#good thing i have my ebike

[saienby]

my car broke down an hour from home last night and I had to limp the car to my sister's place about 20 minutes away stopping every few minutes to recharge the battery with jumper cables so I didn't get home until like 4am and didn't get to sleep until about 5 and so I was awake for about 25 hours and I only got about 5 hours of sleep and now I need to fix the stupid car AGAIN and it's the fuckin alternator AGAIN which takes about 6 hours to replace and also I don't know why it failed 2ish months after I replaced it and also my entire body hurts especially my feet because my ebike battery fell off the counter onto BOTH of them when I got to work so if someone could uncurse me that would be fantastic thank you

but hey I found a $5 bill on the ground on my way to work so I got that goin for me which is nice

[zinogirl]

It's like. I am so fucking close. It's right there. Tiny little immoveable barriers keep getting in the way.

like my mother didn't have the money the week before last, okay that's fine. Now I don't have it until friday, I don't know if she'll have her part to help me pay for this by then.

Uggffffhhhhh

It's frustrating. It's not even a good bike! it's a $405 ebike! Ebikes can run you upwards of $2,000 for the good ones!

But even if it doesn't work correctly, just having the bike itself is gonna allow me to actually save money for other things! Even if I don't start putting money away, I'll just have extra money left over to do this!

[kuromi-hoemie]

10 and 24?

10: About someone I think is funny: random tumblr users and kids lmao 😭 and me..

further out of my sphere i love Kennie JDs personality so much. fellow black woman rawdogging ADD

she has a YouTube channel and has a “Bad movies and a beat” playlist where she talks about bad movies while putting her makeup on. she's so gorgeous and her looks come out beautiful and her personality is a huge part of the draw 😹 she's sorta got a series within that series too called “Good movies and a glam” which is the same thing p much but she talks about movies she enjoyed.

we don't fully overlap in our interests but she talks about horror movies sometimes and i love listening to her talk and watching her reaction to things. there are definitely some videos that have me stopping like 5-10 minutes in like wait let me go watch the movie first bc this sounds like it's gonna be an Experience. i think it's very validating and fun to see how she feels about things I've seen, and even if it's stuff I'm not interested in i still think it's fun to see her do her thing :3

sometimes she does a good analysis, sometimes it's more of a summary w some thoughts and reactions here and there, and for some she's just does a straight reaction to it bc she doesn't think there's really anything to talk about. the worse the movie is the funnier she is 💀 but she's just funny period. Atlanta queen 🫶🏾

comedy is a hard one for me.. there's a lot of jokes and comedians that don't really land for me but i think it's bc I've always been surrounded by ppl i think are funnier or more outta pocket offline and online.. something something ppl who try to be funny vs ppl who just are.

24. An unusual talent I have: o: i don't know.. electrical engineering i suppose? as an end to end process w schematic design, 3d modelling and printing, soldering n circuitry etc. i think it's very rewarding to have a bespoke thing that's the only one of its kind.. technology that does exactly what u want it to do nothing more nothing less no unwanted upgrades/planned obsolescence/privacy policies/cloud bs etc. u can make technology do plenty off of ur home network alone, if u want it to be controllable/accessible from a network at all. i only call this strange in the sense that it's not common.. but in another perspective i think I'm v good at tinkering with stuff in general!! I've built and taken apart enough things in life that a lot of stuff feels very intuitive atp, more so for furniture or something more.. mechanical, than electronics but I'm good at tinkering w that too :3

not good enough to be able to tell which specific part of a complicated circuit board stopped working (unless there's obv physical damage or a disconnected cable), but i can put stuff together from scratch or bypass certain things for more desired behavior. like i built an ebike once but instead of using its pedal assistance i bypassed it and just made it full throttle. it did like 32mph lol 😭 i made that when covid first hit and i didn't want to bus anymore but i usually otherwise make stuff for taking care of my indoor gardens, when i have them (i do not rn). a simple and handy one to do is replacing a battery source with an AC adapter so u can get full power and the thing will never die on u. or at least when it does it's in the way that all electronics will eventually stop working after enough use, but nothing's died on me yet :3

also making web tools for data analysis! (or just something u can use in the browser basically but it's on ur computer not The Internet™). i don't have the time to educate myself in other fields fully but i do like looking at the data they produce and learning more about things that way!! my favorite visualizations to make are maps but I'll make utilities that i can use to strategize for my games sometimes too.

oh and i also like modding games :3 i have made my own mods for 13 games so far. playing the game is already nice but to me it's about really fine tuning the experience to be how i want it to be and making it my own. sometimes I'll start modding before even starting the game 💀 like hmm let me take a peek at what y'all got going on here, then being like eh that sounds annoying I'll just do this instead. my favorite game to mod is elden ring, their spell system has a LOT of different pieces and phases and effects of spells that u can mix and match and chain together to make ur own spells. in this way getting a new game can be like getting a new project at times, and when i don't wanna do that i just use WeMod and call it a day :3

[theorist-influencer-untitled]

6.29.24 Saturday

9:19 am

Still,have windblow...

I did a live stream on Tagged last night it was "adult hour" super adult hour like 11 onwards... I can't stream earlier coz I'm busy on something here,personal business and some things here...

I'm not happy being flatten,I hope my viewers last night take my words seriously coz I'm really serious though probably some will not take my words seriously...

Uncle DD and Aunt Karen are not here,yet... Thanks for the 1 sack of rice but I need to have maintenance of some creams and lotions for me that I'm still a bummer now... I need some toiletries here to calm my dying or crying soul.

