Posts by morgan@sfba.social
(DIR) Post #AtPUmAn2gT2sRtOAbI by morgan@sfba.social
2025-04-24T05:45:37Z
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The roads will be prepared especially for bicycles, the grades being very light, and, in fact, only sufficient to provide proper drainage. The surface will be hard and smooth, the outer edge of all curves being raised as on a race track. The roads will be kept clean, as by that time the horse will be found only in zoological gardens. The improvement in the rider will be equally marked. From the continued and increasing use of the wheel a race of people will be evolved that will take to cycling as readily as a foreign immigrant does to politics. 3/n
(DIR) Post #AtPUmFVV96z94wDjSC by morgan@sfba.social
2025-04-24T05:46:52Z
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Taking all these things into consideration, we may expect an average speed of thirty miles an hour on the road and sixty miles an hour on the track. The use of the machine will be universal. Children will be taught to ride as they are now taught to walk. The suburbs of our great cities will extend from sixty to 100 miles in every direction. All patents will have expired, and such large quantities of bicycles will be manufactured that the cost will be nominal and within the reach of all. There will be no more crowded tenement-houses. The artisan, who will work only four hours a day, will live with his family in a cozy little home in the suburbs, where he can see the sunshine and breathe the fresh air. The uses of the wheel will have so improved the stamina and physique of the race that the only causes of death will be old age and accidents. Railroads will be used for the transportation of freight only. Every individual will own a bicycle. 4/n
(DIR) Post #AtPUmKbMCldksXzym8 by morgan@sfba.social
2025-04-24T05:47:59Z
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Those intended for long-distance travel will be run by small but powerful storage batteries, which may be charged at automatic electric stations by connecting the battery to a dynamo and dropping a coin of small value in a slot. With machines of this character it will be possible to attain a speed of 150 miles an hour, and to overcome the wind pressure they will be fitted with wedge-shaped wind shields made of some tough yet transparent substance. The bicycle will not be used in war for the simple reason that as dyspepsia will be unknown everybody will feel so well and be so good humored and disinclined to quarrel that there will be no one to go to war.THE BICYCLE OF THE FUTURE.The Norcatur RegisterNorcatur, KansasFri, Sep 29, 1893Page 4https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-norcatur-register-the-bicycle-of-the/91806461/5/5
(DIR) Post #AtZQIbI7pVRA3rj4tM by morgan@sfba.social
2025-04-29T03:17:52Z
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@Nonilex fuck that guy.
(DIR) Post #Attk9eh9VejC8DHLWa by morgan@sfba.social
2025-05-08T22:34:19Z
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@Nonilex danger danger danger
(DIR) Post #Au5fbPKa3fzuiOec0e by morgan@sfba.social
2025-05-14T16:40:05Z
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@Nonilex "It is a cardinal rule of MAGA rhetoric that any accusation is a confession.If they say the left is a cult, it is because they fear the mirror. If they warn of censorship, it is because they crave control. If they wail about persecution, it is because they need an enemy to remain coherent.Consider the daily parade: accusations that liberals are snowflakes, while MAGA melts at the removal of a statue. Laments about cancel culture from those who cheered Colin Kaepernick’s blackballing. Cries of stolen elections from the movement that tried to steal one.This is not irony. It is psychology.Projection, as Freud once taught and modern psychologists like Jost have confirmed, is the ego’s emergency exit. When beliefs contradict behavior, the mind exports the conflict. The result is MAGA’s psychic equilibrium, a worldview in which they can accuse others of authoritarianism while draping themselves in flags and preparing for civil war."https://therationalleague.substack.com/p/the-mirror-is-the-message#projection #maga #AntiSemitism
(DIR) Post #AufjpIU0JXUZlx922q by morgan@sfba.social
2025-06-01T02:16:58Z
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@stux I think you're in tech, like me. Software originally solved problems for people, and made people's lives better. More recently the business of software serves capital, and not people. #GoldenCalf
(DIR) Post #Awsb8zqR1jSDioIAhU by morgan@sfba.social
2025-08-06T02:55:12Z
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@Nonilex this guy: https://youtu.be/bXOhWTYDgJELiar and shit heel.
