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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 08/10/2026

Robert Dow passed away on Tuesday this week after a long illness. Robert will be known to many as founder of Brisbane and SEQ public transport advocacy group Rail Back on Track. He was active here as @ozbob13.bsky.social, and regularly appeared in the media advocating for improved public transport.

Robert Dow on a VLine VLocity train in 2023.

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Old mate seems to have been selling copies (almost certainly without the right to do so) and is very upset that this has been posted lol

A YouTube comment from @jonsmith-r7r5b which reads "THANKS FOR MENTIONING HOW %WHERE THIS DVD CAME FROM!!! You still owe The Buffer Stop for the 2 DVDs and postage!!!!!!! If I knew you were going to post it on youtube, I would have NEVER aole you copies!!!!!"

A Facebook post from The Buffer Stop which reads "Owing to the Ozride DVD being posted online... we have made the call NOT to restock any copies. Sorry for any inconvenience."

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Old mate seems to have been selling copies (almost certainly without the right to do so) and is very upset that this has been posted lol

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them. And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda

Looking at my software peers in 2026 I see fatigued faces, I see frustration, and I see a lot of people looking for a way out of an industry that seems poised on the brink of collapse. LLMs are being pushed on us at every turn, most people seem at best frustrated by them, and ultimately they seem to appeal most to people who see the production of software as a purely mechanical means to an end. They are antithetical, however, to the idea of software as a craft, or something requiring both initial and ongoing care. As an expression of the soul.

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Ticky🏳️‍🌈 @drac.at · 02/10/2026

I wrote a little piece about the ongoing battle for the soul of software as a craft, where we've been, and where I hope we're going

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The Silent War for the Soul of Software - drac.at

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Agreed, I would fuck with an Australian Mamdani though

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks! I'm kind of shocked at how good these turned out, I put in a fraction of the effort I normally do and it just worked somehow? Maybe buying more gear really is the solution?

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Took a walk after work to try and snag some quick shots just to test it out. Oh my fucking god this thing is insane

A photo of a crow perched on a branch which has lost all leaves. Both the crow and the branch are an almost black silhouette against the subtle gradient of the sky behind them. Another leafless branch is visible but out of focus behind the crow

A photo of a yellow grevillea flower. The background is dark with lighter blurred patches.

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I feel like realistically it should be renamed Anzac Square, since yeah it's neither centrally located (Albert St beats it) nor the main station (Roma St has that title)

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I pass through it as part of my commute and I can pretty confidently say almost everyone uses the Edward St entrance, or one of the many tunnels that feed in from Adelaide St, Post Office Sq, Anzac Park, etc. Doesn't help that the main entrance is half-converted into a restaurant!

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you ebay sellers listing high quality gear for reasonably cheap, now I can work on both my forearms and my shots at the same time

A photo of a Canon EF 80-200 f2.8 L lens in a cardboard box. The lens sits atop a pile of bubble wrap and paper which was used as padding. It's somewhat hard to tell from the image but this thing is gigantic and quite heavy

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The problem with Central (at least IMO) is that it was a perfectly good station for a city of 500,000 but is woefully inadequate for what is now a city of almost 3 million, and because QR sold the air rights it's extremely hard to fix. Hopefully post-CRR Roma & Albert St stations will allow for this

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Unfortunately Brisbane Central sucks SO MUCH. Despite being peak heavy it's got extremely poor passenger circulation, it's dark and grimy, trains entering make an extremely loud flange squeal that gets amplified by the fact that it's a largely enclosed hard space, and it gets steaming hot in summer

A photo taken from the platform of Brisbane Central, showing the extremely narrow platform face in some places

A photo showing the outside of Brisbane Central on a clear day. It actually looks pretty nice from out there

A photo showing a crowd forming on the platforms at Brisbane Central

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I hate to give it to them but I do think Sydney Central is one of the most beautiful stations on the planet (not my photos)

A photo of Sydney Central from a nearby building, highlighting the sandstone station building. A train is passing in front on a viaduct.

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_railway_station_Sydney_2017.jpg

A photo of the metro platforms at central, focusing on the escalators

Source: https://www.architecture.com.au/archives/awards/central-station-sydney

A photo of the terminating platform concourse at Central, showing the roof detail.

Source: https://www.architecture.com.au/archives/awards/central-station-sydney

A photo of Central from the air, showing the platforms & elevated flyover structures

Source: https://www.sydneyimages.com.au/-/aerial-photography-gallery/sydney-aerial-photography/-/medias/c001b1fe-cf17-11e1-8ba9-c921ca911559-surry-hills-and-central-station

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

JUST removing level crossings, it was basically a full redesign and rebuild of huge chunks of the network

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also of note is that this project has created tons of high quality linear parks & active transport corridors, eliminated mud holes and other poor quality trackage, and provided a significant accessibility upgrade. The LXRP shouldn't have cost 21 billion, but it was a lot more than

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Interesting, I wonder if there's a reason they went for 2nd hand EMUs as opposed to just passenger carriages (other than it just being cheaper). Definitely being used for the commuter service though!