I mentioned Borgy Manotoc name on my live stream for something that I wanted to visit ilocos just for saying hi and whatever "adventure" I can have there in their "sand dunes".... I wanted to transfer in ilocos,in time. I just wanna talk on something if ever...

Last night, I have 1 viewer who wanted to go here in the house, wearing white shirt.... I said it is not allowed coz this is a private house and for my safety and it depends if we have business... Probably next time I can have time to gather people. Hoping and praying but it is just for a friendly thing or gathering...

For the updates of my loans and borrowed blah2x... I have existing loans on Tala2x and Lazadah, Moca2x and that fake Credit Peso!

On Marah and Kuya Erning already my 11th water container...

On Ely is is 4k pesoses already,I still have 6k before giving him a song number but hoping for me to get a job....But we are just "really friends or just a buddy2x"....

On Doc Ibias and Elaine I have around 400 creditz as well...

So, hoping for me to get a job and I feel self-pity for not having a job and I wanted a car... I wanna have self-fulfillment.

I still feel hurt coz my cousin white is already married that I'm hating him now...

I don't know if I can have Pilot Garret... But I'm really falling for these faces having the same strength that can ease my pain... My cousin white and Garret!!! He is healing me without knowing why...

The main thing how will I pay my loans? Is there any way for me to be on TV coz of these???

10:04 am

Still,have windblow...

This is cool for just here and there.But I wanted to have a car... I feel self-pity...

This kind of 3 wheels,angels... Got it from Ebike Bentahan sa Cavite linked on Daryl Ayala.

Chasing cars???

10:31 am

I plan to loan again to get a steamer and for some expenses like my lotions...

I still wanna do nose perfection...

Did Mitch give me a simple battery? It is not about execellence.... It is about "negligence"???

I wanna be Paris angels...

10:56 am

Huh this Credit Peso?

11:07 am

This wedding gown is cool! THIS CAN BE MY WEDDING GOWN....

4:08 pm

Huh? Credit Peso?Angels please handle these crazy people...

Style of DD???

4:57 pm

Just take note of this angels...

5:29 pm

Closeness 2 fakes... Uncle DD is pink and Ate Eden is the Blue....

7:12 pm

That Eden girl is intelligent on making a division here... She wanted a separate monthly dues... She is mentioning a 2 separate house and lot that she ordered on Uncle DD...

Eden is so good on making an another route of story... The one is wearing a blue shirt. But she said it was as well requested by Uncle DD...

8:57 pm

This is weird life here... Uncle DD is having a strange behaviour...

No update from Teleperformance... Fakers crew of INC's or Manalo's crew perhaps... They are the people who have the access on the treasure of the world. Free car,free plane ticket and free surgery... They have the easy life coz they are crew and artist at the same time...

9:03 pm

Credit Peso and Lemon Loan are both crazy and fakers... I didn't push through my Lemon Loan. If you borrow 1000 they will only give 500.

Credit Peso and Lemon Loan are having the same fakers and killers group!

9:08 pm

Later will do live hoping I can monetize in Tagged...

9:43 pm

It is hard for me to find a bf... Can I steal my fucking cousin white angels? I want my power! My power coming from my angels friends...

It is impossible that Garret can appear here... I feel hopeless...

I wanna steal my cousin white from that bride... Can I get back my cousin white? Whereever he is I hope I have angels to steal my cousin white for me and lead him to my road....

For my killer group can you separate my cousin white from women and lead him back to me... Can you please prove to me that I'm your friend, power me...

[end-of-pizza]

Tangents

okay, so heres that tangent I warned about

so for the last like 10 years I have had this fantasy of winning the lottery and starting a business.....that first part is mostly the fantasy, because without that theres no way I could afford to do the latter

basically it comes down to new technology that allows automation for small guys like me, stuff like these

basically with 3D printing and affordable cnc and laser cutting machines, a guy like me could have the man power of like 10 people, and if I hired maybe 10 people total to assist, I could easily do something on par with much bigger companies.

my initial fantasy just involved making guitars, granted more advanced guitars then I think the market insists upon, because they are locked in the habit of what has proven sellable to MOST people. fender scale length, bolt on neck, 2 humbuckers, faux les paul look and feel. every company does it, no shame. just not my thing.

I've had this idea, which I've experimented with and talked about in the past, the guitar of the future. Ive done mockups etc like this

but as I've grown older, honestly what I think it should really be is a cheap reliable guitar with a few tricks up its sleeve. so I have reimagined it as basically this

telecasters are simple, and on a cnc machine if you made it as layers that were later glued together, you could make it very easily. the 4x2 headstock is better for straight string pull, and helps eliminate tuning instability. replacing the old school pickups with active style pickups like emg would make it more versatile, and then adding the b bender, along with string drops a g bender, and maybe even a strap actuated bender, the guitar could cover a lot more roles then a standard electric guitar. plus I honestly think benders are cool and more people need to play them, so making them as cheap and accessable as possible is a good idea

just a simple guitar, maybe of paulownia or plywood, cut as 2 or 3 sections and glued together, and then maybe even using a circuit board instead of wire to speed up production, its a great idea.

but I started looking into what else I could do with this hypothetical company that basically 3D prints things, and cncs plywood

I guess bikes

I am a big fan of ebikes, mainly because I believe genuinely in the next 10 years they will begin to be a lot more common in most major cities, their prices will come down as there are more batteries in circulation for evs, and being able to make quick simple bikes like this to sell locally, it seems like a way to directy serve the market I want to live in.

