Really wish the vic government would stop fucking saying they are gonna put kids in jail and have some guts. Progressive government my ass. Stop listening to facebook and newscorp and listen to experts.

Listen to this sook whining to get fed

I guess the Liberals have given up on getting the rest of the “teal” seats back, heck Tim Wilson might lose his seat again and more might follow.

This Epstein stuff seems worse then I was expecting. I guess a lot of the conspiracy brained people were right?

There really needs to be an infrastructure map that shows shared path closures for maintenance, flooding and any other issues. I shouldn't have to hope someone posts something on facebook to notify the community groups I'm in to find out.

Screw these lawless assholes man. The area is so inaccessible they just treat it like its their own land

I'm only half way through this vid but John Forrester was legitimately an evil man who made sure many many cyclists died due to his crazy cult like devotion to "vehicular cycling' and advocating against safe bike infrastructure. He influenced policy in Australia too not just the US.

This is how Aussies dealt with their constitutional crisis 50 years ago to this day

I want to send my friend in Utah a full playlist of songs I heard when growing up (he's my age) and see which ones he knows and which ones he doesn't. He has never seen any music from "Talking Heads" at all I have learned.

Fascinating article. maybe there is much more to affordability and an economy then just getting prices down, you wouldn't know from the discourse though.

Oh man this is so sad, I ride past this spot on the trail all the time so it hits kind of hard.

Turns on the ABC: "Melbourne is not the place I grew up in" and a long segment about how bad crime is right now. Lady there were violent gang riots against police in my town when i was just starting school.

I wish I could get more car brained people to read articles like this with an open mind instead of raging at cyclists, its not defending people who put pedestrians in danger or are dicks but cites some evidence to say that its actually safer for a cyclist to clear the intersection more quickly.

I know its just advertising regulation but how many Americans look at this ad and go "Yeah I want that I'm gonna talk to my doc!"

I hate that when i look at a pic or video that someone is sharing as cool my first thought now is to skeptically look at it wondering if it’s AI generated.

I think I need to find some more podcasts and books to consume about "The Dismissal' as if I'd be tempted to watch a 50 year anniversary thing on Sky ergh.

Musk telling people at his stupid conference that people can text and drive soon with his cars. Who is even asking for that? (rhetorical question)

there is a "T6" cricket tournament in hong kong today and it fascinates me I may need to switch it on in the background. I thought 20 overs was a short game.

I've been watching some US TV streams over the last day and the medical ads, drugs ads and ads for companies offering to buy out your life insurance are pretty jarring.

I didn't realise how much clickbait AI slop is out there mostly targeting pensioners and its all over google search. I've even seen a some of them show up in the google news discover section on chrome in iOS.

There is a cafe in Japan where you can pat "Micro pigs" and have them sit in your lap.

I am so terrible at worrying about weird sounds on my bike *bird cheeps* "Is that my drivetrain? *shorts rub against seat* "Damn do I need to lube my pedals?" *shoe lace hits frame* "WTF is that sound?" *runners shoes hit the ground* "Shit is the brake pad rubbing?"

I know its weird as someone who isn't from the US but I always like to watch Steve Kornacki getting excited and gesticulating wildly about election numbers.

"News orgs" posting cycling bait on social media is a real problem imo, channel 7 news Australia posted a CCTV video of a cyclist having an accident in Poland and they are getting a lot of engagement and arguing but how is that news?

I remember when racist ai was twitter automatically cropping preview pics of Obama without his face showing. That was only 5 years go. We have come an awful long way since then haven't we.

some asshole (who was probably off his face) was walking on the right hand side of a shared path at the start of my ride and so i courteously used my bell, he turned around lined me up and shoved me off the shared path and then started swearing at me and chasing, good thing i was on a gravel bike

My original hot take on deepfake videos was that they probably weren't a really big deal as its easier for people to just take a small clip out of context and achieve a similar result but the AI slop videos made with just some prompts have now made it a lot worse. It's everywhere on social media

man whenever you go back to looking at old songs and music vids you always find something that is creepy and weird that you never really noticed or thought about at the time, so much has aged extremely poorly

Ergh i forgot that drivers beep at kids in costume today. My instant response is that I’m about to die or a driver is annoyed at me.

"Housing for people over housing for cars" is an amazing take.

I saw a hotted up noisy Subaru with fenders with the number plate "CRINGE" while out on a ride and I giggled. I will pay that.

Higher prices for parking during popular events is good, actually, as is charging more for SUVs. In this essay we will...

All the Aussies obsessed with democracy and the constitutional crisis in the US right now should read up about our own constitutional crisis back in 1975 if they haven't already. I wonder what Australian society would look like today if we gave Gough a few more years to do stuff.

There is so much AI video slop from sora on facebook and hardly anyone even calls it out for what it is its all like "wow" and "how cute" maybe all the comments are bots.

Did anyone actually hear about the "unplug 24" campaign before October 24th? I only saw old posts from my mps about it after it already happened.

I wonder how far the people who are ok with being hurt by a government as long as the people they hate are hurt more put up with it before they actually turn on said government.

I wonder what people who need to take their bike on a train do when the train service is replaced by buses due to outages in vic, it kind of sucks for them that buses don't have any option to even take a couple bikes apart from a few services in rural vic.

Fantastic Melbourne Spring weather i love it.

I think there was a tornado out west of Melbourne or something

Bernie Sanders being quoted on supporting Trumps border policies on a bunch of far right wing blogs. I guess horrific border policies are now bipartisan in the US now permanently just like they are in Australia.

All the gambling ad bullshit during the cricket coverage is enraging, the shit should have been banned already.

Even without all the nonsensical AI generated video garbage this is just a fucking horrible "choose your own adventure" game.

Started listening to the "Life after Cars" audiobook and apparently Superman was extremely woke in 1939

Can't believe its one month until the ashes, year has gone by so freaking fast.

I reckon I get a pass on going outside today to exercise.

Tried hard not to watch the vid of Albo sucking up to Trump and get annoyed. Failed.

For some reason I am watching a Japanese navy band perform the opening theme songs to "Space Battleship YAMATO" on youtube

Actually went for a ride and got 0 magpie swoops, is it over? I am seeing a lot of magpie babies out of the nests doing the whiny little song asking to be fed.

So far the Victorian Liberals have as their platform for the 2026 election: 1. Crime (they did this in 2018 with a very racist campaign and got smashed) 2. Repealing the treaty with first nations that is being passed right now. Do they even have anything to campaign on that isn't a culture war?