Phil Cohen
@philcohen.bsky.social
Tech writer and recruiter of tech writers, BAs, IDs and others in Australia
Reads so much better than Marsfart, don’t you think?
February 12, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Reads so much better than Marsfart, don’t you think?
And identifying as Jewish.
February 12, 2026 at 6:56 AM
And identifying as Jewish.
I loved that band!
February 11, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I loved that band!
Yeah the trouble with the invisible hand is that you never know what it’s got up its sleeve
February 5, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Yeah the trouble with the invisible hand is that you never know what it’s got up its sleeve
So now we're all going to throw out Xero and have an LLM do our accounting? Or write accounting software for us? I guess makes perfect sense in AI LALA land.
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 AM
So now we're all going to throw out Xero and have an LLM do our accounting? Or write accounting software for us? I guess makes perfect sense in AI LALA land.
Yeah maybe we could suggest that the US pays us a huge amount of money, then we get to put a US sub under Australian control. Or we could just go back to the French?
February 4, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Yeah maybe we could suggest that the US pays us a huge amount of money, then we get to put a US sub under Australian control. Or we could just go back to the French?
Maybe if we asked the French nicely …
February 4, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Maybe if we asked the French nicely …
And ministerial control and responsibility wouldn’t hurt either
January 30, 2026 at 8:02 PM
And ministerial control and responsibility wouldn’t hurt either
Reminds me of an old Glasgow joke: "I used to go out with a woman who was a redhead. She had no hair, just a red head."
January 27, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Reminds me of an old Glasgow joke: "I used to go out with a woman who was a redhead. She had no hair, just a red head."
I'm in favour of charity, but not charities.
January 22, 2026 at 10:53 PM
I'm in favour of charity, but not charities.
So it's not to your lichen?
January 20, 2026 at 11:01 PM
So it's not to your lichen?
In 1999 in Australia all IT departments spent money on Y2K (remember that?), the internet and the introduction of a new tax called GST. The result: no IT budget for anything else till about 2002.
January 16, 2026 at 5:26 AM
In 1999 in Australia all IT departments spent money on Y2K (remember that?), the internet and the introduction of a new tax called GST. The result: no IT budget for anything else till about 2002.
The point is to make people mad enough to fight back; then they can really bring down the hammer.
January 15, 2026 at 6:58 AM
The point is to make people mad enough to fight back; then they can really bring down the hammer.
Yeah it's a bit like "The Beatles". After a while it loses its initial impact and becomes just a word.
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Yeah it's a bit like "The Beatles". After a while it loses its initial impact and becomes just a word.
… and are they saying “This time it’s different”?
December 21, 2025 at 7:05 AM
… and are they saying “This time it’s different”?
Bit like asking a non-US Christian to defend US foreign policy because ... well, it's a Christian country, no?
December 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Bit like asking a non-US Christian to defend US foreign policy because ... well, it's a Christian country, no?
I guess what I meant was that the intended outcome wasn't financial, it was an authoritarian dictatorship.
December 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I guess what I meant was that the intended outcome wasn't financial, it was an authoritarian dictatorship.
Comic Sans is more appropriate
December 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Comic Sans is more appropriate
I don’t think any of that was the point.
December 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I don’t think any of that was the point.
Nah these guys are fully committed to the thousand year Trump term.
December 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Nah these guys are fully committed to the thousand year Trump term.
