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.

  • 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!

  • How to overcome Phone Addiction [Solutions + Research]

  • 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.

  • Guilty as charged

  • “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.”

    via Designs Salad

  • 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"

  • Simon Owens on 'the Substack problem'
  • My issue with Spotify and Amazon muscling in on podcasting and how Apple has failed as well

  • 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.

  • This is a fascinating story about an Australia man with an illness discovering horology

  • Algorithms are destroying our communities and what can we, or I, do about it?

  • Thriller idea: As the year 2020 is escorted from the courthouse to a life sentence in prison, after a solid 365 days of wrecking havoc on the earth, a terrorist group hijacks the cavalcade and releases 2020 back into the world with a new hairstyle and a different colour jacket.

    We’ll call it “2020 Vision.”

  • In my almost 40 years on the planet, and most of them in Queensland, I’ve never kissed a stranger on NYE, or any other time. Am I doing life wrong or is the Chief Health Officer saying that sexually abusing strangers is the norm on New Year’s Eve?

  • Don’t let anyone tell you today is December 31st, 2020.

    Today is March 306th, 2020.

  • If you thought everything else that happened this year was scary, 2020 is going out with a bang with delightfully terrifying dancing robots from Boston Dynamics

  • This was life changing photography education

  • Don’t even talk to her before her morning oat milk froth.

  • There’s a mum sitting in the conductor’s seat of the playground train Luna wants to drive. Do I have jurisdiction here or do I have to just sit here and let her ruin my kids day?

  • A new family and travel photo workflow

  • Luna. Takes no bull.

  • An interesting thought exercise is to imagine that something was being introduced fresh today, how would we approach it.

    Much like how COVID-19 was introduced fresh just over a year ago, and we reacted as we did.

    How would we react to cancer-causing cigarettes being introduced today? Or worse, road-accident causing cars, or violence and abuse causing alcohol?

  • Money shot

  • Turns out the TARDIS gets it’s time travelling power from books. Important lesson for us all to learn, ya know?

  • Calling all true crime podcasters, I’m desperate to know the story of Henk and Lane and how the small Tasmanian town of Penguin got two IGA supermarkets next to each other.

  • 2014 article on ‘Silicon Valley data’ being the new ‘Wall Street debt’

    “Built by geniuses, both products end up being deceptively cheap, morally corrupting, and of questionable long-term economic utility.”

    — Live Free or Try

  • I try to avoid hot political issues here, but if Paw Patrol is a police officer, clumsy firefighter/paramedic, some tradies, & a pilot, how is it that they “always get the job done?” Surely they’d need a barista or a wedding celebrant or other assorted necessary type people.

  • “Life is short, like Joe Pesci.”

    — Chance, the rapper

  • Tasmanian Devil time

  • Emu

  • Wombats

  • Galah

  • Luna vs Kangaroo

  • “One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one.”

    — The New Yorker

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  • How to spot a good fish and chip shop.

    1. it has the word ‘shack’ in its name
    2. there are lobster pots hanging for styling
    3. it’s near the ocean
    4. it’s located at a wharf
    5. Chico Rolls aren’t on the menu
    6. there’s a grumpy fisherman on premises

    Bonus points for the shack being a seafood type of shack, for example this one is called ‘The Lobster Shack’

  • All I want for all of you is to enjoy life as much as Luna enjoys ice cream

  • I don’t like to boast on here, but I wanted to silence all the haters and the non-believers.

    Yes, I totally can fit nine potato chips in my mouth at the same time.

  • So it sounds like MONA is celebrating being open again, this is the view from Dodges Ferry.

  • Nothing to see here, just an Independence Day-alien-ship-style laser beam going into Hobart ...

  • Hello Coles, it's modern news media here,

    I hope you're keeping well.

    It's the 26th of December, and now they're ringing the last bells …

  • Dodges Ferry.

    With a fake sunset.

    This is the first photo I’ve ever published with a synthetic element like a sky. But I’ve been colour-grading and removing things in the edit for years, and somehow this feels worse.

    Who knows?

  • Proud to be racing in the Salamanca Place to Hobart pram race today. Photographed is my First Mate taking us over the starting line.

  • Bloke at the pharmacy tells me that this is the second highest selling fragrance in Australia this Christmas

  • My personal answer to this thought is that I’m barely “on Facebook.” I publish any and all thoughts, opinions, photos, et cetera, to my personal blog which is managed and published here on Micro.Blog, a social network that is beautiful in nature and inherently keeps my data personal. It’s business model isn’t sharing my personal data, it’s business model is to be a social networ, and it costs $5 a month, because if something is free you’re not the customer, you’re the product being sold.