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1. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2019 07:09:01 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Oh Jeeze. Nostalgia. I can almost smell the shag pile carpet dessicating by the glow of the three-bar radiator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fex1b7axXl0 #TV #60s #70s
2. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2019 03:41:39 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   • clacke: seeking 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   @clacke I'm always cursing the minimum four-keystroke (off the home keys) fix that could be instantaneous. Maybe it's just me. I must have a weird sense of rhythm or something. Someone should look into Late-Descending Finger Syndrome.
3. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2019 01:26:10 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   • Andy C
   @andyc Try asking whether Lenin was a socialist. _Then_ you'll get an argument.
4. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2019 00:47:21 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Ctrl-T, as used in the #GNU readline library is insanely handy for the fast but indextrous typist. I don't know why it's not a universal convention. (If you're not familiar with it, type 'abdc' in #bash, then hit Ctrl-T.)
5. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2019 00:40:30 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   "We Need a Wizard Who Can Appeal to the Moderate Orc Voter" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-need-a-wizard-who-can-appeal-to-the-moderate-orc-voter #2020 #Tolkien
6. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2019 06:41:27 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Turns out I'm either chaotic good or lawful neutral. Not sure how I feel about that. https://boingboing.net/2019/08/13/email-sign-off-alignment-chart.html
7. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2019 22:40:52 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Now that's funny: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/14/geeks-idea-to-get-null-l.html #SQL
8. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2019 22:50:01 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Small pay packet from last week, and another shift canceled today. The lean winter months, when the nation's appetite for corn chips and caffeinated sugar drinks temporarily abates. #work
9. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2019 03:32:34 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   "AFP Raids ‘A Current Affair’ Offices To Uncover The 5 Secret Bill-Saving Tips Your Electricity Provider Doesn’t Want You To Know" https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29368
10. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 08:53:52 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    I am second to nobody in my admiration for MacKenzie Crook, but Pertwee's are big shoes to fill. https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/06/06/worzel-gummidge-mackenzie-crook-as-bbcs-talking-scarecrow/
11. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2019 09:01:24 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    #RIP Paul Darrow. Let's see… how to put this politely… A magnetic screen presence and consummate professional. Never let his colleagues take on too much of the burden of carrying the scene. https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/06/04/pauldarrow-blakes7-passes/
12. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2019 07:15:19 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    '“#Chernobyl” can be considered the best political film of our times because it illuminates a core problem of the #Trump era: the nonstop jackhammer of falsehoods that are drowning out what’s true. The risk is that Americans who are inundated with moral rubbish from the White House and Fox News may lose the will to care about the difference between right and wrong, echo…
13. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2019 05:49:41 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    Been 30 years since the end of classic #DrWho. Cut down a couple of years into a potential new golden age by Thatcherite #BBC management hell-bent on outsourcing to independent production companies everything that wasn't nailed down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3u-ia1wfGI
14. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 07:37:19 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    • Ruben
    @tregeagle But that's where you've fallen into my big data monetisation trap. I now know who you are and where you live, which - granted - I already knew. But I also now know what your interests are. Which… Damn. I just need to find some way to get this sucker to scale before I IPO.
15. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 01:04:58 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    My new local. It's a long way back to the bar, but you can't beat that window seat. #Sawtell https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/29185
16. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 01:03:44 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    Had four days straight off from #work, which was lovely, but brutal on the bank balance. Quiet time of year, so full-timers from across the shop are being seconded to my department in order to make up their hours, displacing casuals like yours truly.
17. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 00:44:36 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    Very quiet in the #fediverse the last few days. Wonder if #Mastodon has dropped #OStatus support.
18. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2019 02:00:55 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    • Ruben
    @tregeagle Thriving. Just had lunch at that picnic table in the dunes on Murrays Beach, reading one of those books you loaned to me. Which was nice. Now I think I might go for a beer I can't afford. It's sheer hell here in #Sawtell, I tell you.
19. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2019 06:14:39 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    Reflecting on my personal life for the last couple of decades, as I have been lately, it's alarming how seductive is that Soviet way of thinking. i.e.: Everything is fine. Executive fiat says it cannot be otherwise, so the evidence to the contrary must be faulty. The sensible thing to do is to carry on as though everything is fine. Because it is. Eventually the evidence will …
20. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2019 06:05:06 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    Started watching #HBO's #Chernobyl. Compellingly grim. There was an excellent documentary a few years ago (say ten, maybe twenty), on the strength of which I couldn't see how the story was dramatisable (not a word, thankfully). Even with broad artistic licence, composite characters, etc. I was wrong.

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