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We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know […]

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AJ Sadauskas @ajsadauskas.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Paper Planes Café, Horwood Place, Parramatta.

#coffee #food #parramatta #westernsydney #nsw #australia

Eggs Benedict with avocado in a busy café.

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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

@aj @NarrelleMHarris Five floors isn't too bad, I find. The original office building had three lifts, but when it was redeveloped into apartments the stingy developers cut it down to two. Annoying.

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@andypiper No direct experience with Pixel Watch, but my elderly mother got a Samsung Watch partly for this reason.

She's managed to trigger it accidentally when she overenthusiastically clapped too hard at her favourite football team scoring a goal.

She also managed to trigger the fall alert […]

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Andy Piper @andypiper.org · 1d

Tell me about fall detection on Pixel Watch. Is this a useful feature for older people? How usable is the Watch in general? Any practical knowledge or experiences? Thanks 🙏🏻

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@andypiper No direct experience with Pixel Watch, but my elderly mother got a Samsung Watch partly for this reason.

She's managed to trigger it accidentally when she overenthusiastically clapped too hard at her favourite football team scoring a goal.

She also managed to trigger the fall alert […]

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@juergen_hubert A thing that often happen is the visibility of abusive posts us not set to "everyone".

So it's important to be aware that when there's an abusive reply, it might not be visible to you.

There are also some instances that take a very lax attitude towards moderation.

Now, if your […]

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@juergen_hubert A thing that often happen is the visibility of abusive posts us not set to "everyone".

So it's important to be aware that when there's an abusive reply, it might not be visible to you.

There are also some instances that take a very lax attitude towards moderation.

Now, if your […]

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

With the recent influx of newcomers from #bluesky , it behooves us to contemplate what we can do to improve #moderation on the #fediverse - something that has been a problem in the past, and is one of the major reasons why the Fediverse is not as big and as diverse as it could be.

The first and […]

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow.

This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@timrichards @NarrelleMHarris That sucks!

Unfortunately for us the lifts in our building are very unreliable. The saving grace is that we're on one of the lower floors, so thankfully not too many stairs to climb.

It was out of service for a month earlier this year while the building managers […]

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@timrichards @NarrelleMHarris That sucks!

Unfortunately for us the lifts in our building are very unreliable. The saving grace is that we're on one of the lower floors, so thankfully not too many stairs to climb.

It was out of service for a month earlier this year while the building managers […]

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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Jeez we got home from the Mildura train to discover both lifts were out in our Melbourne CBD apartment building - only the third time that's happened in the 22 years we've lived here.

The repair guy had been called, so we went to Brother Baba Budan for a coffee. I then climbed the five floors […]

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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ @cryptadamist.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 1d

why do the window designers in #russia keep creating such dangerous products?

#defenestration #defenestrate #putin #vladimirputin #windows #window #ukraine #ukrainewar #oligarch #oligarchs #sadoligarch #pravda #vyacheslavleontyev #leontyev

Publisher of famous Soviet newspaper Pravda falls to his death from a seventh-floor window

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Lots of new Metro Tunnel announcements from the Premier and Minister for Public Transport at today's media launch!

Partial launch in early December (pending rail safety regulator signoff) with full service starting 10 February 2026. This includes changes to train […]

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Photo of press release titled "the metro tunnel will open in December - one year early".

Photo of information sheet called "The Metro Tunnel is opening in early December"

Photo of Summer Start timetable for the Metro Tunnel

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@philip Ooh shiny!

Looks like they didn't let the architects go all out to the same degree as the Sydney Metro, but it still looks very modern.

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@philip Ooh shiny!

Looks like they didn't let the architects go all out to the same degree as the Sydney Metro, but it still looks very modern.

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Obligatory photo at the myki gates in the brand new State Library Station just before heading down to the platforms

#MelbourneTrains #melbourne #publictransport #transit

Photo of me standing in front of myki gates under a sign that reads "State Library Station"

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@ajsadauskas @DanielleVossebeld The trains in Sydney are the same size as the Dutch one. (They're slightly wider in Melbourne and narrower in Brisbane, but that's a story for another day!)

The difference is the seats and the aisle are slightly narrower. There are also no armrests between seats […]

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@ajsadauskas @DanielleVossebeld The trains in Sydney are the same size as the Dutch one. (They're slightly wider in Melbourne and narrower in Brisbane, but that's a story for another day!)

The difference is the seats and the aisle are slightly narrower. There are also no armrests between seats […]

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Danielle @daniellevossebeld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@ajsadauskas Wow, 3 Seats next to eachother? Those trains are wide! Or Australians are quite small 😅

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@ajsadauskas @jd They're electrical multiple units.

Typically, the trains are made up of two sets of four carriages, so eight carriages in total.

The train lines to Central Coast & Newcastle, Wollongong, and the Blue Mountains are also electrified.

Beyond the cluster of big cities in NSW […]

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@ajsadauskas @jd They're electrical multiple units.

Typically, the trains are made up of two sets of four carriages, so eight carriages in total.

The train lines to Central Coast & Newcastle, Wollongong, and the Blue Mountains are also electrified.

Beyond the cluster of big cities in NSW […]

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jd 🔆 @jd.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@ajsadauskas
Yes, took these when I was visiting a few years ago. I’ve forgotten whether they were diesel or electric.

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