Michael Moffatt

Foreigners in Germany like me usually can't vote on local issues (bike lanes!): but the Munich Migrants Advisory Board is trying to expand its mandate beyond just immigrant-specific stuff. I wrote it up with a brief evaluation of all the lists - a tiny Wahl-o-mat. Vote! cory.de/migrationsbe...

I love shopping on Amazon and that moment when I hit Pay Now for the item I found, but cheaper, on another site.

I’ve been ordered to change my profile pic because it was AI generated. Well fair enough if guess. Back when I joined Bluesky, AI was just a bit of a curiosity. It’s weird how I bumble into offending people. I’m not changing my banner just yet, it’s a real photo that I took myself. Trust.

🚲🍻 O’zapft is – Critical Mass München im Oktoberfest-Style! 🍻🚲 Am 25.09.2026 geht’s wieder gemeinsam mit dem Fahrrad durch München! 🎉 🗓 25.09.2026 📍 Max-Joseph-Platz 🕕 18:00 Uhr - treffen 🕡 18:30 Uhr - losfahren 🕗 20:00 Uhr - Pause am Schneckenplatz Passend zur Wiesn: Kommt gerne in Tracht! 🥨💙

Overhauling a Sturmey Archer SRF5 hub from 2007/08. A previous service appears to have smothered the gear assembly in thick grease, bogging down its delicate internals. Undoing that damage has been painstaking but fascinating. Kudos for still supplying the parts. #SturmeyArcher #BikeRepair

All brought by a bike and basic trailer! Grill season is open :)

I cannot get this starving/dead/happy dog AI slop out of my timeline. I have blocked so many accounts and used “show less like this” but Bluesky is convinced I hunger for it.

Hackerbrũcke is a beautiful thing #muenchen #munich

I sometimes wonder what my brain is up to when I'm typing. I think a lot of the time it gets bored with my fingers taking so long and so starts to troll them.

I consider myself a maverick rule breaker.

Morning all, let’s see what today brings…

T20 ICC Cricket final. Watching live from Munich go the #blackcaps!

Ableism perpetuates the myth that physical perfection is a measure of superior societal worth.

It's Lent - but instead of fun we’ll give up exhaust fumes! In keeping with the motto "CO2 fasting" we will make the road our bike path on Friday. 🚲🫶 🌞The sun should be visible, so grab your bikes and show Munich what the traffic turnaround looks like!

Waiting for Joyless Street to start at the Munich Film Museum @filmmuseummunich.bsky.social A German 1925 film directed by G.W. Pabst | 151 min | Original version, tinted | Musical accompaniment: Sabrina Zimmermann & Mark Pogolski

@jubilife.bsky.social let me know if you head over to another platform! We’ll miss you!

The cancellation of Kimmel I have to say came as quite a shock not just because of the banal and specious reasons, but because the networks are falling quickly in line with a regime. The fall of democracy enabled by a series of business decisions.

I’ve always wanted a Brompton and had no idea the company was around so long. I’ve filled that hole in my life with Moulton bikes which are not actually folding bikes. The only thing I’ve folded on my Moultons is bones.

Thanks to a design that remains largely unchanged in 50 years, even vintage examples of the original iconic folding bike can be made fit for the 21st century. www.wired.com/story/a-brom...

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Udo Kier in Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) delivered the greatest death scene I’ve ever seen. Absurd, grotesque, hilarious. @filmmuseummunich.bsky.social

Tama Potaka helped throw whānau onto the street then shrugs it off like it’s not his doing. You didn’t just cut emergency housing. You condemned people to sleep in cars, alleys, and shopfronts. This is what state violence looks like, against the vulnerable. #nzpol #HousingCrisis #ManaakiWhānau

RIP Douglas McCarthy. I was lucky enough to see Nitzer Ebb up close last year at WGT. Full on energy.

The Wireshark Foundation proudly announces the official Wireshark Certified Analyst (WCA) certification! The WCA is designed so you stand out as a technical engineering powerhouse in the crowded field of IT Professionals. Learn more: www.wireshark.org/blog/2025-06... #Wireshark #WCA

Today I joined the legion of systemd (for Linux) haters. The struggle to get networking up reliably on a raspberry pi was real.

Automatic skeets of the day's shows will start tomorrow. It might be a lumpy start, so please bear with us if a few mangled or missing skeets happen! On average this account will generate 2 skeets (plus possible sub-comments) a day.

Some days it’s quiet here and I like that.

I wonder whether the people who hate on Substack have taken the time there to read (or even find) the content written by journalists and commentators who write well informed content about topics those haters care about.

The Govt cutting $1 billion from the Budget’s operating allowance, framing it as “responsible” & “essential spending only.” Austerity always hits Māori and working-class communities hardest Would love to hear your whakaaro. What do you think, whānau? #NZpol

I’m not particularly invested in the movie, but the “A Minecraft Movie Live Event“ for Bedrock Edition is really well done. Runs for another 8 days: www.minecraft.net/en-us/articl...

Yesterday I was told that even though my kōtiro now qualifies for NASC, we would not be able to access any supports because the funding body has completely run out of cash. I needed to do something productive instead of spiral so I wrote. kahukurascout.substack.com/p/at-least-o...

Yo has MFAT updated its travel advisory yet

Disability is not the Olympics. Please don't ever use who I am, my disabilities, and what I have "overcome" to disqualify them from having their needs met. All people with disabilities are different. Speaking for myself, I don't ever want someone to use me to invalidate someone else.

The New Zealand Free Speech Union struggles once again to understand the country and how the the Internet works (mostly chewing gum and lollipop sticks). Fellow old white people, Te Tiriti o Waitangi is our cultural landmark and an equality touchstone; don't turn your hate into a culture war.

George Lowe has passed away. Lowe was the voice of Space Ghost in countless projects starting with 1994's Space Ghost Coast To Coast. He carries these two promos for C2C's fifth season, as a narcissistic host musing on the perils of celebrity. Original by MoviesCool93 - youtu.be/viwc-GggE6c?...

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Research: Protected bike lanes result in approximate doubling of number of users in a network link. Roughly twice as many women as men become new users of a link when protected infrastructure is installed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you block Bluesky followers for the sin of offering a counter or more nuanced opinion then you’re only interested in conformational bias. Plus you’re going to lose impressions and engagement, but whatever, you do you.

The proposed $880 billion cut to US health care leads to mass deaths particularly the disabled. I hadn’t heard of it until last night via @stevenspohn.bsky.social. It has the hallmarks of eugenics policy making. A democratic country that now considers the vulnerable as grifters.

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

The Linux term bell is singularly the most annoying noise in the world. The fact that it’s still on by default is a nail in the coffin for 2025 as the year of ‘Linux on the desktop’.

The New Zealand government opening its borders to “digital nomads“ is classic cognitive dissonance. The current government is hostile to its own people working remotely. Meanwhile, they’re trying to encourage the highly skilled to come to a country whose own highly skilled people are fleeing.

How can it be called a micro-transaction when an Overwatch skin involves your bank lending manager?