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• Post #4469522

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/117062590472282156 if you redistribute stolen money in the direction of the original owners, was that theft?

• Post #4302294

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/117017586999838411 "we can only prevent it from getting much worse." has always been true, and we can actually make it better, but only after we stop making it worse. Pull the brake lever though, now! #climateAction

• Post #4069693

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace/116975035116997992 Half of all car trips are shorter than 3 miles. Staying home is a good way to avoid giving more of your money to the worst people in the world, but riding a bike is more fun.

• Post #3783020

  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/116911156904351198 🤔 what if we put a big fusion reactor in outer space and had some way to receive energy from it, arrays of some kind of collectors...

• Post #3756060

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116901884087017344 NYT now "finding out" about the fascism they've been fucking around with, both-sidesing for a few decades

• Post #3741373

  We managed to reduce urbanists.social DB size in Jan, which cut $60/mo off of the burn rate, but that has crept back up by $10/mo despite `tootctl statuses remove`, and now we're back at that $50 jump in masto.host pricing plans while still not quite hitting $150/mo in donations. Anybody got a solution for the 12GB preview_cards table? #mastodonAdmin (graph from https://hcb.hackclub.com/urbanists-social )

• Post #3709022

  "rubber tires ... brain-altering chemicals." -- the brain-damaged rut we're stuck in, brought to you by #carSupremacy futurism.com/health-medicine/chemical-causing-alzheimers-disease-brain-damage-tires

• Post #3687655

  pay to get locked inside a car by a computer, wonder why it happened https://bsky.app/profile/bennjordan.bsky.social/post/3mq5azebpbs2j

• Post #3592191

  #BikeNite A8 I've made a few crossings of the river near sunset this week, returning from #BikeSummerPDX group rides, and passed 600 miles on the #lectricOne, after about six months. I'm still not happy with their programming choices / inflexibility relative to the throttle and assist levels (🙄 "annoying if you ever pedal" ™️.) Still far less happy with #OregonDOT, owner of the ugly Marquam bridge (is falling down) and all of the worst #stroads in #Portland. #ODOTGTFOpdx #eBi...

• Post #3591398

  #BikeNite A5 my #eBikes / #cargoBikes are all quite different and 3 are "projects" in various states of motor/battery completion/capability. I lean toward the #umbrellaBike (yuba #superCargo) if it's wet/cold & transporting the sub-100lb child or wanting to keep cargo dry, the bakfiets format is also good for some load shapes, but underpowered front hub only as-is now. My xtracycle #edgeRunner has a bbs02 crank & good gear range, does steep climbs, wife's favorite dat...

• Post #3590874

  #BikeNite A8 milepost 7 on SE Stark, #Portland #ProtectedBikeLane #TriMet needs a floating stop or a couple ramps to/from the sidewalk. #pdxBikes #fediBikes 30mph says the sign, 90mph lane design 🤦 guess which one drivers are closest to.

• Post #3517152

  RE: https://mastodonczech.cz/@howking/116843049765801658 use a car if you need to go over mountains, not for silly everyday trips like the commute to work and errands carrying a few dozen pounds of stuff or kids with their own legs, what a waste of time and energy

• Post #3506304

  electric open source mini truck, let's go! The first model would be a kit, self-registered Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (25-35mph low speed, less crash testing required.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJJa9zBDa6A

• Post #3421152

  12:30 Rivendell Bicycle Works Appreciation Ride leaving Piccolo Park at 1pm, 4.5 miles slow roll to Golden Pliers #BikeFun #pdxBikes https://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-23910

• Post #3419786

  This is confusing for me, when she talks about the government building highways as a public good and for the survival of democracy. Car-brain I guess. I'm sure it confuses her to explain why the democrats are protecting a two-party system when fascism has a grip on one party entirely and most of the other... Fascism as an economic system is a weird way to put it, but I guess that's the autocracy the billionaires wanted to buy themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEEj1glovvM

• Post #3359057

  Paying for somebody to drive around and lock the doors to all of the parks dept restrooms before dark every day has got to be in the top-ten of cities' stupid responses to self-imposed homelessness problems.

• Post #2177750

  The sad irony of the blame-drivers culture, absolving traffic Engineers using that magical American scepter of Personal Responsibility, when we all know drivers aren't going to be held accountable anyway (because that would be cruel, to withhold transportation from someone, like all of those kids that aren't allowed to go even 1/2 mile from their homes without a chauffeur.)

• Post #2107443

  Almost @bonbpdx time again, seems like just last week I missed the latest last Friday of the month. 7am - 9ish, Blumenauer: North side, Flanders: East side, Steel: East side of the lower deck; Tilikum: West side under the 99 red balloons statue #pdxBikes #BikeFun https://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-20696

• Post #2048848

  not only did they steal your forum posts from the past, they also stole all of the forum posts from the future from all of us

• Post #2025737

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116479670054669479 Delivery robots may use full lane. Why are they on the sidewalk? Afraid to ride in traffic?

• Post #2010451

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116400199742221741 use the tool for how it works, not how you wish it worked. If the only voting method you have is a hammer, fucking hit the nail.

• Post #1844114

  RE: https://zpravobot.news/@Rainmaker1973/116497213117339114 be the problem-solving llama you wish to see in the world

• Post #1839131

  Imagine if Earth got a day off from people fucking it up.

• Post #1798010

  #eBike to #BanCars Urbanism is the biggest #ClimateAction lever, and your mayor could pull on it tomorrow without asking anybody's permission. #LegalizeBikes by scrapping together a complete low-stress network and providing parking, support, service citywide, like you do cars. QT Which climate tribe are you? [chart that doesn't mention eBikes] https://mastodon.energy/@andrew/109573040722427844

• Post #1698319

  I just got so mad about the state of things that I blacked out for a second and wondered what if we'd all decided to be done with oil wars like 30 or 40 years ago or now.

• Post #1651440

  Oh look, my favorite type of sign. #BikeTooter #ModalFilters #BanCars

• Post #1133030

  #30daysOfBiking I took the #umbrellaBike from Hillsdale to Beaverton and the passenger from Beaverton to the craft store to Hillsdale. It was misty, but not really raining until the return trip and then it finished before we got home. #cargoBikes #eBikes #pdxBikes #pdxTST

• Post #1133027

  RE: https://wandering.shop/@joshsutphin/116392325235152238 It's not going to be easy or simple to reconstruct a system that was designed to withhold power from the majority, especially not by the single-party rule model of blue states.

• Post #1133026

  The rest of the world's petroleum cannot be (profitably) refined into gasoline by the oil companies' stranded assets. So, buckle up (by which I mean get out of your cars.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXNLaHsKMz8

• Post #1133025

  Would be neat to have the shifting chainring on an ebike motor, otherwise it sounds a lot like a patterson transmission (but not installed inside the bottom bracket?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsDDn_s1M_A