#eutopia — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eutopia, aggregated by home.social.
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📰 Iran, Giorgetti e la sveglia all’Ue: «Estendere all’energia le deroghe al Patto sulla difesa, è opportuna una clausola di salvaguardia generale»
#️⃣ #ECONOMIALAVORO #CrisiUsaIran #EUtopia #GiancarloGiorgetti #Iran #Unioneeuropea #OpenOnline #TheLabSocial #News #Notizie #Italia
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The following series of posts are a culmination of time and ideas put in to song form. I spent a bunch of time on this because I wanted it all to be just right. You see, in the past, I talked about my idea for a tech eutopia, as I am a technocrat at heart, and I love imagining how I would want technology to progress over the next few decades. This series of songs outlines my vision for a tech eutopia better than I could put in to words, and I hope you enjoy, as it certainly wasn't easy to get it right, but I think I managed it well enough. Feel free to ask questions, and if you want to refute my ideas for a tech eutopia, feel free to do so but if you do, at least try to match my energy and do it in song form, because if you can't even put in the effort to do that like I just did with this, than it shows me your not as passionate about your opinion as I am with mine. Also, I'll be editing my posts with the lyrics for people who need them for whatever reason. #Suno #Music #Tech #Eutopia
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The world better hope I never get power, because if I do, I will create a world unlike the one Dr. Eggman invisioned. Indeed, I would create a technological paradise unlike anything that the world has ever seen. All of our lives would be filled with tech the world could as of now, never imagine. I would change one thing though, one thing that is flawed, basically as chaos emeralds do not exist in this world, instead, my technology paradise would see fossil fuels become absolutely illegal. I would enforce this law through the usage of AI and robotic technology that would automatically find and imprison people who mine or work in the fossil fuel industry. I would only accept Nuclear Fission, Solar, Wind, or any renewable energy source as legal ways to run my paradise. I would also use AI to invest heavily in the creation of long-sustaining fusion reaction technology that would be able to be used to harvest power for use in every day technology for all households in my paradise. That's right, I believe in Dr. Eggmaan's vision for the future in terms of him wanting a technological paradise, but instead of enslaving animals, I would recreate his vision with the use of renewable energy. His vision has a big flaw in that oil will eventually run out, and his oil ocean will not exist forever, so its up to me to imagine that paradise, that eutopia, in a way that would last for thousands of years after I am dead. #Sonic #Technology #Technocrat #Eutopia
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The world better hope I never get power, because if I do, I will create a world unlike the one Dr. Eggman invisioned. Indeed, I would create a technological paradise unlike anything that the world has ever seen. All of our lives would be filled with tech the world could as of now, never imagine. I would change one thing though, one thing that is flawed, basically as chaos emeralds do not exist in this world, instead, my technology paradise would see fossil fuels become absolutely illegal. I would enforce this law through the usage of AI and robotic technology that would automatically find and imprison people who mine or work in the fossil fuel industry. I would only accept Nuclear Fission, Solar, Wind, or any renewable energy source as legal ways to run my paradise. I would also use AI to invest heavily in the creation of long-sustaining fusion reaction technology that would be able to be used to harvest power for use in every day technology for all households in my paradise. That's right, I believe in Dr. Eggmaan's vision for the future in terms of him wanting a technological paradise, but instead of enslaving animals, I would recreate his vision with the use of renewable energy. His vision has a big flaw in that oil will eventually run out, and his oil ocean will not exist forever, so its up to me to imagine that paradise, that eutopia, in a way that would last for thousands of years after I am dead. #Sonic #Technology #Technocrat #Eutopia
