Why does sbs have an American commentator. And why is he so much louder than the other guy

Transit in Seattle is so weird sometimes. Like imagine if Melbournes flagship project was building a line to run trams to Geelong. While Vline already existed but only runs for like an hour a day. While coburg had no rail connection of any kind and no real prioritised buses

Someone needs to launch an education campaign to get Americans to stop calling the World Cup “FIFA”. It’s like calling the Super Bowl NFL or the Olympics IOC and yet, they all do it

You gotta hand it to the Brits, nonce is a great word.

My deep seated Australian egalitarianism (look its tall poppy) makes me deeply cringe at him walking around with a Quad God singlet on. Like come on mate.

I keep getting the Salesforce agent force ad during the Olympics and I don’t understand it. The whole premise is using Salesforce to plan a dinner party? Including an AI agent “sous chef”? From Salesforce?

Absolutely delighted to be back on Olympian TikTok

What in seppo bullshit is hungry jacks doing using “sodas”. I think the TV ad also had “creamer” in it too 🙄

Just did my first Australian domestic flight after 5 years of flying in the US and the whole process is a true delight. Super friendly service everywhere, efficient and easy security. What a dream.

We did a massive clean out before we moved to the US 5 years ago. And I only regret donating 3 things: a plastic spoon that came in my very first utensils set when I moved out of home which turned out to be the perfect shape and balance. And my fake Christmas tree and a box of glass bauble ornaments

It’s 10pm pacific time so I can say a connections spoiler now: Scratchies aren’t lottery tickets.

“12 day advent calendars” make no sense. Advent is a defined season, the 4 Sundays before Christmas til Christmas Eve. It makes sense to go to the 1st to start a calendar though. The 12 days of Christmas are after Christmas. Just say you’re making a shitty countdown calendar.

Almost got hit twice today by cars right on red-ing without looking for pedestrians. Different intersections but both time the light had just gone green for me and they were racing to beat the oncoming traffic. Any Australian who thinks we should have the equivalent hates pedestrians

Going back to Australia for Christmas means I don’t have to ration Vegemite for the rest of the year.

Wordle 1,603 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Now I have to find a new starting word again.

Coming to one of the three brunch places in Seattle makes me miss Australia. This is diabolical. No one dishing out tables, zero sound proofing, every man for themselves

Melbournes SRL went to an election 2 years after ST3 and will have TBMs for section 1 in the ground by the end of year. Meanwhile Seattle still has no finalised plans and are setting up more advisory groups. FML

Seattle Transit Blog@seattletransitblog.com · last yr.

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“Watching a podcast” do you hear yourself? Everything doesn’t need to be video. We used to be a society

I didn’t expect it to be more boring than tortured poets, and yet

Why have this as an AI response google? Like what is the fucking pint of framing this as an AI question except to boost your AI traffic numbers?

Not every website/app/service needs stories, DMs and short form vertical video. I do not need stories on the Premier League app. I do not need Reels on LinkedIn. I do not need Spotify DMs.

9 years since it was voted in and only 12% through the design phase. Melbournes suburban rail loop was announced in 2018 and the TBMs for stage 1 are set to be in the ground at the end of the year. At this rate I’ll ride the SRL trains before this design phase is done.

@mclindblom.bsky.social · last yr.

Sound Transit system expansion committee now in session. No big revelations, but one unsettling stat appears. West Seattle/Ballard projects are only at "12%" in design phase, nine years after voter approval.

Remember when Apple was good and didn’t allow such bullshit? Between the dross on the AppStore and allowing all kinds of bullshit notifications, it sometimes feels like the epitome of enshitification

Reading this thread and the replies, and aside from the confidently incorrect thing, just how _cutesy_ GPT is now gives me the absolute ick.

Where did LLMs “learn” this style of social media posting? Because you never saw it on Reddit or Twitter before LLMs? And now it’s a huge slop giveaway

We’re going to be at 40 songs to go at 11pm. 10 songs an hour. 3am finish. I’m not sure I can make it #hottest100

The apps need to let me right click paste when I want to. Sometimes I only have one hand and it’s faster to do it with the mouse. Leave me alone google docs

I thought the hottest 100 might finish by midnight/1am my time. No way it’s done by 3am at this rate hahaha

You know what’s an interesting quirk? Americans use of the short hand “FIFA” for the world cup(s). Like people at my work at talking about “preparing for FIfA” and the signage around town was all for FIFA. I don’t think anywhere else in the world does that as short hand

Despise the fact people expect podcasts all to have video now. No. Get off the computer and go outside. Lie in the dark and listen to people yap. Just stop it.