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.

  • 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.

  • 🏄‍♂️

  • Very GC

  • When a bushfire ravages a land

  • The first and second world wars weren’t called that when they happened. 9/11 wasn’t called 9/11 on the 11th of September 2001.

    What do you think this pandemic will be called in 20 years time?

  • The path less travelled

  • Our bookless future

  • Version one of May 10, 2020, was supposed to be flying business class as a family to Rome.

    Version two sees us with a first class beach upgrade.

    So much legroom, and the passengers up the front here are much friendlier.

  • “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” — Carl Sagan

  • The Blue Mountains on. a Wednesday sunset

  • For a guy who boldly asked "how many dudes you know roll like this" and " how many dudes you know flow like this" and then answered "not many, if any" you'd really think Scribe would have released at least a few popular albums.

  • Apple and Google will both ban location tracking in apps that use their contact tracing – Reuters

  • Sun, set

  • South by South West Rocks

  • Australian street gang approached me last night

  • For the first time in my memory, this weekend you could see South Stradbroke Island from Point Danger, 45 kilometres away.

    I couldn’t get a good photo from Point Danger so this photo is from Currumbin Creek.

  • If you're worried about the machines taking over, don't be too worried, they won't be able to win us over with their art.

    This is AI created heavy metal.

  • Luna approaches an elderly lady on the beach, I look at them both smiling and say “say hi!” The lady looks my in the eyes and says hi.

    So that’s how we got our second child who’s also an elderly lady.

  • Pizza Hut. Dine In Restsurant. Kirra, Queensland, Australia. 2020. Sad face.

  • Father of the year, photographs his daughter picking up some seaweed. Seaweed is actually a bluebottle jellyfish. When do I get my medal?

  • Snapper Rocks in April

  • Coronavirus hitting the wedding industry isn't all abd