Mr Hounsell
@hounsell.bsky.social
Aussie Transport Analyst - Writing on life in the urban jungle; places, living streets & quality transit. He/Him (They/Them is OK) https://linktr.ee/hounsell ✈🚢🚈🚋🚌🚕🚗🛵🚲🛴👣 🏳️🌈☿⚧
As a conservative Albanese is like Menzies at the start of WW2. He is unable to admit that old empire will fall and that the old world order is over. He must admit that the world is always changing and the status quo can never be maintained for long, and that Australia must CHANGE to survive.
The US does not have enough missiles to protect itself from cheap drones? Does Albo really think the US will deploy scarce resources to protect Oz? The American Empire is over, Oz needs to stop being a vassal and work to build a world to constrain empire builders. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrHY...
US has used ~80% of key missile interceptors: Sources
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I had the chance to spend the day with Cycling Without Age Vancouver. It would be an understatement to say I was moved. @cyclingwithoutage.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE-e...
The Bike That Makes Everyone’s Day
YouTube video by Nic Laporte
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US Military Industrial Complex claims: Used 80% of THAAD interceptors - $12m each - $12 Used 50% of patriot interceptors- $4m each 1) Their was not enough interceptors to run a sustained war 2) The restocking and increase will conveniently be profitable for them www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrHY...
US has used ~80% of key missile interceptors: Sources
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Fruit to produce jet fuel: another greenwashing scam, directly from the fossil fuel industry, that will turn an area of Brazilian countryside the size of LA into a monoculture. 🧵
Jet Fuel Made From Tropical Fruit Gets $3 Billion Backing
A Brazilian company owned by Mubadala Capital plans to make sustainable aviation fuel out of macauba fruit, which grows on palm trees.
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Besides being Canberra icons, it’s a lot harder to destroy these than the heritage 1930s wooden bus shelters like the one on Schlich St, Yarralumla that mysteriously burned down in 1993 just after someone built a huge house opposite it whose lake views it obstructed 👀 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
'Icon of our history': Canberra bus shelters added to heritage register
Canberra's bus shelters were described as "concrete monstrosities" when installed in 1975 but have since been noted for their brutalist architectural style and functionality.
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The continuous cycle route between Breda and Etten-Leur was ahead of its time when it opened in 2004. More than 20 years later, it has been improved again: a new cycle tunnel now replaces a busy level crossing. That story in this week’s post and video.
Cycle Tunnel Replaces a Level Crossing in Breda
People who visit the Netherlands for the first time to see and experience the cycling environment often describe being “blown away” by all that they see. But recurring visitors say something similar too. To their pleasant surprise, they often notice the continuous improvements to the cycling infrastructure. In today’s post, I have a fine example of just such an improvement.
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EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.
Here is @hcrichardson.bsky.social repeating the basic lesson of history (1850s, 1890s, 1920s). The term oligarchy comes from when a very small group of people used the structure of ancient Greek society to overthrow democracy to take all money and power for themselves. youtu.be/HH-SlAC6VZQ?...
Today in Politics | Explainer
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Swiss federal government makes constructing cycle track networks a requirement for all cities substack.com/@cyclingprof...
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🚀 Switzerland is officially giving up its neutrality... when it comes to cycling infrastructure they’re choosing a side. 🇨🇭🚴♂️ Building bike networks is now a federal mandate. The Swiss Federal Act...
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An #IceAge masterpiece: This small carving (4.7cm) of a water #bird was made from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. It's thought to be a #diver, #cormorant, or #duck. Found in the Hohle Fels cave on the Swabian Jura. It's the oldest known representation of a bird. 🧵1/2
Economics 101: when you charge people for checked baggage they will shove everything into carry-ons filling up the cabin. Economics 102: when your profits depend on cheap oil, your industry better donate to sensible intelligent pacifists.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterdayJetstar to charge new fees for overhead carry-on baggage
Working at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, the researchers and Rio Tinto were not sure it was feasible to run autonomous vehicles in a low certainty mining environment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH8x... Tell me again why are autonomous rail motors not possible?
China's Homegrown 100-ton-class Driverless Electric Mining Truck Enters Service
YouTube video by CCTV Video News Agency
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A great explanation of Khunian Normality and the postmodern theory of science using the examples of sub-solar black holes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I07R...
We Thought All Black Holes Came From Stars. We May Have Been Wrong.
YouTube video by PBS Space Time
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More details emerge of a horror crash near Shark Bay that left two men dead and a woman and child seriously injured.
Shark Bay crash killed grandfather taking family on holiday
More details emerge of a horror crash near Shark Bay that left two men dead and a woman and child seriously injured.
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Every year the same disaster because the government is unwilling to push masks, work from home, and an employees right to sick leave. Worse many employers require you to go and wait at a doctors office for a medical certificate spreading the virus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDf1...
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Some the colour that’s brightening our local Perth Hills bush as we move into the Noongar season of Djilba 🌿🌸🌺 Chamaescilla corymbosa Acacia nervosa Leucopogon capitellatus Philotheca spicata #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling #winter
Dutch water distribution coordinator: "We've always had the luxury of sufficient water, so agriculture and shipping were possible everywhere. Now we have to get used to this not being the case anymore. The Netherlands have to become more resilient." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
De houding van Nederlanders tegenover droogte moet veranderen, zeggen experts. ‘Wij zijn een verwend land’
Watermanagement: De natuur, landbouw en scheepvaart kampen met grote droogteproblemen, maar eerdere investeringen verzachten de schade. Watermanagers verhoogden tijdig het peil van de ‘nationale regen...
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a spokesperson for the Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said Australia was a longstanding supporter of the #ICC: "We respect the court's independence and the important role it plays in upholding international law" So why does your govt continue to suck up to a regime that does not? #auspol
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d agoUS vows to dismantle International Criminal Court. Experts say it's 'very worrying'
Traffic engineers (who deny it when you suggest their value motorist convenience over safety): The increase in crashes in an acceptable tradeoff for improved efficiencies for our motorist constituents. www.westernite.org/annualmeetin...
"Safety is our highest priority...except for this other priority, which happens to come at the expense of safety."
Don Elkay@theteflondon.bsky.social · 2d agoTraffic engineers (who deny it when you suggest their value motorist convenience over safety): The increase in crashes in an acceptable tradeoff for improved efficiencies for our motorist constituents. www.westernite.org/annualmeetin...
Five days ago, the Rhine - at the point where it enters the Netherlands - reached its lowest level ever recorded: 6.47 meter above sea level. Now it's at 6.35 m.
My fav train in Japan. No, not the Shinkansen. But the one carriage local train like this that goes to little country side villages. Where foreign tourists don't & wouldn't know how to go. We & Bestie Mayumi San, love visiting little villages, eat local foods and view like this