I also looked into stereo equipment, as I am a big hifi guy, and I am a huge raspberry pi fan, so seeing stuff for hifi pi, again it would be a market i understand, and think shouldnt be so fuckin expensive

I also genuinely would love to make a cheap hammond organ clone

like sub $500, because when I was wanting to pickup the instrument it was very hard to get the $ together to do so, and I know if you could injection mold the keys, cnc the body print the circuit boards, and use an arduino or raspberry pi to run a soft synth hammond clone, you could easily hit that price point

more people need to play the organ

lastly is furniture

I love basic designs and furniture has always been something that I enjoy looking at, modern furniture designs, stuff from the last 50s early 60s, its so timeless and the open source furniture movement just scratches that itch. it's simple, but stylish, its utilitarian but it doesnt look bland

the idea of being able to make these things, locally, and just being able to put out into the world things I want and I know other people would too.....I think i'd like that

just wish I didnt have to win the lottery to do it

[clunelover]

AMAZINGLY good Easter! We did the egg hunt at my stepdad’s cause he has a huge fenced yard. Sent Jeremy over there in advance to hide them.

New-ish-ly sober again stepmom was there but she seemed very lucid and well. I felt emotionally connected to her in a way that I didn’t last time we saw her. She has a dog now (immediate foster fail, like basically tried to foster and had decided this was her dog less than a day in) and I was nervous about whether I would like this dog (toy poodle mix, not my kind of dog) but he was SO SWEET and good. Our dog was not BFFs with him but they did pretty well.

I did kalua pork, my go to “everyone goes insane for it and it’s literally the easiest thing to make” recipe, plus instant pot rice and beans made in a Jamaican inspired style (coconut milk, thyme, allspice). Plus coleslaw, and I had stepmom bring cut up veggies. The pork, beans, and coleslaw went SO GOOD together esp with the hot sauce we brought back from Belize. I got the beans going before leaving for the egg hunt so they were just warm and ready when we got home.

Everyone was well behaved and nice. C didn’t have any meltdowns which is unusual for a holiday plus gorging on candy.

Then everyone cleared out by 3, and Jeremy piled the kids on the ebike and they went to go see the Mario movie and then to a playground, while I had a not quite nap but I laid down.

ACTUALLY FUN AND RESTFUL!

[the-firebird69]

Custom Ebike Modern Era Chopper Style

A lot of people are doing this on the beach and they think of converting to a gas engine and they do it and they sell them stock and they think about converting and a lot of them will there's probably about 20 in Venice you see all the time and there's probably a hundred total but now there's like 2000 that are purchased or being built it'll be out there in a week everywhere and our son has an idea the rear end is going to be somewhat normal and still have it and go up about a foot but the front end would probably go up about 3 ft and he says you stack for shocks each side and a hydraulic and their cable being pressurized like the ones they have in the car and you just get a transformer and a separate battery and it can run on a 48 volt for like several hours with a transformer and the transformer will get hot and you'd have to slow down and you probably have to charge and then or switch batteries out but still it would get three or so feet and your friend will be way up in the air and it'll be real radical and you could have like four or five Chrome shocks and it would look intense in the rear you can probably just put two and you just get like a foot or so but there's a way to do it they sell telescopic shocks and they use them in the cars and they have them and they're not really that high performance but they are high performance enough to send you flying and you probably want to put a nice cushy seat in and he started to laugh like maniacally and said I can do this right here so yeah you need two in the back though it says yeah really but you know the same sometime and positioning is going to be key and it goes oh yeah you're an engineer and those things are powerful shocks and you could probably almost invert it so it goes the bottom is close to the front he goes well that's weird if it goes down far enough a little bit it does not I think I could be well I think I'm right so I checked it out and it says it's the other way around oh yeah it's going to swing back in so you put it backwards the other way and you extended out in the straightens out you don't want to go towards the front too much and he says oh yeah but boy that would be okay cool I mean you go up like three or four feet in the back and he'll way up in the front almost almost that you would fall backwards it's like hanging a wheelie without hanging one and you go down the sidewalk hanging a wheelie but you're not and they're legal you can have just about anything as a bicycle and he goes you're right about that so he's thinking about it because it might f****** the e-bike thing which is going nowhere and so he does it now he's probably going to go down the street with it way up in the air and you're doing this wheelie but you're on it and it would look really radical

Thor Freya

Hahaha okay who's this idiot oh it's my husband that's terrific LOL hah a yeah he rides by I said you're buying dinner he said oh no no I can't but I guess I have to waiving to me and smiling good

Hera

I'm going to come back with the Gryllon

Zues

The spelling is atrocious but yeah close yeah do that that would be nice

Hera

We're going to have a party here now but I'm going to try to make this bicycle I'm not really doing anything we love hanging wheelies and the clones are fanatics they're all going to get pulled over

Trump

Olympus

[juno-writes]

Helios chapter 1

January POV

“All ready?” me and Finn are sitting in the IT room at the central computer. It's a humongous, expensive screen that radiates gleams in the claustrophobic, dark room.

“Yup,” they respond, rolling their chair away from the screen so I can see. The only words are “start recording?”

“Whenever you're ready.” In order to successfully deliver a ransom, in my opinion, you need to remind the ransom payers of three specific things.

One, “we took this from you haha loser.”

Two, “you need to pay this amount of money to get it back.”

Three, “meet us here.”

All of this can be done in just a short video. I press play.

“Hello citizens of Proxima Centauri b! This is January from the Helios speaking. If you don't know us, we’re the group that organized the little disturbance yesterday at the capital in order to take a little trophy with us from the throne room. You may or may not know who im talking about, does the princess of SipC ring a bell? Hopefully it does. If you want us to return her, meet us at TRAPPIST-1f’s  Dome 3 to discuss a proper ransom. Thank you and have a great day!” The screen shuts off and I lean back in my chair, smiling so wide my face hurts. 

