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Australia’s incoming passenger card bound for the bin as Sydney airport trials digital declarations Passengers flying with Qantas from Auckland or Queenstown in New Zealand are eligible and must complete declaration digitally before they fly * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A cornerstone of Australian travel bureaucracy – the mandatory incoming passenger card filled out by passengers on international flights – may be headed for extinction. Sydney airport, Australia’s busiest international terminal, launched the trial of a digital declaration card on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Australia’s incoming passenger card bound for the bin as Sydney airport trials digital declarations

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.

IG nytimes

Alles gute! 🥰

If it's not been communicated anywhere, you can do some fuzzy maths based on the volume of trains which were ordered for the expansion

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“I’m sorry, sir - this trade was mid at best. We have matcha, though?”

Complete failure 😞

A screenshot of Wordle showing a 265-day streak being broken today

RIP, 265

Repost to give an anti-floating bus stop campaigner a fit

City building games - can’t swing a cat for risk of hitting someone on some part of the rainbow (also surprisingly overrepresented for colourblindness, ime)

It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.

Well now I'm holding off until 25+

A photo of a plate of six oysters

May last year during Eurovision season 😋

Fiskebar! Great spot, never been disappointed with a meal there.

A screenshot from the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers Wikipedia article. The following section is highlighted: “originally known as the Ferroners”

Saw an old coat of arms on a building while walking the hound, looked it up and it’s the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers.

Gotta say though, while “Ironmongers” is cool, “Ferroners” is way cooler. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worship...

Car Park Capital on Steam The car industry needs you to design and build the greatest car parks that simple town life hasn't seen before. Introduce the need for car commuting and turn neighborhoods into car parks! Use propagan...

"You've been hired by Big Auto to unleash the Freedom of Car Dependency on unsuspecting townsfolk!"

This game looks like a complete riot, instant wishlist for me.

It's all much of a muchness.

(sorry)

When I worked in the devices team at one of the big telcos, we had a... unique ...product shopped to us and there were references to the three other operators at various points throughout the pitch document so it's clear they'd done this before, and we were their last choice.

But given the thrust of the highlighted section I'm guessing it's mostly a rebuke of the latter rather than the former :)

Don't have the full source, so the point may have been made that while yes, while things are generally and objectively better than before, a place can still feel like it's at the end of its rope (and I mean this in terms of public service delivery, not batshit 'tinderbox britain' bullshit).

what’s wrong son, you’ve barely touched your Microsoft Smurface??

Steve Carell's looking rough

Rob Sitch in a bow tie and tuxedo holding a glass and bottle of champagne

Are you a binfluencer?

When I was visiting cities other than Brisbane in my youth I always enjoyed how classy Melbourne seemed.

Mobile operators getting in on the gig too, as they already hold an age verification flag because of the UK adult filters which have been in place for years, so you can chuck your phone number in and the operator cleans off a fee from the service provider.

Yeah, video selfie (turn left, turn right) or upload a scan of an ID. I just did it because I’ve got a passport scan on my phone and I’ve used Persona before. On Bluesky I think it was the Epic Games age verification service, that was a 5p credit card charge.

Yep, no way around it. I had to verify otherwise I couldn’t mod effectively

Hello! Aside from pure adult sites, you have to verify here to use DMs, on Reddit - as a moderator - I couldn’t look at any user profile where the user had posted on a subreddit flagged as NSFW without verifying, I’m told on Twitter a whole bunch of stuff is just gone and you CAN’T verify yet.

I can't believe it took me so long to discover the point-and-click renaissance spearheaded by @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social and @threeohfour.bsky.social (among others). I think I have @backpagepod.bsky.social to thank for a passing reference to the Excavation of Hob's Barrow?