AJ Sadauskas

Along with pretty lights, food, and live music, there's some pretty spectacular city views up here.

Even on Wednesday night, the queues are long for these car park food vendors.

The car park has been transformed into dancefloors and dining spaces during the festival.

The gateway to the Powerhouse Lane precinct.

Aside from Parramatta Square, the car park near the future Powerhouse Museum and surrounding streets. These have been closed if to cars and filled with food vendors and live music.

#Parramatta #ParramattaLanes #food #events #music #festival #australia

The Phive building is lit up in pretty shades of pink and purple. There's a stage set up in the car park, along with food trucks.

The concert stage.

The Leigh Memorial Church carpark behind Phive is the site of a free public rock concert as part of the Parramatta Lanes festival.

#Parramatta #ParramattaLanes #rock #concert #music #LiveMusic #urbanism

Delicious hoy pinoy skewers

A carpark that has been converted in to an event space

Cool laneway light sculpture that looks like a stylised centipede suspended over blue water

Another sculpture of light flowers and illuminated bird houses

Had to go outside today for an appointment so I’m making the most of the warm evening (Parramatta Lanes starts today)

Definitely. And best of all, all the queues were reasonable.

(Last year I made the mistake of coming on the Saturday and ended up spending half the night waiting in a queue!)

100% last night was perfect once weather cooled and wind subsided

Macquarie St entry to Parra Lanes. A big pink neon sign overhead reads "Parramatta Lanes".

Crowds of people eating food truck food.

The Parramatta Town Hall atrium transformed into a concert stage.

The church lawn transformed into a dining area.

First batch of photos from the 2025 Parramatta Lanes Festival.

The secret is to visit on Wednesday or Thursday night when it's s but quieter, or else you'll be waiting an hour in a food truck queue.

https://atparramatta.com/lanes

#food #Parramatta #event #ParramattaLanes

Parra Town Hall lit up orange with a cocktail garden in front.

The word Aperol hangs over an archway in front of Parra Town Hall.

Parra Town Hall has become a cocktail bar during Parramatta Lanes.

#Parramatta #ParramattaLanes #festival

'Sensible' centre? Tell that to the giants of The Rocks and Eureka We've had decades of sanitising radical progressive action in Australia, to make successes seem as if they were just the sensible position.

Sensible? That's the giants of The Rocks, Eureka

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

Ollies - Fried Chicken - 1988 commercial

And here's an ad for Ollies, thanks to @rhettrospective.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=viFv...

#nostalgia #Australia #80s

Something intensely frustrating which I've seen across academia, NGOs, media orgs and corporations (I mean, just, every professional space in the world) is "WHAT IF WE JUST DIDN'T" is **never** considered an option, and it's the same for this report.

Error rates like that, 3 years in? Ditch it ffs

Time machine not working.

I think I worked out the secret to getting your band on Triple J in the '90s.

Just pick a name that juxtaposes two nouns (or an adjective and a noun) that aren't usually used together.

Powder Finger
Silver Chair
Spider Bait
Rebecca's Empire
Killing Heidi
Frenzal Rhomb
Cat Empire

#ausmusic #music

The $42 billion 'disaster penalty' hitting these Aussie homeowners | SBS News Flood risks have already wiped billions off the value of Australian homes, according to a new report.

New research shows the economic impact of increased flooding from global warming from fossil fuel pollution.

Properties in Australia's flood-prone areas are worth $42 billion less than they would be if they weren't in a flood-prone area.

www.sbs.com.au/news/article... #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Megazone: The Murky History of Sega OziSoft and Its Unofficial Magazine The fascinating (and sordid) history of the magazine that put SEGA on the map in Australia

Often computer history focuses on the US (or UK), but rarely Australia.

This article reveals how Ozisoft, the Aussie distributor for Sega, went into print publishing to shut out Mattel (which distributed Nintendo):

www.superjumpmagazine.com/megazone-his... #retrocomputing #retrogaming

A survivor of the digital wave and Parramatta's growth, independent record store celebrates 30 years - ABC News Tucked away at the end of an old arcade strip, a local record store has survived three decades of change, from new technology to the construction of Sydney's second CBD.

