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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This sounds like an ideal time to say "well, don't do that, then".

The Age on its usual shit: "How increasing private school funding could improve Melbourne house prices"

RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's strange that these stories are always framed around "you can finally ditch your Myki" as if it's a burden to carry with you. I don't want to "ditch" my Myki. I don't like the idea of waving my credit card around in public every time I board a tram.

Herald Sun: "When concession card holders can finally ditch their myki cards".

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To be fair, you have to build the entertainment venue before the housing, or all the residents will object to it.

The Age: "A 5000-seat entertainment venue and a new University of Melbourne campus will be built on government-owned land in Melbourne’s inner-north, under a $7 billion redevelopment that proposes to deliver the music arena two years before the first home."

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sometimes I learn about a company and wish that I was in a position where I could go get a job there purely to cause trouble.

"Corgi Says Its 7-Day Workweek Is Voluntary"

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New platform tram stops on Moreland Rd which are both terrible for interchange with trains and also with other trams on Sydney Rd. Incredible job.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If Labor can't pull a win by going hard on the Liberal/One-Nation fascist coalition scare with all this ammunition, what fucking use are their strategists.

The Age: "‘In prison by Christmas’: One Nation attacks Andrews, Allan in campaign launch".

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It was never beautiful. I have a fix. Fill it with trees, tables and chairs, and umbrellas or some other sort of cover. Open up bars in the surrounding area and allow them to serve patrons in the square.

"'It used to be beautiful'. The quiet failure of Melbourne's revamped City Square".

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are we going to have to keep pulling out this absolute banger forever?

Thomas Violence tweet: "I'm one of the dozens of people worldwide that live in a country that's not America"

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What's the go with the au pair? Maybe give Peter Dutton a call, I'm sure he can assist.

Brisbane Times: "Geoffrey's au pair was meant to arrive three weeks ago. He's still waiting".

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When people here get upset about datacenters, it's "an inauthentic American import" but when the fascists come along with their opposition to abortion, trans people, wind farms, vaccines and facts, it's just "regular mums and dads with legitimate concerns".

Guardian: "Australian politicians and business leaders are arguing that their populace’s growing resentment of AI datacentres is an inauthentic import from the United States."

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Rare Ben Carrott win: "Consider this unbanned".

Instagram post from Ben Carroll about the banning of drinking in North Carlton's median strips: "One more while I'm at it. Consider this unbanned. Because if council doesn't reverse it, we will reverse it for them".

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Banking is an industry where the government could simply say that for security and stability reasons, all jobs must remain onshore, just as they already stipulate that the data must remain onshore. Any time you're ready, Ablo.

AFR: ANZ restructures 400 technology roles as Nuno Matos advocates pushing jobs offshore.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, that's how this shit works. Loop forever, "That didn't work, tell me what to do next".

The Age: "OpenAI agent ‘wouldn’t take no for an answer’ as it hacked into Medicare"

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today in things that did not happen.

Guardian headline: Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm sorry to break it to The Age, but every inner suburb in Melbourne is a walkable neighbourhood already.

The Age: "Inside the suburb flagged as Melbourne's first walkable neighbourhood"

A map of Eastfield Shopping Centre in Croydon South.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hope you're all going to enjoy this week's public holiday, because it will probably be the last one. Even after twelve years, these gronks are still trying to kill it, and next year's Liberal/One Nation coalition will give them what they want.

AFR: "New push to axe public holiday after Victorian teams miss grand final".

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I had what must be the world's smallest g&t.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Building a metro (presumably the CFMEU was involved)

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Can your AI even defend itself against homicide?

Someone about to switch off an Australian power point.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is very cool: aus.social/@eliasulrich...

From @eliasulrich@hachyderm.io on Mastodon:

"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.

It's called #MarginaliaSearch.

It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.

What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.

The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.

There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.

It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every #searchengine now shows you the same twelve #monetizedpages."

https://
marginalia-search.com/

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm sure this was hit by an escooter or an electric bike. Can't wait for Jess Kennett to ban them.

Metal bar on a pedestrian refuge island in Victoria St, which has been hit by a heavy vehicle and knocked down.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Quick break to give a big Get Absolutely Fucked to Homer Eugene Le Grand V specifically, and The Age in general.

Suburban Rail Loop Facebook post: "We've started tunnelling", and pictures of TBMs in tunnels.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Something that occurred to me the other day, at what point in EV take-up does it become no longer viable to operate a servo in the city?

Drive: Australian new-car sales in August 2026: Electric outsells pure petrol for the first time

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Apropos of nothing, how do I search court records for names?

One Nation announcing more Victorian candidate names.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm trying to fuck around with Kmart's stupid AI bot and this has blown me away.

Me: "I want to buy a Keffiya"

Kmart bot: "while we don't have traditional everyday keffiyehs in our standard apparel range, we do have a costume option" (and shows a very culturally insensitive costume)

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

OP is blocking people, so just putting the receipt here in case it's needed.

@hailey.at: "bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this:

future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result "

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The Big Chip rapidly backpedalling from a situation that he helped cause.

"Zero policies, blank page: Pauline Hanson doesn't look serious about Victoria".

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

1) This is a direct transfer of public money to private wealth. 2) This will put more traffic on the roads 3) I thought we were broke.

Victorian Liberals: $50 a week toll cap.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm sure that teaming up with a cooker, a guy who is incredibly unpopular with anyone under 50, can't possibly backfire.

Ad for the Liberals' Western Victoria campaign launch, featuring Jess Wilson and Dave Hughes.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Have you considered not allowing cars to drive on tram tracks?

PTV website: "Route 48 trams will experience service changes from 10am to 9pm each day, Saturday 15 August and Sunday 16 August, due to traffic impacts with the Eastern Freeway closure."

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In.Cube8R, when you want your artisanal handmade gifts to look like they came from an AI-bro start-up.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Somehow this one avoided being thrown in the Yarra.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

ISTG if they kill the SRL or kill the WFH laws, it will jokerfy me.

Chip fucking Legrand telling the new premier to kill the SRL. And "calls to walk back the WFH laws".

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It took just one day for Big Fries. And he was the worst for this.

Chip Le Grand: "The hatred of Jacinta Allan was unfair".

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Panic on the front page of The Age about... connecting the SRL to existing stations on other lines.

"Secret multi billion-dollar plan to link SRL stations with existing stops"

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Because we have a massive barrier through the middle that we don't cross.

SBS: "Why Melbourne is considered the Berlin of the southern hemisphere".

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Did you see this too? She's fantastic.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is real, BTW. From what I remember, we were encouraged to be geese, because geese will follow any leader, and buffalo only follow one. They were obsessed with this book:

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Hang on, I was told in one of those bullshit corporate team-building events with butchers paper in 1997 that you should be a goose and not a buffalo.

Forbes: "Why building a bison mentality is key to accelerating workforce productivity".

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

That's the Roshena Campbell who lives in Brunswick, ran for a seat out in Boronia (where she didn't live), currently Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne (where she doesn't live) being put forward for a Western Metro seat (where she doesn't live).

"Melbourne deputy mayor Roshena Campbell, western suburbs community leader Jenny Matic, and Trung Luu, a Liberal MP currently preselected in the No.2 position, have been mooted as possible candidates."

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If I were a superpower hell-bent on the destruction of a rival, I'd be interfering in elections to help Trump /win/.

BBC: "In the half-hour speech, delivered three months before the midterm elections, he said he had declassified hundreds of intelligence files which supported his claims that Beijing had tried to sway the election in Biden's favour."

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