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The world better hope I never get power, because if I do, I will create a world unlike the one Dr. Eggman invisioned. Indeed, I would create a technological paradise unlike anything that the world has ever seen. All of our lives would be filled with tech the world could as of now, never imagine. I would change one thing though, one thing that is flawed, basically as chaos emeralds do not exist in this world, instead, my technology paradise would see fossil fuels become absolutely illegal. I would enforce this law through the usage of AI and robotic technology that would automatically find and imprison people who mine or work in the fossil fuel industry. I would only accept Nuclear Fission, Solar, Wind, or any renewable energy source as legal ways to run my paradise. I would also use AI to invest heavily in the creation of long-sustaining fusion reaction technology that would be able to be used to harvest power for use in every day technology for all households in my paradise. That's right, I believe in Dr. Eggmaan's vision for the future in terms of him wanting a technological paradise, but instead of enslaving animals, I would recreate his vision with the use of renewable energy. His vision has a big flaw in that oil will eventually run out, and his oil ocean will not exist forever, so its up to me to imagine that paradise, that eutopia, in a way that would last for thousands of years after I am dead. #Sonic #Technology #Technocrat #Eutopia
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The world better hope I never get power, because if I do, I will create a world unlike the one Dr. Eggman invisioned. Indeed, I would create a technological paradise unlike anything that the world has ever seen. All of our lives would be filled with tech the world could as of now, never imagine. I would change one thing though, one thing that is flawed, basically as chaos emeralds do not exist in this world, instead, my technology paradise would see fossil fuels become absolutely illegal. I would enforce this law through the usage of AI and robotic technology that would automatically find and imprison people who mine or work in the fossil fuel industry. I would only accept Nuclear Fission, Solar, Wind, or any renewable energy source as legal ways to run my paradise. I would also use AI to invest heavily in the creation of long-sustaining fusion reaction technology that would be able to be used to harvest power for use in every day technology for all households in my paradise. That's right, I believe in Dr. Eggmaan's vision for the future in terms of him wanting a technological paradise, but instead of enslaving animals, I would recreate his vision with the use of renewable energy. His vision has a big flaw in that oil will eventually run out, and his oil ocean will not exist forever, so its up to me to imagine that paradise, that eutopia, in a way that would last for thousands of years after I am dead. #Sonic #Technology #Technocrat #Eutopia
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The world better hope I never get power, because if I do, I will create a world unlike the one Dr. Eggman invisioned. Indeed, I would create a technological paradise unlike anything that the world has ever seen. All of our lives would be filled with tech the world could as of now, never imagine. I would change one thing though, one thing that is flawed, basically as chaos emeralds do not exist in this world, instead, my technology paradise would see fossil fuels become absolutely illegal. I would enforce this law through the usage of AI and robotic technology that would automatically find and imprison people who mine or work in the fossil fuel industry. I would only accept Nuclear Fission, Solar, Wind, or any renewable energy source as legal ways to run my paradise. I would also use AI to invest heavily in the creation of long-sustaining fusion reaction technology that would be able to be used to harvest power for use in every day technology for all households in my paradise. That's right, I believe in Dr. Eggmaan's vision for the future in terms of him wanting a technological paradise, but instead of enslaving animals, I would recreate his vision with the use of renewable energy. His vision has a big flaw in that oil will eventually run out, and his oil ocean will not exist forever, so its up to me to imagine that paradise, that eutopia, in a way that would last for thousands of years after I am dead. #Sonic #Technology #Technocrat #Eutopia
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📰 L’Ue blocca gli smalti con TPO: il divieto in vigore da oggi. Come riconoscere i prodotti che contengono la sostanza potenzialmente tossica
#️⃣ #ESTERI #CommissioneUE #EUtopia #Sanit #Unioneeuropea #Openonline #News #Notizie #Italia #mastomondo
🔗 https://www.open.online/2025/09/01/unione-europea-stop-smalti-tpo-cencerogeni-come-riconoscere/
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Hola compas del #solarpunk #ecotopía 🧡, he estado trabajando en crear este artículo:
https://solarpunk.extinctionrebellion.es/2025/08/21/esconvocatoria-global-solarpunkinstallparty/
¿Quieres Desinstalar el Capitalismo?
YO 🧡 LA :gnu: :tux: GNU/LINUX DEMOCRACIA P2P!!!
Esta es una [Convocatoria Global] #SolarpunkInstallParty
LAWCRAFT es el híbrido de videojuego/rol en vivo que quiero crear de forma abierta para impulsar la superación de la crisis multidimensional en la que estamos.
También puedes descargar el artículo en PDF si lo prefieres:
https://solarpunk.extinctionrebellion.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SolarpunkInstallParty.pdf
Si te interesa, escríbeme, y si conoces a personas que puedan estar interesadas, compártelo con ellas.
🧡 Feliz #SolarpunkInstallParty !!!
