@greg @sydney You mean the one near the station that does the freshly grilled pork banh mi?

Also, there’s a few other good things about the place as well: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112405402308405600

@naevaTheRat There are many upsides to Hornsby.

The Westfield has most major chains you’d want, including a David Jones and a cinema.

There are some good local restaurants.

For a satellite city/outer suburb/exburb, the area around the Hornsby CBD is surprisingly dense. Three-storey blocks of flats and apartment buildings, for the most part.

Very multicultural these days.

Walking distance to national parks.

Multiple train lines to most of northern Sydney, as well as the Central Coast, Newcastle, and beyond.

You can comfortably live without a car there.

I’ve had the misfortune of visiting the local hospital. It’s clean and modern.

Good public and private schools.

It’s close to the Macquarie Park business precinct, as well as the university.

It’s reasonably affordable (at least by Sydney standards).

But.

There’s little in the way of live music. Or arts and culture.

It’s a long way from many of the places you’d want to visit in Sydney.

No local beaches.

While there are good restaurants there, it doesn’t hold a candle to somewhere like Newtown, or Surry Hills, or Church Street in Parramatta.

So it’s a good place.

But it’s a long, long way off top five place in all of Australia.

@naevaTheRat Hornsby definitely isn’t bad by any stretch — I used to live there.

But.

If you made a list of the five top places in Australia to live, Hornsby probably wouldn’t be on the list either.

@sydbot @sydney Anyone end up getting up early for the dawn service? Or do anything interesting today?

@sydbot @sydney Feeling utterly exhausted from work, but sooo glad there’s a public holiday 😃

On the downside, my partner is busy typing away at her computer and she might be working through a good chunk of tomorrow too 😞

Anyone getting up early tomorrow for the dawn service? Or taking a four-day break? Or planning on doing anything interesting?

@No1 It’s almost certainly jumping on someone else’s turf if social media is not your responsibility.

Your company probably already has social media accounts. It’s someone’s job to maintain them.

The way you setting up social media accounts without asking them is likely to be read is: “I think you’re incompetent at your job and I’m deliberately undermining you.”

Worse, if that’s the case, it could also be interpreted at undermining your boss.

If I were in your position, what I’d do is pull together a detailed pitch deck in PowerPoint outlining why the business should use Instagram, the potential benefits.

Then ask to have a meeting with the relevant stakeholders where you present it, and offer to manage it yourself.

@maniacalmanicmania @WhimsicalWood I’m not an employment expert, but generally setting up unauthorised social media accounts for your workplace is a pretty good way to get fired.

At the very least, it’s kinda risky.

Are you in charge of social media at your job?

Playing devil’s advocate for a moment: It could be seen as making representations on behalf of your company when you’re not authorised to do so.

Even ifyou set it up as an anonymous “fan” account, you could be in for a world of trouble at your work if it gets linked back to you.

Also, is this a big business or a small one? Many big businesses have a whole heap of branding and tone of voice guidelines, as well as things like sign-off processes for external comms.

@maniacalmanicmania @No1 Either way, it’s heartbreaking.

@sqgl There’s a reason why they’re being deliberately vague at this stage.

In a similar situation in 2016, one man (the attacker) was killed and four people were injured, after an attacker carried a knife around Westfield Hornsby: https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/police-shoot-and-kill-knifeman-at-westfield-hornsby/news-story/09e98074a9f0534020686a76ebee783c

After the official investigation, it turned out the four bystanders who were injured were accidentally struck by police bullets that ricocheted, rather than the attacker himself.

I’m definitely not saying that’s the case this time, but they’re likely to be vague until they can rule something like that out.

@maniacalmanicmania @Baku “As a result of his actions” is worded in a deliberately vague way. It could mean one of two things.

Either they’re saying all five people (including the attacker, who was shot by a police officer) are dead because of the attacker’s actions.

Or they’re saying he stabbed five people.

@No1 It’s not unprecedented.

A few years ago, after a particularly bad flood, the entire town of Grantham in Queensland was relocated to higher ground: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/grantham-reborn-meet-the-little-queensland-town-that-moved-20200227-p5450g.html

If you have a town that’s in a floodplain, instead of constantly needing to rebuild it every couple of decades (or less) because of floods, it can make sense to do so.

Banks and insurers look at the risk profile, and then adjust the cost of borrowing or insurance premiums accordingly.

At a certain point, it becomes far cheaper to just call in the bulldozers and rebuild elsewhere.

