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timrichards Tim Richards @aus.social

Travel writer living and working on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Australia. Rail travel expert, current books on sale include Heading South and Ultimate Train Journeys: World. See my published writing at iwriter.com.au.

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AN/FPS-24 Radar Tower, Mt. Umunhum, Los Gatos, CA, 2024.
  • @[email protected] @[email protected] That reminds me of this old sign I saw in NYC when I visited in 2014. Chilling.

  • Looks like Sydney Trains is going to drop the jargon from its PA announcements.
  • @rusl @ajsadauskas @sydneytrains Oh god I hate "deplane". Also "detrain". Can't see how disembark is difficult. Or terminate, for that matter. Or alight!

  • The saga of Waverley Park — Melbourne's car-dependent suburban AFL stadium with a planned seated capacity of over 150,000 (not a typo!)
  • @ajsadauskas @awelder @jedsetter @nictea @philip @fuck_cars And Perth doesn't even have much of a pre-car inner-city, so it's dominated by car-friendly suburbia. The new train lines are good, but it's a pity they run between freeways and thus miss out on local walkable neighbourhoods around them.

  • In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?
  • @ajsadauskas @degoogle I actually contributed to one! I was a writer at LookSmart for four years; we manually created categories and added websites to then, with short descriptive reviews. Though an algorithm listed more sites below our selections, we could force the top result, eg we'd make sure the most relevant website was the first result of a search on that topic. Old-skool now, but had better results in some ways.

  • Is the 'Change the Date' movement gathering momentum?
  • @whybird @skribe @ajsadauskas @eatham @unionagainstdhmo As someone said the other day - let's go for the existing Wattle Day on 1 September!

  • Is the 'Change the Date' movement gathering momentum?
  • @ajsadauskas @eatham @unionagainstdhmo I think 9 May, when federal parliament first met in 1901. It's the right year, and more convenient than 1 Jan.

  • With BlueSky moving towards finally opening up federation, I'm interested in how people feel about it?
  • @ajsadauskas @fediverse I'd quite like to be able to link up with people I miss who are on other platforms.

  • Personally, I think Sydney could have an amazing and iconic public square at Circular Quay, if only it tore down that ugly freeway.
  • @ajsadauskas @urbanism Good suggestion, that would be great. Water views and all if they could put the train station underground.