Brooke Hazelgrove

Starting a thread of 'Brooke-isms' and what I mean by them. Expect this to be sporadically updated. 🧵

@LarsTheBiggest Grace is clearly a smart man, and no one is more certain of this than Grace. Honest to goodness I forgot that Stratt was the woman's last name, thought it was short for Strategy 😅 Every time you ask a very reasonable question, she says there's no time to answer and to move on.

@AerialTookie Alton Brown did “Good Eats” on Food Network and always explained the science of the preparation with a similar dry humor

Listened to Project Hail Mary on audiobook on the weekend. Not bad. Had some bothers about the narrator. In the unlikely event that I get to see the movie before it leaves cinemas, we'll have to see how those things came across. However,

PS I am aware a Hail Mary is also a liturgical item. The Author of the novel is so hard science that the aliens from outer space conspicuously lack language or understanding of the transcendental. The liturgical features of the thing with the same name were not on his mind.

(It's a long shot, a big throw, that you're pinning desperate hopes on, which makes sense given that the plot is "the only way to save mankind is to yeet Ryan Gosling into deep space and hope he finds the thing")

"Things just happen around here!" Or are the same 3 people working hard behind the scenes to make it happen every time?!

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

NGL, April has been A Lot.

The only kind of "maxxing" I'm interested in... CHEESEMAXXING

@AustAnglican They're having a birthday party* in Sydney Square on the 20th of May *It's not quite a birthday party when you're talking the shape of a shindig, but it's bigger than Ben Hur

One of two key diocesan institutions celebrating their 170th birthday this year! Can you name the other one?

"Heartfelt cries and existential questions operate at the core of healthy theology, and suppressing them is more hurtful than a confession of ignorance." Kelly Kapic, Embodied Hope (p10)

In theory, I have "more" time than my married counterpart. In practice, we've all got the same amount of hours in a week, a household of one still has a baseline number of decisions that have to be made, and there are fewer hands to carry it out, so it can spill over. 5/5

The consequences look like doing everything else on the day/s off. Not really rest. Annual leave getting used to manage urgent or important life admin, rather than time out or away, which requires *more* organisation. 4/

Observation about single life: Earlier this year a married male friend shared about taking annual leave in order to get life admin done and he'd been (rightly) bummed about it - leave was supposed to be for resting. 1/

@shaw_davidm It's water. Pump the water.

I'm not sure there's enough caffeine or sugar on God's green earth to get me through today.😪

@matthewmoffitt @AustAnglican

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@shaw_davidm But also, if you can nail the principles really well, teaching doesn't have to involve as much micromanagement. These guys were clever; I and they just needed to work out how to put that to use. And they smashed it out of the park.

@shaw_davidm Their disposition - willingness - made it easy to teach principles (work from the top-down) & techniques (e.g. squeegee). Add requests that recognise unique contribution ("can you reach that? I can't,") & temper it with genuine thanks & hype and everyone has a good time.

Most men just want (need!) a bit of encouragement and be told they have something of value to offer. What most men don’t need is the sh*tkicking featured in many of the comments under the OG tweet.