Zagorath

Zagorath, 10 months ago

Looks like the sound holes of a violin to me.

Zagorath, 10 months ago

“I see reducing car dependence in Brisbane as one of the most important steps we can take as a city in terms of climate action,” he said.

“A huge part of Brisbane’s fossil fuel consumption footprint is the fact that so many of us are forced to drive as our main mode of transport because the alternatives are so crappy.”

Options for improving cycling included lowering speed limits in the CBD, and connecting missing bikeway links.

“In some cases, on a few corridors, it will probably involve taking away a few parking bays so we can create new bike lanes. We’ve seen that rolled out pretty successfully on Elizabeth Street in the city,” he said.

Sounds pretty good to me. The car dependency of Brisbane is one of the biggest things holding us back and making life worse for all our residents. The LNP’s refusal to address it is the worst in a long list of reasons they don’t deserve to be in power at the Council level.

Zagorath, 10 months ago

Learning what POV means POV from video games. Learning what POV means because novels.

Zagorath, 10 months ago

Football has been (one of) our national sport(s) for a century.

Soccer, not so much. Of course there’s a surge in interest when we’re hosting a big soccer event, or when our national team is doing unusually well. But it’s still soccer, and it’s hard for that to compete against sports that aren’t notoriously full of cheats and insulting to fix that problem.

Zagorath, 10 months ago

Having a backyard doesn’t meet all children’s needs

What does a truly child-friendly neighborhood look like? It allows for safe and convenient active travel—walking, cycling and “wheeling” (using mobility devices)—as well as public transport, to conduct daily activities. Child-friendliness is embedded in the everyday places, in streets, parks, square and public transport.

But all too often children’s play opportunities are reduced to the tiny backyards that are now common in fringe suburbs. These suburban restrictions are at odds with globally recognized principles of child-friendliness. Backyards alone cannot make up for the lack of access to child care, schools, shops, recreation and health services.

So much this. As Jason Slaughter from the YouTube channel Not Just Bikes said,

Suburbia may be a good place to shelter toddlers, but as soon as a child is more than about 6 years old, being trapped in a McMansion on the edge of town seriously inhibits their growth and independence…They’re unlikely to be able to walk to school, or anywhere else for that matter.

This is just yet another reason why medium density developments are so much better than the ever expanding suburban sprawl, and why all the FUD about “packed like sardines” is an inaccurate way to characterise things. They’re actually a nicer place to live.

Zagorath, 10 months ago

Sure, but like I said, significant other feels a lot more clinical and cold than partner.

Zagorath, 10 months ago

Just go to {{instanceurl}}/instances. Scroll to the bottom for the defederated instances.

Zagorath, 10 months ago

Or use multiple accounts on different instances that represent your different interests. Like maybe you have a “news & shitposting” account, and another “programming and piracy” one, etc. And ensure each account is on an instance that supports the necessary federations to support that.