The ABC has a really fascinating article about Beatdisc Records on its 30th anniversary, including some of the history of this iconic Western Sydney music institution.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

#AusMusic #Music #Records #LiveMusic #Sydney #WesternSydney #Vinyl

What building is in that photo? Keen to keep an eye out for them...

Fantastic.

#renewableenergy

Carbon MeasuresCarbon Measures 651 followers651 followers 1d • 1 day ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow Today, Carbon Measures officially launches as a global coalition of major businesses from diverse industries and geographies united by a shared mission: establish a more accurate carbon accounting framework and drive market-based solutions to reduce emissions at the lowest cost. The world needs accurate, product-level carbon measurement to drive real emissions reductions at scale. We're advancing a ledger-based carbon accounting system that ensures every tonne is counted once, accurately, and attributed correctly – enabling governments to set effective standards and markets to reward businesses for investing in low-carbon production. This coalition brings together industry leaders across sectors who believe that accurate and transparent measurement will unlock the market forces needed for climate progress. Through sound science and the principles of financial accounting, companies can better track their emissions through the global economy, reduce their emissions and allow governments to make more informed policy decisions. We're proud to welcome Amy Brachio, who is among the world’s foremost leaders in global corporate sustainability and carbon accounting, as our inaugural CEO. Under Amy’s leadership, we'll work with our members, experts, governments, and standard-setters to advance a global carbon accounting system that makes product-level intensity standards possible – taking Actions that Count through ensuring accurate emissions data and informed policy.

Confident that ADNOC and ExxonMobil's new emissions accounting standard is totally fine and not nefarious at all

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Let me guess.

Under the new ExxonMobil accounting standard, all fossil fuels emissions are attributed to the motorist who uses the car, rather than the transnational oil company that supplies the fuel.

Scope three, amiright?

And by this metric, turns out Exxon is now a low emissions business.

Tech bros need the world to believe their hype. Here’s an idea – let’s just ignore them | Pip Finkemeyer Social media didn’t live up to its promises. So why do we think artificial intelligence will be any better?

One decent article from the Guardian by Pip Finkemeyer
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The responsible action would be to pop that puss filled boil now before it becomes even more infected and causes sepsis.

@ajsadauskas @aj I love Customs House, it's one of my go-tos when I have some time to kill in Sydney.

@ajsadauskas now curious about the incident that caused the need for repairs.

@psychopoesie @ajsadauskas My suspicion was it was probably a kid with a skateboard.

The structure is basically plywood with a thin player of plastic or paint on top, so it wouldn't have taken much...

@aj @ajsadauskas aah! That would make sense. Maybe more public art needs to be skateboard friendly.

@ajsadauskas It kind of looks like what you see if you are having a visual migraine.

The scale model under the glass floor. Unfortunately, these photos also caught the reflection from the skylight above.

The scale model from the other side.

The Customs House building itself is a magnificent sandstone structure. To its left is Australia's first skyscraper, the 1960s AMP building, and behind it the recently renovated newer AMP building.

If you're ever up around Sydney's Circular Quay, here's a free public exhibition that's worth checking out.

There's a full scale model of the City of Sydney under a glass floor at Customs House, including the Harbour Bridge, Opera House, and Central Station […]

[Original post on pixelfed.social]

Because AWS is down, I can’t turn on my heating.

If AI is a good investment, we’re in trouble, says Alan Kohler | ABC NEWS

Australia's most respected business journalist, Alan Kohler, makes an excellent point about the potential cryptocurrency and AI bubble.

If it bursts, the implications are terrible. But if it doesn't, it's just as bad.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgR7...

#auspol #ausbiz #crypto #AI #ChatGPT #nvidia

We had a decentralised worldwide network of computers.

And thanks to techbro greed, we (collectively) allowed a single point of failure to be retrofitted to it.