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10d

A "#trains and #trails" idea has been growing in my brain.

The idea is to catch a train to the end of a line, and #run from there to the end of a different line. In #melbourne with very rough routes:
Hurstbridge -> Lilydale (43km)
Lilydale -> Belgrave (36km)
Belgrave -> Pakenham (37km)
Pakenham -> Frankston (45km)
Hurstbridge -> Mernda (12km)
Mernda -> Upfield (27km)
... and so on.

In the same order as above:
https://www.strava.com/routes/3331553052377011402
https://www.strava.com/routes/3331553961634934494
https://www.strava.com/routes/3332944341991174900
https://www.strava.com/routes/3332948847360296692
https://www.strava.com/routes/3332946455506365330
https://www.strava.com/routes/3332947819171868562

#running #trailrunning #trains

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25d

🪽 Artist: #MortMurray / #JohnMurray in City: #Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 02/2025 - Title: "Eshay" - #Streetart #Art #Artist #Mural #Emu
#GoodMorning ! ☕🥐

Streetartwall. In a Melbourne laneway full of street art, a mural of a funny cartoon emu has been sprayed/painted on a narrow wall. The emu (named Eshay) is depicted up to his shoulders. He has medium length black hair and wears a red baseball cap with a Nike sign (a stylized wave) and sunglasses with yellow lenses. He is unshaven, as he has many individual thin hairs on his chin, a long, narrow nose and a very wide mouth with the corners of his mouth pointing downwards. He appears to be a tourist because, in addition to a blue and white polo shirt and a silver necklace, he is wearing a purse belt around his neck. A landscape in the outback is reflected in his glasses. A very funny emu mural
Info: John Murray is a gallery owner and illustrator. His humorous interpretations of nature and culture are very amusing and his emus are irresistible. His gallery with his own works in Lightning Ridge is a tourist magnet.

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29d

#melbourne #activists #activism

A good friend of mine is bringing a class action against the Victorian police, about misuse of pepper spray at a protest.

It's been many years in the making, and as the lead plaintiff he's taking a very big personal risk, and has done a lot of thankless work to get here.

If you have time over the next two weeks, and can get to the Supreme Court (and can act right in a court room), I'm sure your support would be appreciated.

Hit me up for details (they're not available yet).

Edit to add: it starts tomorrow, I should have mentioned that.

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35d

https://youtu.be/i2f54jU3pZo?si=J65f4f8tFiuomu8d

La meva #CançóDelDia per al divendres 14 de febrer és aquesta dels #SlowlySlowly #Melbourne #PopPunk #IndieRock 🕰️!

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34d

Anyone on the east coast of Australia looking for a beautiful Greyhound to adopt? Sweet Sarah has been in the care of my foster organisation for some time and is still looking for a furever home of her own :(

Please boost widely Australian friends, let's get Sarah into a home!

https://www.petrescue.com.au/listings/1088365

#Greyhound #Dog #PetRescue #AdoptDontShop #Australia #NSW #Victoria #Queensland #Sydney #Melbourne #Brisbane #Newcastle #AU

Sarah (black greyhound) stands on a door mat, looking into the camera.

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37d

💜 Artist: #BRONIK 💕 ( #BRONIKart )
in City: #Melbourne #StKilda /Mirka Ln/ VIC Australia 🇦🇺 12/2024 - Title: untitled - #Streetart #Art #Mural #Artist #Sprayart

Streetartwall. The beautiful mural of two young women was sprayed/painted on a street wall in a naive painting style. Two blue and one pink cloud were sprayed on the brown brick wall as a background for the two girls. They are depicted with blue skin and long pink hair. The two are standing next to each other in pink and blue patterned dresses. One is looking over her shoulder at the viewer, the other is looking into the face of the other. A beautiful couple. The mural is somewhat hidden in a narrow alley.
Info: Born in Lima (Peru), the artist "Bronik" currently lives in Australia, but has been at home all over the world with her street art since 2009. Her very feminine murals in a naive painting style live from their unique characters and the choice of color compositions with wonderful little details.

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39d

Anyone in #melbourne want an in box with manuals Epson LX-80 dot matrix printer #vintagecomputing #vintagetech. It's currently in the free to grab corner of my apartment building.

