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Michæl La💤15h ago

12/🧵 #meditation

Be the stick. Flow with time.
Be the stone. Time flows past.

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Michæl La💤2d ago

"Timeliness" is such a "garden path" word. It's only when I get to the final 's' that I realise it's not "timelines", and have to re-parse the whole string.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

Garden-path sentence - Wikipedia

Michæl La💤5d ago

https://chaser.com.au/world/israel-claims-that-killing-civilians-is-bad/

Michæl La💤Jun 18

Without paying all that much attention, I used to think my wife got her hair done a lot at a place called "Colossus Perm".

Then I read the bank statement a bit more closely and realised it was the regular grocery shop from "COLESSUPERM".

Michæl La💤Jun 14

Dgar Jun 14

First week working at the bicycle factory and they've already made me the spokes person.

Michæl La💤Jun 14

Remember that time in 2015 when Australia's newly minted "Australian Border Force" (ICE Down Under) tried to do a round up in Melbourne and got completely shut down by protestors and made to look so stupid that they never tried it again?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-28/operation-fortitude-cancelled/6733008

Controversial Australian Border Force visa checks, Operation Fortitude cancelled

A major policing operation planned for Melbourne's CBD is cancelled after a backlash over plans to include Australian Border Force officials in the crackdown.

ABC News

Michæl La💤Jun 12

https://youtu.be/8xdYOHTg3YA
"Unruly" by David Mitchell is a cracking read, BTW. Laugh-out-loud but also informative and perceptive.

David Mitchell ROASTS History's Most Overrated Monarchs

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