Worked a bit on #biketouring video editing again today. I'm trying hard to take a "good enough and get it done" approach, but that's not easy...

Some early takes said the new food guidelines weren't too bad, but you always gotta dig deeper to really understand what MAHA is doing. So much going on here is chaos but most notably the new guidance makes an aggressive turn toward centering animal-based foods www.vox.com/future-perfe...

It's official - I'm going to be on the ballot for #sunprairie, #wisconsin District 1 Alder! Make sure to vote on Tuesday, April 7! Not sure how to vote? Check out https://myvote.wi.gov/ #sunprairiewi

Hey, I just signed up for #MappingUSA2026 and see that a few of my favourite Mastodon people are presenting including: @haraldkliems#mappingusa2026@watmildon Look forward to seeing you there! For more information about this free and exciting virtual conference check out […]

I'm excited to be one of the presenters at #mappingusa2026 on Jan 30/31! The schedule just came out and I love the breadth of #openstreetmap topics covered. https://openstreetmap.us/events/mapping-usa/2026/ It's all virtual and free to attend!

New fellowship program to facilitate attendance at the @OpenStreetMapUS State of the Map US conference this summer: https://openstreetmap.us/news/2026/01/sotmus-2026-fellowship-announcement/ #sotmus2026

Looks like my `ntdr` package is completely broken now. Server requests for downloading the data from the US DOT servers are getting 403 errors, even after futzing around a lot with the `user-agent`. I don't have the time or motivation to work on this at the moment, but probably in the longer […]

The #bicycle network field has grown so much that there are now papers out analyzing its citation network, haha 😆 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198225004610 Fun to see how this has evolved! Our nodes are: orozco, szell, vybornova. Several friends also visible 😍

Today is Digital Independence Day, a German initiative to move more and more away from Big Tech in 2026. Let's reclaim our independence! https://di.day/

The final daily high temperature and precipitation graphs for the year for #madisonwi are up: https://github.com/vgXhc/madison-weather 6 days with record high temperatures; 4 days with record low temperatures, with data reaching back to 1938. For precipitation, it was a pretty average year.

TIL about the great Cookbook app for #nextcloud https://nextcloud.github.io/cookbook/user/ Allows for automatic import of recipes from websites, serving size recalculations, categories and tag, and seems to work without issue. #diday

A new bike path was completed in #madisonwi in December. https://www.cityofmadison.com/engineering/projects/badger-rusk-shared-use-path A good excuse to go on a street-level imagery collection bike ride and survey it for #openstreetmap #mapillary #PANORAMAX

#madisonwi somewhat recently changed its Common Council elections cycle: Terms continue to be two years, but even/odd number seats have staggered terms, resulting in council elections every year. Out of the 10 seats up for election, so far only two are contested, with 3 days left until the […]

A very wholesome #foamer PBS documentary on the #colorado Ski Train from Denver to Winter Park. https://www.pbs.org/video/the-ski-train-vrsp1n/ (also available on YouTube in case PBS is geo restricted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEUvyyQQIKY) #BahnBubble

I love that Deutsche Bahn is promoting #veganuary! #BahnBubble #vegan

#OpenStreetMap tagging issue: #Naloxone opioid overdose reversal kits. There's currently no established way to tag these. And so I started a discussion on the `emergency=*` wiki page, as that seems to be the appropriate main tag to me […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/nyregion/mamdani-housing-executive-orders.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BVA.BUW7.ZK7KyL6q6Q4X&smid=url-share > [E]xecutive orders that Mr. Mamdani revoked [...] created an office focused on blockchain technology, a passion of Mr. Adams who often talked about […]

LOL, so I went on a ride tonight to make sure I'm over 10,000 kilometers for the year. And now I see that I'm at 499 hours. I'm not sure I can deal with this. I guess I could hop on the trainer for another hour before midnight. #fedibikes #veloviewer

This is the first time I've booted up my Windows 10 partition since September. Ironically, to use emacs/LaTeX because I have never gotten around to setting that up yet on Linux Mint. Anybody have recommendations for what to use? On Windows I have used MikTeX. Some people recommend TeXLive. I'm […]

On the iBOB (internet Bridgestone Owners Bunch) email list, there is a longstanding tradition of posting about what you tried and liked (or disliked) at the end of the year. Bike gear, experiences, etc. Here are my 2025 likes and dislikes […]

Zuppa Etrusca: This is the second time I've made this recipe, and it turned out great again. It requires quite a bit of prep work, but the pay-off is great. Excellent flavors, textures. And there is a good degree of flexibility with the ingredients (e.g. I couldn't find Savoy cabbage and instead […]

Yay, a paper that I'm co-author on is finally available on #PubMedCentral https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12747560/ This is the protocol paper for an implementation trial of a remote blood pressure monitoring intervention in Black pregnant and birthing people. The pre-implementation […]

This is so cool, on a number of levels: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/29/exclusive-mamdani-will-be-sworn-in-at-abandoned-original-city-hall-subway-station #transit #nyc

I'm way late posting about this, but I did take advantage of #volunteerresponsibilityamnestyday on Dec 21 (https://volunteeramnestyday.net/) I decided to not write a year-in-review post for @news this year.

