PPantsdown Remember kids, 2.15pm tomorrow is the Ben Roberts-Smith verdict, so it’s time to #PutOutYourPinkLunchboxes & bury t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…F5
Kate_McClymont For those who want to watch the Ben Roberts-Smith judgment tomorrow, here is the link:
Court No. 1, Level 21
2:15 P..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…wC
Snerk. twitter.com/kels_316/statu…
RT @LibertyRPF: “The SR-71 Blackbird’s first flight was closer to the Wright brothers than to today.” -@AcquiredFM ? https://t.co/dHVojxtR…
@erfbeeass Not at all. Consider who’s nominally in charge, for starters. Totally different.
This is a very good point and I think the answer probably has something to do with either oral sex or drug traffick..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…yY
davidcsimon Gang-gang Cockatoo! pic.twitter.com/6aVVVNEMEP
Why is this happening? Crying. twitter.com/PatrickLenton/…
Gosh. “The US warned Australia that the Brereton report may trigger a provision that bans US assistance to units li..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…pD
@ChihiroSpirits Sadly it’s TOO magic.
Heartbreaking. https://t.co/7nDDtKgF35
@TheNehad Perfect for every music venue!
“I believe I am still an excellent choice to be important in the Liberal Party in Victoria. I am exactly the person..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…o9
NewtonMark What kind of person just wakes up and says, “Fuck it, I’m going to be a member of Parliament. Get out of the way, peasants!”
NewtonMark That’s not really up to him to decide, fam. twitter.com/sumeyyailanbey…
TheNehad If this doesn’t push a clean out of the Dragons’ board and management, I’m not sure what will.
That’s one of the..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Xq
@rustyalex2 Hah! I don’t think so, because I’m pretty sure it was one of many teachers at school, where I did some..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1V
@jodiem Nothing actually caught fire. :)
I’ll think about that later. I haven’t used a soldering iron in decades, and while I cold probably fix it I may leave it to someone else.
Mind you that’s probably quite fixable.
I finally got the 30-pin dock adapter to connect my much newer iPad so I can finally test the mi… oh wait. No. Th..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…rM
Seems quite busy out there today. pic.twitter.com/QgYy7wK9OO
@rustyalex2 It took me WAY too long to get that. :(
RT @Leo_Puglisi6: I’m calling it now: this might be the best year for by-election enthusiasts (like me) since 2018
Already:
- Narracan (su…
Wed plan: Just as the weather has been much the same for days now, my work continues to be a pleasant desk-based pl..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…WD
@brentspargo Ah yes.
RT @slurplebrained: We’re on levels of LinkedIn posting beyond your wildest imagination https://t.co/hkaeCEqA1w
I just saw this in another place. I appreciate the joke. pic.twitter.com/WCLnKaGFcV
@brentspargo Heh. Audio engineering is a weird field. But like any field it’s handy to have a wide choice of tools..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…9L
TTAships Dragon’s Fury does not exist #TerranTradeAuthority #AIArt #midjourney pic.twitter.com/MtKZKFjRuv
@brentspargo The parametric eq is the that I’ll find most useful, I think. Unless the speech denoise does something..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Pz
@brentspargo So it would seem. :) It’s a minor version bump so it was waiting for me this morning. I now have too m..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…YY
kels_316 @Bedeapk I don’t know what to think about the movie I just watched until some dude with crippling student debt tell..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…gz
It’s yet another of those days in the Blue Mountains. What more needs to be said? pic.twitter.com/gLEyZcIQg6
Wednesday. Beware. Your bones may turn to jelly and the neighbours will complain. In a nearby park, at an arts fest..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…vm
Hey @ApostrophePong you will enjoy the making-of video. In the second half they match the finished music video with..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…yR
“Abandoned Oz - Sydney’s R.C. Henderson Building Fire Update - Monday 29th May 2023” youtube.com/watch?v=C9bdA6…
Is the answer, “Because they’re cunts”? https://t.co/rzSvLrRgir
JonathanPieNews Well to be fair, JRM looked about 40 when he was 12. twitter.com/MaxHazell/stat…
@ashulz Oh my end is fine, and the authoritative NS is fine now. I am waiting for Cloudflare’s LONG TTL to fuck off.
