So it sounds like MONA is celebrating being open again, this is the view from Dodges Ferry.
Nothing to see here, just an Independence Day-alien-ship-style laser beam going into Hobart …
Hello Coles, it’s modern news media here,
I hope you’re keeping well.
It’s the 26th of December, and now they’re ringing the last bells …
Dodges Ferry.
With a fake sunset.
This is the first photo I’ve ever published with a synthetic element like a sky. But I’ve been colour-grading and removing things in the edit for years, and somehow this feels worse.
Who knows?
Proud to be racing in the Salamanca Place to Hobart pram race today. Photographed is my First Mate taking us over the starting line.
Bloke at the pharmacy tells me that this is the second highest selling fragrance in Australia this Christmas
My personal answer to this thought is that I’m barely “on Facebook.” I publish any and all thoughts, opinions, photos, et cetera, to my personal blog which is managed and published here on Micro.Blog, a social network that is beautiful in nature and inherently keeps my data personal. It’s business model isn’t sharing my personal data, it’s business model is to be a social networ, and it costs $5 a month, because if something is free you’re not the customer, you’re the product being sold.
The Damage Has Been Proven, So Why Are We Still on Facebook?
“If a host of reports, studies, articles, commissions of inquiry, books and films were produced about the dangers inherent in the use of a certain product – let’s say a medication or an automobile – the likely result would be a public outcry demanding the elimination of said product. But that’s not the case with Facebook. Why?”
— Haaretz
Quote I’m pondering thanks to Tim Ferriss’ pondering it …
“If we can forgive what’s been done to us… If we can forgive what we’ve done to others… If we can leave our stories behind. Our being victims and villains. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
Spending Christmas in the Switzerland of Australia’s south
Shop inside a regional Tasmanian town’s local shopping centre. The professional life coach on staff on Christmas Eve is wearing knock-off AirPods.
Our li’l traveller
I’ve just watched an episode of The Wiggles where they’re singing about, and boating in, The Big Red Boat. In this episode Anthony is assuming the position of captain, which is confusing, because for the first time in the entire show this is clearly a place where Captain Feathersword was the most qualified person for the job.
Why is Captain Feathersword landlocked even when The Wiggles go on the seven seas?
What’s the real story with Captain Feathersword?
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Santa forgot a DHL sleigh at BNE
A Christmas wish list from, and to, the wedding industry. Give the gift of algorithmic love this Christmas, to your favourite wedding vendors.
Ballin’
Me at age 2: has never heard of sushi. 1993: first sushi train comes to Queensland Luna at age 2:
Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of #Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you, 2020! And now you’re gonna hear about it.
Australia's NBN declared finished, not because it is, but because we need to say it's finished
Politics, infrastructure, and the national broadband network, known as the National Broadband Network is an absolute joke.
“The Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts has made a formal declaration under section 48 of the National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011 that the National Broadband Network should be ‘treated as built and fully operational.’”
“Under the Act the Minister must make such a declaration by 31 December 2020 – or formally extend the period within which such a declaration can be made.”
So even though 35,000 properties aren’t connected, thus the network is not ‘built’, we’ll declare it built, otherwise that’s a bit too much work.
When are you publishing an update to The Frustrated State, Renai?