Bss. 😘😘
@Trex #eutopia #ezln #ConfederalismoDemocrático #Comunalismo #ExtinctionRebellion #RebeliónCientífica #Democracia #DemocraciaDirecta #RentaBásica #RentaBásicaUniversal #RBU
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Hola compas del #solarpunk #ecotopía 🧡, he estado trabajando en crear este artículo:
https://solarpunk.extinctionrebellion.es/2025/08/21/esconvocatoria-global-solarpunkinstallparty/
¿Quieres Desinstalar el Capitalismo?
YO 🧡 LA :gnu: :tux: GNU/LINUX DEMOCRACIA P2P!!!
Esta es una [Convocatoria Global] #SolarpunkInstallParty
LAWCRAFT es el híbrido de videojuego/rol en vivo que quiero crear de forma abierta para impulsar la superación de la crisis multidimensional en la que estamos.
También puedes descargar el artículo en PDF si lo prefieres:
https://solarpunk.extinctionrebellion.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SolarpunkInstallParty.pdf
Si te interesa, escríbeme, y si conoces a personas que puedan estar interesadas, compártelo con ellas.
🧡 Feliz #SolarpunkInstallParty !!!
Bss. 😘😘
@Trex #eutopia #ezln #ConfederalismoDemocrático #Comunalismo #ExtinctionRebellion #RebeliónCientífica #Democracia #DemocraciaDirecta #RentaBásica #RentaBásicaUniversal #RBU
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Hola compas del #solarpunk #ecotopía 🧡, he estado trabajando en crear este artículo:
https://solarpunk.extinctionrebellion.es/2025/08/21/esconvocatoria-global-solarpunkinstallparty/
¿Quieres Desinstalar el Capitalismo?
YO 🧡 LA :gnu: :tux: GNU/LINUX DEMOCRACIA P2P!!!
Esta es una [Convocatoria Global] #SolarpunkInstallParty
LAWCRAFT es el híbrido de videojuego/rol en vivo que quiero crear de forma abierta para impulsar la superación de la crisis multidimensional en la que estamos.
También puedes descargar el artículo en PDF si lo prefieres:
https://solarpunk.extinctionrebellion.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SolarpunkInstallParty.pdf
Si te interesa, escríbeme, y si conoces a personas que puedan estar interesadas, compártelo con ellas.
🧡 Feliz #SolarpunkInstallParty !!!
Bss. 😘😘
@Trex #eutopia #ezln #ConfederalismoDemocrático #Comunalismo #ExtinctionRebellion #RebeliónCientífica #Democracia #DemocraciaDirecta #RentaBásica #RentaBásicaUniversal #RBU
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Hola compas del #solarpunk #ecotopía 🧡, he estado trabajando en crear este artículo:
https://solarpunk.extinctionrebellion.es/2025/08/21/esconvocatoria-global-solarpunkinstallparty/
¿Quieres Desinstalar el Capitalismo?
YO 🧡 LA :gnu: :tux: GNU/LINUX DEMOCRACIA P2P!!!
Esta es una [Convocatoria Global] #SolarpunkInstallParty
LAWCRAFT es el híbrido de videojuego/rol en vivo que quiero crear de forma abierta para impulsar la superación de la crisis multidimensional en la que estamos.
También puedes descargar el artículo en PDF si lo prefieres:
https://solarpunk.extinctionrebellion.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SolarpunkInstallParty.pdf
Si te interesa, escríbeme, y si conoces a personas que puedan estar interesadas, compártelo con ellas.
🧡 Feliz #SolarpunkInstallParty !!!
Bss. 😘😘
@Trex #eutopia #ezln #ConfederalismoDemocrático #Comunalismo #ExtinctionRebellion #RebeliónCientífica #Democracia #DemocraciaDirecta #RentaBásica #RentaBásicaUniversal #RBU
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Hola compas del #solarpunk #ecotopía 🧡, he estado trabajando en crear este artículo:
https://solarpunk.extinctionrebellion.es/2025/08/21/esconvocatoria-global-solarpunkinstallparty/
¿Quieres Desinstalar el Capitalismo?
YO 🧡 LA :gnu: :tux: GNU/LINUX DEMOCRACIA P2P!!!
Esta es una [Convocatoria Global] #SolarpunkInstallParty
LAWCRAFT es el híbrido de videojuego/rol en vivo que quiero crear de forma abierta para impulsar la superación de la crisis multidimensional en la que estamos.
