We, the people of Australia, have spent $6.7 million dollarydoos detaining the Murugappan family, instead of spending zero dollars and letting them earn a wage and pay tax.
We, Australians, decided this. That family, these 2 little girls, are there because we decided it was ok.
I might not amount to much in this life, so if I die and that’s the case, please put this on my gravestone.
Conspiracy theory: The spicy cough was invented by Tourism Australia to stop Aussies from holidaying abroad.
We are a nation of believers. If only Americans could begin believing in politics less fervently, realising instead that life is elsewhere. But this would come at a cost—because to believe in politics also means believing we can, and probably should, be better.
Sony AirPeak S1 … want.
Weezer’s Buddy Holly, from Windows 95 to Apple Music 2021
I first heard this song on in August 1995, discovering it on one of the Windows 95 installation CDs in the ‘Fun Stuff’ folder - left there to demonstrate the video-playing capabilities of Windows 95.
To listen to it in Dolby Atmos spatial audio today is quite a stretch from whatever low-res MPEG codec I heard in 1995.
The hotel quarantine system is obviously not working, I say we move to a motel quarantine system where we lock people in highway motels in the Australian Outback for two weeks. Nothing like Free Foxtel and packets of two biscuits with instant coffee to ward off Covid.
Parenting hack: Let your kid join other families at the playground and eat their food. It’s money in your pocket.
“Once you become informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of grey. You realise that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralysing.” - Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes, via Bill Watterson.
flicks through his bible furiously trying to find the verse about content delivery networks (CDNs) going down meaning that this is the beginning of the end times
“(A recent) audience survey showed that the word podcast is becoming linked to the word interview. So here we are.”
I can’t say who said this, or which Oz network they work for, but for the love of God an interview is not a podcast.
Can words just mean something please?
As a geriatric millennial, I feel seen
Looks like someone in ASIO has finally experienced booking a Qantas flight at the last minute.
All these years on I’m still no wiser as to what it is that the fox say.
Mare of Easttown spoiler: it was the adult female horse of Easttown.
The 2007 email that spawned Uber, Snapchat, Tiktok, Instagram, and trillions of dollars worth of other companies - via @techemails
Is this the year for editable iMessages?
What’s the secret to not getting text message spam? This phone number is my wedding celebrant number and I’ve had it for over 15 years, so I’m not in a position to change numbers or turn on Filter Unknown Senders. It’s so annoying.
It just occurred to me that I could personally profit off the Victorian lockdown, so here goes.
Please buy our beachside Gold Coast apartment at a good price, if it helps, we’ll call it CelebrantKeeper, now that JobKeeper is over but the lockdowns and travel restrictions aren’t.
Instead of calling it “the jab” what if they called it a “dad joke”? That way everyone would get it?