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timrichards

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Travel writer living and working on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Australia. Rail travel expert, current books on sale include Heading South and Ultimate Train Journeys: World. See my published writing at iwriter.com.au.

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timrichards, to random
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Does anyone else have ongoing text files with ancient origins on their computer? I have a file in which I've copied and pasted my Internet banking lodgement confirmations just in case, and I just realised its very first entry was in 1999. :)

timrichards, to random
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OH NOES!!!

I can no longer afford olive oil. What else can I use? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-25/olive-oil-cost-of-living-alternatives-/103888144

timrichards, (edited ) to random
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Want to try your hand at travel writing? Come to my workshop at St Kilda Library, Melbourne, on 27 July!

More info and bookings via the link below:

Travel Writing Workshop with Tim Richards https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1232799?

#Travel #TravelWriting #TravelWriter #StKilda #Melbourne

timrichards, to random
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Good overview.

Rishi Sunak’s summer election gamble is already backfiring on the Tory leader

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/26/rishi-sunak-summer-election-gamble-is-already-backfiring-on-the-tory-leader?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

timrichards, to Trains
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For Traveller's 'Next great journeys' special feature, I wrote about five trains that are new or have new itineraries coming up.

Here's the piece, covering La Dolce Vita Orient Express, the Indian Pacific, the Arctic Circle Express, SpaciaX, and the Laos-China railway...

Spectacular scenery is just a part of these five new stylish rail journeys

https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/inspiration/spectacular-scenery-is-just-a-part-of-these-five-new-stylish-rail-journeys-20240430-p5fnsa.html

timrichards, to melbourne
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Amazingly nice start to the week for late May. I think a walk to North Melbourne might be in order tomorrow.

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Nice idea, but in the end it's frequency and reliability that increase public transport use. If they can get that right in conjunction with lower fares, it could work.
https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/112504897669985180

timrichards,
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@luciedigitalni wouldn't that just make congestion worse? Does look like a bit of a stunt; though our $10 daily public transport cap seems to be working ok in Victoria. Might be viable.

timrichards, to random
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I wonder who this is supposed to appeal to. Probably voters too old to have to do it, I suppose.

British PM Rishi Sunak announces plan to bring back mandatory national service - ABC News

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-26/rishi-sunak-announces-uk-national-service/103894632

timrichards,
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@MrAndrewD Such a stale old tabloid type of pitch. Will be surprised if it's successful in any way.

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The NHS under pressure...

An exodus is underway in the UK's health system, and most workers are headed Down Under - ABC News

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-27/nhs-exodus-predicted-to-accelerate-as-doctors-head-down-under/103871994

timrichards, to random
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This is pretty much the perfect headline to get me to not read an article. It's already about the world's most boring topic, and also about how something didn't happen. Yawn

timrichards, to random
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I like these stories of local people taking on ownership of shops, pubs etc for the community. Shows there's a communal alternative to the usual way of doing things.

Locals in town of Guildford VIC band together to save historic general store
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/this-town-s-only-store-has-closed-now-heartbroken-locals-are-banding-together-to-buy-it-20240520-p5jf5l.html

andreaswiedenhoff, to wellington
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Boarding @GreatJourneysNZ “Northern Explorer” at 🇳🇿. This is the departure point for today’s trip across New Zealand’s North Island, all the way down to .

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timrichards,
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@andreaswiedenhoff Nice journey, I've been on that train a few times.

beatrix, to random
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I kinda hate current tv shows... they never do a proper ending for a season because it always has to be left open for another season. Just tie those plotlines up ffs.

timrichards,
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@beatrix I often wait now until they're finished, and then search to see if they have a cliffhanger ending. If they do, I won't watch it.

timrichards, to Trains
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Today in print in The Sunday Age and Sun-Herald - I write a section about new and upcoming rail experiences in the 'Next Great Journeys' special supplement. Includes trains in Italy, Australia, Norway, Japan and Laos.

Buy a copy in print today; I'll share the online version if/when it appears later.

timrichards, to trams
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On this date in 2022, I took this photo in Toronto. Gotta love a tram.

timrichards, to melbourne
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On a tram to St Kilda. Am I imagining things, or is this a very mild May? Lots of sunshine lately. #Melbourne

timrichards,
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@imalcolm Yep that's the spot

travelfish, to random
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“Between rubdowns, I was chased by security guards—in one case run off the road by one, who then, of all things, offered me a blowjob. I visited tourist tat & pepper farms, beach clubs & seafood shacks. I saw a scale of development that I could not have imagined had I not seen it with my own eyes.”

The first part of my series—where I set up some context for what is coming—on Vietnam’s Phú Quốc Island is now out.

https://www.travelfish.org/couchfish/news/phu-quoc-overtourism-part1

timrichards,
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@travelfish You're back! Good to see you. :)

timrichards, to random
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Makes the whole Google Glass misadventure seem positively competent https://toot.community/@corbin/112496780322004995

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Full disclosure: In high school, some guy was arguing with me and I told him, “I'm sorry, I don't speak nerd.” But that was not true, I was 100% proficient and fluent in nerd.

timrichards,
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@StefanThinks You were indeed a camouflaged nerd. I think of myself as a high-functioning nerd.

scott, to random
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did you know there’s a maryland street?

timrichards,
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@godofbiscuits @scott This is my favourite street names section of Melbourne - someone went crazy naming the streets of Elwood after poets:

timrichards,
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@scott Ah yes no doubt due to his famous poem:

In San Frisco did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome essay:
Where BART, the sacred subway, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Beneath a foggy bay

jeffjarvis, to random
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Google blew it. They could have stood back and said: "Ha! Microsoft is so desperate for hype, it is irresponsibly linking LLMs to Bing. Google instead stands for reliable search and won't do that." But instead, Google did. They knew better. They all knew better. LLMs have no sense of meaning. They should be nowhere near the expectation of credibility.

timrichards,
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@jeffjarvis I suppose no one connects them with reliable search anymore either, so they thought "What the hell" :)

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