From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.

I've been regularly making overnight oats: Stir equal parts oats and OJ in a bowl with a splash of vanilla and pinch of salt, the next day add blueberries, walnuts, yogurt, & cinnamon. Sometimes I grate half an apple in overnight, usually I add hot honey in the morning. Always it makes me happy.

After 9 months of work: Happy Christmas to me! Yes, that's a Specialized Project '74 I'm riding in #Zwift while sporting a sprint jersey. It only took climbing 15,000m on one bike and riding 1,600km apiece on two others to earn the right to buy it (and I had to ride a TT bike 40 hrs in there too).

Yesterday I was a blob and didn't ride my bike at all or feel like doing much of anything. I went to bed early, set no alarm, and woke naturally but I also started coughing in the night. No surprise, my #Ouraring says that my temperature is elevated 0.3C among other things. 1/5

Yep, now I'm certain of it: This really is the stupidest timeline, and this country is being controlled by pigheads putting imbeciles in charge of things about which they have no knowledge and who don't understand that children will actually die because of them. #antivaxnonsense

Not much going on here. J and I both had #Zwift races. I got🥉and he got 5th. Wanted the W but my legs are pretty rubbish after🥈last night. We both have Advent calendars. Mine is chocolate. His has a bread board. Unrelated, he baked actual bread on Sunday and prepped to bake me another pumpkin pie.

Staying at home in Illinois... Doot doot doot, looking out my front door... Today we volunteered in the wind & snow at Morrissey #Parkrun (which had 10 parkrunners plus the tailwalker), then helped fix all the chairs with loose (but not cracked - those need more work) legs at the Chapel. 1/2

“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024. It’s almost as if there were signs! bsky.app/profile/anna...

Three months without a drink. I haven't lost any weight, mostly because I have replaced evening drinks with late-night snacking, but I haven't gained either. I am sleeping very well, and I am also racing very well (though that's probably training). I am kinda scattered. Hopefully that fades.

Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender

I feel like that particular spelling of today's #NYT #SpellingBee pangram lines up with its meaning: Acceptable, but not particularly good. That probably makes me a snob, or at least someone who grew up with good language arts teachers.

Been doing a calisthenics for cyclists circuit from a #GCN video off and on for a few months. 20s per activity, 30s rest after each 3-activity super set: Pushups, side planks, toolbox planks Pike pushups, V-sits, tricep dips Shoulder taps, back extensions, down-ups youtu.be/VWgZ1Ddlk3g?... 1/3

If you grew up in this area, this list of names will quite clearly resonate with you. If you didn't, picture every important news person from your hometown coming together to speak up.

All is well. J got a buck. My squad has now won both #ZRL races this round. Paks & Emmie are happy but miss J. Post-hunting, he's helped hang drywall and install a door in the polebarn at the dome. The plants seem happy indoors (hibiscus & cactus blooming). Glad the snow melted. I wasn't ready.

For real. Even if you disagree with me about most of our elected officials at the federal level within the Democratic Party mostly falling under this umbrella, those particular ones are Centrist Party members and we should just call them that forever.

Last night, just before I went to bed, I read that in response to the administration's suit, the newest supreme court justice had put a temporary halt to the order to distribute SNAP. I rushed to see who this justice was - had I missed an entire justice's appointment? No. Why did she do that?

Not much going on here. Training for real. Racing bikes and winning. Glad for some hopeful world developments. Open windows and snuggling doggos. A furloughed friend may help me lay down a few tracks this week yet. J is getting fitter and doing well too. He's baking me cookies later.

Today in completely predictable outcomes of this absolutely unnecessary bullshit technology futurism.com/artificial-i...

I'm finally (finally?!) feeling motivated about training, though still not for any particular thing. Just trying to get back into and stay within the green. I had some heart rate monitor issues that led to stopping during my duathlon ride but *still* got an FTP increase notification. Getting fitter.

Today in weird observations: I had a dance party in the kitchen while loading the dishwasher and paying bills. I always listen to music for these activities, why the joyful movement today? It's the socks. Barefoot summer is great but you can't slide and spin until it's cold. Also, this happened.

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

While trying to navigate amidst pedestrians in a bike infrastructure hole #UIllinois intentionally created when they prioritized other things, I fell on my way to choir practice last night. No blood, but the back of a knee is bruised. Don't think I hit it but will get a new helmet just in case.

