Slow Rider

I've just checked, me and millions of others are stuffed. My house in Sydney is 31m above sea level and the one I'm moving to in Melbourne is 5m ASL.

My summer in Norway left me sad to be Australian In the month I spend there, I learn that Norway is a country where the perks of clever policy abound. But it’s who pays for these perks that is so exasperating.

This explains why we can’t have nice things in Australia. www.smh.com.au/environment/...

According to a lot of very knowledgeable people on the interweb, EVs catch fire all the time.

Chart showing the the unemployment rate is now the highest it has been since the end of 2021

The latest unemployment figures show the RBA has utterly failed its role of maintaining full employment.
#OffTheCharts
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Drivers: Cyclists should be registered!
Cyclists: Please stop killing us.

Australian road fatalities have hit a 15-year high, but why? Australia has just endured its “deadliest 12 months on the road since 2010, with 1337 deaths, up 4.8 per cent from a year earlier.”

Australia's latest fatality data shows a year-on-year increase of 4.8 per cent to 1337 deaths to the end of May this year.....largely attributed to the increase in deaths of cyclists (up 36.7% to 41 deaths) and pedestrians (up 15.7% to 192 deaths). www.drive.com.au/news/cyclist...

I don't detest cyclists; I love cyclists, including Pog.

Back in the day, there was even the Subaru Brumby ute. There is one that parks nearby here and I see it occasionally - it looks tiny these days.

They may be practical, but in an old person's "I remember when" moment, I remember when utes were based on the standard GMH and Ford sedans and even the 'standard' sized ones seem huge to me now. And, yes, the RAM style ones are outrageously huge and should be banished forever.

It’s large utes and SUVs, per se, that I object to regardless of power plant. It’s strikes me that such vehicles are unnecessarily large and, in most cases, my guess is that their functions could be achieved with a smaller vehicle.

Transport NSW must find a way to clean the cycle lane as the separated lanes just fill up with leaves and other debris.

Bridge Road Cycleway, Glebe Bridge Road is a key strategic bike riding route linking the Inner West to the City. Transport for NSW will deliver an upgraded and permanent cycleway on Bridge Road and plans to start work in early 2...

Good news as the semi-temporary-permanent barrier thingy that has been there since the Covid pandemic is constantly being bumped by cars and then it partially blocks the cycle lane. www.transport.nsw.gov.au/projects/cur...

I'm so happy that Americans are getting what they voted for. (Not so happy that it will negatively affect the rest of us here in the real world, but we might be able to go our own way sans the US).

She could already be in an El Salvadoran prison as we speak.

Lady Liberty is an illegal French immigrant; she should be deported.

No, those ‘quiet Australians’ quietly love it.

If I never have to list my pronouns again, it will have been all worth it.

Trump is better: arm and support Israel and tank the American ecomony as that way pretty soon the US won't be able to afford to supply arms to anyone.

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I just had a chat with the Amazon helpdesk peeps to tell them that I won't be renewing my Amazon Prime membership nor will I be ordering anything from Amazon or Kindle in protest at Trump's tariffs. They asked, so that is because of 'the recent changes in America's trade policy?' I said, yes.

Shameless doesn't really cover it. They are revelling in their criminality.

UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit Food and Drink Federation say businesses are struggling to deal with added ‘complexity and bureaucracy’

I imagine that it hurts for quite a while after you've shot yourself in the foot. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The cars eating Australia: should we be trying to reverse our attraction to SUVs and utes? Australians are hooked on tax perks while road fatalities and emissions are surging and spending on petrol and insurance increasing

Should we be trying to reverse our attraction to SUVs and utes? Fuck yeah.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Good stuff!

Time to take action tyreextinguishers.com

I want to get a V2L cable for my EV and I want to go V2G when we move to our new house that has solar in Melbourne next year. Leaving Sydney 😱

Petey is an idiot, not a scientist.

From sterilising baby bottles to charging laptops, some Australians powered through Cyclone Alfred using EV batteries With power unlikely to be restored in some areas for weeks, EV owners are finding clever uses for their ‘batteries on wheels’

Ew knew eh? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Trump says Putin launching massive strike on Ukraine is ‘what anybody would do’ US president says Russian counterpart ‘doing what anybody else would do’ as Ukraine faces escalating aerial attacks

Donald says “it’s what anybody would do.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...