget2022

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@jetztgibtshaue No, it’s a bottle, and can store beer for a day or two.

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@AnthonyLee900 Lol the convention of all-caps is very old, mate. Older than you. Even older than me.

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GROWLERS! (That’s a thingy what holds 1.89 to 2 litres of beer. The first figure is 64 fluid ounces for The America… https://t.co/2CDXQusfNd

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“Australia’s 2022 federal budget: what we found in the fine print” from the Graun. https://t.co/8FDH1UrB2d #Budget2022

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OK, I’m tweeting this one solely for the headline.

“The Tinkerbell budget: Clap if you believe it makes sense” by… https://t.co/vFrhTL1xMI

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@NewtonMark Shoosh, Mark, and just buy the managing director a new laptop. And a big-screen TV for… for, um, videoconferencing.

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@DarrenODonovan I really wish I’d been in the meeting where they came up with the name.

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@jpwarren Lol no, but it’s an interesting line item nonetheless.

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@SummersAnne That’s doesn’t cover many barristers though. ;) Still, good to see recognition that the OSI needs more support.

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@CosmicRami Go direct to the source, Rami. “Budget Paper No. 2” is the thing. https://t.co/A4d9uCgMDu

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So that’s my initial skim through “Budget Paper No. 2” https://t.co/A4d9uCgMDu Obviously I left out a LOT of things… https://t.co/dLZbQZ49EJ

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And… Parliament House will get “enhancements to the CCTV network, upgraded screening equipment and an expanded Pa… https://t.co/rHMIfriiIw

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Lots of priority infrastructure projects listed starting on page 135. You can go through them yourselves.

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“$1.3 billion over 6 years from 2021-22 to improve regional telecommunications2pic.twitter.com/dRqlzOHCBWHCBW

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“Civil Aviation Safety Authority — Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems,” which is to say, drones. #Budget2022

“Addit… https://t.co/T2aLhywr2W

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“Support for the Australian Space Industry,” which I’ll go though another time. #Budget2022

Reminder: These numbe… https://t.co/V8zfy4zixL

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Various extra stuff for counterterrorism and investigating organised crime etc, which I’ll look at in more detail l… https://t.co/X5XOU9u7xK

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Another $50 million for the Safer Communities Fund, the one that Peter Dutton enjoyed so much. pic.twitter.com/5WJ7cisGsR

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An extra $136.7 million in 2022-23 for Operation Sovereign Borders. pic.twitter.com/d9IbTNCbyx

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“Rugby World Cup 2027 (men’s) and Rugby World Cup 2029 (women’s),âdpic.twitter.com/AS8Y5lngC28Y5lngC2

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“Prioritising Mental Health,” it says here. $99 million in the coming financial year, or around $3.30 per Australia… https://t.co/KOTZbMsuXM

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“The Government will provide $69.0 million over 2 years from 2021-22 for the Japanese Encephalitis Virus National P… https://t.co/ihz5ZB6VWH

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There’s a bunch of detail on education, health, aged care, stuff like that which I’ll skip over because others will… https://t.co/iwggT3db0F

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That’s “$9.9 billion over 10 years to 2030-31 to the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) to deliver a Resilience,… https://t.co/4sRZSt3gmB

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AND HERE’S THE CYBER STUFF IT IS CALLED REDSPICE! #Budget2022

Reminder: $9.9 billion over 10 years is vapourware,… https://t.co/L9tBRR7cOi

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The $4.3 billion for “Large Vessel Infrastructure and Submarine Basing” announced with such fanfare the other day “… https://t.co/HuyvOun7LX

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There’s some stuff in there to cover the costs so fat this financial year of flood response from Defence and also s… https://t.co/EhT0Pqybk8

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Defence loses another $6.7 million to the investigation of war crimes. pic.twitter.com/uCpDZibc8T

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Office of the Australian Information Commissioner gets around $8 million a year extra for the next two years. Is th… https://t.co/UwdZnHp6ce

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I’ll skip the rest of the tax stuff because I don’t understand 2022

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Small businesses (see conditions) can deduct 120% of the cost of digital transformation, if I may paraphrase. That’… https://t.co/PkzIAUwkqv

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“Modernisation of pay as you go (PAYG) instalment systems”? Direct link from accounting software to ATO to adjust P… https://t.co/e56wwhZEbN

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Here’s another great sentence. “This measure is estimated to result in an unquantifiable impact on receipts over th… https://t.co/1q8etNRjfG

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Here’s the detail on the 50% temporary reduction in fuel excise, which starts one minute past midnight tonight and… https://t.co/Zn3PNgEE75

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Here’s a new euphemism for a cut. “The Government will re-profile existing funding…” OK, it’s under $8 million in… https://t.co/ss8z4fBbnv

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I’ll mostly post about Budget items I’m familiar with, the stuff I generally write about, but if something piques m… https://t.co/tXSMokf35f

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It’s important to remember what strange technical terms like “NSW” and “QLD” Bpic.twitter.com/OjSOlFm7H8OjSOlFm7H8

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“Budget Paper No. 2” is where most of the detail\ lives. It’s a series of diffs, basically, presented as changes si… https://t.co/2WAlql8pOg

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I did tweet this earlier. I daresay I’ll find some more details (hah!) as I go through the papers. #Budget2022 https://t.co/Ce5P1fxDOG

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Should you be keen, here’s the text of the speech. https://t.co/2I0lBzBT8C #Budget2022

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And here we go. There’s the bullet points on the front pagebudget.gov.aua2pic.twitter.com/vDChWjewIrIr

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@andrea_weymouth Short answer: Pine Gap is a communications relay station for all manner of satellites, ranging fro… https://t.co/b2l32aSO6Y

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@andrea_weymouth That’s about a whole different thing, which I am happy to chat about but not tonight because… BUDGET TIME!

