Do you guys need me to pick you up anything while I’m here?

Whenever I am out in public with either or both of my children I always carry their birth certificate with me so that I can easily and quickly prove that I am a Certified Practising Parent and not some hooligan that just walks around pretending to be a legit adult with children.

How my body feels after the last two years of life and parenting

Everyone stop looking. I found them.

How old do kids have to be to ride on the dash? Asking for Goldie.

Everyone’s worried about what @elonmusk is going to do to Twitter the social network, but no-one’s talking about how he’s going to get printed copies of all our draft tweets every morning and if he thinks they’re good he’ll just post them on his own account.

I just can’t believe a rich guy bought the free bird website off other rich people. It’s like non-rich people only get to use the free bird website, not own it, I guess.

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I’m a little bit obsessed with strapping this 50 year old Canon FD 50mm f/1.4 lens onto my Canon EOS R5 mirrorless camera with an Urth adaptor.

Canon FD 50mm strapped onto a Canon EOS R5 ⛽️

Police are now targeting podcast producers who say that they will put a link in the show notes, yet do not put that link in the notes.

Queensland Regional Accommodation Centre. Or as Scotty McDonald calls it, The Steven Miles Centre For Excellence, or as I’ll call it, The Queensland Labor Money Pit.

Just three Boeing 777’s hanging out in a field.

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If I had to choose, I’d give it all away for the simple joy of being their dad

This is weird, but I need your help finding a ball.

KMart used to sell these little massage balls that look like a virus emoji 🦠. About 12cm in diameter, and really hard plastic. They’ve discontinued the product and I’ve bought about 4 similar ones from Amazon but they’re soft rubbery plastic and not what I need.

I need hard plastic, something I can dig my heel into and bring peace to my plantar fasciitis.

It is so weird to experience old white male sexism in the flesh. I am pushing a pram through a shopping centre with my one-year-old daughter in it and a guy who I’ve never seen before says to me “that colour purse really suits you.”

DF: Biden Administration Looks Gift Horse in Mouth, But Can't See It Because the Horse Is Wearing a Mask

CDC guidelines suggest, for example, that nobody should eat rare steak or runny eggs, and that a woman should not have more than one alcoholic drink a day.

Danny Elfman, creator of The Simpson’s theme song, performs The Simpson’s Theme Song at Coachella and it’s beautiful.

Flight attendant said that if we “hear the words e and vacuate” then those of us in the emergency row have to do something with the window and it’s all I can think about now. Do I let her know it’s one word? If they say evacuate do we still pop the window?!

Making like ScoMo and Canberra’s in my rearview mirror

At the risk of outing myself as a business guy and customer journey nerd, why don't cafes and shops just increase their prices by 1.5% instead of plastering signs like this across their business?

Finally someone answers the big question: Where has Yahoo Serious been?

Drove the dirt road from Tumut to Canberra this morning.

Is it street photography if you made the photo in a car?

Argalong - population of 29 - at 6am this morning

Yes, I would like fries with that

Waxing Gibbous from QF1765 tonight

Damn Qantas gamifying being green so I feel incentivised to achieve an arbitrary goal.

The Good Friday commute

Pretty good Friday

VA534

Game night at the Gabba

Tonga’s triple disaster - Expsoure:

“We felt very vulnerable because our island, Lifuka, is so low. We just ran for the highest point, the hospital. Later we were warned not to drink the rainwater as sulphate from the ash had contaminated everything.”

I still have a bit of a traumatic reaction crossing this border to go to work.

Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

A list of principles for a class taught by artist and educator Sister Corita Kent in 1967-1968:

Nothing is a mistake.

If I’m making photographs for fun - aka not for money - I’m often shooting with a 41 year old lens that was passed on to me from my aunty, a Minolta MD 50mm f2 strapped onto the front of my Canon EOS R5.

There’s nothing technically special about the lens, but I love that it’s seen so much of the world. Plus I like the images it makes

But because it's a manual focus only lens, it's a nice trick if any images are in focus.

Recently started playing with Topaz Sharpen AI and that software really helps me where my manually focusing fingers fail me.

“We’re the Aristocrats!”

RIP Gilbert Gottfried.

This weekend I’m in Gundagai for a wedding, and I’ve got a little bit of Saturday and Sunday morning exploration time. Where should I go exploring in this area this weekend?

"How to communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to future civilizations."

I don't know how to say this without sounding a bit up my self, but I just spelled 'poignantly' correctly on the first go.

My fuel and drink at BP just came to $100.01, so I asked the girl behind the counter if I have a one cent discount so I could get a really nice number in my accounting software. She looked at me as if I was a crazy man.

Twitter’s asking a lot of questions about longer form writing today

Can we, or more to the point, will we innovate our way out of gestures at everything?

"So long as we keep choosing to create. If we keep doing what it is we do as people. We are explainers and constructors. We are creators. We are resource makers."

– Brett Hall

I hope for a future where our thoughts, our conversations, our relationships, and our transactions are not handled by a handful of the largest companies on the globe.

I just think it's a nicer world that way.

So I blog at micro.blog and that shares to some places, and I manually share to Facebook and/or Instagram sometimes, but ultimately I'd love to become acquainted with you outside of a corporate algorithm.

One way to achieve that is email. Apart from Google's every attempt to ruin the experience for us, you subscribe to an email list and it appears in your inbox. You can reply to me, I can reply to you. It's good.

If you like what I share, and you'd like to get it in an automatic weekly digest, chuck your email address in here joshwithers.blog/subscribe.

Mark Fisher, in k-punk, on naming things like music genres:

"Naming is not a neutral act of referring. Naming produces surplus value, something that wasn't already there in the first place."