Josephine Roper @jroper@transportation.social

@jake Don't know the area that well but it seems very small and some of the streets not very comfortable on a 20k vehicle. Will see what happens.

@Transportist All work is backed up but some personal stuff is not. But it's working ok on power now!

Things I really don’t need a month before submitting thesis: swollen laptop battery and now it’s crashing on power (battery removed) too 😨

@mszll thank you, will read

@colby Yeah, that's tough! I can do research partly because of my prior income in road construction, but at least it was a clean break.

@bikepedantic Thank you, all that is needed is good to hear. It's just hard to reconcile the long timelines of academic work with the urgency of the situation.

#ClimateDiary - Writing research plans for postdoc applications -> anxiety and guilt about whether I am working on climate change to the extent that I could be.

Only real reassuring thing is remembering I am just one part of a whole community of people who care about this, especially on here. Thankful for that.

@michcampbell Love it. I didn't even know you climbed

@mszll it will come to that, but the people immediately affected are so poor and far from power that assassinating fossil fuel executives or shooting down planes is out of their reach, is my prediction… most terrorism is very local and small scale even though the exceptions are memorable. Meanwhile people like us aren’t existentially affected and have too much to lose, no matter how much we say we care.

@mszll Some people describe XR that way but they don't go for violence (AFAIK). I don't think violent terrorism is very compatible with the typical humanist morality of people who want to slow climate change.

I think for outright terrorism you need a group of people who are very personally and immediately threatened *and* feel that there is some potential for their actions to change the situation. The latter is lacking with such a global problem, and the former for most...

Bonus! #Bouldering without a car, is it possible?

https://carlesscragging.wordpress.com/2023/11/18/bouldering-without-a-car-is-it-possible/

New post on my #climbing by train and bike blog that I tend to forget to promote very much: Mt Alexandra and Mt Gibraltar, Mittagong https://carlesscragging.wordpress.com/2023/11/18/crag-mt-alexandra-mt-gibraltar/

@jedsetter It's nutty. There is a facebook group where people share petitions and generally agitate about it if you're on that site. https://www.facebook.com/groups/675675876656601

The new fleets should be better though who knows when they'll appear.

I am never going to drive to do a rail trail or bike tour... like never... just defeats the purpose for me.

Writing a paper for the Greater Cities Commission = trying not to get sucked down the path of governmental garble. Today's highlight: "This page summarises the relevant NSW Government policies that frame the development of options to address issues and opportunities associated with achieving a project or plan’s vision and objectives."

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@benjamingeer I think people are reading this like I'm some sort of AV booster. I'm not, I don't do any of my work in that direction because I don't think it's a useful direction for sustainable transport.

I'm writing these things while shaking my head at all the single occupant cars going by, and thinking that if AVs *are* going to appear, maybe at least I can gleefully cycle in front of them on any road I like.

@benjamingeer yeah, I'm differentiating speed in the moment versus total journey speed, because most people who drive in these areas still don't know that and base their choicesmore on their perceptions of momentary speed. But, then the argument occurs that if people are sitting in their AVs reading a book they will no longer be focused on momentary speed either. But maybe then they'll get more familiar with door to door speeds of all the modes available to them. Who knows.