I literally put my computer down for 5 minutes and came back to this. There is too much going on right now and a lot to take in at 2am.

I haven't been watching a lot of TV lately - podcasts are basically my life now - but I did discover that Adventure Time: Elementals was streaming in Australia, so I managed to watch that in between Wimbledon and the avalanche of missed podcasts.

I have definitely seen both of those. I believe Marple was the fifth or sixth series I ever watched.

Which ones? I might have seen them - the Marples are quite fun.

I'm back at home, so the weekends have turned into catch-up-with-as-many-podcasts-as-possible-days, but I did watch Oh, Hello on Broadway with my mum, who to my surprise really liked it! [I loved it.] Also did a rewatch of Monty Python and the Holy Grail which is a pure beauty each time around - I forgot what they did…

There is an internet tax, aka 'Netflix Tax', that just came into effect here, so I will be paying my internet tax at the end of next month and I am not very happy about it.

Oh wow, that's not reassuring at all. They seem to have changed it since I took it - you're now allowed 4 questions wrong out of 45 up from 3 and there's no longer a section where you can't get anything wrong in. It's still a random assortment of questions, leading to my incorrect answer on a t-intersection and a bit…

Wait, you could get 8 questions wrong? We could get 2 in one section wrong, 1 in another but there was a 10 question section where if you got a question wrong, you failed the whole test.

I can barely remember when anything happened, all the big stuff happened around the time all my major assessments were due, so everything blurred together at some point.

It was ratified by Parliament on the 19th of April and May announced it on the 18th which was the day of the Jungle Primary.

I couldn't remember when the UK election was called, but doing the math in my head it makes sense it was called after the Jungle but it does not feel that way - much like everything that's happened this year!

It's insane how much money was spent in that district and how long the campaign was too. If you add a few days to the time between the Jungle Primary and the actual Election, you could fit in an entire Australian Federal Election from the day it was called to election day - 2016 was a bit different due to the Double…

The people on the 538 liveblog were suggesting that the lack of attention on the SC-05 and the mass of attention on GA-06 might have impacted the result - with lower turnout resulting in a larger chance of a surprise as opposed to mass attention resulting in mass turnout on both sides.

As a Sydneysider, I have been asking that question for *years*. I just assume we all died in the air/crash.

I was once killing time at the shops when waiting for my bus to arrive, and as soon as I walked into a store, Never Gonna Give You Up started playing, and my gut reaction was to leave. I did not know it was possible to kind-of get rick-rolled in real life, but there you go.

I have completely repressed those livestreams and am glad I can't find them online anywhere. And I would much rather have that image stuck in my head too.

I recently rewatched John Oliver's series from 2013 on gun control and it ends with him concluding that 'people are the problem'. That's been playing in my head a lot over the past few days.

I've never watched The Leftovers, besides a few clips here and there, and as this piece notes you don't have to have seen it in order to read it, but wow this Mo Ryan piece on The Leftovers is absolutely beautiful:

I have seen at least 3 on my twitter feed and love all of them.

All of this news is breaking when I haven't been around my computer. I sincerely worry for my future self who will be taking a few long flights in the not so distance future as she might have multiple freakouts after gaining access to wifi on the ground.