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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 4m

The Italian Stallion is the closest to the kind of American Italian subs I had in New York that I’ve got in Australia

Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 12h

That’s normal right?? Normal and healthy???

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 12h

nah bottle it up I reckon what if I throw that bottle in the river not my problem anymore

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 20h

When the only young people at the public consultation are in the wall painting…

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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · 1d

Better Transport Queensland Releases 2025 Policy Platform
forum.bettertransportqueensland.org/t/better-tra...

Better Transport Queensland Releases 2025 Policy Platform

Better Transport Queensland is proud to release our 2025 Policy Platform: a forward-looking blueprint for a safer, more connected, and sustainable transport future across Queensland. Click here to d...

forum.bettertransportqueensland.org

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Better Renting @betterrenting.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, the National Association of Renters' Organisations and National Shelter released a report following up on the Better Deal for Renters. The Deal has now been in place for two years—has renting gotten any better?

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 1d

This was also my problem with the first wave of Fediverse afficionados. They didn't just not appreciate why people liked spending time on the most popular social media apps, but actively rejected those bases.

People decrying (justifiably) the "Digital Mall" forgetting people like being in malls!

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Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social · 1d

Know someone who missed out on Parallels tickets? We rummaged around and found a few more in our pockets - but they're very limited!

events.humanitix.com/parallels25

Parallels - Last Minute Tickets Available Now

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

Oh thank god. I need my Subway Italian Sub if it was 30% better

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

In tragic news for Brisbane sandwich fans, dannyboys — what if Subway was good — has closed their Kelvin Grove store, their only store south of Boondall

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

Surely the like for like isn’t excess deaths but deaths inflicted by other people? It’s still disproportionate but not insanely so.

Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if it’s just how “celebrity watchers” experience the parasociality that leads them to listen to podcasts and follow celebrity socials is fundamentally different to the kind experienced by Actual Play fans — in particular the time and attention commitment vs local social networks effects?

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

The closest I can think of are the Dimension 20 x Drag Race and x WWE miniseasons but they’re already niche and nerdy subcultures

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

fuuuuuck horror story

Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

No warning signs at all before they moved in??

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

Really stunning works at the Brisbane Portrait Prize this year. I’ve always bounced off portraiture because even now most are made of people’s whose stories are already known. So many of these though are intimate stories I’d never have learnt without these portraits.

I cried three times. 10/10.

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact: there was briefly a political party in Australia called Fluxx that literally wanted to do this for every single parliamentary vote

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

Like to me the appeal of the Corbyn era stuff — especially the McDonnell Alternative Ownership work — was how positive and coherent it was. It articulated a better future and a possible way to get there.

Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

The policy is about making people’s lives better. This poster is about punishing perceived injustice. Very dissonant imo.

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

Did this guy think opposition media disappeared overnight in authoritarian countries? And these were countries that already had strong censorship systems in place. It takes a long time to build censorship and consolidate media.

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

I will always come down on the side of taking a risk provided we’ve done the work and are cleareyed about it.

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

I think it’s all just about risk. We took some big swings last term. I think some paid off, some didn’t but were still the right political decision, some didn’t in hindsight but were in the moment, and some were misjudgments.

But if you don’t take risks, you don’t advance.

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

Not at all. I think you have to assume everything will break containment. I certainly do when I write. It maybe makes me a bit more cautious than I’d like to better be effective.

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 2d

making my annual pilgrimage to one of the most objectionable road signs in the country, which is also responsible for the one and only time I "went viral" on the other site

A sign that reads "pedestrians please consider motorists and cross in groups". at a zebra crossing. which gives pedestrians right of way. at the exit from a train station on a local street

a post I made on twitter on 21 July 2023, which is a photo of the same exact sign that I've captioned "flew all the way to Sydney just to see the single most offensive road sign I've ever seen as a transport planner"

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 2d

I would say that the audience for this is Greens members at a Greens party conference so more radical language makes sense.

But it’s broken containment.

That being said given the strength of the Corbyn era messaging in reaching a big chunk of voters, maybe that’s a good thing in the UK.

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