Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
@sarahhbickerton.bsky.social
Lecturer in public policy & tech, sociologist, tangata tiriti, feminist, geek, coffee-vampire, lesbian, urbanist, electric motorcyclist, ex-Chicagoan, wannabe Carol Danvers/Clarke Griffin/Kate Kane. She/her ❤️🖤🤍
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Today in electric motorcycle news...
Nothing really 'news-y' but I put together a playlist of my electric motorcycle POV videos I've been doing on YouTube. Starting off with where I simply had my iPhone in a chest harness, to now where I have a Dji Action 5 on my helmet.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Nothing really 'news-y' but I put together a playlist of my electric motorcycle POV videos I've been doing on YouTube. Starting off with where I simply had my iPhone in a chest harness, to now where I have a Dji Action 5 on my helmet.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Good thing they didn’t spend the kind of money on it that could have solved real world problems or anything.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Good thing they didn’t spend the kind of money on it that could have solved real world problems or anything.
Whelp ...
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Whelp ...
"flame war" ... we need to bring that term back. Pretending that stuff is worthy of consideration was a horrendous mistake.
December 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
"flame war" ... we need to bring that term back. Pretending that stuff is worthy of consideration was a horrendous mistake.
Reposted by Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
I don't think transgender athletes are the problem facing girls and women in sports.
Investigators say former coach Sean Gardner created videos showing close-up images of at least 10 minors naked or undressing, which they recovered from his computers last year while investigating reports of sexual abuse.
Gardner has pleaded not guilty and has been jailed pending trial.
Gardner has pleaded not guilty and has been jailed pending trial.
Olympics Sports Watchdog Failed to Stop Mississippi Coach's Sexual Abuse, Women Allege
Two gymnasts who say they were sexually abused at an elite academy in Iowa filed lawsuits Monday against the sport’s oversight bodies.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I don't think transgender athletes are the problem facing girls and women in sports.
Reposted by Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
Beautiful morning for a bike ride.
December 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Beautiful morning for a bike ride.
Was out riding yesterday, running some errands, enjoying the early summer’s morning weather on a Saturday on the bike, and it struck me that I once got told that you’d know when you’d outgrown your first motorcycle, you’d just feel it. And yeah, I get it now, I feel it. I completely understand now.
December 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Was out riding yesterday, running some errands, enjoying the early summer’s morning weather on a Saturday on the bike, and it struck me that I once got told that you’d know when you’d outgrown your first motorcycle, you’d just feel it. And yeah, I get it now, I feel it. I completely understand now.
The friend I’m catsitting for: “hey sorry to ask, could you pick a prescription for the cat at the vet?”
Me: “no probs”
*turns up at local vet office*
*ridiculously hot tattooed & pierced vet woman walks out of the back*
Me: 😳😦 *proceeds to blather nervously as I leave with package but no chill*
Me: “no probs”
*turns up at local vet office*
*ridiculously hot tattooed & pierced vet woman walks out of the back*
Me: 😳😦 *proceeds to blather nervously as I leave with package but no chill*
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The friend I’m catsitting for: “hey sorry to ask, could you pick a prescription for the cat at the vet?”
Me: “no probs”
*turns up at local vet office*
*ridiculously hot tattooed & pierced vet woman walks out of the back*
Me: 😳😦 *proceeds to blather nervously as I leave with package but no chill*
Me: “no probs”
*turns up at local vet office*
*ridiculously hot tattooed & pierced vet woman walks out of the back*
Me: 😳😦 *proceeds to blather nervously as I leave with package but no chill*
Stopping off on on a whim a Friday evening, on the way back on the motorcycle at a bar in the neighbourhood where I am cat-sitting, having a stout to celebrate finishing the last of the dissertations allocated to me to examine for the semester.
Rockstar parking for the motorcycle of course ;)
Rockstar parking for the motorcycle of course ;)
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Stopping off on on a whim a Friday evening, on the way back on the motorcycle at a bar in the neighbourhood where I am cat-sitting, having a stout to celebrate finishing the last of the dissertations allocated to me to examine for the semester.
Rockstar parking for the motorcycle of course ;)
Rockstar parking for the motorcycle of course ;)
Yup, this is how I was taught to wash dishes, tho I did it without the plastic tub, just in the sink.
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Yup, this is how I was taught to wash dishes, tho I did it without the plastic tub, just in the sink.
Reposted by Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
University of Auckland opens new Pacific space honouring Fa’anānā Efeso Collins
University of Auckland opens new Pacific space honouring Fa’anānā Efeso Collins
An intimate ceremony filled with singing, tears and laughter marked the opening of a new Pacific student space at the University of Auckland's general library dedicated to Fa'anānā Efeso Collins.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
University of Auckland opens new Pacific space honouring Fa’anānā Efeso Collins
Reposted by Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
“Don’t get an EV” they said, “they have such short range” they said
December 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
“Don’t get an EV” they said, “they have such short range” they said
Reposted by Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
This is an excellent piece of work looking to how unexpected, but also how damn good, the news of Alan Dye leaving Apple is for anyone who cares about user design.
