#songoftheday 185 Jul 4 America, Fuck Yeah Trey Parker On this day in 1776, 13 colonies declared independence from the mad king, who had been levying unfair taxes and weaponizing the justice system. Sound familiar? Here's to getting rid of him soon! No more kings in America!🇺🇸 youtu.be/MhQ5678cJU8

I have updated the pixel-art subway map! Please let me know if it needs any more updating

#songoftheday 184 Jul 3 Private Idaho The B-52s On this day in 1890, Idaho became the 43rd state youtu.be/BxHyliIspkA

Mitch McConnell found unconscious after ‘heart attack’ last month: reports

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

#songoftheday 183 Jul 2 Icarus Bastille On this day in 1982, Larry Walters flew over Los Angeles in a lawnchair. Upon landing, officials said "We know he broke some part of the Federal Aviation Act, and as soon as we decide which part it is, some type of charge will be filed" youtu.be/HtW-9GMZFoU

Real men don't need to entertain themselves with gambling. Real men entertain themselves playing 40 year-old video games on an emulator with ripped ROMs.

Zelda theory: move over Tetraforce, it's time for Fractalforce. Everything that has ever been triangular is part of this infinite Triforce.

The term "biological sex" was adopted widely only in the last decade as a reaction to mainstream acceptance of trans people. It was rarely if ever used before that. By any metric, from legislative usage to search query usage, it's plainly evident this is a novel term only made popular by the right.

Fun facts about demonyms from places Spain: Spaniards Liverpool: Scousers Tasmania: Tasmaniacs Oakland: San Franciscans Moscow: Muscovites Manhattan: Tanhatmen Rome: Romans San Jose: San Franciscans Maine: Mainiacs Sydney: Sydneysiders Massachusetts: Massholes Albany: Albanians Des Moines: Demonyms

In 2020, SEPTA made a series of mashup maps in the style of other places. Which of them is your favourite?

#songoftheday 182 Jul 1 Bicycle Race Queen On this day in 1903, the first Tour de France bike race began. youtu.be/6SI4EEnqWOY

Homeowners are so fucking funny dude "Oh the homes around me are way too much! Oh, my home? Oh it's fine, maybe I even deserve more!"

Fun fact: Plymouth was not named by the Pilgrims themselves, it was named by none other than Charles of Charles River fame. He was given a map to label because he really liked names. His only other namings that stuck are Cape Ann and Cape Elizabeth. One that didn't stick was Cape James for Cape Cod.

Public service announcement: youtu.be/QJ7jJvYXOcY

Fun fact about fun facts: all of the fun facts I share are true 😊

#songoftheday JUNE RECAP ◾️💡🇵🇭🚉🥥🔪🪂 🚇👻♋️❎️🚂🚄♨️ 🇦🇷⛰️🚋🎺🇸🇪🙋‍♀️🏞 ❄️🔥👑🏐🌍🪨🔄 🏳️‍🌈🏬🐷 Song of the Day is now 6/12 done. Please let me know how much you are enjoying Song of the Day. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#songoftheday 181 Jun 30 Exitlude The Killers On this day in 2022, Technoblade died of cancer at the age of 23. youtu.be/vNLHDJ-aEBk

Fun fact about the Nonbinary Flag: the designer picked the colours because they were a big fan of the Baltimore Ravens

This is a famous joke about Ringo Starr: "Who's your favourite Beatle?" "Ringo Starr" "Who's your favourite musician?" "Ringo Starr" "Can you name someone other than Ringo Starr?" "Richard Starkey" "Who's that?" "Ringo Starr" "Can you name anyone else?" "Billy Shears" "And who's that?" "Ringo Starr"

#songoftheday 180 Jun 29 Collapsing New Buildings Pennines On this day in 1995, 502 died in Korea's worst disaster. The Sampoong Department Store collapsed because it was literally the worst building ever made, and the company's evil greedy boss wouldn't let anybody evacuate. youtu.be/_DxwjDdjM3s

Went on a tour of Strathfield, Burwood, Auburn, and Parra. Only good food I got was a kebab from New Star in Auburn. Then I rode the F3, Sydney's longest ferry.

#songoftheday 179 Jun 28 Gay Bar Electric Six On this day in 1969, the LGBTQ fought the police at Stonewall, and made their oppression known to the world. youtu.be/WKjogg-CmOk

From the depths of Open Street Map: the Best House in Casula

I would like to congratulate Samsung for actually making a really good update to the camera app! Manual focus is now more precise (two digits instead of one) and it is now possible to set exposure to automatic. I can pan my video from the window to the interior! Now no need to use the default camera

Link should be Mayor of Hateno. He solved everybody's problems, he is obviously more qualified than either of the candidates. Cece should have endorsed her campaign manager as a write-in.