@maniacalmanicmania Really hope you’re right.

That being said, the pessimist in me thinks we’re just at the start of Autumn.

If there’s already heavy rains at the start of April, then what’s going to happen in May, June, July, August, and September?

It’s also the same communities that are likely to be impacted — places like Richmond, Lismore, and the towns along the Hawkesbury.

The cleanup and rebuild is still ongoing from last time. Another round of floods would be the final straw — financially and emotionally — for many people and small businesses in those regions.

And if there’s two bad flood seasons in two years, no insurer is going to touch those towns.

Hopefully it doesn’t come to that.

But another bad flood season would not just be devastatingly bad. It would be “state government seriously considers relocating entire towns to higher ground” bad.

@Ringmasterincestuous @ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml I’m there regularly.

While cars take up a lot more space than a single pedestrian, there’s on average only around 1.2 passengers per car.

On any given city street, it’s certainly very common for there to be significantly more people to be walking along the footpaths than driving in cars.

@maniacalmanicmania All the thrills of Queensland and Darwin, right here in Sydney…

(And if one makes landfall near the Hunter Valley, given they’ve already had serious droughts, bushfires, floods, and earthquakes, Newcastle can will just about complete its natural disaster bingo card.)

@Nath @ajsadauskas@pixelfed.social And worse, no-one has ever bothered to change it afterwards.

Like, no-one has said: “You know what we don’t have enough of in this state? Things named after Lachlan Macquarie and John Hunter!”

There’s not been anyone important who has died since and had the big park in the middle of Sydney (or Perth) named after them.

It hasn’t even been officially renamed to the original Indigenous name.

@maniacalmanicmania I guess the big thing at Enmore and King is the train station, which brings people right to the middle of the Enmore/Newtown strip.

Whereas you with Glebe you sorta have a light rail stop, but it’s quite a distance from the shops. You have Central if you’re fit and up for a walk. You have a ferry terminal right at Glebe Point, but that’s a longer walk.

And you have busses.

To be fair, they’re very good busses. There’s one every few minutes on either Glebe Point Rd or Broadway.

As for what to do there, sadly the answer is not much. Last time I was there, many of the shopfronts were vacant.

For the vegan crowd, there’s an excellent vegan supermarket a burger joint. There’s a few decent cafes. There’s a decent secondhand bookshop that also serves drinks. There’s a Sunday market at the public school.

And there’s… UTS and Sydney Uni are sorta nearby? There’s a really big park? Broadway and Central Park shopping centres?

I guess the catch-22 is there’s really no reason to head down there unless you’re a local or a vegan. And because no-one goes there, there’s no reason to set up a shop there.

Given how close it is to the city, I think the surrounding area is in a prime spot for some more apartments.

(I mean, there’s now new apartments going up in Mount Colah of all places! It doesn’t make sense to have five-floor apartments on the literal edge of Sydney and then just single floor detached homes in Glebe: https://www.urban.com.au/new-apartments/mount-colah-nsw)

A light rail line — possibly to Central — would probably help to bring in the punters as well.

But beyond that, I think it needs some more unique shops and restaurants.

@maniacalmanicmania On the same day in literally the same newspaper: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/it-s-a-bit-dismal-how-do-you-save-a-high-street-like-glebe-point-road-20240304-p5f9ph.html

Why is Glebe Point Road looking dead, especially compared to other streets in the inner city that have seen apartments go up.

They really want it both ways. They want quarter acre blocks right on the doorstep of the CBD. They’ll fight tooth and nail against any new apartments.

And then they complain that there’s not more people at the local shops.

@Zagorath In many parts of Europe, there isn’t really the hard distinction that we have between a cafe and a bar.

I mean yes, there are cafes that don’t serve liquor, and there are pure pubs. But cafe/bars that do both are a lot more common.

So the place you meet your friends for a coffee at lunchtime is the same place you meet your colleagues for a drink after work.

And that means you can get a coffee in the evening, if you want one.

@maniacalmanicmania @warkolm There are a couple of busses that pass through Olympic Park — the 525, 526, and 533.

I think it would be a nice touch if they painted up a few of the (newer) busses on those routes in the Olympic design…

@maniacalmanicmania @ajsadauskas@pixelfed.social It’s currently in Leichhardt North, at the back of the Transit Systems bus depot, and a short walk from the light rail.

Of course, the best way to get there is on one of the historic busses that departs from QVB.

I’ll aim to post some more interesting photos from there over the coming days.

https://www.sydneybusmuseum.com/