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Space Hobo
@spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy
British dad with a Yank accent and a Dutch bike who just wants both his countries back from the fash.

"Forget the damned motor car
and build cities for lovers […]

[bridged from https://teh.entar.net/@spacehobo on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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This is just glorious. It's @notjustbikes utterly, comprehensively destroying John Forrester's arguments for vehicular cycling.

It included reading through Forrester's books, going to the 1970s studies Forrester cited, and finding he fraudulently claimed the studies said the opposite to what […]
Original post on gts.sadauskas.id.au
gts.sadauskas.id.au
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
RE: https://illo.social/@beach/115593058243865355

#BikeTooter should see this cool piece of art!
illo.social
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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"...we need to make it possible for more and more people to live in this city without owning a car... I mean, as more people continue to move to Seattle in our region, we just have limited space, and it’s just not possible to keep adding cars to the road." @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
Seattle Nice Interviews Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson! - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett We had Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson on Seattle Nice this week for a wide-ranging interview about her…
publicola.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Haha but serious: those fountain pens that cost thousands of dollars are collectible art pieces that aren’t actually optimized for a good writing experience. They’re CEO bait.

Serious hand-writers use fountain pens that mostly cost between $30 and $200. You […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
RE: https://mas.to/@johnpeelbandnames/115589068326697776

I know musicians who use subtext, and they're all *cowards*.
mas.to
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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This. Is. Amazing.
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Dear lazyweb,

It has come to that point in my life where I need to get set up on #Matrix. I'm used to being on small boutique community-run fedi services, and I'm not sure I want to set up an account on the main m.o systems. Are there any good instances that handle moderation well and aren't […]
Original post on teh.entar.net
teh.entar.net
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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And a bit of entrance kerb action!
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Work trip to Bristol today with just enough time for a few snaps of older and new cycleways.

Much better than some of the homeopathically marked stuff in the city!
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Once again I am looking for replacement builders' gloves for cycling, and @duckduckgo is giving me some grim sci-fi zombie emperor fanfic.
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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You circular reference. You denormalized database. You sparse-ass matrix. You fragmented fucking disk. You absolute BUBBLE sort. I can keep going because, you see, I actually have a real computer science degree
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Testing's reach must exceed its grasp, or what's Production for?
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I had the displeasure of reading an article in the Harvard student paper by an economics major who said in apparent seriousness that comp sci majors are wasting time on theory classes like “Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations” when they could be learning REAL skills like prompt […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Today only one site I use was inaccessible. That's it: one little site. And which one was that? Well let me show you:

TimeGuessr #901 47,572/50,000
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https://timeguessr.com
TimeGuessr
TimeGuessr - the game that tests both your geography and history knowledge. Guess where and when historic photos were taken.
timeguessr.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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with apologies to `@lewis.moe` on bsky
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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make the grade five’s learn linux! turn me lose!
November 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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postmarketOS is the work of thousands of people from all walks of life and with all sorts of backgrounds, including our trans users and developers. Previous efforts of transgender computer scientists, including Lynn Conway, the inventor of generalized dynamic instruction handling, Sophie Wilson […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Greetings to all my fellow members of the "glad mine doesn't do that" network.
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Four years since Apple figured we give free support to their users. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/11/18/free-apple-support/
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Down detector is down. Truly the end of times
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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EU ‘strips’ anti-abortion charity of funding after openDemocracy exposé: NGO said it could lose EU cash after we revealed it won reproductive health grant despite abortion disinformation […]

[Original post on newsie.social]
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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if paypal wants to be the universal mandatory middleman (and they do), then they need to be held to a higher standard, by governments, than "we decided you're not allowed to pay for any goods and services because your OS/GPU combo from the browser fingerprint is pretty rare"
November 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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🚛 Glad to hear UK government is considering London DVS safer lorry standard: bit.ly/4oPwrAz

Have they read the latest TfL news that DVS has contributed to a big reduction in lorry related fatalities: bit.ly/3LDuQPF

@simonlightwood.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM