Hi! My name is Josh, this me blog.
The dance of pleasing the social media algorithims of the world’s biggest companies, whilst being beat to death by strangers with their comments displeased me so now I’m here.
I wish I were the kind of person who could just live without broadcasting. But there’s an animal inside me — right down in the marrow — that keeps asking ‘can you see me?’ and silence has never once soothed it.
I’d like to start a coffee shop in Cupertino called Appel Perk
The Queensland government is rolling out a plastic ban, which is going to be detrimental to the Gold Coast surgical improvement market.
It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally.
I don’t know which PAW Parrol parents need to hear this but: Mayor Goodway is the mayor of Adventure Bay and Mayor Humdinger is the mayor of Foggy Bottom with a population of one - which is him.
Both are current mayors in the generally same location.
"Hopefully this makes you really angry or confirms your preexisting biases and worldviews. Best of luck xoxo"
- The Algorithm
From my boy @JayT0pp's email:
"The tourist seeks out culture because in our world culture has disappeared into the maw of the spectacle. Culture has been torn down and replaced with a mall or a talk show. Because our education is nothing but a preparation for a lifetime of work and consumption-because we ourselves have ceased to create."
Gold Coast winter’s sunset
View to Surfers Paradise in 1986 versus 2022.
1986 photo by Leo Meier, published in Above Queensland in 1986, purchased in an op-shop for $1 in 2022.
Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind
Kevin Kelly in The Need for World Government
"It seems obvious to me that planetary problems demand planetary government."
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Some personal news: we’re moving to Mexico later this year. It’s time to get off the hamster wheel.
“I want something more concise, more simple, more serious; I want more soul and more love and more heart.”
– Vincent van Gogh
Please sign my petition to have butter knives demoted to flat metal sticks. They're clearly not a type of knife.
Get behind me, devil!
The British Embassy versus the USA Embassy versus the Iranian Embassy in Canberra.
Fav YouTube of all time: New Yorkers missing the train
I don’t want to be the one to tell them that’s not how podcasts work
What a Story // Brisbane
Spent today making profile and branding photos for a Brisbane cybersecurity firm which failed to protect these bread rolls from pigeons so I’m not sure if they’re any good.
Stolen valour: Christianity Today’s Mike Cosper publishes a damming review of some Christian leaders that have made news of late.
“an interesting evolution of what it means to be a pastor”
Good morning, Gold Coast
Sign me up for this reading
Just a note for my obituary, if you’re looking for extra things to mention: every time I encounter a wrong address, or entry, or error on Apple Maps I report it.
Adults, we must rise up.
We have the power, we have the means, we have the skills, we have the tools.
We must delete, remove, stop the Baby Shark.
For five years the shark has tormented us, enough is enough.
Flying my drone to capture the sunrise this morning and on the way back home I stumbled across these magnificent creatures
The moonrise tonight over the Paciifc Motorway at Ormeau
Derek Thompson:
“work is not life’s product, but its currency. What we choose to buy with it is the ultimate project of living.”
Not gonna lie, Internet Explorer peaked at version 3. It’s been down hill for the 26 years since.
My in-depth review of the new Eclipse ‘Comfort’ mints in honey, lemon, and ginger flavour:
Chew these mints to open a portal to hell in your mouth.
Heaven is the right USB-C cable
Funny way to spell Straya
A re-release of Nickelback’s Photograph but it’s about Facebook Memories.
iOS 17 Idea: Screensavers for iPhone. Specifically After Dark.
She did this all on her own 🍆
Posting this photo because I’m simply pretty proud of it. I’ve been carrying this 16mm lens around for a while in-case I was stuck between a rock and a hard place trying to get an interior shot. But yesterday I challenged myself to use it all afternoon.
99% of asking for advice is just confirming what you already wanted to do.
‘You only have one shot’: how film cameras won over a younger generation. Imogen Kars in the Guardian:
"The lack of instant feedback is important"
It's whack to think that 329 million people's identity and culture is built on a document written by a few rebellious 29-year-olds wearing wigs in 1776.
Friday afternoon in Wentworth Falls, NSW
Josh Spector on writing a newsletter that helps you sell:
"You’ll never become the center of a community by only talking about yourself."
The world as 100 people over the last two centuries. Spoiler: things are looking good.
This is the weakest take. (See screenshot)
A groom's role in a wedding is in equal nature to the other person being married.
A wedding is not a "bride's day" or a single person's day.
A wedding is an event hosted by the couple - together, where they actually do get married, but more importantly, they broadcast to their closest friends and family that this is who they are. That people like us, we celebrate and commemorate important things like this. You're erecting a billboard in your community that tells everyone what your values are and what kind of life you are building for yourself and your family.
In this Quora post David is saying that exact thing. When important things happen to him and his wife, he closes his mouth, and doesn't look regretful, so his wife can be happy for just a moment, before she returns to her boring life where she has to put up with this downtrodden husk of a man.
This is the actual real-life manifestation of toxic masculinity.
"Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money."
— @natfriedman