Alex Jago 🪐🏴☠️🏗️
@alexjago51.bsky.social
Code, cities, choir.
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Are you a lover of choral music?
Have you ever thought about becoming a Patron of the Arts?
Do you just have too much money?
If any or all of these things apply to you please consider donating. $2 or more is tax deductible!
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Have you ever thought about becoming a Patron of the Arts?
Do you just have too much money?
If any or all of these things apply to you please consider donating. $2 or more is tax deductible!
artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2...
Artist Portal
artists.australianculturalfund.org.au
October 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Are you a lover of choral music?
Have you ever thought about becoming a Patron of the Arts?
Do you just have too much money?
If any or all of these things apply to you please consider donating. $2 or more is tax deductible!
artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2...
Have you ever thought about becoming a Patron of the Arts?
Do you just have too much money?
If any or all of these things apply to you please consider donating. $2 or more is tax deductible!
artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2...
Deeply ironic that Adelaide's bid for COP31 has a good chance of exclusion-zoning a heap of their rail public transport.
This is hot on the heels of SA Labor locking in parking minimums!
There's gotta be something in the water...
This is hot on the heels of SA Labor locking in parking minimums!
There's gotta be something in the water...
September 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Deeply ironic that Adelaide's bid for COP31 has a good chance of exclusion-zoning a heap of their rail public transport.
This is hot on the heels of SA Labor locking in parking minimums!
There's gotta be something in the water...
This is hot on the heels of SA Labor locking in parking minimums!
There's gotta be something in the water...
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Going to be rather enjoyable seeing the reactions of those parents supporting the ban of social media for under 16s, discovering that means they now have to prove to YouTube, FB, etc that they are over 16.
"I thought this was just about the kids, I'm over 16, why do I need to provide ID???!!!!!"
"I thought this was just about the kids, I'm over 16, why do I need to provide ID???!!!!!"
July 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Going to be rather enjoyable seeing the reactions of those parents supporting the ban of social media for under 16s, discovering that means they now have to prove to YouTube, FB, etc that they are over 16.
"I thought this was just about the kids, I'm over 16, why do I need to provide ID???!!!!!"
"I thought this was just about the kids, I'm over 16, why do I need to provide ID???!!!!!"
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A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years
Between 1980 and 2024 the basket of 50 basic commodities become cheaper and more abundant. To be precise 70 per cent cheaper and 238 per cent more abundant. If we hadn’t messed up housing costs we’d be collectively very well off. Source: buff.ly/U8lZZkc
July 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years
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CUT MY LIST IN TWO PIECES
THAT’S HOW YOU START QUICKSORT
THAT’S HOW YOU START QUICKSORT
May 31, 2025 at 2:21 AM
CUT MY LIST IN TWO PIECES
THAT’S HOW YOU START QUICKSORT
THAT’S HOW YOU START QUICKSORT
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Anti-preferencers still being seen whinging about Labor getting 62.7% of seats off 34.6% of primary votes when under the system they support UK Labour 2024 got 63.2% of seats off 33.7% of votes.
May 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Anti-preferencers still being seen whinging about Labor getting 62.7% of seats off 34.6% of primary votes when under the system they support UK Labour 2024 got 63.2% of seats off 33.7% of votes.
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The Portland area transit service expansion plan that we worked on had just two goals: ridership and equity.
Here are some of the payoffs: New service in lower-income inner-ring suburbs, including a new Frequent line and a new line that has a chance to be Frequent someday. But there's more 🧵 1/
Here are some of the payoffs: New service in lower-income inner-ring suburbs, including a new Frequent line and a new line that has a chance to be Frequent someday. But there's more 🧵 1/
Bus service changes start June 1! 🚌
✅ We’re launching Line 86-148th Ave to connect Lents and the Columbia Corridor via 136th Avenue and 148th Avenue. Line 86 will provide service to Relay Resources in place of Line 87-Airport Way/181st.
✅ We’re launching Line 86-148th Ave to connect Lents and the Columbia Corridor via 136th Avenue and 148th Avenue. Line 86 will provide service to Relay Resources in place of Line 87-Airport Way/181st.
May 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The Portland area transit service expansion plan that we worked on had just two goals: ridership and equity.
Here are some of the payoffs: New service in lower-income inner-ring suburbs, including a new Frequent line and a new line that has a chance to be Frequent someday. But there's more 🧵 1/
Here are some of the payoffs: New service in lower-income inner-ring suburbs, including a new Frequent line and a new line that has a chance to be Frequent someday. But there's more 🧵 1/
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Because by occupying one of the 6 traffic lanes for a period of about half an hour, "people's right to freedom of movement would be excessively interfered with".
So people's right to freedom of movement being completely denied for months without end is fine, but impeding a few cars is a problem.
So people's right to freedom of movement being completely denied for months without end is fine, but impeding a few cars is a problem.
May 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Because by occupying one of the 6 traffic lanes for a period of about half an hour, "people's right to freedom of movement would be excessively interfered with".
So people's right to freedom of movement being completely denied for months without end is fine, but impeding a few cars is a problem.
