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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 19/09/2026

Everyone should be very careful using an LLM while sitting on the toilet.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 28/08/2026

If you see this post, post your getaway vehicle

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 25/08/2026

Did Apple release some new shiny toys?

Screenshot of the top 3 posts of Hacker News:

* Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute (apple.com)
* New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra (apple.com)
* New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro (apple.com)

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 17/08/2026

.@anthropic.com: Claude will remain ad-free. Claude Code didn't get the memo:

Screenshot of a Claude Code session:

Everything staged cleanly, data/ correctly left untracked. Committing now.

Committed 0713a29
PostToolUse:Bash sats: Tip: Run /ultrareview before you push to catch bugs with a cloud-based multi-agent review - 3 free reviews left.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 14/08/2026

A couple of days later I got this email confirming that'd I won! Telstra were "disappointed". I was happy. I was keeping the domain. I was keeping my services. I was keeping the "good will" credits that totalled ~2kAUD. The story doesn't end quite there 8/12

Email:

Hi Dave,

Thank you for raising this issue with me.

Although we are disappointed by your decision to register the domain name, we will not be taking any further action in relation to it at this time.

Thank you also for bringing to our attention the issues that you had identified with content on Telstra.com. Should you come across any further such issues, I would encourage you to bring them to our attention via our Contact Us page at https://www.telstra.com.au/contact-us, directly with <Senior Exec> or myself. I have included Sam’s contact details for your reference.

Also, I confirm that we have not threatened to disconnect your services on 7 days’ notice because of your registration or use of the domain name, as you indicate. I understand that your Telstra services are important to your business, and would like to thank you for choosing to be a Telstra customer.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 14/08/2026

I was cleaning out some old emails. I found this little gem. It confirms my registration of fucktelstra.com. The best bit is Telstra paid the registration fee. Buckle and let me take you for a ride. 1/12

Domain registration confirmation

Hi Dave,

Congratulations – the following domain name is registered as yours!

Domain name: fucktelstra.com

Domain expiry date: 24/11/16

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 09/08/2026

Report as spam or share some honest feedback about the Nazi bar blog platform?

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 27/05/2026

#Sydney has a new incels meetup. How many Albo cofounder memes will be shared that evening?

Screenshot from meetup. #001 - Sydney Young Entrepreneurs: Males (18-35) - Meetuo & Drinks @ Zephyr. Thursday June 11. Zephyr Bar, Hyatt Regency.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 26/05/2026

All of the developer productivity created by AI has been clawed back by GitHub’s unreliability.

Classic xkcd cartoon with 2 people sword fighting on office chairs. The heading reads “the #1 programmer excuse for legitimately slacking off: ‘GitHub is down’”.

Someone in an office yells: “hey! Get back to work!” The engineer replies “GitHub!” The person in the office says “oh. carry on.”

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 12/05/2026

When in Sydney there are 2 ways to start the day. This way and the wrong way.

Bircher muesli in a bowl on a tray with a napkin and spoon beside it. The muesli is topped with dried and fresh fruit, seeds and nuts.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 10/05/2026

Today’s Raiders v Panthers game at GIO Stadium is really heating up!

Screenshot of the fires near me app showing a structure fire at GIO stadium.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 06/05/2026

This is @github.com every day now! Today not even the status page will load. I’d buy one of these if GitHub and @kcg.bsky.social can sort out the licensing with Funko.

The GitHub Octocat mascot in funko pop style cosplaying the “this is fine” dog. Generated using Google Gemini Pro

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 25/04/2026

I needed a break after ~90 minutes of listening to @simonwillison.net. I timed pausing the video perfectly 🦞

A screenshot of a YouTube video playing in a browser, showing a man with long hair and glasses gesturing animatedly with both hands raised, palms facing the camera, and an excited expression on his face. He's wearing a gray t-shirt and sitting in what appears to be a home office with white shiplap walls and a microphone visible on the right side. The video is titled "An AI state of the union: We've passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming" from Lenny's Podcast (585k subscribers), with 3.7k likes shown below. (Generated by Claude)

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 14/04/2026

Sometimes LinkedIn ads are so bad they’re good. The AI generated image marker is perfectly placed for a mining company.

