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FEDI or BUST, BABY 
the mysterious fedi baby strikes again 😅 @mbt3d @vaughan3d
Linh Pham@dannotdaniel Archived version: https://archive.ph/YSCR9
Original URL: https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/
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Rachel Rawlings@dannotdaniel Friends coming together to fix bicycles and have a cuppa sounds like a/perfect/ thing to build a town square around. It's just not a place to build a shopping mall full of Hudson News kiosks blasting Fox News.
The Stage Rabbit (he/him)@LinuxAndYarn I want someone to show me how to fix a bicycle RIGHT NOW. @dannotdaniel
Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲
cliffordheath@stagerabbit @LinuxAndYarn @dannotdaniel just last week I paid a teenager to show me how to bleed hydraulic bike brakes. I've done it on cars, but it was a nice thing to acknowledge a kid's skills
Oggie@stagerabbit @LinuxAndYarn @dannotdaniel
Swear to god, this is so much easier than you think, and learning it was like lightbulb going off for me specifically.
Figuring out how the chains go there, that gearshifts/brakes are just cords with clamps and pliers and wrenches...
It was kinda awesome! And a hammer fixes most of the issues!
Warning: Don't do this on like, super expensive racing bikes. But it will work for most others!
brent_bartlett@stagerabbit @LinuxAndYarn @dannotdaniel Having to fix your bike sucks ass, but having a cool biking community would probably make it suck a lot less
@brent_bartlett @LinuxAndYarn @dannotdaniel My bike is basically fine, I was mostly posting because of how awesome it would be to live in a place where teenagers know how to fix bikes. I live in Japan and do not have a community of bike teenagers nearby. Most people ride horrible commuter bikes called "mama chari" until they literally fall apart.
Karen Strickholm@LinuxAndYarn @dannotdaniel Amen to that!
Arne Martin@LinuxAndYarn @dannotdaniel become unmonetizable
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦🗣FEDI AS FUCK, BABY!
Wayne Werner@blogdiva @dannotdaniel town squares are not a source of billions of dollars and thats a very good thing, actually.
We should treat billionaires as the mental disorder it is
Justin Derrick@dannotdaniel I suddenly feel the urge to make tea and fix a bicycle.
Note: I don’t drink tea, and don’t currently have a bicycle.
❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️
Fluffy Kitty Cat
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KathmanduThe fiber arts circle is sitting in the shade, with juice and empanaditas.
David W. Jones
Flic@JustinDerrick @dannotdaniel I'm British so the first point is a given. I also have a bike that I ride daily, basically in place of a car, but don't know how to fix... Hmmm.
Ölbaum@JustinDerrick @dannotdaniel Well, one is easier to get into than the other.
Do you own a French wrench?
Áine@dannotdaniel hilarious watching the rest of the tech world be baffled and discombobulated about tech not being built on capitalism finding even moderate success
The Turtle@dannotdaniel Wired is kinda stupid sometimes.
I have never cracked a cellphone screen except the time I drove over a Nokia 5110 and cracked it, but the phone still worked.
And I fix laptops and watches. My bike is just fine.
Possumantha@the_turtle @dannotdaniel lucky. When I did the same, my car cracked.
Jigme Datse@dannotdaniel I didn't know you needed a billionaire to build a "town square"... Just bikes and tea...
skribe 🇺🇦 
@JigmeDatse @dannotdaniel is 'just bikes and tea' the Fedi equivalent of 'next year in Jerusalem'? 🤣
@skribe @dannotdaniel I'm not familiar with "next year in Jerusalem." I'm not sure I see the parallel. I guess I sort of do see it. Maybe?
@JigmeDatse @skribe my same reaction too
@dannotdaniel @skribe I did a wee bit of searching to see what the reference is, and I could sort of see the parallel in the post I saw which talked about "what if you are in Jerusalem, does that mean you say..." where it talks about how Jerusalem is more a state of mind, than a place. And in that respect, I would say I sort of see a parallel.
2xfo@dannotdaniel
"That's not enough to build a town square on"
What the ref do they think a town square does‽
"That's not enough to build a town square on"
What the ref do they think a town square does‽
@RnDanger @dannotdaniel I think square means the opposite of cool.
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I mean "This is a tough question for the billionaires," is a hard sentence to take seriously.
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Internet Rando@dannotdaniel Weird, I'd hang out in that town square any day.
piku 
minor!
@piku thanks! someone else forwarded and I will boost both!
Dr Suzanne she/her@dannotdaniel I can get high off the idea that I am not giving money to a billionaire. I wish it were that easy with other parts of life.
April MOULEs’ 
Become Unsellable
@MOULE oh hell yeah MOULE 💪
Pilum::🌞@MOULE @dannotdaniel This is exactly what you build a town square on. It's not, however, what you build a *shopping mall* on. Seems like some people conflate the two.
gravitos 
@MOULE UNMARKETABLE, even. Unable To Be Marketed To.
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Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesIf you listen to Curtis Yarvin...
... Biodiesel.
Though he variously claims that he didn't say it or it was a joke.
@n_dimension I have less than zero interest in what that individual has to say
Ati@dannotdaniel That reminds me you cannot really use GDP as a metric to compare say USA and EU developement. If hospital emergency visit is $50 thousand in USA and ... free/paid EU 100 by public healthcare authority in EU. Or when you compare biker fixing his bike eternally vs SUV / pickup driver getting new car every 2 year... They both get transportation and medical assistance but only on one case GDP counters go brrraaaaap!!! XD And I'm not convinced it's in that better case 😉
Stephen Collins@dannotdaniel @stufromoz the town square is where you go to show off your puissant bicycle repair skills, sourdough making, quilting, hexes and potions, etc. When we go there, we buy from each other, drink said tea, and the billionaires can go fuck themselves.
Variaxocellus mastodonte@dannotdaniel Become ungovernable? How about become unmonetizable?
@Variaxocellus that's a noble goal and a tall order
but certainly worth a thought