henrivdm.bsky.social
Cape Town, South Africa. Navigating the complexities of a post-colonial, post-apartheid world.
Would love to live in a car-free city one day...
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Sociopathic arsehole.
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Tx for the article @cilliankelly.bsky.social. Seems so retrogressive to move back to a 'defined bouquet' of million things that most people don't want. I would have thought getting many more to watch globally what they want on demand at a decent price would trump a small elite paying lots...
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To me the most pointless but symbolic Trump exec order was the one renaming Mt Denali back to McKinley. That says it all about his view of a 'Great America'....
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I still miss GCN+ every single day 😭 It really was visionary, and such as shame it became a pawn in corporate strategies...
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Yes I am so so so down. Utterly ridiculous how the visionary GCN+, which truly democratised and globalised affordable bike race viewing, has just been dismantled as a pawn in corporate greed. Disgusting and so so sad.
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Rolling over one by one. Nauseating 🤑
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Je le dis avec force aux défenseuses et défenseurs du climat : ne lâchons rien face aux climatosceptiques !
Vous pourrez toujours compter sur Paris et sur les villes pour résister et tenir bon !
Nous ne manquerons jamais
de courage et de détermination.
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As much as I found a lot of it hard to stomach and represent everything I can't stand about Bro Banter, they have one point: progressive people DO tend to 'gaslight' any questioning of the more 'absurd' (with reservation) progressive positions... which inevitably prevents coming to an understanding
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I have been acutely aware of how much more settled our lives felt in the Trump interregnum...the level of angst unleashed by his bevy of disastrously retrogressive orders feels existential.
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Always bewildering that “the economy” is treated as some kind of law of nature, like gravity, when in fact is a figment of the collective imagination - we have made it this way, and can make it another if we want; the natural world, however, is actually empirically real
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The Democrats have been so taken in by the same "socialist/communist paranoia" that they have not even realised how far Right they have drifted in neoliberal policies that at the end of the day favour companies with the myth of trickle-down and will inevitably create an oligarchy?
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This also explains the right-wing not understanding that 'woke' is really just about Empathy for people who are different and vulnerable, even though you yourself may not understand it or possibly even disagree with.
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The underlying cause is a lack of education and a lack of emotional intelligence, which means they have no empathy with their victims.
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Maybe people would be more inclined to renew their subscription if you actually made it possible to access anything with having adverts take over their phone. Silly.
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You are essentially making it impossible for my wife to access any of her Notes or even to access her Settings to upgrade with your aggressive advertising on free accounts (which are now clearly totally pointless). One way to finally force people to leave.
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In Bogota, apart from the normal bike paths, on Sundays they close vehicle traffic on some main roads so that people can ride a bicycle, walk or jog. It is a plan that people make as a family.
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SYDNEY: “Since 2007 we have delivered 25km of safe, separated cycleways including pop-up cycleways, 60km of shared paths & 40km of other bike infrastructure so now more than 7K people safely ride to work in the city centre – the equivalent of 7 full trains or 116 full buses.”
And still going.
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