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beecycling

@beecycling@romancelandia.club

Writer, Geordie, crone, Friend of DeSoto, Anarcho-curious

Interests: Writing , Sci-Fi, Stoicism, Atheism, Humanism, Science, Star Trek, Crochet, Anarchism, Red Pandas, Cats, PokemonGo, Fountain Pens, Journaling, Active Travel, Solarpunk, Minimalism, Tea, Revolution

Born at 322ppm
Lives in North East UK
Avatar is a red panda. Header shows two birds silhouetted against a deep orange sky, flying away from an open cage.

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ItzyG, to ebikes

It is astounding how many people showed up on a post about e-bikes to dunk on them. I love my I'm not using it to exercise, I'm using it to get places. I don't care that it's not as good of a workout. Not everyone can comfortable ride a regular bike, not everyone wants to.

beecycling,
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@ItzyG People are morons. If ebikes get more people out of their cars, that's great. Not everyone wants to slog up a steep hill under their own steam. Especially not with say, a heavy cargo bike with two kids in the bucket. If an ebike means someone who might have had to give up, or never even start, riding due to age, or an injury, can keep riding for longer, that's great.

losttourist, to reddit
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I'm absolutely loving this spirit of malicious compliance that's creeping into the subreddits that have been forced to reopen.

/r/pics started it off by holding a vote where their users overwhelmingly said that the only pics they wanted were ones of John Oliver looking lovely.

Now /r/WellThatSucks is purely a place to post pictures of vacuum cleaners.

And /r/iPhone is only permitting posts that are pictures of Tim Cook.

All of these policy changes have been voted and agreed upon by the subreddits' users, so Reddit can't even complain that the mod teams are going against their users' wishes.

beecycling,
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@losttourist

r/pokemongo is only allowing pictures of John Oliver, Pikachu or Spark (one of the Pokemon Go "team leaders") with a preference for "custom art pieces" of all those three fused together.

beecycling, to random
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So Boris Johnson has a new job writing a column for the Daily Mail. Well I say "writing." I'm 100% sure he'll not be writing anything except a prompt into ChatGPT. And even that will probably produce more truthful, reliable results than some of his previous accuracy-lite work for other newspapers.

beecycling,
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@tony
Boris: adds "as long as it's proper British cheese and not stinky French cheese."
Daily Mail: "We love it."
Daily Mail comments section: "Bomb the French!!!"

thor, to random
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the sun and the earth how do they work

beecycling,
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@thor I'm glad it's only quite a short trip for me to escape the eternal daylight of the UK and take a trip to the night.

alexwild, to random
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Tired of the trope that all Australian animals are deadly and dangerous. Just because a few common species are aggressive and can kill you in minutes doesn't mean all of them do th

beecycling,
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@futurebird @alexwild I've seen the lack of large predators as a reason for why kangaroos are so stroppy. They occupy a similar niche as deer, but deer are much more nervous and flighty because there are things like wolves to look out for. Kangaroos don't have anything that so they've got cocky.

Jdreben, to animals
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Stretch!

beecycling,
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@Jdreben I hope you uttered the obligatory "big stretch" when the kitty did that.

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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The best EV for anyone living in a city is an electric bicycle, IMHO and experience. A comfy and practical one. Not some pseudo sporty stuff. With big bags. So you can do your shopping, go out for a picknick in the park, to the lake or whatever. You don't need a car for everything. This is my daily ride. And at a bit below 900€ quite affordable, IMHO.

beecycling,
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@jwildeboer I wish I had the facilities to keep one like that. I have to keep my bike in my flat and have to lift it to get it in and out, so had to have one that's not too heavy. There's too much bike theft around here to keep it outside. We need more secure bike parking for homes with no garage.

beecycling, to random
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Brexiteers seem to be living in constant fear that 2016 was a save point and if anyone other than a total knobhead is running the country we're going to just flip a switch, roll back to then and retry the last 7 years.

schizanon, to queer

Y'all means all!

beecycling,
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@schizanon Man, John Schneider was so pretty. No wonder my early teenage self loved that show.

beecycling,
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@schizanon I definitely had a thing for blonde guys back then. Bo Duke, Faceman, Illya Kuryakin. Oh man, is it hot in here?

