CTA has a banger new billboard ad - via https://bsky.app/profile/mattbrown.bsky.social/post/3mj6j6krzm22c
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Fair-weather e-bike commuter. Reluctant STEMnik. Rubus Ronin. Off-grid hater, certified reticulator.
Interests: Trains, trams 
, bicycles, vintage tractors, home brewing, communism (historical & future). Posts a lot of "bad" music.
Trans rights = human rights.
Posts are mostly followers-only. Follow requests are vetted based on your bio, so if you don’t have one and I don’t know you ❌
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Joined July 10, 2019
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Stolen Wurundjeri Land, Democratic People's Republic of Victoria
I would absolutely buy this
Ok yeah the Candy XPT looks fantastic, I get it
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To rectify this very silly situation Australian governments and the different railways that they owned collectively agreed to standardise on the National Train Communications System train radio system, originally rolled out by Federal Government-owned railway company ARTC, to replace the existing mix of analogue and digital train radios used in Australia. This consists of a set of standard radio network interfaces and a common “In Cab Equipment” (ICE) radio unit fitted to, as you might guess, every locomotive/train cab.
One radio to rule them all… and in the darkness bind them. (cont)
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See, the problem is that previously all the different train operators used varied UHF and VHF radio spectrum. Radio spectrum - and the infrastructure to maintain coverage - that has, today, become really quite expensive . ARTC opted to use Telstra’s mobile network as a radio interface provider because that gives them a lot of network coverage - not just radio coverage, but also the backhaul from those radio base station locations to the railway network control centres - at a much cheaper price than you’d get covering the much-less-busy country areas that make up the vast majority of ARTC’s route-kilometres. With some targeted investment from ARTC for Telstra to improve coverage specifically for them, and an appropriate Service Level Agreement with Telstra so that young Jaxyn riding the train to Armidale watching TikTok on his phone won’t cause the train radio to drop out, it seemed like a clever and frugal solution. (Cont.)
How a First Nations community built an Indigenous-owned fibre optic network; even in remote subarctic Canada, building a real sovereign network makes money and craps all over Starlink:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/indigenous-fiber-network
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NTCS, sensibly, is a multi-radio-interface solution. The ICE radios can use Satellite, GSM-R (train-only 2G mobile networks used in suburban Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide), UHF (mainly for “Local Train Radio” purposes like talking to crews while shunting) and… Telstra’s mobile phone network. (Cont.)
On May 9, the volunteer-run Talyllyn Railway will be holding a Talyllyn Women’s Day event, where the entire railway will be staffed by women volunteers. They’re a great little railway and I strongly encourage people to go and support events like this!
Steam locomotive ash is still being used to seal up canal lock gates - a traditional practice that is still more effective than more modern sealants. Canals and heritage railways in the UK are now working together to continue doing it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gvjjnv114o
The Victorian Goldfields Railway took no time to take advantage of this morning’s announcement of free public transport across Victoria in April:
The TAC should fund frequent all-night public transport on Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday nights in order to reduce drink-driving.
Mezzanine Beetle and Prodigy Crab
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@benno Hideo Kojima’s Pontifex
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@ben_hr@old.mermaid.town @thewetmale@aus.social @futzle@old.mermaid.town I have gerunds for a complaint
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@david@theblower.au Dubbo Symphony Orchestra
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@allrite@masto.allrite.at as the old joke goes: every corpse on Mount Everest was once a highly motivated person
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@s0@cathode.church horse in a pool?
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@s0@cathode.church @sen@hachyderm.io I thought a pub crawl for sysadmins involved Shodan and traceroute
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@cefiar@social.chinwag.org she’s come such a long way from hiding behind the sewing machine cabinet!
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@s0 The Australia Institute is waging war against Coordinated Universal Time?
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@liamvhogan 🎶 what’s the time? / IT’S TIME TO GET ILFORD 🎶
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@catherineweird @weirdestate see, for me specifically this makes it even more appealing but I’m weird like that
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@wandrew@godforsaken.website don’t let’s start, this is the worst part
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@wandrew@godforsaken.website but what are we going to do in case they are?
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@jimbob (also this has inspired me to put on “Halcyon + On + On” by Orbital)
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@flyhigh Obvious Plant, they’ve been doing these photoshops for well over a decade at this point
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@mike@social.chinwag.org @stibbons@s.scintilla.social this image is like a Rorschach Test but for internet poisoning
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@BenLeverAU@aus.social Official Australian Government theme song: https://youtu.be/sLm3Khusq_8
INXS - Don't Change (Official Music Video)
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@Kels_316@aus.social heard something recently that a lot of gore photos posted on 4chan back in the day were sneaky pics being shared there by paramedics & EMTs. Suddenly a lot of things make sense
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town that’s the sort of energy levels I want right now
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@ajft@aus.social might be some nice fresh blue & golds coming down the line soon(ish)
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@Kels_316 welcome back, Donald Rumsfeld
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@weirdestate there’s a similar place in Daylesford, Victoria Australia that is built out of a Victorian Railways guards van: https://www.domain.com.au/news/converted-train-carriage-turned-tiny-house-in-daylesford-a-minimalists-dream-20180514-h0zz01/
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@daedalus Roblox won’t deal with their massive gambling, child predator and bullying problems either, which they know about and won’t fix because they drive platform growth
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@jackeric strongly suspect that the onboard compressor gave up the ghost and they needed a quick replacement
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@liamvhogan “Negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full”
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@ajft wait, into a separated lane with like, bollards or similar separations above just paint? Surely that’s illegal
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@ajft honestly at this point I wonder if calling the cops on “an aggressive driver stopped in a roadway” would be the only thing that would make these pricks think twice
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@benno@eigenmagic.net this is the price for preventing Biscuit from committing Many Crimes
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@Kels_316 that’s what Scouts are for mate