I stand up and thank Finn, leaving the computer room and entering the common room where the princess sits, staring at the ceiling. Her blonde hair has straightened over the past couple of hours and her dress has been cut. Probably by Crystal I walk over and the second she notices me she turns away.

“Sooooo did you get your beauty rest?” No response. “Oops! I almost forgot about the muffle,” I walk over and tug it from her mouth so that it hangs loosely around her neck. 

“So?”

“To start, this chair is exceedingly uncomfortable,”

“Sorry to hear that, will that be one star off your review?”

“Can you just stop talking to me? I know you haven’t been torturing me physically, but just talking to me is enough to fill that absence”

“Glad to hear that, I was trying to think of something less barbaric than the iron maiden after all,” she groans in response. She glares at me for a couple seconds and then looks in the opposite direction. Instead of pushing it, I decided to just check up on how the landing is going.

-    - -

The cold desert of TRAPPIST-1 f stretches out beyond the windows of the main lobby. Our ship sits near the edge of a cliff leading down to a gigantic river which connects to every other body of water on the planet. Because of the tidal lock, the sky is stained with an orange glow and the thin smell of twilight.

“Everyone ready? We landed about 5 miles away from The Domes so we’ll go by ebike,” Stick says while putting on his brown jacket. We load up our blasters, set up our bikes (mine is red!!!), and ride off toward the domes. Me and the princess ride together and to my disappointment, she doesn’t have her muffle on.

“Well this is just great, I'm getting dust in my eyes and I don’t trust you enough to not crash into something. And of course helmets were just too expensive! With the ransom they’re going to give you, you would think that you can afford something as necessary as helmets! How do you think SipC would feel if the princess was dead before they even got to arrange a ransom price!”

“Please stop talking. I thought I was the one holding you hostage, now it feels like I'm at gunpoint in my own vehicle,” I sigh. I didn’t think she was the chatty type.

“Good, I'm glad to hear this is working then. So then, if you would just leave me right here then it would all end”

“Tempting but no thanks; I didn’t travel 14 parsecs to TRAPPIST-1f just for me to drop you off in the middle of the desert,” I say. Of course, this doesn’t stop her from complaining about every little thing, but eventually I block it out by noticing the beauty of the landscape. In the distance is Afterglow City, or most commonly referred to just as Afterglow. The city itself is on the far north east of the only inhabitable island on TRAPPIST-1f. Because of the planet’s dust storms, its citizens live in one of three giant domes. 

The first dome is regarded as the main city and a number one tourist destination for TRAPPIST-1 visitors: Dome 1. It has giant skyscrapers and a booming population. Dome 1 has everything you would expect in a giant city, high crime, expensive houses, meaningless landmarks. The second dome is the suburban section of Afterglow. It is home to those who can’t afford housing in Dome 1 but still have work and school there. While these two domes are well taken care of by the government the third dome is pretty much forgotten about. It is the smallest dome and the first created. Due to its out of date technology, the dome itself is susceptible to dust storms. It is famous for its overgrowth of alien plants because of a malfunction in the dome that causes exceeded humidity, moisture, and rain.

When the group and I arrive at Dome 3, we split up into groups. Me and the princess park at the South entrance of the dome.

“Lets go Princess,”

“I'm not going with you just to be-” I pull out my blaster.

“I literally have no time for this, let's go,” that shuts her up real quick. She keeps up herpissed off facade as she hops out of the ebike with her hands up.

“Keep moving inside the dome,” I say, tapping the mouth of the blaster against her head lightly. We enter with no guards disturbing us and eyes glued to us. As we walk through the streets of Dome 3, the residents stop mid step to stare at us, looking in horror and keeping their distance, trying not to end up like her.

We make it to the town square without any issues. The roof of the dome towers above us, long vines reaching down as if to grab onto us. I stand near a fountain, looking around for any sign of police or SipC representatives but nothing. Suddenly, a large hologram appears to my left. Bodyguards stand beside it, blasters in their hands. A giant man appears between them.

“Greetings to the members of Helios, I am the President of SipC, King Zephyr,” the hologram in the shape of the king’s states, a smug smile on its face. Everyone around us bows. I whisper to the princess to not move. “We are here today to discuss negotiations regarding the release of SipC’s princess from her captives. The board has talked on this topic and agreed on a hard but necessary decision,” I take a step back, feeling the guards closing in from a distance. I turn my head around rapidly to look around. Something is happening but I don’t know what…

“We have decided the best course of action is to save our ransom money for the stolen Crown Prince. Because of the riots in our newly colonized planets, we are unable to afford such unnecessary, pricey endeavors. In short, we don’t need her.”

Feel free to post thoughts and opinions in the comments!