rodhilton, (edited ) to random
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Just a friendly reminder that if you store your government ID on your phone and find yourself in a situation where you have to show a cop your ID, you'll have to hand them your unlocked phone to do it.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/1/23745168/google-wallet-state-id-drivers-license-custom-cards

beecycling,
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@rodhilton I had one on an app from the Post Office here in the UK, but it was a pain to use and nobody accepted it as ID - including the Post Office. 🤦‍♀️ So it literally had no advantage and only the potential drawbacks that you mention and plenty of others I'm sure. Not worth the risk of having it on the phone.

thor, to random
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according to many Europeans, America is a disaster and will collapse soon.

according to many Americans, Europe is a disaster and will collapse soon.

beecycling,
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@thor If the truth is somewhere in the middle, the Azores are in trouble.

Floppy, to random
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Ooh, here’s a new dark pattern I’ve not seen before. Decline cookies and you get a spinner saying it may take a few minutes to set your prefs, with a large cancel button. Utter bullshit.

beecycling,
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@Floppy The next button I'm hitting if I see that is the back button, not the cancel button. What a bunch of BS. Sites are certainly getting too big for their boots assuming their crappy site is worth putting up with all this bollocks.

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beecycling,
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@DoubleTreble @crochet I've just done some frogging on a hat I'm working on. Trying to do ribbing for the band for the first time. And I think I'm getting the hang of it, but restarting it, because I was using a dark colour and it was too hard to see what I was doing. So going to do the ribbing in a light colour - which I've already used for stripes on the hat so it should work.

beecycling, to random
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I'm technically Gen X, but sometimes feel like right now we're all just Gen WTF?

beecycling, to random
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The only message that can't be intercepted is a kiss.

beecycling,
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I'm not exactly sure what that means. It just came to me while reading a toot about DMs not being secure. It sounds like something that should be on a hazy background on an inspirational quotes site. Quick! To Canva!

beecycling,
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@tony Yeah, I'd never trust DMs on a website to be fully secure. Even less so with Musk in charge. Most places would have rules for their people that they can't go into people's DMs without a good reason. But Musk would always consider himself an exception to and rules.

benjaminhollon, to random
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It's my belief that if an electronic device needs replacing within four years—for any reason—it was defective from the beginning.

beecycling,
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@Judeet88 @benjaminhollon My cooker (Creda) and washing machine (Tricity Bendix) are still going strong from when I moved in here, nearly 23 years ago. Fridge and freezer have been replaced though. There can be outside circumstances for appliances that use water. My late dad had to replace his washing machine and dishwasher often, cos he was on the edge of the South Downs and his water was full of chalk. But absent such factors, it's a disgrace how quickly some break.

mikey, (edited ) to random
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I would like to take back everything I ever said about the LCARS Home Assistant theme. Turns out I was doing it all wrong. Now that I have it right, it is the nerdiest thing I've ever done to my house. I even included my own Okudagrams for the sharp eyed viewers.

beecycling,
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@mikey I love it. The LCARS interface is pure genius. It still looks amazing to this day.

thor, to random
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i don't know why the hedgehog is considered a hog

we call it pinnsvin in Norwegian - pinswine

what's so pig-like about a hedgehog?

beecycling,
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@thor
I've read that it's because they snort and grunt when rooting for food, just like pigs.

perkinsy, to random
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Air New Zealand is planning to introduce bunks for economy passengers to book for 4 hour sleeping sessions on long-haul flights. Only 1 booking per passenger per flight will be allowed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/10/air-new-zealand-to-charge-over-400-for-a-four-hour-snooze-in-the-sky

beecycling,
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@perkinsy Countdown starts now to first headline about people having sex in one.

JungleGeorge, to random

Do you have people you work with that just cause chaos? And then they're off sick or take a day off and you get so much work done? Yeah. Same. Its nice. ​:blobbonecomfycomputer:​​:blobhaj_sunglasses:​

beecycling,
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@JungleGeorge I think the usual term for those people is "manager."

liroyleshed, to random
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Workplace surveillance software of any kind should be entirely banned from the workplace.

beecycling,
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@liroyleshed I can think of a few exceptions. Like police interview rooms.

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