#songoftheday 178 Jun 27 Around the World Daft Punk On this day in 1898, Joshua Slocum was the first to circumnavigate the world solo. youtu.be/Jb6gcoR266U

Fun fact about living rooms: the reason modern TVs are so big is because of an arms race with interior designers about how far away from the sofa they can put it. A modern living room has an enormous TV on the opposite side of the room from the sofa, and it's also ridiculously high up for no reason.

Why does this say it can round in either direction? It's a maximum limit of discrete things, obviously it should always be rounded down. I would have gotten a perfect score on the quiz in class today if not for this. Next time the City of Sydney changes their LEP, they should fix this inconsistency.

When translating, always localise a name to its equivalent. The worse puns, the better! 🇦🇺 Lachlan Macquarie 🇨🇦 Jean Talon 🇯🇵 Ichiro, Jiro, Saburo, Shiro 🇩🇪 John, Paul, George, Ringo 🇺🇸 New York 🇹🇷 Istanbul 🇦🇺 Sydney Airport (SYD) 🇨🇦 Aéroport Saint-Denis (YQY) 🇺🇸 Philadelphia 🇯🇵 Kyoto 🇺🇸 Albany 🇦🇱 Albania

#songoftheday 177 Jun 26 I Remember the Rockaways Miles in Transit On this day in 1956, the IND Rockaway Line opened youtu.be/GF6GBo8pMk8

What if the Sydney Metro was French and worse? Stay tuned for an upcoming video about it!

Fun fact about Montreal YUL airport: it is called YUL for the actor Yul Brynner

Imagine driving a Schützengrabenvernichtungspanzerkraftwagen from Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch to Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg via Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukaka­piki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­ki­tana­tahu.

New York transit speedrun idea: the Non-Subway Challenge. SIR, HBLR, PATH, NLR, Roosevelt Island Tram, and JFK Airtrain

#songoftheday 176 Jun 25 Africa Toto On this day in 1954, David Paich was born youtu.be/FTQbiNvZqaY

I've started trying to install Google Earth Pro again. It still isn't working. I install it, open it up, and it won't load past plain black. Can literally anybody with a Mac tell me if Google Earth Pro still works for them?

This bike tour of the Sydney Light Rail is 70 km. It would be my longest bike ride ever, but if I pedal as hard as I can, I could probably bike the Sydney Light Rail within 4 hours. If the train was allowed instead of biking from Dulwich to Carlo, my bike-based speedrun could probably beat the tram.

Numbers that do not exist: - i - π - 2,147,483,649

#songoftheday 175 Jun 24 The Ballad of Big Balls Jesse Welles On this day in 2025, Edward "Big Balls" Coristine resigned from the Department of Government Efficiency, leaving the US government considerably less efficient than it had been before Musk and his thugs got into it. youtu.be/PL0oB1gbZE4

They should get rid of the T4 Waterfall branch and replace it with SCO service. Instead of stopping at whatever stations north of Sutherland, it would just be Hurstville and Wolli.

all timer footnote in "mayor of boston"

Steam Machine discourse? The only Steam Machines I care about are locomotives!

Someone had wedged a $2 coin into the $1 slot of a dryer. Finders keepers.

#songoftheday 174 Jun 23 Pigstep (Beatles) Lena Raine arr. Rednas On this day in 2020, the Nether Update was added to Minecraft youtu.be/hhHPcMLdgTI

#songoftheday 173 Jun 22 Cleveland Tourism Video Mike Polk Jr On this day in 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught fire youtu.be/fgoy73bgPGI

I took the 52 on its first day. My suggestions for TfNSW: - Make sure bus drivers know the rules about folding bikes - Make a second busway on the north side of Parra station, because it took 5 minutes to get around to the south one and I missed my train - Commit to the bit, make all ADFN two digits

#songoftheday 172 Jun 21 Winter Vivaldi It's the solstice today. Here's your reminder that I am in the southern hemisphere. Maybe I'll see some snow if I go to the Blue Mountains on a cold morning. Meanwhile in Sydney I'm still wearing shorts and sleeping with an open window. youtu.be/UWmHGjR3gWc

A trolleybus is headed towards 5 people on the street. If you don't pull the lever, it just goes around them, and nobody is hurt. However, if you pull the lever, it diverts the trolleypoles, causing the bus to dewire, and nobody is hurt but the driver has to get out to fix it. Do you pull the lever?

3801 has just been fixed up, and I got to see her go by when we all went to Sydney Tramway Museum