Hamish Moffatt

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[Hamish Moffatt @hmoffatt]

Will the last one out please turn off the lights? See you in the land of the toot, or where the sky is bluer.

[Paul Barry @TheRealPBarry]

Brilliant.

[Hamish Moffatt @hmoffatt]

@Asher_Wolf @jonkudelka Same, this looks awesome Jon

[Hamish Moffatt @hmoffatt]

@gabldotink @xkcd Ask for a full refund then

[Hamish Moffatt @hmoffatt]

@LocalElectionAU no Whitehorse results?

[Michael P. Frank 💻🔜♻️ @MikePFrank]

@lillybilly299 Computers were a lot simpler when I was 12. Trying stuff out was like:

* Turn computer on
* Type:

10 FOR N=1 TO 10
20 PRINT “HELLO #”; N
30 NEXT N

* Type “RUN”

(Yes, there were not even lowercase letters on that machine, lol)

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

A central difference between me and the many people who will reply angrily to this thread is that I don't think suits are automatically "good" and casualwear is automatically "bad." A good casualwear outfit is better than a bad suit (and this happens often). I don't hold disdain for everyday people, so I don't use suits as a political cudgel.

Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump—two figures featured in that original thread—both dress badly to me. It matters none that one is a suit.

I mainly take umbrage with the idea that Trump's style can be in any way described as "aristocratic" or "noblesse oblige." These words refer to specific classes of people who had specific dress habits. Trump's attire has nothing to do with that practice.

You can say he never dresses down, which is true, but you can then just make that point without acting as though there's anything aristocratic about his dress. He's simply a businessman entertainer. Suit salesmen also never dress down, and if their dress habits were similar to Trump's, their style would also have no relationship to "aristocratic style."

"Twitter trads" often want to be patted on the back for simply liking suits (I doubt many of them wear them with much regularity), despite not appreciating the fine details or nuances of various styles. Yet, they also complain about the slipping of standards in schools—people are graded on a slipping curve, they say.

But is this not also just a slipping of standards? You want to label anything with revers and three pockets as "aristocratic?" Put on any old suit and suddenly you're King Charles. Give me a break.

Just make your point: Trump doesn't dress down (this is true). And you hate the modern world. You fancy yourself as being above other people, despite the fact that, the very signaling of this thing, shows you are irreparablely middle-class.

To state the obvious, you can like suits, tailoring, and Old Money style without LARPing in this way (I know many menswear enthusiasts who love Old Money style and are very forthright about their class status and hold no grudge against everyday citizens). If you must LARP, at least know what you're talking about.

[Hamish Moffatt @hmoffatt]

@cptcapt @Peter_Fitz @LiberalAus Is that Scomo with the cheesy grin in the middle?

[Hamish Moffatt @hmoffatt]

@AmyRemeikis All the best Amy, still chuckling about your Texas CWA story

[Hamish Moffatt @hmoffatt]

@nadia_grtt @terkey76 Still my favourite story of 2024 so far

[Derek @terkey76]

Ted O’Brien on nuclear power - “when Australians put their mind to something they can get it done.”

From the government that couldn’t get a carpark built in nine years in office.

#4corners

[Hamish Moffatt @hmoffatt]

@Javi @robertgraham No that's completely wrong

[Amy Remeikis @AmyRemeikis]

People realise that if an investor decides to sell a rental property, the property doesn’t self combust right? It continues to exist? We are across that, right?

[Hamish Moffatt @hmoffatt]

@AustralianLabor I'd like you to take a stand about Israel. How about that?

[The Jase 🐶 🎸 🎥 @jasemonkey]

Donald Trump's 'Eating The Dogs' transcribed for trombone.

[Fearghas Kelly @FearghasKelly]

I better go superviral for this...

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.

[Hamish Moffatt @hmoffatt]

@JasonPower70 @SustainableDanG @SpillaneMj @Peter_Fitz @simonahac Wireless would have been a big mistake.

[Hamish Moffatt @hmoffatt]

@whenipourireign @Peter_Fitz But he's leading the Internet!!