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[Damian Cronan @damian78]

Congratulations to the Talented Product and Tech team at Nine for a world class publishing platform. It’s been an incredible 4 year journey putting Ink together, and good to see the international recognition of all the hard work.

[Dan Luu @danluu]

The growth of command line options, 1979-Present

https://t.co/dZXelM1GNQ

[Michael Lorant @mikelorant]

@seamus I need to get you to our office and sell esports to our product owner. I know you could pitch it well :)

[Michael Lorant @mikelorant]

@seamus You mean Nine style guide? :)

[Yan Tsou @YannyBakes]

Gonna get myself a harmonica just so I can try this

[Claire Tran 👩🏻‍💻 @clairettran]

A friend of mine shared this with me. Absolutely disgusting.

[Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili]

If I were to ask you: what is 6% of 33? How many of you would immediately say: “well, it’s the same as 33% of 6, which is 2 (one third of 6)” ? It’s insane that such an obvious and simple bit of maths is so little known - as in, IT HAD NEVER OCCURRED TO ME, EITHER!

[Tim Callanan @MrTimCallanan]

Air quality is so poor in Melbourne today you can't even smell the Lush store until you're just 4 blocks from it.

[Michael Lorant @mikelorant]

@markc @damian78 Not sure why any technical person would ever stick with Telstra for broadband.

[John Allsopp @johnallsopp]

australia spends $38bn a year on defense. imagine what that would be if whoever we are supposedly defending against destroyed thousands of properties and laid waste to non trivial percentages of our land. yet what’s our budget for bush fires?

we are juvenile and pathetic

[Michael Lorant @mikelorant]

Started Run with #runmeter at 6:47 pm, on Lindfield 5.2k route, see https://t.co/zN1p81MoS7, Runmeter will speak your replies to me.

[Paul Fenwick, @[email protected] @pjf]

Just your regular reminder that I run numerous...

🎶 Rick Astley Hotlines 🎶

AU: [phone]
NZ: [phone]
UK: [phone]
US: [phone]

You are encouraged to use them for paperwork, loyalty schemes, and general joy.

Also, please stop rickrolling me.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere.

We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the phonological loop.

But why?

So we can—talk.

Thus chimpanzees can do this—we can’t:

[Vittoria @vitt2tsnoc]

Back to work.

[Michael Lorant @mikelorant]

Finished Run with #runmeter, on Lindfield 5.2k route, time 31:41, distance 5.18 km, ahead of median run 2:25.

[Michael Lorant @mikelorant]

Started Run with #runmeter at 6:04 pm, on Lindfield 5.2k route, see https://t.co/6peLJVnW4T, Runmeter will speak your replies to me.

[Michael Lorant @mikelorant]

Finished Run with #runmeter, on Lindfield 5.2k route, time 39:54, distance 5.18 km, ahead of worst run 5:21.

[Michael Lorant @mikelorant]

Started Run with #runmeter at 8:16 pm, on Lindfield 5.2k route, see https://t.co/QKwrVYdfgD, Runmeter will speak your replies to me.

[Michael Lorant @mikelorant]

Finished Run with #runmeter, on Lindfield 5.2k route, time 39:31, distance 5.18 km, behind median run 5:29.