I'm about to move into an artist co-op, and think I'll likely be jettisoning this account when I do. Poor 'Possum was never supposed to be me. I was imagining an almost modern urban almanac character, a creature of the city writing about the ebbs and flows of life, but, uh.... that obviously didn't happen.

One of the things I am most excited about is I'll be taking on the hat of "Fleet Mechanic" in this community, and I have so many ideas I am excited to apply to bicycle maintenance and upkeep from this perspective. So much of the industry revolves around the sports aspect of bikes, and then the "practical" side of it has gone all in on massive, expensive e-cargo bikes that may as well be small cars with the amount of harmful, disposable, un-serviceable bullshit that goes into them.

Over the next couple of months, I'll be assessing my new community's existing bikes, building up my shop, and starting to build service plans that I hope will make life easier for the commuters and adventurers in my crew. I'll be experimenting with chain waxing rotations (probably the thing I am most excited for!!), mileage and service tracking, maintenance instruction, and group rides that get these city animals out into some green on a regular basis. I'm also excited to start crafting an aesthetic, and doing things like developing a community livery for our stable.

Once I have a handle on that...
I hope to open the shop up to the larger community. This feels like a real path to me, to independence, to community support, and to revitalizing the bike culture that I remember from my youth, one that placed an emphasis on sustainability, self sufficiency, and the bike as a tool of emancipation from... shit, everything.

It's important to me to have an avenue set up to log and write about this as I go. I want this to be something more folks living in community are able to replicate, if I can pull it off. I'd like to finally get a website going, and I think videos would be nice, but I'm also not keen to get into "content creation"... at least not on my own. If anyone knows of any bike-obsessed videographers, who are passionate about the lifestyle and environmental aspects of the machine, I'd appreciate the connection.

In the meantime I'll try to come up with a name for this project, and I'll be sure to let folks know where to follow before letting Poor 'Possum go. They deserved better than me.

#BikeToot #BostonBikes

Trying this again, this time with hashtags

Still haven’t figured out a good way to connect with other creatives and people interested in electronic music of all sorts. I’ve almost completely severed myself from commercial social media; I’ve deleted InstaGram becauce Mark Fuckerberg is a fascist. So without meta, Bluesky is the last bastion of commercial bullshit. Go fediverse! #music #electronica #electronicmusic #edm #ambient

Big win for our oceans! 18 countries just ratified the High Seas Treaty at the U.N. Ocean Conference, bringing the total to 49. Only 11 more needed to protect marine life in international waters. Let’s keep the momentum going! 🌊

@goodnews

#HighSeasTreaty #OceanConservation #GoodNews #UNOceanConference #Biodiversity
https://apnews.com/article/high-seas-treaty-oceans-un-ocean-conference-53ad46ae3cf8737ec82d925761a3d089