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Faith Hunter

@postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social
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Wurundjeri country. Naarm / Melbourne Riding, talking& writing about bikes. A bit Dutch. Often in Hokkaido. Convenor at @merri-bekbug.bsky.social Broadcaster at @yarrabike.bsky.social on 3CR Researching at awiderworld.net

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IDL Procycling @idlprocycling.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Strade Bianche 2026 through the eyes of Visma | Lease a Bike Women: “With that dust, you just follow the rider in front…” #StradeBianche #Cycling #WomenInCycling #MarianneVos #BikeRide
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Strade Bianche 2026 through the eyes of Visma | Lease a Bike Women: “With that dust, you just follow the rider in front…”
Visma | Lease a Bike Women lined up for Strade Bianche on Saturday with big ambitions, but after a race wrecked by bad luck they ultimately had to settle for seventh place for Marianne Vos. After the finish in Siena, Vos — like teammates Femke de Vries and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot — reflected on what...
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Planning to kick off the season and settle in tonight for the women’s Strade Bianche. Anyone else on the #couchpeloton this evening?
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A lovely account of John Englart's life and commitment to community. brunswickvoice.com.au/john-englart... #couchpeloton #merribek #climatejustice #ChihuahuasforClimateAction
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A life of honesty, integrity and social conscience
An obituary for Merri-bek climate campaigner John Englart, who died earlier this month.
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
John Englart's family are inviting everyone who knew John to celebrate his life - Monday July 28, 12 noon to 4pm at St Mark's Church Hall in Fawkner. #JohnEnglart #couchpeloton #merribek #climatejustice #ChihuahuasforClimateAction
An invitation to a celebration of John Englart's life features a rosella and a photo of John in a yellow t-shirt with Chihuahua on it.
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
So many people have asked, happy to report that John Englart's ( @takvera.bsky.social ) beloved Juliet & Indiana Jones, chihuahuas for climate action, have found a loving home after his untimely death last week. #JohnEnglart #couchpeloton #merribek #climatejustice #ChihuahuasforClimateAction
A smiling man with orange hair and a grey bear sits at a wooden table outdoors with two white chihuahuas on his lap. In the background is a brown brick wall.
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Devastating news today discovering that @takvera.bsky.social has passed away. John was a loved Merri-bek community activist and will leave an enormous hole in our local community. I got to know him through @merri-bekbug.bsky.social and shared several rides with him and Juliet and Indiana Jones.
A man with his hair dyed orange and a grey beard sits outdoors at a wooden table with two white chihuahuas on his lap. A man mounts a blue bicycle. In the front basket are two white chihuahuas
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The peak of my productivity so far this week has been “keeping dogs company”. 😬
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Interesting study from Spain on the impact of the school run on parents. Finds that those walking and cycling to drop their kids off at school report "lower body mass indexes, higher life satisfaction, greater travel satisfaction, and lower commuting stress" compared to those travelling by car.
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Parenting ‘on the move’? Active school commuting is linked to parents’ well-being and children’s academic performance
In recent years, growing attention has been given to the creation of ‘active environments’ across key aspects of everyday life. Two particularly relev…
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DuchessFrida aka Deb @duchessfrida.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
"What is extraordinary is that the Albanese Government appointed Segal at all. She has form for advocating censorship and suppressing the rights of pro-Palestinian supporters to express their views" - Greg Barnes #auspol #PearlsAndIrritations johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07...
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Antisemitism envoy's report 'Trumpian'
The report of the Albanese Government’s antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal, contains recommendations that will lead to erosion of freedom of expression and the right to protest.
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Lizet Kruyff @lizetkruyff.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Yuzu we love #foodhistory #Japan
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The juicy tale of Saitama's prized yuzu
Locals are supporting the country’s oldest cultivation of the Japanese citrus via creative ways like ownership schemes and turning the fruit into various sips and savories.
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Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 12/07/2025
Stunning 🇦🇺 Gigante wins second 🇮🇹 #GirodItaliaWoman stage while 🇮🇹 Longo Borghini moves into pink! 🩷 Get the full stage report: domestiquecycling.com/en/news/stun... 📸: Cor Vos
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Can’t actually justify another bike so splashed out on valve caps instead. 😃
Part of a bike ride can be seen and part of the bike’s wheel. The valve on the bike has a bright purple anodized valve cap
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Today’s big/little task is cleaning my bike which I have been avoiding for weeks now because my hands will get cold. 🙄🙄
A bike rides through a puddle. The rider is wearing gold shoes
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets. So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Yesterday's @yarrabike.bsky.social Radio Show is online! In this episode we chatted about TAC, the no-fault transport insurance we have in Victoria, and when it does, or doesn't cover you, when you're on a bike. www.3cr.org.au/yarrabug/epi...
