Val and Faith catch up in the studio and share their bike moments, a green wave for Val on the way to the studio this morning and another milestone celebrating almost Mothers Day and almost 100 women in the Wheel Sisters program in Merri-bek for Faith. We take a look at some news including; updates from Queenslands' attempts to work out a way forward with e-bikes, and the Yarra Council meeting on Tuesday where the proposals for Wellington Street will be considered. Read about what has changed and how you can get involved at Say Yes to a New Wellington Street.
Hey #Canberra, wondering how to save petrol money and reduce the stress of Commonwealth Ave Bridge’s many years of upgrades? Take the inner north #BikeBus.
Join at the start, or along the route, between O’Connor - National Triangle - Deakin. Starts this Tuesday 7:30am at MacArthur Ave crossing.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
#Artemis #ChristinaKoch #Orion #spacecraft #orionspacecraft #space #science #news #NASA #astrodon #photography #Artemis2
I was a bit unprofessional today. I asked the host of a meeting to mute the zoom participants, then I addressed the two staff present in-person about their insistence on using a student’s dead name. One staffer used the excuse that the name is in the official paperwork. I called it an excuse and reminded them both that this is a human being. I might not be called back to interpret more of those meetings, but I couldn’t bear keep hearing them treat the student like that.
Bureaucracy is not an excuse for mistreating others.
We can’t ‘restore’ American history by flagging Native American books
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/04/native-books-national-parks-censorship/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I don't own a car. I take public transit everywhere, and I do think personal vehicle use has real environmental costs. But I don't think driving is inherently unethical.
I live in Seoul, and the city makes transit easy for me. That's not a virtue. It's a condition I happen to benefit from. Some people live where transit barely exists, or where it doesn't get them to work, school, or care. In those places, driving is not optional.
The same is true of flying. In parts of Europe you can cross borders by train. In island nations, or in places with weak land connections, flying may be the only realistic option. “Just fly less” means very different things in those places.
A lot of what gets called my ethical choices comes from the conditions I live in. That makes me wary of turning structural failures into personal morality. If the alternative is missing or unusable, shaming people for not choosing it solves nothing.
When environmental harm gets framed as individual moral failure, attention shifts away from the structural changes that would actually matter. It's not an accident that oil companies spent decades popularizing the idea of the personal carbon footprint.
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