“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

Do we want our journos tweeting or not? NYT asks the big questions about bias and opinion

What if I’m not smart enough to know if my thoughts are correct?

Not a 5G tower, bro, but cool birth story

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What the hell is going on with guys who don’t tie up their shoelaces?

If there's one thing the month of January 2021 has taught me, it's that the Australian celebrant population (9000 odd celebrants) isn't emotionally prepared to have received two emails from me in the same month.

On today's business to-do list:

• Answer a complaint from the Office Of Fair Trading about a couple who changed their 2020 wedding date to a day I wasn't available for, and then was available for but then they didn't want me, and who weren't eligible for a refund, but got a 50% refund any way and they've taken us to the OFT for the remaining 50%.
• Respond to a credit card chargeback for an elopement that was supposed to be in New Zealand last September but they moved it to April 2021 and just recently decided they wanted to get married now in Western Australia while the borders were closed.
• File another couple's wedding cancellation.
• Freak out about the calendar for the rest of the year because almost every new enquiry I'm not available for because last year's weddings are now in this year's calendar unless of course they're taking us to court because COVID ruined their wedding and they expect refunds from small businesses when even Qantas only gives credit vouchers.
• Apply to a court to actually hold a hearing regarding a refund complaint for a Brisbane couple who had booked us for a Western Australian elopement but because WA closed their borders we all couldn't get there so instead of planning something in the possible they took us to court and the court didn't hold a hearing it just ruled in their favour so I now need to ask them to set that ruling aside wtf?
• Take more photos of Luna.
• Get in-house legal counsel?
• Procrastinate on social media.
• Wonder if there'll be a SanityKeeper? I don't want your money, ScoMo, I just want to go to Hawaii whilst this bushfire burns.

🌙 Our two year old adult

That face when mum has moved your stash

You know newsletters are a thing when Facebook feels so threatened by them that it needs to develop it’s own newsletter product. Via the Techmeme via the NYT

I can't help but feel that Margot Robbie in a bathtub would explain Gamestop better than most journalists.

Robin Rendle's beautiful essay on newsletters and the original sin of the internet is that, beautiful, and inspiring. Please view the essay.

Happy Australians-arguing-about-a-public-holiday-whilst-not-doing-anything-actually-good-for-the-country week! It's a real invasion on my senses.

Sunsets // a new way of measuring each day until it's gone

This is the kind of drone video I wish I made, one where a crocodile attacks the drone whilst making the film.

Install Hush on your Mac and iPhone/iPad to get rid of all those annoying banners, pop ups, distractions asking you to approve or accept cookies. Hallelujah.

I can honestly say the most exciting stage of parenting a toddler for me so far has been when she learned how to use door handles.