Mastodon, you are a influence...

[killick@dmv.community]

@MsHearthWitch

Last summer I had a blast riding up and down the Chicago lakeshore on an ebike with my daughter and her girlfriend. If you are serious about biking, you might truly extend your weather-range with an ebike. I bike to work in nice weather, but it's only half a mile each way for me, so I can't boast about it.

[alipunk@thecanadian.social]

@MsHearthWitch eeee someone I want to follow

[killick@dmv.community]

@MsHearthWitch @EWI

Well, maybe Mastodon will lead you to 3D printing or miniature photography, or home brewing. It's a big world, right?

[mshearthwitch@wandering.shop]

@alipunk Aww that's very kind!

Also, I'm guessing by your profile you might be near ish to me!

[mshearthwitch@wandering.shop]

@killick @EWI If I had the space I would already own a 3D printer lmao. Have dabbled in photography and I used to brew my own mead lol

[alipunk@thecanadian.social]

@MsHearthWitch ohh cool I live in the mountains around hope

[mshearthwitch@wandering.shop]

@alipunk One of my besties lives up in Hope! I'm in Aldergrove

[alipunk@thecanadian.social]

@MsHearthWitch so nice to meet you ️️️

[mshearthwitch@wandering.shop]

@alipunk You too!

[tshirtman@mas.to]

@regendans @sandorspruit @MsHearthWitch @brennen the rain can be a bit of a bother, but the real enemy is the wind.

[sam@social.coop]

@MsHearthWitch oh dang, you're gonna have a blast! It's so much fun! You can always just dip your toes in too if you're worried about weather or what not; just because you get a bicycle doesn't mean you have to bike *every* place (but you may find that you want to)! Welcome, and enjoy!

We have #BikeNite every Friday at 4PM Pacific on here if you have questions or concerns or just want some friendly folks to chat with (post them with the #BikeNitePQ hash tag and they get added to the queue and @ascentale will pick them up and start the discussion on Friday)!

[the5thcolumnist@mstdn.ca]

@MsHearthWitch

beware, it starts with that and ends with "avid cyclist"

[dingodog19@sfba.social]

@MsHearthWitch @brennen you can be a Person Who Bikes Places without being a Person Who Always and Only Bikes Places!

Biking when it works for you is fun and good!

[the5thcolumnist@mstdn.ca]

@Amiek @MsHearthWitch @hermannus

I can attest to the make your own wind to cool you in the heat. The proof of that is having to stop moiving at a stop light for two minutes.

[the5thcolumnist@mstdn.ca]

@kimu @MsHearthWitch

As a Canuck when folks mentioned weather I immediately thought cold where you can add layers. Heat is a completely different matter.

[mshearthwitch@wandering.shop]

@dingodog19 @brennen Yeah, this is something I've always understood as a general concept but have been solidifying more recently.

There was a few posts going around that were like "Oh, you would be vegan but you love eggs? Be vegan+eggs" "Oh you would love to cycle everywhere but it's not convenient for work? So drive to work and cycle on the weekends"

And it's SO important to banish perfection from our practices.

[daedalouseros@hollow.raccoon.quest]

@MsHearthWitch@wandering.shop it's amazing what having a single bubble outside the Corpo-shere does to a motherfucker, honestly. Fedi has done some very similar things for me.

[pionir@masto.bike]

@MsHearthWitch

Narrator: "the answer was yes"

[mshearthwitch@wandering.shop]

@the5thColumnist @kimu Yeah cold and rain I can easily deal with. I grew up in Northern BC, "The cold doesn't bother me anyways..."

But the heat is an active danger for me (I get actual heat stroke with all the fun side effects just from doing too much inside). So all the "just dress for the weather!" folks in my mentions can get bent lmao

[mshearthwitch@wandering.shop]

@daedalouseros Yeah I mean I was definitely already on this path beforehand. Mastodon has just been a great amplifier for the things that already were important to me.