También puedes descargar el artículo en PDF si lo prefieres:
https://solarpunk.extinctionrebellion.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SolarpunkInstallParty.pdf
Si te interesa, escríbeme, y si conoces a personas que puedan estar interesadas, compártelo con ellas.
🧡 Feliz #SolarpunkInstallParty !!!
Bss. 😘😘
@Trex #eutopia #ezln #ConfederalismoDemocrático #Comunalismo #ExtinctionRebellion #RebeliónCientífica #Democracia #DemocraciaDirecta #RentaBásica #RentaBásicaUniversal #RBU
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It's not how it's generally used, but In my head canon #eutopia is distinguished from a #utopia by the dynamic change. As a utopia is stagnant unchanging, perfect and final, the eutopia keeps changing. I'm calling #UsrulaLeGuin #dispossessed an eutopia because it was defined by the infinitely burning #revolution within a revolution.
An eutopia might be easier to write because it can have its own 'character arc'. I think this approach can unlock a lot of the #solarpunk creativity. Writing utopia is hard.
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À Antonia, il n’y a de propriété que d’usage. Chaque être humain est libre et maître en son travail. Gob, grande amatrice de livres, y est née. Umo a grandi à Pelagoya. Il aime la musique, les voyages et fabriquer des objets. Ce roman est l’histoire de leurs amours et de toutes les personnes qui ont croisé leur route, de Pelagoya à Télégie, en passant par les cités jumelles, Arkadia et Amistad.
Histoire d’anticipation ouvertement communiste et optimiste, Eutopia est un coup de cœur complet. Pour la sortie de son roman en format poche, @camilleleboulanger vient à la librairie Chimères pour discuter de son livre (et sans doute d’autres choses).
Dédicaces à partir de 16h. Dès 17h30, discussion ouverte avec l’auteur.
#Dédicace #MastoLivre #FédiLIvre #Rencontre #Bruxelles #Eutopia
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📚 J’ai terminé #Eutopia, une épaisse autobiographie fictive d’un quidam évoluant dans un futur “post-#capitaliste” (une #utopie écosociale aux accents européens) et de ses nombreuses rencontres avec des personnages aux aspirations très différentes. Lui même titube et vacille dans la vie à la recherche de sa place dans une société où la liberté affichée l’amène à se poser beaucoup de questions. #MastoLivre #VendrediLecture #books #lecture 1/3
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Hi fellow book nerds! I'm trying to put together a Utopian Book Club (focused on novels and novellas). I want to include LeGuin's The Dispossessed and @pluralistic 's Walkaway, but from there I've got an endless list of mostly white dudes.
What cool utopian fiction by BIPOC writers have I missed out on?
#BookWorm #books #utopia #BIPOCLit #literature #UtopianFiction #utopian #solarpunk #novels #novella #BIPOCwriters #fiction #ImagineUtopia #eutopia #SpeculativeFiction #scifi #fantasy #BookWyrm
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Hi fellow book nerds! I'm trying to put together a Utopian Book Club (focused on novels and novellas). I want to include LeGuin's The Dispossessed and @pluralistic 's Walkaway, but from there I've got an endless list of mostly white dudes.
What cool utopian fiction by BIPOC writers have I missed out on?
#BookWorm #books #utopia #BIPOCLit #literature #UtopianFiction #utopian #solarpunk #novels #novella #BIPOCwriters #fiction #ImagineUtopia #eutopia #SpeculativeFiction #scifi #fantasy #BookWyrm
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Hi fellow book nerds! I'm trying to put together a Utopian Book Club (focused on novels and novellas). I want to include LeGuin's The Dispossessed and @pluralistic 's Walkaway, but from there I've got an endless list of mostly white dudes.
What cool utopian fiction by BIPOC writers have I missed out on?
#BookWorm #books #utopia #BIPOCLit #literature #UtopianFiction #utopian #solarpunk #novels #novella #BIPOCwriters #fiction #ImagineUtopia #eutopia #SpeculativeFiction #scifi #fantasy #BookWyrm
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Hi fellow book nerds! I'm trying to put together a Utopian Book Club (focused on novels and novellas). I want to include LeGuin's The Dispossessed and @pluralistic 's Walkaway, but from there I've got an endless list of mostly white dudes.
