There's a month-long "Big Ride 4 Palestine" fundraiser for emergency relief in Gaza and supporting Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. I've joined @davidshoebridge.bsky.social's team with some fellow cycling Greens - feel free to donate if you can: big-ride-4-pal.raiselysite.com/t/greenssena...

On today's World Day of Remembrance for Road Victims it is worth noting that in the two years since Wales implemented a national default 20mph (32km/h) there have been 25% fewer casualties on such roads with over 1,000 fewer people killed or injured. youtu.be/efr3uVKpOwY

On Thursday I attended the reading of a bill to reduce speed limits in residential areas to 30km/h. Cue the online outrage about how this will ruin lives. Not a single day later a pedestrian is killed in a shopping area where the speed limit is 60km/h. And commenters call it a "tragic accident"

Oh dang, I've been very offline the last few days and missed this news. Not only Square Enix, but now Crystal ☹️ Also not sure if I still know anyone at Crystal, but this makes me sad. Worked with some very talented people there too for some years.

Well done to @kobishettymp.bsky.social who just did a phenomenal reading for her bill to introduce a 30km/h limit on local, residential streets across NSW. Hopefully we can catch up with the international standards for safe streets, and allow people to choose sustainable transport options 💚

Opinion | You don’t accidentally allow 60 black-clad Nazis to parade in front of Parliament House holding an antisemitic banner. You allow it because you want to, @marquelawyers.com.au writes.

Ah damn, it's been a while, but just got a bit ranty at work about some hack that's now causing bugs in what I'm trying to write. Went back to check who created the hack. It was me ☹️

Not sure I even still know anyone at Square Enix after all the studio sales and previous layoffs, but my thoughts go out to all those affected. I worked together with some good people across Square Enix on Tomb Raider and The Avengers, makes me sad to see this happen 😔

Life goal

In NSW, white supremacist neo-nazis are allowed to run free with their hate, racism and anti-semitism, while those standing up for justice for Palestine are relentlessly attacked, policed and vilified. Shame on the Minns Labor government.

OK wtf, so we get pepper sprayed by police on Tuesday for peacefully protesting against *checks notes* a weapons convention with companies that are making money from genocide. And then on Saturday literal Nazis are allowed to stand like this in front of parliament house unbothered by cops.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Kudos to these parents calling for more safety. They are only asking for staff to monitor this driveway during school zone hours. (Obviously) I'd go several steps further and say all schools should be aiming for total car-free zones during school hours: nltimes.nl/2023/09/08/a...

STILL SEEKING RENTER RESEARCHERS: if you want to stop melting in your NSW rental every summer, become a Renter Researcher and join the Renter Lab to put your home's boiling summer temps to good use!

Sorry, wtf, this mine owes the state $30 million and fucked over the staff, yet the owner is a billionaire? Feels like.. there's a way to solve this problem. Far out though, $30 million. And people give me shit about paying for a fucking bridge. Instead we prop up mining companies with that money.

That was an eventful morning. Went out to join the protest against the weapons conference because 🤢😡, (or as Hannah said "this event is fucked"). Things got a bit spicy and police overreacted and pepper spayed the whole protest. I only got a small amount, but ugh, not a fun experience.

I joined the Greens a year ago and it's been so great I wish I'd done it earlier somehow. Hanging out with people with the same morals and passion to make things better is an amazing antidote to the doom and gloom of the world. If you're Inner West (or Sydney) based then come along and meet us all 💚

Hey nice, an article about the bridge we've been advocating for. Not sure yet what I think about the design proposed by a local, but cool to learn the petition has over 1000 signatures 💪 Could get so many more locals cycling to work with this open again.

Oddly proud of myself after taking two loads of cardboard and electronic waste to the recycling centre in the little pet trailer attached to the back of my bike. Who needs to release video games or get thanked in parliament when you can just get dopamine from recycling by bike..

The Queensland government has again banned treatment for trans young people despite being overruled by the Supreme Court. Sign this petition now: equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/qld...

Adding to my collection of photos out cycling with politicians. This time Inner West Greens councillor Ismet Tastan 💚

Good luck with the elections today NL 💚

What happens when we outsource to enterprise LLMs for storytelling, & the inherent biases they were trained on start compounding over many quests? 🤔 @chrissimon.au has researched the LLM supply chain and believes its biases will unavoidably creep into game stories & dialogue.