(DIR) Post #AzeJ1YzJ9HtpBmUT6e by morgan@sfba.social
2025-10-27T14:51:57Z
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@ascentale @tregeagle @bikenite howdy, yes, I've compiled the #BicycleHistory of the #SanFrancisco #BayArea from the 1860s - 1940s, primarily focusing on the #BicycleBoom era circa 1895, in #wiki form, using #MediaWiki. See it here: https://www.wooljersey.com/I'd love help transcribing, researching and linking these, but I don't want to deal with bots or scammers, so I've turned off visitor registration. I have 1000s of newspaper clippings, mostly about bicycle history, waiting for... my free time, someone's interest, here:https://www.newspapers.com/clippings/?user=3570264&query=bicycle(Not all bicycle-related clippings have the word 'bicycle' in them, but I created most before newspapers.com had tags, so they are mostly untagged. The earlier terms 'velocipede' and 'wheel' make useful search terms as well.)I originally did all this via my blog, and still have some of my favorite #OldTimey #bike stories there. Again, the #bicycle keyword makes a great search term:https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/search?q=bicycleI imagine this becoming a book.#sfbike #BikeTooter
(DIR) Post #AzeJ1eTyigP6ELsX6e by morgan@sfba.social
2025-10-27T16:19:56Z
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@lars_amenda ☝🏼
(DIR) Post #AzeKu5dU52PY2KqYfg by morgan@sfba.social
2025-10-27T23:23:30Z
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@tregeagle @ai6yr @ascentale @bikenite many of the early ride reports from 'club runs' involved stops at road houses, where the riders would stop to 'refresh the inner man.' I'm sure the ladies did something similar.
(DIR) Post #Azg9Mylts0Wm0miDD6 by morgan@sfba.social
2025-10-28T20:23:41Z
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@tregeagle @ai6yr @ascentale @bikenite here's one of the more interesting articles I found, written by the current World Champion: https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2018/12/what-did-bicycle-riders-in-1890s-drink.htmlPlease pardon the weird formatting, I highlighted some sections but my blog's latest theme makes them hard to read.
(DIR) Post #AzkUC7KGbHdR1iHwNk by morgan@sfba.social
2025-10-30T22:35:54Z
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@Nonilex City of Lost Children or Delicatessen. Excellent French movies. Something about the tone of your post makes me think you would like them
(DIR) Post #B05anN5bzXDsQTJhce by morgan@sfba.social
2025-11-08T17:06:55Z
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@realSiegfried @tregeagle @crankyclown @ascentale @bikenite I use something like the modern, and much simpler version of the continuous bell, really suited for bumpier (dirt) terrain:https://mtbbell.comRequires a shoulder wiggle to dingle on asphalt. Most hikers appreciate it.I do like to look at that 1919 catalog and think about how many of our bicycle technologies were already relatively perfected then. Tubeless tire technology, tire plugs, integrated headsets, racks, bells, even anatomic saddles with central cut-outs were all there. I wrote about how the basic form of the diamond-frame #bicycle - the mutt - is not only perfect, but becoming revitalized by the 'gravel' movement:https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2019/02/whats-old-is-new-again.htmlI just bought a new bike a week ago, the #Hudski Dualist, which proudly calls itself an #ATB (All Terrain Bicycle) and it even further blurs the lines between #gravel and #MTB It looks a lot like my 191X Mead Ranger Special.https://hudskibikes.com/products/dualist-mtbhttps://photos.app.goo.gl/X5kMgMXjsja9jCjP9#BikeTooter
(DIR) Post #B05cBga7Gw5tmdk7Zg by morgan@sfba.social
2025-11-08T20:46:02Z
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@tregeagle @realSiegfried @crankyclown @ascentale @bikenite > My brass bell stopped dinging a while ago. I was thinking of improvising by hanging a tibetan a prayer bell off the handlebars.I think that's fundamentally all the timber bell is, except you can turn it off, it's durable enough, and it has a nice handlebar mount. I have a path to a more affordable version of it...
(DIR) Post #B0ZQCSDiUuQFpThPyy by morgan@sfba.social
2025-11-21T18:56:48Z
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@MorpheusB a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away I did tech support for a software company that sold products on "floppy" discs. Those disc drives had little latches you would flip down to secure the disc, and begin reading/writing. We called them "doors."I was on a call with a customer who was having a problem with their software. I asked them to put the floppy disc in the drive and close the door. I heard the phone placed on the desk, then footsteps, then the sound of a door closing, then footsteps, then the phone picked back up, and then, "OK, I've closed the door. Now what?"
(DIR) Post #B2WMyok9q15x9RS3fM by morgan@sfba.social
2026-01-21T16:38:23Z
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Go hug someone you love. Text a friend you haven't seen in a while, ask them how they're doing. Go outside and make your heart pump, and look at beautiful things.These are now your ideas. I was never here.
(DIR) Post #B2hYX7fAxF51E8mqTg by morgan@sfba.social
2026-01-27T00:55:14Z
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RE: https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/115964264272615886This is brilliant. Read it, share it. Edit: https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation'This wasn’t crowd control. This was panic control. This was the federal government throwing tear gas at a punchline because they couldn’t arrest a joke.While we didn’t shut down ICE that night, we did show that their power collapses the moment it’s confronted with absurdity.'#dildos#sextoys#fascism#resist
(DIR) Post #B2yBZpS27z5QM0HPOK by morgan@sfba.social
2026-02-04T06:48:59Z
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@Nonilex your life is important, and we appreciate you.
(DIR) Post #B3DwYNUODMAGYgags4 by morgan@sfba.social
2026-02-11T12:47:59Z
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Boosting a post is like the crowd holding up and passing the crowd surfer. Woo!https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/114089056994000114 #fediverse