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Asked to describe me, 87% of survey participants selected "idiot gunzel".

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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"hey boss" "yeh?" "you know how the contract with the track force protection contractor has a unit rate for >apply and remove stop board<" "yeh" "do you think it might lead to the contractor using too many stop boards?" "of course not, don't be silly"
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lastly it looks like they have been replacing scotch blocks with bidirectional hand derails.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'd heard on the grapevine that PBR has ceased using their oldest cars, and sure enough they are languishing in storage at Gembrook. I do hope they don't just leave them here long term to rot.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At Orchid Rd we found the ex South African Garrett chuffling along with an up Gembrook pass.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We happened to be travelling past a certain narrow gauge railway this arvo, and a few things caught my eye. The boom barriers at the down end of Menzies Ck have acquired pogo sticks on the end of them, maybe someone else is finding out the difficulties with long composite arms.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Apparently I have a parcel coming today from a company. No need for me to know which company however...
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We just stumbled upon while surfing YouTube 2 robots in some sort of boxing match in China. Disappointed they haven't caught fire yet.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It's a latergram from last month, but here is a temporarily defrocked signal. Sleeping while awaiting its fate.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Once again I am disturbed by the Aurizon hybrid stop sign/flashing light crossing. I mean, if it was a legitimate Griswold installation with the rotating stop sign it would be impressive, but I'm pretty sure it's not.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
While the label on the box might imply this is great for roleplaying road safety, I'm not sure how many of these signs your average kid here will encounter unless they are a particularly jetsetting family....
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It's not an RX-2 assembly, it's not an RX-5 assembly, it's that secret third thing an RX2~5 assembly. (And it's not one of those stupid RX-5-Q01's either).
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Tell me you used AI for the title sequence of your TV series without telling me you used AI for the title sequence of your TV series.
It's bad.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
A digital clock in a steam shed just doesn't quite look right.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
But then again at least I'm not in Tallangatta today.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Finally got around to putting some moton lotion in the land barge today, absolutely SLUGGED at the BOWSER.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I've just worked out you can get a list view of the fuel prices in the Service Victoria app. If you scroll down you can see the places that it's advisable to not run low. Especially Lake Bolac.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This one shows a CCTV camera along with a wireless bridge mounted on an overhead structure in the recently rebuilt roads next to the gardens platform. It's interesting what you can put on overhead structures when you want to. Anyway they're the only interesting photos that I took.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Just spent my 5th day in a row at Newport Workshops, but didn't really take many photos. Anyway here is a couple. This is the positively fantabulous switch controlling the fans in one of the timber cars that SRHC bought down. Sadly I can't remember if this was in the Parlour Car or State Car No. 4.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Managed to grab this happy snap of a single S class hustling through Noorinbee earlier, about to pass under the lattice cantilever at the down end with some classic style R signals.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Watching some random YouTube video, and encountered an example of the cranky yankee practice of not providing holding sections on their gated crossings. So the gates open half way, then the next train enters the approach, and the gates close again. And yes I just videoed the TV like a slacker.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
It's definitely a latergram but I thought I would share some classic Victorian and South Australian signalling made from Lego, that I spied on the weekend.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Those photos of Vite Vite are a few years old now! That hut may be one of the huts now hiding at Newport Workshops of all places, unused.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
From time to time I put a fake birthday of 1/Jan/1970 into online accounts in a futile attempt to push back against the insane amount of information tech companies yearn for. Anyway it seems my google account must have a fake birthday as I just got this... :/
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Apparently this will definitely be the year for Linux on .... the bathroom heater / fan / light.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
30 years ago today, it seems I travelled on an AREA organised nut special from Seymour to Albury and return, using DRC43, which was and still is in the custody of what is now SRHC. Photo locations for this selection are: - Bowser Loop (which was never commissioned!) - Chiltern - Wangaratta - Albury
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Surprising me while I was browsing a random online shop, it seems the Tasmanian independence movement has been successful without anyone really noticing. Maybe the WA secessionists can learn something.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Blue sky pinged me for the whole date of birth thing. Naturally I used an auspicious day, to remind us the 2038 problem is now only just over 12 years away.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
One thing that has just dawned on me, they don't (yet?) have ads on the PSD facade. It's actually nice having unbroken visibility along the platform, I do hope they remain ad free.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
This is a pretty cool space, it's just a pity there will be a hulking great electronic advertising sign here.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
This is a pretty cool space, it's just a pity there will be a hulking great electronic advertising sign here.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Here we have a westbound service that has just arrived at WFY in a CBTC protected mode. As this is a transition platform, the platform departure signal is held at stop until the train changes to conventional signalling mode.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The end CBTC sign at West Footscray. This one is for all of our friends out there who really don't like CBTC.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I also got a happy snap of a Comeng running a SUY line service. Once February comes around the SUY will be 100% HCMT, and once the western portal junction is gone the non-HCMT fleet won't even be able to get over this side of town.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The trains berth in the underground stations pretty swiftly. It's nifty.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
This train is getting quite full, I honestly didn't expect this amount of pax.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Anyway I am onboard the leading car, and we'll see how we go.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
There were quite a few people who have decided to do similar. They even put some queueing arrangements in place.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I've elected to journey to East Pakenham for a little trip thru that damned tunnel.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Last time I was in the US in 2018 I was staying at some random hotel, and the day I left a bunch of rooms had been set up like this...
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
And in classic large corporate fashion, the wrong link was used. I did note earlier today once the button worked it was asking me to renew a personal account for 1 person, not a family account, so I gave up for the time being.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Looks like Microsoft are trying to fend off the ACCC case against them over the copilot slop in O365 issue. Mind you it seems Microsoft is hosting the website that is the target of the "switch to classic" button on a 80186 CPU on the far end of a 75 baud modem running over an open wire pole line.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I guess it's now the correct evening to post. For various technical reasons I had a guest spending some time last weekend in the passenger seat of the road motor. Was happy enough waving at everyone but didn't really say anything.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Visited a most magnificent wayfinding sign in Hesket today.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
My employer has upgraded my laptop, and it seems we now don't provide a right ctrl key, instead it's now a copilot key. Urgh. Now I need to work out how to fix this rubbish (as it seems I use the right ctrl button all the time).
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Bit of a latergram here, another Melbourne signalbox bit the dust last weekend.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We visited a Vietnamese joint this evening in Croydon, and they have the gimmicky delivery robots! This one is extra special as when it goes back to the kitchen it always stops at the counter, politely asks it to move before realising it can move through the gap anyway.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Just watching some admittedly niche YouTube content, and I've discovered the US has some (but probably very few) level crossings with bells, but no flashing lights. Just a yield sign. To me, a bizarre arrangement.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I've recently been getting into bonding as a hobby.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Acquired a MTP promo showbag. I guess they have 10 million of them for various open days and events.
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Fixed Block @fixedblock.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
This is a random latepost. The other day we went to see a giraffe. That is all.
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