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.

  • Dun dun

  • If you’re missing the luxury of flying economy and inflight meals ...

  • “It had become their daily ritual to check out the shelves of the store for life’s essentials.” – Stripped Bare, by Mark Rutherford

  • ‪Business idea: what if we paid for people to follow politicians and leaders around and hold them to account for their words, and then the reports of these accounts were given to those of us paying for it, and we then made leadership decisions based on the reports?‬

  • Photo that I love, and Britt hates, from the new Photoshop Camera iOS app.

  • I can (not at all) guarantee all terrorism would be eradicated within a year if the punishment for terrorism was being forced to move house consistently for the rest of your life.

  • ‪I could never in a million years have predicted CrossFit and JK Rowling being cancelled in the same week.‬

  • The Withers’ are moving to Palm Beach

  • When’s the right time to start talking to my toddler about body-shaming dachshund’s by pointing at them and calling them bubbas when we stroll past?

  • Isn’t it weird how we went grom learning how to cook sourdough bread to learning how to dismantle systemic racism so quickly.

  • I’ve got $10 that says Howard Stern signs with an Internet-based company by December 31.

    And a bonus bet on that company being Spotify.

  • There’s a virtual wedding fair coming up soon, and I had to record a video for it. I feel like Luna’s really starting to pay her way with this debut.

  • Happy Queensland Day // June 6, 1863, is the day that Queensland separated from New South Wales. We’re celebrating today by not letting any Rona-Carryin’ New South Welshmen in.

  • Coolangatta in 30 seconds

  • Focus has left the building

  • Dear Jesus/Adobe, how much memory and cpu is enough for you to liberate my people?

  • Someone: Racism isn't an issue. CNN: Get Big Bird on the phone.

  • Ok, so Russell Brand can travel to Erinsborough for a chat with Toadie but I can’t dine in at a restaurant without booking in six years in advance. Who thought Neighbours would be the TV show to drive Australia to riot in the streets.

  • This is devastating news for Brisbane and Perth alike

  • Australia’s Media Has To Share The Blame For Our Racist Culture

  • ‪Wow.‬

    ‪I’ve just walked out of my apartment and there’s a whole archive of personal data just leaked onto our letterboxes.‬

    ‪Who’s going to answer for this information breach?‬

  • It'd be really nice if the solution to hundreds of years of racism, and the dismantling of system that gives people like me boatloads of privilege, could be nicely packaged for me in some kind of online store, maybe even with some bonus frequent flyer points, please.

  • Walking away from the playground with a screaming baby I tell the other parents, “it’s my first kidnapping, how do you get them to stop crying” so look out for my photo on the news.

  • Well before John Goodman screamed “you are wasting your time with this garbage” to Macaulay Culkin, and ever since, humanity has been struggling with black or white. Maybe this week we can start ending that struggle.

  • I saw an old friend's name in my address book and looked him up on Facebook. He shares an account with his now wife. Rest in peace old pal.

  • If you've ever wondered what an awkward phone call would sound like

  • Wouldn't it be weird if Washington DC protestors drained the swamp.

  • Censorship and freedom of speech
  • Take note of the businesses that make it out of COVID-19 alive

  • America the brave

    Photo from the Associated Press

  • Lu and I spent some quality time watching COVID-19 press conferences today over bowls of porridge.

    Posting this because there’s too many cute photos of her, so this one balances them out.

  • Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?

  • And headline of the year goes to The Atlantic for “The Karen In Chief”

  • Post of the day

  • Is the closed borders thing kind of like a grown up version of The Floor Is Lava?

    Asking for a friend.

  • Woah, ok, so sugar daddy means something completely different to what I thought.

    Also, how do you get sugar out of your knit sweater?

  • One man’s rubbish is another man’s photograph

  • Big lights will inspire you, hear it for Gold Coast, Gold Coast, Gold Coast

  • The goldenest coast

  • I think it's become abundantly clear that Bullock is holding up the general Sandra population.

  • Stacked it

  • FYI peppermint is different to pepper with mint.

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  • Crutch-less nickers sported in Coolangatta

  • Cool story

  • Who invented pop up weddings?

  • Britty with the good camera

  • The great hypocrisy in our society today is that we have the privilege, freedom, and the technological ability to publicly condemn Bill Gates, 5G, and China, from our 4G internet connected personal computing devices from not-China.

  • Through this time where businesses have been shutdown or sent home, and so much connection and communication has been forced online, there has been a real misunderstanding of how to simply be valuable.

  • Hey I’ve got a passport with stamps on it plus I have a recent model iPhone and MacBook, so does that make me a Global Elite?

    Asking for a friend.