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Madagascar brought back some passenger rail services and it looks like they're running some sort of multiple unit behind a (tiny) loco. What's up with that?

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Riverfire impressions: Good, especially if you know someone with a 25th-floor balcony

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Noisy ass background in some of these but I think that might be JPEG compression idk

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's not an F-111 but I'll take it

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The more I use it (especially with filters and the like), the more I realise the 75-300 III really is a cursed lens.

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yeah, if you're a someone with a lot of real estate the ban is obviously great because it pushes your portfolio up. It's such a shame, because Brisbane is a wonderful city and it could be so much better if the council had their priorities in order!

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hate to be linking to the property council of Australia but it's weirdly hard to find sources on this actually being in effect that aren't just reading the zoning code

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good thing we've made it nice and easy to do the same sort of incredibly basic, super gentle density here in Brisbane. Certainly we wouldn't impose a ban on townhouses in over half the city or anything insane like that. Unrelated www.propertycouncil.com.au/news/townhou...

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Townhouse Ban in Effect - Property Council Australia

TOWNHOUSE BAN NOW IN EFFECT Amendments passed in February 2020 to restrict townhouses from single home areas (Major amendment package H) are effective as of 1 May 2020. The amendments […]

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll (I have a more recent one on my camera SD card, but I feel like the photo camera is what counts)

A photo of a 2 lane road lit by yellow street lamps, taken at night front a bridge. The road shrinks into the distance, with a large skyline behind it. The glow of the skyline is a cold blue, contrasting with the yellow street lamps. On either side of the road are large bushes sever meters high, which are blooming a pale red

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I don't think we should accept fundamentally right-wing framings about how people who work in offices don't have real jobs and are unmanly.

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nothing makes me more embarrassed to be a leftist than chronically online American leftists man. What are we even doing here

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I mean speed cameras have been repeatedly, independently confirmed to reduce road deaths. You can look this up. People do studies on it. Here's one showing a reduction of fatalities between 11% & 44% depending on the area www.cochrane.org/evidence/CD0...

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Do speed cameras reduce road traffic crashes, injuries and deaths? | Cochrane

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“The government doesn’t like encrypted messaging THEREFORE you should get rid of the technology that reduces road deaths” is an argument that would only make sense to people who have gone way down anti-government rabbit holes

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Been getting into birds recently

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A Little Thought @alittlethought.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A third of the trains are out of service! C'mon LNP QLD Government pay our rail workers fairly, keep them safe and negotiate in good faith. Get the trains running!

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Queers™ are secretly sabotaging us by changing the soil composition to be more sandy while noone is looking

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Another aerial photo comparison - the 1950's station complex, and the 1996 shopping centre/station that replaced it. Note the station access moved to face away from the CBD. Obviously a yard in the city isn't a great use of space (as much as it hurts to say), but this feels like a downgrade for pax

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A snip of the yard & station from a 1985 aerial survey (QAP4461, frame 46 - thanks to the invaluable QLD Globe tool!) compared to today. Crazy how much it's changed

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Realised I never posted this, here's some north Qld local service crayons for those interested in such things. I envisioned this as a 2-car DMU/BEMU running mostly on upgraded existing track (excluding the Palm Cove branch), with small stations & bus interchanges at most stations

A fantasy rail map showing local train services in Cairns.

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Yeah that only applies in certain places, and also what does it even mean to be a % hot? You can always go higher and lower but a % implies a cap, right?

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The main arguments I hear are either it's more accurate (then use decimals?) or that it 'reflects how it feels' which is only true if you grew up with Fahrenheit

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Learning that the ALP is Actually Existing Democratic Centralism

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Do you guys think Americans do this as engagement bait or do they unironically believe it

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Related actually, I'm obviously not the Greens but the main thing I've learnt is that Labor is only interested in criticising any opposition for the cardinal sin of disagreeing with them, which IMO is a pretty good motive to not work with them if at all possible since they're unwilling to compromise

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Every time I see some bad-faith punter winging about how the Greens "haven't learnt" from CPRS I go more and more insane

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I do actually miss gunzel twitter (that's why I started there in the first place!) but there are far too few posts here of that nature

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'm making Gunzelsky the second this comes out and none of you can stop me

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It's genuinely so disgusting and upsetting that our government is just content to let this happen. Some real second class citizen shit going on

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Ari 🚋 @transitenjoyer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I do feel like (with only vibes as a source) a significant amount of the total available compute out there is wasted on the fact that modern tech firms LOVE pushing awful, unoptimised code. Just dumping absolutely abysmal shit on prod and then letting it scale because it's cheap enough

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