Not fun: corporate training videos at big companies. Sort of fun: at least at video game companies these contain clips from the company's games to keep it kind of interesting Not fun: using clips from sections of a game I've had to fix a bug and thus have watched 10,000 times before *twitch* 🫠

Ugh what, get fucked - please don't bring these things here, the roads are dangerous enough already without AI driving 3 tonne machines around.

Also: anyone who wants to use this as a chance to wallow in doom and despair can fuck right off - every tonne of CO2 matters, every fraction of a degree we prevent saves lives and ecosystems. We need to fight like HELL to save what we can, grieve what we can’t, and lock up those responsible.

It always amazes me that developers keep whining about red tape and then we see the outcome of cutting tape or simply ignoring red tape… argh! www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Labor has said they will not give AI and big tech a ‘total exemption’ from copyright laws. Ok good. Now how about joining with the Greens and giving creatives some serious enforceable rights to stop their stuff being stolen?

So far this weekend I have written one government feedback submission, reviewed another and written two speeches for the upcoming council meeting this week. All concerning active transport. 😩 Poor councillors will be extremely sick of me soon, I'm sure

Coworkers both sleeping in the job again

It's going to get up to 40° in Sydney today. Summer hasn't even started yet. If you're baking in your rental home, join our Renter Lab to help us make sure renters don't have to suffer through another unbearable summer: bit.ly/renter-lab-S...

Well, I thought we'd get nobody on the bike bus today due to the heat (39 degrees forecast for Sydney today 💀), but ALL our newbies from last week's ride showed up again today. So awesome!

They should replace the White House with a really wide bike lane

Getting me through my Tuesday, thanks Charlotte Wessels youtu.be/yWqsWZJkKeE?...

35 degrees in October, wtf is this. Can't wait until summer is over, 7 months from now in May..

The local market is amazing but I have some questions (that maybe I don't want answered)

This is awesome, from my old neighbourhood in Amsterdam. Basically a community/ volunteer taxi service where rides cost 1 euro, and they only use the tiny "Canta" cars which are so small and slow they are allowed to travel in the bike lane. For people who can't cycle or easily use public transport

Caught the tram today because I did not want to cycle in the heat (yeah, yeah). But look at the cool tram that turned up! @suckerpunchprod.bsky.social

I think my favourite thing about watching the NotJustBikes videos now that I'm living in Aus, is seeing all the familiar Amsterdam places and instantly being able to tell exactly where each shot is taken. This is the big roundabout on the Amstelveenseweg, I'd go this way to get to the forest ❤️

Do you think it has a quest for me?

omfg got thanked in parliament again 🤯 www.instagram.com/p/DP0UJtnkprv/

We did it, double digits on the bike bus today! (Including someone we picked up at a stop after this point). We even had 3 newbies, one of whom told me she bought a bike because she read about our bike bus 😭

“Living car-free is the most impactful behavior by far in terms of reducing emissions.”

I very much dislike the few weeks of the year where Australia and The Netherlands are BOTH in daylight savings time. Makes my meetings super awkwardly timed..

Oh neat, my bike bus is advertised on the @bicyclensw.bsky.social site for National Ride to Work day this week. I think we might actually crack double digits in terms of attendee numbers, which hasn't happened since we made a big deal of dragging our MP along with us last year.

OK I think I am just no fun at family gatherings. When the conversation inevitably turns to complaining about the traffic on the way to/from the gathering, and the person talking to me suggests "they really need to widen X road", I just can't bring myself, I have to vehemently disagree.

We're told the online age verification codes will prevent young people from seeing sexual or violent content but it's simply not true. Those searching in a logged out state can still search for this content. Companies are going to be age checking all of us for nothing!

Reunited with the little fuzzball, and she seems very pleased to see us. Non stop purring and following us around the house ❤️

Being back at Melbourne Games Week after 11 years has been strange but nice. I think I've changed more than MIGW has, which I think is a good thing. Still a good opportunity for coming together as an industry and feeling connected. And Australian, which I haven't felt for a while.

Oh nice, more progress on the 30km/h bill in NSW! It made such a positive difference in Amsterdam when they lowered limits to 30, I'd love to experience it again. So I guess back to parliament to show my support 😊 Come join if you're available! www.kobishetty.org.au/30km_h_2nd_r...