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A Melbourne E Class tram wearing a promotional livery for musician Harry Styles

Main problem with the Harry Styles tram: it doesn’t go in One Direction

A Comeng train at Sunbury

bonne fête de la inauguration pour la sousterranien «Mùnnel» trans-fleuve connexion du Melbourne pour mes compagnons d’infortune atteints de cette particulier maladie qu’est la «gunzelitis» (et tout le monde aussi)

A friend remains at Sunbury past curfew!

Is that the Hamnis Greaser train

ドクターイエロー/yellow metro infrastructure evaluation train in North Melbourne (Melbourne Yard)

ドクターイエロー!!!!!!!!!

Set V21 in NSW TrainLink Yellow and Orange livery at Central station, 2024

After more than 55 years serving the people of New South Wales, tomorrow is the last ever run in public service of a V set interurban double deck electric train. So this is the perfect time for a photographic tribute to these venerable, hard working and much loved trains.
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it's really good that Oracle bought TikTok, a business that only loses money, at a time when it took on $56bn+ in debt and $240bn in lease obligations for GPUs to rent to OpenAI, a company that will run out of money. This could all have the funniest ending ever

A saloon type bogie tram in M&MTB green and cream livery runs away from us along a wide tree-lined boulevard in a metropolitan setting. A passenger is leaving the tram through an open door in the centra. A very cool dude on a pushbike is exhibiting the peak of 1980s cycling culture at left by sitting back on his bike, hands free, with no helmet and basically no crash protection nor sun protection at all it seems.

Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 37 years ago today, Y1 class #tram no 613 running a summer Sundays trip to St Kilda Beach, stops in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, January 15, 1989.

On Summer Sundays in the 1980s, extra trams were run to the tourist […]

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G class trams have begun network testing. Photo from Gabrielle Williams’ Facebook page.

software development in 2026 is going to require some to loosen up a little code doesn't have to be as perfectly crafted the way we did it pre-ai call it slop if you want, but if you're still demanding perfection on every pr while your competitors are shipping "slop" that works.. you're fighting from a disadvantaged position shipping velocity matters more than perfection

Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.

Im sure there will be no issues there at all.

Oli @CARNØN X.com The other night I was driving in pouring rain, fully dark, and the car randomly lost GPS. No location. No navigation. Which also meant no FSD. I tried two software resets while driving just to get GPS back. Nothing worked. So there I was, manually driving in terrible conditions, unsure of positioning, no assistance, no guidance. And it genuinely felt unsafe. For me and for the people in the car. Then it hit me. This feeling - the stress, the uncertainty, the margin for error - this is how most drivers feel every single day. No FSD. No constant awareness. No backup. We've normalised danger so much that we only notice it when the safety net disappears.

Chris Robovan @chrisrobovan • 1d So true. I couldn't imagine trying to figure things out myself anymore I feel it every time I have to take over to take a separate entrance or find an area different from the exact pin at a destination. 12.6.4 does 98% of my driving but that last 2% is tough I couldn't imagine also being without GPS 55 L7 14 118 ıhıl 96K 贝 Oli g @CARNØN• 1d It was a very tough situation • 21 4 • .. ill 74K 冂 山

tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore

Chernobyl promo poster, using an awkward, lumpy typeface.

Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?

Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.

One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."

Happy Gunzelmas to all who observe! Looking forward to three holy days of Ausrail, Le Múnel opening on Sunday, and rounding it out with International Day of the Gunzel(le) on Thursday 4/12

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it may look funny to you but this horse and rider can never move again now

Cheaper power for renewables neighbours has been much requested, but difficult to do. A startup says it can make work for both communities and developers.

I read they granted one of these to Jehan le Bond, Baron de Skeyfall (motto: Agitatus, Non Motus)

Death of baseload: World's biggest isolated grid is reaching 84 pct wind and solar almost daily
reneweconomy.com.au/death-of-bas... @gilesparkinson.bsky.social @reneweconomy.com.au

And batteries surging in Western Australia, too
Battery dispatch now greater than utility solar generation in WA

Melbourne’s first G Class tram arrives at purpose-built depot Melbourne's first G Class tram arrives at purpose-built depot https://bit.ly/46TYXKM

Melbourne's first G Class tram arrives at purpose-built depot https://bit.ly/46TYXKM

Good morning to everyone except those who choose to keep shilling for M*rcedes-B*nz Gr*up Akt*engesellsch*ft

The ACT government’s early push to 100 pct renewables is looking like the smartest policy of all – with one wind farm paying consumers $50/MWh in the last quarter.

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

We often call better city-building ideas bold and visionary when they’re really just common sense given the real-life crises that cities are facing. But true common sense isn’t particularly common these days, so it’s considered bold.

Correct map of the Hutt Archipelago, sometimes also known as Aotearoa or New Zealand

Personally, though, I observe the Hutt rite, 14 April (1874, first steam train from Lowerer Hutt to Lower Hutt). Those who live in the Hutt Archipelago and believe that a mythical South Island exists observe 1 December (1863, a fable about a steam train in “Christchurch”, wherever that is)

Let us not forget the Lancashire rite that recognises 15 September (1830, first steam-only modern intercity railway)

Victorian rite recognises 12 Sep (1854, first Melbourne-Sandridge train) whereas the British tradition (first steam train in the world) is 27 Sep (1825).

Ancient greek orthodox gunzels would recognise the Diolkos of Corinth (I presume this should be a ‘Kings Birthday’ style fixed date of 4/12)

Happy Orthodox Gunzelmas to all who observe!!!

UPDATE: they are back for another season!

I love 99% of this yarn from @australia.theguardian.com… except for the incorrect use of hyphens when referring to Melbourne tram classes. Per almost a century of longstanding style practice it is “E Class” not “E-class”; Wikipedia is wrong. I will not be taking further questions at this time

*Melbourne Tram Museum (in Hawthorn)

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