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.

  • 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.

  • The Damage Has Been Proven, So Why Are We Still on Facebook?

  • Quote I’m pondering thanks to Tim Ferriss’ pondering it ...

    “If we can forgive what’s been done to us… If we can forgive what we’ve done to others… If we can leave our stories behind. Our being victims and villains. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”

    — Chuck Palahniuk

  • Spending Christmas in the Switzerland of Australia’s south

  • Shop inside a regional Tasmanian town’s local shopping centre. The professional life coach on staff on Christmas Eve is wearing knock-off AirPods.

  • Our li’l traveller

  • I've just watched an episode of The Wiggles where they're singing about, and boating in, The Big Red Boat. In this episode Anthony is assuming the position of captain, which is confusing, because for the first time in the entire show this is clearly a place where Captain Feathersword was the most qualified person for the job.

    Why is Captain Feathersword landlocked even when The Wiggles go on the seven seas?

    What's the real story with Captain Feathersword?

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  • Santa forgot a DHL sleigh at BNE

  • A Christmas wish list from, and to, the wedding industry. Give the gift of algorithmic love this Christmas, to your favourite wedding vendors.

  • Ballin’

  • Me at age 2: has never heard of sushi. 1993: first sushi train comes to Queensland Luna at age 2:

  • Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of #Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you, 2020! And now you're gonna hear about it.

  • Australia's NBN declared finished, not because it is, but because we need to say it's finished

  • This Rob Bell podcast series is making me feel seen right now

  • A South Australian Christmas

    How the people of Kuitpo, outside of Adelaide, celebrate Christmas.

    Photographed December 21, 2020.

  • Even at the age of six I was a media tart, I just whanted you to know about me.

  • South Australia is literally issuing tickets for admission to the state. (Not a joke, you get a ticket for answering the border questions correctly)

  • Every airline’s business class is just an upper class hostel in the sky, and the frequent flyer lounge is just an upper class hostel kitchen, free to those who frequent the hostel.

    Convince me otherwise.

  • The Nature of Order by Christopher W. Alexander

  • Thirty years of the World Wide Web

  • “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone”

    The Guardian

  • Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Cactus Country // The closest I got to a desert this year, regional Victoria’s Cactus Country. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store

  • A storm is brewin’

  • Berrrd

  • “Facebook’s argument is along the lines of arguing that the police shouldn’t crack down on burglaries because it might hurt pawn shops.”

    @gruber on Daring Fireball

  • You’ve got to read this LA Times report on how toxic jet engine fumes have been making their way into airplane’s air supplies FOR DECADES AND THE AVIATION INDUSTRY KNEW?! wtf.

    For decades, the airline industry and its regulators have known about these incidents — called fume events — and have maintained that they are rare and that the toxic chemical levels are too low to pose serious health risks.

  • If you’re flying into Gold Coast from today expect to stand in the sun for a while as they screen everyone entering.

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  • I never knew I wanted a Trump Presedntial Christmas Address deep fake for Christmas but here we are.