@ashulz Yep, all good. I am into The Process™ and now I am just WAITING PATIENTLY. :)
@ashulz Heh. Well, someone does. Does a client count as “me”?
@danjhugo Ain’t that the truth!
@elronxenu Wait. Shipwrecks are not salvageable goods but archaeological things, and there seems to be individual n… https://t.co/zZA2NRusX6
FXMC1957 30 May 2020. The Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA, to become the first cre..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…6c
@not_that_CK It often is.
@BeerRabbi That’s very cool.
@elronxenu IANAL, but this explainer seems to line up with my understanding. There may be different laws regarding… https://t.co/PptupSVJQV
@BeerRabbi Beau is an interesting chap.
Oh dear. I broke a thing.
@JustJimWillDo Well not *my* server. ;)
je_somerton Conservatives: “haha we owned them!”
Straight allies: “this is so offensive. Stop attacking queer people.”
Actua..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1l
One person’s “looting” is another person’s “salvage”.
Wow wait until the Brits hear about the Spanish Main. https://t.co/FIbOYAKwRS
@Steve_Lockstep I feel prickled about it because there’s no pinch, or congestion. The metaphor feels wrong.
(Note..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…A9
@Steve_Lockstep Yep, it was your usage that first started prickling me, but Tom and Grugq using it in their pod got..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…EL
Hurrah! pic.twitter.com/U9Se5ii22v
However this also means I am being totally triggered by @tomatospy and @thegrugq in this podcast because every thir..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…oA
That said, I bet there’s some sociolinguists to this too. My money would be on some sort of business types picking..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…gf
I was wondering why I felt uncomfortable with a client using “pinch point” instead of “choke point”, and it basical..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…K3
@mrsrockoyster Yeah I’d love to see the cross-tabs on that, although when you do that the margin or error soars.
@steampowerednet This is being tracked monthly. There is a Narrowing. And in the tweet following this one I read th..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…WF
And that’s it for this fortnight’s Essential polling. As always everything is at essentialreport.com.au and you ca..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…sw
Sports betting advertising. “Q. Which of the following is closest to your view on sports betting advertising?” pic.twitter.com/ehPYXyrtKN
So, people know what they really think, but don’t want to say it because other people might say it’s racist. Perhap..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Q6
Racism in Australia (Trend). “Q. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements about racism..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…jc
Housing Australia Future Fund. Lol future fund”.
Even assuming a future fund is actually a thing that would help,..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…tB
Support for affordable housing tax measures.
Enjoying the age and voting intention breakdowns here pic.twitter.com/UWd50w0xGV
Support for affordable housing. “Q. To what extent would you support or oppose the following measures in relation t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…MI
Current housing system. “Q. How good or bad do you think the current housing system is for the following groups?”..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ts
Well then. It’s an Essential polling Tuesday. Here’s the charts. essentialreport.com.au/reports/30-may…
Let’s see what we can see..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ma
@aptronym That’s pretty much it.
New British working-class superhero just dropped. pic.twitter.com/z09499yJYa
Leo_Puglisi6 It won’t twitter.com/sunriseon7/sta…
@eternalstranger Ah yes. It was a colonial thing more broadly, but yes I seem to recall there was a prime instigator. Sigh.
@phil_gilmore So true.
@paulwallbank It’s funny because it’s true.
markc This woman just let herself in to my place, wandered around, did a bit of shopping and left with my firewood. What..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…7Q
markc Do you know this woman in the Katoomba area? I’d like to have a chat with her. pic.twitter.com/SY7ignuiFM
not_a_heather this wrong number/ spam text is sending me pic.twitter.com/4Np5GJUxWI
NewtonMark This is great: Nobody west of Canterbury rates “preserving local character” in their top six concerns about develop..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…WY
To be clear, the actual meaning is not funny at all, because that “crime” carries the death penalty under this new..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ww
This is horrible, horrible stuff and it would be wonderful if Western inner city gays did more political work on th… https://t.co/SZvrzj5dSQ
@zerogeewhiz BUT I AM ALREADY THERE.
