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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Just been drenched waiting at a Bus Stop (file pic) as motorist set up wave of water from poorly drained road. Thought that was illegal in NSW but turns out only illegal if mud gets sprayed, water is okay. Some Australian State Road Rules are funny!

Pic of ute spraying wave of water over passenger at Bus Stop

Copy of NSW Road Rule 291-3 allocating 20 penalty units to drivers who spray mud onto people waiting or at Bus Stop

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

50 minutes later and play has commenced under blue skies, but in 2026 they're still scoring by hand! Home side (Randwick-Petersham) 4th Grade off to a good start, 0-12 in first over

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sydney Grade Cricket was supposed to have its first One Day match of the season commencing at 10am. This is the scene at 10am at Petersham. At least the covers are coming off and the rain seems to have stopped. Be a late start but the sun is forecast to come out with temps reaching 30°C

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But is Apple's new age verification system safe? It still requires the uploading of govt ID (or credit card but not debit card) I believe - who is holding that, where, and for how long?

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Funny, this EatClub promotion in Newcastle doesn't seem to be working too well - there were no venues offering deals when I was there on Monday, and similarly today (Wednesday). Maybe too many people have discovered that the promised sign up credits never seem to eventuate?

A search screen for Newcastle showing zero venues available.

A "refer your mates" offer from the app promising credit for both the referer and referee

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's a footpath you say, for pedestrians including guardians pushing prams, the incapacitated in wheelchairs or with walking machines, and to think that I thought that it was a Council-supplied unsupervised Lime Bike parking area!

Pic shows a handful of Lime Bikes plonked in the centre of a footpath in Strathfield (NSW) forcing even the able bodied to detour onto the grass

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Considering Australian wages on average around 40% over Kiwi, Woolworths must be saving considerably in other ways! #nzpol

Minimum hourly rate shown as $NZ23:95 compared with $26:44,
and average wage as $5,666 compared to $7,833 per month

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not sure why City of Sydney erect Bus Stop signs if they're also going to let delivery bikes occupy the same space.

Nine delivery bikes seen parked on Bus Stop adjacent to Kings Cross Station

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't think that the duty Lifeguard at Newcastle (NSW) today will be troubled by swimmers! Or surfers for that matter!

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Google showed me this pic 2nd. If this is the current queuing at Sydney Passport Office when most people can use Post Offices imagine how crowded the place will get when no PO available! Wonder if the AusPost CEO consulted Min Foreign Affairs regarding his thought bubble?

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Typical Australia Post that they put a sticker on a parcel pushing their Lockers, when this one was already addressed to a 24hr Parcel Locker, yet made me queue at the local PO to pick it up during business hours.

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Why? When? There's a free shuttle at SYD between domestic and international terminals and it's been operating for quite a few years Sure, knock some of the other exorbitant fees, but ...

Screenshot of details of airport terminal complimentary transfer bus from Sydney Airport website

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Perhaps not the best choice of comparison even tho it's absolutely true in this case. Remember Hillary's story of flying into Bosnia under sniper fire? It turned out to be a "mistake"!

Reuters story of Ms Clinton admitting that story of flying into Bosnia under sniper fire was a mistake.

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Point the other month said 25 of 52 quit or were disendorsed, but that doesn't count other reasons not to see out their term

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ah no. It will change when you get the latest update I'm afraid

Map of Great Lakes showing Lake Ontario renamed as Lake America

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Petersham Park under a glorious winter's day (20°C) for the Grand Final for Third Grade in the Sydney Winter Baseball League. It's Sydney University (the Minor Premiers) v Petersham-Leichhardt. 2nd and 1st Grade GFs tomorrow at same venue.

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I don't often praise Sydney Trains but putting wet umbrella bag machines at station entrances in winter is great idea (albeit late considering these machines been around for 20-30 yrs) as there's nothing worse than sloshing thru water from umbrellas inside carriages Ping @johngrahamalp.bsky.social

Stock pic of wet umbrella bagging machine - I forgot to grab a picture in situ when I passed through Strathfield Station

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Question 5 allows you to fill in whatever you wish!

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Certain media are describing this as a "world first" and most of the article reads like a PR piece for the airline. Yet just last year (also in August) the RNZAF did the same thing! (I'm not knocking this year's effort, but this is a semi-regular occurrence - brave, skilled but not historic)

Screenshot of article about August 2025 Antarctic rescue by NZ Air Force

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Samoa Air got international publicity charging by the combined weight of pax + luggage. Small regional airlines also do it. Ryanair looked at it but decided that it would be an administrative nightmare and as a result delay flights.

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And I thought that Sydney was bad with only 17 for 5 million people. None in Shire or Nth Beaches. Bondi Junction to cover CBD and E suburbs (and only open til 6pm). A couple out west only open for an hour at a time! ABS seems determined to have as few #census2026 forms to process as possible!

