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Are Velocity email addresses being sold or shared?
▲ 0 r/VelocityFrequentFlyer

Are Velocity email addresses being sold or shared?

Has anyone recently experienced unsolicited emails to their Velocity email address? Specifically, email from a Liberal Senator as shown below:

https://i.imgur.com/qda8nIy.png

The email address is one that is purely used for Velocity Rewards and not used or publicised anywhere else.

I did check to see if Virgin Australia had recently published details of a data breach, couldn't find anything... but probably a moot point, while politicians do underhanded things, I wouldn't think buying email addresses from a data breach would be one of them.

The only emails I have received to this address in the last 5+ years - probably ever - have been legitimate emails from Virgin/Velocity.

u/ChuqTas — 1 month ago
▲ 23 r/TheseFuckingAccounts

Some more karma farming accounts

https://www.reddit.com/user/mitchare

https://www.reddit.com/user/ponderingpixi17

https://www.reddit.com/user/barlipi

Still here, no matter how many times I report them. The first two are ones that pretend to live in a different city each day, and edit in spam links. The last one (so far) is just reposting old images. I follow them around subs and alert users/mods.

Sometimes they even have the arrogance to pretend to not know what they're doing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DogTrainingTips/comments/1vqm4rh/first_dog_and_just_trying_to_do_things_right/p4k5fi8/

reddit.com
u/ChuqTas — 2 months ago
▲ 211 r/parkrun+1 crossposts

Oh no.. how much stress would this RD & team be under!

u/ChuqTas — 2 months ago
▲ 441 r/MapPorn

Australia - population density map (2025) - high-resolution (11426x10874)

u/ChuqTas — 3 months ago
▲ 41 r/tasmania

MV Black Marlin to enter port of Hobart next week

This will be (one of) the largest ships to ever enter Tasmanian waters. I imagine it will be a massive spectacle. Heads up to all photographers, drone pilots* and ship enthusiasts!

It will happen in the harbour between Tranmere and Lower Sandy Bay.

It will be here to collect the Incat built fully electric ferry China Zorilla to deliver it to its owner in South America.

The ship will lower its entire deck below water level, the ferry will then manoeuvre itself above it and then the heavy lift ship will raise itself again. It should be here for a few days (Tuesday to Thursday is the schedule).

(*Do not fly over or near the ship obviously!)

[Edit: OK, not the biggest. They were originally planning a different ship but plans changed between when they said that and now!]

mast.tas.gov.au
u/ChuqTas — 3 months ago
▲ 0 r/parkrun

Thought: Allow marshals to complete the course and claim a run/walk credit

An idea to increase the number of people volunteering for marshal positions:

Allow the marshal to head out early, run/walk the course up until their marshal position, then once the tailwalker passes them, run/walk to the finish line, receive a token and scan for their 5k.

Their time would be irrelevant (not much faster than the tailwalker) so they're not going to set any records.

Obviously for some layouts (e.g. multi-lap courses) there is going to be some level of trust involved. It would be at the RD's discretion. To be honest, there may be some RDs allowing this now.

So long as the marshal is in position before the event starts and does not leave until the last participant has passed, it wouldn't affect anyone else at all, and would reduce pressure on finding volunteers.

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u/ChuqTas — 4 months ago
▲ 178 r/hobart+2 crossposts

Hobart live site announced for AUS v USA - Odeon Theatre

u/ChuqTas — 4 months ago