Thermite Be Giants @ThermiteBeGiants@aus.social

TOOT FEST 2020

Evening of Sunday 8 March (Labour Day long weekend) - 5:00PMish onwards!

Place: Morning Star Hotel in Williamstown, VIC - although other venue suggestions are still welcome as I'll see if I can book a table around the end of the week.

Link: https://deffo.com.au/aQB0YEKO1

Jesus Christ these Victorian Government bureaucrats must be just getting the hang of object permanence to fall for the Uber Air scam so completely

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-28/uber-air-plans-for-1000-strong-melbourne-helicopter-fleet/12007092

Table booking is in progress, going for 12 seats at this stage

Gee this was a quiet move! The Bellarine Railway just took delivery of an additional steam locomotive, trucked by road all the way from Cairns! 🚚 🚂
https://www.bay939.com.au/news/local-news/114547-q-train-s-historic-steam-engine-hits-the-err-road

The Sydney-Melbourne XPT has derailed on the Melbourne-Albury railway line near Wallan. Ambulance Victoria has confirmed two deaths, another person has been airlifted to hospital.

This is the second derailment that has happened on the Melbourne-Albury line since Infrastructure Australia knocked back a track upgrade proposal for it in late January that would remove scores of temporary speed restrictions and effectively bring the track up to the quality that it should be.

Don’t drive through floodwater
https://i.imgur.com/49D8f4k.mp4

Current mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stzQN5DbuQY

I'll be doing some stickers too!

If you're coming, please let me know by registering your attendance on Deffo! At this stage I'll be booking a table for 10.
Oh, and please the above toot to let other Melbourne Fediverse people know about the meetup if they don't already!

TOOT FEST 2020

Evening of Sunday 8 March (Labour Day long weekend) - 5:00PMish onwards!

Place: Morning Star Hotel in Williamstown, VIC - although other venue suggestions are still welcome as I'll see if I can book a table around the end of the week.

Link: https://deffo.com.au/aQB0YEKO1

now kith

(Mornington Railway loco K163 & Steamrail Victoria loco K190 having a moment at the Newport Railway Workshops on 13/02/2020)

📷: Steamrail Victoria via 🔗 https://facebook.com/steamrail/photos/a.10152682503285627/10162980365005627/

Stage 2A of the Canberra Light Rail project will start later this year - and include a 1.7km wire-free section. Trams will use onboard energy storage in this section.

Everybody’s talking about COVID-19, but the real disease we need to quarantine is NSW & ACT’s obsession with not having overhead wiring for their tram routes. What a waste of resources.

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6632754/work-on-light-rail-to-lake-on-track-for-2020-start/

What I’m playing: Twin Tin Bots

What I expected: Robo-Rally on a hex board

What I got: a parable about the horrors of maintaining legacy code