So people's right to freedom of movement being completely denied for months without end is fine, but impeding a few cars is a problem.
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Wave goodbye to heavy rail to Maroochydore.
www.bettertransportqueensland.org/releases/wav...
How do you feel about having BRT use the reserved corridor to Maroochydore?
www.bettertransportqueensland.org/releases/wav...
How do you feel about having BRT use the reserved corridor to Maroochydore?
Wave goodbye to heavy rail to Maroochydore - Better Transport Queensland
Stay informed with the latest official media releases from Better Transport Queensland—covering public, active, and sustainable transport updates fresh from the source!
www.bettertransportqueensland.org
May 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Wave goodbye to heavy rail to Maroochydore.
www.bettertransportqueensland.org/releases/wav...
How do you feel about having BRT use the reserved corridor to Maroochydore?
www.bettertransportqueensland.org/releases/wav...
How do you feel about having BRT use the reserved corridor to Maroochydore?
Never thought I'd see this - and it will likely change with more prepoll and postal - but LNP are below two quotas in Qld right now.
(PHON + Rennick + Trumpet ≈ 1 Q)
So in terms of results it's a 2-2-1-1 like last time, but I have no idea who'll come unlucky 7th
(PHON + Rennick + Trumpet ≈ 1 Q)
So in terms of results it's a 2-2-1-1 like last time, but I have no idea who'll come unlucky 7th
May 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Never thought I'd see this - and it will likely change with more prepoll and postal - but LNP are below two quotas in Qld right now.
(PHON + Rennick + Trumpet ≈ 1 Q)
So in terms of results it's a 2-2-1-1 like last time, but I have no idea who'll come unlucky 7th
(PHON + Rennick + Trumpet ≈ 1 Q)
So in terms of results it's a 2-2-1-1 like last time, but I have no idea who'll come unlucky 7th
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Reading this while I'm preparing to give evidence at a parliamentary hearing tomorrow afternoon supporting a planning amendment bill that does nothing but fast-track public housing and public health infrastructure
You could prioritise public housing, better planning (transport, services etc), price caps, or you could say “it’s just like potatoes, give private developers more power and reduce demand”. Where do you think that ends up.
April 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Reading this while I'm preparing to give evidence at a parliamentary hearing tomorrow afternoon supporting a planning amendment bill that does nothing but fast-track public housing and public health infrastructure
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Renters can be a powerful voting bloc this election - if we're organised! Shoutout to @betterrenting.bsky.social who are coordinating renters to use our collective power to push the government to fix renting. I've taken the Renter Pledge and if you're a renter, you should too!
Renters Election 2025
We can make 2025 the Renters' Election. Take the Renter Pledge and commit to use your vote to fix renting.
www.renters-election.au
April 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Renters can be a powerful voting bloc this election - if we're organised! Shoutout to @betterrenting.bsky.social who are coordinating renters to use our collective power to push the government to fix renting. I've taken the Renter Pledge and if you're a renter, you should too!
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"Girl, I don't need no lifted truck/Revving loud to pick you up" Chappell Roan, welcome to the war on cars! youtu.be/DubtPdXXjew?...
Chappell Roan - The Giver (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by ChappellRoanVEVO
youtu.be
April 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Girl, I don't need no lifted truck/Revving loud to pick you up" Chappell Roan, welcome to the war on cars! youtu.be/DubtPdXXjew?...
If an MP were to spend every waking moment meeting voters, that works out to about 8 minutes 45 seconds per voter over a 3 year term.
Have you met your local member this election campaign - or ever?
@australiainstitute.org.au fellow Skye Predavec shows in 1903, a single MP represented 25,000 voters. Now it's 120,000. Any surprise most Aussies have never met their local member? australiainstitute.org.au/post/electio...
@australiainstitute.org.au fellow Skye Predavec shows in 1903, a single MP represented 25,000 voters. Now it's 120,000. Any surprise most Aussies have never met their local member? australiainstitute.org.au/post/electio...
Election entrée: Electorates are bigger than ever
In the 2025 Australian election there will be about 120,000 registered voters per elected MP.
australiainstitute.org.au
April 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
If an MP were to spend every waking moment meeting voters, that works out to about 8 minutes 45 seconds per voter over a 3 year term.
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Have you met your local member this election campaign - or ever?
@australiainstitute.org.au fellow Skye Predavec shows in 1903, a single MP represented 25,000 voters. Now it's 120,000. Any surprise most Aussies have never met their local member? australiainstitute.org.au/post/electio...
@australiainstitute.org.au fellow Skye Predavec shows in 1903, a single MP represented 25,000 voters. Now it's 120,000. Any surprise most Aussies have never met their local member? australiainstitute.org.au/post/electio...
Election entrée: Electorates are bigger than ever
In the 2025 Australian election there will be about 120,000 registered voters per elected MP.
australiainstitute.org.au
April 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Have you met your local member this election campaign - or ever?
@australiainstitute.org.au fellow Skye Predavec shows in 1903, a single MP represented 25,000 voters. Now it's 120,000. Any surprise most Aussies have never met their local member? australiainstitute.org.au/post/electio...
