Arkantos, Awaken! A 24 km run to celebrate the release of Age of Mythology: Retold
In 30+ degree heat, with over 300 m elevation gain. Tough, but a fun run for a fun game!
@brisbane It's supposed to be winter!! (Or at least, was just yesterday.) Darn weather was up over 30 degrees.
Run's 24.1 km total, took about 2:10 of running time, plus a fair few pauses to make sure I was still on track.
Arkantos, Awaken! GPS writing in Brisbane
A GPS-writing run I did this morning to celebrate the release of Age of Mythology: Retold this week.
Riverfire fireworks 2024
All 4 photos also available at https://pixelfed.au/i/web/post/735459637098227019
Riverfire 2024
All 3 photos also on Pixelfed at: https://pixelfed.au/i/web/post/735411523248664802
City Hall will be lit Purple and Gold to celebrate a wedding
I had to Google who they were because I figured they were celebrities I wasn't familiar with. Turns out, they're just two people. I guess anyone can pay/apply to get BCC landmarks lit up for them.
@brisbane this announcement comes right in the middle of widening Gympie into an 8-lane monstrosity through this section. It needs a *serious* road diet. One 24/7 bus lane in each direction, a bike lane in each direction, and it would *still* be a 4 lane major road. But instead, we get peak-hour-only bus lanes and you can navigate some winding back streets (give way every time you cross *any* road!) if you wanna cycle to Chermside.
Queensland Government promises to build yet another (probably tolled) fucking car tunnel. @brisbane
Fuck this makes me **so** angry. We KNOW this doesn't work. You want to solve congestion, road diet the existing roads. Build good bike infrastructure. Build good public transport. How does this happen with a single off-the-cuff announcement when *months* of back-and-forth debate over public transport network with the NWTC went *nowhere*.
Foggy Brisbane last Thursday night!
More photos of the fog from UQ and Mt Coot-tha summit at:
https://pixelfed.au/i/web/post/702260266478719257
@trk conveniently, I only noticed the fog because I went outside to bring in the washing, and discovered it was *soaked*.
@trk I went out last night at an unreasonable hour to go take photos. Took my good camera though, not the smartphone, so will have to wait to process them before sharing.
UQ's Camp Solidarity still going strong. The pro-genociders seem to have given up though. @brisbane
@Gamers_Mate @Rentlar no don't delete it! It's an important issue and more people should be able to see it!
@Spitzspot yeah I dunno why exactly the Pitch Drop experiment gets the label "longest continually-running experiment". Probably some kind of technicality about what exactly counts as "experiment" and "continually-running". There are some even older than Beal's listed on Wikipedia, depending on how you define it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_experiment
The longest-running scientific experiment, the Pitch Drop at the University of Queensland, Brisbane @brisbane
UQ students standing in solidarity with Palestine
UQ has a very strong relationship with US weapons manufacturer Boeing. Students are protesting this relationship, as well as showing general support for Palestinians, by staging a camp-in on campus.
Some photos I took of the camp as I walked past them this morning.
edit: 2nd & 3rd images linked for Lemmy:
Someone else feel free to repost or put them inline for Lemmings' convience.
Additional image.
I had heard about the ghost bikes being repeatedly removed, but I rarely travel Nudgee Rd myself. Happened to drive down it last night and spotted this ingenuous solution to the problem. Had to stop and capture it.
edit: hmm, looks like Lemmy can't show images attached to replies. Shouldn't be too much of a surprise I guess. See it in reply.
@brisbot much better this morning. Woke up early and managed to get myself outside for a quick half River Loop ride. Always feel good after doing morning exercise, as hard as it is to get up to actually do it.
@No1 @Rivalarrival yes, please. Always remove the si tracking bs.