I really wish that the #Berlin city council would visit #Amsterdam and other #Dutch cities so they could see that cities become more livable (and commerce actually blooms) if you decrease the amount of cars in town. This goes doubly so for the new #CDU majority fraction of the council.
But no, instead they scrap all plans for #cycle paths, remove already existing ones, and really want to make the city as car friendly as possible.
making an #introduction for the new people who are looking for people to follow!
i am a #nonbinary#transguy from #germany, i am #disabled with #mecfs, #eds, #mcas & co and can infodump you about DIY #chronicIllness management for hours on end, i use a #wheelchair, i have messed up sleep, i am also very neurodivergent and mentally messed up but i have moved away from identifying myself with psychiatric diagnoses.
i post a lot about my life and random shit, i am in the process of #writing some books (in german, sorry), i am also learning #french and #dutch and i like #linguistics and basically i am one little ball of #fatigue and special interests.
Droomde vannacht een (naar mijn weten) niet bestaand woord: "afkansing", oftewel als kansen verminderen. Er is bijvoorbeeld sprake van afkansing als je steeds minder kans maakt op een huis of baan. En als er steeds langer niks aan de klimaatverandering wordt gedaan, dan is er sprake van overlevingsafkansing.
Today's parcel run. I again had lots of odd shaped parcels so took them in a trailer.
And this time the photo is from the edge of Assen's city centre. The street from here on has restricted access. It's a pedestrian area where cycling is permitted, but we are supposed to look out for pedestrians.
No cars.
Deliveries to shops can be only made in the morning.
Dear @fedibikes_de@fedibikes@fediverse dear bike bubble. As a consuming capitalistic member of this society I have long been wanting a cargo bike like the #bullitt or #mulicycles As an environmentally woke person I don’t want to buy another new bike but re-use one ( of mine. #racing#city#dutch ) What is a cheap way of getting a bike to do the family groceries once a week and drive to work and garden colony? #followerpower
I recorded an English version of my voice back in February or so. I just ran a bunch of nonsense through the multilingual model, and what comes out is essentially a very, very angry person from 't Gooi, the Netherlands. That sounds, kinda sorta like this #Dutch#elevenLabs#silly
The #Dutch word for harvest is 'oogst'. The double O in there is pronounced as a long O, which may give you a clue to its origin: it is derived from the name of the month August, traditionally a time of harvest.
Funnily enough, the Dutch word for autumn is 'herfst'. You guessed it: that's related to the English harvest. It originally referred to the time of harvesting. In English it came to refer to harvesting itself, in other languages to the season of autumn.
There's so many little things the new #Dutch xenophobic rightwing / anti-environment government will make worse.
Here's one most people will have missed:
In the early 2000 my "farmer" classmates got diesel cars as their first vehicle. They'd fill it up with "red diesel", a very cheap (no sales & excise tax) fuel legally only to be used in farm vehicles.
Despite stern warnings only one of them ever had its fuel checked. He received a small fine.
My #Dutch internet provider just told me my internet connection will be bumped from 50 Mbps to 200 Mbps at no extra cost. Best bit is I haven’t even asked for it. meanwhile in #italy 👇🏻