Hello from the 2pm departure of the MV Ocean State ferry from Newport to Providence!

Just went past a place called KMS Solutions and you know it was not named by someone Extremely Online

“Despite those two incidents, which occurred over 1,200 rides and 17,000 total miles, Columbus could be a bike utopia. But most residents will never understand that because, like most sane people, they aren’t stupid enough to ride a bike alongside car traffic.”

Ah yes, the Dyke Beer gose tallgirl.

These stamped metal Pepsi bottle caps were transit advertising of the era. If Johnstown Traction Company 351, now awaiting restoration in San Francisco, ever runs again I hope it gets its like bottle cap back.

Tonight, Shonen Knife at Sonia in Cambridge. Despite some household timing constraints we arrived during the first opener’s (Astral Bitch) set! Pack AD on now.

Among the other occasions which fall today, it’s Wife Appreciation Day. I’m glad to have started the day on a nice hike with mine!

Not local now so didn’t go ride this on day 1 (visit ended a few times too soon) but riding both one of the old F40s and then this in rapid succession the same day, the fast, *quiet* ride is magical, and the fact that the already electrified Boston to Providence line doesn’t have these is maddening.

Countering RIPTA cuts by buying this and just going around picking up people whose bus doesn’t run anymore. www.facebook.com/share/17j8sC...

This morning’s peaceful green space time is Weetamoo Woods in Tiverton… where the creek is, somewhat disturbingly, completely dry.

Overheard: “Rhode Island’s motto is Hope, and the politicians are going to work as hard as possible to make sure you need to have it”

Wild how what’s old in Rhode Island (we can’t build bridges) is new again

Me: describes my schedule @phileil.bsky.social: you keep busy! Me: having nothing to do is basically like this for me

Clambake day!

Yada yada a few hundred closest friends biking across the city

Every year I make the same mistake believing phone migration will be faster than it is. And it's a mistake every year.

Impatiently waiting for my copy of this game to ship. I watched a demo of it while I was at Origins in June.

Once again, hello from Boston… tonight it’s Garbage with Starcrawler at Roadrunner.

If you live in MA, the e-bike voucher lottery signup is now. Buying an e-bike (well actually two) & shedding a car was the best thing our family ever did. >10000 miles of nearly carbon-free travel, with a battery 1/300 or less the size of a car’s. Every time you ride an e-bike you vote NO on DF

With the number of sirens I heard go screaming past about 45 minutes ago I’m guessing there’s a fire down the street. Hoping folks are ok.

Woman whose city misses few opportunities to tell her it’s not a place that cares about or values her (even if she has many friends there who absolutely do care)

I wonder if it’s Scratch. Maybe next week I need some quality ferry time. Bay Area has better ferry cuz it runs all year, and more frequently, but I will use the nice things outside my door as hard as I can as long as I have them.

(Casey Kasem jingle voice)

@interurbanera.bsky.social forgot, when I was looking at the Barracuda on your layout, what I saw 3 days earlier

Me texting my friend: someone on this train smells like a witch store. Me, five minutes later, digging in my bag: oh.

Really want to go around on the routes RIPTA is reducing frequencies on and staple up flyers reading “bus didn’t come? Call Dan McKee at 401-222-2080 and ask him where your bus is and why the state has forgotten about you!

One of you said “without our universities Providence would be Albany” and anyway I guess now I have a plan of action for how to make the city better? www.reddit.com/r/Albany/com...

Poster in a group of EV owners: “how do I not lose efficiency at 75mph?” Replies: “don’t drive 75mph” Poster: “Highway driving” Me: “change the laws of physics” The speed limit is probably at least 70 where I think they are, but like… sorry, it doesn’t work that way. 🤷🏼‍♀️

It might be a mistake asking me about the history of railroads in Rhode Island, but I guess maybe less so if you’re trying to do it for journalism reasons. Then it’s only a mistake if you’re in a hurry. 😅

Thanks to neighbors I get a taste of some of what I tried and failed to grow this year. Pawpaws (mine didn’t fruit) and husk cherries (didn’t survive)

Best news in a while. (Also the worst kept secret in the city for a while 😅)

Apparently if you are “an old” who brought your kid to see Wet Leg you are sitting on the concrete bleachers upstairs. Also, where we are 😬😅

Listening to @rsbinpvd.bsky.social wax effusive on occasion of her 50th birthday and talk up exciting things like… being able to get the shingles vax 😂 (Got my first at 49 by pushing the pharmacist real hard; I’ve actually had shingles twice!)

Welcome home hike with Breakheart Pond.

The thing about riding only bike share bikes (and the one afternoon on the adaptive recumbent tandem) for the last 2.5 weeks, it sure did make me appreciative to be back on my own bicycle today.

Saw a short video from @lauragmitchell.com of a passing train with old GE power during a bike ride and remembered this pic. Railfan photographer Dave Blaze captured me… I love to show this and say, I’m the bike, not the train or the trucks 😅

Right back to life at home. Tonight, Rhode Island FC against Indy 11 at Tidewater Landing in Pawtucket!

Today’s edition of shitpoſting in the group chat.

I suppose it’s a small enough state that it’s not a shock that I ran into the friend I needed to nag for a piece of info they owed me at the airport while waiting to leave

I’m currently at Charlotte airport. Someone just passed me wearing a shirt that said “not an influencer” and wow is it ever a day for that.

Some good news. Neighbors, go get your shot!

Bye, Bay Area. It’s been real. I’ll miss you. Til next time…

For electrolytes being critical to the operation of the human body, it sure does throw them away left (sweat) and right (urine). No engineer designed this system

Cities need more energy like this

Well, I was gonna share this cool event celebrating the work of Wendy Carlos and her Rhode Island connection in a thread from some pop style opinion peeps but I guess they block for … replying. So yinz get to see them.

It’s wild how the state long range transportation planning meetings yield lots of feedback that people want more ways to get around without driving and then we fund the opposite of that.

On this, the day of Ted Leo’s birth, I am here to tell my fellow Rhode Island buds that they should join my housemates and I to see him with Aimee Mann, Paul F Thompkins and some other fun guests for their Christmas Show at the Greenwich Odeum on December 5! www.greenwichodeum.com/2024/12/05/t...

Ok now I’m extra sad to not have been appointed to the @ripta.com board; I can’t be a RIPTA Bus Buddy because I’m not someone who has a RIPTA id badge! www.ripta.com/BusBuddy/

Shitpoſting in the group chat.

9/11 this, 9/11 that; some of y’all need to put down the 9 ELVEN rings gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desire power <send>