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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · 1d

Terrible what’s happening in America. Now to turn on my favourite Melbourne radio station and see what the cops have to say about the centre-left government

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Sep 3

That the inventor of the computer mouse in recent weeks earned himself an indefinite site ban after a two-decade crusade against such sins as capitalising “draft” in “NFL Draft” speaks volumes about the bizarro world social system that underpins the place.

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Sep 3

So much of Wikipedia is, like this, enforced essentially by one frighteningly dedicated individual without any reference to norms and practices in the real world.

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Sep 3

lol I saw those absolute peanuts try to rehash it at AN - you’re doing the lord’s work there

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Bhakthi @bhakthi.bsky.social · Aug 29

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Aug 27

YIMBY community win!

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Aug 26

ah

Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Aug 10

It’s pretty disturbing how the right of Victorian politics, having spent the better part of a decade radicalising its base, gets to repeatedly turn around and pretend Nazis are not their problem. Disturbing because it’s not clear where this leads.

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Aug 10

It’s pretty disturbing how the right of Victorian politics, having spent the better part of a decade radicalising its base, gets to repeatedly turn around and pretend Nazis are not their problem. Disturbing because it’s not clear where this leads.

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Jul 31

Actually they’re all chronically online anti-Labor NIMBYs, apart from the council and golf club reps. Literally zero point to this.

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Jul 24

I genuinely feel sorry for the SRL staff who have to spend two hours a month answering absolutely insane questions from Heatherton QAnon with a straight face.

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Jun 21

Meanwhile in Melbourne we have the entire establishment trying to radicalise outer suburban voters into January 6ing railway tunnels.

Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · Jun 20

So many gazillions of awards spinning around now…but this photograph of all of these people who contributed to Sydney Metro (and imagine if we added all those who built it?) winning the NSW medallion last night quells my cynicism. Bravo brilliant people - what an enormous contribution to your city.

A photograph of all of the architects involved in Sydney Metro winning the NSW medallion last night.

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Jun 13

Interested by your take that it’s likely not a final timetable. I find it hard to see Wefo/Westall shorts through the day given the relatively modest overall funding

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Jun 3

I wouldn’t describe this as a community group so much as a one-personal political project of incredible intensity.

Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Jun 3

FIVE escalators DISGRACE

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · May 14

I suppose the counter argument to breaking at Ararat vs Ballarat is that a BOG means the expense of a new depot and transfers to Melbourne etc. committing at Ballarat would at least open the possibility of extensions towards Geelong and Mildura at a future point

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · May 3

Made even more explicit by a 3% swing towards Labor!

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · Apr 6

Either put more trams up Elizabeth St or start shooting tourists for catching trams from Melbourne Central to the market.

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Apr 3

There are Sunshine Super Hubs everywhere for those with eyes to see

David King @cityplanning.bsky.social · Apr 3

The politics of Scottsdale are as bad as the US regime. The conservative council wants to give up approved federal funding of a roundabout under construction. The new conservative members ran on, in part, anti-roundabout platforms. I guess roundabouts are woke. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

Scottsdale is willing to lose $31 million over a roundabout. That's insane | Opinion

If Scottsdale wants to ax future roundabouts, that's worth discussing. But why would we tear up a plan for one that's already under construction?

www.azcentral.com

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Mar 26

I would also like to see the entire idea of the voucher scheme abolished – that is after all the root cause – but it’s so deeply embedded in the economy now I’m not sure it’s viable without intermediate steps

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Mar 26

Yeah look I handle a plan on behalf of someone so I see the good up close but also the very very bad and wasteful. Likewise I have no rose coloured glasses about the state system but it’s very clear the economists have massively overreached here

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Mar 26

IMO the only way this is going to be possible at this point is a major (re-)expansion of public sector providers who can force some of the rent seeking out of the sector, combined with nationalising big components of plan management and coordination.

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Mar 26

The NDIS is quite obviously eating the budget and to an extent the economy. It’s pretty worrying to see the right-wing rhetoric ramp up without any serious advocacy from anywhere else about major structural reforms that could make it sustainable while preserving rights and welfare of participants.

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Mar 24

Yeah I’m basing my judgement entirely on 78 and 380 routes so I don’t doubt that.

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Mar 24

I think one reading of the whole episode is that the Trump guys miscalculated only insofar as failing to realise that he would see it as a betrayal of the polite fictions that normally characterise the liberal–war machine relationship.

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Operational Incident @operationalinc1.bsky.social · Mar 24

Personally I reckon Qantas international is hugely underrated these days but there’s no question flying domestic – especially out of MEL – is about as grim as catching a bus from Keilor Plains.

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