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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Watching this wombat sleep today reminded me that the wombat is my spirit animal
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👩🚀 I always wanted you to go into space, mannnn (photo not by Babylon Zoo, only the caption)
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We can dance if we want to. We can leave your friends behind. Cause your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, well, they're no friends of mine.
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In case you’d heard the outrage and you weren’t sure who he was, I just wanted to clarify: I am not the bean dad. I only make Luna wait her entire life for baked beans.
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No-one is born with a passion, or a dream. Passions and dreams come from and are nurtured in our community, which is why we need to fight for and protect our common unities, our community.
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The fact that Uber achieved the same growth in 10% of its $150 million as spend is one thing, the story of how they got there, that’s something else entirely!
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It’s cute to see New South Wales and Victoria playing a game of State Of Origin. It’d just be sad to see NSW lose at the Covid football version tho.
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With many of us grounded, has anyone had a play of PC Globe to try and scratch that travel itch? You might need to upgrade to a 486 to run it well.
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“Dadda, not Josh” is Luna’s new way of introducing me to strangers. She’s a weird Hype Girl.
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The book 1984, but instead of Big Brother, it’s Facebook.
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“A prank attempt went terribly wrong for a 14-year old boy from Boise, as he was raped by a 700-lb grizzly bear while walking around in the woods in a sasquatch costume.”
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If you've been following for a while you might have sensed a tension between the joy I find in being online and the disappointment I find in news feed algorithims.
So I've been curating my own media diet for a while now and thought you might like a peek inside.
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A podcast I first heard a year ago today still sits with me a year later, and I've listened to it maybe five times over. Cooking As an Art, With Jerry Saltz and Dave Cheng. It has almost nothing to do with cooking, or art, but more to do with life.
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The future of music journalism is on (wtf) TikTok (sad face)
"TikTok music blogs have thrived during quarantine, and they’re helping to blow up new acts"
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Have you played the hottest new web game of 2021? School or Prison
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Much applause to the people behind Pentax cameras for this seemingly crazy idea to not go mirrorless. The unpopular route is often not filled with riches of finance, but it is full with riches of art, joy, and soul.
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This is a fascinating story about an Australia man with an illness discovering horology
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Thriller idea: As the year 2020 is escorted from the courthouse to a life sentence in prison, after a solid 365 days of wrecking havoc on the earth, a terrorist group hijacks the cavalcade and releases 2020 back into the world with a new hairstyle and a different colour jacket.
We’ll call it “2020 Vision.”
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In my almost 40 years on the planet, and most of them in Queensland, I’ve never kissed a stranger on NYE, or any other time. Am I doing life wrong or is the Chief Health Officer saying that sexually abusing strangers is the norm on New Year’s Eve?
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Don’t let anyone tell you today is December 31st, 2020.
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If you thought everything else that happened this year was scary, 2020 is going out with a bang with delightfully terrifying dancing robots from Boston Dynamics
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Don’t even talk to her before her morning oat milk froth.
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There’s a mum sitting in the conductor’s seat of the playground train Luna wants to drive. Do I have jurisdiction here or do I have to just sit here and let her ruin my kids day?
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Luna. Takes no bull.
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An interesting thought exercise is to imagine that something was being introduced fresh today, how would we approach it.
Much like how COVID-19 was introduced fresh just over a year ago, and we reacted as we did.
How would we react to cancer-causing cigarettes being introduced today? Or worse, road-accident causing cars, or violence and abuse causing alcohol?
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Money shot
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Turns out the TARDIS gets it’s time travelling power from books. Important lesson for us all to learn, ya know?
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Calling all true crime podcasters, I’m desperate to know the story of Henk and Lane and how the small Tasmanian town of Penguin got two IGA supermarkets next to each other.
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2014 article on ‘Silicon Valley data’ being the new ‘Wall Street debt’
“Built by geniuses, both products end up being deceptively cheap, morally corrupting, and of questionable long-term economic utility.”
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I try to avoid hot political issues here, but if Paw Patrol is a police officer, clumsy firefighter/paramedic, some tradies, & a pilot, how is it that they “always get the job done?” Surely they’d need a barista or a wedding celebrant or other assorted necessary type people.
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“Life is short, like Joe Pesci.”
— Chance, the rapper
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Tasmanian Devil time
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Emu
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Wombats
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Galah
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Luna vs Kangaroo
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“One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one.”
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How to spot a good fish and chip shop.
- it has the word ‘shack’ in its name
- there are lobster pots hanging for styling
- it’s near the ocean
- it’s located at a wharf
- Chico Rolls aren’t on the menu
- there’s a grumpy fisherman on premises
Bonus points for the shack being a seafood type of shack, for example this one is called ‘The Lobster Shack’
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All I want for all of you is to enjoy life as much as Luna enjoys ice cream
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I don’t like to boast on here, but I wanted to silence all the haters and the non-believers.
Yes, I totally can fit nine potato chips in my mouth at the same time.
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So it sounds like MONA is celebrating being open again, this is the view from Dodges Ferry.