[divorce]

serial letter

fuck you, pay me

i got so sick of waiting, 'who is my NSA Agent, who is my NSA Agent?' who will it be? who will they choose for me?! they must be someone fascinating, since they know everything about me they must have a diverse range of facts and figures, from the whole left, yes, by simply observing me, i'll make them a convert!

that's not enough, i must meet him in person! so i laid the trap, i'd act like i didn't know he knew i didn't know that he didn't know that i knew he knew, and the sucker fell for it and it went down in the vegetarian burger king, we invented the impossible whopper junior (of sales) that day

i didn't say anything, i just watched him pretending not to watch me. he pulled out a stingray and shot 5G Rays through my heart. croinky. then i ate 8 mozzerella sticks and left. as i was walking, i saw a woman pushing a baby stroller, in it, of course, was me. little baby me. i realize now, that i must have been staring at this mother and child for all of 5 minutes or more. the mom didn't look anything like my mom, she was a strawberry blondge, and probably from eastern europe. but the babe, i'd recognize THAT face anywhere!

it was as unmistakable as it was uncanny. anyway, rarely am i in communication with The Forces of Good, but, in this moment. My Higher Self was telling me that you are reborn in every moment. Every person Is You, potentially. I just had the devistating experience of catastrophic data loss. i'd already preemptively negated my own existence, and left no trace even if i'd wanted to. what will happen when the 'file transfer' of my present life, to the next life, gets corrupted?

after processing the message, i ran back to the bk, and I didn't say anything, I just slammed a note on his table that said "SQUAT: THIS ADDRESS (and go 'round back cause the front door's busted)". He had no difficulty locating the place.

his tactic was beyond genius, because it was my own goal at the time -- wait him out. wait against everything and don't do anything. a saturnal double-agent, resting in scorpio; a cold emotion-less killer, "the nightstalker" as he liked to be called.

in those days i would get stung by a wasp for the thrill, ran bagua around on inch-thick bricks suspended in air from sun up to sundown to intimidate the neighbors, we had hobo joe pissing himself in the living room and screaming, but we both had Jobs and we both had eBikes, and by golly.

the man carried gallons of my piss without me asking him to. excuse me, sir, i left gallons of piss there for a reason. he cleaned our squat from top to bottom for free, this is what the NSA pays people to do. I gave My NSA Guy a room and started putting him to work. He was an adult fan of legos https://old.reddit.com/r/AFOL/ and he was the most brainwashed person I'd ever met. He lived in a completely G-Rated cartoon, and he allowed for anything. No, never were any arrests made, not on the books; only the arrest of action, which again, being my own goal, was punishment enough.

it wasn't all fun and games though, i have to explain his overall strategy. i have the cad completely figured out, because i built him from top to bottom. i ordered him from a catalogue and had him shipped out to me. these boys you gotta break in, you gotta show em how to properly spy on a fellow evading the watchful eye of big brother. the mail-order panopticon at home.

but the strange thing is, he refused everything i had to say at face value. when i spoke it into words, 'ah! that's bad!' and he would short-circuit, overload, and shut down. the fellow to this day would not overclock at all, even though every second of the day he brags about his 5000x more capable PC that he has set up right next to me, he refuses to use it for 1 thread of 1 process towards Good Use. he is still on step one, like all of you are. you are all still in first grade, and i do not mess with first graders, their play is none of my business, which is the most important lesson I learned out of all of this: Learn To Sell the Playground that You Like To Play In, Basically (that is the libra -> scorpio secret).

i could only get to him by subterfuge. i had to send in theやなぎevery time. Real Subgenius Tactics Work Underground. Now he's out of control and can't go back. He Got His Own Ass Beat trying to act like a Kung-Fu Cameraman, chasing his passed out crackhoe down 25th street. This is what the NSA's finest throw at you when you fuck up bad, when you're the most wanted adversary of the state, when you know too much and they want you dead for what's inside your head. Do I need to say anything else? This report is finished

[shieldfoss]

Not-same-but-similar.

I'm fine with any amount of narrowed streets, good bicycling infrastructure, wide sidewalks, bumps on the road + other traffic calming measures, improved public transit, large (...google translate...) "bypass roads?" to direct cross-country vehicular traffic outside of towns and cities etc./

But the fact of the matter is that I can go to work in ~15 minutes by car, ~35 minutes by electric bicycle, ~45 minutes by regular bicycle and 60+ minutes of public transit.

There is nothing to do for improving the bicycling infrastructure for speed - work is just a distance away and kind of hilly - so I go by ebike on nice days and by car when it rains.

"Better transit options" would be great, I'd love to take the bus instead of my car, but what I'm seeing from the cty council is a lot of "worse car options." Please fuck off with that shit.

And this is the easy mode! This is "from town to business park," the kind of thing where you'd have ridership and so on and they're still not delivering on it.

How to tell someone's feelings about urbanism in 1 easy step

Ask them their opinion on Dutch Cycling infrastructure

[citynewsglobe]

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[wetladss]

Day 1 - Good Weather

Arrive at 7:00am Sunday 5th of May in London. Felt pretty good as well as I manage to adjust my sleep cycle pretty good (Thanks to some shift experience in the past) and was ready for the day. Out of the airport I was excited to be greeted by Thalia. We caught the train into Hammersmith. Then headed out with some of the housemates to walk into Battersea park. Went out for a roast lunch and had my first Yorkshire pudding (still think bread rolls loaded with butter is better). Also the old geezer next door has a pet tortoise which was cool to see. Seems like an ideal low maintenance pet. Apparently though if you want to breed them you have to make sure it's not on the female's territory or she'll just keep fighting the male haha.

So far other observations. Less busier than I thought and not as dirty as I thought as well. Very nice to see that. I thought the parks would be more amazing compared to ones in Australia. Just thought with a bit more time there might have been something else that made it more awe struck. Reminds me a bit of the outer northern suburbs of melbourne where it becomes brick replicated houses. I do prefer the variety but with the space and history they seem to be designed quite well. Also nice having them typically 3 stories or less and having good spacing between the rows. Hardy, simple, practical.

