Hi! My name is Josh and this is my personal blog, my web log.
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.
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Sunrises at airports are my theme of 2021
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Melbourne weather: cloudy with a chance of Josh.
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If you’re curious about AirTag use through a flight whilst on inflight wifi, Find My believes that Qantas dropped my luggage from a great height somewhere over Armidale.
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Someone’s been to the salon
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Cows on buns
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Yarra.
The valley, not the river.
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The one where Pete Townshend from The Who recorded an anti-smoking song while smoking cigarettes.
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I’m sitting opposite a person in the Qantas Lounge who is eating so violently. Like she’s abusing her mouth with her fork of food. I can’t help but watch and I wish you could all experience this passive aggressive treatment of a cake hole.
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Mel
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Name a more important Australian institution than the Great Regional Aussie Pub. Where would these acts play if not for the local?
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You probably don't know this about me, but the main reason I'm a happily married man and wedding celebrant, and not a professional footballer is so I don't have to explain consensual threesomes to judges
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QF
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Doing my part for USA and Australian relations by making a photo of a @united B787 kissing a @qantas A330
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Luna approves of the Sydney Qantas Business Lounge
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“I’m studying to become a lawyer for my friend’s upcoming court case” said no-one ever.
So apart from “because Joey from Friends did it” why are people spending thousands of dollars and more than a year of their life becoming a celebrant instead of hiring a professional?
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The only bridge climb in Australia better than the Storey Bridge Climb, of the two available
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Take me hommmmeeeee, country airline
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Syd
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That shining glint in the Crown of capitalism
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Hey, guys who decide how comfortable Uber Comfort is, it’s not a Toyota Camry
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If you’re in Circular Quay this afternoon, the playlist is mine
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Sarah and Michael's awkward start to their wedding ceremony included a promo for the Gold 104.3 Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show
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"This is lockdown’s near forbidden secret and terrible truth — that at the heart of grief, and midst mayhem, carnage and deep sadness, people do beautiful things."
– Nick Cave
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It was not my final destination
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Important noodle information
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When I grow up I’m going to run a cafe and an AirBnb, both of which have functional and high speed wifi.
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School’s out at Lismore Primary
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Daylesford
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What did Ausnet do?!
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In sad tech news, my favourite Melbourne store - Mac Addict - has shut down through 2020. I literally booked a hotel across the road so I could check it out today. Heres a 2017 review from EFTM to showcase how beautiful the store was.
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Trying out the NKOTB to Melbourne today
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Conspiracy theory: Hungry Jacks has never had thick shake machines. The whole idea of a shake from HJs is a ruse. They’re under the control of Big Softdrink.
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“I’m only posting about @ARationalFear so @DanIlic sends me a prize pack”
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Oh that burns @decryption
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“Today we pay with both money and attention according to the direction of artists”
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If you want to hate the world and Twitter at the same time paste “lang:en” in a Twitter search bar will give you live and direct access to the firehose of tweets that is the entirety of English speaking Twitter’s consciousness. I need to have a shower.
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‘Everyone can have their own reality’
Quitting QAnon: why it is so difficult to abandon a conspiracy theory
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Very very few stories are worth telling in their infancy. Most require research, understanding, context, empathy, and nuance.
For example, what if a story about girls twerking on a navy ship in front of the Governor General was held onto for a a day and some research was done?
But we as a society have decided not to invest in that research. We complain if a news website needs us to pay a subscription, and we scream about defunding the ABC if they don't say what we want.
So we end up with an angry story that's not entirely true, based on the premise that girls shouldn't dance on boats.
If you think about it, aren't we all twerking seamen on the navy ship of our lives? Thanks for getting to the end of this, I really just wanted you to consider yourself as a twerking sailor.
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Luna’s first phone/block of wood
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Toddler, living her best life, sitting in a Coles Supermarket trolley, eating tuna sushi. Circa April 2021. iPhone 12 Pro 4.2mm lens, f1.6, 1/50 sec, ISO 200. Photographer: Joshua Withers.
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Google “where does vanilla flavouring come from”
