Steve Griffin @thehomespundays@toot.bike

After 130 years of struggle, what's changed?

I'm so, so much older.

NEW: The federal e-bike bill is back!

A bill introduced Tuesday would offer Americans up to $1,500 off a new e-bike. The basics:

→ E-bikes, e-cargo bikes, and e-trikes are eligible
→ Bike price capped at $8,000
→ Max credit of $1,500 or 30% of purchase price
→ Income cap of $150k for singles or $300k for joint filers
→ Eligible e-bikes must be certified for safety (a nod toward fire risk from cheap, imported models)

More info:
https://panetta.house.gov/media/press-releases/reps-panetta-blumenauer-thompson-and-schiff-reintroduce-e-bike-act

#ebikes #congress

"Ladies and Gentlemen": tired, plain, archaic.

"Ugly bags of mostly water": Inclusive, accurate, reminds you to hydrate.

"No one wants to work anymore."
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RT @jamieson
This is demented https://www.wsj.com/articles/that-plum-job-listing-may-just-be-a-ghost-3aafc794?mod=mhp
https://twitter.com/jamieson/status/1637817227410825225

#IPCC What I heard from the lead author's today:

•We'll pass 1.5° in early 2030s
•Rest of 2020s is key
•Storm frequency / severity will continue to go up
•All projects should be climate solutions
•Financing is needed & a good financial investment
•To work, ideas need to be vetted by community partners
•We have good tools + science already
•Mitigation / adaptation are more possible now than ever.

#ClimateAction #ClimateChange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otqFLN8K838

I'd be a lot more excited about the equinox if Outside would at least pretend it knew it was Spring.

Just now thought to use FrogFind by @ActionRetro to browse on my older Kindles, and it works like a charm!

It makes the web downright useable on these devices

I see the tech crowd is pretending that Credit Suisse was a stable bank, and that it was completely uninvolved with criminality, tax evasion, fraud, and market manipulation over the past decade.

"OMG! How is it possible that a bank whose main claim to fame is tax evasion and fraud, whose schemes have steadily been unwinding over a decade, just fall apart so SUDDENLY?!"

🙄

Like it

Oh, man. This comic — from 1993 — could NOT be more relevant today. As usual, Bill Watterson hits it out of the park.

#Banks #Banking #Bailout #AntiCapitalism

Hey nerds, let's have another #MARCHintosh giveaway!

Remember how I got a button badge maker a little while ago? Today I printed some OS 9 icons out on the ImageWriter and turned them into badges.

I've got eight badges that need new homes.

Give this toot a like, and around 4pm GMT tomorrow (Sunday 19 March) I'll draw four likers out of the computer-hat to get a pair of badges each.

:D

EDIT2: Name draw post, featuring HyperCard: https://bitbang.social/@billgoats/110050865448478088

I guess what I mostly like about the Australian phrase "I didn't come here to fuck spiders" - meaning 'I am here to do serious work' - is that by emphasising specific words you can really change the tone and meaning.

Happy 8 year anniversary to Bunny who I met on this day back in 2015. I'd never met a #donkey before, but the small ranch that we bought, well, the previous owner had 6 #horses & this donkey & when she moved, she took all of her horses & left Bunny behind. She was distraught, so I learned everything I could about #donkeys, started rescuing them myself.

She's also sort of how I started my #blog, "adonkumentary," which has it evolved & followed us through so SO many profound changes.
#asstodon

Cargo Bike Test Ride event, April 30 at 10AM at Danehy Park in #CambMA. Great chance to let people figure out what all the possibilities are. I’ll be dragging every parent buddy who’s ever admired or places their kid in my cargobike. https://www.familybikeride.org/testdrive?fbclid=IwAR2OdnWp0v5HSc9p_03EQ8u5l2bo6H_T91V8hJ6obgJigUhSfQ-JGzpEuV0&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

One problem with my Mastodon feed becoming busier: At first I responded to everyone. Then I responded to almost everyone. Some days there is too much and I can't (plus writing deadlines, etc.)

If there is an arrest this week, and I don't respond to you, please don't take it personally. I appreciate all my readers.