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.

  • Palm Beach Boardriders

  • The Gold Coast property market right now ...

  • Use Vegemite.

  • If domestic violence killed as many men as it does women, and if it the threat was higher to older people, would we fight domestic violence like we are fighting COVID?

    Or would we just keep on letting women get burned alive in Queensland?

  • You know you’re reading an article not for you when the first interview question is answered by beginning with “we millionaires”.

  • “We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”

    – Bryan White

  • Imagine having never heard Enter Sandman before ...

  • If your preferred mode of transport is your Facebook profile pic, I live for your Facebook comments, keep them coming.

  • This story is my favourite story of today, plus, the update makes it even better.

    "I accidentally created an army of crow body guards. Am I liable if my murder attempts murder?”

  • Minutes before this screenshot I was on the front page of Hacker News, which is all a nerd honestly wants in his life.

    I can die happy, affirmed by the nerd community now.

  • Sometimes when I want to feel fancy I imagine my car is a private jet, but for roads.

  • Tap your phone at Gold Coast bus stops to access my website

  • Just checking because I don’t want to screw up this vaccine thing: Are we all supposed to wear the green and gold for our vaccination selfies? Did ScoMo wear his under his formalwear? Did he change? What’s the protocol here?

  • “People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”​

    — Chuck Palahniuk

  • I’m titling this sad piece “July 2020, an infrequent flyer”

  • The Facebook news ban hammer fell on our training business a day after I posted an article on surviving a Facebook ban lol ... you're great Facebook, thanks m8

  • The Foo Fighters were AIDS denialists?
  • Who should be a politician and why?
  • Dear DJI,

  • Australian news you can use

  • “Why Josh was never invited back onto Studio 10”

    A screenshot, circa late February 2021.

    Note: First recorded use of the term PoN, an acronym for People of News.

  • What a beautiful time to be alive in Australia

  • James Clear’s 3-2-1 regular email is such a nice format, I have to recommend it. 3 ideas from him, 2 quotes from others, 1 question.

  • “I wish Australia would take Facebook’s rejection as a sign it should rethink its approach to media regulation entirely. It could just tax companies based on their revenues, for example.”

    via Platformer

  • Well that was quick, Zoom

  • I'm looking for someone in a full-time, or maybe almost full-time, role as a content creator working almost explicitly inside Wordpress. They need to know Wordpress, writing, photo blogging, and have a personal interest in weddings and marriage.

  • So I’ve been thinking about this a lot.

    There really aren’t that many songs about rainbows, and even less that would lead us to think about what’s on the other side.

    Weird flex, Kermit.

  • Luna vs. Shark

  • Hanging out on ABC radio this morning

  • I'm (apparently) the celebrant you call when you want to find out if you have to have sex with your new spouse on the wedding night …

  • Everything you've just read here, and everything you're about to read, including this, is a performance.

  • On a personal note, as of midnight tonight my borders are closed to people from the Greater Border Closing region. If you have closed a border in the last 14 days, you’ll need to quarantine for 14 years if you want to visit me.

  • Guys, I can’t stress this enough, real life snakes are nothing - I repeat, nothing - like Allens Snakes. Do not eat.

  • The most fascinating element of big tech is when a newcomer has such a good idea that it’s deemed stealable by the incumbents.

    Twitter launches Spaces, a Clubhouse copy.

  • I’m looking for the cheapest possible prices to get ‘Make Poverty History’ shirts manufactured please.

    Please forward all quotes and appropriate comedic responses to my inbox.

  • Butterfly on inside of the windscreen. Circa February, 2021.

  • When you’re still worried about the rona but wanna look like you’re not

  • Babymoon @ The Calile

  • Tuesday sunrise because sleep is overrated // Jolly’s Loookout, Mount Nebo

  • 6:29am and the staff member at the hotel lobby bar & cafe says to the barista, “you know what I like” and smiles.

    Yet the barista did not know what she likes.

    Thankfully I said, “long black with cream, please” and then smiled.

  • “Must everyone like you?”

    Father James Martin on the Zeitgast podcast Jonathan Martin

  • Hey, be real with me, do you guys ever wear your daughter’s dresses?

  • February 2021 would have to be the most visually pleasing month I’ve ever seen.

  • Sunrise

  • Jumping into Sunday like ...

  • May, the EK

  • How good is it watching the elected leaders of the different Australian states squabble like children in a playground whilst they sink their states into financial distress.

  • Peggy

  • Fried chicken