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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I fail to see how the Queensland hate speech laws will stand up. A phrase like 'from the river to the sea' is a longstanding call representing the movement against Israeli colonialism. I would expect the High Court to strike this down soon, as it infringes on the right to political communication.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The weather in Perth is a bit dicey right now 😬

Weather app screenshot; Highest wind gust, 117km/h at 6:56 pm.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I was wondering if there were any way to make providing ID to access websites more private. Does anyone more techy than me know, would it be possible to create ID local to the device? Show your device your ID then it communicates with the website saying 'yep OK'.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I would be shocked if there wasn't at least one guy in Hawaii paddling out to ride the tsunami because it's 6 feet, perfect wave height for surfing

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

A very exciting encounter at Kelmscott Station for me yesterday: a train running at speed along the platform!

A train passing through Kelmscott Station (A-series set 218, 2 car). The display reads 'Test Train'.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

It's been a busy few days for me :) I want to present: The first iteration of my improved train services map for Perth! As inspired by cphtransitmap.dk, the concept aims to simplify and beautify the Transperth map. I may make further versions for legibility, accessibility, and additional features.

A map of train services in the Perth metropolitan area; shows all lines in addition to water with a depth quality. It also includes a change where lines are branded with a letter for better access. Lines have also been combined (see below), without making any modifications to the actual infrastructure.

A = Airport, B = Armadale, C = Mandurah-Yanchep, E = Ellenbrook, F = Fremantle-Midland, T = Thornlie-Cockburn, W = Whitfords-Cockburn.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

If you take public transport in Perth and have ever wondered why we, unlike many other cities, don't have live service tracking in third-party apps: I wrote to Transperth and got this reply back. Unfortunate, because I would love to use other apps to fully replace the Transperth app.

An email from Transperth:

Hi Cameron,

Thank you for contacting Transperth regarding the availability of GTFS Realtime data.

Unfortunately, the Public Transport Authority (PTA) does not currently offer real-time data access to any third-party applications for publication purposes. We do make our spatial data available to download in the form of a GTFS Static feed, however I understand that you are after real-time data which we are unable to provide at this time.

While the PTA’s current priority is to provide accurate and up-to-date information directly through its own services (Transperth app), so that our customers have the best access to the information they require, the PTA recognises the importance of the real-time data to other parties and is currently working towards allowing this data to be used by selected authorised third parties, such as Google Maps, in the near future.

I hope the above has provided additional information and we thank you again for contacting Transperth.

Kind regards,

Transperth

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This may be showing how young I am, but I don't have Facebook. I went over there to check out Metronet's progress because that seems to be their primary mode of communication, and made the mistake of looking in the comments. Do all the commenters share a single braincell?! Made me sad for society.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I created this map: a 2km radius around Perth's train & bus stations. This is a 20min walk for a healthy, fit person, and a 5 minute bike ride — the maximum for a comfortable trip, in my opinion. It shows where Perth's biggest public transport gaps are. See alt text for the key.

A map of Perth, from Yanchep to Mandurah, showing a 2km radius around bus & train stations. Yellow = train w/ bike shelter, red = train w/o; aqua = bus w/ shelter, blue = bus w/o.

It shows significant gaps between the Fremantle and Mandurah lines, between the Ellenbrook & Yanchep lines and along much of the coast.

A map of Perth, from Currambine to Aubin Grove/Armadale, showing a 2km radius around train and bus stations. Yellow = train w/ bike shelter, red = train w/o; aqua = bus w/ shelter, blue = bus w/o.

