mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Full stack software engineer. Violinist, advocate for walkable cities and people on bikes, dancer, OpenStreetMap contributor.
Bicycle Network : “…a commuter pushes a bike toward a railway platform. Around .8 of a second passes, and a second cyclist jogs alongside their bike, and then — just like that — we’re back to tyre gauges and fuel bowsers. One and a half seconds…”
https://bicyclenetwork.com.au/newsroom/2026/04/22/1-5-seconds-thats-all-bikes-get/
An excellent article by Caitlin Cassidy on the growth of cycling amidst rising fuel costs.
It includes quotes from government authorities, industry bodies & bike shops. It interviews local residents using bikes as transport, explains data (with a hyperlink to the source) and - for the first 3 paragraphs - highlights Copenhagen's world-leading policy reform after the 1970s oil crisis.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/06/fuel-crisis-sydney-commuters-cycling
Did you know HotPrices (@flozza@infosec.exchange) and AusCost (@tj@howse.social) have been scraping and graphing #Coles & #Woolworths price data?
Check out those false discount square waves!
One is actually a fork of @badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place 's excellent https://heisse-preise.io/
Given the current investigation I hope the Australian media and ACCC is across this.
@kyp92@aus.social I will never get over the fact the old one made it into a US DOT 1981 report! I knew those platforms like the back of my hand.
The Guardian appears to be testing a hard login wall. A page reload doesn’t dismiss it.
#theguardian #guardian #auspol #journalism #wikipedia #media
Recently there have been several misleading media articles (in reputable sources) regarding pedestrian, cyclist and personal mobility device road deaths deaths in Australia.
Some have “inaccurately suggested that e-scooters and e-bikes played a significant part in the rise in pedestrian deaths”, when “the fatalities were in fact the riders of e-scooters” (ABC Correction)
Apple knows the engineers yearn for 2020 extrusions!
> It is important to distinguish between road-registered EVs and other devices that contain lithium-ion batteries such as e-bikes and e-scooters. Fires in such e-micromobility devices are much more common due to damaged or poor-quality battery cells, while batteries in road registered EVs are designed to stricter safety regulations.
Legal, EU-certified e-bikes thrown under (the NSW government) bus
Regional Overnight Sleeper Services!
#auspol #nsw #victoria #trains
https://industry.transport.nsw.gov.au/tfnsw/tiip/pipeline