At least in the past the fact that Barry was on the service desk despite his mother drinking two litres of gin a da..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…R1
I see there’s chatter about AI and customer service today. (I say “customer service” not “CX” because I don’t want..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…H4
After seeing this tweet, a friend said to me: “When you retweeted the idea of the sexual awakening of David Koch, m..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…dr
Tue plan: Another day at the desk plodding through the task list, but mostly focusing on a different client from ye..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…cI
crikey_news Don’t fall for the scare campaigns against the Voice to Parliament, the PM urged voters, accusing the No side of “l..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…pT
@TimeGhostTV As a prelude you could watch their previous realtime documentaries, including:
Pearl Harbor Minute by..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…bI
THIS TIME NEXT WEEK: @TimeGhostTV’s D-Day 24 Hours livestream. youtube.com/@D-Day24Hours-…
It kicks off at 0800 AEST /..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…DC
nickschadegg the huge emotional toll on having to spend 3.75 hours a day pretending you’re not racist pic.twitter.com/1BuV2Db6ep
The weather forecast has been rather repetitive lately. Here it is again. In the Blue Mountains it is sunny but not..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…XM
Tuesday. It’s smaller than you remember. The shrinking significance is linked to the drinking, you think. You blink..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…0n
MisterABK If you want to ban something because people might regret doing it, you also have to ban marriage and watching Adam Sandler films.
@juhasaarinen @RealNickHodge What would be the correct manner?
@RealNickHodge I don’t think it’d fit me any more.
“HOW TO MAKE OVER 100 COWS EXTREMELY HAPPY VERY QUICKLY!” youtube.com/watch?v=9OFJgs… Ping @RealNickHodge.
RT @naagovau: A fascinating look inside an ?? Aussie landmark.
Photograph of Flinders Street Station control room in Melbourne in 1947.
L…
joshgnosis It’s striking how many of the news articles look like the scam ads lol pic.twitter.com/aWHKmQgvHX
RT @KJBar: Likely to hold ? https://t.co/OogcMNs0MF
@ApostrophePong Ah well, I’ll manage. I mean, I have to manage. :) Don’t worry.
joshgnosis They’re broadcasting the judgment on YouTube and allowing tv channels to broadcast it too.
joshgnosis Ben Roberts-Smith v Nine defamation case judgment at 2.15pm Thursday 1 June.
DaveMilbo Still cannot get past the CopSpeak in this post. “Passed away peacefully”… (after being tasered by the police). G..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…3e
@ApostrophePong That’s terrible news. I’m so sorry to hear.
@Steve_Lockstep That too. Although I’m sure we could come up with something even worse.
NewtonMark Job opening for Pauline Hanson on @sunriseon7.
@R_Chirgwin Quite the scamp. I assume he snuck out as you started your day, at least from the timestamp.
@Grissallia This is the first time I have heard either of these words in connection with chocolate.
Pro Tip: Yowie and Yaoi are different things.
@mrschippy15 @juhasaarinen @Larry_Ligar @nzskylovingdiva The jerkbirds have managed to fool a lot of people. :)
@juhasaarinen This strategy seems to have succeeded. We have made it more difficult for Silent Bob to have any food… https://t.co/hUMa8qI4DU
@juhasaarinen @mrschippy15 @Larry_Ligar @nzskylovingdiva They will soon eat that house.
