Just got fired from Big Messaging I am the guy who put little microphones in random places in the UI of messaging apps so you keep sending accidental voice messages

Wait so Deck the Halls was about getting hammered and the tune may have been lifted from a song about a woman’s boobs and Jingle Bells was a racist ditty for minstrel shows and had fuck all to do with Christmas?

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In Canberra you go to a brewery/burger place then walk to the wetlands five minutes away to enjoy an idyllic inebriation

what on earth is a retunoid retinol whatever do I need one??

It’s a shame the technology they use in NSW to make road markings visible in the rain does not work in Canberra, or we would just use it right? Right?

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I have fucking ascended (also I climbed mt stillwell)

The last time I was in Charlotte Pass the entire area had just been ravaged by bushfires I have never seen it like this, it’s a bed of wildflowers criss-crossed by streams and I could die here

oh fuck off Garmin fml my smartwatch is negging me shouldn’t have entered my actual age

update: I got in

How rude. What do I do for the next 67 minutes

who up brooding wanna brood with me 👀

changes to plans tomorrow PANCAKE WILL BE SLEEPING IN thank you for your attention in this matter

Happy sober Saturday everyone it’s a day to be repenting your misdeeds from last night and not committing any more (until sinful Sunday)

post your favourite train from 50 years before you were born

rescued by a free bus home

If I was the sea this is how I’d want to be painted

Childe Hassam was peerless in painting the violent sea

I accidentally walked all the way to the city

who up brooding wanna brood with me 👀

good LORD. like some turducken of neoliberal nightmares

Some say there was another good long tweet written, once. Myself, I don't believe the rumors.

That’s probably the sanest thing that account has ever posted, it’s very basic insight and astounding number of people never figure out It’s an American guy and Americans think about everything in terms of marriage but this becomes significant with anyone you are seeing more than a handful of times

space data centers are the new mars colony, it’s a stupid idea that will never happen but people who talk about it a lot will come out ahead when the idea dies

we would kill each other so much more and I’m not even being funny here, we literally would without modern conveniences of prosperity and science

Ceding techno optimism to the right is a generational scale mistake

this is still true.

my poasts would be so much worse if I got quality sleep instead of stumbling through life on four hours and stimulants

you’re placing too much importance on the personalities of ephemeral figures also the former are often impossible to work with on large scale high impact endeavours that have pre imposed choices and structural guardrails you must work within

ding ding ding

i am very nearly as negative and pro-regulation about the industry as it is possible for me to be but someone can jangle some keys at them and they'll declare that cancer is good and linear algebra is ontologically evil

man at this point i have pretty much written off anti-ai opinion-havers for being unsalvageable. if we get a reasonable regulatory regime and future it will be in spite of them and they will complain the entire time

update: I succumbed to big tech and big govt and did a face phrenology I’ve always wanted someone to check my skull shape

why are they like this?? what the fuck?

oh hell yeah

Thanks to Neser and co. I have to retire my masterpiece

Actual bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born

Save room in your shower by making everyone in your household use the same bottle of 3-in-1 bodywash. Why clutter the space with "products" when you can share in the one communal goo

pleased to report the mighty Sydney FC is getting torn to pieces by a bunch of Canberra teens and Michelle Hayman

yeah nah

I love this absurd range in daily temperatures because it means Canberra nights are never warm

ACAB includes cool AFP Dr Who phone booth

I took this photo this is not some stock photo or a photo I downloaded off the interwebs. This is just what Canberra looks like.

If you set off the fire alarm in your apartment building like a total idiot; try to be sheepish, apologetic, and helpful. Then it’s likely they won’t fine you. (no particular reason I know this no reason at all)

fellow urbanists,,

Yarvin was a headliner at the UK public philosophy conference, How the Lights Get In. He’s been saying things like this for years. And now there’s been a concerted effort to normalise him in the UK. Who is doing this? Why? How does this affect what philosophers treat as acceptable?

things are going great over there

time to pin this again