Peter Johns
@butterpaper.bsky.social
Melbourne AU web developer, recovering architect.
Elderly tourist runs (sort of) up to a tram. Tries to ask the driver a question through the thick glass of a modern Melbourne tram. Makes the universal but dated hand signals for “wind your window” down”. Driver returns with the sign for “go away” - right hand flicking to the right.
September 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Elderly tourist runs (sort of) up to a tram. Tries to ask the driver a question through the thick glass of a modern Melbourne tram. Makes the universal but dated hand signals for “wind your window” down”. Driver returns with the sign for “go away” - right hand flicking to the right.
Woolworths Carlton.
To the tired looking human on checkout, “why are there no other human checkouts open.”
“We’re prioritising self-checkout.”
Euphemism for mass suicide or mass layoff?
To the tired looking human on checkout, “why are there no other human checkouts open.”
“We’re prioritising self-checkout.”
Euphemism for mass suicide or mass layoff?
July 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Woolworths Carlton.
To the tired looking human on checkout, “why are there no other human checkouts open.”
“We’re prioritising self-checkout.”
Euphemism for mass suicide or mass layoff?
To the tired looking human on checkout, “why are there no other human checkouts open.”
“We’re prioritising self-checkout.”
Euphemism for mass suicide or mass layoff?
Ahh. Tom Waits, 2025.
Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues (Live 2025)
YouTube video by SPianista
youtu.be
March 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Ahh. Tom Waits, 2025.
Next audiobook sorted.
February 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Next audiobook sorted.
I didn’t realise how little I’d been missing Mr Pyne.
February 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I didn’t realise how little I’d been missing Mr Pyne.
At the checkout. “Would you like any cash out with that.”
“Sure, $50 please.”
10 seconds later.
“Where’s the $50?”
“Huh?”
“The cash you asked me if I wanted.”
“Oh do you want to take some cash out?”
“Sure, $50 please.”
10 seconds later.
“Where’s the $50?”
“Huh?”
“The cash you asked me if I wanted.”
“Oh do you want to take some cash out?”
January 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
At the checkout. “Would you like any cash out with that.”
“Sure, $50 please.”
10 seconds later.
“Where’s the $50?”
“Huh?”
“The cash you asked me if I wanted.”
“Oh do you want to take some cash out?”
“Sure, $50 please.”
10 seconds later.
“Where’s the $50?”
“Huh?”
“The cash you asked me if I wanted.”
“Oh do you want to take some cash out?”
Reposted by Peter Johns
Our research shows there are many ways to protect Tas jobs, but science tells us there is only one way to protect the Maugean skate.
Join 9000+ people calling on the Environment Minister to end salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour.
✍️ theaus.in/save_the_skate #auspol #taspol
Join 9000+ people calling on the Environment Minister to end salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour.
✍️ theaus.in/save_the_skate #auspol #taspol
January 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Our research shows there are many ways to protect Tas jobs, but science tells us there is only one way to protect the Maugean skate.
Join 9000+ people calling on the Environment Minister to end salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour.
✍️ theaus.in/save_the_skate #auspol #taspol
Join 9000+ people calling on the Environment Minister to end salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour.
✍️ theaus.in/save_the_skate #auspol #taspol
Short film about the LA fires of ‘61. Learnt more from this than 24/7 coverage of current fires. youtu.be/UxnC1WW95XE?...
LAFD: "Design For Disaster" - The Story of the Bel Air Conflagration | 1962
YouTube video by LAFD
youtu.be
January 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Short film about the LA fires of ‘61. Learnt more from this than 24/7 coverage of current fires. youtu.be/UxnC1WW95XE?...
Reposted by Peter Johns
A deadly desert crossing. A pastor’s radical stand. The sanctuary movement reshaped faith, resistance, and immigration in America. Listen now.
Sanctuary
In July 1980, a group of Salvadoran migrants crossed the border between Mexico and Arizona. They walked over a remote mountain range and halfway across a wide desert valley in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. There were more than two dozen of them—people who had left behind lives and jobs to come to the United States. Note: This episode originally aired as two episodes in 2017.
99percentinvisible.org
January 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A deadly desert crossing. A pastor’s radical stand. The sanctuary movement reshaped faith, resistance, and immigration in America. Listen now.
Wikipedia’s article du jour. Just needs a P.
January 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Wikipedia’s article du jour. Just needs a P.
Noticed amongst today's many horrors. "Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States."
Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture – The White House
January 20, 2025 MEMORANDUM FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION SUBJECT:
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Noticed amongst today's many horrors. "Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States."
Utterly depressing. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
The architecturally significant houses destroyed in L.A.'s fires
Historic landmarks by the likes of Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey and a noted Midcentury retreat by architect Ray Kappe have been lost. Here's our residential architecture list, to be updated regularly.
www.latimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Utterly depressing. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
2 hours ago Melbourne had thunder, lightning, 25mm rain in 30 mins, flash flooding, power outages. The Age was straight onto it, but next to nothing from ABC and Guardian news apps. Reporters napping or in Sydney?
January 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
2 hours ago Melbourne had thunder, lightning, 25mm rain in 30 mins, flash flooding, power outages. The Age was straight onto it, but next to nothing from ABC and Guardian news apps. Reporters napping or in Sydney?