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@ajft@aus.social
mastodon 4.7.2he/him scruffy monkeyhanger sysadmin cyclist
Not here to fuck spiders.
Current location: Melbourne, Boonwurrung land, Aus
Profile image is a cartoonish circular purple monster, paws above its head to be scary, generated long ago by MonsterID
Header image is a view along a dirt road into the Otways rainforest
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Joined May 31, 2022
I have repatched the #fixie tube. Most time consuming part of the process was trying to find the patch after a gust of wind flicked it up off my knee and 4m away _somewhere_ on the lawn
Self-sticky patches, yeah nah, not so good
#BikeTooter
OH "I saw it on inaturist and ..." Hmm, is that some kind of website where you upload pictures of nude people and collectively identify them?
Observations on a Sunday afternoon from the outdoor tables. Maybe step inside the #exaloo and shut the door before doing your business. Flopping out the old fella two metres up the footpath and strolling in, pissing, strolling out is perhaps not so classy
The joys of #cycling in #Melbourne, no. 43356 "The Separated Bike Lane"
whiskey?
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@ascentale@sfba.social @pete@masto.hypertelia.com @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A7 we found an abandoned hybrid town bike dumped at the end of our street once, handed it to the police as lost/stolen, got it back three months later as unclaimed. Gave it to a family member who wanted a weekend ride bike. Within a few months he'd bought himself a shiny new road bike and was caught up in the weekly club rides from his local shop! Old brown hybrid got handed on to a friend of his
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@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A4. Ugh. yes. Cardboard box from a bike shop, wheels & pedals off, bars turned, seat down[1] and use padding between various metal parts in the box so n hours of vibration doesn't wear things awy. Turn up to the checkin early, smile a lot, remember that every single piece of information you read online from the airline's website is meaningless if the person on the gate on the day decides there's an extra charge, or a special "airport transit charge for bulky luggage" or it has to be completely unpacked "for security reasons" and repacked on the spot
travel on the bike is awesome, sometimes getting the bike there and back is not so awesome
[1] this is when we discover that the seatpost has siezed
edit: eg https://flic.kr/p/2nTQEXJ
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@ascentale@sfba.social @MarkBrigham@universeodon.com @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A2 I do not know, but there is a clear problem with many of the paths, they're created with one-off funds but then councils/states move on to the next "look at our X new km of bike paths" and no budget is allocated to maintenance of the increasing amount of old ones. The other source of "new paths" is major infrastructure projects where the project required to build a bike path along a freeway (for example), but then because it is on the road or rail reserve we find that the path _never_ undergoes maintenance because VicRoads/VicTrack just don't
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@ascentale@sfba.social @grammasaurus@mastodon.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BIkeNite A5 I'd usually only replace the tyre if its worn out, or getting multiple punctures
I generally get my full $$$ worth out of tyres, sometimes as a result getting a few too many punctures when the'yre really past their due date
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@ascentale@sfba.social @edd@freeradical.zone @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A4 snacks, money, spare tube. Depends where its going, long loop around suburban Melbourne is different to 160km over the mountains on country dirt roads
Usually two water bottles although I ended up putting a third on the bike midway through a tour last year when I was having trouble finding intermediate water stops
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@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A1 Melbourne, Boonwurrung land
Interesting? We've got a new state premier, the old one was smelling too much so they changed them
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@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A6 I use more bikepaths than I used to, unclear if that's because I'm getting older, there's now more of the paths that actually go useful places, or that melbourne's drivers get worse and their vehicles get bigger
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@ascentale@sfba.social @BongoTwisty@social.vivaldi.net @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A6 yes your legs do the pushing, but they have to push against something. If your body is flopping about like a sack of spuds then lots of leg energy is being wasted, if you have rock-like abs and a superhero torso then a higher proportion goes into pushing the pedals. Probably need to read up more in a real biomechanics reference than my arm-waving description
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@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A8 lots of huge piles of autumn leaves, many pushed helpfully off the side of the roads and into the bike lanes. (previously posted) but I also saw this genius who managed to drive up and over the concrete barrier, then park to completely block the footpath and mostly block the counter-flow bike lane - council response to this photo was to visit 30hrs later, be unable to locate the van but to say they would schedule a "parking enforcement visit" sometime "in the near future"
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@ascentale@sfba.social @gbargoud@masto.nyc @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A5 some overlap, a fixie mostly for commuting and short trips, an old roadie that is only ever used on a trainer when I can't go out, AWOL gravel / tourer that goes anywhere and everywhere carrying anything and a shiny gravel bike
Generally knwo what I'll use before I go out, although a surprise flat tyre can have me take a different bike
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@ascentale@sfba.social @uxMark@cosocial.ca @cainmark@mstdn.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A6 don't ride if you can avoid it, esp. if you'll end up somewhere near a bushfire and add to the list of people who need rescueing. If you do have to ride to go somewhere, take it easy as you'll have trouble breathing hard and seeing well - as will the drivers around you
https://flic.kr/p/2sot8EL
#SysadminLife buzzword edition
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@ascentale@sfba.social @cainmark@mstdn.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A2, my gravel/tourer/commuter everything AWOL has shimano pedals that are flats on one side, cleats on the other and I think they're excellent. The fixie has some lime green plastic flats, can't remember what brand but they're still going strong after a few years
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@ascentale@sfba.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A5 plenty of all of these things, but sometimes it needs rest, sometimes it needs exercise. better off with a physio, esp. a sports physio to find out what is specific to your injury
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@ascentale@sfba.social @geonz@mathstodon.xyz @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A1 Melbourne, Boonwurrung land. A sunny winter morning after a couple of weeks of grey wet skies
1b, a few times, especially rural places near rail trails where a fence of rusty old bikes can be quite common
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@ascentale@sfba.social @sheromon@hachyderm.io @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A3 local shops sometimes, various online, depends what I"m after and who has it
if anyone knows someone who works as a crossing guard for a school, they have my deepest respect. Exactly _how_ they do not lose their shit every few minutes at the dangerous entitled drivers is a miracle afaict
Just watched a woman ignore the "No stopping" signs and park almost across a school crossing as kids were leaving, ignored the crossing guard loudly telling her NO and waving her back, then eventually got out and started abusing him that I HAVE A VERY URGENT PHONE CALL AND I HAVE TO STOP HERE
Yeah, she nearly doored me in her rush to leap out and TELL HIM OFF, but I saw that coming metres back
#CarBrain to the max
#FestivalOfHardRubbish spotto du jour while riding to work: Two large shiny bowling balls. Resisted the urge to pick them up and bring them withme
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net @ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social it would be a shame if someone unbolted it and took it to a metal recycling place ...
