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So, last week, I got the all clear to return to my Greenspeed after spinal surgery 6 weeks ago. Australian winter had begun reducing my riding, then surgery happened (laminectomy and fusion, C# and C4), then a known complication happened on my birthday, and passed the day after. And while I've been walking a lot, I haven't been able to lift the trike out of its storage location... the cycling equivalent of "There's dust on my guitar, you f***..." This week, I get back on the road, with 12 days to build for a 50km social ride with other trikies in and around Trisled's customer base. Not the first one I've wanted to do, but hopefully, the first I can actually get to. Also making Gippsland social rides more accessible, the Lovely Linda has a new car, so I have the old one. I well mannered glow plug turbo deisel Hyundai. Very torquey, very fuel efficient, barely large enough for a folded GT20, but it'll get me to the rides on time. I'd prefer an elec...

Yeah, look, sorry, this dude is right, but you can't fight capitalistic/militaristic colonialism with colonial language. It feeds Trump's fanbase. That said, with the bracketed correction to the title, every word this guy speaks is absolute truth. We can't save the world while capitalism has a chokehold. We can't save the world while while "Growth Fetish" fills our lives and nostrils with the fear of poverty. FOMO is a neurosis designed by capitalism. There is a need for all of us of middle class, working class or unemployed class to join the "Millenials" in their uprisings. A young woman, while still a literal child, Greta Thunberg, had more courage than any President or Prime Minister in the world today, and Greta, still, today a young woman, is inspiring her generation in places like Nepal or Morocco or Singapore. It's time to reverse history and follow young women instead of old men * , but yeah, The Capitalist States of the Americas cannot ...

One last crack at old school, as in really old school, film photography Lomo Mod No. 1 120 Film Camera - DIY from Ted's Cameras Plus... Ilford XP2 Ultra 400ISO, 120 format roll film Ilford FP4 Plus, 120 format roll film Ilford HPS+, 120 format roll film ...all from Ted's Cameras, as per this search. Also... "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares (non-fiction)

The Last Mixed Tape, a YouTube music production commentator has summed up the situation where forces of the right wing stea; and corrupt the arts and oppress those who express differently - Fascists can't dance. They can only steal, pervert and corrupt. Check out his video...

Editors Update ~ 21 October, 2025 The brackets arrived, along with a lighter, redesigned version that was more art deco in look, with cylindrical fastening points and swept eliptical profiles for the risers from the fram mount up to the rack mounts. While more stylish, I suspect it might be a bit underated, structurally, although it does look beautifully like a classic, early 20th, industrial piece, almost like a high quality, "iron" casting! So, it may find its way onto a commuter bike project I have in mind, where it won't be loaded to the degree my trike is. I may be being precious, choosing the flat bracket, because they're both really quite incredibly strong, but a luggage rack break could seriously damage the Greenspeed, where a commuter bike isn't likely to be loaded as heavily. I've known about JLC3DP's short run printing services for a while but, until recently, hadn't had the right project for them. They do steel and and titanium selective...

Pythagoras was a genius. To conceive the mathematical rules of a triangle and recognise a consistent formula for the dimensions and area of any triangle, without so much as a trigonometric lookup table... remarkable. Literally changed the world. And is still doing so. Now, before I proceed, 3D printing a 3D printer is not an original idea. Josef Prusa makes a living out of printing printers that can print printers. The whole RepRap movement is founded on this concept, but today, I want to share the basic concepts of how it can be done, and look at maximising the printing, while minimising the purchases. Essentially, using Pythagoras to conceptually "print" a printer frame. For example, like this... A Pythagorean printable printer frame, showing bed alignment of a single part as it might be printed on an earlier generation of itself. How's this work? Well, Pythagoras worked out that the diagonal of a square is equal to the side of a square time the square root of 2. Fo...