Liam Hogan @liamvhogan@aus.social

'LOL nothing matters' is the organising principle of our age

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Let the man on the right flank brush his sleeve against Coolangatta. We must take Brisbane with a rapid wheel before redeploying to face the Victorian front

I have been doing a fair amount of reading and internet window shopping and plan E is looking very much like ‘take it to a trained mechanic and pay them’.

It is the business of the wealthy man / to give employment to the artisan

Why isn’t Graham Richardson in prison

I will be unsurprised if the carb is full of clogs and rubbish, this was the condition of the former air filter before I replaced it

Progress:

Plan A: run engine for a bit ✅
Plan B: spray carb cleaner in intake ✅
Plan C: remove and clean carb

Approach today with the relentless energy of the hype man in a rap-house band c.1993 shouting the name of the band at any quiet moment

I am now researching stage 2 (from ‘running lawfully’ to ‘running acceptably’) and it looks like I’m going to have to work out carburettor jetting

There is a fancy heritage firm I follow on instagram which posts small ten-seconds slices of life of their work which makes me realise I definitely work in the slum end of aus heritage.

Not saying it’s bad

Stop what you are doing immediately and watch these red pandas running around and playing

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCLE5mahz8z/?igshid=17xsrezi30jid

Ya look like my junk, but old

Roman Dean his name is Apparently

Fuck I am trying just to watch the football and we get Sky News, the guy speaking in the middle looks like a testicle, and he’s surrounded by one child from a first year tute and the Gestapo guy from Raiders of the Lost Ark

Read this you muppets: what football teaches us

https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2020/07/what-football-teaches-us.html

I've got the word from my mechanics, the bike has passed its inspection and can be registered

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I wish I could say I have never met people like this as a volunteer, but I have absolutely met people like this and they're terrifying

I am a regular reader of the Emergency Law blog (https://emergencylaw.wordpress.com/) but this judgement about a bunch of people getting kicked out of the VIC SES is *extremely* wild (see sections 166-168

http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/vic/VSC/2017/547.html

Imagine being a political journalist and only now, in 2020, realising John Howard for the ruthless ghoul that he is

Mark Kenny has arrived in 1998. See you at the Patricks dock brother.