Josephine Roper @jroper@transportation.social

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Most positive spin I can give Business Sydney is that they are concerned about difficulty operating genuine commercial vehicles (deliveries to shops etc) in the CBD, which is fair, delivering in the CBD already looks like a difficult job. But they should be onboard with ways to filter out the private traffic and keep the commercial... cordons and congestion charges being most obvious to me.

@danwwilson It's a lovely little tent. I've been struggling with SI joint pain (pregnancy) and my mother-in-law is not very fit, so my partner offloaded us and carried two tents, 4 pads and 4 sleeping bags. Thank goodness for modern lightweight gear!

Had a week off showing the in-laws (over from France for the first time) around Sydney and environs. Here's me having my morning coffee in 'bed' at Little Beach, Bouddi National Park :)

The sort of break that takes your mind off work effectively... but also makes you quite happy that it's over!

@richlitt sometimes people here don't appreciate it enough <3 it's pretty great

@richlitt what's in there?? Mine is 4 pages with PhD summary, work experience, publications, talks. But the margins are rather narrow.

@Transportist @ajsadauskas NSW government. Bit of detail here https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/inquiries/1789/Final%20Report%20130228.pdf

@michcampbell As bad as they are, my worst is actually Quora 'influencers'.

@Transportist Wow! Having never heard of the Washington Examiner before, I would have assumed it was a 'normal' newspaper.

@Transportist @ajsadauskas Don't think so, but the station access fee has its own weekly cap which is equivalent to just 2 trips. Still, it means $50 weekly cap opal fare + $33 weekly cap airport access, so bus will be cheaper for people in the bus catchments.

@sanae please share if you find some! I'm the same with carbon offsets - like I know there's a reason that Qantas' offsets don't make taking a joyride over Antarctica ok, but it's an accumulation of reading lots of things, and vibes.

writing my thesis in VSCode today... feels like I've become some kind of VSCode addict

@jake Don't know the area that well but it seems very small and some of the streets not very comfortable on a 20k vehicle. Will see what happens.

@Transportist All work is backed up but some personal stuff is not. But it's working ok on power now!

Things I really don’t need a month before submitting thesis: swollen laptop battery and now it’s crashing on power (battery removed) too 😨

@mszll thank you, will read

@colby Yeah, that's tough! I can do research partly because of my prior income in road construction, but at least it was a clean break.

@bikepedantic Thank you, all that is needed is good to hear. It's just hard to reconcile the long timelines of academic work with the urgency of the situation.

#ClimateDiary - Writing research plans for postdoc applications -> anxiety and guilt about whether I am working on climate change to the extent that I could be.

Only real reassuring thing is remembering I am just one part of a whole community of people who care about this, especially on here. Thankful for that.