Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈

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?

Yes, that's why I mentioned Facebook metrics

Screenshot of a notice announcing the closure of messenger.com.

Facebook closing down messenger.com. Why? Presumably not enough people are logging onto facebook.com, so Messenger users will be diverted there to improve metrics.

I've just been reminded about Microslop Recall. That was actually when I made the decision to install Linux! #IDontUseArch

hmm, errors a proof doesn't get unless there's a delay in review...

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I have deleted my post with a correction. Thanks for call me out.

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A screenshot including the text of the main post in the thread above with a reply from me (now deleted) reading, "In New South Wales, bicycle riders can't use bus lanes. Victoria changed his rule 10 to 15 years ago so that bicycle riders can use bus lines. I know New South Wales seen particularly keen on infringing bicycle riders, so I can understand the rider using the general traffic lane. Still, advocate for reform, anger will pass."

I have deleted my post as it turns out bicycle riders CAN use bus lanes in NSW. The rule allowing them to do so (NSW rule 158(2)(c)(i)) is different to Victoria, hence my confusion. Apologies.

Found it. Road rule 158(2)(c)(i) allowing bicycle riders to use bus lanes. Applied in a different way to Victoria.

www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw...

Happy Valentine's Day sickos.

Does that screenshot include a reference to the rule allowing bicycle riders to use bus lanes (and other lanes)?

NSW rule: www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw...

VIC rule: classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic...

UK Ban on Palestine Action Is Unlawful, Court Finds The High Court ruling, which can be appealed, said the British government had overstepped when it banned Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

The British government’s decision to ban the pro-Palestinian protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was ruled unlawful on Friday by senior judges.

Ol' Gussy Taylor hey? Met the guy at a pub in Nar Nar Goon. All night he got louder and louder 'til he was nearly screaming at us how many pigs he could lift in a crate.

Axed literary magazine Meanjin finds a new home after its axing Melbourne University Press closed the much-loved literary magazine last year, saying it was losing too much money.

QUT will take over famous literary magazine Meanjin, after the journal was closed by Melbourne Uni Publishing last year.

This is a win for all who campaigned to save the masthead, but hardly makes up for the damage done last year www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

Programmatic specificity.

Confused? Try a mind palace.

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Melbourne anti-Herzog protest snaking its way from Bourke Street Mall onto Swanston Street.

A large protest crowd with Palestinian flags in front of Flinders Street Station.

Tick tock, Hague o'clock.

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Writers need very strong views but absolutely ZERO educational attainment on race, political correctness, and global warming.

I can teach you how to open Google Chrome but you need to supply your own loo roll.

Youths on the tram. Somewhat disorderly but not disruptive. They were debating how to obtain food and/or goods since they're 'banned from the supermarket, banned from the plaza, banned from the local shop'.

Joseph and I will be having dinner in the city on Monday. Protests are good for the economy.