If you are a citizen of a European Union country, you can vote in the EU elections, even if you live outside the EU. You can use any EU country polling facilities (I haven't tested it).
In Australia, Poland is opening polling booths in Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, and Perth on Sunday, June 9th, 7am-9pm.
After watching the latest, excellent @notjustbikes video about the introduction of even more 30 km/h streets in Amsterdam, this one by Chris Cox from Brisbane, feels like it could be an addendum.
The Brisbane Times reporter Felicity Caldwell is a legend.
My morning Gold Coast train was cancelled. The next one in 30 minutes. Lots of high school students will be late for school today.
No point taking the 725 bus as it takes 54 minutes to go from Coomera to Helensvale vs 5 minutes by train. The TX7 bus is more direct, but it doesn't run that early, and it still takes 47 minutes.
@timrichards@tom_andraszek Sadly most of Brisbane's rail lines are stuck at 30 minute frequencies outside peak hour. It's a bit odd that they think it's adequate. (Not that Melbourne's 20 for most stations is adequate either.)
#NAFO - have a look at the hashtags of this account in posts related to Poland and the protests at the border: BoycottPolishGoods, BoycottPolishBusinesses, BurnPolishTractors, PolandIsNotAFriend, PunchAPolishFarmer etc. The person running it is doing everything they can to make the situation worse. The articles they link usually objectively report the facts, but they add inflammatory commentary including things that were not in the linked articles.
My wife has not been getting any work, because of school holidays, it's raining, so I drove to work yesterday, and the first thing that comes to mind is:
"when you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression". The privilege is getting to work in 20 minutes in a comfort of a car, not paying for parking, not paying any tolls, and since the car is an EV, paying only A$0.12 - 0.90 for the electricity. Bus + train takes 50 min. and costs A$4.34. Riding a bike takes 65 min.
Thankyou. It was a wonderful trip. The train through the countryside was traveling at 30 km/h. It stopped at the last Polish station, #Suwalki. I think, You know the train station ;-)
This chart illustrates misconceptions about individual climate change actions. Recycling helps, but very little, while 59% of respondents thought it helped a lot.
The reduction values probably apply more to countries in the EU with yearly CO2e per person of about 8 tonnes, not Australia (19t), Canada (14t) or the US (15t).
Also, there are heat pump dryers that use 4x less electricity (and don't need vents for hot, humid air).