What cool utopian fiction by BIPOC writers have I missed out on?
#BookWorm #books #utopia #BIPOCLit #literature #UtopianFiction #utopian #solarpunk #novels #novella #BIPOCwriters #fiction #ImagineUtopia #eutopia #SpeculativeFiction #scifi #fantasy #BookWyrm
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Hi fellow book nerds! I'm trying to put together a Utopian Book Club (focused on novels and novellas). I want to include LeGuin's The Dispossessed and @pluralistic 's Walkaway, but from there I've got an endless list of mostly white dudes.
What cool utopian fiction by BIPOC writers have I missed out on?
#BookWorm #books #utopia #BIPOCLit #literature #UtopianFiction #utopian #solarpunk #novels #novella #BIPOCwriters #fiction #ImagineUtopia #eutopia #SpeculativeFiction #scifi #fantasy #BookWyrm
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#mastolivre #bookclub
Quelqu'un•e ici a lu #Eutopia de Camille Le Boulanger (éd Argyll) ?Un pote a commencé à le lire mais hésite à continuer et cherche des avis, il était notamment perplexe sur le fait que la société présentée relevait de l'utopie. Il avait l'impression de lire plutôt une dystopie comme dans Divergente ou Hunger Games (avec un héros adolescent élevé dans une dystopie qui s'en rend compte et va combattre le système)
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I gave a short presentation today on reproducibility during the VUB Ethics week. The slides are available on: https://github.com/timvantilborgh/VUB-ethics-week/
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had the pleasure of discussing #GDPR #dataaccess requests today with VUB and CY Cergy Paris University students, in the context of our #EUTOPIA learning community! https://eutopia-university.eu/english-version/education/eutopia-learning-communites/fairness-accountability-and-transparency-in-data-processing is there a better subject i wonder
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CW: Bicycles, capitalism, vices. Fitness is mentioned, though not the point.
I #bike because I'm lazy. But that's a bad, terrible thing, so I couldn't admit that to myself for the first 20+ years of my riding career. I'd get asked all the time why I ride, and I'd use the usual lines about #climate, expense, #traffic... But the heart and soul of the matter is I get bored easily, and #fuckcars, and if most of my life can be shrunk down to #bikeable radius, well... I'm gonna do that.
This is culturally, not a virtue, and in this "virtuous" capitalist world we buy things that try to appeal to our vision of our best possible selves. Bicycles are fitness tools, recreational instruments, athletic, sporty, competetive. Are you fast? Great. Are you a human ATV? Terrific. Do you just... want to not have to spend a lot of time, money, and effort on getting through your day? Do you not want to have to work all the goddamn time just to afford to maintain and fuel a massive metal box that you are, for some reason, obsessed with keeping in good cosmetic condition all the time? No? And also you just want to not spend all that time walking three blocks to the hardware store because you need a lightbulb? "We're not sure we want our brand associated with that."
I bought in hard to the idea that a bike should signal something vital, so I rode a gravel bike for a while. Did I ever ride gravel? No. Did I enjoy being in the drops? No. Did I bike faster than I needed to and feel more competitive than was strictly rational for commuting and running errands? Yes. Did I like it? Maybe sometimes, but I'll be honest, there were a lot of moments where the thought of getting into the tuck and riding at a speed that made sense in that position exhausted me so much that I would just not take the bike out. I'd cancel plans. I'd postpone errands. It was a bummer. But then Covid hit, and I got fat, and I could barely breath while in the drops, so I sold the bike. I then immediately turned around and bought a cheap 90s era mountain bike and started building it up to be as soft and easy to ride as possible. My only criteria for parts and accessories were, will this make biking easier and more comfortable? But the biggest game changer was the basket. The thing that used to slow me down the most was just cargo logistics. How was I gonna carry things? Did I want to deal with a backpack? Individually packing and balancing panniers? If I went somewhere and I suddenly acquired cargo, what would I do? Now I just drop things in the basket. I don't have to think about it. It's dorky, and I'm slow, but goddamn it, I get to be so much lazier now.
