Hi! My name is Josh, this me blog.

The dance of pleasing the social media algorithims of the world’s biggest companies, whilst being beat to death by strangers with their comments displeased me so now I’m here.

I wish I were the kind of person who could just live without broadcasting. But there’s an animal inside me — right down in the marrow — that keeps asking ‘can you see me?’ and silence has never once soothed it.

  • I’ll probably do your wedding for free if you walk down the aisle to Goldfinger’s cover of 99 Red Balloons.

  • Thinking about Citipointe Christian College in Brisbane this afternoon …

    “Bless those who persecute you. Don’t curse them; pray that God will bless them. Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with each other. Don’t be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people.

    And don’t think you know it all!”

    ‭‭An excerpt from Romans‬ , chapter 12:14-16‬ from the New Living Translation.

  • Has Spotify had a deep clean yet? I’m staying out until everything on Spotify is 100% sanitised.

  • “You can do it like it’s a great weight, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”

    – Ram Dass

  • The year is 2034 and your 12 y/o is getting ready for school. She starts the day with classes on empathy and then human connection. After lunch she has class on using social media to diagnose mental health concerns, and finishes with a class on post-algorithmic living.

  • Any other old school nerds ever just feel like re-visiting astalavista dot box dot sk?

  • Are you even from Brisbane if you don’t come to the Gold Coast on a long weekend and arrogantly proclaim to your partner that (insert beach suburb name) has really come into it’s own.

  • Notice how we keep on hearing from people who claim to be silenced?

  • Jen Ortiz, The Cut on weed's last taboo, pregnancy:

    Those bong rips did the trick: “I fucking thrived after I felt better. I had the best pregnancy — like, glowing.”

  • What If We Just Stopped Being So Available?

  • Whites Beach, New South Wales

  • Please print this TikTok and put it on your bedroom walls

  • Gm Byron Bay 👋💪

  • Wategos Beach for sunrise this morning

  • "When rain falls, it flows downhill. If desired, you can collect the rain in a bucket and carry it uphill, but the natural tendency of water is to flow toward the lowest point.

    Most situations in life have a tendency—a direction in which things want to flow. You can choose to go against the flow (just as you can choose to carry water uphill), but your results tend to be better when you find a way to work with the gradient of the situation.

    Position yourself to benefit from the external forces at hand and you will get more from the same unit of effort. Energy is conserved and results are multiplied."

    — James Clear

  • Name a banger more bangish than Orgy’s Blue Monday. I’ll wait.

  • What which craft is this? Surfing without waves!? #witchcraft #byronbay #wategosbeach #surfing

  • If you’re interested in joining my new rectangle scheme we just give each other the same amount of money for doing nothing. Plus we get name badges.

  • You know how we’d all hate a guy who annually celebrated the anniversary of that time he raped someone. Now think about January 26.

  • Why Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a car, Timothy B Lee:

    "It’s one of the most important economic mysteries of the modern world. While the material things in life are cheaper than ever, labor-intensive services are getting more and more expensive. Middle-class Americans today have little trouble affording a car, but they struggle to afford a spot in day care."

  • A story of hope, that the old internet might be coming back, the old internet was when the internet was a wonderland. Not a computer generated echo chamber.

  • Brian Koppelman:

    "To an artist, rejection, at first, feels like death. That’s how personal the work is. And that’s why we’re afraid to do the work. Because then we have to show it. And then they might reject it. But rejection is only a death if you let it stop you from doing the work the next day."

  • If you can live your life without an audience, you should do it

  • The story of how five seconds of one movie changed the entire California wine industry forever. The Sideways effect:

  • It really bothers me that Logan City Council uses Lobster font for its entry to the region motorway signage.

  • What lays beneath … // Cook Island, off Fingal Head

  • Fingal Head this afternoon.

    Was nice to visit and not have to convince a police to let me go home afterward.

  • A million dollar sunset over #Tugun tonight

  • What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was At The Center Of Life? asks The Atlantic.

  • A relationship is about inventing your own language, says Céline Sciamma:

    “You’ve got the jokes, you’ve got the songs, you have this anecdote that’s going to make you laugh three years later. It’s this language that you build. That’s what you mourn for when you’re losing someone you love. This language you’re not going to speak with anybody else.”

  • Is a LIDAR capture of a person a photograph? Wired asks what is a photograph.

  • This is nuts:

    "CoreLogic’s Quarterly Auction Market Review shows 42,918 properties were taken to auction across the combined capital cities in the three months to Dec 2021, an 85.1% increase from the previous quarter and more than double (109.5%) the Dec 2020 figures."

  • Why would you make new music when all the growth in the industry is from old music

  • I just want to get out ahead of any rumours being spread by our almost 11 month old and go on the record saying that we do feed her enough food, and some would say too much food. She’s well fed, don’t believe what she tells you.

  • I have issue with Apple’s Texas Hold’em game. Do they not have a graphic designer on staff? Could they not just get a photo of a bunch of Macs on a shelf in a garage from @ismh?

  • Sea breeze

  • Make taxi ranks car parks again. Return the taxi tanks to the people.

  • If only he’d been like a bat out of Wuhan, still here when the morning comes, when Christmas comes, when the wedding comes, the funeral comes, still here, a few years on.

  • “Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes”

  • If you’ve ever worried about robots rising up and taking over, have no fear, they’re a long way off.

    I’ve used brooms smarter than our Roomba i7.

  • Toowoomba’s, Gabbinbar Homestead, on a Thursday afternoon

  • A Jewish scholar I once heard speak talked about how his people viewed life and death not as one season followed by another, life and then death, but that throughout your day they were states you would enter. That your decisions and thoughts and actions would take into life or death.

    That for a people so obsessed with life after death and whether we could get into heaven - or if there was one at all - we could be focused on bringing heaven to earth today through our words, thoughts, and actions.

  • The one truth everyone that has ever existed can testify to is that you cannot stop people dying, but you can stop them living.

  • Who do I have to talk to about making the next Mission: Impossible movie about stolen NFTs.

    Mission: Impossible - Right Click.

  • She turns around to tell me to make sure I take a photo of her on the scooter, “take photo of me!” My firstborn, @lunawithers.

  • January 2022 in the Associated Press:

    "A bill ... that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort”"

  • Jason Chatfield’s cartoon from his email today

  • That face when dad makes you leave the beach

  • South of Talle’ on a Tuesday afternoon

  • I’m not antistacks, I’m just saying, when you’re on the bottom of a stacks-on it sucks. It’s all well and good if you’re on the top of the stack, but the rest of us have a large weight on our shoulders, torso, legs, etc.