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Pro Tip: You don’t have to listen to Josh Frydenberg drone his way through the speech. You can just grab the text o… https://t.co/rAB95lrALE

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@jpwarren Sorry, what was I even thinking? IT’S ALL THERE IN THE BALANCE.

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@Samara2k But past that, there’s some good stuff on Netflix and elsewhere.

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@Samara2k I spend a lot of time with TimeGhost’s material including the current WW2 in real time.… https://t.co/zsRdUbcsbs

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@Samara2k @lawfarepodcast @RidT So I hear, but I have so much other stuff I’µ meant to be reading and yet I end up… https://t.co/wAbMDUq1rI

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START OF BUDGET NIGHT THREAD. I’m not sure how much I’ll dig into this stuff tonight, but I will at least download… https://t.co/fkutBnPdZM

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RT @HartWexford: It is normal. 100% of known worlds are exactly like this one. That’s as normal as it gets. https://t.co/F7OWcXe3wo

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@garystark You can always phone a friend. :)

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@Samara2k @lawfarepodcast @RidT I really need to read Greenberg’s book too, yes.

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Iancoll94354676 Why is this so funny ? pic.twitter.com/N1DSk8lMXK

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@lawfarepodcast @RidT It riffs off his essay “Why You Haven’t Heard About the Secret Cyberwar in Ukraine” (18 Mar)… https://t.co/tkBDccURyo

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Listening to a @lawfarepodcast, “Thomas Rid (@RidT) on Ukraine and Cyberwar”. Recommended. https://t.co/PZzpTCdeqH

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@dobes Wow. Just wow. I also have a view on mocking someone for wearing traditional Pacific headgear when visiting… https://t.co/yC481G6pZW

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RT @thegrugq: Russia is adapting. Now they can abandon 25 technicals for the cost of one abandoned T-72 https://t.co/CLLmfvWKLu

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RT @BBCRosAtkins: Rising Covid cases in the UK raise many questions about what ‘living with Covid’ means in reality. Here’s 5 mins on why t…

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@CosmicRami HMAS Canberra. Take it for a spin but don’t break it. https://t.co/Mkk7o4im4J

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@mangetout May I suggest Catherine Ryan’s artwork “Cyber Pig”? https://t.co/m5uwFHoy8t

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@VS_ You’ll have to narrow it down a bit. :)

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@VS_ If hackers can be in their parents’ basement then our bold Aussie cyber heroes can be in a shed. It’s balance!

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Amused that “one official who was not authorised to comment publicly” gets anonymity to parrot what it clearly the… https://t.co/nuAojI8tSo

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“Almost $9 billion cybersecurity and intelligence package to be unveiled in federal budget,” apparently. https://t.co/bD7QruUEVh

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RT @NGruen1: How are you supposed to know that if you lay waste to generations of work building trading institutions that your trade, and s…

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Zelenskyy has his own White House phone. https://t.co/P8L7jKdapZ

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@oberonsghost The magical thinking will be very strong this year.

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Not only is it Budget Night, Tuesday 29 March is also National Smoke and Mirrors Day. They write themselves, folks! https://t.co/1DLUuxlCxT

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I just found this tweet from last year and I reckon it’s still valid today. #Budget2022 https://t.co/sjrH6til0w

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@NewtonMark @drspacejunk I don’t see a veil though. :(

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karaschlegl It does feel like we are quickly shifting into having only two seasons; “wet” or “on fire”.

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baxters RIP boiling water… you will be mist.

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“Vivaldi Spring but You Have Hay Fever” in 28 seconds. https://t.co/SzUCs88vV2

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Ah! Action has been taken. As you were. https://t.co/sSJ2dc2usY

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oberonsghost This explains so many things. pic.twitter.com/l85C0BFiao

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philosofacespin for no particular reason pic.twitter.com/FK14B7tJB2

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@NewtonMark Lol no there isn’t much chance of that.

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@okayocelot Hmmm… Now that you mention it. How curious.

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So, um, RØDE has just released their NTH-100 over-ear headphones. RRP is AUD 249.00, I think, and the specs look ve… https://t.co/1XbkLLmEvM

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RT @Acyn: Doocy: When you said that chemical weapon use by Russia would trigger a response in kind
Biden: It will trigger a significant res…

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Hello @dobes and please have some @davpope joy for the morning. pic.twitter.com/2hkxVn8Wyy

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RT @BrentTerhune: people breaking down the slap like, ‘back and to the left. back and to the left.’ https://t.co/cARlY5qHgk

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RT @LilNasX: it literally does. you would not be laughing if will smith slapped peppa pig then chopped her into tiny bits, added 3/4 a cup…

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Oh yeah. Further alleged plans may be found in the Weekly Wrap and this thread here what I have attached. https://t.co/y7OyMnLOFz

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This sort of fits in here too. https://t.co/SQc0a2cNMI

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“No, This School District Is Not Putting Litter Boxes In Bathrooms For Students Who Identify As Cats, The Superinte… https://t.co/QlAr7sWiEj

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Tue plan: 0900 client meeting; a vast* amount of administrivia at a gentle pace; nap; 1930 AEDT Budget Night and al… https://t.co/nqAwc673WN

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lowcostcosplayy A L I E N pic.twitter.com/1O358zwztc

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You’ll be surprised to hear that in the Blue Mountains the Great Sog continues again today. There is considerable d… https://t.co/6mjGkeEd2e

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Tuesday. Count your blessings, just in case one of them has been stolen. Count them again, just to be sure. Tuesday.

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