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

I was traveling, so sorry about the video quality, but someone had to say this:

My main plan for today is that I need to get over this cold so I can go to church and sing (while wearing a mask) in the choir tomorrow. I slept poorly last night and my #Oura ring noticed. It includes an AI advisor that's given me good suggestions on quite a few health and sports-related topics. 1/

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

I really don't get it. They're not even pretending to be #pro-life anymore. I can't imagine anything more #pro-death and #pro-poverty than destroying millions of dollars worth of birth control that's already paid for, instead of distributing it anywhere, anywhere at all. Destroying it. Assholes.

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

Despite sleeping a lot, getting fresh air (both myself, outside and opening the house up before it got too warm) and gentle exercise (put off actual training to avoid the immune system hit), I woke up this morning with Jesse's cold. Sore throat, headache, drainage. Blech.

"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." <- If you aren't saying it's "worth it" today, please refrain from spouting such nonsense again later.

My spouse is sick for a second day. I can barely hear him and what I can hear sounds like someone filled his throat with gravel and then filled the gaps with sand. Today my Oura ring noted my HR is a bit elevated. Recently I've felt sluggish and blown my nose a few times but am otherwise fine.

I've reached the "eating Nutella out of the jar" stage. Instead of claiming that I can't not drink and keep a food diary at the same time I just put 6T of Nutella into Lose It. I'm hopeful this episode gave me enough serotonin I can get on the trainer in the basement and make more soon.

It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.

We finished! We met all our goals and PRd our respective distances (10k for him, and 5k for me - I am not much of a runner).

Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).

Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.

Waiting in the warm truck for a few more minutes before J's first 10k and my first official 5k in a long time. Yes, the sweatshirts have to come off when we get out. It's actually perfect weather for running after we get moving - truck says 52°F now.

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Today marks 25 years at my company. I love my job even though it is sometimes pretty stressful. The coworkers don't make it stressful - they're all smarter and kinder than me. Neither do our customers - they're almost all amazing. It's unfortunately my customer's lawyers who make it stressful.

People keep asking what's next after #LEL2025. I was originally muttering some stuff about gravel but have decided nothing is next, or rather, I'm next. It's officially the off season, and training gets in the way of basic stuff like bones, nutrition, housework, rehab, doggos, skills, etc 1/

There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth. It is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of our economy and our democracy.

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

Am I the only one whose brain automatically reframes what used to be Twitter as Xitter (pronounced the same as someone who defecates)?

A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.

Princess Diana's overnight oats (equal parts fresh OJ and old fashioned oats, grated apple, pinch of salt, and bit of vanilla refrigerated overnight with a dollop of Greek yogurt, fresh blueberries, and chopped walnuts added in the morning) are good. Hopefully also good fuel. I'm off to ride a bike.

Yesterday I drank local kombucha at the team meeting instead of beer. I was questioned and I muttered something about how my HRV tanks with alcohol consumption. Can't we normalize not questioning beverage choices already? What if I was trying to get pregnant? I'm not so old that's impossible yet.