The only bridge climb in Australia better than the Storey Bridge Climb, of the two available

Take me hommmmeeeee, country airline

Syd

That shining glint in the Crown of capitalism

Hey, guys who decide how comfortable Uber Comfort is, it’s not a Toyota Camry

If you’re in Circular Quay this afternoon, the playlist is mine

Sarah and Michael’s awkward start to their wedding ceremony included a promo for the Gold 104.3 Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show

“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

It was not my final destination

Important noodle information

When I grow up I’m going to run a cafe and an AirBnb, both of which have functional and high speed wifi.

School’s out at Lismore Primary

Daylesford

What did Ausnet do?!

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.

Trying out the NKOTB to Melbourne today

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.

“I’m only posting about @ARationalFear so @DanIlic sends me a prize pack”

Oh that burns @decryption

“Today we pay with both money and attention according to the direction of artists”

Non-Fungible Taylor Swift, on Stratechery

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.

A link between childhood “screen time” and attention problems has failed to replicate in this study.

We evaluated 848 models, including logistic regression as per the original paper, plus linear regression and two forms of propensity score analysis. Only 166 models (19.6%) yielded a statistically significant relationship between early TV exposure and later attention problems, with most of these employing problematic analytic choices.

The funny thing is that I know that Luna’s mood changes when she has spent time in front of the TV, she’s less co-operative and less joyful, despite really enjoying TV, and strongly desiring it at various times.

So maybe TV as a child doesn’t affect their attention, but it does affect their sensibilities, in my humble opinion as a father of two.

‘Everyone can have their own reality’

Quitting QAnon: why it is so difficult to abandon a conspiracy theory

Is it possible to build a better world? That’s what is being attempted in Honduras. Is it full of problems? Yes. Does it look promising? Yes!

Dive deep on Astral Codex Ten’s Prospectus

“If I can’t be within driving distance of Daniel Johnson’s Monkey And Sloth Hangout, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution.”

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.