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#sydney

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Anne Reis | SoundsVegan.com

"Cranebrook" is the name of the new EP by Australian post-rock pioneers Solkyri. The record is once again groundbreaking and incredibly beautiful. Released on February 7th 2025, on Bird's Robe Records and Dunk!Records, it inspires hope, combines playfulness and lightness and allows listeners to linger in the moment while the world outside continues to rage. Listen to it now, and stay tuned! There will soon be more about this on SoundsVegan.com!

soundsvegan.com/2025/03/solkyr

soundsvegan.com · Solkyri - "Cranebrook" | Sounds Vegan"Cranebrook" by Solkyri – Check Out the Epic New EP by the Australian Post-Rock Pioneers Now!
#SoundsVegan#PostRock#music
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AJ Sadauskas

@ajsadauskas@pixelfed.social A bit more on this forgotten moment of Australian sporting history:

"It was pandemonium. About 15,000 people were at Parramatta Leagues club and its immediate surrounds. Players were lifted from the team bus into the club by elated fans.
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"The fence pickets that weren’t souvenired had been piled together to make a bonfire.
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"The fence pickets went up. The grandstand, a wooden heap built in the 1930s, soon followed. The scoreboard at the southern end was ablaze. It was a fibro structure set on two metres of brick with a clock on top, which a group of men tried feverishly to rip free for a keepsake before giving up and leaving it to burn.

"The goalposts were added to the bonfire, after one fan tried to climb to the top of them to get a flag. The man was still atop one pole as they fell, yet ran away and into legend. Advertising hoardings were ripped free and torched, taking chunks out of the fence.
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"Firemen and police eventually broke up the party. When they returned the next day, Cumberland Oval was a smouldering ruin, the grandstand a charred carcass."

More here: nine.com.au/sport/nrl/parramat

And that's why there's a statue of a bus in the main town square in Parramatta.

Nine · NRL news | Peter Sterling, the night Parramatta Eels fans burned down Cumberland OvalBy Tim Elbra
#history#sport#NRL
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Tim Richards

One of my colleagues is pondering the lack of a great market to visit in Sydney. It is a bit of a puzzler.

"Even in Australia, you can visit some greats. Melbourne has several of at least the southern hemisphere’s finest: South Melbourne Market is perfection; Prahran Market has great produce and a strong local vibe; while Queen Victoria Market is a genuine tourist attraction that has been there for almost 150 years. Adelaide, too, has its Central Market, which is world-class.

"So … what’s going on with Sydney? Can you call yourself one of the world’s great cities when you don’t have a great market? Where do you tell visitors to Sydney to go when they want to shop for the best fresh produce and artisan goods like a local would, in a beautiful space surrounded by residents picking up a few of their favourite things."

#sydney #food #market #travel smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-a

The Sydney Morning Herald · Truly great cities all have one thing that Sydney doesn’tBy Ben Groundwater
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The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: The Sydney Seahorse Project is using innovative "seahorse hotels" to save the endangered White's seahorse. By collecting pregnant males, increasing baby survival rates from 1% to 20%, and installing artificial reef structures, they've released over 1,000 seahorses with another 1,000 expected in 2025. 🌊🐙

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/w

A scuba diver collects plastic waste in a clear bag while swimming over a seafloor covered with marine vegetation in murky greenish water.
#australia#conservation#fish
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Jesse

The Metro is so nice it barely rates a mention.
I took the metro out to Tallawong, it was a nice smooth ride, the stations are nice, platform screen doors, driverless and I can just tap on with my credit card.

#Sydney#PublicTransport
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Jesse

I didn't stop much to get photos of Sydney cycling infrastructure, but it was really high quality.
Pretty good wayfinding and wide separated paths.
I saw a cycling bridge that went in to the airport which was pretty cool.

We rode the entire length of the Bourke St cycleway, a mix of two-way bike paths and shared paths that goes 7.5km through the centre of Sydney from the Sydney Airport to Circular Quay (where the Opera house, Habour Bridge and ferry terminals are)

The Bourke St cycleway is an amazing achievement and must have required a lot of political courage to get done.

#sydney#bicycles
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Thom.

This is why #Google #maps is dead to me:

Look at this street in #Sydney,

Near the center 8 restaurants.
Great
Click on the `Restaurants` short cut search
Zoom in
Click `Search in the area` 🙄
Only two show up. (I didn't set any filters) 😬

On the left side of the road we don't even have the icon
On the right side, 3 are grey rather than highlited in the results.

Why? Ads driven #Enshittification ?

Google maps screenshot of George st Sydney, between Valentinr and Ultimo Rd. Visible Restaurant Icons Before doing any search.
Google maps screenshot of George st Sydney, between Valentinr and Ultimo Rd. Visible Restaurant Icons After search, most restaurant won't show up in the results.
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