Mastodawn

This is a great (and horrifying?) piece about how Sam, in preparation for her marriage, was pulled into the bridal algorithm. Her experience of social media changed completely overnight https://www.404media.co/wedding-planning-algorithm-weddingtok/

I Almost Lost My Mind in the Bridal Algorithm

As a #2026Bride, the constant, aggressive content started to make me feel like I was losing sight of what mattered. And I'm far from alone.

404 Media

Jake Coppinger 5d ago

> It is important to distinguish between road-registered EVs and other devices that contain lithium-ion batteries such as e-bikes and e-scooters. Fires in such e-micromobility devices are much more common due to damaged or poor-quality battery cells, while batteries in road registered EVs are designed to stricter safety regulations.

Legal, EU-certified e-bikes thrown under (the NSW government) bus

https://www.energy.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-04/nsw-electric-vehicle-strategy-april-2026.pdf

#nsw #ev #energytransition #auspol #bikes #electriccars

Jake Coppinger Apr 12

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Port Phillip Bicycle Users Apr 8

@StreetsAliveDarebin @streetsaliveyarra further to this, here is a useful post by Bike Portland https://bikeportland.org/2019/08/15/burnout-happens-heres-how-local-activists-cope-303438 with some ideas to prevent burnout: "celebrate the successes"... "Injustice is vast, structural, emergent. But if we focus on building relationships and supporting others in this work, that’s where lasting change happens, and outcomes follow".

Burnout happens: Here's how local activists cope

"Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle." - Gloria Steinem Burnout is a part of activism that doesn’t get talked about often enough.Ever since we celebrated the fourth anniversary of BikeLoudPDX (the all-volunteer activism group I co-chair) i

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Jake Coppinger Apr 9

Findings Press Apr 9

Relative Injury Risk of E-bikes and Conventional Bicycles https://findingspress.org/article/157852-relative-injury-risk-of-e-bikes-and-conventional-bicycles

Relative Injury Risk of E-bikes and Conventional Bicycles | Published in Findings

By Aslak Fyhri, Torkel Bjørnskau & 1 more. Using emergency ward data and national travel survey exposure, this study finds e-bikes have _lower_ distance-adjusted accident risk than conventional bicycles, with higher summer risk for recreational cycling.

Jake Coppinger Apr 8

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Port Phillip Bicycle Users Apr 8

"...we are spending far too much time treating elected people as blank slates who simply need a little more evidence, a little more explanation, a little more community input, when in reality many of them have already shown you what they are.

They have shown you that climate targets, active transport strategies and “healthy streets” branding all evaporate the second somebody starts yelling about parking or trader access or the end of civilisation as we know it. They have shown you that what they love most is saying the right thing in theory and doing absolutely nothing difficult in practice."

Thanks for everything Hayden, look forward to seeing what you do next (after you recover from burn out).

Read the whole rant here: https://highcapacityhayden.substack.com/p/i-give-up-on-making-our-streets-better?r=3p6njp #melbourne #cycling #advocacy #urbanism #FuckCars @StreetsAliveDarebin @streetsaliveyarra 5/5

I give up on making our streets better

Consider this my formal breakup with advocacy

Hayden’s Substack

Jake Coppinger Apr 7

Daniel Bowen Apr 7

I have so many thoughts on free public transport that it’s taking a while to figure out what I want to write. In the meantime here’s a blog post on slow internet speeds on trains. https://danielbowen.com/2026/04/07/slow-internet-on-trains/

Jake Coppinger Apr 7

An excellent article by Caitlin Cassidy on the growth of cycling amidst rising fuel costs.

It includes quotes from government authorities, industry bodies & bike shops. It interviews local residents using bikes as transport, explains data (with a hyperlink to the source) and - for the first 3 paragraphs - highlights Copenhagen's world-leading policy reform after the 1970s oil crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/06/fuel-crisis-sydney-commuters-cycling

#auspol #petrol #fuel #cycling #urbanism