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Feb 19 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Mon plan: 0924 AEDT train to Sydney; various planning and administrivia en route; 1145 GP, Hyde Park; 1300 lunch and drinks with a birthday co-conspirator*; errands and shopping; return train.

* Theirs, not mine. I don’t have birthdays any more.
As usual, further alleged plans and other Interesting Things may be found in the Weekly Wrap.
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#purpletrain
#purpletrain, again.

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Feb 21
Hey Kids, it’s an Essential polling Tuesday, so let’s see what we can see. essentialreport.com.au/reports/21-feb…

As usual the polling was done Wed–Sun and the margin of error on top-line figures is around ±3 percentage points.

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Feb 4
Causing discord. I'll explain a bit later.
So, I was just at the bottle shop and a young couple and their toddler were behind me. Greys given the cash to the toddler so she could enjoy paying the cashier. I leaned down, smiled. "Hi, can I have you money?" And she gave it to me.
I handed the cash back to the mother. She explains that the money should go to THAT man not THIS man. I asked again. This time the kid paused, confused, but still gave me the money.

"Yeah," I said, handing back the cash, you need to fix that." All laugh.
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Feb 4
WE HAVE AN FOKS!
Ping @R_Chirgwin.
Smile for the camera, you little fucker!
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Feb 3
“FW: URGENT: Tudge leaked personal data to cow welfare critics,” in which @SquigglyRick continues his incisive reporting on the Robodebt Royal Commission. This is a shocking story, illustrating shat cunts Tudge and his colleagues were. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
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“This tactic of tying a neat bow around a story and handing it to a favoured journalist, Greggery said to Rachelle Miller, was to ensure the story was written ‘or at least presented in a way that the minister liked’.‘ 1/2
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Feb 2
“According to the OED, the singular they showed up in writing in 1375 — over 600 years ago! The OED also suggests the usage is even older since written language usually reflects trends already present in spoken language.” scu.edu/media/offices/… (PDF)
I must say, the pushback against saying “they/them” feels like an echo of that 1970s–1980s phenomenon, when we were encouraged to say “chair” instead of “chairman” and “chairwoman”. There was a whole lot of bUt A cHaIr iS a PiEcE oD fUrNiTuRe... even though you chair a meeting.
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Dec 10, 2022
Sun plan: 1032 train to Sydney; quick errands; 1300 lunch and drinks with a co-conspirator; further drinks with an evil gang; Weekly Wrap, somehow; collapse somewhere in Sydney. This will be an interesting day.
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#purpletrain
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