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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈

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Transport Planner 🌈 Also at aus.social/@augustusbrown Naarm (Melbourne, Aus)

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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mind your containers. ATSB, 2020.
A raised view looking down a railway line. A shipping container is perpendicular across the tracks in the foreground. A passenger train is stopped facing the container. A freight train on another track is derailed in the distance and slightly touching the passenger train.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Computers should not be allowed in cars. Of course, he may have been playing on his phone. Notice that he returned to playing on his computer or phone even after he had crashed the car. youtu.be/VuqrsRXwDwQ?...
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Don't forget to turn right from the left.
A 10x zoom view several Melbourne hook turn signs strung from wires above a road that has many trams travelling along it.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This traditional utility is a work of art in our modern world of horrifically designed motor vehicles.
A traditional white dual cab Toyota Hilux. Looks to be from the 1990s.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
In Sydney, a zigzag line marking goes around the corner. Fun fact. Zigzag line marking shall not be used according to the most recent Pedestrian Control and Protection standard.
An aerial view of a road where a zigzag line marking in the left lane snakes into a side street approaching a zebra pedestrian crossing.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
James Newbury promising to rip up Melbourne's bayside.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Until not too long ago, before fall of Kabul, most airlines also avoided Afghanistan airspace by skirting north along the edge of the Himalayas. Very congested route. This is one of the two routes Qantas used in 2023 when I travelled that way
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
AGAIN! Gold coin fell onto the footpath outside Town Hall admin building as I was walking past. Get resources on this mystery!
One dollar coin held in fingers
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Facebook closing down messenger.com. Why? Presumably not enough people are logging onto facebook.com, so Messenger users will be diverted there to improve metrics.
Screenshot of a notice announcing the closure of messenger.com.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I have deleted my post as it turns out bicycle riders CAN use bus lanes in NSW. The rule allowing them to do so (NSW rule 158(2)(c)(i)) is different to Victoria, hence my confusion. Apologies.
A screenshot including the text of the main post in the thread above with a reply from me (now deleted) reading, "In New South Wales, bicycle riders can't use bus lanes. Victoria changed his rule 10 to 15 years ago so that bicycle riders can use bus lines. I know New South Wales seen particularly keen on infringing bicycle riders, so I can understand the rider using the general traffic lane. Still, advocate for reform, anger will pass."
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Melbourne anti-Herzog protest snaking its way from Bourke Street Mall onto Swanston Street.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Tick tock, Hague o'clock.
A large protest crowd with Palestinian flags in front of Flinders Street Station.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Similar thing happened in Australia. aus.social/@augustusbro... (Noting that the quoted skeet may not be ecologically advantageous for the prior desert ecosystem).
Screenshot of post from aus.social that is available in text form at the associated link.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Lavish burgers and honey angels. We have all you need in the west.
Evening view of two shopfronts on a suburban road. One for 'Honey Angels' (presumably sex work) and another for 'Lavish Burgers and Kebabs'. Both lit up in LED signs and lights.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
People queuing to get their 'passport' stamped at Parkville Station on Melbourne's new Metro Tunnel. Once stamped at all five new stations, you get a set of commemorative pins.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It's a Sir Topham Hatt style image this one. (ABC News: Matt Roberts)
The chest and head of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with his arm raised and whole hand pointed forward, as if gesturing for a particular reporter to ask their question at a press conference.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Fuck me! A comfortable seat at a tram stop.
An outdoor bench seat with backrest.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Handy, unintentional markers along the platform at Bayswater indicating where the train doors open.
A railway station platform with light patches along the platform edge caused by people's treads as the get on/off the train.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
He's aging rapidly.
Donald Trump in a dark scene with a black jacket waving for the camera beside his wife Melania. The skin on his face is clearly loose and losing 'fullness' compared to just a few months ago.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Lots of love for this new train line.
A crowded railway station concourse.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
A new 'left turn hold' at the start of the traffic signal phase to protect the busy bicycle movement towards Melbourne CBD on Rathdowne Street at Victoria Street.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
ABC interviewing the Fedora Man this morning.
Photograph of television showing split screen on news program of host interviewing guest.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A nice cold and wet Melbourne morning to you.
A wet tree-lined street with trams.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I shall place this sign upon every gate to the city.
A sign in a university ground reading, "All vehicles beyond this point must be escorted by a spotter in a high visibility vest."
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Urgent alert issued to anyone who uses Gmail
Screenshot of The Independent Bluesky account with post "Urgent alert to anyone who uses Gmail".
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
That's all from me. Nationalist rally when to parliament. There were some Palestine protestors at the side. It appears the Palestine protest was policed and corralled and the nationalist rally just went wherever.
Nationalist protestors at Victoria parliament house Palestine protestors to the side of parliament house corralled by police
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
This is the Palestine rally just after it hit the nationalist rally. Palestine rally was turned around by police.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
This is the nationalist rally, in case you couldn't tell
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
A tearful announcer dressed in black announces the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on North Korean State Television in this still image from video December 19, 2011 (KRT/Courtesy Reuters).
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
We have a magical street in Melbourne with trees between every car space. Not sure how it was done, but maybe the tree plots came before mass automobilism. www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.79...
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Australia adopted US railway crossing design and 85 years later, it's almost exactly the same. Right down to the wording on the signs and the size and shape of the lanterns. (We prefer ours on a lean 😜).
A railway crossing warning post with lights and signs. It has been struck by a vehicle and is on a lean.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Snap
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
You know you've made it when you're in a Melbourne laneway.
A poster on a brick wall showing the accused mushroom meal killer smiling for the camera as she chops mushrooms.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Made the outsourced train disruption helpers laugh when they offered advice and I told them I'm playing trains (Metro Tunnel testing today with passengers allowed on outer sections).
View from a railway station platform to a rail yard showing stabled wagons and locomotives.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Chill morn to commence an anti-colonialism protest at a headless King George.
A crowd in front of a large monument to King George who's statue has been beheaded.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Sir Cooker is still alive. He's got his loud speaker and what appears to be three minions. Ranting anti-trans hate on a street corner. cc @tomtanuki.bsky.social
A madman ranting on a street corner.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Just noticed that Network bar has reopened at Southern Cross Station. Tenancies slowly refilling post-covid.
Front of a pub/bar with name 'NETWORK' over the entrance.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
800 days and I still can't speak Nederland.
800-day streak on Duolingo
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Literally America right now with Trump's needless provocations.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
ABC reporting that the LAPD shooter appeared to deliberately take aim at the Channel Nine journalist.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
@pepchasdrdave.bsky.social "Sir, this is already Veterans' Day."
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Fun fact. In traffic engineering, the group of vehicles that travel together from a green light phase is called a "platoon".
A platoon of bicycle riders in a protected bike lane
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
La Trobe Street eastbound bike lane is finally open again after being closed for more than a year due to Metro Tunnel construction.
A bicycle rider in a protected bike lane
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New myki scanner at Footscray looks very swish. These will eventually take credit/debit cards.
A public transport card scanner. It has a screen facing the user and card scanner below.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Down he goes...
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Overseas outlets
Breaking news banner on the Washington Post website reporting Labor win in Australian electionFull page spread on BBC website reporting Labor win in Australian election
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Watch out for those drugs, kids. They may open your mind or maybe they'll close it.
A messy haired, unshaven "beach boy" kind of looking man who's advocating for the racist One Nation political party.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
No guesses who's voting
ABC News channel showing the rear of a voting booth with a bald man's head visible over the top.
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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Calm down
Headline on The Age website "Albanese starts planning for third-term government" with a picture of a smiling Anthony Albanese
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