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Why am I paying TAC insurance when it won't cover me on a bike?
Faith and Val are joined in the studio by Mathew Peckham and we all share our bike moments, including the 2025 Melburn Roobaix and installation of a long overdue prioirty crossing on the Inner Circle ...
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
In a very ADHD moment, lost an entire box of Ritalin within half an hour of getting it. 😬
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Tinking back 1x1 rib a great start to the day. Whatever it is I’m procrastinating from must be really bad!
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Rhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This makes me so happy! Deadly stuff, Scott!
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Visit the Indigiverse, where the oldest living culture inspires the newest living superheroes
Scott Wilson's Indigenous superhero Dream Walker captivated fans at Supanova Comic Con and Gaming, sharing stories deeply rooted in Gooniyandi language and culture.
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Just when you thought the thirteen year old dog was finally slowing down you find yourself wrestling a decaying rat barehanded from his mouth in the street. 🤮
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Today on @yarrabike.bsky.social radio Val and I recapped the City of Melbourne draft budget submissions hearing and take a look at what you can do next to improve the budget for building bike lanes in Melbourne. www.3cr.org.au/yarrabug/epi...
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City of Melbourne bike lane budget - Why the Spin?
Fresh from a brief technical gremlin wrestling session Faith and Val warm up the mikes by sharing their bike moments. We check in on our Radiothon fundrasing target and remind everyone of the differen...
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Wheel reinventor @wheelreinventor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The idea that bike lanes are in conflict with these things is just so stupid. Workers and customers all get to the city by bike, deliveries already happen by bike (ubereats anybody?)
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
That is over 1300 submissions about the need for safer cycling to get in and out of the city and enjoy what Melbourne has to offer.
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工an Monroe 🚰 @eean.dev · 11/06/2025
also from the 1990s: Sagan worried that the current situation might happen youtu.be/U8HEwO-2L4w?...
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Carl Sagan's last interview with Charlie Rose (Full Interview)
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 10/06/2025
"The vast majority of Australians have got less than $200,000 worth of super." "We're having this entire media obsession about a small increase in the amount of tax that will be paid by people with more than 15 times that." @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Ordered a long black and after he brought it to my table the barista asked “Do you have milk with one?” Is that a thing?
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
One of those days where everything seems just a bit harder than it should be and now at the end realising I am getting a sore throat and a headache and not feeling well and maybe that was the problem all along 😬
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yarrabike @yarrabike.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New! @3crmelbourne.bsky.social #podcast: City of Melbourne bike lane budget slashed, Val and @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social talk to @nikdow.bsky.social about City of Melbourne draft budget showing a huge cut to funding + @criticalmassmelb.bsky.social Big City Lights www.3cr.org.au/yarrabug/epi...
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City of Melbourne bike lane budget slashed
Faith and Val are joined in the studio by Nik Dow of Bike Melbourne. We share our usual bike moments before turning to the Draft City of Melbourne budget currently out for consultation.
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Looking forward to this on Thursday! events.humanitix.com/stories-of-c...
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WELA x Merri-Bek Stories of Change
WELA x Merri-bek City Council Present Stories of Change
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
It was so cold this morning but the sun came out and we had a lovely morning running a BUG ride exploring some projects creating habitat, managing water and stormwater in particular and being beautiful.
A large gum tree stands on some grass surrounded by a group of people with their bikes. There are more native Australian trees in the background
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The perfect autumn day in the sun taking some of our Wheel Sisters on their first ride on local streets.
Three women on bicycles turn circles A line of six women are on the side of the road listening to a seventh woman, standing on the footpath, talk. They are at a crossroads Several women with bicycles stand around a sign post on a trail listening to one woman speak.
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Eric Bananarama @ericbanana.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Today, the fate of millions rests in the hands of an unchecked Israeli government, one that the (Jewish) New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Friedman wrote recently, “is not our ally” David Leser is a Walkley Award-winning writer & author. Thread .. 🧵 #auspol #Gaza #Genocide
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Call me a self-hating Jew, but what Israel is doing in Gaza is indefensible
Does criticism of Israel amount to antisemitism? No, it does not. And the cruelty we see in Gaza is chillingly reminiscent of Europe 80 years ago when Jewish people faced extinction.
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yarrabike @yarrabike.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
New! @3crmelbourne.bsky.social podcast: City of Melbourne bike lanes slashed and the NEW Great Vic Bike Ride! Val and @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social are joined in the studio by Alison McCormack CEO of Bicycle Network www.3cr.org.au/yarrabug/epi...
