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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · 9d

That's the only logical conclusion.

We need to say it out loud more.

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Błażej qrjusz Kurowski @vlepkaaday.bsky.social · 21d

#Inktober #Inktober2025
Day 4: Murky

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · 20d

I've just started asking them, in no round-about way, what in their life caused them to be misogynist/homophobic/racist/ xenophobic etc. I avoid broad terms like "bigoted". Generally I don't hear back, which is a shame.

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · 20d

From yesterday's #coffeeoutside and #kanelbullensdag.

#kaffeutomhus #kaffeedraußen

A Trangia boling water, an aeropress, a mug, and a trangia bowl sitting on a stone ledge. There are people's blurry torsos in the background.

People standing by a stone wall with bikes and coffee paraphernalia.

A moka pot on a little trangia trivet next to a cinnamon scroll.

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · 20d

Proud Swedish Australian. Will keep meddling and demanding better, tyvm.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21d

I’m a proud Canadian, so some will say this is “none of my business” (they’re wrong), but the entire world badly needs a hell of a lot better USA than this.

KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · 20d

Been seeing more and more transphobic stickers going up around the place. They look well intentioned - there's a rainbow heart, there's messaging about being perfect just how you are. But when you read into it, it's just #transphobe garbage. Slap something better on top since I couldn't peel it off.

A pole with a PB/5 attached, that has a sticker on it that says "Keep South Australia Beautiful" with the image of a stylised person throwing a swastika into the bin. This sticker is covering up transphobic garbage.

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · 22d

Partook in some mild #carryshitolympics with the #omnium minimax yesterday. Bedding straw for the chooks.

#bikeposting

An Omnium MiniMax with a hay bale as cargo is rolling down The Parade in Kensington Gardens.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 23d

The War on Cars 🤝 The War on Fascists

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 23d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · 28d

Maybe she needs to change her surname to a Nintendo licenced character's name?

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · Sep 25

Whenever I'm towing something - and in particular my little sailboat - I'm so careful because I really don't want to end up on the internet.

KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · Sep 25

"Real strength isn't staying silent. It's having the courage to speak out and seek support."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBE_...

I jumped off the Eiffel Tower.

YouTube video by Nuisance

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · Sep 19

I use a great (or nearly great) RSS to email doodad on Github. My feed comes to me as an email every morning. I don't need another app to open. I just skim and read what feels interesting.

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · Sep 18

I particularly liked the section on re-creation.

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · Sep 18

Gorgeous.

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · Sep 18

What did you quit this week?

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · Sep 18

I wrote a little thing about The Overland, travelling from Adelaide to Melbourne.

karloskar.au/the-overland

#trains #trainposting

The Overland

The story of Serviceton is quite interesting. The town sprung up around the train station that existed only because South Australia and Victoria picked different rail gauges for the networks.

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · Sep 17

I was so surprised by today's ride up Chamber's Gully in #Adelaide that I had to write about it:

spokes-person.com/they-paved-p...

(What's the Bluesky equivalent of #Biketooter?)

Chamber's Gully - They Paved Paradise

I'd heard rumours that the trail had been "upgraded", so decided I needed to go and take a look. As I entered the trail from Waterfall Gully Road I didn't think it was too different. A few creek cross...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 13

“Bike-lanes take up too much space & make streets dangerous!”

(They actually make streets safer for everyone.

Data doesn’t lie. On streets with protected bike-lanes, crash rates typically drop—for drivers, cyclists, & pedestrians.)

See @momentummag.bsky.social for more comebacks to common myths.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 4

“We can’t all be expected to bike.”

Fair. But that’s not the point.

“Not everyone can or wants to bike. But some people can & do—and they deserve a safe, efficient, affordable way to move through the city. It’s about freedom of choice.”

This & other useful comebacks, in @momentummag.bsky.social.

Your Comeback Guide to all the Anti-Cycling Arguments You’ll Hear This Year

Anti-bike arguments aren’t just frustrating—they’re outdated, inaccurate, and often repeated without a shred of evidence.

momentummag.com

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · Sep 4

Bear is not a fan of posing. She'll tolerate it, but makes it clear that she trades posing for schnacks.

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · Sep 2

RIP

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · Sep 1

They're so good! I loved having access to several when I worked in the industry.

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy National Wattle Day!
A day to celebrate Australia and being Australian.
But after the way some Australians behaved yesterday, I am not feeling it.

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · Sep 1

Happy Wattle Day!

Here is a scanning electron microscope image of wattle pollen I made a few years ago.

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KO 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 @bitterswede.com · Aug 30

My council is going to put in a zebra crossing near my street. I wrote to them last year about making my street a #woonerf which got shut down pretty firmly by the mayor, but now they're going to build a zebra crossing. A step in the right direction!

Read my take: spokes-person.com/a-step-in-th...

A step in the right direction

This is an area that has had some attention in recent years, getting a concrete protrusion into the street to give pedestrians a better view of the street for safer crossing. It now looks like it's go...

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