LinkedIn in ad for investing in “devil resources”, but the AI generated image marker obscures the d. Renaming the company to evil resources.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 10/04/2026

How can you tell it is school holidays in Canberra?

List of fire incidents in Canberra

Bin fire, Gowrie, 6 minutes ago
Car fire, Kambah, 11 hours ago
Car fire, Garran, 21 hours ago
Car fire, Campbell, 1 day ago

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 18/03/2026

Hey vibe coders over at LinkedIn, I see you 👀

Screenshot of email inbox showing message from LinkedIn with the subject “{:hasViewJobTitle}” and body snippet of “{:hasViewCompany}”

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 12/03/2026

While reading the world news today, I kept thinking of this image.

Photo of former Iraqi Foreign Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, during the 2003 invasion. He was nicknamed "Baghdad Bob" after this surreal and absurdly optimistic press conferences. In this shot, he’s denying U.S. troop presence in Baghdad while they were visible in the background.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 07/02/2026

Well know what maintenance mode really means.

Heroku and Adobe Animate logos circling the drain

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 01/02/2026

Myer has so many ways to pay online these days. I'm a little disappointed there isn't no option to pay in body parts. A new electrical appliance, left kidney it is. New winter wardrobe, I suppose that will be my right arm. This could really help with the cost of living crisis. Come on Myer, do it!

Screenshot of payment options for Myer. Listed options:
* Gift or MyerOne Rewards card
* Credit / Debit card
* PayPal - Pay Now or Pay in 4
* Apple Pay
* Afterpay (unavailable as I didn't reach the minimum spend requirement)
* CommBank Awards
* Velocity Points
* Amex Membership Rewards

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 21/01/2026

About 20 years ago I did some work for the lead franchisee of a Jim's brand. I wouldn't trust Jims franchisees to organise a piss up in a brewery. They're all relying on the Jim's brand to land customers for their poor quality services. #JIMSLOGOCOMPJ

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 04/01/2026

I’m using a LLM to create test support ticket data. I told the bot to use Australian English spelling. Around two thirds of the tickets I’ve spot checked start with “G’day”. I’m waiting for it to raise a request for me to chuck another shrimp on the barbie.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 23/12/2025

Want to avoid engaging with your family on Christmas Day? A rep from Lucid Charts is happy to do a sales call.

Email from Lucid Charts rep that reads:

Hi Dave,

Thanks for joining us at the DevOps and Engineering Trade Show! I wanted to follow up personally to see if you had any questions regarding work acceleration and visual collaboration for DevOps and engineering teams.

To recap, we help similar teams:
Plan and organize Scrum workflows
Lead architecture reviews and sprint planning sessions
Design ERDs and technical diagrams
Visualize cloud architecture for clarity and alignment
I’d love to connect and show how Lucid can reduce misalignment, tackle bottlenecks, and help projects move faster.

Are you be available to chat on Wednesday or Thursday?

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 20/12/2025

The RSPCA needs to update their messaging this Christmas.

A modified version of the "a dog is for life, not just for Christmas" to read "a kangaroo is for life, not just for Christmas" with the image of the dog replaced with a kangaroo.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 08/11/2025

I was cleaning up some old files. I found this gem. I created it back in June 2021 when Big Mail kept promising that a release was just around the corner. I looked them up. 3.5 years later, they're still promising.

Duke Nukem Forever game poster changed to read "Big Mail Forever".

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 03/11/2025

My favourite notification from the platform is this one:

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 28/10/2025

Australia Post, maybe try sending it to Fyshwick next.

Parcel routing, showing item leaving Sydney west, arriving in Sydney, being sorted in Sydney west, in transit only to arrive back at Sydney

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 06/09/2025

In Canberra the labour market is so tight data centre operators are employing kangaroos to protect their facilities at night.

Eastern grey kangaroo standing outside the fence of a data centre in suburban Canberra.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 27/07/2025

Still plenty of goon in Australia

Screenshot of a Google search for bag of good.
First result:
Dan Murphy’s
Buy Golden Oak Fruity White Cask 4l Online @Lowest Price
For $14 you get a great taste and the special ability of passing out and waking up on a random spot in your mates backyard. This goon is a must try.
$13.49 + $9.90 delivery

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 11/07/2025

The Daily Telegraph should be outraged about the misapplication of the law.

