Post #1081722
2025-05-30 15:13 UTC
Replies (21)
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@W6KME@mastodon.radio 2025-05-30 16:13
@oivaeskola@toot.community Oh, it's locked all right, but just locked to a coffee cup.
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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org 2025-05-30 17:00
@oivaeskola@toot.community Not even theoretical. A fair while ago I saw a pair of pictures from Amsterdam, of a bike first locked by a wire lock to one of those canal-side poles, and then the same bike to a similar canal-side pole right on the other side of the canal! Some practical joker did the topology exercise...
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@arjjra@mastodon.nl 2025-05-30 17:07
@oivaeskola@toot.community topogolists hate this one trick
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@th@social.v.st 2025-05-30 17:14
@oivaeskola@toot.community I collect these under the title "hashtag threat model"
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@famousringo@mstdn.ca 2025-05-30 18:17
@oivaeskola@toot.community “This angle grinder? Oh! No, I’m not a thief. I’m a corrective topologist.”
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@RandamuMaki@mstdn.social 2025-05-30 20:08
@oivaeskola@toot.community What's worse is that your bike is not even a bike.
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@ptoothfish@mastodon.nz 2025-05-30 20:43
@oivaeskola@toot.community just tie a knot in the bike and pull it out through the lock
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@owent@mastodon.social 2025-05-30 21:11
@oivaeskola@toot.community rogue topologists famously happened to the UK's former prime minister : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/jul/24/davidcameron.ukcrime
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@gnomon@mastodon.social 2025-05-30 22:03
@oivaeskola@toot.community fearing topologists is correct and proper.
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@kim@fedi.social 2025-05-30 22:13
@oivaeskola@toot.community IANA topologist, but I did actually do this to someone who'd got in a muddle with armfuls of bags and locks and managed to fail to lock her bike to the stand. I figured that being patronised by a random stranger was better than having your bike stolen.
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@clew@ecoevo.social 2025-05-30 22:23
Oh an _applied_ topologist. @oivaeskola@toot.community
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@barrygoldman1@sauropods.win 2025-05-30 22:58
@oivaeskola@toot.community yeah... once or twice i have NOT in fact locked my bike!
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@sparrows@calamity.world 2025-05-30 23:14
@oivaeskola@toot.community Me too. I have a weird frame, and I keep having a moment of doubt before I confirm it's a valid lock.
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@cassandracorvid@mstdn.social 2025-05-30 23:53
@oivaeskola@toot.community Worse yet, not even a bike! :D
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@WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online 2025-05-31 04:13
@oivaeskola@toot.community That’s why I always bring my welding equipment. Keeps the unholy union of bike and bollard safe and the torch scares away topologists.
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@ajft@aus.social 2025-05-31 05:04
@oivaeskola@toot.community it doesn't take much of a topologist to prove the worth of many of the City of Monash "secure bicycle facilities" - see https://flic.kr/p/2k6iMr2
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@Lilysea@aus.social 2025-05-31 05:42
@oivaeskola@toot.community I saw your post, googled, and now I know what a topologist is - a new word for me!
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@vt52@ioc.exchange 2025-05-31 09:23
@oivaeskola@toot.community five minutes later:
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2025-05-31 10:41
@oivaeskola@toot.community I did that once (locked a bike to a loop (on a lamp post in this case) in a topologically unhelpful manner). A kid called out to me to tell me I'd got it wrong.
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@evan@cosocial.ca 2026-04-11 20:10
@oivaeskola@toot.community every child has done the party trick where the loops go over your hands and then you're free. So how could this bike lock cable possible work?!?
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@negative12dollarbill@techhub.social 2026-04-11 22:15
@oivaeskola@toot.community Or in fact not even a bicycle!