Canberra by Bike / Paris Lord 巴黎

It’s concrete and shudders every time a car leaves the basement! They make more noise than the quake.

Glad you are alright. My exhaust fan made a weird noise, but otherwise no physical movement.

Two party box speakers strapped to the back of my Tern cargo bike.

So is my Tern! Got a speaker for the front of the bike, and some recycled car tyre matting for all my bike baskets/trays. $34/m2 at Bunnings.

If my children making up a song about our cargo bike doesn't sell you on one...I dunno what else would. @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social #yycbike

Bloody hot day for riding up hills, but new drink bottle (insulated steel) passed the test

Onya!

The Royal Commission found that “Robodebt was a crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal” and “a costly failure of public administration, in both human and economic terms.” The Royal Commission made 56 recommendations, all of which were accepted or accepted in principle by the Government.

The government is still persisting with the claim that there were only 56 recommendations out of the robodebt royal commission, when there were 57 and they just didn't like that last one.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“…if you want a livable city you put the pedestrians and the bicyclists in the central areas. You put them in the best squares and the best roads. That shows the priority and the future view of traffic in the city.” 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

​“A person was shot by a gun.”

We’d never accept that headline. Why do we let drivers disappear when someone is "hit by a vehicle"?

Witness the transformation of Rue de Trévise from car storage to shared community space.

#paris #RuedeTrévise #pedestrian

Here's a chance to get involved in some important #citizenscience.

If you spot any tagged Bogong moths over the next few weeks or months, report them to the Bogong Watch website (www.bogong.org) or record them on iNaturalist.

#mothsmatter #ausinverts #wildoz #inaturalist #communityscience

The news that Man Yiu Street pedestrian bridge is being demolished made me a little melancholy. The Central General Post Office is next. Both of these were big part of my life in Hong Kong. Places I walked through almost every day. Sometimes I wonder about the demolished memories we carry with us.

I read about the US-Israeli bombing of oil depots causing horrific polluted rain across Iran. Iranians have reportedly been experiencing breathing difficulties and headaches.
If you work in environmental or social justice, we must stand against war and for peace. No war! #nowar

Single mothers are facing thousands of dollars in debts being raised against them by the commonwealth as their ex-partners manipulate the child support ­system in a loophole feared ripe for abuse www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

(3/3) From this first overview of the situation for over 20 years, it’s clear that it’s time for DCMS to review its failed historic Guidance, and introduce regulation for the retention of human tissue in legacy colonial collections.
Full story >> www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Now think about an EV instead. The sun produces energy by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium. It travels 93 million miles in about eight minutes and 20 seconds (seven seconds more when our orbit takes us furthest away). Those photons then strike the silicon atoms in a photovoltaic panel, knocking loose electrons that produce a stream of direct current electricity; an inverter, now usually contained in the panel, converts that to AC power, which can be pumped directly into the battery of an EV where the motor uses electromagnetism to create a rotating magnetic field in a stator, which spins the inner rotor to propel the car. There are about 20 moving parts in the engine, and it is 80 to 90 percent efficient. There is no exhaust and almost no noise. That’s it. And if you poured those electrons into an e-bike instead of an EV, it’s even better: a penny’s worth of power is good for three miles or so. The same principles apply to electric buses, electric ferries, and so on.

"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz"

Top @billmckibben.bsky.social post here

billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...

Just two dudes getting groceries in their appropriately sized trucks.

Whatever helps you sleep at night mate. You could take a stance, email them and tell them to stop supporting CSAM, and close your account. If CSAM doesn’t make you leave that site, what would?

Heading home now

Why are you using the CSAM factory?

Enjoy a night @enlighten_canberra #enlightenfestival #enlightenfestival

white painted bike lane Proposed bike lane cancelled after failing to get approval from every living and deceased resident within 25 km.

"Proposed bike lane cancelled after failing to get approval from every living and deceased resident within 25 km."

President Xi, my people yearn for newly constructed hospitals that aren't riddled with mold, we welcome you as liberators

main gain of Markwayne's reign: one stained fuckplane

Billboard ad for public transit visible from a freeway filled with cars and congestion, that says “You are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”

One of the best of all time.

“You’re not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”

Wish we had come up with that one. #UrbanTruth

anyway, turns out the AU govt can bring back kids from the middle east. who knew

If you commit to a Safe System approach in your Road Safety Strategy then implicit in that are survivable speed limits where motors mix with people on urban/village roads. And that means 20mph except for where higher limits can be evidentially justified as safe. www.20splenty.org/guidance_2026

Can’t decide what to do this long weekend in #Canberra?

Come outside and see your capital differently on our slow, social rides.

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