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@ascentale@sfba.social @SRLevine@neuromatch.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social #Bikenite A5 no idea what a stroad MUP or a mile is so I'll toss a coin
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@shlee@aus.social @ryanc@infosec.exchange I have visions of a very large velvet covered spanner being used to perform the adjustments
Amused. Amused. Asked the teenager what they're reading (engrossed in the device). "Oh, some old cyberpunk. 'Snow crash', you probably read it " ... spouse and I laugh and I grab the copy off the shelf and throw it across the room
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@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite #BikeNite A1 Boonwurrung land, Aus
I _prefer_ a hub dynamo, but I've only got rechargeable USB lights, endless boxes of the things as the batteries eventually stop holding a charge, the sockets fall apart, or the plastic mounts disintegrate leaving a functional light that can't be held on other than with tape
In local news, the Anonymous No-Tower Nimbys keep on plastering the 'burb with handouts, "End of SunLight, NO More Towers, VOTE THEM OUT!". No name, no contact details, nothing but scare campaign assertions that the entire suburb will be overrun by 12 storey apartment blocks
To the extent that the local mayor has issued press releases calling them out and putting up a few official signs of their own stating there are no lodged plans as asserted by monsieur anonanimby
Dear tradies of Oz. The massive clouds of burning-trough-lolly smoke appearing table by table in the pub beer garden are a dead giveaway. Hiding the #vapes in your hand is fooling nobody
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social As a 6809 programmer well before I'd met a macintosh, OS9 will always mean Microware to me
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@vandenberglegs@mastodon.social just out of shot to the right is confrontational-looking tradie standing hands on hips, chest puffed out, just waiting to come across the road and ...
a) politely move his van
b) punch me in the head
"Your password was last updated more than 6 months ago. Please change your password at Update password."
NO
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@augustusbrown@aus.social subtitled: "Don't try to be clever or inventive with your bike parking"
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@psa@masto.ai same happens in the on-road lanes and the ineffectual "shared parking/bike lanes", but this is more blatant. It is explicitly walled off and is a contra-flow lane up a one-way road
#beergarden thoughts: By 2030, no Australian will be outside and not wearing a hivis shirt and those multi-pocket tradie pants
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@ThermiteBeGiants@aus.social we need more good lookin' trains
(even if they are 40yo smokey diesels wearing lipstick)
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@rdm@aus.social @weirdonwheels@social.chinwag.org I love it, I want one, but they do look like mouse ears!
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@devopscats@toot.cat wait until they find out about the cpus in the ignition control & engine management of all those "American-made" internal combustion vehicles
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@benschwarz@front-end.social @jessta@aus.social as entirely expected, an SMS from Monash Council stating that they visited the site at lunch time the following day, could not locate the vehicle, so no action can be taken. WOFTAM
Edit: can understand how people get entirely frustrated at the complete inability of local council to do *anything* and belt the crap out of it in person instead
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@benschwarz@front-end.social Did at the time. Usual response from Monash council is to visit three days later then report "unable to locate the reported vehicle"
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town no idea! Today was the one morning I was wishing one of the delivery e-pretend-bikes was hooting up the lane ahead of me
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@geolaw@aus.social they drove up and over the concrete divider from the "towards you" car lane to park *in* the counter-flow bike lane. Can''t see that divider being made any higher, it was a blessing when it was installed, prior to that drivers would come head-on down the bike lane and bully you out of the way
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@decryption@aus.social only old people know what a camera looks like
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@stgm they're so accustomed to people feeding them that some places they get scary. Swoop on bbq or body-slam sandwiches out of your hand, a sudden kookaburra to the side of the head is quite a shock!
Transferred: 1.386 TiB / 165.703 TiB, 1%, 44.859 MiB/s, ETA 6w2d10h │
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@WhombeX@bne.social SSS reports go to council, what then happens is highly variable. Parking generally results in a visit three days later and a "unable to locate the reported vehicle"
@shlee@aus.social is reviewdb.app down in a planned or unplanned manner? btw, reviewdb.app is down #reviewdb
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@benschwarz@front-end.social @jessta@aus.social 20+ years of the same behaviour and kind respectful persistence can get in the bin