Day 2 - City Slicker

Went out for morning walk. New direction heading west up river. Bit colder today but the 11 degrees felt like a Tas 16 for some reason. Started raining so I hid in a cafe for a while eating pastries. Headed back home to wait out the weather a bit more before heading into the CBD for a look around. Heading toward the shopping district (Regent street). I enjoy people watching and seeing what goods and services are sold and what branding and styles are done so this was enjoyable. One of the malls you could go into hand designer clothes you could go touch that where $1000 plus which felt naughty. Some really shit looking designs mixed in with a handful of things that actually look amazing. Just interesting seeing better versions of Australian shops haha. The next stop was heading out East and head into the Color Factory for a Jam night. That area was a lot more stimulating art and culture. Good old poverty creating creativity. There was a lot more graffiti art and more music venues that were kind to another version of Hobart. The band was awesome and it was set as an open Jam. Great energy that reminded me of Jay's Jam nights back in the day.

Interestingly I thought it was one of the best places to see live music. For some reason I assume the venue would be slick and beefed up a bit. The interias is clean and fresh. But more so like HBC it just has a nice atmosphere and something about being in a warehouse makes it feel fun. Bit more unhinged and brought in a great community. That was really nice to see. Also 32000 steps haha. Looking at a desk job to have a day free to explore, the health benefits have been pretty good. Keen to see what the average will be.

Day 3 - Pro Tourist

I wanted to get a bike today while Thalia had to go into work. Was going to try to pick one up cheap and ride around but with limited tooling for quality I was looking at getting the Lime E Bike hire and brought a 200 min pass. Walked into work with Thalia, which was nice to do again. Before heading off on the Ebike journey. First stop was the British Museum. The history and content in this was pretty significant and there is a cool feeling of knowing that there is 1000s of years of materials that document the evolution of ideas and humans mastering the materials of the world. The building itself is pretty spectacular. Highlights would be the Egyptians and Greeks. Just good ascetics in their art and craft and the idea of gods and immortality themes playing out. Seemed to be the most popular with everyone. The fine China was actually really nice as well. Not the stereotypical white with blue art. These ones were really nice color sets from the Qin Dynasty that would look fresh. Something really satisfying about the colors and gradients used. The other notable interest is just the center courtyard of the museum and how intense it feels seeing it. Then the library and history of the people who collected the material in the museum over the 1000's of years. One other installation which is new was the documentation of every pill taken by a male and female throughout their lives. This was then captured by having an identical pill stitch into some transparent mesh so you could see the pills all laid out. The females were more interested due to birth control than hormonal therapy later in life and you can see the cyclic nature of the pills and also see how it changes over time and ramps up. Looks quite excessive at the end of life. There were 20000+ pills there.

Headed over toward Paul's cathedral to see that. Wow, that was an epic building. So great to have buildings like this around as there is something very satisfying about mega projects like this and the art and design that goes into it. Just looks bigger then it should and the size of the building and the time it was built. Makes it more incredible. Next stop was Tate Modern. I wasn't too keen on this one. One of the big exhibitions had just finished up. But as for most of the other stuff I didn't connect to it too much. I want art to make me think about concepts in a vulnerable or unique way. Or trick my mind in a way that I can't explain or take a while too. There were a couple of pieces that were visually nice to see but nothing amazing for me. After that it was off to Big Ben. Boy he looks good. Nice gold trim and beautiful detailing. Really enjoy the gold detailing. After that it was off to Buckingham Palace (really like the water fountain detailing out front. White marble with golden looking bronze detailing really is pleasing on my eyes.

After the tourist run I began the mission back home. New shop came up that I wanted to check out. Amazon Fresh. This was pretty exciting, the tech in it was so cool and the efficiency of shopping improved vastly again. Plus I've been watching Clarksons Farms and they supplied produce from the Diddly Squat Farm. But all you do is grab the items. Tap at the end then walk out. The shelves have scales then there are cameras tracking your hand movements so it maps everything you have taken. So no Scanning, just tap and walk out. Really satisfying. Went back to Thalia's work and had a beer in the sun while waiting for her to finish.

After all that and 42000 steps it was couch time.

[clementiens]

i'm trying to show myself some grace after i got a new ebike in september that i'll be paying off until march, bc the previous one wasn't really meeting my needs for a few reasons, and i really thought i'd be able to continue biking for appointments and into the city with the trailer to pick up free groceries and other things. one time i biked everything with the trailer to table at a farmers market instead of having to ask for rides and help. at my budget i ended up having to choose between a step-through frame OR a stronger motor and battery, so i went with the motor and battery and figured i'd just deal. and then shortly after found out i need hip surgery, and finally applied for paratransit, and had to accept that i'm just not going to be doing those things. but i have this fuckn bike. i'm trying to sell it (not easy in november) to save the money for a step-through with a weaker motor once my hip has recovered. because i don't need it for that kind of distance, i just need it for my outdoors time, and i need one that i won't be hurting myself on to lift my leg over the frame.

i'm just annoyed with myself because i probably would have realized all of this if i'd just done paratransit earlier. it's just another instance of feeling like as soon as i've come to terms with one set of limitations, things with my body get worse and i have to start adjusting all over again. i really liked the independence of being able to just get on my bike and go and not worry about schedules and arrival windows or if someone's going to be late. i also just LOVE biking. when i was functionally able-bodied it was my main transportation. i live near the ocean now and i was so in love with biking over the bridges over the water it's so beautiful and the air and the speed felt so good. but my body can't handle biking to the ocean anymore no matter what ebike i'm on. i can handle going a mile or two to get to the woods. just sucks right now. grateful to have paratransit now but i really really really miss being able to just get on my bike and go

[the-firebird69]

