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I have three tickets to #TaylorSwift (@taylorswift) that I have to sell. It's for the LA Staples Centre show on Friday August 21st. I'm mailing from Australia as our trip got cancelled. If anyone is at all interested, please direct message me. Selling at cost price (free shipping). And if people could spread the word for me that would be amazing. Counting on the power of the #Swifties community on this one.

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My everyday decisions about the things I say and the things I don't say, the things I do and the things I don't do will always bite me. That's a given. I'm always fighting a constant battle between who I am, who I want to be, who other people want me to be and my unwitting nature instilled in me from how I was brought up as a child, which is to constantly need to please others. I may not say the right things at the right time, I may not do the right things or get it right. I make a lot of mistakes, yeah more than others, I get that. I feel shut down at the moment. I feel like my body isn't giving my mind what it needs to move forward. I don't eat. I don't sleep. Believe me I want to. I'm slipping into a hole I.m not quite sure how to get out of and I feel like the world is siding against me. The actual feeling isn’t new. I'm used to it. The actual realisation of how big the feeling is though, is quite new, and I don't know how to deal with it. I feel the world is always wanting something from me and but I'm running out of things to give. Most nights I catch s breath before the moment I fall asleep if I'm lucky and think, oh no, "here come the worst nightmares". Some nights I fall into s nightmare and I awake with s start as if someone shook me out of it. And it takes s while for me to realise I'd been dreaming about the very same thing. Someone shaking me awake from this nightmare. Someone shake me awake.

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All done. All it took was not checking a little box that said "download updates while installing". Must be a bug or something. Will send a quick report to the dev guys. Otherwise, I'm excited about this! :) #elemementaryos #ElementaryOsFreya #Freya #FreyaNoob #LinuxObsessed #linux #ubuntu

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So far #Freya died at first attempt to install and took with it my Windows boot manager. Nevertheless I'm trying again. Will update on what I did differently.

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🐯 It's officially long-socks-old-cardi weather again. Hot cuppa come at me. #winteriscoming

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#CurrentlyReading #WORM #TheFirstDigitalWorldWar #MarkBowden OUR RACE WITH TECHNOLOGY It's really hard to believe that the technological world we currently live in, is barely young. It's quite an infant. We live in the early stages of technology. If you think of the people who helped create the tools we use today, the operating systems, the software, the hardware and other peripherals, these people are barely hitting sixty for an age. The World Wide Web as it is known, is actually a year younger than me, developed by Tim Burness-Lee in 1991 when the first two or three computers were connected and actually communicated in the US. And the speed at which Technology is being consumed, quicker than it is being innovated, is more than a scary thought. Our days depend on it. Our lives depend on the connectedness of technology. We live in an age of technology where, in order for businesses to stay open, they have to keep up with the technological times; in order for innovation to occur, it must occur with some conjunction to existing technology. It all comes down to our hunger for information. It's a human species natural instinct. To want to know. It's also a safety net. If I know, then I am safe. True technology has helped in a big way to move the human race forward, in terms of development and infrastructure. But is it pulling us back? Is it taking away our humanity? We sit behind a screen, with a veil of anonymity keeping us safe and we say things, very bad nasty things, to someone else who is sitting behind another screen, with their own veil of anonymity. Human to human interaction is being replaced by screen-veil-INTERNET-veil-screen interaction. Is that where we are headed? Or are we already there? Are we already robots living in between humans inconspicuously. Is this who we want to be? If so, I worry for our children, and their children. With the current exponential rate of growth of technology, my children will have robots for pets, and their children will have robots that look like living animals/humans for pets. I applaud the technology but despise what it is doing to our society today.

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Keeping Busy so I don't become basic. Or lose my mind.

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We will never sleep, 'cause sleep is for the weak No we will never rest, 'til we're all fucking dead #diamondsArentForever #insomnia

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This is @rewsnac. Look at how beautiful she is when she smiles. Also, everyone go check out her art (@courtneyeliseart) she's a little tiny bit of talented brilliance. It's mad as hell. #artistsOfInstagram #courneyEliseArt #CourneyElise #brisbaneHasTheGoods #supertalentedInstaFriends #art #artists #bands #drawings

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🍂 This is where we fall, sleepers scattered in the soil A finger deep, dragged through the ground A blessed thought in harrowed halls. We could think of nothing else but what our patch of earth contained, Reminded by our dirt-stained clothes of planted possibility In tender ground, as bare as birth, a shoot emerged from beneath the earth. Mary, Mary, tell me how your garden grows. Tell me what it takes to come alive, to see what you have sown Because I've grown into the ground and there are branches in my bones I am overgrown. Between two branches, a rope and tire we cast between two worlds, Each one higher than the last. I chose the air, chose higher still and left an Eden, found, But in abandon, lost my grip, and shattered, chose the ground In unkept chaos, as bare as birth, a garden, grey, of tangled earth. I've been lying here too long, the branches pushing me apart where weakness showed, But then September swept the overcast aside, Dusted off the winter's curse, and she cut me through like knives. She whistled proudly her season's song and showed me that I was alive all along.

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#PiecesOfMyLife minus a few more in another box somewhere. Where would I be and what would I do without these shows. More like who would I be? I'd hate to tell you how much money I've spent on shows/music fest. But the value of the part of my life sting on this bed right now is priceless. Oh the memories. #concerts #gigs #music #lifeismusic #musicislife #liveloud

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AWWW. Imagine that! 👩🎈#harrypotter #hogwarts #hogsmeade #butterbeer

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It's raining outside. So I'm spending the day with these two. #wrecksanddazey #motioncitysoundtrack #mydonosaurlife #canvasoutlines #ArtOnCupDay

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Mr & Mrs Smith tonight I think while I decide on what to do with my life. Plus, early starts mean early night. :)

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Excuse me while I dig my own grave and fall into it. @austincarlile @alanashby @mrmoneycat @youngfuego @aaronpauley @omandm #OFMICENOTDOINGWARPED2015!!

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Something About this face doesn't feel right. Why today?! :(

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📨 Dear @omandm, Thank you for today. I've needed it for a while and it was brilliant. I'm sad I can't make it up to Sydney this week because that was my plan. But I do hope you have a brilliant week here in Australia. Please stay hydrated and keep cool. Love you boys. Thank you @alanashby! Thank you @aaronpauley! Thank you @mrmoneycat! Thank you @youngfuego (and again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!) and @austincarli me, thanks for always listening. Thank you. 😘💕