Daily Telegraph front page from 2013 with the headline “I KNOW NUTHINK!” that depicts Labor MPs as members of the nazis from Hogan’s Heroes. Then Deputy PM Anthony Albanese as Sergeant Schultz, then PM Kevin Rudd as Colonel Klink and Craig Thomson as Hogan.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 25/06/2025

My parcel is in beautiful Oakland California. I wonder how far it is from the Pandora building. I’m pretty sure @romanmars.bsky.social would know exactly how many blocks it is.

Screenshot taken on a mobile phone. It shows the tracking for a parcel from Ogden Utah as it makes it way to me in Australia. It is currently in Oakland California.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 16/06/2025

Dropping my youngest off at Canberra airport today. I think this is their plane just touching down.

FA18 hornet on the tarmac at Canberra airport. There is an old hangar in the background.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 04/06/2025

Good morning AWS Summit Sydney!

View of the stage from high in the auditorium at ICC Sydney

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 03/06/2025

Tech check done. All set for my AWS Summit Sydney talk on Thursday.

Myself on stage with a slide of a crappy car on the screen.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 02/06/2025

About to head to Sydney for the AWS Summit this week. This will be my first time speaking at an AWS event. If you’re around, let’s catch up.

Selfie taken standing in front of windows at airport. An aerobridge and a small Saab turbo prop can be seen the background.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 13/05/2025

I thought about buying this unit, but I was worried no one would be able to find it.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 30/04/2025

This nice surprise arrived in the mail today. Thanks @99pi.org! I was expecting them to come from Oakland, California.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 28/04/2025

Coding #Terraform is often frustrating. Today I had to dig through the source and underlying API docs to understand what arguments the resource needed. I got there in the end. kreuzwerker/docker replaces cloudflare as my least favourite Terraform provider. Do you have a provider you love to hate?

$Screenshot of terraform providers code block. Code reads: terraform { required_version = ">= 1.0.0, < 2.0.0" required_providers { aws = { source = "hashicorp/aws" version = ">= 5.0.0, < 6.0.0" } docker = { source = "kreuzwerker/docker" version = ">= 3.4.0, < 4.0.0" } } }$

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 28/04/2025

Replying to LinkedIn spam can be fun. Should I left her know she’s a week and a half late on her Easter sale?

Screenshot of LinkedIn DMs

Spammer: Hi! Dave
Starting this Easter, I'm offering React + Next.js development and tech resources for businesses that are struggling to grow. I also handle project management and lead generation.
Let me know how I can support your goals!

Me: One of my goals in life is to never deal with ReactJS. It’s an awful framework.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 26/04/2025

This is what they look like once cooked. Allow to cool a little before eating. Healthy? Not so much? Tasty? Very! Enjoy your spicy spaghetti *carb*onara 😋

Four pieces of well done jaffles on a plate.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 26/04/2025

This is a snack I call spicy spaghetti *carb*onara Take small can of tinned spag, a whack of hot sauce, some grated cheese, mix it together Butter 4 pieces of wholemeal bread. Turn over Spoon the spag mix onto the non buttered side of the bread Close them up and cook in a jaffle iron for 7-8mins

Photo of the spaghetti mix on two of the 4 pieces of bread, on a plate on a bench top.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 15/04/2025

You want cats in your AI content?

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 14/04/2025

Tell me it’s school holidays without telling me it’s school holidays.

Crashed white SUV parked on a nature strip. The vehicle is wedged between a tree and a street sign. Significant damage to multiple panels. Police tape across the windscreen.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 08/04/2025

When I think of the Joker and Trump’s relationship to tariffs, I tend to think of the stock market being the gangster in the disappearing pencil scene.

Scene from Batman: The Dark Knight. The Joker sticks a pencil into the desk. When a gangster approaches the Joker, he slams the guy’s head into the pencil. The gangster falls to the floor.

For the record, this is one of the best movie scenes ever made.

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