They say they make a four-cylinder with 220 HP plus but at top speed or high speed a little overheat and you can't put performance on it so they recommend the six cylinder and they say it has 240 horsepower and pump it up to like 260 or more probably 270 horsepower and at top speed we have extra cooling and it can handle it and it's the new steel and the chassis light and very sturdy and it's German built and it's got meaning and it's back to the Bradley and we're going to need this now yeah it's kind of a hobby and stuff but this is very serious and I need serious people and players and on our team it's not going to work with people who just don't have their backbone

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We don't really have it I don't think we could get this done for what an idea in the Jetta is just a dog it's supposed to be like a beamer and it really is not it just doesn't do it it's like a family car you drive to work and really is the images is not that great but they buy it and think it's like a beamer and it's not. The interior in the body on the thing weighed tons it's way too heavy you pull it off and you put on the grullion was it sx8 and it is very fast with 270 horsepower it would be illegal four-wheel drive makes it versatile oil shocks and special tires makes it a new breed of car and I want in

Trump

We think we can do it and a friend here says he's interested and a and we can fill the new one in her friend is interested and he's interested in his son's ideas too the switch from the Volkswagen to a Dodge and we were with the Impala which is a Chevy they still make the Impala but it's not that small and we know it's Dodge and it's everywhere and it would sell trillions of these things we're not ready for that but we do see it this is an awesome idea yeah we're not evacuating that many yet it will be if we start fighting the pseudo Empire it's a good project to try and get off the ground so I'm going to look at the wheelbase it looks probably close but it's a special size

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I think I got that the jet is like 103 and hours like 102 just minor changes this would be awesome it's a great idea top speed will be ridiculous 0 to 60 ridiculous I like it and it's the Bradley GT1 and we can make the Bradley GT2 and it would look really cool like this this is intense and our friend likes it the way it is it's not normal for him

If Eddie says we should make an option to make a mid-engine and this is going to be a ton of room in the back and yeah you can put anything in there I mean this big it's gigantic and really you don't need it but he said you can put a spare tank as an option and yeah I mean you can go for a long time or hybrid and that's also true but the storage is it's pretty big it's probably as big as a midsize Chevy four-door or they call them mid size it's gigantic I mean you can put two of his new ebikes in there that's his goal and when you look at the people in there I'm I'm pretty big and my son is teeny I was like six foot two almost and I was about 2:15 and he's shorter and it's easier for him to get it out and that door makes it very easy there'd be so many people of ours buying this right now cuz you can't get it out of any of these stupid things and he says with the oil shocks we can put our wise ass s*** in where you can raise it up from the outside and or raise it up when you park and have settings or it can make it manual I sort of like that this is an intense idea if you're going through a parking lot with speed bumps and they're everywhere at hotels and parking lots if you put it up and you leave it up you get your stuff done and you put it down I'm going to go ahead and draw this up the oil shocks are a must he says there's an option and if it takes off other people are driving it not us that's a good idea

Trump

I want to go ahead and recommend our son and his his son for design awards and their wives this is intense they help do it and they remember doing it but they're not making a big deal out of it cuz he says we can't get anything at all done he says he can't even draw it so we're going to go ahead with it and it's intense okay this idea is intense and here's an idea if you get the kid you're going to have a donut car which you see above is the Jetta and yeah it's supposed to be they had one too and it was there's a version of the rabbit and he says Jetta and no but it was like it and just smiling cuz we think it's the Jetta okay it is a version of the rabbit it's the Jetta and he helped with it it just did not do what the beamer does it's not like the same stuff and it won't do it so people don't like it cuz it's like a dog and they buy it still and it's supposed to be this fast car in the name is what says it so we are going to try and support this and we know what time it is it's horrible but maybe they want to leave a legacy for their friends if that if the worst happens or driving around and say it's not us when they're inside each other's bodies

Thor Freya

Boy that sounds awful but really this car is very nice and we like it he likes the door and he remembers why he's a kid and he can get in and out but it's really a ride and you go in and out quick but that's what he was thinking it's pretty smart for a little kid and the height of these hydraulic shocks and the tires and it's really great I mean they're really a nuisance these damn supercars you put it up and it goes down and that's it and nobody really cares but you get around I'm going to put it together it says put me down for one lime green and Hera when lime green and geez I guess you can't tell where she is so that make it easier

Trump

We're going to put you down for one in her and the kid would be a lot less because you're not making a full chassis and bought them to it and it would just be a roll cage and some framing in the framing is minor and reinforcement and a whole bunch of ancillary parts so he wants to show us the interior cuz of course he says you think we should salvage the interior and just put a dash top because it's such a huge huge massive job it's already a pain doing the doors getting stuff hooked up it really is a nuisance it's not as hard as it used to be but boy so yeah he's right and we're going to show you what we mean

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I want one too this is my size car I'm small now usually and he's going to be big but he'll fit in it and they put a limiter it'll be economical and they got them bikes and stuff I mean this is economy and he can put stuff in it even as eBay and he's going to have money and we want to look that way threats and stuff and he says he's got to drive and this is a perfect car for it the bozo up on 190 and how to hang out the window after drinking it's going to grab by the belt and Michael thinks that it's something else but hey that's what he wants to do

Biden

So again this image of me hanging out the window of this small supercar screaming and yelling at people it'll probably going pretty good 150 there's got his hand on my belt he's a strong guy okay I wouldn't be going out but and people be laughing is to bother us about it it's with his wife and I'm in the room is tickling me this is going to be terrible I think we got to get one though cuz it looks like fun he says if you're going to have me do that you have to have a tether of some kind

Michael goodhue

Nooooo it's not funny cuz you wouldn't want to get hurt but he doesn't smell his finger and wash his hand you probably have handy wipes because people touching things and being on the seat lol he's like that though

