Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️ @alexjago51.bsky.social · 03/10/2026New from me: Victorian election predictor, using my Senate 4PP method. abjago.net/4PP-projecti... #auspol 222
Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️ @alexjago51.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Are you a lover of choral music? Have you ever thought about becoming a Patron of the Arts? Do you just have too much money? If any or all of these things apply to you please consider donating. $2 or more is tax deductible! artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2...artists.australianculturalfund.org.auArtist Portal 010
Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️ @alexjago51.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Deeply ironic that Adelaide's bid for COP31 has a good chance of exclusion-zoning a heap of their rail public transport. This is hot on the heels of SA Labor locking in parking minimums! There's gotta be something in the water... 000
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Going to be rather enjoyable seeing the reactions of those parents supporting the ban of social media for under 16s, discovering that means they now have to prove to YouTube, FB, etc that they are over 16. "I thought this was just about the kids, I'm over 16, why do I need to provide ID???!!!!!" 2427361
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 19/07/2025A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years 332437842
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 31/05/2025CUT MY LIST IN TWO PIECES THAT’S HOW YOU START QUICKSORT 131262248
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Anti-preferencers still being seen whinging about Labor getting 62.7% of seats off 34.6% of primary votes when under the system they support UK Labour 2024 got 63.2% of seats off 33.7% of votes. 1410921
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 24/05/2025The Portland area transit service expansion plan that we worked on had just two goals: ridership and equity. Here are some of the payoffs: New service in lower-income inner-ring suburbs, including a new Frequent line and a new line that has a chance to be Frequent someday. But there's more 🧵 1/ 16713
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Chris Cox @coxyjindas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Because by occupying one of the 6 traffic lanes for a period of about half an hour, "people's right to freedom of movement would be excessively interfered with". So people's right to freedom of movement being completely denied for months without end is fine, but impeding a few cars is a problem. 174
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Better Transport Queensland @bettertransportqueensland.org · 18/05/2025Wave goodbye to heavy rail to Maroochydore. www.bettertransportqueensland.org/releases/wav... How do you feel about having BRT use the reserved corridor to Maroochydore?bettertransportqueensland.orgWave goodbye to heavy rail to Maroochydore - Better Transport QueenslandStay informed with the latest official media releases from Better Transport Queensland—covering public, active, and sustainable transport updates fresh from the source! 034
Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️ @alexjago51.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Never thought I'd see this - and it will likely change with more prepoll and postal - but LNP are below two quotas in Qld right now. (PHON + Rennick + Trumpet ≈ 1 Q) So in terms of results it's a 2-2-1-1 like last time, but I have no idea who'll come unlucky 7th 110
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 14/04/2025Reading this while I'm preparing to give evidence at a parliamentary hearing tomorrow afternoon supporting a planning amendment bill that does nothing but fast-track public housing and public health infrastructure 093
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Renters can be a powerful voting bloc this election - if we're organised! Shoutout to @betterrenting.bsky.social who are coordinating renters to use our collective power to push the government to fix renting. I've taken the Renter Pledge and if you're a renter, you should too!renters-election.auRenters Election 2025We can make 2025 the Renters' Election. Take the Renter Pledge and commit to use your vote to fix renting. 11513
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 11/04/2025"Girl, I don't need no lifted truck/Revving loud to pick you up" Chappell Roan, welcome to the war on cars! youtu.be/DubtPdXXjew?...youtu.beChappell Roan - The Giver (Official Lyric Video)YouTube video by ChappellRoanVEVO 115114
Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️ @alexjago51.bsky.social · 09/04/2025If an MP were to spend every waking moment meeting voters, that works out to about 8 minutes 45 seconds per voter over a 3 year term. 010
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Have you met your local member this election campaign - or ever? @australiainstitute.org.au fellow Skye Predavec shows in 1903, a single MP represented 25,000 voters. Now it's 120,000. Any surprise most Aussies have never met their local member? australiainstitute.org.au/post/electio...australiainstitute.org.auElection entrée: Electorates are bigger than everIn the 2025 Australian election there will be about 120,000 registered voters per elected MP. 183313
