@ThermiteBeGiants @VictoriaBotter cold beer and couplets is all I crave
Our future must look to Russia’s past - trams, trolleybuses and above all cities designed to be traversed at all hours without the use of cars | “A look at public transit in the Soviet Union, 1976”
http://theleftchapter.blogspot.com/2018/08/trams-and-buses-in-ussr-look-at-public.html
This is an important video to watch featuring the stories of discrimination faced by people who aren’t old cis blokes in the railway industry, particularly heritage railways. It’s a big problem and we need to address it:
Low Tech Magazine coming in hot for some April Fools shitposting*:
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/03/urban-fish-ponds-low-tech-sewage-treatment-for-towns-and-cities.html
(not shitposting at all, using wastewater-fed fish farming is a genuinely interesting idea actually)
I now own 400 colourful plastic balls. Please subsidise my ball habit by buying tickets to my show. I will spend all the money on more balls.
https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2021/shows/damo-mick-s-backyard-quiz
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
While we're on the subject of unusual vehicle recoveries: Russians using trains to tow bogged/stuck cars and trucks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEyoserGDhU
‘It’s Going to End Up Like Boeing’: How [US & Canadian] Freight Rail Is Courting Catastrophe
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3angy3/freight-rail-train-disaster-avoidable-boeing
Another thing about community management, which came up in this very thread: I really wanna re-emphasize the whole "Let people delete their past selves" thing.
Everyone, without exception, says stupid things online. Everyone, with very few exceptions, reflects on the stupid things they said once upon a time, and cringes. The only people who don't are people who don't grow, change, and learn.
It's illegal to enter buildings in the zone as most of them are completely unstable, and due to a new zone administration there's typically no bribing your way out of a situation. Sometimes in the most unsuspecting places you may find street art left behind by a Stalker who risked arrest for something many will never see. Somewhat of a real life Easter egg, or a subtle nod to defiance: "You're not suppose to be here."
Location: Chernobyl Exclusion-zone, Ukraine. 2019.
Train guy. Bit of a pinko.
Old machines 🆒
Old societal attitudes 🚫
Account contains traces of trains 🚂, trams , vintage tractors 🚜 and shitposting
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