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Declan Martin

@declanmartin.bsky.social

(As seen on Tw*tt3r.) Urban Planning & Public Transport policy - 2018 ALP Brighton Candidate @ Vic election. Urban/transport planner, politics observer and all round general poster. Keen on Football/Soccer too

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me thinking about global heating accelerating faster than most predictions, as a dying economic system murders its way into oblivion and builds warehouses dedicated to increasing emissions

03.01.2026 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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thanks

03.01.2026 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

You know who else is a petty tyrant who doesn't exactly love elections? Lukashenko. Guess its only a matter of time before Trump launches a special military operation in Belarus... Right? Right??? Why one but not another?

03.01.2026 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NO MORE WARS!!! TOO MUCH WINNING!!! THE PRO PEACE TICKET!!!

03.01.2026 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One livery for Intercity, London commuter, suburban and regional? How daft.

09.12.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A great day for Melbourne with the opening of the Metro Tunnel. Been a long wait but the benefits over the coming decades will be amazing πŸš‡πŸŽ‰

30.11.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Look at him go πŸ₯Ή

31.10.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A Melbourne W5 class dropcentre tram in green and cream livery with three open doors in the centre section enclosed only by canvas blinds, heads away from us along a city street.  The rear destination is displaying SPECIAL and a yellow supplementary board with the lettering  NOT CARRYING PASSENGERS is hanging from the rear driver's cab.  A large brick industrial building of brutalist design looms over the scene in the background with large lettering on it displaying THE AGE.

A Melbourne W5 class dropcentre tram in green and cream livery with three open doors in the centre section enclosed only by canvas blinds, heads away from us along a city street. The rear destination is displaying SPECIAL and a yellow supplementary board with the lettering NOT CARRYING PASSENGERS is hanging from the rear driver's cab. A large brick industrial building of brutalist design looms over the scene in the background with large lettering on it displaying THE AGE.

Today's historic pic: Melbourne W5 class tram no 759 on a non-passenger-carrying run in Spencer Street, Melbourne, August 31, 1983. This section of Spencer Street north of Lonsdale Street carried no regular passenger routes at that time. Tram 759 was converted to an SW5 in 1985.

13.10.2025 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Your dad when he takes photos on holiday:

13.10.2025 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
an utterly fucked generative AI image of sydney harbour, with the opera house on an entire island, lots of random boats and an unconcinving sunset in the background

an utterly fucked generative AI image of sydney harbour, with the opera house on an entire island, lots of random boats and an unconcinving sunset in the background

Wow check out this real picture of Sydney harbour that UTS used on their website trying to attract international students

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18.08.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 257    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 30
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Decent place to wake up.

30.04.2025 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BART BAG SPOTTED in Tokyo!!!!

27.04.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Accidentally ordered a tomato beer last night. I assumed Red Star was a brand name... But nope it was a tomato beer. Won't make that mistake again.

25.04.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Big fan of whatever's going on here

23.04.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"No carparking at stadiums" poster in Kobe. Love it!

21.04.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of my faves too. An icon

20.04.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Real ones are Hankyupilled

20.04.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning gang

18.04.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When through running trains don’t | Philip Mallis

philipmallis.com/2025/01/14/w... FWIW, Philip Mallis recently wrote about this very topic.

11.03.2025 06:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been doing quite a few cross City FKN-NPT trips recently and it really irks me how unreliable the cross city component is. Third time in a week my "Frankston" train from footscray has terminated @ Flinders Street (with zero driver announcement I might add.) Real sloppy from MTM.

11.03.2025 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Need to spend more time on here given the gradual enshittification of twitter and the increasingly volatile political scene in the United States

08.03.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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New apartments by sunsetβ˜€οΈ

08.03.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You know Im truly doing my best to avoid consuming and thinking about news coming out the USA at the moment. But the thing is, its not possible. Every corner you turn there's some story or comment on Trump/Musk/Ukraine etc. its unavoidable and I hate it. Our future is uncertain and it freaking sucks

20.02.2025 08:20 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Back before woke.

16.02.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A photo of a blue asbestos shoveling competition. A bunch of shirtless guys are shoveling asbestos into barrels, there is big clouds of it everywhere and no one is wearing any respiratory equipment.

A photo of a blue asbestos shoveling competition. A bunch of shirtless guys are shoveling asbestos into barrels, there is big clouds of it everywhere and no one is wearing any respiratory equipment.

not a cell phone in sight, just men living in the moment.

16.02.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

That's an odd one

14.02.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rest In Piss

14.02.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*guy who takes money from big fume*

No actually that's not true, fumes have heaps of #healing benefits!

07.02.2025 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Melton has been transformed by Jesus... Or has Jesus been transformed by Melton? Guess we'll never know.

07.02.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Might be time to reconsider the trains we are purchasing from US factories. Thats an easy one to bring back to Canada.

02.02.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 331    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1

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