David Crabbe
@oidatsmyleg
Developer, news junkie and occasional social commentator.
I would be grateful if anyone could explain why this is considered onside. It *looks* like a clear offside and that was the decision of the assistant referee. To overturn it would require clear evidence. As a neutral, it looks like a non-Old Firm team are, once again, stitched up by the referees.
So, essentially, someone has to die or be injured for Brisbane City Council to consider improving cyclist safety. www.epetitions.brisbane.qld.gov.au/petition/vie...
I think of this cartoon every time the EPA is mentioned in the news. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/c...
This is normalisation of the domestic deployment of military forces in US cities against political opponents. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
Where things stand? Pretty bloody badly. What a way to start the day: another extrajudicial attack by the US military and the Trump administration doing their best to turn Kirk into the Horst Wessel of our time. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
So many red flags about this situation. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Informative and engaging event with @richarddenniss.bsky.social and @amyremeikis.bsky.social on the occasion of the launch of Dead Centre by The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au. Feeling some hope for better policymaking.
To provide this missing context, read the ICRC article and highlighted text below. I'd have thought this was important information to include in the article. Otherwise people may conclude that Israel's actions in laying waste to Gaza are legitimate. www.icrc.org/en/law-and-p...
He's such a small man. When the times call for a moral stand in the face of starvation and potential genocide, you count on Albanese to try to stick it to the Greens.
How dare this Senator do, what I myself would do, in the event of an emergency (in this case representing their constituents)?
For the record, thanks to the kids, this was my attire for the day. It doesn't matter what you wear if drivers aren't looking.
This morning's look. Paris-Roubaix? Tour of Flanders? No, just a commute along (through?) the morass that is the Kedron Brook bikeway at the moment. Parts have had standing water for so long that algae has grown on the concrete.
This article has a lot of useful suggestions; foremost are the need for a reduced speed limit and dedicated, segregated infrastructure. However, given that the first section discusses drivers looking but not seeing, this part seems like victim blaming. theconversation.com/sorry-mate-i...
By way of comparison, 2019 featured a much more progressive policy platform from the ALP (and some political bravery in providing policies to tackle systemic issues around housing affordability and issues with tax rebates).
Always an interesting exercise and worth completing as it may throw up a. Few surprises. Perhaps the biggest takeaway is the ALP's continued slide towards both social and economic conservatism and its supporters continued denialism of the same.
It's a Safety Zone. I feel safer already. Seriously this is a joke and often results in pedestrians having to weave through standing traffic before the lights change.
If only we had a federal government that was elected on a platform that supported truth in political advertising laws...
"Peter Dutton says" will be the epitaph for the ABC. The comment is left to stand on its own, its veracity left unchecked. This is not journalism.
I love how the LNP's answer to congestion is always more roads. If "for some residents, driving is the only option" then that's largely the result of decades of poor urban planning and design, and MOAR ROADS™ isn't going to fix it.
Recent roadworks on Adelaide St in the Brisbane CBD uncovered the tram tracks that still run down the centre of the road. Can you imagine how much more pleasant the street would be were it to be pedestrianised with the trams providing public transport?