@walk_sydney: "If the fast moving vehicles don’t get you, these brainless talking points will."

> Without Government support, this Bill will be voted down on the next sitting day, sometime in May. At least 30 people will die on NSW roads between now and then. We owe it to them to keep pushing for change.

https://walksydney.org/2026/04/02/all-the-lowlights-from-the-safer-speeds-debate/

#sydney #auspol #tfnsw #nsw #urbanism

Serious offer: i know how to make electric bicycles, electrify analog bicycles and repair broken electric bikes/scooters. If you are in #Brisbane, feeling fuel pinch, and want to get (back/newly) on two wheels, hit me up. Parts to electrify a bicycle cost a few hundred dollars, no need to spend $4000 on a store bike if you don’t want to. I even have some analog bikes we could use for parts. If you have access to ex rental scooters from defunct rental companies, i can also help resurrect these.

Will hold a weekend #ebike #escooter #micromobility workshop if there is interest.

ETA: if not in brissy i can recommend parts to buy

ETFA: if you have a good bike but a dead battery, this can be resurrected for around $100

ETEFA: your replies tell me I'd better pump out a blog post on this subject pronto.

ETYFA: Blog series https://accelerando.com.au/news/

Just in case you missed it: why not have a listen to this first three-episode drop of Lifepod, the podcast about taking care of ourselves in a world on fire, as I beaver away on preparing the next few episodes?

In these first installments, I introduce Lifepod, and explain why I think we need to get beyond hope; talk to Valeria and Tom from Pirate Care about countering the criminalization of care through mutiny and federation; and chat with agrarian thinker Chris Smaje about why he thinks rural livelihood communities will have an edge over those perched in the big city.

If you’re on Mastodon in the first place, I think there’s a very reasonable chance you’ll enjoy the show. PS Awesome Lifepod WE ARE THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR stickers coming soon!

https://lifepod.transistor.fm

In case you missed it, Owls in Towels has a new home on Mastodon https://mas.to/@owlsintowels

We share pictures of owls (in towels) and stories of wildlife rehabilitation.

Followers on the old instance will need to manually re-follow (since the server hosting us shut down before we had a chance to migrate, and we had to start afresh). It would be a tremendous help if you could boost this or tell someone you know about Owls in Towels! Thank you for your continued viewership and engagement 💛🦉

Important tv sci-fi news

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/blakes-7-reboot-peter-hoar-newsupdate/

In case you didn't know, Owls in Towels has a new home on Mastodon

https://mas.to/@owlsintowels

We had to shift servers when the one we were on got deleted without warning a month ago. We lost our 4000 followers and had to start from scratch, so it would be a tremendous help if you could boost this or tell someone you know about Owls in Towels! Thank you everyone for your continued viewership and engagement 💛🦉

We don't have a smartphone problem. We have a software problem. The real threat isn't screen time. It's algorithm time. Discover how we can protect our children—and perhaps democracy itself—from algorithmic manipulation:

#0179: Kids and Smartphones
https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0179-kids-and-smartphones