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Take a seat! 🚍
(Polster im Bus)

#Photography #Texture #Pattern #Fabric #Circles #Geometric #Green #Mobility #Macro #PublicTransport #CloseUp #TextureTuesday #Makro #MacroMonday #MakroMittwoch

A close-up of a velvety, textured upholstery fabric: vertical stripes in black and anthracite, with grey and neon green circles scattered across them.

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Why are Bicycling Monterey and many other #California #bike / #ActiveTransportation advocates (https://www.calbike.org/about_us/who_we_are/local_partners/) members of the California Bicycle Coalition aka #CalBike?

See ED Kendra Ramsey’s msg below.

To help make our streets better, join, renew, or donate to CalBike: https://www.calbike.org/join/

#ActOnClimate #transportation #mobility #PublicSafety #PublicHealth #CommunityBuilding #roads #children #elders #mobility #pollution #cycling #biking #BikeTooter #ClimateJustice #streets #OurStreets

When people hear “bicycles” or “active transportation,” it can sound like a narrow issue, something nice to have, but secondary to bigger concerns like public safety, public health, or community connection.

CalBike exists to challenge that assumption.

Because the truth is this: our streets sit at the center of nearly every major problem we’re trying to solve.

We have given a third of our public space to roads. Roads that shape how safe we feel in our neighborhoods. Whether kids can walk to school. Whether older adults can stay mobile. Whether communities are connected, or cut apart. Whether we reduce climate pollution or lock it in for another generation. All along the life cycle - our roads, and the ability to freely use them is at the nexus of a life well lived.
Help Make Our Streets Better
When streets are designed only as many cars as quickly as possible, the consequences ripple outward: more traffic violence, worse air quality, less physical activity, deeper isolation.

This is why CalBike focuses on streets.

Not because bicycles are the only answer—but because better streets unlock progress everywhere else.

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How Nairobi’s Matatus Shape Urban Youth Culture
https://www.mpasho.co.ke/lifestyle-yetu/2026-05-21-inside-nairobis-nganya-culture

Nairobi’s vibrant matatu scene, widely known as the nganya culture, has evolved far beyond public transport.
It is now a full-blown youth-driven lifestyle, shaping fashion, music, language, and urban identity across the city.

#Kenya #Mobility

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SAM’S STORY TOOK ME BACK
TO MY OWN STROKE 💎

Watching Sam's video on YouTube today, I couldn't help noticing his weight.

https://youtu.be/l6UNS8zFdGE?si=BwlIxbTWYv--obu2

For an able-bodied person, he might simply look on the bigger side. But watching him struggle with movement, I found myself wondering how much additional work that weight must place on a disabled body already having enormous difficulty moving.

I say that with enormous understanding and sympathy, because I had a major stroke myself and have lived with left-sided hemiplegia for decades now. I know how much effort an impaired body can require simply to get through an ordinary day.

In my own case, losing a substantial amount of weight through daily fasting has changed my life.

Moving is vastly easier. My balance has improved to the point where I can now stand still comfortably. I no longer feel so top-heavy and unstable. Walking is easier both uphill and downhill. I live in Hobart, so walking around this city provides plenty of opportunity to test that.

I can dress myself again. For years, I needed my partner's help with much of my self-care and dressing. My body simply feels lighter and easier to carry around, and I can reach everything with my one usable hand.

Breathwork has been equally important for me. I practise it every day, and together with fasting, it has changed the way I experience both my disability and my body.

For me, breathwork has coincided with far less depression, clearer airways and a much more active mind. I write every day now, often using AI to help me turn my thoughts into words.

I'm not suggesting either fasting or breathwork is a treatment for what happened to Sam. His medical situation was vastly more complicated than mine.

I'm only speaking about what happened to me.

When I was Sam's age, being disabled and overweight didn't seem particularly important. Nobody in the medical world said much about my weight, so I didn't either.

By 50, carrying it was becoming challenging.

By 65, it was crushing.

That was when I began fasting.

Becoming physically lighter has given me an extraordinary amount of my independence back.

I'm still disabled. That hasn't magically disappeared.

But at 70 now, I'm lighter, fitter and more independent. I can walk 10,000 steps in a day, dress myself, and move through the world far more easily than I could several years ago.

For this disabled body, it has been life-changing.

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#disability #stroke #hemiplegia #fasting #breathwork #recovery #mobility #independence #aging #health #livedexperience #Tasmania #Hobart #AI #accessibility #people #peace #person

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In 2020 I started having mild stability problems. If I'd had a cane the first time I fell down I would have been *much* better off. I tried some commercial ones but they turned out to be expensive, not durable, and very boring looking. So I figured out how to make my own from half inch copper pipe and porcelain. The picture shows what they look like, and this thread explains how to make them.

Materials:

* Type L half inch copper pipe -- this is the thick kind.

* Clay to make a top and a kiln to fire it in -- Probably other things will work for a top but this is what I use.

* Epoxy -- I've used both liquid and paste. They both work and each has its good and bad points.

* Masking tape.

* Half inch rubber cane tips.

Tools:

* Tube cutter -- it's really hard to cut copper pipe with a hacksaw!

* Tape measure

* Hacksaw -- Even if you have a tube cutter a hacksaw is still needed.

* Pliers

#DIY #Ceramics #Canes #Pottery #WalkingSticks #Mobility

Six canes leaning against a wood porch rail. The cane part is half inch copper water pipe. The tops are multicolored porcelain balls. From left to right they kind of look like:

* Blue body with many light blue dots, each with a smaller green dot inside and a small depression where I pushed the clay in with a stick.

* White body with red and yellow dots and blue lozenge shapes. These shapes are all even with the white ball.

* Black body with a white eye that has a pink iris and a black pupil. There's a yellow eyebrow looking thing above it. This pattern is repeated on the back.

* Smooth white body with medium blue dots all over it. Again, the dots are flush with the body so it's nice and smooth.

* White body with cobalt blue patterns. The cobalt blue parts look like they bubbled up from the main ball. This is because I mixed a lot of cobalt oxide in with the porcelain and it reacted strangely but pleasantly in the kiln.

* White body with large pink dots. Each pink dot has a bunch of tiny black dots pressed into it.

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