JacobCoffinWrites

JacobCoffinWrites, 19 hours ago

Eat off frisbees

JacobCoffinWrites, 2 days ago

I’m pretty psyched and I’ve only been on the team for a few months - how long have you been working on this, if you go back to its earliest versions?

JacobCoffinWrites, 2 days ago

That definitely adds a lot of length to the back! I think I see these on the bike path sometimes but didn’t realize its an add-on rather than a custom-built bike. I’d been thinking when my SO and I have kids in a few years, we’d get one of those cargo bikes with the big wheelbarrow bucket on the front, where kids or probably another adult or groceries can ride. But I’ve never ridden either version - do the ones with the cargo in the front handle worse? Are there other tradeoffs?

I like his electric bike conversion. I’m brand new to anything more than the most absolute basic bicycle maintenance (this bike’s rear derailer was held together with zip ties at one point), so I hadn’t waded in to electric bike options and tradeoffs yet. I’ve heard they’re a huge game changer and an improvement on cars in the kind of built-up areas where I live. I’d figured I’ll set this one up for some cargo capacity, then sort of feel out what I want once I’ve been using it a bit.

JacobCoffinWrites, 2 days ago

That’s good to know! My SO’s bike has a basket, and I was surprised at how much of a difference it made. I found myself using her bike more than mine last year. For stuff like hauling groceries, would it be better to use saddlebags over the rear rack?

JacobCoffinWrites, 1 day ago

The bike has rear mounting points but the type of bike racks that seem to be designed to use them claim lower weight limits. There are others that wrap around the seat post and rear fork.

Like this one claims to be able to support 310lbs

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/7440b817-eced-4039-ac5d-a801f36ceff8.webp

Would the frame of the bike and the wheel able to take that? Is the weight made up?

JacobCoffinWrites, 1 day ago

This is great info, thanks for taking the time to write it out! I didn’t even notice the front rack at first, does the handlebar basket just latch on to the rack? I think this (minus the trailer for now) makes a lot of sense for me

JacobCoffinWrites, 21 hours ago

This is awesome advice, thank you! I bought a rear rack and some cable housing (I’m worried the rear derailer cable will scrape on the rack mountings). I’m going to start with the rear rack and panniers.

My front fork is some kind of chunky mountain bike built-in-shocks thing and I’m not sure there’s a way to mount a front rack to it, but I’ll try to figure something out once the rear one is set up. Failing that, I’ll look for one of those handlebar baskets.

I figure I’ll start small, see if this is useful, and add capacity as I go.

Thanks again!

JacobCoffinWrites, 17 hours ago

Thank you!

JacobCoffinWrites, 2 days ago

This would lend itself to stencils pretty well though (one color, no islands), especially with a touch of spray adhesive on the back. I’ve done the symbol from one of the more common solarpunk flags, and getting the blank spot inside the gear positioned would be a little finicky if doing graffiti.

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/3a521645-6068-461f-93f4-26f6dbd8749c.webp

You’d want to bridge the corners there, to make it all one piece, if you wanted to be able to put it up quickly. I was just painting a laptop so I had plenty of time to fuss with it.

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/3988f2f2-78c3-4634-bdc0-4f1fd4977002.webp

JacobCoffinWrites, 4 days ago

A stack of ewaste laptops I’m fixing up to give away, and this jailbroken Chromebook I reinstalled with Alpine Linux which has become my writing computer whenever I’m out and about.

JacobCoffinWrites, 4 days ago

Thanks! I pulled it from one of the more popular solarpunk flags. Out of all the ones I’ve seen, many of which feature the sun-and-gear motif in some configuration, it’s my favorite symbol for the movement; It’s very simple and visually clear, and easy to render with one color.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Solarpunk_Flag.jpg

JacobCoffinWrites, 4 days ago

Movim is awesome! PoVoq put a bunch of work into getting it set up and linked with Lemmy so if you have an account here, you can just start using the microblogging platform too! I use WordPress for my art and writing and Movim for my making-and-fixing-type projects, and I mostly prefer Movim - the interface is nice, it’s free, doesn’t spatter everything I write with gross ads, and it’s not corporate. I’d very much recommend it.

JacobCoffinWrites, 1 day ago

Lots of folk punk type music, stuff drawing it’s roots from old protest songs, union songs, revolutionary stuff.

JacobCoffinWrites, 5 days ago

Man I wish our trains ran anywhere near that constantly. They stop the public transit around midnight in my city, but that doesn’t stop it from being tremendously useful during the rest of the time. You learn to plan for it, and advocate for improvements whenever you can

JacobCoffinWrites, 5 days ago

In the northeast there used to be a fair bit, but I think a lot has been torn up in the process of making bike paths. A lot of the small towns I grew up in still have intact tracks running between their centers, I’d love if these pods made an appearance, if only to show folks that trains can be useful to them.

JacobCoffinWrites, 6 days ago

Thanks! I’m glad you like it

JacobCoffinWrites, 6 days ago

Thanks! And sure, I can do that.

JacobCoffinWrites, 6 days ago

Thanks for the info! Collecting the heat and regulating it for a job like printing makes a lot of sense to me. Similarly, there’s a bunch of other tasks that wouldn’t require the same kind of precision - smelting metal in a crucible, heating metal to forge it (I’m hoping to try to build a solar forge this summer if I can get a fresnel lense from a rear projection TV), maybe heating a glassblowing furnace. Those just looked kinda small in the big space I’d laid out.

And yeah, I know photovoltaics are more practical for most things since they line up with how we already do things. I mostly include what I think of as weird solar because solarpunk art is already lousy with photovoltaic panels but there are a ton of other ways to directly use solar for thermal and light. I really like the idea of using energy in the form we receive it to minimize conversion losses, and to put less strain on the grid/batteries. Sometimes the art goals scrape up against the other goals a bit.

Thanks again!

JacobCoffinWrites, 6 days ago

Sorry, the ones I’m talking about are TV screen sized.

Like this:

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/83a0b332-4013-4818-941e-9e545092ad8e.webp

I’ve seen them burn through steel, so it can get small stuff at least hot enough to work. Hopefully at least equivalent to a coffee can forge

JacobCoffinWrites, 6 days ago

Glad you like them!

JacobCoffinWrites, 3 days ago

I’d never heard of that, very cool!!

JacobCoffinWrites, 6 days ago

A lot of people have used time travel to steal Games Workshop’s IP

JacobCoffinWrites, 8 days ago

I think so. I mean, I’ll agree that a lot of the art tagged as solarpunk is utopian, unactionable, and generally gives a poor first impression of the rest of the genre/movement. The chromed scifi megacities with trees stuck to the sides of skyscrapers are about as attainable as concept art of a flying city or a moon colony. If they never looked past the paintings on deviantart or artstation or whatever they’d probably get a pretty skewed perspective on it.

But I’d say the answer to that is just to make more art that reflects the rest of the movement better since the answers and discussions and real life projects are all happening