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_cryptagion [he/him]

@cryptagion@unwilling.observer

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likes #anarchism, #copyleft, #piracy, drinking #tea, #photography, #GenAI, and watching nazis/zionists get punched. the only good authoritarian is a dead authoritarian. all cops are fascists. liberals are nazi collaborators. the united states is a terrorist state. israel does not have any right to exist.

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_cryptagion [he/him]6h ago

ProgressivePower 10h ago

👍

_cryptagion [he/him]10h ago

Nonilex 10h ago

WTAF?!?

#Trump #DOJ seeks ONE-DAY sentence for officer in raid that killed #BreonnaTaylor
 In November, a federal jury found officer Brett Hankison #guilty of violating Taylor’s #CivilRights during a March 2020 #police raid in which she was fatally shot. 
#law #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #WhiteSupremacy #racism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/17/doj-sentencing-police-officer-breonna-taylor/

DOJ seeks one-day sentence for officer in raid that killed Breonna Taylor

In November, a federal jury found officer Brett Hankison guilty of violating Taylor’s civil rights during a March 2020 police raid in which she was fatally shot.

The Washington Post

_cryptagion [he/him]1d ago

myrmepropagandist 1d ago

@VirginiaHolloway @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Someone needs to wear the boots. And someone needs to make dinner for the people who wear the boots.

We should keep exposing the people who work for ICE, the contractors who supplied the metal bunk beds, the company that delivers the food. Everyone who participates in making the concentration camps.

_cryptagion [he/him]4d ago

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽4d ago

Let’s put this to bed.

_cryptagion [he/him]4d ago

That whole thing with Trump and the Liberian president was awkward as fuck. You know he has no idea where Liberia is on a map, let alone anything about the country.

_cryptagion [he/him]4d ago

@sand I mean, that’s even worse when you consider that there was already tools out there to outsmart captchas before AI.

_cryptagion [he/him]4d ago

Jan Wildeboer 😷

Let's be clear. This is a car. Four wheels. It weighs 225 kg empty and you can add up to 200 kg of cargo. That's not an electric bike, as the manufacturer claims it is. This is a small car that occupies and blocks the bike lane. This concept shouldn't exist. Us cyclists already have to deal with bad infrastructure. I see this as a provocation, not as the positive change it pretends to be. Such vehicles belong on the road, not the bike lane.

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_cryptagion [he/him]4d ago

@jwildeboer that’s some straight up bullshit. We can’t have anything nice without corporations trying to take it over.

_cryptagion [he/him]4d ago

ProgressivePower 4d ago

#MAGA oppose America, the Constitution, and American democracy.

_cryptagion [he/him]4d ago

Augie Ray 4d ago

Joe Walsh is a former Tea Party Republican who has joined the Democratic party.

Real conservatives prioritize their commitment to democracy and the Constitution above party. The conservatives who voted for Trump are just some combination of selfish, racist, and hateful.

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Jan Wildeboer 😷

@jeremiah_ The manufacturer is from the UK and they sell these “bikes” all over the world. See their FAQ.

Jeremiah C. Foster 🇸🇪🇺🇸🍥4d ago

@jwildeboer Would they be permitted to drive that in The Netherlands on a bike path?

Jan Wildeboer 😷

@jeremiah_ As I live in Germany since many years, I don’t know. Maybe @notjustbikes can help? (I do note however that bike lanes in the Netherlands are far wider than those in Germany, so it might be less problematic there)

@jwildeboer @jeremiah_ @notjustbikes Maybe, but this needs to die before it spreads more. Decades battling to get bike infrastructure built and now the commercial goons want that too? Burn it down!

Quixoticgeek 4d ago

@jeremiah_ @jwildeboer yes. as long as it's not tampered with.

The difference is modern bike lane standards in the Netherlands are over 1.5m wide, and increasingly we have fietstraats which are several meters wide.

The issue isn't the pedal assist delivery vehicle. The issue is poor cycle infrastructure.

EndlessMason 4d ago

@quixoticgeek @jeremiah_ @jwildeboer It feels like this thing would be fine, as long as they don't park on the bike lane...

If I were a quadbike™ courier, I'd definitely want to stop my quadbike™ closer to the door i'm delivering to, rather than stopping on the bike lane itself

Quixoticgeek 4d ago

@EndlessMason @jeremiah_ @jwildeboer that too. Stopping in the bike lane is always a bad idea.

EndlessMason 4d ago

@quixoticgeek ... unless you want to read a big fuckoff tourist map of the city, or to eat from a cone of fries roughly the size of your head, in which case the bike lane is the perfect place to stop /s

@jeremiah_ @jwildeboer

Quixoticgeek 4d ago

@EndlessMason @jeremiah_ @jwildeboer oh. I thought those were just there to get bonus points with. What is it, 50 points for a tourist ?

