Christian Brooker

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Hunter Valley born. Olympic Coach turned business intelligence and data analyst. 
In 2021 I was the first Australian-born to coach a diver at the Olympics since 1992. Ask me why I don't coach anymore.
Atheist, geek, sports lover, politics excited me, and my favourite dinosaur is the Pterodactyl.
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/jedibrooker

In my floor warden training yesterday, they mentioned something I was previously unaware of - if you call the 000 emergency line, but it's unsafe for you to speak, dialing "55" will transfer to a police line with call tracing capabilities.

https://www.acma.gov.au/emergency-calls

I'd never heard that before! File that nugget in the back of your brain, folks.

In 2021 race driver Lewis Hamilton wore this amazing helmet in #Qatar, tweeted about it and was much-praised for doing it.

Why was it okay then but not now?

#WorldCupQatar2022

Ticketmaster has exclusive deals with 80% of large venues in the country, allowing the company to set prices and gouge customers with fees.

Monopolization isn't just bad for the music industry, it's bad for the entire American economy.

The few big advertisers Musk had left will leave now.

So it’s a race to see which of these happens first:

1. The Twitter servers go down;

2. He goes bankrupt from zero advertising;

3. Apple & Google take down his Apps for non-compliance; or

4. A government agency sues him to oblivion for breaking hate speech laws.

Which one will it be (or all four at once)?

#RIPTwitter

RT @[email protected]

A projection calling Elon Musk a ‘Space Karen’ and other things is being displayed outside of Twitter’s headquarters

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1593447369898459136

Culture Crave 🍿 on Twitter

“A projection calling Elon Musk a ‘Space Karen’ and other things is being displayed outside of Twitter’s headquarters https://t.co/oW86NM0Dzk”

Twitter
I taught Obi to “speak”. Good boy!

Hashtags are great and should also be used liberally -that's how we find stuff we're interested in, across the fediverse. HOWEVER, Hashtags [can be difficult for people with visual impairment or ND people] so please use them [most of them] at the end of your post, in a hashtag block, not scattered throughout. One or two are okay.
Edited to add: CamelCase is more important for screenreaders!

#accessibility #CW #AltText #AntiRacism

It’s crazy that Australian has one of highest populations of dog owners yet most places are not dog friendly. Even more stupid is you can’t take your dog on public transport in NSW, so I have to drive everywhere if I want to take my dog.

Owning a dog should not require you to 1. own a car, and 2. remain within walking distance of your house.

Haha ex-Twitter employees have created their own Mastodon instance 😅

"This server is intended for current and previous twitter employees and their friends/family. We filter signups to try keep the server focused for community reasons." - https://macaw.social/about/more

Welcome to the Fediverse! :)

#Mastodon

Macaw-Social

A small server by some ex-tweeps mostly for ex-tweeps and friends.

Mastodon hosted on macaw.social
"The more, the merrier".