Get you a job where you aren't finding yourself counselling people "Sometimes you just need to let people touch the stove."
So many people in various states of distress wanting my advice this week because their professional opinion is being ignored and pooh-poohed.
She's clearly struggling with who she holds more in contempt, poor people or the people struggling to cushion the blow. I expect if she could, Goward would send eagles to eat the livers of social workers each day.
https://twitter.com/campriceaustin/status/1450567109201727490
Maybe it’ll be different for a landscape display, but there’s a lot of fury and sarcasm out there this morning for a notch I basically never even notice.
Oof, get some of that in ya, Teddie boy.
Before...and after.
100+ days of lockdown, yo
Thag...
Spoiler, but screw it...
'Sandy says "Whatever!"' is absolutely going into my rotation of stock responses to emails I want nothing to do with.
https://ironicsans.substack.com/p/45-you-misunderstand-cats-in-the
The LNP government of Australia has sailed through the blatant corruption of the Sports rorts and the Car Park rorts, so the idea that they would be outraged at the idea that corruption is a thing to deplore may well be shocking, but it shouldn't be a surprise.
Say what you like about the commentary team for AFL, particularly BT, but at least they don’t clearly hold the the sport they are involved with in contempt.
Whatever upgrade Apple pushed on my overnight, it bumped me to Safari 15. UI aside - its awful but I guess I will become used to it - it should be table stakes for a browser in 2021 to never ever ever lose open tabs
Leopard eats faces.
Media promotes leopard's agenda, resuscitates leopard's profile every few years, and treats leopard's face eating as just another POV
The faceless point out their faces are still being eaten.
The public yells at the media.
Media: You're eating my face!
I want to believe.
Help! There is a Very Normal amount of quilts in my house.
Gosh, there's some angry caping for a poor defenceless trillion dollar multinational over this USB-C thing from the EU.
I keep waiting for Nick Cummins's milkshake duck moment
There’s a few writers I read just about everything I can find of theirs. Lech Blaine is one of them. Sometimes when I read, in parts I can almost close my eyes and be walking down Bourbong Street. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/18/larrikins-bogans-and-bullshit-artists-is-australia-ripe-for-a-blue-collar-revolution
Google Calendar has added an Insights panel to my view, gleefully telling me how much of my week was spent in meetings, It's not yet able to capture how many hours I spent bored by pointless waffle, but when it asks for camera access, I'll know the feature is ready.
It is possible to be repulsed and disgusted at the behaviour of elements of auspol and also roll your eyes that once again a political journalist is talking to other political journalists and making it all about political journalism.
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Why are we, in Australia, reacting to what Friedersdorf wrote? He is, and I cannot stress this enough, Peak American. He values the freedom to be a jackass far above the freedom to be a human.