@australiainstitute.org.au fellow Skye Predavec shows in 1903, a single MP represented 25,000 voters. Now it's 120,000. Any surprise most Aussies have never met their local member? australiainstitute.org.au/post/electio...
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Media: *Writes articles on “No party is doing [policy issue] for [demographic group of voters] this #ausvotes “*
Numerous minor parties: *Have brought this policy to elections for roughly the past decade.*
It’d be wonderful if the media here stopped pretending we’re a two party system. #auspol
Numerous minor parties: *Have brought this policy to elections for roughly the past decade.*
It’d be wonderful if the media here stopped pretending we’re a two party system. #auspol
March 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
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James May, former host of [checks notes] Top Gear, welcome to The War on Cars.
Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May
TV star has idea for Hammersmith bridge - and calls anti-cycling council ‘tw*ts’
www.standard.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
James May, former host of [checks notes] Top Gear, welcome to The War on Cars.
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Tonight! It's 5 yrs since Australia partially ended poverty (and then reintroduced it!)
Our Co-Director Elise Klein will join folks from the @antipovertycentre.org reflecting on the 'natural experiment' that showed Australia could end poverty if it chose to.
Online event, link in APC tweet below
Our Co-Director Elise Klein will join folks from the @antipovertycentre.org reflecting on the 'natural experiment' that showed Australia could end poverty if it chose to.
Online event, link in APC tweet below
5 years ago Scott Morrison announced some Centrelink payments would be increased by $275 a week, bringing JobSeeker to the poverty line.
Join us tonight to reflect on why he did it, and what it meant. events.humanitix.com/covid-supple...
Join us tonight to reflect on why he did it, and what it meant. events.humanitix.com/covid-supple...
5 years on: What did the COVID supplement mean for welfare recipients, then and now
Join us to mark the 5th anniversary of the government proving Centrelink payments can be lifted to the poverty line.
events.humanitix.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Tonight! It's 5 yrs since Australia partially ended poverty (and then reintroduced it!)
Our Co-Director Elise Klein will join folks from the @antipovertycentre.org reflecting on the 'natural experiment' that showed Australia could end poverty if it chose to.
Online event, link in APC tweet below
Our Co-Director Elise Klein will join folks from the @antipovertycentre.org reflecting on the 'natural experiment' that showed Australia could end poverty if it chose to.
Online event, link in APC tweet below
Something that folks with my ethnic background don't have to think about very often:
What happens when someone who's enrolled under e.g. their Chinese given name wants to run under their English given* name instead?
* "taken" name might be more accurate here!
What happens when someone who's enrolled under e.g. their Chinese given name wants to run under their English given* name instead?
* "taken" name might be more accurate here!
March 23, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Something that folks with my ethnic background don't have to think about very often:
What happens when someone who's enrolled under e.g. their Chinese given name wants to run under their English given* name instead?
* "taken" name might be more accurate here!
What happens when someone who's enrolled under e.g. their Chinese given name wants to run under their English given* name instead?
* "taken" name might be more accurate here!
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Gentle reminder that the quaint European pedestrian streets filling your Instagram feed were very recently just as fucked up and full of cars as most American ones. But they did something about it.
March 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Gentle reminder that the quaint European pedestrian streets filling your Instagram feed were very recently just as fucked up and full of cars as most American ones. But they did something about it.
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i'm sorry but this is bullshit. the prime minister declared it was terrorism himself. he didn't need to, he could have said "I don't want to comment on a police investigation". but instead he misled the public and fed the flames of social tensions!
March 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
i'm sorry but this is bullshit. the prime minister declared it was terrorism himself. he didn't need to, he could have said "I don't want to comment on a police investigation". but instead he misled the public and fed the flames of social tensions!
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We have new laws with seriously dangerous consequences in response to what was a fake plot police believe was designed to divert attention and resources to enable other criminal acts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sydney caravan a ‘fake terrorism plot’ and antisemitic attacks a scheme to divert police resources, authorities allege
‘The caravan plot was an elaborate scheme contrived by organised criminals domestically and from offshore,’ AFP deputy commissioner Krissy Barrett says
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
We have new laws with seriously dangerous consequences in response to what was a fake plot police believe was designed to divert attention and resources to enable other criminal acts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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We already know that incentivizing EVs can stimulate adoption but in case you wonder about the demand for the other type of EVs aka e-bikes, here are a few numbers:
— California: The queue to apply for California’s new e-bike incentive program, which offered 1,500 vouchers, reached 100,000 people.
— California: The queue to apply for California’s new e-bike incentive program, which offered 1,500 vouchers, reached 100,000 people.
February 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
We already know that incentivizing EVs can stimulate adoption but in case you wonder about the demand for the other type of EVs aka e-bikes, here are a few numbers:
— California: The queue to apply for California’s new e-bike incentive program, which offered 1,500 vouchers, reached 100,000 people.
— California: The queue to apply for California’s new e-bike incentive program, which offered 1,500 vouchers, reached 100,000 people.
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