Picture of an Epson LX80 dot matrix printer in a box. The manual is placed out in front of the box

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45d

It's the lorikeet hour. The local lorikeets spend their day clowning around town, but in the evening dozens congregate in the branches of a massive Native Daphne in the backyard of the neighbour across the road.

Every so often, huge groups take off spontaneously and fly over our roof, chattering. Some of the flocks fly so low it's like standing beneath a pulsating rainbow. I've never been successful in getting a photo.

But it does bring a smile to my dial.

#GoodEvening #Melbourne #Lorikeets

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47d

A photo I took the other day at Whitehart bar behind our apartment building. I texted it to my brother-in-law to persuade him to join me for a drink. :) 🍺

#bar #Melbourne

Glass of beer on an outdoor table, with a palm tree beyond.

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49d

💚 Artist: #ZEDR one / #RyanPeik in City: #Melbourne #Windsor/132 chapel St/ VIC Australia 🇦🇺 11/2021 - Title: "Inner Child" (📷 by #Marcxii ) - #Art #Streetart #Mural #Artist #SprayArt

Streetartwall. The beautiful mural with the face of a child was sprayed/painted on a red brick wall in a small alley. The background of the mural is black, the colors are mainly grey, yellow and green. The child has small dreadlocks and a beautiful face with large dark eyes. It is wearing a green scarf around its neck. The colors are partially shifted and blurred, as if there is a disturbance in the painting. A beautiful effect and a great mural that is a little hard to find.

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2y

Seeing as I've moved, I'm going to repost my #introduction:

I'm a single dad from #Melbourne, #Australia. I grew up as a UN kid, living in Tonga, The Maldives, and Cambodia. I've worked in ICT for 20+ years, but currently don't work as most of my time is dedicated to my kids.

I'm into tech, gaming, politics, with a good dash of military history (thanks gaming!). I love to cook. I enjoy tending to, and breeding, freshwater fish.

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56d

If you know Hannah Gadsby, or perhaps better for this purpose, their web person, maybe let them know that it seems something has gone awry with the DNS.

Https://hannahgadsby.com.au currently redirects to https://vitalityroadphysio.com.au

#melbourne is hopefully a small enough world.

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65d

#Melbourne peeps if anyone is looking to extend their bacteria/yeast (family) I have a whole bunch of healthy SCOBY to give away. I've increased the kombucha production and as a result the scoby grows. Usually chuck the excess in the compost bin but I always feel guilty because it's feels like a living organism (do not anthropomorphise the scoby!)

Pic of a big jar full of kambucha and a few of the scoby in a bowl next to it.

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66d

I'm considering making more bread, in a general sense.

Anyone here in #melbourne still have some sourdough starter they'd be willing to share?

#sourdough #baking

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1y

Updated #Introduction

A random member of Generation X who lives in #Melbourne

I work for myself in the IT/Electronic Security sectors. Bit of a jack of all trades really, developer (mainly Go of late, C# and random others in the past), networking, virtualisation, infrastructure management, I could go on …

I watch too much sport (#AFL, #F1, #ALeague) vs actually playing it, but there are reasons that aren't due to my skill levels!

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72d

Edit: Thank you to everyone who shared this.
Someone has responded to me with an excellent offer that solves this problem.

——

Before I go giving money to strangers on Facebook, I have a problem.

I found out on the evening of December 19th that we have to have a laptop for our 12yo when he starts school at the end of January. School office was closed on December 20th.

Fortunately, they've gone from insisting on shitty Windows laptops, to a "BYOD" model, where they prefer Macs (!) since our last child attended.

It looks like I can pick up something basic & new with Windows 11 ("no S or X versions!"), for around $600-$700, or a used Macbook Air M1 for around $600 on Fb marketplace.

(I can't afford to buy the damn thing, but that's neither here nor there right now).

I would *prefer* he have a Macbook (because he's *less* likely to use it for gaming, and I'm less likely to lose sleep over maintaining it), but as I said at the top, before I go giving money to strangers, would anyone I know in #Melbourne have an M1 (or higher) that's in good nick, that they'd be willing to part with?

