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.
Luna (runs around the house screaming): Noo pooooo! Narrator: And yet there was poo.
7:30pm Queensland time tonight (GMT+10) I’m hosting my first @joinClubhouse room and it would be absolutely grand if my friends would join me for a chat. I’m hoping to record it as a podcast and drop it on The Rebels Guide Podcast as well.
With most new relationships being the result of algorithmic matching, does that mean computers are breeding humans?
The DJI Mini 2 couldn’t deliver the still images I was hoping for. Who would of ever thought that a drone lighter than an orange wouldn’t deliver great photos ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Thank god for the Apple return policy!
Have any M1 Mac owners recently tried to install an iPhone app .ipa file (circumventing the developer not making the iOS app available in the Mac App Store)? It worked for some apps when I first upgraded, but the iOS App Installer is erroring out now.
Let’s be honest guys, in this algorithm driven world, it’s only going to be a matter of time until the word ‘ducking’ is classified as a swear word.
Do yourself a retro favour and search for “SOL.EXE” in the iPhone App Store
This is one of those articles I think I’ll read a few times over the next few weeks.
“Everyone reacts, few respond.”
“McDonald’s Theory On How Best to Rescue Conversations” by Karthik Rajan
“Whenever you poo or pee, sterilise it for half an hour before flushing, this is to protect our city’s sewage.”
I’m two days deep Clubhouse and I’m feeling bullish about its potential.
It’s a powerfully personal medium, with deep accountability (live voice). It’s like the child talkback radio and social networking.
I’ve got one invite left if you’re interested.
Show me a more Australian meal than a Chicken Schnitzel shaped like mainland Australia, served with veges, chips, and gravy.
I’ll wait.
We brought a Peugeot to a V8 fight ...
Feature request for iMessage, Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, and Facebook Page Messenger: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET ME SEE UNREAD MESSAGES SO I CAN "READ" THAT ONE UNREAD MESSAGE WHICH I CAN'T FIND ANYWHERE. Maybe a simple "filter by unread" or somethn?
Just googled “Is it ok to just leave the toys out spread across the lounge room floor overnight like does it even matter” in case I was wrong.
When I’m president imma make it illegal for kids to crawl or climb up slippery slides.
How, in the 2021st year of our Lord, do we still need to go to two different huts for sunglasses and pizza?
You know what’s really underrated? Cookies.
I can’t help but feel that the rice must have had a really good PR team early on.
To go from “looks like dead maggots” to “most eaten food on the planet” is a grand effort.
record scratch freeze frame "Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation…"
Today was the wrong day to want to legitimately want to buy toilet paper in Southeast Queensland.
Googles bidet
Little bit morbid there, Apple Photos
When Orange Hair says to his followers that their journey is "only just beginning" does that mean they're all about to drink Kool-Aid before the alien space ship comes and collects them?
“(Trump) has refused to accept the basic bargain of democracy, which is to accept the result, win or lose.”
“Tech level determined using Qsin”
A shop displayed a sign announcing that they were “only excepting card payments at this time” and it’s really sitting with me hey.
Day one of Baby Drone making photos and we’re back into lockdown because of fear of getting wet.
Watching this wombat sleep today reminded me that the wombat is my spirit animal
👩🚀 I always wanted you to go into space, mannnn (photo not by Babylon Zoo, only the caption)
We can dance if we want to. We can leave your friends behind. Cause your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, well, they're no friends of mine.
In case you’d heard the outrage and you weren’t sure who he was, I just wanted to clarify: I am not the bean dad. I only make Luna wait her entire life for baked beans.
No-one is born with a passion, or a dream. Passions and dreams come from and are nurtured in our community, which is why we need to fight for and protect our common unities, our community.
The fact that Uber achieved the same growth in 10% of its $150 million as spend is one thing, the story of how they got there, that’s something else entirely!
It’s cute to see New South Wales and Victoria playing a game of State Of Origin. It’d just be sad to see NSW lose at the Covid football version tho.
With many of us grounded, has anyone had a play of PC Globe to try and scratch that travel itch? You might need to upgrade to a 486 to run it well.
“Dadda, not Josh” is Luna’s new way of introducing me to strangers. She’s a weird Hype Girl.
The book 1984, but instead of Big Brother, it’s Facebook.
“A prank attempt went terribly wrong for a 14-year old boy from Boise, as he was raped by a 700-lb grizzly bear while walking around in the woods in a sasquatch costume.”
If you've been following for a while you might have sensed a tension between the joy I find in being online and the disappointment I find in news feed algorithims.
So I've been curating my own media diet for a while now and thought you might like a peek inside.
A podcast I first heard a year ago today still sits with me a year later, and I've listened to it maybe five times over. Cooking As an Art, With Jerry Saltz and Dave Cheng. It has almost nothing to do with cooking, or art, but more to do with life.
The future of music journalism is on (wtf) TikTok (sad face)
"TikTok music blogs have thrived during quarantine, and they’re helping to blow up new acts"
Have you played the hottest new web game of 2021? School or Prison
Much applause to the people behind Pentax cameras for this seemingly crazy idea to not go mirrorless. The unpopular route is often not filled with riches of finance, but it is full with riches of art, joy, and soul.