Almost all of us here right now are trying to build a better world, but sometimes the best thing you can do for that future #eutopia (thanks @notspookypip for the etymology lesson) is make the decisions that make your world today and now kinder and more manageable for yourself and your community. You and I are likely never going to be our "best" selves physically, mentally, emotionally... we have to work with who we are now, not who we hope we might be. Use that wagon, ride that tricycle, whatever makes you feel comfortable, because a comfortable world for humans is usually a #walkable, bikeable, and #sustainable world.
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CW: Bicycles, capitalism, vices. Fitness is mentioned, though not the point.
I #bike because I'm lazy. But that's a bad, terrible thing, so I couldn't admit that to myself for the first 20+ years of my riding career. I'd get asked all the time why I ride, and I'd use the usual lines about #climate, expense, #traffic... But the heart and soul of the matter is I get bored easily, and #fuckcars, and if most of my life can be shrunk down to #bikeable radius, well... I'm gonna do that.
This is culturally, not a virtue, and in this "virtuous" capitalist world we buy things that try to appeal to our vision of our best possible selves. Bicycles are fitness tools, recreational instruments, athletic, sporty, competetive. Are you fast? Great. Are you a human ATV? Terrific. Do you just... want to not have to spend a lot of time, money, and effort on getting through your day? Do you not want to have to work all the goddamn time just to afford to maintain and fuel a massive metal box that you are, for some reason, obsessed with keeping in good cosmetic condition all the time? No? And also you just want to not spend all that time walking three blocks to the hardware store because you need a lightbulb? "We're not sure we want our brand associated with that."
I bought in hard to the idea that a bike should signal something vital, so I rode a gravel bike for a while. Did I ever ride gravel? No. Did I enjoy being in the drops? No. Did I bike faster than I needed to and feel more competitive than was strictly rational for commuting and running errands? Yes. Did I like it? Maybe sometimes, but I'll be honest, there were a lot of moments where the thought of getting into the tuck and riding at a speed that made sense in that position exhausted me so much that I would just not take the bike out. I'd cancel plans. I'd postpone errands. It was a bummer. But then Covid hit, and I got fat, and I could barely breath while in the drops, so I sold the bike. I then immediately turned around and bought a cheap 90s era mountain bike and started building it up to be as soft and easy to ride as possible. My only criteria for parts and accessories were, will this make biking easier and more comfortable? But the biggest game changer was the basket. The thing that used to slow me down the most was just cargo logistics. How was I gonna carry things? Did I want to deal with a backpack? Individually packing and balancing panniers? If I went somewhere and I suddenly acquired cargo, what would I do? Now I just drop things in the basket. I don't have to think about it. It's dorky, and I'm slow, but goddamn it, I get to be so much lazier now.
Almost all of us here right now are trying to build a better world, but sometimes the best thing you can do for that future #eutopia (thanks @notspookypip for the etymology lesson) is make the decisions that make your world today and now kinder and more manageable for yourself and your community. You and I are likely never going to be our "best" selves physically, mentally, emotionally... we have to work with who we are now, not who we hope we might be. Use that wagon, ride that tricycle, whatever makes you feel comfortable, because a comfortable world for humans is usually a #walkable, bikeable, and #sustainable world.
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CW: Bicycles, capitalism, vices. Fitness is mentioned, though not the point.
I #bike because I'm lazy. But that's a bad, terrible thing, so I couldn't admit that to myself for the first 20+ years of my riding career. I'd get asked all the time why I ride, and I'd use the usual lines about #climate, expense, #traffic... But the heart and soul of the matter is I get bored easily, and #fuckcars, and if most of my life can be shrunk down to #bikeable radius, well... I'm gonna do that.
This is culturally, not a virtue, and in this "virtuous" capitalist world we buy things that try to appeal to our vision of our best possible selves. Bicycles are fitness tools, recreational instruments, athletic, sporty, competetive. Are you fast? Great. Are you a human ATV? Terrific. Do you just... want to not have to spend a lot of time, money, and effort on getting through your day? Do you not want to have to work all the goddamn time just to afford to maintain and fuel a massive metal box that you are, for some reason, obsessed with keeping in good cosmetic condition all the time? No? And also you just want to not spend all that time walking three blocks to the hardware store because you need a lightbulb? "We're not sure we want our brand associated with that."
