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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 07:05:03 JST myrmepropagandist

   I just found out that the guy who makes "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't" is also and ex NYC bike messenger (like me) and somehow this just ... it explains so much.

   Being a messenger causes you to see the city from a rare vantage point. You feel like a blood cell in a vast gothic organism. But it also engenders a kind of fundamental cantankerousness that makes for the strangest kind of naturalist perspective.

   I should write more about that some time...

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     Weltschmerz à Gogo (thatweltschmerz@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 07:05:01 JST Weltschmerz à Gogo

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     I was a bike messenger in NYC for about a week ca. 2000/01. I quit when I realized that, even in that short amount of time, I had already mostly stopped yelling at drivers -- making them actually hear me and recognize that I was there -- and was getting used to just adjusting my actions to compensate for their dangerous behavior. I thought, "I'm already getting complacent, and going to wind up paralyzed or dead like this". So I dropped it. It was fun while it lasted, but I hadn't yet figured out how to actually make it pay, so no great loss.

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 07:05:56 JST Børge

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     • Weltschmerz à Gogo

     @ThatWeltschmerz @futurebird #BikeTooter ^