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I understand the youths are buying train tickets through the free public transport period as a means to rebel.

Men at work on the dark side

Peak bloom on the 15th street PBL

huh, the one with the bike lane is moving just fine but the highway is all backed up

ACTIVE NOW

ABC staff strike: BBC content to replace flagship shows, including 7.30 and AM Triple J will air without presenters while ABC News Breakfast is not expected to air as staff walk off the job to protest pay and conditions

Support the ABC's worker strike. Don't interact with trackable ABC services from 11 am AEDT this Wednesday to 11 am Thursday.

Don't use ABC websites. Don't use iview. Don't use ABC apps. Don't interact with anything trackable.

ABC staff strike: BBC content to replace flagship shows, including 7.30 and AM Triple J will air without presenters while ABC News Breakfast is not expected to air as staff walk off the job to protest pay and conditions

Support the ABC's worker strike. Don't interact with trackable ABC services from 11 am AEDT this Wednesday to 11 am Thursday.

Don't use ABC websites. Don't use iview. Don't use ABC apps. Don't interact with anything trackable.

You may think POS means piece of shit. But to me it means pedestrian operated signal. And to the people upstairs it means public open space.

ABCs SA election coverage needs a criminology specialist to help Casey run through all the charges the various candidates and previous candidates are currently facing.

Never change SA! 🤣

ONP barely ran in SA last time. That's +16% on not much.

The truth about the toxic algal bloom spreading across the south of Australia | Four Corners YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

This will be one of the all time most important documentaries into the current ecological collapse.

James Newbury promising to rip up Melbourne's bayside.

I'm in a slow mood today. I shall set my ebike to eco mode and stop to smell the roses. Probably not literally.

It'll be works. Last trains around around midnight.

(some lines get works every bloody night. We need a better way)

I need the parts of a single timber clothes peg for honest purposes.

Electric locomotive hauled train, with a sign on it: First electric passenger train between Melbourne and Traralgon March 14th 1956. Source: Public Record Office Victoria. VPRS 12800/P0001 https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/63FCDE06-F7DD-11E9-AE98-6D39FED49D19/content?image=1

The spike in fuel prices reminds us that Victoria once had electric regional trains, Melbourne to Traralgon 1956-1987.
Planning and funding electrification for V/Line, starting with the busiest lines, would help protect against future cost spikes, help cut emissions, and improve air quality.🚆⚡

No one will sell me a single timber clothes peg.

if there tiktok videos sending up your software, and they go uber-viral because *everyone has experienced your software doing what they're making fun of*, maybe it's, like, bad software?

I still think it's odd that governments are driving people to VPNs over an issue governments don't actually care about, but they risk losing surveillance capacity in the process for issues they care deeply about.

Elderly people love to keep a shallow pool of stagnant water in the kitchen.

Yestereve, the announcer on ABC 774 invited listeners to telephone the broadcast to reveal the contents of their internet search histories.

It was for a discussion about the Google search engine.

I have secured a sufficient supply of petroleum for an automobile journey to Mildura this Friday. $1.74 per litre for an ethanol mixture. Heightened price, but not unreasonable, due to the misadventure of an autocrat.

Haven't ridden my bicycle for two work days and I can already feel myself becoming a sedentarist.

(It's at the shop for repairs).

Good Morning Australia

Until not too long ago, before fall of Kabul, most airlines also avoided Afghanistan airspace by skirting north along the edge of the Himalayas. Very congested route. This is one of the two routes Qantas used in 2023 when I travelled that way

On a dancefloor at 2am, I heard Jacinda Ardern’s husband say they were moving to Australia. I don’t blame them | Johanna Cosgrove It’s no surprise that so many Kiwis are leaving New Zealand behind for a nation with much larger capacity for embarrassment: Australia

On a dancefloor at 2am, I heard Jacinda Ardern’s husband say they were moving to Australia. I don’t blame them | Johanna Cosgrove

You can now block AI integration in the latest version of Firefox. Go to the AI section in Settings.

One dollar coin held in fingers

AGAIN! Gold coin fell onto the footpath outside Town Hall admin building as I was walking past. Get resources on this mystery!

FUN FAKT. As a 20-something, I would wear swimming goggles whilst chopping onions. I don't do that anymore! I no longer eat onions deliberately due to poor digestive outcomes.

A tram that crosses a bridge, maybe?