Notices by Femme Malheureuse (femme_mal@mstdn.social)

Putting this out to the Fediverse: I am looking to purchase an e-bike this year.

Musts:
- 50 lbs/23kg
- folding
- at least 500w power
- range at least 40 miles/64km

I need to be able to lift this into my Honda CR-V when I travel. 50lbs/23kg is my safe limit, give or take 5lbs.

I would prefer a popular/well-known brand/make as parts and repairs may be easier.

Thanks for any feedback you can offer based on actual experience.

#ebike #bike #electricbike #ebikes #bikelife #cycling

@georgetakei For George's followers:

I can't recommend enough that you read George's graphic novel, They Called Us Enemy. It's available on Webtoon in serialized format. Share it with friends and family.

https://m.webtoons.com/en/graphic-novel/they-called-us-enemy/list?title_no=7685

Thanks once again for documenting and sharing your experience, George. Best to you and yours from another AANHPI.

@ai6yr What pisses me off about this in addition to the loss of conservation of our public lands:

Trump relies on conservation easements to create undeveloped buffer properties for which he receives tax benefits.

Ugh, he's such a corrupt asshat.

EDIT: Literally used conservation easements in tax fraud.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/n-y-ag-trump-fraud-involved-conservation-easement-tax-break/

Example of worm damage: absolutely false statement about measles infection control.

See below a table comparing 2026 to date against 2025 -- not a good trend, and both years insanely worse than 2024.

It's impossible that the US could experience 75% of last year's measles infections within four months and lead the world in limiting the spread of the disease.

Bill Maher can shut the fuck regarding how Democrats can win because he's not a fucking Democrat but a Libertarian and he doesn't give a shit about anything but his own ass.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/bill-maher-celebs-shut-up-politics-hurting-democrats-1236489892

Don't let up. Keep calling your elected representatives about terminating ICE funding as well as ICE itself. Ditto for DHS and impeach+remove Kristi Noem.

@ai6yr Remember a while back when McNadoMD noticed an uptick in embolisms? I wondered then if a particular strain of COVID was related.

Now I wonder if the same strain or a different one might have made those exposed within the year more likely to experience SVT.

Bloody shame there's no comprehensive effort to test and monitor this virus's impact.

@WarnerCrocker LOL what would the Antichrist tell us to achieve their aims?

"Don't interfere with this thing (I am working on and invested in)!"

Funny how Thiel doesn't exhort us to hew closely to Christ's teachings like the Beatitudes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitudes

@ai6yr @Paperposts @kinsale42 @pixelpusher220 This is a cRaZy thread to read backwards. LOL

@tsherrygeo @ai6yr I've been contemplating a tiny drone that would operate inside tight spaces, poking at rats and mice to discourage their nesting.

Might work on marmots, too, and maybe raccoons and possums. LOL

@realcaseyrollins @ai6yr The only place I can regularly find working togs with rationally-sized pockets is Duluth Trading.

I like how they tell men looking for more cargo pocket space than they offer, "If you run out of room, you might just have too much stuff." LOL

@antdude @realcaseyrollins @ai6yr I hear you on that. My first Android was an LG that wasn't more than 4 x 2.5 inches. Loved it to death, was only slightly bigger than my wallet.

But the rest of the market insisted on following Apple, making phones with displays big enough to have movie night with your seat mates on a plane. Nope.

@realcaseyrollins @ai6yr Can you put your phone in your pocket? Your wallet?

I can't think of many pants/skirts/jackets/vests I've bought right off the rack into which I could put my smartphone (since about Android 6).I don't carry a large smartphone, either, because I've got small hands.

Most could handle my wallet in which I rarely keep more than a credit card, healthcare insurance card, folded cash, driver's license.

All I want is pockets big enough for the phone and wallet.

@ai6yr We had a long ongoing discussion across the now-dead bird app about women's clothes and the lack of pockets. It's probably time to launch another such discussion here given the slow turnover in couture designers.

I remedy the lack of pockets a few ways:
- work aprons with pockets (I've added pockets on a few)
- tool pouches tied at the waist
- small molle tool holsters

And yes, modded puny fake pockets into functional pockets.

@georgetakei If Kamala Harris had tried to run for POTUS after being convicted on 34 counts of business fraud, she wouldn't have won the Democratic primary.

If Harris had tried while POTUS to hide her relationship to a convicted human trafficker, she'd have been impeached and removed from office — but she wouldn't have won the Democratic primary to begin with.

It's not just JD Vance or his orange-stained boss. It's their political party that aids and abets their corruption.

@Remittancegirl I don't understand why they ever listened to Nigel Farage. I also don't understand why they didn't throw him to the curb after he admitted he lied about the money sent to EU.

But then I think about his political party Ukip and yeah — that. This is the power of white supremacy at work.

@Remittancegirl It was a conspiracy, too, we just couldn't get ahead of it fast enough. Brexit was proof of concept for Trump's election -- the same tools were used, shared by liars who overlapped.

Like Farage campaigning for Trump, and Breitbart's folks working both sides of the ocean.

Smug, ugly, cruel, thieving bastards, the lot of them.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-nigel-farage-photo-arron-banks-raheem-kassam-andy-wigmore-garry-gunster-a7416836.html

The oath Trump has sworn twice in his lifetime:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

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@BeAware https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/112649368671185711

@wdjorth @guyjantic @coolinthegame Why shareholders don't demand replacing the most expensive tiers of corporate management with AI I will never know, especially since most are simply regurgitating the same trite crap they acquired from B-school curriculum.

Amazing how uppermost management is the layer most unaffected by AI implementation.