Phil Betts

@philbetts
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Art, code, society, foliage. PhD'd in Management (booooo) and movies? (yaaaaaay!) Probably the world's most pre-eminent Fox Searchlight Pictures scholar, 1994–2009. Real Little Miss Sunshiners (#Sunbeams) get it. Bisexual icon. Highly suggestible.
LocationSydney/Gadigal land

It's a point made many times before, but this passage struck me as odd for the way it details two injured children, considering the hundreds of Iranian children, and tens of thousands of Palestinian children maimed and killed by Israel.

Israel gets children with ages, its enemies get abstractions.

Sickening, really.

I spent $30 on this hat and got two free pints of Guinness! Happy St Paddy's from the Gaelic Club. 💚🍀
8 years ago today. The most Eurotrash photo I've ever taken of myself. If this guy approaches you at da club and invites you onto his yacht, probably run.
If you search for "Squid Game" on Duck Duck Go it switches to a themed icon. It's weird and absolutely does not work - partly the colours, partly the design elements.

Rebecca Solnit looks like if Lady Danbury and the Dowager Viscountess Bridgerton had a lovechild.

#Bridgerton

#TheGoodWife is a comfort show of mine - I'm probably on my fifth or sixth rewatch. I've only just realised this viewing that Kalinda's tough, spunky, high femme detective saucy love interest is actually two different characters with identical personalities played by two different actresses, and not the same FBI character who becomes a private investigator and bleaches her hair between seasons.

White people, eh?

I guess Kalinda has a type.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1543216/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1534207

At the opening of the #SydneyFishMarket for breakfast. The food options are great and many surprisingly average priced. It's a nice building with a cool design, EXCEPT all the seating is north facing on the balcony, and it appears there will be no covering or shade for 3/4 of the year, which is *totally* detached from reality.

I just read it was Danish architects and I'm like ohhhhhh... that explains it.

I like it, but I'm not sure I $800 million like it.

Having a play with a big data cleanup rather than giving more money to Google (with an ultimate aim off Google entirely.)

This is part of the problem space, 100k+ emails (photos are probably a bigger part, but that's a tougher challenge.)

Building a local app with the Google API to manage the reduction, and hoping to blog about it on the way.

I have regularly taken out yearly subscriptions to The Guardian, and have been planning on signing up again (I let it lapse because it auto-renewed the previous year at a level that was way higher than I was prepared to, essentially, donate, and did so with no pre-notice.)

This is gross though - feels yuck, is yuck. Language like this makes me less inclined to be a supporter (as well as "we need to track you".

Angry Tania one-piece, THE must-have poolside couture for your Hibiscus Island adventures.

https://www.romancewasborn.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/muriels-wedding-onepiece