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A typical 2020 dinner party.

Making dinner plans with @thewebprincess. 7pm over Zoom because that’s how people socialise in 2020.

The local cafe @milkingstation has been taking COVID-19 very seriously, in today’s episode of things that wouldn’t have seemed possible in January: spots on the floor telling customers where they should stand.

Harvey Norman have a 14 day change of mind policy.

If (and only if) your income is safe during this time, please go and tip big at a cafe today, think about what you usually spend on lunch each week as a baseline.

Again, only if your income is safe (I work in media, for example). If it’s at risk, look after yourself first.

if you’re having trouble focusing on work, or anything else, it’s not that you’re terrible at working from home or bad at your job. It’s that you’re doing this in a set of circumstances completely unprecedented in our lifetimes.

— Eric Meyer

Current earworm. I can’t think why.

I’ve worked remote for four years but this is the first time I’ve worked from home rather than an office or co-working space. I’ve replaced my train commute with a walk around the block to allow for a mental switch to work mode each morning.

“If” seems incredibly optimistic. We screwed.

As bum gun sales in Australia spike, I can feel most countries in our region turning to us and saying “See! What have we been saying all these years!”