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  @neil Meh, red lights are car infrastructure. I don’t stop at them when I’m walking or riding if it’s safe not to. If the roads weren’t choked with two-ton kill boxes they wouldn’t need to exist. Stop being a narc and focus on the real problems — unsafe streets, dangerous drivers, and shit infrastructure.

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  Well, I got a lovely new wheel made for my #Rivendell Hunqapillar. Rode it about 300km then some cranky granddad decided to hit me with his car twice — once accidentally (though negligently), the other deliberately. I messed up his windscreen pretty badly (with my back) and came of largely unscathed, but the lovely new wheel is buckled. Sigh.

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  @likesoldmacs I remember that neon effect. Loved it.

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  @crimsonbutterfly The Gang Gang cockatoo — emblem of my kids’ school. Don’t see them often. Lovely shot.

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  This makes me viscerally fucking angry. My $2500 phone and I have to have App Store notifications turned on to manage my kids’ requests and it gives me this shit. Fuck off Apple — the advertising is ruining the experience of using your products.

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  @augustusbrown@aus.social This is a really important point, and something that Canberra suffers from badly.

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  Catching a Canberra bus for the first time in a while. The “rapid” 6. What. The. Fuck. How can anyone use this system?

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  Hi @gruber — want to read the wrongest take on Tim Cook stepping down as Apple CEO? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-28/ai-bubble-apple-tim-cook-technology-verrender-column/106610832

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  Fucking HomeKit. “The garage door is not responding”. The garage door shows up on the wifi. Open garage door manually: “HomeKit notification “the garage door has been opened”. “Hey siri, close the garage door”. The garage door didn’t respond. It. Is. A. Piece. Of. Shit. Apple can’t make software any more.

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  Oh AI. I’ve been using ChatGPT for a few nerdy Linux things — it gave me good curly quotes in nvim for example — but it just took me on the biggest wild goose chase trying to get my foot terminal transparent. Do this! Do that! Finally I asked the right question (perhaps?) and it admitted that Foot doesn’t support transparency at all. Lesson in that. If it’s true. Update: It wasn’t true! Worked it out the old fashioned way. Turns out [colors] alpha=0.75 does the trick.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116324506821907376 The ACT government could learn something from this. But of course they’d need to have any idea that they might not win an election…

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  Kinda seems like a bunch of terminally online political tragics and activists forget that 98% of the country pays little-to-no attention to politics day-to-day, and forgets that while they’re smart and plugged-in enough to know about restraint in petrol usage, perhaps a big attention-getting address right before school holidays and long weekends might be a good idea, even if it wasn’t entertaining enough for their oh-so-sophisticated-and-worldly selves. FFS #auspol