Still rent free: the time I did an assignment on my local bike repair/recycle non-organisation and the sustainability tutor gave only negative feedback about how my proposal wouldn't work in real life.
It was an observational report on something that was and is working in real life.
Me: this is how bikes get repaired and recycled in this one small town.
- The junkyard guy leaves nice ones out by his gate for a day or two before dismantling them for scrap.
- there are several people in the town who know they can come past regularly and take anything by the gate
- there's a guy who takes any bikes he thinks we can salvage, they are almost always kids' bikes, there are just more of those
- a rotating group of friends and people who want to learn about bikes work on them
- when they're finished we distribute them by word of mouth: is there anyone around 6-8yo who wants a purple bike?
- the bikes seem to come with lifetime servicing. No one mentions this until the bike needs servicing, then they just say 'we better get onto servicing your bike, hey?' and it happens
- you can do a trade-in/upgrade. Kids swap their bikes for bigger bikes, people service the little bike and give it to another kid
-there is no name, no official location, no contact details for this, it's an ephemeral property that emerges from the community every day that the community has capacity to do it. It is fascinating and I am glad to have witnessed it.
Sustainability tutor: so first off this could never happen without NGO administration, start there
First you grow the beans, then people eat the beans.
University: no no no no, first you count the beans.
@warkolm @Dangerous_beans @coolandnormal : I would like to ask if these beans are from an approved supplier? Because it seems we're getting ahead of ourselves discussing the bean proposal if they haven't completed vendor onboarding.
In particular, we now have strict sustainability requirements for suppliers, and very few bean vendors have put in the effort to get certification.
@coolandnormal @Dangerous_beans @warkolm
YES. I keep running into that, too, just hadn't been consciously aware until you said it explicity.
Very frustrating!
A Bug Squashing Party is organized in Montréal, Canada, by Debian Québec on 28-29 March, to facilitate the release of the next stable version of Debian (Debian 13 - Trixie), fixing as many Release Critical bugs as possible https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2025/03/ca/Montreal #debian #trixie
@coolandnormal @warkolm I'm going to organise a bug finding party, in the bushes down near the river
not a euphemism, we're looking under rocks for cool insects. might find some snakes too!
@Dangerous_beans @warkolm @coolandnormal
higher education: we’ve submitted our research on beans using extensive community consultation, it’ll be published in two years, and behind a paywall.
@Dangerous_beans @kate @warkolm
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Beans! miracle wellness secret or harbour of terrifying toxins? Find out after the break.
[after the break] No. The answer was no, beans are not those things, thanks for sticking around.
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