It shows significant gaps between the Fremantle and Mandurah lines, between the Ellenbrook & Yanchep lines and along much of the coast.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Mathematically, we now know that every time Hulkenberg scores a podium, the Red Bull team principal gets sacked. It is a perfect correlation — which definitely implies causation... #F1

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Did you know? With his podium finish today, I'm fairly certain Hulkenberg is now the driver with the most races to achieve the first podium (238 starts). #F1 #BritishGP #Hulkenberg

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Oscar's margin in championship narrowed but I can't even be mad, that's a clean McLaren 1-2 and the FIRST HULK PODIUM 💚 it must be a good day to be a sauber fan #f1

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

DOTD is Nico, fair play to him too :D

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

get up get up get up oscar pleeeease #f1

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Piastri-Norris-Hulkenberg, I'm manifesting it 🤞 #BritishGP #F1

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

This whole race is a MESS lmao, Franco stalls, Liam-Ocon collision, Bortoleto spin, Oscar overtake, Stroll in points (?!), Hamilton and Leclerc have both taken little drifts, Hadjar-Antonelli collision, Max spins out, Oscar gets a 10s penalty, Bearman-Tsunoda collision... and we're only halfway! #f1

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

whatttt is this leaderboard at silverstone 😭😭😭

Leaderboard for 2025 British GP (F1) at lap 22.

List from 1-10: Piastri, Norris, Stroll, Hulkenberg, Gasly, Hamilton, Russell, Alonso, Sainz, Verstappen.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It's nice to know that Mr Beast is now peddling body dysmorphia to children, yay!

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Nuclear sites in Iran have been bombed — does that mean those sites are now irradiated? How bad is the fallout and other associated environmental damages? I haven't seen anyone ask this question today, so what kind of impact have the strikes had?

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

If anyone needed a reminder as to how bad of a person Scott Morrison is, here is your reminder:

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

My proposal (fantasy?) for regional rail in Western Australia. This would be just the start; lines extending north toward the Pilbara + additional lines in the south & south-west would follow. But as a start, this uses mostly pre-existing track & rights of way.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Apple-owning Perth peeps: Apple will be moving its store to Forrest Place, in the old Commonwealth Bank building, from June 27. Nice central location. They also released a nice wallpaper to celebrate :) www.macrumors.com/2025/06/19/n...

macrumors.com

Apple Celebrates New Store in Perth, Australia With a Special Wallpaper

Apple today announced that it will soon be opening a new retail store at Forrest Place, a pedestrianized area in the heart of Perth, Australia. The...

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Ahahaha it's a two-fer: anti-black people and anti-working class people. Phenomenal airball from the Supreme Tangerine. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

thehill.com

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

A lot of people online seem to have forgotten with this mushroom deaths case — the point is that someone can only be punished if they are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. People responding to the latest news always say 'Oh, so you admit she lied' — but lying proves nothing. Public scrutiny, I know.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

An octopus was killed at a beach today. A lovely, curious, gentle octopus, who I had been watching for days, got a little too close to spearfishers. It was killed, for the simple crime of not knowing better. For its sweet, inquisitive nature. I doubt anyone else will care too much, but I'm crushed.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

For anyone interested in the minutiae of the Transperth network, here is a comparison of the current system map and the new one on the Thornlie-Cockburn Line brochure. The largest changes are the open Thornlie-Cockburn & Armadale (to Cannington) lines & a new Cannington-Bull Creek key bus corridor.

The present (Dec 2024) system map for Perth public transport. Features closed trains from Victoria Park to Thornlie & Armadale, and a number of key bus corridors.

The Transperth system map as included in the Thornlie-Cockburn Line brochure (https://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/Portals/0/Asset/Documents/Brochures/TCL%20Brochure.pdf). Notable changes to the current version include: The opening of the full (lilac-coloured) Thornlie-Cockburn Line, the reopening of the Armadale Line to Cannington, the addition of a key bus corridor from Cannington to Bull Creek, a change in the label of Byford, the exclusion of ‘buses replace trains’ on closed track, the changed layout of the Yanchep-Mandurah exchange between Perth Underground & Elizabeth Quay, and minor (probably stylised) colour changes.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Here's my shot at creating a pipe-dream transit map for Perth, featuring additional train lines and a network of trams. I tried to keep it somewhat realistic :) #train #transit #transitmap #diagram #transitdiagram #perth

Proposed new transit diagram for the Perth metropolitan area. It shows 9 train lines (Serpentine, Midland, Fremantle, Yanchep, Mandurah, Airport, Circle, Wanneroo, Ellenbrook), and 7 tram lines (Scarborough, Inner South, South, Central, North, Loop, Sunset Coast). Also displays a number of stations as ferry stops along the Swan and Canning Rivers.

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

When is the Australian Electoral Commission joining Bluesky? Indeed, why are no government in instrumentalities involved in this platform, although Australian politicians of the governing party are?

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The slogan of 'Keep the Sheep', protesting WA's live export ban, is kinda terrible. For one, it doesn't effectively communicate the intentions of the group (keep the sheep... in WA?) For another, graffiti is so easy. Scribble 'Suffering' under it and boom, animal rights slogan.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I hope that once Trump has blown over in the US, he and his lackeys will all receive the criminal trials they so rightfully deserve for their rampant disregard for human rights and basic dignities.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Wtf is this starting grid 😭 Lando, Oscar, Max, George pretty normal But then Yuki in an RB, 5th?! Alex 6th in a Williams?! Both out qualifying Ferrari?! Even Pierre in 9th is a bit unexpected. #AusGP #F1

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

What is Williams doing?! Actually crazy pace, are they finally out of the back of the grid? #AusGP #F1

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Well if this isn't perfectly symbolic, I don't know what is... 📍Chicago

A row of police officers standing out the front of a Tesla dealership, appearing to be protecting or defending it.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Honestly how long will it be until the US armed forces & intelligence services, whose top officials have spent years trying to combat Russia & authoritarianism, just get fed up with Trump and put his administration to rest? I will not be shocked when US troops storm the White House.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I've seen some jokes on Reddit about the NATO (joke) alternative 'Pacific Ocean Trans Atlantic Treaty Organization' (POTATO), but genuinely an alliance of the EU, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Japan, and Korea, calling itself the 'Atlantic & Pacific Treaty Organisation' would be really cool

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Peter Dutton has gone (by extension) with the line of 'I love Russia and I hate democracy'. He is perhaps the least electable potato in Australian history – the aging potatoes in the back of my cupboard would be better Prime Ministers.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Friendly reminder for this Clean Up Australia Day: there are tonnes of illegally placed election signs up in WA. They can (and should) be considered litter. Do your part and clean up the blue and orange signs!

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Breaking: I have discovered that 33° is not the optimal temperature to be cycling uphill.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Never have I been more grateful to be Australian when I see what is happening in the US. Sure, we have our problems, the LNP kinda sucks, but they would NEVER undermine our democracy, constitution, and rights like what is happening in America. Good luck, guys.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

mmk so what the us needs rn is a shadow government made by people preferably unaffiliated with the dems, made up of people who know what they're doing, can counteract trump, claim legitimacy, run important services. funds come from billionaires & the public, plus manipulating trumpy corruption

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AJ Sadauskas @ajsadauskas.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Let's just hope for Australia's sake there's nothing more to Musk's regular contact with Putin. Because Musk now reportedly has access to classified defence and intelligence information from Australia. #auspol

theguardian.com

Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report

Alleged talks between billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Here's what I genuinely don't get. Clearly what's happening in the US is the administration is trying to surround itself with people either too compliant or too dumb to resist the undermining of democracy and constitutionalism. But it's not Trump's doing, he's not smart enough. Who organised this?

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Rochelle Rocha-Howell @champgal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Keep your messaging simple: “Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.” That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.

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gina10.bsky.social @gina10.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

There's a story out somewhere how these orders had to be AI generated due to grammar, incorrect policy and code references, misspelled words, etc. Chatgp specifically tells you it can make errors and to check the work. These morons only checked to ensure it included, "Trump said", blah, blah, blah.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I can't wait for Trump to do nothing but blame DC officials for this disaster, because the city is mostly run by Democrats. He will not offer anything. Donald Trump is a toxic, uncaring individual. An utter tragedy will be marred by the presence of Trump in the White House. Stand strong, Americans.

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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The highest compliment from someone who disagrees with you is not “You were right.” It’s “You made me think.” Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity. The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Pulled an 87 skill for whatever reason Wordle 1,310 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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cameron @maybeoptimist.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Let's make this clear: what we are witnessing in the US is a descent into an undemocratic oligarchy controlled by technofascists. It is the responsibility of the people, as US citizens, to rise up and ensure the security of the democracy their ancestors fought for time and time again.

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