EndlessMason 4d ago

@quixoticgeek @jeremiah_ @jwildeboer I think it's 46 points after the last round of CPI adjustments

Jeremiah C. Foster 🇸🇪🇺🇸🍥4d ago

@EndlessMason @quixoticgeek @jwildeboer Americans are at least 80 points each.

EndlessMason 4d ago

@jeremiah_ They are an easier target, and hence worth fewer points

Edit: It might be a localisation thing though

@quixoticgeek @jwildeboer

20 metric points, 80 freedom points

@jeremiah_ @quixoticgeek @jwildeboer

arjankroonen 4d ago

@EndlessMason @quixoticgeek @jeremiah_ @jwildeboer Don’t agree. Dutch bike lane safety in under pressure already with fatbike and ebikes. We don’t need big heavy vehicles added to the mix. The difference in mass will cause more deadly accident.

Quixoticgeek 4d ago

@arjankroonen @EndlessMason @jeremiah_ @jwildeboer make the bike lanes wider.

EndlessMason 4d ago

@arjankroonen
Depending on the speed limit of the street it might make sense to move heavier e-things back there based on weight...

The problem is not simple weight though its energy, so a big dude on a bakfiets can be a problem with the right gear ratios and enough of a run up.

@quixoticgeek @jeremiah_ @jwildeboer

Quixoticgeek 4d ago

@EndlessMason @arjankroonen @jeremiah_ @jwildeboer just take the cars away and make the whole road a fietstraat...

EndlessMason 4d ago

@quixoticgeek You're answering "we should separate different types of non-car vehicles" with "just make more bike lane" and that misses the issue.

Folks worried about getting their shit rocked by a fatbike or an electric bakfiets full of amazon shit don't get their problem solved by that vehicle still being allowed in their lane, even if that lane is wider

@arjankroonen @jeremiah_ @jwildeboer

Quixoticgeek 4d ago

@EndlessMason @arjankroonen @jeremiah_ @jwildeboer well unless people stop buying stuff online. We're gonna need delivery vehicles. Would you rather a small electric bike thingy, or a long wheel base transit?

I've worked as a bike courier, using bakfiets with a trailer. I've also worked as a delivery driver in a large van. I've seen both sides.

I've also seen how various types of cyclist can mix on a fietstraat.

EndlessMason 4d ago

@quixoticgeek I'm not saying that the concern is actually real, just that you're not specifically addressing it...

Personally the worst I've seen is a fatbike blast past close enough for me to say "jesus", but I've had that with an omafiets when I'm on foot too...

The only time I got into trouble, even during my first time on a bakfiets was because I got overloaded / panicked and didn't do the obviously correct thing (hesitated when i had right of way, forgot to have lights, or not just hitting the bell when somebody was in the path) - basically just a skill issue

The solution is just calming the fuck down and maintaining situational awareness and not being an asshole yourself.

EndlessMason 4d ago

@quixoticgeek I do often wonder if tram lines could be used at night to do some of the logistics that trucks / vans do now by moving a scaled up AH crates into town full of rum/cola/heineken and dropping it off at whatever store, then dragging them back out of town again the next night full of recycling/trash etc

feels like a techbro gadgetbahn idea once I get into small scale shipping containers though

Quixoticgeek 4d ago

@EndlessMason there's a German city with cargo trams...

EndlessMason 4d ago

@quixoticgeek
> The CarGoTram was a freight tram in Dresden, Germany that operated between 2001 and 2020. It supplied Volkswagen's "Transparent Factory" with parts for car assembly

Not loving the "was" :(

Jeremiah C. Foster 🇸🇪🇺🇸🍥4d ago

@quixoticgeek @jwildeboer In my limited experience I always thought The Netherlands had the best bike infrastructure.

Quixoticgeek 4d ago

@jeremiah_ @jwildeboer i prefer to think of it as least worst. It's far from perfect, but it is better than almost anywhere else...

Jan Wildeboer 😷

@jeremiah_ @quixoticgeek The infrastructure is really good. For bicycles. With two wheels and a small footprint. But is isn't fully prepared for big cargo bikes and these newfangled delivery vehicles. Those are like SUVs, occupying far more space.

Quixoticgeek 4d ago

@jwildeboer @jeremiah_ then make the cycle path bigger. I've ridden tens of thousands of km in the Netherlands. I've visited every Gemente by bike. I've experienced pretty much every type of bike infrastructure the Netherlands has to offer. And I can safely say. Making the fietspadden wider, will improve life for everyone.