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Liam Pomfret @liampomfret.com · 31/03/2025Media: *Writes articles on “No party is doing [policy issue] for [demographic group of voters] this #ausvotes “* Numerous minor parties: *Have brought this policy to elections for roughly the past decade.* It’d be wonderful if the media here stopped pretending we’re a two party system. #auspol 121
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel. 111136364874
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 26/03/2025James May, former host of [checks notes] Top Gear, welcome to The War on Cars.standard.co.ukCars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James MayTV star has idea for Hammersmith bridge - and calls anti-cycling council ‘tw*ts’ 13675134
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Australian Basic Income Lab @ausbasicincome.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Tonight! It's 5 yrs since Australia partially ended poverty (and then reintroduced it!) Our Co-Director Elise Klein will join folks from the @antipovertycentre.org reflecting on the 'natural experiment' that showed Australia could end poverty if it chose to. Online event, link in APC tweet below 066
Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️ @alexjago51.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Something that folks with my ethnic background don't have to think about very often: What happens when someone who's enrolled under e.g. their Chinese given name wants to run under their English given* name instead? * "taken" name might be more accurate here! 100
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Gentle reminder that the quaint European pedestrian streets filling your Instagram feed were very recently just as fucked up and full of cars as most American ones. But they did something about it. 7462120
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025We have new laws with seriously dangerous consequences in response to what was a fake plot police believe was designed to divert attention and resources to enable other criminal acts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comSydney caravan a ‘fake terrorism plot’ and antisemitic attacks a scheme to divert police resources, authorities allege‘The caravan plot was an elaborate scheme contrived by organised criminals domestically and from offshore,’ AFP deputy commissioner Krissy Barrett says 43778346
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️natalia barbour @nataliabarbour.bsky.social · 28/02/2025We already know that incentivizing EVs can stimulate adoption but in case you wonder about the demand for the other type of EVs aka e-bikes, here are a few numbers: — California: The queue to apply for California’s new e-bike incentive program, which offered 1,500 vouchers, reached 100,000 people. 936666
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025media.tenor.coma cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideasAlt: a cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas 0167
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Yet more proof, as if any were needed, that first past the post is simply not a serious electoral system 0198
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 15/02/20252/3 of real estate agents aren’t subject to the Privacy Act. REA reps love to say that including them would be “overreach” while at the same time insisting they *already* focus on data protection. Well, if you’re already doing the right thing then being covered wouldn’t make a difference, would it?amp.abc.net.auPicking tenants on 'vibes': How estate agents can exploit personal data - ABC News 143
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 15/02/2025We actually *don’t* have to trust real estate agencies to do the right thing with our data. Renters have no choice but to give it to you, but we don’t have to trust you with it. Relying on the goodwill of REAs ain’t it. Strong and enforced law forcing them to act fairly and responsibly is though. 033
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 14/02/2025"These emissions are largely unregulated by legislation and the study found that these 'non-exhaust' pollution sources are now responsible for the majority of vehicle particulate matter emissions in the UK and parts of Europe, with brake dust the main contributor among them."theguardian.comBrake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study saysResearch shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated 921152
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Duo, welcome to The War on Cars. 118732
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Matthew Bowes @mbowes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025I’m genuinely confused by this line of argument. As we show in the paper, the evidence is that rent assistance has minimal impact on rents. But even aside from that, it’s really just a welfare payment. Should we be concerned that the JobSeeker payment ‘guarantees’ the profits of Coles and Woolies? 041
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 08/02/2025Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025) We will keep up the good work. Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup 161378345
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 05/02/2025"The most abundant nanoplastic was tyre particles (41%), then polystyrene (28%) and polyethylene (12%). Each tyre on the world’s 1.6bn vehicles can lose 4kg during its lifetimes and may be the largest source of tiny plastic pollution."theguardian.comVehicle tyres found to be biggest source of nanoplastics in the high AlpsMountaineers now scaling more peaks for first global study of nanoplastics, which can enter lungs and bloodstream 7397153
