Funny way to spell Straya

A re-release of Nickelback’s Photograph but it’s about Facebook Memories.

iOS 17 Idea: Screensavers for iPhone. Specifically After Dark.

She did this all on her own 🍆

Posting this photo because I’m simply pretty proud of it. I’ve been carrying this 16mm lens around for a while in-case I was stuck between a rock and a hard place trying to get an interior shot. But yesterday I challenged myself to use it all afternoon.

99% of asking for advice is just confirming what you already wanted to do.

‘You only have one shot’: how film cameras won over a younger generation. Imogen Kars in the Guardian:

"The lack of instant feedback is important"

It's whack to think that 329 million people's identity and culture is built on a document written by a few rebellious 29-year-olds wearing wigs in 1776.

Friday afternoon in Wentworth Falls, NSW

Josh Spector on writing a newsletter that helps you sell:

"You’ll never become the center of a community by only talking about yourself."

The world as 100 people over the last two centuries. Spoiler: things are looking good.

This is cool:

"Sleep stories from First Nations storytellers."

Dreamy.

This is the weakest take. (See screenshot)

A groom's role in a wedding is in equal nature to the other person being married.

A wedding is not a "bride's day" or a single person's day.

A wedding is an event hosted by the couple - together, where they actually do get married, but more importantly, they broadcast to their closest friends and family that this is who they are. That people like us, we celebrate and commemorate important things like this. You're erecting a billboard in your community that tells everyone what your values are and what kind of life you are building for yourself and your family.

In this Quora post David is saying that exact thing. When important things happen to him and his wife, he closes his mouth, and doesn't look regretful, so his wife can be happy for just a moment, before she returns to her boring life where she has to put up with this downtrodden husk of a man.

This is the actual real-life manifestation of toxic masculinity.

"Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money."

— @natfriedman

It's Time to Bring Back the Away Message, Lauren Good in WIRED:

I miss Away Messages. This nostalgia is layered in abstraction; I probably miss the newness of the internet of the 1990s, and I also miss just being … away. But this is about Away Messages themselves—the bits of code that constructed Maginot Lines around our availability. An Away Message was a text box full of possibilities, a mini-MySpace profile or a Facebook status update years before either existed. It was also a boundary: An Away Message not only popped up as a response after someone IM’d you, it was wholly visible to that person before they IM’d you.

And Away

Today in Sydney

It’s now Six Guys, I’m that invested

“Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities.”

— K-Hole

It’s really nice to see the Queen finally make Platinum, but I thought @Qantas would’ve just given her an honorary frequent flyer status considering who she is.

Whose pockets is Big Honeydew in so tht honeydew continues to be included as a token fruit salad filler. (Six months later I have an investigative podcast on this topic)

Elon Musk sentiment is slowly swinging negatively, but in a Trump-like fashion, where it’s not so much about a swing, but a widening, gaping, divide between camps.

A divide that I would argue isn’t healthy, despite what anyone thinks of Musk - or Trump. Deep cultural and societal divides are unhelpful because the issue stops being the issue, and the divide becomes the issue.

I’m more and more convinced that everyone having the same size microphone and font on the internet is a bad idea.

But how do we come back from it?

Today in the Numinbah Valley

“So what’s the Original Sin of the Internet? Nearly all business models it supports require spying on consumers and monetising them.”

— Bob Sullivan

Say what you will about brand activations and capitalism ruining the world, I am 100% here for the Bondi Bigfoot and whatever has happened to The Sydney Morning Herald/The Hawkins Post this morning.

Norman Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky but it's about coffee.

"Lust for the future, treasure the past."

— Jimmy Buffett

Went to Sydney for 10 hours today and tried to go to Luna park which could honestly do some yard work.

Sydney today

Is it tho?

Simulating your life's finances like a computer game is depressing

A cyber security article published twenty years ago.

Envisioning a Cyber "Center for Disease Control"

Was blessed to actually see colour in the sky this afternoon. Had to ask Google whether colour in the sky was a shepherd’s delight or not.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed by who they were last year isn't learning enough

Yes, I do want to report the problem now. Boots and swimmers is illegal I think.

Apple has rebranded "Apple Pay Cash" to "Apple Cash" and launched new splash pages for the service, along with new pages for Apple Wallet and Apple Pay. Is the money transfer amongst iMessage users launching globally this WWDC?

I think about this daily. It really challenges my default setting of hitting life like a to-do list:

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

— Dutch Theosophist Jacobus Johannes van der Leeuw

Anyone else just really want to see Louis Theorux’s Fiat?

Well, I'm so glad that we got the correct result with the election and all of our problems are solved and we can all just share cat videos online for the next three years, no more angry tweets right?

The “day after a federal election” vibes

I, for one, welcome our new DJ overlord.

If I am elected President of Australia tonight, in my first 100 days I will bring back the stirring spoon to McDonalds McFlurries. I will make McFlurries flurried again.

Luna was really upset. She thought we were going on a boat when I said that we were going to vote. Teach your kids the difference between floating on water and enacting change.

Name a better collab, I’ll wait

As someone who attends weddings professionally, I find it amazing that in 'woke 2022 where we've #metoo'd, we're feminists, living in a diverse community with global internet access, that Millenials are getting married & half the weddings I arrive at are culturally 1960s themed.

I just realised I slid into my 14th year as a marriage celebrant over the weekend. Three years ago the Gold Coast Bulletin did a piece on me about how I'm not a terrible human or celebrant, so if you want affirmations in that arena, I definitely recommend reading this.

"Leaving everything up to the publishing industry is not the best way to run a culture."

– Brewster Kahle

“It is far easier to critique than to create”

– Laurence Endersen