Hey @R_Chirgwin do you recognise this cat? :) pic.twitter.com/9tzNJm0tDZ
JamColley okay I didn’t know the full details that is interesting pic.twitter.com/FSNv0FleIl
markhumphries TV pitch: ‘Succession Australia’, but it’s about who succeeds Kochie on Sunrise.
cameronwilson The writing has been on the wall for a while: his booming crypto side hustles and the network can’t have loved his..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…cD
The Kates (Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney) have a new show (written by them) dropping on Amazon Prime Video this..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1u
As usual there’s lots of Interesting Things in the Weekly Wrap, along with further alleged plans. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
Mon plan: An easy start to a new week. There’s lots to do in the next seven days, but it’s mostly a large number of..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ME
Gwyntaglaw well, this is some surprising news for a Monday morning. small-c or so-called conservatives are lefties. welcome co..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…7k
The weather continues to be much the same in the Blue Mountains. Plenty of sun, but that’s about all. pic.twitter.com/yICOidyP25
Monday. The bar is relatively full for this time of the morning, but there is a ceremony to perform. There is both..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…5k
@JustJimWillDo @NewtonMark It was indeed a very clear day.
@JustJimWillDo @NewtonMark Although that departure point is not Bankstown.
@JustJimWillDo @NewtonMark Not even this morning on the way out. pic.twitter.com/M2pmCkrmyf
@JustJimWillDo @NewtonMark Lol he was nowhere near me. pic.twitter.com/y5BX7HkzgO
I assume “Passionate Vegetarian” is all about cucumbers and their uses.
Yes, Crescent Dragonwagon is real. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_… twitter.com/nofriendo/stat…
nofriendo one of the most insane names i’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/kPP6ZsHHiH
@theroxyepoch Good God I hope not.
@JustJimWillDo Yep they’re usually at about 12,000ft plus as they pass overhead here. Now it’s climbing through 29,..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…od
So yeah one is at 32,000ft en route from Auckland to Dubai. The other is, um, substantially lower having just departed Sydney for Doha.
It’s Airbus A380 time! pic.twitter.com/R3Z41HuYDQ
“Abandoned Oz - Sydney’s R.C. Henderson Building - History & Destruction,” being the one that burned down the othe..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…fu
@InflatablePlant Clownsultants!
stanveuger The British experiment in self-government continues pic.twitter.com/INlJuodvYO
@ChihiroSpirits Ideally they would arrive in a little car and collect your USB drives. pic.twitter.com/WwkAbROkER
She’s not THAT old, is she? pic.twitter.com/zX22Z7wtwe
@christopherneal Hah1 Really? I guess it’s both irresistible and inevitable.
I just misheard a podcast ad for “cloud-based software” as “clown based software” and I think that in most circumst..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ks
Actually you can just harass @Steve_Lockstep about this stuff. I’m just the editorial consultant.
Also, there’s bunch of other updates about their Data Verification Platform proposal.
“DVP/Update 01: Launching th..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Rv
JohnBarronUSA When aliens try to figure out why humans evolved, conquered disease, invented things and died out… this. twitter.com/bpolitics/stat…
stilgherrian ICYMI Friday. A client is launching a new podcast about data and stuff. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
stilgherrian ICYMI Friday. I did the usual Canberra digital blog post thingy. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
Sputnik_Not Putin surprised by the amount of polonium needed to kill Lukashenko, sources say pic.twitter.com/cUhCnD5HqM
NEW BLOG POST: “Weekly Wrap 678: The Sapphire Weevil of Productivity” stilgherrian.com/weekly-wrap/67… Covers 22–28 May 2023twitter.com/i/web/status/1…5pyI
GuardianAus More than half of voters now want Britain to forge closer ties with the EU, poll reveals theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
@WhatFontIs @caitaclysmic Already done, but thank you because I need to remember this service. :)
@stuckatthisbit It certainly highlights a complete misunderstanding of what’s actually going on under the hood.