Hera

Haha ohh boy

Mg

This is not fun no this is great I want one and therefore my people and I'm a granddaughter of Ellie so stop at you weirdo and yeah we could use a lot of these animals awesome cuz yeah they're kind of dogs and Volkswagens are dogs

Megan

Yeah I worked with him at storm and I want one of these that stupid car my BMW is a dog and really we could do it with BMW too later on he says but no BG likes to do it right up front I don't know if I can shake him from it and it might not be shaken and I know what model it is and it would fit perfect better than Volkswagen no but about the same thing no the BMW is faster for who the hell knows why and he was like pitting it and driving it and I was saying cut it out and he says where's the beef and I started laughing cuz he's driven before and he drove like a maniac in that Honda and he was fast

Sacoro miramontes and it's a reference to the desert and the salt flats where they were doing the nuclear testing and the mountains there and now it makes sense they're talking about me and my brother and how he sort of knew about it

That was him after my name but yeah holy s*** and he knows it's spelled he's going to change it okay well it's close

Here's what I say he's got a memory but holy s*** this car is popular people like it and he says it's small and it doesn't look like a race car it looks like a supercar and it's also kind of oblique but it's not you can make it look snazzier or you can tone it down by your mind they think it's true they don't care it looks cool the concept is there with BMW and Volkswagen BMW is a little bit more powerful but the company has real cars and it might be kind of going out the wrong people like Porsche didn't work out too good with them they didn't like it

Trump

He says good there's just a lot more Volkswagens and that kind of stinks but it's supposed to be fast it's faster than others but it just really does not have it I just cut down by being BMW

There's some history there between the two because he's the Porsche kid

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I don't have anything to say we have to do this it's their car and they can't believe it he said what that's it right there look at the front and he's sort of pointing it out somehow she's laughing at he's doing that boy that would be nice it's like to really the real thing if you guys don't do it I have to order the old one and they say how you going to do that he says they'll be a death in the family LOL like we used to say boy this blows

Trump

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[sixthhokage1]

Still not Actively Here, probably never will be again because fuck this site, but may as well post some sort of life update while we're here?

We're finally on HRT, been on it for about 8 months now. We're plural, turns out I share my head with a dragon. Still working at Kroger, inertia is a hell of a thing. We have an ebike now instead of just relying on Uber/Lyft for everything. We're the voice of Dave Strider in podfeels, an audio drama adaptation of Sarah Zedig's very good Homestuck Epilogues fic series godfeels, or: "i dreamed of feeling better". Uhh, what else? We're very gay for our partners.

Our social media of choice these days is the fediverse, you can find our Mastodon account @sixthhokage95@jubi.life.

Okay we need more sleep so we'll leave y'all with a selfie we took yesterday

[inahc3]

Thanks for the tag 💚

Will tumblr let me c&p this? No? Well, let's see if I can do it anyway... Without overheating my brain, though.

Last song: ah darn, I forgot music exists again, so probably something from trans-siberian orchestra. Unless you count earworms, because free falling popped into my head this evening and won't leave 🤦

Favourite colour: Green.

Last book: Wind and Truth. (I was a lot happier with the ending than I expected to be, considering the foreshadowing in the previous book and the spoilers in one of the secret projects.)

Last movie: also Deadpool and wolverine 🤣 it was... Disappointing, compared to the other two deadpools.

Last tv show: Dragon prince, or mystery of aaravos or whatever. The writing has gone way, way downhill and I'm kinda glad this is the final season 💔

Sweet/spicy/savoury: yes. 😋 If I wasn't in spoon debt I'd be making chipotle chocolate. (Oh! I should just try adding chipotle powder to hot chocolate!)

Last thing I searched online: fuck knows. Oh wait, actually I still have the browser tab open with the free falling lyrics, because I never remember song titles.

Current obsession: I wish I could afford one, but I'm juggling a bunch of household things and torn between wanting to obsess over my new ebike, Good omens, a dozen potential new recipes, Good omens, and many other things that I'm Not Thinking About until life is less eventful.

Looking forward to: that hypothetical time when I either *do* have time to hyperfocus on something, or find a sustainable balance that lets me Do Things without a variety of painful consequences. 🤪 More realistically: looking forward to making a vat of pulled pork this weekend. Mmmm, delicious artery-clogging protein (and something I can freeze for easy meals).

People I'd like to know better: 😅 I have enough trouble remembering humans exist when I'm not in pain, and I definitely haven't spent enough time on tumblr lately to know who's already done this. Let's see how much autocomplete can help me with some no-pressure tags: @alphacentaurinebula @gingiekittycat @fellshish @weirdly-specific-but-ok @gonzoclock @scrapheapchallenge @phoen1xr0se

10 People I'd Like to Know Better

Thanks for the tag, @bellisima-writes

last song: "Unstoppable" by The Score

favourite colour: Purple. I don't know why, though.

last book: It's been over a year since I read something that wasn't Good Omens fanfiction, but I think it was A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske.

last movie: Deadpool and Wolverine

last TV show: Silo. Since I only watch one or maybe two shows at any particular time, it's pretty easy to remember which one I'm on.

sweet/spicy/savoury: Sweet then savory. I enjoy spicy but it doesn't satisfy that snack craving like the other two.

last thing i searched online: Honestly have no idea.

current obsession: Good Omens.

looking forward to: I'm pretty satisfied with my life right now, so there's nothing that comes to mind.

ten (6) people i’d like to know better: (no pressure; only if you want, of course)

@e-rated-beardo, @ochre-sunflower, @inahc3, @geardrops, @masnadies, @ao3cassandraic