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Half my Facebook ads are literal hardcore porn trying to sell pills, the other half are AI celebrity finical scams. There's still sometimes value in the community groups, but I probably spend more time reporting ads than engaging.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Having the gear shift on the same kind of stalk where a Japanese car has the indicator is diabolical.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I had a 2007 one for about 8 years until I got rid of it just recently. Was pretty much a problem free car for us. started having coil issues at about 195,000km, fairly easy to fix each time. Was hard to sell because the cvt was on the way out, even though it still drove fine.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Privatising airports is always a mistake.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Online reporter is a very generous description.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Sounds like your extension cord was the heater all along.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If it felt more like a wine bar and had obscure cheeses I'd have been down

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Well I guess I'm glad it was just one brand rather than lightening striking twice. I kind of liked the premise, but the implementation felt weird and the cheese was boring.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

What? There was another one? Not just splatters in west Melbourne?!

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Is this something that only works if you have a tire sponsor?

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A walk out item sounds like something you can walk out without paying for, but I'm guessing that's not at all what it is.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

By 300,000 many ice cars transmissions have died effectively writing off the car. Also ice engines definitely start to lose efficiency at some point.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Went back and had another look at the Dixon Veloway bumps/fix. The more I look at it, the happier I am with the fix, also the more I question why it took this long. I also think barring the need for longevity testing they should just fix them all.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Wait, is the Pam the bird guy Hughesy?

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I guess pies should have paid them $6.3m too then.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm fine with the holiday surcharge, but if you have it and aren't paying your staff penalty rates then it should double the punishment.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Did you move overseas and upon moving back end up west and pretty much forgot the inner north exists? Because that's me until your question made me remember. I bet that shop is the same as when I was last there 15 years ago in a good way.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Vic market or casa iberica?

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just wait, VAR will overturn it.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Some days I don't know if I really love riding bikes or If I just really hate parking cars. I guess it's both.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

They have a few fully electric and a few hybrid busses in service here, while I'm sure they're great for emissions but I hate the way they go from loud engine noise to silence randomly, just an awkward eerie moment. The quiet whine of electric or loud all the time regular bus is at least consistent.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

That just sounds like a challenge to get a treadmill into a cargo bike.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Sounds like they've got an Aussie running their campaign hoping to replicate Labor here running on Medicare cards.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

She wasn't that far off getting elected in our most recent election either. Seeing her try and sell a pressure cooker on the WeFo group was probably the funniest thing I've seen on Facebook.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

They've got safety glasses on, so that's a good start.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The states have kept the same euro-centric standards of what a legal e-bike is. It's just the federal government that said it was fine to import whatever for private land use.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If only adopting it as policy and writing a hundred strategy documents, but making no actual changes was enough.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

@davidfarrier.com Did you relocate the Christchurch wizard to Wellington?!

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

It's so frustrating knowing that many of those against change would quickly come to accept and enjoy it if it actually happened.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I've done my own research.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Also the crazy ebike laws are only for QLD. Definitely a moral panic around kids on emotobikes. It's hard to fix that now that they're already widely available so the QLD govt is trying to crack down on legal bikes instead.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Only DIY e-bikes are banned on trains. The original proposal was all, but we fought it and won, a rare win for our local bike organisation that until recently focused way too much on road bike events. There is some good bike infrastructure in the inner north. Rest of the city is lacking.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Did some vibe coding, for something we'll launch soon. Told it to take our existing branding from www.bikewest.org and it downloaded it and came back with this. That's not even a bicycle!

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It's so hard to read how bad she's got it, but then also know that most people detained probably have it even worse. Appreciate your coverage of it, crazy how once again you're so far ahead of the rest of the NZ media.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Thanks @cityofmelbourne.bsky.social another ride saved by one of these repair stands. Definitely wouldn't have liked my chances on those veloway bumps without a topup.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Great to see a journalist who still does research.

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Tom Young @tfyoung.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Is there a word for the feeling when that random leftover bracket that you think you got with your roof racks more years ago than you're willing to remember and kept in the junk drawer is a near enough exact fit for the missing piece on your kids training wheels?

Two brackets, one from training wheels, the other close enough that it should work.

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