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

That's some pretty stark differences in wicket keeper "catches" depending upon who is playing at slip

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Australia's biggest whinger has now been on the front cover of @thesaturdaypaper.com.au three of the last four issues!

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Oops! Google AI deemed an Unacceptable Risk for school age children (It's a long report but the Executive Summary tells all - an amusing aside is that it will give different answers to simple maths problems!) institute.commonsensemedia.org/risk-assessm...

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Trust Sydney Trains! They've just had trackwork taking out all Inner West trains over the weekend, now they've discovered that "urgent trackwork" is necessary on that line! Did they stuff up over the weekend @johngrahamalp.bsky.social ?

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There's already a Mr Fishface in the throng (per The Sun) - eho knows who is paying him, or whether he's self-funded

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's cosplay. He knows hr can't pay (by law) and is just grandstanding for the ignorant!

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

@johngrahamalp.bsky.social How can Sydney Trains announce the cancellation of a train at the exact moment that it is due? This is six stops after Central! Your idiot department must have known a lot earlier that the train would not be coming so why couldn't passengers be told or don't we count?

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Vodafone Australia seems to have fixed their latest problem, but I'm wondering why they bothered to apologise this time when they seem to have data outages regularly? Was it because this time voice calls and texts were also supposedly effected?

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Why does Google Play ask if I am interested in alternate games, then ignore my response and serve me up the same ad next time? Artificial unintelligence!

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Westfield Australia have combined with television channel SBS to offer “Live World Cup Sites” in their shopping centres. They presumably don't expect a large uptake as only seating for 6 adults!

View of Live Streaming Site showing 6 adult seats, 6 children's seats, and a large screen

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It's a good cartoon so why not show it?

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

One of those party processes was a Conference that ex-Senator Cameron described as "stacked" (where the msg was "don't rock the boat until we get into power")

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Hope they're better managed than in Sydney Australia. Lime lets users park the bikes across the footpath so as to impede pedestrians especially the elderly and people with prams. If they valued social behavior they'd ban such users for life!

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It's not just because of surveillance and privacy reasons that companies should ditch Cloudfare in my opinion, but tge fact that they have frequent outages, and even when it's working it can take seemingly forever to get past their "security service" reach the actual webpage that you want

Screenshot of Cloudfare performing verification for harrisscarfe.com.au which took several minutes

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Where do these stats come from? Someone on Wikipedia has added the 2021 Census figures together to reach only 42%!

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Thiel tried NZ back in 2011, gaining citizenship after just 12 days residence on the back of many investment promises. These days his Kiwi companies are shuttered, his refuge near Queenstown couldn't get Council approval, and his legacy is "mixed". Wonder what the Argentines are hoping for?

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Hello @support.bsky.team This is the most ridiculous message ever! The whole point in changing my contact email address is because I no longer have the previous one!!!! (In fact if you try it any msg should bounce back to you)

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Woolworths Australia said they'd consider feedback after installing dangerous security gates at the entrances to some supermarkets the other month. As usual, Woolies doesn't consider their customers and is expanding the installation of these gates. Pity your kids, and your knees!

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A train fire is playing havoc with Sydney trains but I have to query the sense of running two trains right behind each other with the same destination and the same stopping pattern @johngrahamalp.bsky.social

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I've just worked out why so many Nepalese living in Sydney's Inner West were dressed up yesterday (April 14). Happy New Year 🇳🇵

Pic of Nepalese couple in front of food and crowd and signs saying New Year, Bikram Sambat 2083

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I'd ask why the US needs the UK to help with minesweeping in the Middle East, but then I read the other month that the US pulled its minesweepers out of the area just before the "war"!! (Great forward planning!)

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Even more interesting is that Australia is not even in the top eight according to this index of democracies from 2024 (taken from a source link in above article which needs to be read in full)

Map of world democracies (or not) with only Ireland, Iceland, Switzerland, the Scandinavian countries and NZ in the top rating.

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I see that Waldorf Astoria have their sign up for their first hotel in Sydney, Australia. A bit premature I would have thought as that building must be a year away from opening. Some rooms will have lovely views from Circular Quay when it's finished.

View of Waldorf Astoria Hotel building in Sydney as seen from Harbour Bridge

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Which is probably why ABC Australia didn't give a reason for the booing - wouldn't want to contradict "dear Leader"! I notice that Reuters had no such hesitation

Pic of heckler at mosque accusing PM of siding with genocide

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Trouble is it's not going to happen! (Actually that's not "trouble" that's great news)

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Knew I had a pic on file. (You'll need magnifying glass I'm afraid). August 2023 sub in Sydney Harbour

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

EK414 took off 2:30am local time. Suspect it's at 100% capacity

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