Hi! My name is Josh and this is my blog. I used to share on social media but decided that my fragility was too valuable to subject to algorithims and assholes.
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The six causes of burnout are:
- Lack of control.
- Lack of reward.
- Absence of fairness.
- Lack of community.
- Conflict in values.
- Work overload.
I’m burned out reading that list of things that feel like I’m reading my gravestone.
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FaceTime - 6.0/iOS15/Monterey - links to join a chat are easy and beautiful, and much more elegant than a Zoom link if it's just a simple chat. I can see them taking the place of many a meeting.
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Screenshot from iPadOS 15 Photos.
Somehow Photos has figured out from location and date metadata these photos are from a ticketed event, a Foo Fighters concert. But the hero image is of Weezer opening the show, and if you tap through to the slideshow the music is Fleetwood Mac.
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”The core idea behind the Metaverse proposition is to create an immersive digital place that duplicates reality without physical constraints.”
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After the pandemic I’d like to start a comedy band called Pearlmite where we sing Australian parodies of Pearl Jam songs.
Our first song: Elderly Man Behind The Wheel Of A Landcruiser In The Right Hand Lane.
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Billy Joel on his farewell tour
“I’ll have created a bond between me and the audience where I know they will never pay another nickel to see me again.”
– Vulture
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Take me to Iceland ... or if you can't, let's just look at Andre's photos
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As Brisbane goes into lockdown - 6pm June 29, 2021
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Brisbane for the next few days
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Every day, since whenever the feature launched, my iPhone has generated a set of Featured Photos from my 27,000 odd photos in the library. Since June 22 it’s stopped.
What have I done to deserve this?!
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It's nice how things are precedented now. Remember back in 2020 when it was this whirlwind of unprecedented stuff, nowadays we hear that a state premier is warming up a new announcement and we put our cloth masks back in the washing machine ready to don again.
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"Starting from zero can be a gift. If you don't have much to begin with, you don't have much to lose. You can be bold when you aren't trying to protect something."
- James Clear
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Do you ever wonder who the Ambulance calls if they’re sick?
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Good news, Australia has twice as many cults as Arizona!
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Who knew you could report junk spam to Apple. Where does that data go, and how does it play out?
I would literally give Apple more money to stop spam texts and spam phone calls.
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If Google was serious about organising the world's information, the Lano and Woodley episode "Mother" would be on Youtube, but here I am describing the skit to a friend instead of sharing a link.
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Nostalgia – its delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means ‘the pain from an old wound.’
A Mackay sugarcane fire is my ‘pain from an old wound’.
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Honestly, is there anything more Australian than dropping in to see family while you’re on a work trip and claiming it as a travel expense?
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So apparently the tax department website has a queue now. Does the ATO know websites don’t have queues?
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TF when Google invites you to sit at the Knights Round Table
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I believe my fellow young people would call Luna a “vibe”
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Felt fatherly, might delete later
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I’ve decided to follow my dreams and become a nonfluencer. Please don’t follow me.
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Good news: AirTag works Bad news: my bag is in a different airport to me
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TF when you accidentally get the Covid-09 vaccine and only get 4G.
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Remember when everyone's method to cope with Covid was Tiger King, sourdough, and the Hamilton soundtrack?
Better times.
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We, the people of Australia, have spent $6.7 million dollarydoos detaining the Murugappan family, instead of spending zero dollars and letting them earn a wage and pay tax.
We, Australians, decided this. That family, these 2 little girls, are there because we decided it was ok.
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I might not amount to much in this life, so if I die and that’s the case, please put this on my gravestone.
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Conspiracy theory: The spicy cough was invented by Tourism Australia to stop Aussies from holidaying abroad.
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We are a nation of believers. If only Americans could begin believing in politics less fervently, realising instead that life is elsewhere. But this would come at a cost—because to believe in politics also means believing we can, and probably should, be better.
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Sony AirPeak S1 ... want.
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The hotel quarantine system is obviously not working, I say we move to a motel quarantine system where we lock people in highway motels in the Australian Outback for two weeks. Nothing like Free Foxtel and packets of two biscuits with instant coffee to ward off Covid.
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Parenting hack: Let your kid join other families at the playground and eat their food. It’s money in your pocket.
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"Once you become informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of grey. You realise that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralysing." - Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes, via Bill Watterson.
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flicks through his bible furiously trying to find the verse about content delivery networks (CDNs) going down meaning that this is the beginning of the end times
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“(A recent) audience survey showed that the word podcast is becoming linked to the word interview. So here we are.”
I can't say who said this, or which Oz network they work for, but for the love of God an interview is not a podcast.
Can words just mean something please?
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As a geriatric millennial, I feel seen
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Looks like someone in ASIO has finally experienced booking a Qantas flight at the last minute.
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All these years on I’m still no wiser as to what it is that the fox say.
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Mare of Easttown spoiler: it was the adult female horse of Easttown.
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The 2007 email that spawned Uber, Snapchat, Tiktok, Instagram, and trillions of dollars worth of other companies - via @techemails
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Is this the year for editable iMessages?
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What’s the secret to not getting text message spam? This phone number is my wedding celebrant number and I’ve had it for over 15 years, so I’m not in a position to change numbers or turn on Filter Unknown Senders. It’s so annoying.
