This is what I saw this morning on my bike ride to the train station. These are 9 magpies on the nature strip.

I am a rare case where the Big Switch for the Melbourne train timetables is making my commute time worse because the only change on the Craigieburn line for 9-5 commuters is the 4:55pm from Southern Cross will no longer run, meaning you have to take the city loop, or change trains at north melb

Australia should pay Taiwan many billions of dollars for them to build us more submarines. I am not a crackpot

The total lack of interest the federal ALP has in resisting their urge to dive bomb the international rules based order is so galling

This is a huge problem and reversing Scomo’s Stage 3 Tax Cuts wouldn’t even partially address it

Seeing ads for a new season of Australian Idol reminds of conversations around 20 years ago about how Australian Idol was a blood sport capitalising on chronic Australian government underfunding of the performing arts

Today was a very good day for watching cats in front yards

Just a friendly reminder that Channel 7's Sunrise helped resurrect Pauline Hanson's career. In 2016, Hanson was paid to appear on Sunrise at least 16 times. She then successfully re-entered politics in the federal election that year, resurrecting the One Nation party. Thanks Kochie and Sam!

A warm day today! Watering the garden before work, then talking about the garden after work at the Merri-bek Gardens For Wildlife session!

This is my assessment of a Hungry Jacks in Glenroy: ❌ HJs is on the BDS list ❌ a drivethru across a bi-directional bike path ❌ a single story building 250m from a Zone 1 train station

I very much want this section of pedestrian path built. I would love #merribek council to go onto this.

Quality journalism from ABC #auspol

Listening to people on the train complain about the Ascot Vale reception backhole. As valid as ever - doesn't matter on your carrier, and yes even when you're above ground, it's simply not good enough @ptua.org.au

Interesting to see SLQ learned nothing from SLV's Teen Writing Camp screw up in early 2024 www.deepcutnews.com/p/first-nati...

It’d be great if Australia had some of these guidelines in place

It’s like @victorianlabor.bsky.social heard my cries! www.premier.vic.gov.au/pt-blitz-mor...

Charging for or allocating rights to scarce public space is one of core policy tools available to local councils to manage congestion. That so many of Melbourne’s councils refuse to charge for parking shows an abject lack of respect for the public they serve. Full article below.

Anybody claiming #Melbourne CBD is dead doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Commuting has changed but it’s busier than ever on weekends. What hasn’t changed is the public transport timetables, despite huge demand.

What does Mum *really* want for Mother's Day? Maybe it’s a place in one of Council's Bike Maintenance Workshops with Bike it Better? And if Mum doesn’t want to do the workshop maybe she wants YOU to do it and pledge a year’s free maintenance? www.eventbrite.com.au/cc/bike-main...?

Should Australia really be buying submarines from these people?

Twice 🙄 @ptua.org.au

Another day in the office, another day experiencing the Moonee Ponds to Ascot Vale mobile network deadzone

I used one today and got that good brain buzz feeling

Feels ridiculous to be driving into the CBD today, but the trains are so infrequent it’s not worth the wait

I very much want to see what the triangle looks like for this election

My take on the election that no one asked for is that due to Trump Australians are afraid of change of any sort for the moment. Even if the status quo is bad, there’s a fear that the alternative could be worse. I mean, look at what happened to the US!

How the FUCK do you view applications on the SPEAR website? I think the old Sphinx Hotel is going to be redeveloped and I need to know EVERYTHING. (Ref S247618J)

I’ve voted and I’m mostly upset about having to go to Essendon to vote early

Since the supermarkets are closed, why not while away the hours* by emailing your candidates about refugees? *this only takes 2 minutes

Glenroy Festival is on Sunday 4 May! I won’t be around fixing bikes this year as I’m seeing Jesus Christ Superstar, but @merri-bekbug.bsky.social will be!

This is one thing that has improved in Australia over the last 20 years. We’ve moved away from using accident and to using crash. Mostly because car crash investigators will tell you that in 99% of cases someone is at fault

📢 From 11:59pm tonight, all public transport services will operate on an extremely limited public holiday timetable. 🚌🚋 We understand this is inconvenient. Thank you for your patience as we continue to ignore the way people actually travel on weekends and public holidays.

Hilton St is now 40km/h, but only next to the cemeteries, high school, and old folks home

There’s something so fulfilling about reading some information that you hadn’t considered before - mining is stealing jobs from the house building market

Oh dear, a puff piece from CLG, could it be Albover already?

After the protected bike lanes on Elizabeth Street were introduced, the percentage of women biking increased. This is a good thing! streets-alive-yarra.org/better-for-w...

These tax cuts are stupid. I’d prefer that tax money be collected and used for better public services like more public transport, more funding for public housing, and incentives for transition away from fossil fuels.

Just want to point out that Return To Office directives are a conservative tactic to reduce the number of women in the workforce

Article in The Age today about making SRL precincts ‘car-lite’. A great move! SRL recommends bike hire schemes in those areas. Vic Lobs say ‘not everyone can ride a bike’

Got pooed on by a rainbow lorikeet this morning, had to return home to clean my self and change my tee.

All urban boundary growth in Melbourne from the 1980s to now has been absent of any public transport planning and now we need to urgently catch up. I’m glad the west is getting there long, LONG awaited train improvements!

Why is the government saying they’ll provide cheaper fares off peak? The fares are cheap enough, a greater benefit would be to have more frequent services off peak

Hate reading that Infrastructure Victoria wants the 58 tram to be extended to Batman Station. It should be extended to Glenroy Station!

Some good reporting here on Vic Labor’s atrocious tower teardown. Not releasing costs to repair the towers, and also replacing public housing with social housing, is showing this to be a stitch up by Purple Labor’s real estate donors

The only mention of budgets in this article that fawns over private school but provides no context that private schools are being given public money and as a result 98% of public schools are funded below the School Resource Standard.

Sorry everyone, but I’ve been reading The Age again today

Got my twitter posts ported over to here and now deleting the account. Not going to miss it!

Had a read of this article this morning. It’s such a relief to read articles that part of big media companies banned talking points johnmenadue.com/truth-tellin...

I have requested my Twitter archive data, and then I’ll upload it here and delete my Twitter account for good!

Someone bought Auntie Rosa’s pizza in Glenroy and by the sound of it they are going to change everything but keep everything the same