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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings fellow tratansspent users. 🚉🚃

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(guys, can we stop using these AI images? They're really bad.)

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 2d

Out of interest how do you find riding in Townsville? Is there much cycling infrastructure in place?

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 2d

✊

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

War is hell, Portland style

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 3d

You leave me no option but to assume that he did.

ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 4d

Haha hahahaha, brilliant

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Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 4d

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 4d

Thug lyfe.

ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 4d

My money is on Twin Towns RSL, Coolangatta; keep it classy.

ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 4d

Cheers 🍻

ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 4d

So does this mean that Footscray, say, will go from a 20 Min frequency to a 10 minute frequency, with every other train going through the tunnel? Ie existing trains from beyond West Footscray will continue to be loop trains? It's so confusing. 😕😕🙃

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 5d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 5d

It has been a long slog for Sunbury line users, even with the tunnel it feels like years of additional bustitution ahead for superhub and MARL works.

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 7d

It begins. 🤧

Melbourne Pollen Count and Forecast @melbournepollen.bsky.social · 7d

Today's grass #pollen forecast for Melbourne is Moderate (Saturday, Oct 4). Take necessary precautions. Stay informed with our App: https://bit.ly/melbournpollen

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 10d

I reckon he'd move for a treat biscuit. Everyone has a price.

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 10d

I just realised I have dressed for today based on what the BOM app said the weather would be. Unfortunately said app was still set to Cairns and not Melbourne. 🌴

ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 11d

New plane provided a smooth ride, disconcertingly made noises reminding me of the mechanic scene from Wayne's World as it was going down the runway. youtu.be/LC9DvZH_Wgg

Garth Plays with a Power Drill

YouTube video by ICHAS3I

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 11d

The fake film artefacts as if the content was recorded on reel to fucking reel really give me the shits, probably more than they should.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 12d

This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.

ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 11d

Nerding out over unexpectedly getting to ride the new A321XLR back to Melbourne. Some rando in business class gave me some promotional pens when I made a comment to that effect as we walked past on our way to the rather salubrious cattle class. ✈️

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 11d

Laughably terrible sculpture.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

A 10-foot statue of Tina Turner was unveiled in the rural Tennessee community where she grew up

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

A bronze colored statue holding a microphone

ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 11d

Hahaha I had the same thought!!

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 11d

Possibly the best metaphor for the US military in recent decades that i've seen.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 12d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 12d

🐊 WARNING ACHTUNG 警告 🐊 #straya

Sign from Cairns Botanic Gardens:
"WARNING ACHTUNG 警告
Recent crocodile sighting in this area. Crocodile attack can cause serious injury or death"

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 13d

It's me.

Meme - "Overthinking about how I'm overthinking"

Peter Griffin from Family Guy on a park bench in the thinker pose, with a transparent Peter Griffin in the same pose superimposed over the top.

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 14d

"Drink it without much thought, because your physical experience of it is less important than how it resonates in virtual spaces."

Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 14d

I wrote about Baudrillard, pumpkin spice lattes, and the increasing hyperreality of specialty coffee. #CoffeeSky
www.thepourover.coffee/the-hyperrea...

The Hyperreality of Specialty Coffee

Well-funded startups mimic the aesthetics and language of specialty coffee. Giant multinationals cosplay community. Companies chase trends created by social media. It all points towards coffee's growi...

www.thepourover.coffee

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ben @peregrinari7.bsky.social · 16d

This just came up in my Facebook feed. WTAF.

Title: "When someone asks me about my addiction"

Image: a face with a hand holding down one nostril and a straw in the other as if snorting cocaine. Instead of a pile of cocaine there is a small flock of budgies.