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"What about this?... Does it spark joy?" Me: "It's a production server, we need it." "Yes but, does it /spark joy/?"

Less than 48hrs between the budget announcement and my landlord's agency emailing me wanting to increase my rent by 18% Real estate agents are the worst.

Did anyone else have a post-budget rent increase on their 2026 bingo card? Just me? Okay....

@ROCPhotography @aboveandbeyond Need more of those dancing beats in my life. 🤯

@printfJess @aboveandbeyond Dancing! Dancing! Friday Night Dancing!

Saw @aboveandbeyond in Sydney this evening. Haven't danced properly like that in at least 3yrs. Sweaty, exhausted, and totally replenished. Like all the stress of work and life magically gone. Shout out to my random dance buddy. See you at the next one!!

Sad news. My friend Simon who did the original bird for Twitter, Octocat for GitHub and Redid Sammy The Shark for DigitalOcean has passed away, he was 56. He was a great guy. What a loss.

@jedgar So sorry for your loss. 💙 My all time favourite laptop sticker was a surfing Octocat. So free, so unexpected, so cool.

@harleywattsconn @joanbartlett48 @CosmicRichy @AlboMP @bigpond So rough. When you go through that level of turmoil you're more cautious after. Never put all your eggs in one basket.

@printfJess @joanbartlett48 @CosmicRichy @AlboMP I used to have a 'yes' OptusNet email and a @BigPond. Around 2007, the Optus mail got hacked and they transferred it over to their account and deleted all records of it being tied to me. Lost everything so ik how you feel. They took the money I had in my paypal and used my card

A subscription shouldn’t be a trap. That’s why we’re banning subscriptions that lock you in because they’re too hard to cancel.

When Wednesday nights are like Saturday night vibes. 💜 open.spotify.com/track/6sGIMrtI…

@harleywattsconn @joanbartlett48 @CosmicRichy @AlboMP I remember the Yahoo email hack of the mid 2010s. Overnight I lost access to my email because I had 2FA set to an old phone number. Gaming accounts gone. Subscriptions still going. I cancelled cards to solve it. Massive interruption. Still don't play Wow anymore.

@joanbartlett48 @CosmicRichy @AlboMP Could you not logon to your old E-Mail or something?

@CosmicRichy @workinonit @AlboMP McAfee

@workinonit @AlboMP Can you demonstrate how hard these subscriptions are to cancel? It took me less than 30 seconds to cancel my Microsoft Game Pass for Windows subscription last week. I’m struggling to understand how people have difficulty doing something so utterly basic. Make it make sense.

@CosmicRichy @AlboMP McAfee. That dude is up in your notifications months after the trial period expired.

@AlboMP Name ONE subscription service that is “too hard to cancel”. I’ll wait…

Are they, really? youtu.be/afam2nIae4o?si…

@GeoffreyHuntley @akothari @NotionHQ This second this gentleman's motion.

@akothari @NotionHQ move to australia and then try using your product from australia. then you’ll understand search latency product latency it sucks so much

@Postsemreh I stand with you. 💜 Salsiccia is a valid substitute for pepperoni. And I'm totally here for it.

It’s beautiful

@GeoffreyHuntley Looks totally normal this end. It's on top of the world and pictured in one of the many rotations I use when navigating Google Maps. This is the real Australia.

proof

The LLMs coming out of USA right now are completely unhinged. Google, Bing, etc. The current wars are heavily affecting bias. And that's a major fucking problem. Let's not buy AI from countries that go to war. Straight up. Fuck that.

@snyff Gross but I'm open minded 😜

@snyff Can't make it to Crikey this year. Glad you're going 💪

Retrieval-Augmented Generation Against The Machine...

Anyone still here? Should we form a supportive peer circle of Twitter survivors?

@SwiftOnSecurity Babes. Hang in there. Know that you can create your own fountain. Phrasing blah. You got this.

It feels like there were a lot more fountains when I was younger. You just show up someplace and there was a fountain there.