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.

  • We’re proud to announce that we’re expecting. Santa that is. We’re expecting Santa.

    I also told Luna this week that Santa’s not alive any more, but people dress up like him … soooo I’m a great person.

  • I don't know who needs to hear this, but we don't use whisky stones, save your money

  • Epidemiologists: Omicron’s not a big deal guys. News media: NEW FLESH, LET’S GO BABY!

  • 1859 or 2021?

    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness…”

  • Finally, ScoMo will keep me safe from you all.

  • We’ll that’s the last time I try to rent a hit man through RentAHitman.com, the guy behind it just forwards all the enquiries to the police and they aren’t proper hitmen. shout out to all the hitladies that also feel excluded.

  • Business idea: drone birth photography.

  • Britt: You’re not going to be able to get the cactus inside once you’ve repotted it. Me: Trust me honey, I’ve got this. Narrator: And yet he did not have “this.”

  • Got fizzy photographs // documented the build of Hard Fizz’s first home here on the Gold Coast.

  • #toiletsofthegoldcoast #hardfizzhq

  • My secret superpower is telling people that the lyrics in the chorus of George Ezra's Budapest are “I'd leave it all”.

    Welcome to the Withers Cinematic Universe.

  • What’s the @qldpolice definition of illegal littering?

    Because every week a kid drives past my house and throws this rubbish on my driveway.

    And is it the driver littering, their employer, or @woolworths, @TAFEQld, @bunnings, @JBHiFi and co?

  • I'm on a conference call right now with Dally Messenger and other leaders of the celebrant community with the Attorney-General’s office, and he's made a big claim: That people who aren't Australian First Nations, or Jewish or other religions, don't have a culture. Thoughts?

  • Ten years ago yesterday: "I believed that he was clearly implying that News Corp would run news stories or editorial content concerning any issue I wanted if I was to cross the floor and oppose the (Digital TV) legislation.”

  • A tale of two burghers

  • One of the best things about working in the wedding industry through Covid is that I've finally become the disappointment my step-mother said I was. #kickinggoals

  • My three most embarrassing celebrity interview stories
  • More evidence suggests that nature does something essential for our mental health

  • I turn 40 in a few weeks. There was a time where I never believed I'd make it past 21 as I saw friends and people around me dropping like flies.

    Between 21 and 39 I mostly felt immortal.

    But for the past year all I have thought about is what will happen to my blog when I die.

  • There's a new Terminal command in macOS Monterey: networkquality.

    It’s an internet speed test in the terminal.

  • Is this how Apple News is supposed to work? I make an active decision to not engage with content from a certain brand, and in its place I just get a full page notice that I’ve chosen to not engage with that brand?

  • I don’t know who need to hear this, but the young male voice that says “Welcome to McDonalds, we’ll be with you in a moment” as you pull up at a McDonalds drive through is a pre-recorded message.

    You don’t need to say “thanks” like I do each time.

  • “Most people in life want one-of-a-kind outcomes.

    The problem is, in the quest to get there, most people follow the same path as everyone else.

    Lesson: If you want an n-of-1 result, don’t take the 1-of-n road.”

    – @RomeenSheth

  • You need to know about, and install the Shortcut for, 12ft.io if you browse the webs and don't want to have a subscription to every flipping news website on the planet.

  • Presenting the Hard Fizz HQ Gold Coast toilets … shot for zero 9.

  • Taking expressions of interest in a Slightly Interested Koalas Yacht Club from any of you that have too much money.

  • “Over the last couple of years, governments have been telling Australians what to do, now there has been a need for that as we have gone through the pandemic, but the time is now to start rolling all of that back.”

    – Prime Minister Scott Morrison

  • If you’re waiting for a sign …

  • “I realised that anything I did long enough to master was no longer useful to me.”

    – Designer, Milton Glasser

  • A mate mentioned pirating software and it took me right back to 20 years ago where we had a keygen or a hack or serial number for ecverything.

    They really were the good ol days, access to the world's software, entertainment, and media, the only cost was time, so much time waiting for the painfully slow internet to bring you the goods.

    It’s a hard position to advocate for - piracy - but letting kids have free access to software created a generation of modern creatives and tech professionals. Back then, to learn Photoshop or CAD or programming we’d pirate it, now you’ve got to pony up dollars every month. How do kids today learn this stuff without paying thousands of dollars they don’t havre for it?

  • This thread on antivaxx rings so true right now in my own life 🧵

  • "Rich people need it. Poor people have it. If you eat it, you die. And when you die, you take it with you. What is it?”

    From: The Nothingness of Money, By Lawrence Yeo

  • Have you heard the one about how they bought the US constitution in a DAO?

  • The “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” declassified in 2008 and available on the CIA’s website, provided instructions for how everyday people could help the Allies weaken their country by reducing productivity.

    Sounds like a regular office.

  • “Divorce does funny things to people.”

  • Introducing Luna to the great Australian tradition of running through sprinklers naked in summer

  • I’m not an anti-vaxxer I just enjoy typing those five words to trigger you.

  • Currently reading: Inside Steve's Brain by Leander Kahney 📚

  • The awkward story of my first photo

  • Will driverless cars do burnouts?

  • It’s cool that there’s a Catwoman, Batman, and Spider-Man, but where’s all the stories about Possumperson, Koalaman, and Wombatwoman?

  • Reminder today of the best coffee I’ve ever drink in the whole planet, two years ago in Tokyo: Sarutahiko Coffee, outside a train station. Their classic French blend will forever be my gold standard for coffee.

  • Seven years ago since Kim Kardashian broke the internet. Hopefully they'll start fixing it soon.

  • Is this like climate change? How long have they been recording it? And by what measure do they define it being good or bad? I have so many questions.

  • 1991 tech ad from Brashs

  • What's the best New York street?

  • If I can be real for a bit, I find it extremely disconcerting that the unvaccinated are being treated like this. Seriously. It's scary how a society and government can decide to ostracise like this. Imagine if it was the same thing on a different vector.

  • The Metaverse already exists, it's just currently called the Internet

  • “Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.”

    — Mark Nepo

  • Listening to radio on the Sunshine Coast and the announcer plays three grabs of three songs then says “find out which one we’re going to play after the break” so it’s good to know they’ve not invented any new ideas for daytime radio.