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Flying Tong was a Korean chicken and beer joint on Enmore Road and operated for about the past eight years. A few weeks or so ago it closed and some tacky Mexican place has opened since. Tacky because they put a blinding VIP club style shop sign out the front where there is a bus stop. Seriously people.

I just came across Flying Tong's old shop sign on the curb near our place.

Flying Tong kept us going during the pandemic. Knowing that I could go and get super spicy chicken and wash it down with a cold beer before succumbing to a food coma brought me much joy.

I am genuinely sad to see Flying Tong go. All the best to the proprietor and staff.

Cut down and cleaned up photos I took at Vivid on the 31st of May and 1st of June. I've split it in to 4 sections to avoid immediately filling the screen. Vivid's been interesting to try and photograph especially when you didn't realise how to adjust the f-stop until more than half way through. 😅

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In short:

A dust haze has descended over Sydney and the Illawara, with some suburbs reporting "hazardous" air quality.

According to NSW Health, dust particles can cause irritated eyes, nose and throat, and exacerbate pre-existing diseases and health conditions.

What's next?

The Bureau of Meteorology says conditions should ease over Tuesday.

These changes:

• require landlords to provide a reason to end a lease - ending ‘no grounds’ terminations for tenants
• make it easier to keep a pet in a rental home
• limit rent increases to once per year for all lease types
• prevent extra fees at the start of a tenancy, including fees for background checks and for preparing a tenancy agreement 
• ensure tenants can pay rent by bank transfer.

see also: https://www.tenants.org.au/resource/law-change

There are about 20 tobacco outlets on Newtown’s busy main street – up from just a handful a decade ago. Despite the increasingly crowded market - and the lack of decent signage - business is brisk at the Red Shop.

Behind a store window plastered with gig posters, the premises looks mostly vacant. The shelves are largely bare, and there are unpacked boxes of soft drink on the floor and graffiti on the wall, but none of that matters because the only real business at hand takes place through a window cut into a plywood wall.

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This seems like a sensible but odd carveout. The law is essentially legalising e-scooters on shared paths, and bike lanes on roads with no more than 20km/h. The proposition does not allow them on footpaths, which you’d think would be the most relevant place. Personally, I’m surprised they wouldn’t allow them on footpaths but no more than 5 km/h in heavy pedestrian areas (anywhere a car would have to do 40 km/h or less), especially since you could potentially require shared e-scooters to enforce this speed with GPS.

Hopefully this funds more enforcement

Is nothing sacred? 😱

A female security officer, referred to as CR1, who was working a 12-hour shift that started at 6am left to go to the bathroom at 3:32pm, meaning there was no active CCTV monitoring in place.

By the time CR2 re-entered the room just before 3:37pm, 16 people had been stabbed.

Damn