We're talking toilet seats, plural. Not just one time off of one toilet seat. No, multiple toilet seats. I mean, once could possibly be circumstance (although c'mon). But more than once? I don't even know where to start with that information.

Hulking dark SUVs used as troop carriers. Sedans for kidnappings. Rafted multi-vehicle agent convoys. Speeding, red light running, blacked out windows, utter lawlessness. The story of American Republican terror is told on our streets through the violence of cars and trucks. How perfect.

Can't be bothered to read the article. But that's a terrific photo by Erika Nina Suárez.

Why I carry a #RicohGR3x in my pocket: Whoza Good Boy edition. Here's me, toting groceries, spotting this good boy. I reach into my jeans pocket, slide the camera out, turn it on, take the shot, slide it back in. Didn't break stride. #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #monochrome

"The political ineptitude of the magnates of industry and finance was no less than that of the generals and led to the mistaken belief that if they coughed up large enough sums for Hitler he would be beholden to them." Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)

It's Judy Blume's birthday. She's 88 today. Back in 2013, she said, "It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers."

After picking up a carryout dinner tonight, hit 10,000 miles on our @ternbicycles.com GSD cargo bike. This was possible for our family due to the 5 new bikeways that were built in our neighborhood in the last 5 years so we have safe and comfortable ways to get around via bike.

Wait...this guy thinks an ID is required to buy alcohol in order to...protect the alcohol?

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

The local skywalk generally takes pedestrians from one building to another, but sometimes it passes between two existing buildings. #ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera

Look at who is PHVing Abbe Lowell and team into MN to represent Don Lemon.

The King of England is talking about criminal charges for his own brother (for his association with Epstein) meanwhile America can't even get rid of Howard fucking Lutnick

We rate "WeRateDogs" and find that, although not a dog, WRD is loyal, pleasantly floofy, has a keen sense of smell, and is well socialized. 12/10.

All it takes to make me happy is somebody walking into a patch of late afternoon sunlight. #ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography #monochrome

BREAKING: Refusing to look at your email does NOT force the email to go away! It just stays there! Like it's waiting for you! In fact, refusing to look at your email account appears to create even MORE email! This is a crisis, and nobody seems to do anything about it.

The thing is, when she described the people in the files as "a bunch of sick fucks," I got the impression she was pulling her punches. Which suggests the people in the files are *seriously* sick fucks.

I have absolutely no need for a cargo bike, but this review makes me wish I did.

One of the reasons we are so deeply fucked is the news media won't bother to report on just how completely fucking insane this is. China will terminate hockey in Canada? Just Trump being Trump. We should sue The News for criminal negligence.

My ebike got me back on a bike, helped me get further (and especially up bigger hills) than I could under my own steam when I was well, helped me rehab after short periods of illness, and makes cycling for both leisure and transport far more accessible to me when my chronic illness symptoms allow.

Playground equipment and/or public art. #ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera

Representative Stansbury does NOT mince words. We need to see a LOT more members of Congress stand up with her and show the same level of integrity.

It's not an illogical stance to take, if you are pro-nanny state. But please - if we are going to take a heavy hand on pot regulation and federal taxing *because it is harmful* - then let me know when we do the same for auto use. Tax by mileage, "on the scale of dollars...not cents," per the piece.

That was the real American Halftime Show. New shirts online now with proceeds benefitting Somos Arte in Chicago. www.raygunsite.com/products/the... #raygun

Happy birthday to Carole King, an amazing singer-songwriter with a lovely voice. Today she turned...no, wait, that's not possible...is it? I mean, 84 years old? Surely not. Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?

Hubert Malfait (Belgian, 1898–1971) "The Cyclist", 1927. Oil on Canvas, 120 × 82 cm. The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp, Belgium. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

No Kings includes Draft Kings

It’s February 8, 2026, and Donald Trump can go fuck himself.

A good romance story is a good story. A good fantasy story is a good story. A good mystery story is a good story. A good western story is a good story. Any good genre story is...has to be, right down at the bones...a good story. Folks who dismiss genre fiction don't understand the craft.

No. Street photography has an asshole problem. Cycling has an asshole problem. Social media has an asshole problem. Politics has an asshole problem. I've got five bucks says knitting has an asshole problem. Every human endeavor has an asshole problem. The problem is always assholes.

Seen on Mastodon. This is by Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards.

"What are you looking at?" "Solar radiation in the form of heat and light traveled 93 million miles at 186,000 miles per second to bang into that tree and create that shadow. It deserves some attention." #ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #science

"I like the precision" and "I love that process of finding the scene." That pretty much encompasses everything I love about #photography. It's not so much that Roger Deakins is a genius, it's that he just wants to get it right.

Guy inna skywalk. #ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography

Today is the anniversary of the Bonfire of the Vanities. No, not the novel; the actual event in 1497, when the Church gathered & set fire to "objects that might tempt one to sin." Books, musical instruments, art, even fancy clothes and cosmetics. So dress up today, do art, make music, read books.

From the very beginning, this campaign has been different. Thoughtful, clever, personal, inspired, open, and inclusionary. Let's hope it serves as a model for more progressive candidates. Also? This comic? I'd eat this up with a spoon.

Why I carry a #RicohGR3x in my pocket: Color and Shadow in the Parking Garage edition. This is all it takes to make me happy. #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography

Scotland has passed a law that all new buildings must install ‘swift bricks’ which are hollowed out bricks to help nesting swifts and other endangered birds! Swifts are especially endangered because so many chimneys now have chimney caps. Swifts return to the same nesting spot year after year.

Two years ago yesterday, Trump was acquitted in his very first impeachment. Susan Collins: "I believe that the president has learned from this case. The president has been impeached. That’s a pretty big lesson." Susan Collins is still in office. So is Trump.

Just as a public service matter, I fully support reposting every comment that refers to Bezos as a 'rat fucking bastard.'

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Every American needs to watch this:

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

Pedestrian: noun- someone traveling on foot, especially in a street; someone who is walking. adj- dull; unimaginative; uninspired. #ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography #monochrome

Except WaPo didn't just die. This isn't a natural death. At best, this was negligent homicide. At worst, murder. Bezos killed WaPo, either deliberately or through willful neglect.

I confess, my first reaction was "No no no." Then I read this: "HB 4007 introduces penalties for selling impostor vehicles, targeting electric motorcycles and high-speed e-motos masquerading as bicycles." Now I'm all "Yes yes yes." This is an intelligent, responsible approach.

I love this packaging from Book Outlet.

This is brilliant and moving on about eighteen different levels.

Submitted: if a person can be detained, we should be understood to have left the domain of “civil” matters.

"Hit from behind." Most of the car v. bike injuries I know about are a result of cars turning right at intersections, but most of the fatalities I'm aware of were hit from behind. Both are a result of car-brain carelessness & institutional indifference.