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Notices by Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)

  1. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2020 01:13:39 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    The more time I've spent at home in recent weeks, the more it's become clear that, for a cat, the shortest route between any two points invariably crosses a computer keyboard. ]]l;iynb ytdf cxEDFASEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
    In conversation Wednesday, 15-Apr-2020 01:13:39 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 30°21'42"S 153°6'9"E permalink
  2. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2019 03:01:51 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Oh, the regret I feel over frivolous purchases never made! https://boingboing.net/2019/06/15/fare-thee-well-thinkgeek.html Still have my trusty sonic screwdriver, though. #ThinkGeek
    In conversation Monday, 17-Jun-2019 03:01:51 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'2"S 151°10'47"E permalink

    Attachments

    1. Fare thee well, ThinkGeek
      By Seamus Bellamy from Boing Boing
      Fare thee well, ThinkGeek
  3. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Monday, 18-Feb-2019 02:03:26 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    I'm trying to #blog more regularly, rather than just raising my #GNUSocial char limit again. Blogging is slow and hard. https://mjd.id.au/node/56372509
    In conversation Monday, 18-Feb-2019 02:03:26 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
  4. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Dec-2018 07:11:42 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    • Matthew Davidson
    There's nothing so poisonous as the genius myth. How did Shane MacGowan write alone as many beautiful songs as Lennon and McCartney wrote together? He worked really, really fucking hard. It's as simple as that. It's demeaning to say to somebody "Oh, it's easy for you because you're gifted."
    In conversation Wednesday, 26-Dec-2018 07:11:42 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
  5. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 18:52:50 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Okay, done a long-overdue `apt-get dist-upgrade`. Rebooting… #sysadmin
    In conversation Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 18:52:50 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
  6. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 04:51:45 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • Matthew Davidson
    "But you were always a good man of business,
    Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply
    this to himself.
    "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its
    hands again." Mankind was my business. The
    common welfare was my business; charity, mercy,
    forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.
    The dealings of my trade were but a drop of
    water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
    https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(Dickens,_1843)/Stave_1
    In conversation Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 04:51:45 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
  7. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 04:44:37 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • Matthew Davidson
    If you want to understand the 21st century, don't bother with "charismatic thought leaders", just read some #Dickens.
    In conversation Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 04:44:37 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
  8. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 04:41:01 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    • Ruben
    Wow, that article is some graceful bridge burning. The lower ed cult is slightly different, though. It's not concerned with unearned prestige, or indulging in personal abuses of power, but the constant, grinding Malthusian refrain of "human capital" and "social mobility" as salvation from economic precarity. Your _personal_ salvation, of course; the poor will always be with us, but you can clamber over them and leave them behind if your faith is strong enough. [#Facepalm! And there I go again…]
    In conversation Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 04:41:01 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
  9. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 01:03:26 EST Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    You know it's time to delete your #YouTube cookies when, for some unfathomable reason, our #Google overlords decide the next person you want to hear from will be Jordan "Your Political Correctness Offends Me - How Dare You!" Peterson.
    In conversation Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 01:03:26 EST from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
  10. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 01:49:29 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    "You know, I’ve never had a favorite [drink], which is why I’ve never been officially classified as an alcoholic. I’m a moving target." #q Bill Murray https://drunkard.com/september-21/
    In conversation Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 01:49:29 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink

    Attachments

    1. File without filename could not get a thumbnail source.
      September 21
      from Modern Drunkard Magazine
      September 21
  11. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 03-Nov-2018 03:27:34 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    John #Bolton is too crazy for the crazies. Read the stuff he's had published in "respected" foreign policy journals over decades; it's bonkers. The problem is that, assuming a scandal-ridden lame duck executive for the next 2 years (vote, #US citizens!), a newly respectable crazy like Paul #Ryan, refreshed after 2 years of faux-retirement from public life, may in 2020 be up against Hillary "this time, for sure!" #Clinton instead of a candidate who _isn't_ the least popular politician in the country, and it's all over. #Trump and his mini-Nietzsche seriously believe fascism-lite will deliver some form - however selective - of greatness and glory, but they're incompetent. Competent crazies like Ryan don't care about greatness; they just want to import banana republic policy (the "Washington Consensus") back home and make out like bandits while the 99% starve. https://www.vox.com/world/2018/11/1/18052338/bolton-cuba-venezuela-nicaragua-speech-troika-tyranny
    In conversation Saturday, 03-Nov-2018 03:27:34 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink

    Attachments

    1. John Bolton just gave an "Axis of Evil" speech about Latin America
      from Vox
      The US will now go after a so-called "Troika of Tyranny": Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
  12. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 02-Nov-2018 22:41:08 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Air conditioning is on. #Weather http://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/19859
    In conversation Friday, 02-Nov-2018 22:41:08 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
  13. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 02-Nov-2018 22:38:56 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    • Ruben
    I suspect I might come across as a bit misanthropic from time to time. Maybe I should get myself a narrower tar brush.
    In conversation Friday, 02-Nov-2018 22:38:56 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
  14. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 02-Nov-2018 06:07:58 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Here's my problem with well-intentioned people working in neoliberal higher #edu: The system is a big f-off multi-dimensional scam. You know it's a scam, but you think you can surreptitiously slip some of the special stuff under the counter to benefit the students without anybody noticing. However, the students have internalised the scam, they want the scam, they want the otherwise worthless certificate granting them the right to scam others. They each know that they are collectively working towards the end of civilisation, but by God they each intend to be the ruthless Thatcherite spiv standing triumphant upon the mountain of bones as the death knell tolls.
    In conversation Friday, 02-Nov-2018 06:07:58 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
  15. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 02-Nov-2018 04:35:12 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    "Australia Hasn’t Changed Leaders In 30 Years" http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/19836 #AU #Rupert
    In conversation Friday, 02-Nov-2018 04:35:12 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink

    Attachments

    1. ‘A Beacon Of Stability’: Australia Hasn’t Changed Leaders In 30 Years
      from The Shovel
      ‘A Beacon Of Stability’: Australia Hasn’t Changed Leaders In 30 Years
  16. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 01-Nov-2018 20:37:33 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Damn. Shift canceled. Glad I didn't bother shaving this morning. Oh, well. If you can't seize the day, seize some booze instead. Then I'll think I'll do the washing up. The wild and crazy life I lead!
    In conversation Thursday, 01-Nov-2018 20:37:33 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
  17. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 01-Nov-2018 08:16:22 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Nice to be out in the garden listening to podcasts of an evening, but aaargh! Spiders! Not little ones, either. Where did they come from, all of a sudden? Stone me. This country! I'm off to the embassy. "Tell Her Majesty that, with the greatest of respect, I think that establishing a country here has been a grave error of judgment; a conclusion which - I expect - would garner the support of people who had previously located their countries here and are now regrettably no longer in a position to do so, so I am prepared to be the first to call it quits in exchange for a flat in Shoreditch with spiders of a manageable size and quantity." http://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/19814
    In conversation Thursday, 01-Nov-2018 08:16:22 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
  18. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 01-Nov-2018 02:11:16 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Eek! 30℃ forecast tomorrow, and I have to walk to #work at midday. A gentler introduction to summer, still technically a month away, would have been nice. #newnormal
    In conversation Thursday, 01-Nov-2018 02:11:16 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
  19. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Oct-2018 03:38:25 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Neither the original or this particular rendition are quite my cup of tea, but I'm so happy I live in a world where things like this exist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBuTK-E0gxo Of course, I'm one of those dreadful cosmopolitans, probably on the payroll of George Soros and the Clintons.
    In conversation Wednesday, 31-Oct-2018 03:38:25 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink

    Attachments

    1. Hot 8 Brass Band - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Official Video) [Joy Division Cover]
      By Tru Thoughts Records from YouTube
  20. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Oct-2018 00:09:33 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • Matthew Davidson
    'Elsevier says “If you think information shouldn’t cost anything, go to Wikipedia”, inadvertently reminding us of what happened to the commercial encyclopedias.' #q George #Monbiot
    In conversation Wednesday, 31-Oct-2018 00:09:33 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au permalink
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