I bought in hard to the idea that a bike should signal something vital, so I rode a gravel bike for a while. Did I ever ride gravel? No. Did I enjoy being in the drops? No. Did I bike faster than I needed to and feel more competitive than was strictly rational for commuting and running errands? Yes. Did I like it? Maybe sometimes, but I'll be honest, there were a lot of moments where the thought of getting into the tuck and riding at a speed that made sense in that position exhausted me so much that I would just not take the bike out. I'd cancel plans. I'd postpone errands. It was a bummer. But then Covid hit, and I got fat, and I could barely breath while in the drops, so I sold the bike. I then immediately turned around and bought a cheap 90s era mountain bike and started building it up to be as soft and easy to ride as possible. My only criteria for parts and accessories were, will this make biking easier and more comfortable? But the biggest game changer was the basket. The thing that used to slow me down the most was just cargo logistics. How was I gonna carry things? Did I want to deal with a backpack? Individually packing and balancing panniers? If I went somewhere and I suddenly acquired cargo, what would I do? Now I just drop things in the basket. I don't have to think about it. It's dorky, and I'm slow, but goddamn it, I get to be so much lazier now.
Almost all of us here right now are trying to build a better world, but sometimes the best thing you can do for that future #eutopia (thanks @notspookypip for the etymology lesson) is make the decisions that make your world today and now kinder and more manageable for yourself and your community. You and I are likely never going to be our "best" selves physically, mentally, emotionally... we have to work with who we are now, not who we hope we might be. Use that wagon, ride that tricycle, whatever makes you feel comfortable, because a comfortable world for humans is usually a #walkable, bikeable, and #sustainable world.
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CW: Bicycles, capitalism, vices. Fitness is mentioned, though not the point.
I #bike because I'm lazy. But that's a bad, terrible thing, so I couldn't admit that to myself for the first 20+ years of my riding career. I'd get asked all the time why I ride, and I'd use the usual lines about #climate, expense, #traffic... But the heart and soul of the matter is I get bored easily, and #fuckcars, and if most of my life can be shrunk down to #bikeable radius, well... I'm gonna do that.
This is culturally, not a virtue, and in this "virtuous" capitalist world we buy things that try to appeal to our vision of our best possible selves. Bicycles are fitness tools, recreational instruments, athletic, sporty, competetive. Are you fast? Great. Are you a human ATV? Terrific. Do you just... want to not have to spend a lot of time, money, and effort on getting through your day? Do you not want to have to work all the goddamn time just to afford to maintain and fuel a massive metal box that you are, for some reason, obsessed with keeping in good cosmetic condition all the time? No? And also you just want to not spend all that time walking three blocks to the hardware store because you need a lightbulb? "We're not sure we want our brand associated with that."
I bought in hard to the idea that a bike should signal something vital, so I rode a gravel bike for a while. Did I ever ride gravel? No. Did I enjoy being in the drops? No. Did I bike faster than I needed to and feel more competitive than was strictly rational for commuting and running errands? Yes. Did I like it? Maybe sometimes, but I'll be honest, there were a lot of moments where the thought of getting into the tuck and riding at a speed that made sense in that position exhausted me so much that I would just not take the bike out. I'd cancel plans. I'd postpone errands. It was a bummer. But then Covid hit, and I got fat, and I could barely breath while in the drops, so I sold the bike. I then immediately turned around and bought a cheap 90s era mountain bike and started building it up to be as soft and easy to ride as possible. My only criteria for parts and accessories were, will this make biking easier and more comfortable? But the biggest game changer was the basket. The thing that used to slow me down the most was just cargo logistics. How was I gonna carry things? Did I want to deal with a backpack? Individually packing and balancing panniers? If I went somewhere and I suddenly acquired cargo, what would I do? Now I just drop things in the basket. I don't have to think about it. It's dorky, and I'm slow, but goddamn it, I get to be so much lazier now.
Almost all of us here right now are trying to build a better world, but sometimes the best thing you can do for that future #eutopia (thanks @notspookypip for the etymology lesson) is make the decisions that make your world today and now kinder and more manageable for yourself and your community. You and I are likely never going to be our "best" selves physically, mentally, emotionally... we have to work with who we are now, not who we hope we might be. Use that wagon, ride that tricycle, whatever makes you feel comfortable, because a comfortable world for humans is usually a #walkable, bikeable, and #sustainable world.
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