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83d

We have 55” Aldi Bauhn ATVUHD55-1216 TV that’s lost its backlight - you can still see the logo when you turn it on, in the right light, and audio still works. It’s been replaced already, so no need for us to keep it. Some enterprising person may be able to fix it, otherwise it’s going in hard rubbish after Xmas. Seems like a shame, I’d rather it was repaired and went on to have a happy life elsewhere except I don’t have the time or inclination to do it myself. Located in eastern suburbs of Melbourne so local pickup only. I will not ship. It still has its original box too! PM me if you’re interested. #repair #free #melbourne

A 55 inch tv sits forlorn on some grey carpet. The tv matches the famous meme sign “the light inside is dead but I still work”

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The back of aforementioned TV showing the manufacturers label. It’s a Bauhn ATVUHD55-1216

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84d

2 weeks compulsory annual leave starts for me and many other Australians today. It was a cool day in Melbourne today and it had rained overnight and a bit in the morning, so it was an ideal gardening day.

We started the day by getting free mulch from our council depot and free black plastic pots. We covered our street garden with mulch and I planted some nasturtium seeds. It is going to be 31 on Christmas Day and 40 on Boxing day so I was pleased to get the garden some protection. A meter reader stopped to have a chat. He also does guerilla gardening and said he would come by again with a succulent for our garden - wonderful!

Another person stopped by and helped us to neaten up rubbish on the other side of the street that was threatening to blow onto the road.

Our street gardening group had hoped that the garden would encourage people to stop and chat and cheer the neighbours. We had also hoped that it would encourage people to stop dumping rubbish under this tree. In the two years since it was planted both goals have been achieved.

Earlier this year, even the succulents were struggling in this hot dry position. Now we have a hose that reaches the garden, so regular watering together with the mulch should encourage the plants to grow some more.
#Melbourne #StreetGardening #GardeningAU

A rectangular garde surrounded by asphalt with a trunk of antree in the middle. It is covered in light brown mulch. There are some succulents, a small geranium with one red flower and the silvery green leaves of gazanias. A small black and white bird is standing on the right edge of the garden.

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89d

Some good news for fans of the #melbourne 367 Collins St Falcons. One of the young ones had a bit of an accident and spent some time in raptor rehab but she’s flying free again

https://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/floored-falcon-soars-again-after-skyscraper-rescue-rehab-20241217-p5kz2e.html

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110d

More historical markers like this please

#melbourne

A blue plaque in the style normally used for historical markers that says SHE SAW THE WHOLE WORLD HERE
'Walking through the rain on this spot on 6 June 2022, Amy realised this ground under her feet continued - beneath the ocean and back up again on the other side of the Earth - and that she was living on the same land as a farmer in Yemen or a banker in France.
Her, the land, the farmer, the rain: they were all parts of the same thing. Amy explained it to her friend, Nia.
Nia asked if she was high

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111d

If you're not already on the train, maybe don't get on today.

45 minute delay on the Mernda line at least.

#melbourne

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118d

#melbourne people: I shouldn't dilute my own chance of winning this by sharing but Metro is offering the chance to win a VIP tour of the new Metro Tunnel stations and a $150 Myki card https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8068167/d6ea7bde0a42

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122d

Fun #melbourne fact: the Luna park rollercoaster is one of few in the world controlled by professional rollercoaster drivers rather than automation

https://youtu.be/2nQ-rijlX3o

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122d

#melbourne folk: if you’re looking for something to do tonight there’s still tickets for Eurovision on Tour, featuring 15 of the most loved Eurovision artists, including retro Internet legend Epic Sax Guy. Friends who went in Brisbane loved it

https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/event/1300606FCBDA31A2

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125d

Our landlord's real estate agent: "*DO NOT* disconnect the electricity until after we've completed the final inspection."

Tenants Victoria: "Some rental providers and agents will tell you that the utilities need to stay on for a period of time after you move out, usually saying this is needed for the final inspection or to show the property to a new renter. You do not need to do this. You can, and should, arrange for the utilities to be disconnected on your move-out date."

https://tenantsvic.org.au/advice/ending-your-tenancy/moving-out/

#landlords #renting #melbourne

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