“Conspiracy theories like QAnon are ultimately a social problem rather than a cognitive one. We should blame politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.”

Long Covid: the numbers

I'm proud to announce that our lawns are mowed, gardens are tidy, and we've cleaned our house, so we're now accepting visitors until our toddler comes home from kindy.

When we asked an algorithm to decide humour we should’ve known that income inequality was going to be deemed hilarious soon

Are you that rich that you’re not immediately aware of your net worth? There’s an app for that.

RU Even Aware Of What OK Looks Like Anymore?

I think aliens visited Burleigh Beach today and left a message. Can anyone help decipher this?

"You bloody fool"

– Australian duck

Heads up, tomorrow is RUOK Day, so make sure you are prepared to pretend to have your shit together for a day.

Swell is back, 1.8km from the border

Have you ever considered that we’re all just flying around the universe on a big rock making shit up and taking made-up currencies off each other for the pleasure of making shit up for each other?

If you’ve ever read my shit and thought “it’s a crime that I’m getting this for free” then here’s a chance to pay for it.

Tomorrow, any of you who subscribe to @decryption’s $5 a month Sizzle email will receive the crumbs off my table.

A+ nerdy, techie, crumbs, xoxo.

“There goes a truly great drummer.”

For nine years I’ve been lucky enough to call you my wife, Britt.

In my vows I said “we’ll write a beautiful story together” and boy is that true.

Happy anniversary, Snow x

And thanks Molk for ignoring any of that unplugged ceremony nonsense and filming our first kiss.

Sunrise from Tallebudgera Creek this morning

Instead of labelling antivaxxers or vaccine-hesitant people as stupid etc, could we consider how we as a society have contributed to the rapid distrust of elected officials and pharmaceutical companies?

I'm married to a vaccine hesitant person and she's not stupid. But she finds valid and real reason to distrust the choir of voices singing the "just get vaccinated, ya know" song.

Honestly, she brings more reading material, albeit embroiled in conjecture, than the "hey idiots, blindly believe the govt and just get vaxxed" crowd.

I'm tired.

Welcome to my TED Talk.

The history of the blue, under-lined, hyperlink

“If the plan is clear no meeting is needed”

I've finally come to the realisation that the wedding industry can't provide for my family for the near future, so I'm taking on small business clients to tell their story. Recorded and produced my first piece of content this morning!

Something no-one really tells you about adulthood is that it’s mostly just waiting.

Going, going, goonnneeee

"When you're young, you look at television and think - There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realise that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought." - Steve Jobs

Spring’s first sun has sprung

Even the Illuminati has to deal with the hell that is Gmail’s Promotional folder.

x% of all sales go to a good cause. The remainder goes to me, a not-good cause.

Channel 4's tribute and favourite moments YouTube clips in remembrance of Sean Lock are solid gold.

Choices

Kesha, the artist, is a prophet: Her ’09 debut single Tik Tok turns out to be quite the business plan for the 2016 social network bearing the same name. 2010's Blah Blah Blah describes, well, it describes everything. 2017's collab with Macklemore, Good Old Days? Enough said.

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In the last 18 months, how have QR codes taken off but Touch-Free Copper Keys not? I feel like 2020 was the Copper Key’s year but the key missed it.

On in-person education:

"The Nobel laureate economist Friedrich Hayek had a phrase for the kind of awareness it’s hard to capture in metrics and maps: the ‘knowledge of the particular circumstances of time and place’."

from "How to Make the World Add Up" by Tim Harford

record scratch yup, that’s me, catching a ride out to attempt a drone rescue after a bird attacked it and sunk it into the Gold Coast Broadwater

Number 2

Highline // Palm Beach

The wedding industry is weird, it’s one of the few workplaces where you’re encouraged to make your clients cry,

☕️ Merlo

The Calile

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer

39 images, all glued together with digital sticky tape 🌳

As a native speaker of Strayan’ English, I feel like our own whistled language has been ignored by the Smithsonian Magazine here. The great Australian wolf whistle is a complex piece of kit.

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