I didn't know who has been funding the fight for chat control mass surveillance in Europe. Now I do.

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Was considering to build myself a steel gravel bike with up to 45mm tyres using AliExpress components which would make it a more comfortable alternative to buying a used aluminum mountainbike for my shopping and travel needs during winter. This derailleur design is utterly abysmal though. Why would anyone build it like that? It just begs to drown the shifting cable in dirt, water and other grease.

Halt die Fresse, Spiegel.

Hey @⁣⁤Proton⁤⁣, who do you get involved with these regime change operations instead of dedicating more resources to fighting shit like Chat Control, Digital ID and whatever else the Western plutocracy comes up with?

Put too big a piece of wood into the oven. Didn't feel like sleeping through it, better keep an eye on it and learn from it. Don't want to burn down a wood house after a week or die of co2 poisoning.

Nothing beats climbing and then hitting a cold shower.

First time ever riding ~45m through total darkness. Barely any street lights, some paths through a forest. Something every day.

When I get home I'll have some of my leftover Brussels sprouts with potatoes from yesterday. Can't wait to heat up that oven again. 😌

Let's see if I get home today.

Just witnessed the sun being blurred out behind layers of "airplane contrails" again. Quite the powerful water-vapor. #geoengineering #solarradiationmanagement

I'm just as dirty as my bicycle btw. 🫠

Guess who just won the train lottery against all odds? Gambled on 2 delayed trains not gaining 1 minute against each other and it actually worked because I rode the bike along the platform at the station again. View quoted note →

First ride back to my old flat isn't going well. Missed by first connecting train due to navigation issues, wasted 120€ on express trains and now I'm stuck with local trains and 4 different connections that I must get, giving me just 3 hours for work in the old flat. 😶

Old vs new. I'm a total newbie when it comes to actually work with my hands. Let's see if it's stable enough to endure winter. Going to order my firewood soon. Will probably mount the tarps onto the house before it gets windier but this works for now. Then I can stack the wood more and gain better insulation on the sides of the house. Also cleaned up the path, started a small compost and put the garden furniture under a tree. It's robust but why expose it to rain and snow if there's an alternative. Better than before is my main goal right now. Onwards.

So this is how you get rid of old wood you no longer need on the countryside. Old kitchens, garden chairs, bad firewood, everything. 🔥 .

Still thinking of these wonderful Falafel I had yesterday while down in town. Never would've expected to eat something this delicious in a plain falafel place in a small town.

Glad I never felt comfortable with @SimpleX Chat. Found the way it handles group chats intolerable, the apps I used (Android, macOS) were slow and clunky. Hopeful for some alternatives. The closer to nostr the better because nostr people are weiry of shitcoins.

My employer’s sales guy made another in-person appointment with a client inspite of our agreement to ask me first and now he already confirmed everything with the customer as if I had already agreed. Why do people work like this? What’s so difficult about sticking to agreements? Fucking fiat mine.