December 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This is an excellent piece of work looking to how unexpected, but also how damn good, the news of Alan Dye leaving Apple is for anyone who cares about user design.
Today in electric motorcycle news ...
Well, not so much 'news' as simple appreciation. I've loved the design of the Zero S for a number of years now, regardless of it being the base street model for Zero. I even test rode one in Melbourne in February and loved it.
www.instagram.com/p/DR2eGNID2vT/
Well, not so much 'news' as simple appreciation. I've loved the design of the Zero S for a number of years now, regardless of it being the base street model for Zero. I even test rode one in Melbourne in February and loved it.
www.instagram.com/p/DR2eGNID2vT/
December 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Today in electric motorcycle news ...
Well, not so much 'news' as simple appreciation. I've loved the design of the Zero S for a number of years now, regardless of it being the base street model for Zero. I even test rode one in Melbourne in February and loved it.
www.instagram.com/p/DR2eGNID2vT/
Well, not so much 'news' as simple appreciation. I've loved the design of the Zero S for a number of years now, regardless of it being the base street model for Zero. I even test rode one in Melbourne in February and loved it.
www.instagram.com/p/DR2eGNID2vT/
Reposted by Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
BREAKING: traffic is getting worse around the country — but not in NYC.
Why? Because the congestion relief program is working.
www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/inrix-t...
Why? Because the congestion relief program is working.
www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/inrix-t...
Traffic congestion grew this year in U.S. cities, but NYC saw no increase
Baltimore and Philadelphia saw the largest increases in traffic delays. Congestion pricing may have helped keep New York City traffic in check.
www.smartcitiesdive.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
BREAKING: traffic is getting worse around the country — but not in NYC.
Why? Because the congestion relief program is working.
www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/inrix-t...
Why? Because the congestion relief program is working.
www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/inrix-t...
Reposted by Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
Pohutukawa stands up to approaching thunderstorm.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Pohutukawa stands up to approaching thunderstorm.
Reposted by Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
When your country's collective ability to bullshit on the internet is extensive enough to shape AI slop.
December 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
When your country's collective ability to bullshit on the internet is extensive enough to shape AI slop.
I will admit, despite *waves at everything* I thought before watching that this had to be satire of late stage capitalism. It just HAD to be.
But apparently no, it's not. I can still be utterly surprised it turns out.
But apparently no, it's not. I can still be utterly surprised it turns out.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I will admit, despite *waves at everything* I thought before watching that this had to be satire of late stage capitalism. It just HAD to be.
But apparently no, it's not. I can still be utterly surprised it turns out.
But apparently no, it's not. I can still be utterly surprised it turns out.
Wait till the NY Times hears about cars.
Unregulated e-bikes are a growing danger on American streets. In one Bay Area town, a terrible accident finally led to reform. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m...
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Wait till the NY Times hears about cars.
You know, Apple Music ain't perfect of course (and I will admit I do miss Spotify playlists) but nothing confirms my decision back when to leave Spotify over Joe Rogan than the recent stuff around ICE and AI.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
You know, Apple Music ain't perfect of course (and I will admit I do miss Spotify playlists) but nothing confirms my decision back when to leave Spotify over Joe Rogan than the recent stuff around ICE and AI.
Reposted by Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
My "listening age" on Spotify is *pay bands fairly and don't platform AI slop*
December 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My "listening age" on Spotify is *pay bands fairly and don't platform AI slop*
Reposted by Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
Maybe this is the time to invest in tulip bulbs. I hear they’ve got no ceiling.
a company that makes up 26% of the consumer marketshare for RAM just dropped out of the consumer market to sell exclusively to AI datacentres
we are so fucked
we are so fucked
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business investors.micron.com/news-release...
December 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Maybe this is the time to invest in tulip bulbs. I hear they’ve got no ceiling.
Reposted by Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
Learn to lose to women without having a gender identity life crisis about it!
Learn to be rejected by a girl without crumbling into a heap of failed masculinity!
Learn to be in an equal partnership with another human being because you like them, not because of the gender role they reaffirm in you!
Learn to be rejected by a girl without crumbling into a heap of failed masculinity!
Learn to be in an equal partnership with another human being because you like them, not because of the gender role they reaffirm in you!
December 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Learn to lose to women without having a gender identity life crisis about it!
Learn to be rejected by a girl without crumbling into a heap of failed masculinity!
Learn to be in an equal partnership with another human being because you like them, not because of the gender role they reaffirm in you!
Learn to be rejected by a girl without crumbling into a heap of failed masculinity!
Learn to be in an equal partnership with another human being because you like them, not because of the gender role they reaffirm in you!