I'm always late with these for #bikenite But hey, still relevant: Another video from the @news Winter Bike Fashion Show: What's your favorite winter biking gear? https://youtube.com/shorts/oEkZqdfx8gg?feature=share #frostpendeln #wintercycling

I'm always late with these for #bikenite But hey, still relevant: Another video from the @news Winter Bike Fashion Show: What's your favorite winter biking gear? https://youtube.com/shorts/oEkZqdfx8gg?feature=share #frostpendeln #wintercycling

Update. Here's another piece arguing that the best solution to this problem is to curb #openaccess itself. https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004851 "The very measures designed to fight fraud (open access) simultaneously power new forms of problematic […]

Automatic transcription of speech for video is something where LLMs can be very helpful. But you still gotta make a lot of manual corrections. I was just editing a "what's your favorite piece of equipment for #wintercycling?" video and it transcribed "Bar Mitts" as "varmints."

"That invisibility has created a misconception, in some quarters, that #rss is a relic. But the opposite is true: we’ve never relied on it more. And as the social web fractures, as platforms wall off content, and as AI agents begin remixing everything they can ingest, our dependence on neutral […]

Fights over allowing more housing and housing affordability happen in cities small and large. Good reporting from @wisconsinwatch on a dispute over duplexes on a park in Richland Center, #wisconsin, where home prices "have increased 76% since 2017." […]

Oh wow, photos of the damage from the M7.0 earthquake in Alaska (originally Yukon Geological Survey on FB, via Dan Shugar). #earthquake #alaska

Monday Metro #transit photo. I don't have a drone, but I have a conveniently located office window... #madisonwi

I'm not feeling the video editing mojo today and so I'm doing a bunch of adjacent chores -- rendering the 3D satellite imagery of the day's route, animating the route graphic, writing out a bit more of the narration, adding links. That kind of stuff.

#frostpendeln (Symbolbild)

Surprisingly high turnout for the #madisonwi Santa Cycle Rampage. Probably 50-100 Santas, elves, reindeer, ... And -17C/0F Shout out to the Wisconsin Bike Fed for organizing and not calling it off! #fedibikes #frostpendeln

Does it make a whole lot of sense to buy a German railroad discount card for a year when I live in the US? Probably not, but Deutsche Bahn sent me a 80% offer and I guess I'll be in Germany at least twice in the next year. Trraaaainzzz!

I was browsing through some of my photos, searching for overpasses in Madison. Which, as a side effect, yielded some nice train shots from Graubünden.

Cyclability in London: Associations between the quality of the local cycling environment, cycling participation, and perceptions of the cycling environment https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692325004004

I gave a talk about #openstreetmap to a local bike advocacy meetup in #MadisonWI. I think it went pretty well and I made the materials available for anyone to reuse. The intended audience were people unaware of or new to OpenStreetMap. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/hobbesvsboyle/diary/407894

The #madisonwi Common Council passed two pieces of zoning reform yesterday: - Refinements to transit-oriented development: In TOD zone (i.e. areas near frequent-ish bus service), you can now build quad-plexes by right. And auto-oriented uses like car washes and drive-throughs are no longer […]

New US Chemical Safety Board video dropped today! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35FkCArjLU0 #USCSB

What happens when I read about potential pasta tariffs and then also find a good online deal...

🎉 Some important #CrossBorderRail news! 🎉 After thinking about the idea for more than a decade (yeah, this is later than a DB train!) I am finally starting to plan building a railway organisation for lobbying work, and @patrick @partim & @redjives#CrossBorderRailare in from the start. We're sort of soft […]

Alright, it's time to start editing episode 6 of our Alps #BikeTouring adventure. In which I am irrationally(?) angry at a bike path; we have to walk up a road for the first time, arrive in the Dolomites, and have the first pizza of the trip. It'll take me a […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Haha, this is soo German: https://ard.social/@tagesschau/115673282865700888 "Company Christmas Parties [yes, they're still called Christmas parties in Germany]: What does the law say? Can you be mandated to participate? Will you be covered by insurance? A legal overview."

It's #BandcampFriday! Purchases/preorders I'm considering: The new #converge album, "Love is not Enough" https://convergecult.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-not-enough Converge have meant a lot to me over the past 20 or so year. I don't listen to them as much as I used to, but I definitely look […]

There have been so many problems and delays with this project, but now it's finally going to happen, creating a much safer bike connection between the existing Cannonball and Wingra Creek paths. And of course the school that is between the two […]

The east side of #madisonwi is getting all the nice things: Another Colectivo branch is opening on Willy Street. https://www.wmtv15news.com/2025/12/01/colectivo-coffee-coming-williamson-street-this-week/ (Okay, okay, actually we recently got a new Café Domestique branch right across the street […]