My e-bike and my repurposed pedicab allow me to support my unhoused neighbors by bringing in tons upon tons of ice and water into the woods without the police or fascist sympathizers in my community being able to track me. Without giving fossil fuel companies a cent. Right into the damned woods.

Sorry, while I’m glad he got free this is like the 1/1000 times people just standing around filming an abduction with their phones did anything. Homeboy getting nabbed did all the real work. Have a mask? Wear it. Have an e-bike? Ride it. This phone nonsense is well past it’s usefulness.

There needs to be a dating site but for Covid cautious communists who need a lab partner building the best mutual aid e-bikes the world has ever seen. I know it’s a tall order and even if it wasn’t for cautious part it would still be. We are in a bad place for creatives and pickings are slim.

What I’m really curious about is the effectiveness of a long John cargo bike as an alternative to the Toyota Hilux as a technical vehicle. I’ve pondered using my cargo trike in this regard but it is rather cumbersome in an urban environment. Anywhere to test this theory @sundance.bikesky.social ?

Reason #42,069 communists should make e-bikes a central pillar of the platform.

True e-bike ninjas evade both infection and facial recognition.

Heartily acknowledged, us e-bikers really need to step up and regulate on these people and shun them from our spaces. A lot of the damage is too late to be undone.

Super heroes? Nah, just a cargo bike and a unicycle supporting our community. Tuesday we visited a vendor at home who has been too scared to go out and we bought $300 worth of goods and immediately passed it out to hungry Chicagoans. Then we spotted 2 vendors in the Loop & bought them out. 🦸‍♂️ 🫡

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At least where I am 99% of maskers in organizing spaces are either unserious ones who pull it down to eat and speak (we can hear you just fine) and ones in surgicals because they are sick. But most everyone isn’t wearing one at all. I’m convinced if I get infected that’s where it’s going to be.

In regards to why I’m leaving a certain discord. 4chan is not something I want to look at as anything but the blight it was and the price we are paying.

Gonna do a soft delete for at least a month, hard delete for meta, leaving all but my mutual aid org’s discord. Some bad interactions on discords helped me realize that trying to bridge the online and IRL gap with people that can’t even leave the Nazi website is poison to me. That leading to 🧵/

I survived the Bristol disaster relief trial yesterday on an acoustic cargo bike, including the medical task (bandage), the mechanical task (puncture), brought 2x14kg sandbags, radio equipment and 25l of water collected from the river after some offroading. #cargobike #disasterrelieftrials

I need a cooler full of these.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

@sundance.bikesky.social Gifted a few mostly broken OG Star Wars toys and I tell ya I’m real tempted to craft a mini bullitt to put this on 😂

I can’t believe we’re already at lucky number 7! And for tonight’s ride there’s finally going to be a new member. No, not a fellow cycling Marxist silly. It’s a 360° camera to record it for posterity, so yeah…dipping my toe into that shit.

This very dudes skyline is almost 100% ai slop if that helps put this in perspective.

We should not be expected to drive. Nearly every trip by private car is a net loss to society. Economically. Environmentally. And in terms of health,well being and community.

It's going to be really funny watching the Abundance folks convince themselves that people don't think they are fascist by affirming how unfascist they are on Elon's fascist website.

I credit a lot of my being able to resist the capitalist push to accept covid infection to the realization I had as a middle schooler that Georgetown Hoyas hats were just dumb expensive hats and I wasn’t gonna get wagged by the bum equipment crowd.

You may have had a shower beer before, but have you ever tried a toilet bowl?

This is the best pandemic photo that I've taken. It tells a story about how we’ve kept our children safe. It says something about the blurry distinction between reality & fantasy. Several things in the photo have also been the subject of “moral panic”.🧵

Just under 20% of those living in Texas voted for Trump, and even less voted for Abbott.

This is the way.

From now on, I'll be referring to Private Equity firms as Parasite Equity. Let's make this A Thing! bsky.app/profile/citi...

The biggest trick Silicon Valley performed in the last 20 years was figuring out how to insert itself in the middle of existing/new services, extract revenue from both sides, and get everyone to practically forget how things worked before the mobile app existed.

The overnight oats quartet that’s been my cheap and easy breakfast becomes a quintet. 1 cup rolled oats 1/4 cup dried cranberries One scoop PB powder One scoop huel black 8 cacao wafers Mix that all up with one cup water and you know the rest.

WTF is wrong with the NYPD?

Last night after Critical Mass Seattle a driver purposely ran a red light at Alaskan and Yesler and nearly hit me and a pedestrian so I tailed them with the cargo bike and threw my beer at them. They tried making a few turns but were unable to outrun… a bike, ridden one handed whole holding a beer.

“I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.” -William Saroyan, novelist Happy #BicycleBirthday, William! August 31 (1908-1981)

It is nearly time for the sixth edition of this ride. Still no joiners on account that there’s probably only ten communists in austin and of those ten four only four ride bikes and of those four zero live in the northern quadrant. Not really, but it does feel that way.

There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life

Saw a big stupid truck on my way to the weekly food pantry pickup and said to myself if it was still there on my way back I would do something about it. It was. As I was letting the air out of the tires the owners were scrambling to get to me before I was finished and even threw a brick at me 1/

RFKjr is gonna send armed tallow goons door to door to assess our bodily humors with dowsing rods. Anyone found to be mitochondrially defective will be sent to the Ivermectin mines.

Where’s the Atreides house atomics when you need them? A lazgun and a shield generator could be used in a pinch.

True, and to its credit that quality to the term has pushed me into being a Marxist Leninist.

These are cool but if you are looking for a low cost way to dip your toe into induction I highly recommend picking up a second hand single burner. I did four years ago when our range crapped out and have been using it in conjunction with an air fryer ever since.

@bostonaruban.bsky.social good to see you again even if it’s just on Bsky. I’ve really been missing the Boston bike scene lately. Did you ever make it to any of my bike jump parties back in the mid 10’s? youtu.be/7l4XA2UNSZ8

I’ve seen e-bikes change lives and you want me to believe in freeway expansion?

I’m a bit of a video game player myself.

well i work for raytheon technologies and i think the anti-communist left is great

I’m a bit of a video game player myself.

*in person with your phones in another room

Picard morality tip: A sickbay’s only purpose is to heal whoever is unwell, regardless of their rank or station.

Inconceivable!

“What’s in the barrel?” “Really salty food” 😫

More on this, including Peter Thiel's Palantir. Relevant as Thiel's pet JD Vance was just nom'd for Trump's VP slot. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thiel just keeps having those tentacles pop up. This time with Epstein. Why doesn't anyone want those Epstein docs released again? 🤔 www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epst... Archived here: archive.ph/O68um