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year …but spends just $0.90 on walking and cycling infrastructure The result? Australia has the smallest number of walking trips of 15 comparable countries across Western Europe and North America www.linkedin.com/pulse/austra... 56518
Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️ @alexjago51.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I've spent a heap of the last week thinking about various different ways to identify the frequent network, based on what's in my local transit agency's #gtfs dataset. I started out counting services across a week, then measured "frequent all day, every day" abjago.net/transport/20...abjago.netIdentifying Frequent Stops with GTFSSometimes when I’m doing analysis I find myself needing to figure out how many services each route (or stop/station) has in a week, or if a location has frequent service. 000
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Nightingale developments are pretty much the gold standard and do everything the most ardent NIMBY claim they want — non-profit developer, architecturally designed, portion for social housing, climate conscious, communal spaces. 43110
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Public Transport Users Association @ptua.org.au · 13/01/2025Want to learn some of the theory behind planning effective public transport systems? 🚉🚋🚌🚏 This video short course from renowned transit planner Jarrett Walker is free until the end of January. #PublicTransport courses.planetizen.c...courses.planetizen.comIntroduction to Transit Service PolicyThis course explores the geometric facts underlying how transit networks work and how these networks interact with the built environment to create ridership potential. This discussion includes a review of key principles and examples from various recent network designs. We review the multiple and competing goals for transit, and what difficult tradeoffs still need to be made in making transit policy. We will also explore the relatively new concept of access to opportunity as a possibly unifying measure of a transit network’s success. 0254
Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️ @alexjago51.bsky.social · 17/01/2025I wonder how many times in Australian politics we've had a significant 3CP rematch? Anyway, Brisbane 2025 will be that! 000
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Ethan Gilbert ✨🏗️ @ethangilbert.bsky.social · 17/01/2025It's frustrating the higher education discourse focuses so much on HECS-HELP debt rather than income support for those studying. I feel like we've got the order of priorities completely backward! www.theage.com.au/national/kat...theage.com.auKatherine will soon join an elite club. The price? Living on $87 a dayWhen Katherine hands in her PhD this year, she’s set to join an elite club of just 2 per cent of Australians. But it’s been a financial marathon to get there. 151
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Urbanism is the radical idea that people who are not in cars still count as people. 4471107
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 08/01/2025There’s only one thing NIMBYs hate more than new housing: poor people 4165
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 07/01/2025PS fact checks don’t suppress speech, fact checks are actually MORE SPEECH. /end 649063
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 01/01/2025Dorina and Hal are both right that we need to put making housing more affordable before NIMBY’s self-interest and we need to build more medium density housing in Brisbane. And the best way we can do both is by overturning Brisbane’s outdated and exclusionary low-density character housing zones.abc.net.auLower home values a fair price for more housing, planner saysApartment owners in the Brisbane suburb of St Lucia fear a new development nearby will lower their property prices, but urban planners say housing affordability is more important. 1209
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️YIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 27/12/2024It’s a little unfair that we are asking transit buses, of all vehicles, to carry the water for decarbonizing transportation. The technology is there for private autos which are a much bigger source of pollution but it is not nearly as good for buses which have a much more demanding service pattern. 1528861
Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️ @alexjago51.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Do I *really* need ABS TableBuilder to get POWP data? It's a bit annoying that the ABS doesn't provide pre-baked POWP totals for SA2s. It'd make some basic analyses way easier. (Yes, not all workplaces have a fixed location). (I have two broken TableBuilder logins lol) 000
Reposted by Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️Matthew Bowes @mbowes.bsky.social · 15/12/2024A fascinating essay here on how housing shortages make it harder for those at risk of homelessness to find informal housing arrangements. “Trying to solve homelessness without addressing the housing market is like trying to towel a floor dry when the roof has blown off.” worksinprogress.co/i...worksinprogress.coWhy housing shortages cause homelessness - Works in ProgressWhy do high-cost cities have more homelessness? It's not just about rents — it’s also about the rooms friends and family can’t afford to share. 031