Jimbob ☭ @ozjimbob@mastodon.social
Tasmanian / Environmental Scientist / #mefite / Drone music maker at http://Milford.bandcamp.com
Imagine if planes had big horns on them like trains do. Airbus flying over HOOOOOONK HOOOOOOOOOOONK
@ozjimbob okay that’s mean. On a theoretical level I do *get* why grown intelligent adults might be into “graphic” “novels” but sorry, I just can’t.
Still kinda annoyed that someone whose novel I enjoyed and was looking forward to more has pivoted to comics and comics are for kids.
Positivity!
2018; the year when the cat people vs. dog people war will come to its violent and final conclusion.
Post-docs who somehow have the time to attend ‘early career researcher’ workshops and conferences and competitions and Twitter chats - where do you score your amphetamines, and do you remember your kids’ names?
tfw within a week:
1) you meet a local senior public servant who tells you “Oh hey! You’re my favourite local Twitter personality!”
2) your boss creates a Twitter account and you are their first follow
Anyway I think I’ll be hanging out on here a bit more for the rest of eternity.
About to have a moment where I feel like being a bad dad. Drove an hour to take him to abseiling with scouts. He’s the only one refusing to try. And I have no idea how to support or encourage him past his fear.
tis that special time of the year
We did perform a Marilyn Manson cover, though 🤷♂️
Friday evening confessions; I played guitar for several years in a Christian rock band. I was the token heathen.
I don’t know if we were *officially* a Christian rock band but the singer was studying theology and his songs mentioned ‘forgiveness’ and ‘glory’ and ‘uplift His name’ more than one would reasonably expect.
Then I got a real job in Darwin and that ended that.
My new boss has a name like (and even vaguely looks like) a Harry Potter character. Welcome, Professor Rufus Black
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-11/utas-incoming-vice-chancellor-rufus-black/9139302
Bloody glorious day
kɜ:ʳ 
via my roommate
Finally, culture rolls back round to my position that Taylor Swift is a pile of shit. I only had to wait.
PopFront released this, which is basically about how nazis think Swift is a white supremacist icon and she is and it's uncanny how her music videos are catering to their bullshit
Suddenly listening to a lot of Burial. I’ve heard the music before, there have been a few Burial tracks on my playlists, but following the #mefi post the other day I’m really *listening* for the first time, and I’ve become kind of obsessed.
I gave a talk a couple weeks ago about trying to maintain an online community's health under the massive stress of all the shit that's been going on in the US and the world the last couple years.
It's focused on MetaFilter because that's what I know best, but a lot of it is about stuff that generalizes elsewhere, both online and off, in terms of how folks can cope together with all this stuff.
This article is more than just about really crap state of youtube kids videos:
https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2
" This is a deeply dark time, in which the structures we have built to sustain ourselves are being used against us — all of us — in systematic and automated ways. It is hard to keep faith with the network when it produces horrors such as these. "