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CoM Bike Lanes slashed and the NEW Great Vic Bike Ride!
Val and Faith are joined in the studio by Alison McCormack, CEO of Bicycle Network. We all share our bike moments and consider what appears to be a significant cut to the CoM budget for bike lanes. In...
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Public Transport Users Association @ptua.org.au · 12/05/2025
Our hot take: this looks like a big, very welcome boost for train services, adding capacity and cutting waiting times, especially for the Sandringham, Craigieburn and Upfield lines, but also others. A big step forward.🚉👍 www.premier.vic.gov....
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PT Blitz: More Train Services, Metro Tunnel And Airport Rail | Premier
The Allan Labor Government is focused on what matters most – cutting congestion for busy families and workers and saving time for passengers.The Victorian Budget 2025/26 invests almost $5 billion in a public transport blitz to:
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Merri-bek BUG @merri-bekbug.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The City of Melbourne look to have slashed the budget for building bike lanes from $4M in the forward budget to just $1.5M. youtu.be/5LqVmO3dQAE
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Pedal power is taking over Melbourne with the new lord mayor promising even more bike lanes | 7NEWS
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Merri-bek BUG @merri-bekbug.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
What does Mum *really* want for Mother's Day? Maybe it’s a place in one of Council's Bike Maintenance Workshops with Bike it Better? And if Mum doesn’t want to do the workshop maybe she wants YOU to do it and pledge a year’s free maintenance? www.eventbrite.com.au/cc/bike-main...?
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Bike maintenance workshops
Learn how to maintain your bike with Cazz Clarke from Bike it Better. Bring your own bike and toolkit (if you have one)
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Have reached the stage in life where you hear about all the cool new bars from your children.
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A weirdly balmy evening in the beer garden. What has happened to May? Where is my autumn?
Two glasses of beer on a table. There is a tree bevindt hé table and in the background more taboes and chairs. It is night time
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BikeMN @bikemn.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"Ostensibly, half of us out biking, walking, rolling and taking transit are not men, but a quick Google search on “the most influential bike people” or “top traffic engineers” reveals a gender gap so big it could be a national monument." - @amoridesabike.bsky.social streets.mn/2025/05/06/a...
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The Aunties of Active Mobility
Part one of a series of interviews with femme/trans/women (FTW) advocates in transportation, whether walking, biking or using transit.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New! We received a lot of requests to release our bonus with Marco te Brömmelstroet, aka “The Fietsprofessor," about a study he co-authored with @ianwalker.bsky.social on where motornomativity comes from... so here it is! Plus, better language for better streets. thewaroncars.org/2025/05/06/e...
Marco to Brommelstroet wearing black button down shirt with arms folded standing on street. Trees are in background.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 06/05/2025
Both major parties continue to insist that "the key to housing affordability is supply", which is simply a conscious lie. Our tax system is structured to favour and reward property investors and our politics are built on the guarantee of ever-increasing property prices.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 06/05/2025
"For decades progressive voters have been told that Australians can’t have the nice things people in other developed countries take for granted because the Liberals and the Murdoch media would never accept such a progressive challenge... no need to be scared anymore." - @richarddenniss.bsky.social
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Nothing stands the way of Labor and ambitious, progressive reform
The big question now is whether the second term Labor government will make the big changes that Australians clearly want and need.
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Bought this wonderful looking book yesterday, The Ancients, about the world's oldest surviving trees in Tasmania. Still looking forward to reading it. Today my mum told me about this interview the author Andrew Darby had with Richard Fidler. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
A green and white bookcover features an image of some trees. The title of the book is "The Ancients Discovering the world's oldest surviving trees in wild Tasmania" by Andrew Darby
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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Everyone’s acting shocked that the election’s been called before 8:30pm but two and a half hours is plenty of time to roast a potato
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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
well, that escalated quickly #AusVotes
A very happy Antony Green next to the phrase "has Antony Green called the election? Yes"
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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Liberal spokesperson in “other candidates run against us” shock. #abc
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sel 🏴‍☠️ @spinsterism.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Anyone outside Aus wanting to follow the federal election TV coverage, the ABC (national broadcaster) is not geoblocking its streaming channel #auspol #ausvotes iview.abc.net.au/show/abc-new...
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ABC NEWS Live Stream
ABC NEWS delivers live results and analysis of the 2025 Australian Federal Election.
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
A Bingo card made up of moments from an ABC election broadcast
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Crowbar @crowbar.wtf · 03/05/2025
Petition for Annabelle Crabb to push her glasses up.
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Faith Hunter @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Is there anything better than election night, a glass of wine, a robust whatsapp group and Anthony Green on the ABC?
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