They're not spoiled at all. Also, I won my first #Zwift race in a while last night. It felt good. My squad had a rider with serious connection issues throughout the race finish near the back but we still got 🥉 and would definitely have won if she had even been middle of the pack.

I'm still excited about Archishop-designate Sarah Mullally even if the press is...whatever this is.

I've been racing on #Zwift since 2020 and a lot of my best numbers have come from racing for ATP. Today I stumbled upon this, which apparently includes all my bests. It's both nice that I'm close in some ways to where I was before breaking my leg but also note the yawning gaps. So close but so far.

Today's speech is exactly what one expects from someone who flounced from the Individual Ready Reserve due to his white supremacist tattoos

Full details now announced! chasingmailboxes.com/2025/09/29/c...

Trying Melissa Clark's Red Lentil Soup recipe. I've never made lentils before - I've always been a bit intimidated - but this looks hopefully simple enough. Weirdly, I've mostly learned how to cook from the #NYT, starting 20 years ago with Mark Bittman's The Minimalist vlogs. So far so good.

At my company our executives don't all take the same airplane anywhere. Folks do sometimes meet in person but we've deemed that to be an acceptable risk because, importantly, we're not the military. In addition to Tuesday leaving our troops without local leadership, how is this an acceptable risk?

In 1935 German leadership called a surprise meeting and informed their previous oath to uphold the Weimar constitution was now void and they instead must swear a personal oath to the Führer. Many claimed they didn’t like the order, but they did it anyway. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

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Read that again. Trump-appointed Kennedy Center head Ric Grenell specifically set aside a block of 50 seats at the Kennedy Center so a group of Trumpers could heckle a Black woman performer. www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/23/l...

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Today is 30 days. I think it's my first time going that long other than when I broke my leg and didn't dare mix alcohol with pain meds. I tried a bunch of times but always made excuses such as Sundays in Lent or special celebrations. Dunno if it's permanent. Dunno anything. Gotta stop coping w food.

Somewhere out there is an expectant mother with a fever. Yesterday she would have happily taken meds to bring her fever down, knowing that her fetus is more at risk from her fever than acetaminophen. Today she is likely to burn up or take other more risky drugs, and Armchair-Dr. #Potus is to blame.

Happy World Car-Free Day! Ride your bike, take the bus, walk, or like me, work from home. I biked to church and my volunteer shift at The Bike Project yesterday but don't have any plans today. I'll work, we'll likely take the dogs for a walk, and I may wash bedding and hang it to dry in the sun.

I got 150 minutes of Zwifting in, over half of which was perfect Metabolic Training. Jesse rode a bike to volunteer at Parkrun and brought me a croque monsieur. We drove to a nearby town to get covid & flu vaccines and then went to a lovely party where the Marching Illini Mini Band played. Good day.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

It's a perfect 70° out here. I've had my three cups of coffee and collagen protein powder and additional raw cocoa. I'm supposed to leave my lounger, go to my basement, and #Zwift for like 3 hours. Dang do I not want to do that. Sadly, I am running out of time. 4.5h til we must leave for vaccines.

It's ironic that the people most responsible for getting us to this moment are now like "oh this is too far for me." very strange.

This was really good (and spoiler - it's about the consequences of this terrible, redeeming rhetoric): www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

I just heard on the radio that gas prices are up. I had no idea. I haven't pumped gas in over three years. I've burned a bit of gas - maybe 25 gallons - in that time, and that includes the rental in England. I love my #Rivian and wouldn't go back. I wish it were more affordable for regular folks.

The problem with calling anything most of the #Democrats in power actually back in this country #leftist is that if you know anything about world politics, you know they're actually #moderates. We don't have leftists. We have a party moving further right every day and a party in the middle. 1/2

Dang. No lies detected here. @trt.bsky.social, not that you need to hear this - you're the choir in this case - what's your take (on the sermon, not the comparison to Dr. King, which makes me uncomfortable because... appropriation).

He had me at "Top Reasons Beer is Better than Religion" And then he followed up with "we must confess to the cancer of Christian Nationalism." We have not heard this kind of preaching since the Civil Rights Movement. ✊

Truth bomb‼️ This man should be the one speaking on college campuses… “They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.” Watch

It's Sunday, I'm bored, but I have a cold; itchy eyes and runny nose, both of which mean I'm home resting. Resting is really just thinking in between media consumption sprees. Yesterday I put in a 75% effort #Zwift #Herd weekend TT for ATP and did well enough I think I'm getting strong again. 1/3