RightWingWatch Kandiss Taylor, who ran for governor in 2022 and recently became a Georgia GOP district chair, is a flat earther: “..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…dB
RT @mattgreencomedy: The Prime Minister on daytime TV! https://t.co/BzpiPgYI36
@bunjaree Trying to post last night’s video of the BFP but the Twitter upload repeatedly gets stuck at 99%. Here’s..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…sX
jwillia2 Remember Christian Cooper? Central Park Karen tried to tell 911 he was threatening her when all he was doing was bi..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…xE
RT @davidgerard: hey @Independent https://t.co/RXV7cFUpzm
More detail here: “Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused” simonwillison.net/2023/May/27/la… HT @dawnstarau.
richmintz lol imagine designing an enormous public destination so that it’s illegal and dangerous to walk to pic.twitter.com/8W8BxMtTLn
“In Mr. Mata’s case, the program appears to have discerned the labyrinthine framework of a written legal argument,..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…NP
“A lawyer representing a man who sued an airline relied on artificial intelligence [ChatGPT] to help prepare a cour..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ke
ICYMI Friday. A client is launching a new podcast about data and stuff. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
ICYMI Friday. I did the usual Canberra digital blog post thingy. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
Sun plan: Primarily a lazy day because this week I was quite productive. I’ll ponder some long-term podcast plans,..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…3Z
@HoundMs Is that a thing?
Yet another almost identical Blue Mountains day: sunny but not warm. pic.twitter.com/kffuTlGPEx
oneunderscore__ This quote that Elon Musk retweeted is not actually from Voltaire, it’s from neo-Nazi and white supremacist Kevin S..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…7l
leevardi Photo found in attic….looking to fetch over US$20 million at auctionpic.twitter.com/QFZlBTdiKvKv
Sunday. In the not too distant future you will be grateful for the nanobots, even though they look like a million l..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…nk
RT @fesshole: Used to head a department for a branch of a major UK supermarket and every day I’d have to go to a meeting. Each and every da…
RT @BuchananLiz: China prioritising Turkmenistan over Russia in next big pipeline project - Power of Siberia 2 ? https://t.co/91LqOenlxO
RT @mattgreencomedy: Boris Johnson ambushed in Airport! https://t.co/uMfA90SK7n
@caitaclysmic I remember the name now. ITC Souvenir was SO overused at the end of the 1970s.
@jetztgibtshaue Fuck off.
Thank you, @caitaclysmic, it’s ITC Souvenir. myfonts.com/products/mediu… twitter.com/caitaclysmic/s…
Hey type nerds can you remind me what this typeface is called? pic.twitter.com/7fhQwYBfV9
@_manin_black_ Lol thank you. :)
@darrenpauli @JustJimWillDo Hah! Some of us suffered.
@GLComputing Also thanks for the Australian Food Timelines link. That’s such a good site.
@GLComputing I suppose it’s along the lines of “Angus beef”, which is again a thing where you have to pay for certification.
@GLComputing Yep. Um, I feel like I’m doing a Trademarks 101 thing. Am I misjudging the conversation?
Actually I’v..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…mw
@GLComputing No. Because they don’t sell licenses.
This is very cruel.
“Drum Patterns Explained: Every Eurodance Song Ever” (10m06s) youtube.com/watch?v=cXFwfJ…
AFP Twitter has decided to leave the EU’s disinformation code, a voluntary pact that groups together the major social p..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…fY
@BeerRabbi Yeah, that way madness lies. But I’m also pleased that some people’s families are really wonderful and I am happy for them.
@JustJimWillDo My father. Not your father.
@JustJimWillDo I wouldn’t. Because he was a cunt.
@BeerRabbi You bring shame upon your family. :) Also, welcome to Saturday. It hasn’t been too bad here.
@GLComputing The *trademark* is. I know people have a sook about this but the trademark “Coca-Cola” is also “owned..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Xw
Pro Tip: It’s cheaper to eat babies.
(Photo from Coles Katoomba, 24 May.) pic.twitter.com/4vu5xYU1AT
LHSyd My new fitted sheets have this…seriously…is this not literally the very best thing since sliced bread..pic.twitter.com/oxtLnfxnX3nfxnX3
The full set is at youtube.com/watch?v=ZtlUKR… and it’s very good.
“Comedian Does Nothing But Peanut Butter Jokes | Greg Warren | The Salesman” youtube.com/watch?v=Bc0zEg…
@Boynxdor2 @SatPaper I don’ mind at all, but I was preening on a 7/10 because the average is usually only 6/10 or even 5/10.
@JustJimWillDo @SuperCroup Gosh.