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.

  • Big lights will inspire you, hear it for Gold Coast, Gold Coast, Gold Coast

  • The goldenest coast

  • I think it's become abundantly clear that Bullock is holding up the general Sandra population.

  • Stacked it

  • FYI peppermint is different to pepper with mint.

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  • Crutch-less nickers sported in Coolangatta

  • Cool story

  • Who invented pop up weddings?

  • Britty with the good camera

  • The great hypocrisy in our society today is that we have the privilege, freedom, and the technological ability to publicly condemn Bill Gates, 5G, and China, from our 4G internet connected personal computing devices from not-China.

  • Through this time where businesses have been shutdown or sent home, and so much connection and communication has been forced online, there has been a real misunderstanding of how to simply be valuable.

  • Hey I’ve got a passport with stamps on it plus I have a recent model iPhone and MacBook, so does that make me a Global Elite?

    Asking for a friend.

  • You’re A Miracle (And A Pain In The Ass) is a really important book

  • When reading a book by a podcaster I’ve spent a long time listening to, I’m pretty much listening to an audiobook recorded live inside my head.

  • My secret superpower is being able to spot someone who sells essential oils from 100m away.

  • Coolangatta colours tonight

  • I just realised that the poker night I’m going to tonight requires me to know how to play poker. If you want to know how to play poker, don’t read these three books, they’re useless.

  • Picked up an iPhone 11 for Britt today.

    One of these photos is from my iPhone XS and one’s from her iPhone 11, both shot from our balcony just now, no processing.

    I’ll let you guess which is which.

  • “For example, over 500 businesses with ‘1’ eligible employee reported a figure of ‘1,500’ (which is the amount of JobKeeper payment they would expect to receive for each fortnight for that employee).” www.ato.gov.au/Media-cen...

  • COVID-19 threatened to take our breath and even our life, but the greatest threat will be that it takes away our common unity, our social nature, our creativity, or simply, our humanity. I hope we can preserve that through the disdain for the other felt in public today.

  • What a beautiful time to be alive

  • I love how the internet walks around like the html tags <marquee> or <blank> and things like Under Construction gifs never existed.

  • “In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about what might come along to “save” the news business from the ravages of the internet. But I think that’s the wrong framing. It’s better to ask: How can we use the internet to reinvent the entire business?“ - Substack

  • Just went for a drive and listened to a Wiggles album but Luna wasn’t even in the car. Save me.

  • Today’s Google homework for everyone: Cottagecore.

  • An easy call to action would be to tell everyone to download the What3Words app, but ultimately, I’d like to see Apple, Microsoft, Google, and other mapping services integrate the service natively. This Tasmanian rescue story is a great example of its power.

  • It’s a popular theory that Facebook/Google/Apple is listening to our conversations. They’re not, they don’t need to. The data we share everywhere else, like on Untappd, tells a bigger story. Like where an Air Force drone pilot is working.

  • What does a financially viable media look like?

    Most people seem to have a wide gamut of opinions on media, MSM, and how it’s failed, not worth paying for, or there’s too many ads, or al journalists are .

    So when it comes to telling our stories, what’s the best business model?

  • A correct map of Australia, via Reddit

  • An incredible article on the severely broken economics of food delivery, á la Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grub Hub

  • Toddler joins in Zoom calls

  • Toddler threatens to flatten me

  • As 150+ Australian journalists have been let go today, it’s important to note exactly when the Lynch mob out against “mainstream media” won, and whether that date aligns with when “the bastards” ceased to be kept honest. Funny timing with the new ASIO surveillance bill IMHO.

  • The internet used to be beautiful IMHO

  • I think it’s really sad that most Australians can’t even recite the second verse of Fruit Salad #YummyYummy

  • Throwback to 2009 to the first viral wedding clip on YouTube most of us ever saw

  • The Rainbow Lorikeets are glad that they’re allowed to gather again

  • Luna’s loving these new blocks // from Raduga Grëz via Eve of Indigo (nothing I have is sponsored, just shouting out because they’re making beautiful work)

  • Busted

  • “The Great Awakening”

    Wowowow. This has existed since June 2018 and only now do I get the chance to laugh at it.

  • Not many people know this but the 1997 All Saints hit Never Ever was actually written about a MacBook that wouldn’t connect to an iPhone’s wifi personal hotspot even though they’re on the same iCloud account.

  • Business idea: Screenshots of your greatest tweets on your gravestone. Cemeteries become a real world favstar.

  • Out of all of my issues with Q, of which Adrienne addresses thoroughly in this piece in The Atlantic, the main one is how Q is revered for dropping bombs about child abusers, but Q doesn’t just call the police or FBI on them.

  • Hey, I’ve just downloaded a random date generator app to my phone if any news agencies want to interview me about when everything’s going to be back to normal again.

  • I’m so proud to be her dad

  • 11 years a celebrant, 11 things I’ve learned

  • Beach babes @ Tugun

  • "Someone in the apartment block is cooking lamb" is the reason I'll probably be locked up tonight for scaling the balconies of this apartment block trying to find some lamb chops.

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