Joel Riley

part time artist

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Is there a word for "not quite a human right but a thing any sensible and compassionate society should just do because it is good"?

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@Dicker_JJ They have someone to source their activated almonds

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@Dicker_JJ I'm still dirty they didn't even offer me an interview. Been thinking about how much I would charge to clean every window in Sydney ever since

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@yasisalek Thank you for your service

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@Dicker_JJ Where's my high speed rail link dicker

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@Dicker_JJ @bwmoles @MrKRudd From what *I* understand, he's a man whose Vegemite was once confiscated at customs

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@Dicker_JJ I assume this means they are considering adding a tiny allen key to the knife?

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@Barnaby_Joyce I know it's trying times politically Barnaby so I'll give you some free political consulting. I suggest a slightly bigger hat

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@Dicker_JJ I for one take exception to the bagging of modernist/brutalist architecture in the tweet. Love that shiz.

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@bobdylan please have a listen to @emmaswiftsings ' new album if you can find the time. I reckon you might enjoy it

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@Dicker_JJ I can almost hear the bells of the national carillon

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@drdavidliew @RheumNow You underestimate my capacity for ignorance

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@yungchomsky Where does modular synth fit into this career plan?

[owl @owl_posting]

a horrifying video

imagine feeling instinctively pulled to do a task. something that goes beyond your personal ambitions, your environment, or your job. something that comes from genetic instructions, placed down there over millions of years of evolution, screaming at you from generations past

now imagine that task being impossible to do in any satisfactory way. the beaver cannot feel the water, cannot find the wood. there are genetic signals to gather items for the dam, but all the beaver can accomplish in the end is a stage three simulacra. what it will create in this artificial environment will forever be lacking in the eyes of their evolutionary instincts

the beaver KNOWS there are unfinished things to do, but it cannot even conceive of what that could be. where is the water? where is the wood? what are these items meant to do? what is the purpose of it all? the beaver does not know. its brothers in the forest do, but that knowledge is forever beyond this domesticated one, who has never even been outside of an air conditioned room

but it continues its toil, because the beaver cannot understand that its evolutionary ordained tasks are useless here. the rules of its environment have changed, but it lacks the faculties to recognize that; i simultaneously pity the creature and see myself in it

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@psufka @drdavidliew Great article. I want to see the GLP-1 inhibitors added to TNFi in PsA trial next

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I know a lot of hay is being made of the Paul-Tyson fight, but I am inspired to conquer my own personal Everest. I too will defeat Mike Tyson.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

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@ambercrollo Based and grill-pilled

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@hodgman John I hear you about the blue check but with appropriate urate-lowering therapy gout is absolutely controllable.

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@emmaswiftsings @pleasedontatme Hopetoun was such a special venue. :-(