Harry Chemay

@harrychemay.bsky.social

The random musings of a second-rate mind trapped in a third-rate body. Finance, Tech, Pensions, Housing. Constant observer, occasional scribe. Somewhat prone to #goodtrouble. Probably out riding. 🌲 🚵‍♂️

Given the frontier labs recent self-reported breeches of containerisation, if even half of what Andrew Yang alleges is true we are in uncharted territory. And not in a good way. Just sayin'. 😐

'The Shoey' is the single worst Australian contribution to world sports. That I maintain this position in a world where Raygun performed at the Olympics is proof of the low regard in which I hold Ricciardo's stunt-turned-trademark. Yuk.

Mexico’s fight for independence is the triumph of a people determined to shape their own future. Today, I was proud to be the first New York City Mayor to march in Sunset Park’s Mexican Independence Day Parade alongside a community that has fostered cultural pride across generations.

Mayor Mamdani waves at the Mexican Independence Day parade.

The personal impact of 9/11 was not being offered an exit row seat for the next ~7 years, when my height had made that offer a near-certainty beforehand. That and a weirdly high occurrence of 'random' additional checks at airport security. 😐

A closer look at a Sturt desert pea (Swainsona formosa) flower. It is the floral emblem of the state of South Australia and a dramatic pop of colour out in the desert.

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Spot the difference. We didn't 5x the Cycleways network in London overnight. It took vision, hard work, & the conviction to invest in green infrastructure - often in the face of vocal opposition. In 2016, we had 90km of Cycleways. Now we're at 450km. That's progress. And we're not stopping there.

Graphic with the headline, “London’s cycle network is now five times larger than in 2016.” The upper map is labelled “BEFORE 2016” and shows London with a small number of bright green cycle routes concentrated around central London. The lower map is labelled “AFTER 2026” and shows London with many more bright green cycle routes extending across central and outer London.

Four months ago, top scientists published a report showing that Himalayan glaciers are losing ice at double the rate since 2000, with some glaciers losing a third of their area in just three decades. "This isn’t a distant problem; it’s a crisis unfolding in real-time," they said. We were warned.