cameron

cameron

@maybeoptimist.bsky.social

running, surfing, photography, urbanism, transit, geopolitics member of the youth perth, wa

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I fail to see how the Queensland hate speech laws will stand up. A phrase like 'from the river to the sea' is a longstanding call representing the movement against Israeli colonialism. I would expect the High Court to strike this down soon, as it infringes on the right to political communication.

I was wondering if there were any way to make providing ID to access websites more private. Does anyone more techy than me know, would it be possible to create ID local to the device? Show your device your ID then it communicates with the website saying 'yep OK'.

That way, it would appease both the people who (I think legitimately) don't want to see kids accessing inappropriate content online, while also addressing the concerns of privacy implications of having to verify age on many websites. Or am I completely stupid and this is not implementable lol

In fact it will probably be in my YouTube feed by tomorrow morning and feature some guy on a cliff zoomed all the way in, whooping and cheering while his friend catches some crazy tsunami surf lol (and have like 60 views)

It's been a busy few days for me :) I want to present: The first iteration of my improved train services map for Perth! As inspired by cphtransitmap.dk, the concept aims to simplify and beautify the Transperth map. I may make further versions for legibility, accessibility, and additional features.

If you take public transport in Perth and have ever wondered why we, unlike many other cities, don't have live service tracking in third-party apps: I wrote to Transperth and got this reply back. Unfortunate, because I would love to use other apps to fully replace the Transperth app.

This may be showing how young I am, but I don't have Facebook. I went over there to check out Metronet's progress because that seems to be their primary mode of communication, and made the mistake of looking in the comments. Do all the commenters share a single braincell?! Made me sad for society.

I created this map: a 2km radius around Perth's train & bus stations. This is a 20min walk for a healthy, fit person, and a 5 minute bike ride — the maximum for a comfortable trip, in my opinion. It shows where Perth's biggest public transport gaps are. See alt text for the key.

Of course, this doesn't account for frequent bus connectivity, nor does it account for the personal preferences of each person (you may only be able to walk for 5 mins, or bike more than 10km!). But it is a rough guide of where in Perth has accessible, frequent transport.

Mathematically, we now know that every time Hulkenberg scores a podium, the Red Bull team principal gets sacked. It is a perfect correlation — which definitely implies causation... #F1

Did you know? With his podium finish today, I'm fairly certain Hulkenberg is now the driver with the most races to achieve the first podium (238 starts). #F1 #BritishGP #Hulkenberg

This whole race is a MESS lmao, Franco stalls, Liam-Ocon collision, Bortoleto spin, Oscar overtake, Stroll in points (?!), Hamilton and Leclerc have both taken little drifts, Hadjar-Antonelli collision, Max spins out, Oscar gets a 10s penalty, Bearman-Tsunoda collision... and we're only halfway! #f1

Nuclear sites in Iran have been bombed — does that mean those sites are now irradiated? How bad is the fallout and other associated environmental damages? I haven't seen anyone ask this question today, so what kind of impact have the strikes had?

My proposal (fantasy?) for regional rail in Western Australia. This would be just the start; lines extending north toward the Pilbara + additional lines in the south & south-west would follow. But as a start, this uses mostly pre-existing track & rights of way.

A lot of people online seem to have forgotten with this mushroom deaths case — the point is that someone can only be punished if they are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. People responding to the latest news always say 'Oh, so you admit she lied' — but lying proves nothing. Public scrutiny, I know.

An octopus was killed at a beach today. A lovely, curious, gentle octopus, who I had been watching for days, got a little too close to spearfishers. It was killed, for the simple crime of not knowing better. For its sweet, inquisitive nature. I doubt anyone else will care too much, but I'm crushed.

For anyone interested in the minutiae of the Transperth network, here is a comparison of the current system map and the new one on the Thornlie-Cockburn Line brochure. The largest changes are the open Thornlie-Cockburn & Armadale (to Cannington) lines & a new Cannington-Bull Creek key bus corridor.

Oh! And they’ve added the river back in (a common complaint with the current map), and made it more clear that the Yanchep & Mandurah lines throughrun. #Transperth #trains #transit

Here's my shot at creating a pipe-dream transit map for Perth, featuring additional train lines and a network of trams. I tried to keep it somewhat realistic :) #train #transit #transitmap #diagram #transitdiagram #perth

Oh, footnotes: The Fremantle and Midland lines through-run, as do the Armadale and Wanneroo lines (via a new dive tunnel to North Perth). Most of the trams would be constructed in road reserve, some would run in tunnels for some way, and there would probably be more inner-city trams than pictured.

Also, the Bayswater – Claremont/Daglish section would have track duplicated to run more frequent trains. I have probably made some mistakes bc I am not familiar with all of Perth (or with transit planning) so please forgive me haha. I did remove, rename, or relocate/rebuild several stations as well.

Here's my shot at creating a pipe-dream transit map for Perth, featuring additional train lines and a network of trams. I tried to keep it somewhat realistic :) #train #transit #transitmap #diagram #transitdiagram #perth

Which in and of itself is a massive improvement over the network pre-2018, imagine just the Joondalup (green), Mandurah (orange), Midland (plum), Fremantle (dark blue), and Armadale (yellow, with Thornlie station as a spur).

The slogan of 'Keep the Sheep', protesting WA's live export ban, is kinda terrible. For one, it doesn't effectively communicate the intentions of the group (keep the sheep... in WA?) For another, graffiti is so easy. Scribble 'Suffering' under it and boom, animal rights slogan.

I hope that once Trump has blown over in the US, he and his lackeys will all receive the criminal trials they so rightfully deserve for their rampant disregard for human rights and basic dignities.

Wtf is this starting grid 😭 Lando, Oscar, Max, George pretty normal But then Yuki in an RB, 5th?! Alex 6th in a Williams?! Both out qualifying Ferrari?! Even Pierre in 9th is a bit unexpected. #AusGP #F1

Honestly how long will it be until the US armed forces & intelligence services, whose top officials have spent years trying to combat Russia & authoritarianism, just get fed up with Trump and put his administration to rest? I will not be shocked when US troops storm the White House.

I've seen some jokes on Reddit about the NATO (joke) alternative 'Pacific Ocean Trans Atlantic Treaty Organization' (POTATO), but genuinely an alliance of the EU, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Japan, and Korea, calling itself the 'Atlantic & Pacific Treaty Organisation' would be really cool