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.
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Britt and I argue over getting news and information from Instagram or memes, and this is my argument, as written by Terence.
”The whole investigation took me 5 minutes. A Web search, a few clicks, and some ctrl+f‘ing. These are basic skills, and you should use those skills before you share something which sounds too good to be true. Treat any claim without a URl as suspicious.”
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Luna upon seeing a polar bear IRL. I think it might’ve been a nicer experience if the polar bear was in the wild and we were running for our lives, but here we are folks.
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I was tracking flights for January for a wedding I have/had booked in Orlando. I think it just got a little more expensive/impossible.
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Luna us leaving home and moving to Sea World
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To save you the awkward work of calling your dentist asking if you can pay with exposure, let Ryan Jon do it
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Now taking applications for people wanting to join my Mindful Clown Posse. We meet on Tuesdays at 6am for chai tea.
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Breaking: Yacht club memberships are rising suddenly in Victoria as the premier rules masts to be compulsory for all Victorians
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A music video "filmed" all in a screen recording on a Mac, pretty cool!
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That feeling when you’ve done all of Brighton.
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What’s everyone’s thoughts on forewords and introductions in books? If they were supposed to be part of the book they’d be chapter one, right? Am I a bad person for skipping them? Am I missing out?
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The lockdowns will continue until morale improves
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The new FlyerKeeper initiative is a winner, thanks ScoMo ✈️
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150 people at a wedding in NSW, but, everyone seated, no mingling, no singing, no dancing. Make sure you invite Kevin Bacon to your wedding.
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I’m no psychologist but I’m willing to bet that the elderly man driving his 1970s Mercedes Benz with the windows down through the streets of Palm Beach loudly blaring Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls is having a bad day.
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"In Iceland, we are lucky enough to have vast open spaces and beautiful nature that is the perfect place to let out frustrations, we feel this is just what the world needs.” says Sigríður Dögg Guðmundsdóttir, of Visit Iceland. You can send in your scream to be released into the Icelandic wilderness. I highly recommend. lookslikeyouneediceland.com/
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Them’s fightin words
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She learned how to toilet from me, by sitting there reading for half an hour.
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“New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute.” — E.B. White in Here Is New York
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Anyone else in the “out before midnight closing the three rings club?”
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The biggest giveaway that my only military service was a school term of Army Cadets is when I need to use phonetic letters on a phone call.
J, for Jackson 5. O, for Oh my god! S, for Sara Bareilles. H, for hold on. U, like you but just the letter. A, for all the letters.
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Qantas's last 747 on it's Farewell flight past Surfers Paradise this morning.
The @Qantas #747 is a plane that has taken Britt and I so many places around the world, but greater than that, its legacy means that this boy can create marriage ceremonies around the world.
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Get the down-low on The Virtual Wedding Fair this weekend by listening to my podcast, The Rebels’ Guide To Getting Married
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I’m always asked if I can tell whether a couple will ‘make it.’
I can’t, but the closest I’ve come is right now and the lady in front of me is married to a guy who just texted her ordering a margarita pizza for dinner.
I don’t think margarita pizza guy is also a marriage guy.
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Most Australian's don't even know that Nelly and Kelly Rowlands' 2002 hit 'Dilemma' is about how Kelly was with 2020 but all she could think about was 2019.
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Those small business vibes are real. Every day I fantasise about working for some big corporation who doesn’t know who I am but at least I wouldn’t get anxiety opening my email.
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One of the hardest things about living in Queensland is that through the depths of winter you often walk outside in shirt, shorts, and thongs, and you’ll think to yourself “it’s a bit cold, I should of worn a thicker shirt”
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My inbox is a wonderland, by Josh Mayer.
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Hey, just a question from the audience.
How are scammers still in business? How do they afford the phone calls, caller ID spoofers, computers?
How are they still profiting? Doesn't everyone know that if your phone rings it's at least a 50% chance of it being a scammer?
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Luna is upset that I cut an apple up, and she’s now trying to mend the apple by holding it all together, while calling for her mumma.
A metaphor for 2020.
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I’ve been trialling the news iOS 14 Back Tap feature and every single activation has been accidental, and any intentional activations fail. So I’m turning it off.
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I know I've been a whinge guy about COVID lockdowns, and that's because financially and in our business we've had a rough time with it. But reading this ...
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My iPhone buzzes me, alerting me of some photos it’s curated into a cool album named “Celebrate Good Times”, so I excitedly tap the notification excitedly and it shows me a blank photo album.
Sick 2020 burn, Apple.
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For those of us worried our phones are listening, the next version of iOS due out in a few months let’s you know in Control Centre exactly which apps are listening, or have been.
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Boat people found
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I'm very good friends with 25 letters of the alphabet, I don't know y.
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I've been making websites on php based content management systems for over 20 years, mostly Wordpress for the last 17, so I'm struggling to understand JAMstack.
On the chance that you've made the move recently, how can I understand it better?
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Hey, has anyone made a ‘Victoria - Garden State’ into ‘Victoria - Basket State’ joke yet?
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Is this the future of the media? Hot topic opinion pieces by people who don’t exist.
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Anyone else in beta club?
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It feels really nice and normal to hear flights back into Gold Cost Airport this afternoon.
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There's a new episode of my podcast out, and honestly, I'm pretty bloody proud of it.
Just search for 'Rebels Guide' in your podcast app and you should find something around the lines of 'The Rebels Guide To Getting Married'.
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What is a Virtual Wedding Fair? Here’s a snippet of the most recent Rebels Guide To Getting Married talking about it.
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Good news everybody, the people in charge of time have decided to not make 2020 one second longer than it has to be. That's the kind of leadership 2020 needs.
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I think it’s time someone called 7-Eleven on their shit. They are open way outside those hours.
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The real cost of the travel restrictions is in my sunglasses acquisition and ownership strategy,
Every Bali trip I buy a collection of knock-off Ray Bans and then slowly lose them or break them inbetween trips.
I’m now down to my last pair.
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If I’ve got to wear a mask, I might as well look good
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Be warned that despite the name, the Disney+ production ‘Hamilton’ has absolutely nothing to do with the Whitsundays island, and instead seems to be about a man who literally published a book about his own sex scandal.
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Is this an Alan Jones advertisement or a reportage of a sad story about Alan Jones?
Asking for a friend.
