Why are so many people RidewithGPSing the H Mart on Cottman Ave? Is there a ride that ends at the food court or something?

Why yes, we *are* planning on riding next Wed on Dec 24, Christmas Eve. Stay tuned for details!

This was so fun. Community work feels fantastic

It feels like every single app or website I open launches a goddamn POP-UP asking me if I want to use AI. It reminds me of trying to surf the web in the early 2000s, Christ. Make it stop. No.

It feels like every single app or website I open launches a goddamn POP-UP asking me if I want to use AI. It reminds me of trying to surf the web in the early 2000s, Christ. Make it stop. No.

"There are a lot of Wednesdays! They come around much more quickly than you'd imagine! Sometimes it feels like there are more Wednesdays than any other days!" @leahreich.com's newsletter isn't about bikes (tho she values IRL interaction, as do we), but the quote made me LOL tinyurl.com/yfskmssu

Wednesdays forever! A decade ago I did an essay series called "A Year of Wednesdays" and I've been stuck on Wednesdays ever since. Also I do like bikes, and if I lived in Philly (I was born there & sometimes wish I'd moved back), I would 100% come on a ride

This was so fun. Community work feels fantastic

why yes, I do hate that everything now has a Year in Review LinkedIn Year in Review? I'd rather slip on an icy sidewalk Google One (i.e. storage!) Year in Review? hard pass

why yes, I do hate that everything now has a Year in Review LinkedIn Year in Review? I'd rather slip on an icy sidewalk Google One (i.e. storage!) Year in Review? hard pass

Beautiful visualizations of travel times in North Philadelphia from a *1914* city transit report

Thrilled to see that Philly Bike Train dates for Jan-Mar 2026 line up perfectly with WNRs. Pop these into your calendars! Wednesdays are for riding bikes

Beautiful visualizations of travel times in North Philadelphia from a *1914* city transit report

Once on a group bike ride past this statue, the person next to me asked "who's that statue?" and I said, "Don Quixote. A lot of people don't know he was from Philly" and they said "whoa, really?" and I still think about it sometimes

OMG, I had *no idea* you could add -ai to a search to suppress the AI Overview

1986, Stand by Me 1987, The Princess Bride 1989, When Harry Met Sally Remarkable run, just four years These were absolutely foundational movies for me RIP, Rob

OMG, I had *no idea* you could add -ai to a search to suppress the AI Overview

Heartened to see this well-written and thought-out piece from the Drexel student newspaper on two deadly hit-and-runs on Market between 30th and 36th, a stretch I walk and bike on every week www.thetriangle.org/news/market-...

Better kinds of intelligence: natural biological human emotional (each a subset of the prior)

Personal aside: on the way to the ride, I dropped off the last two sets of party lights from this year's bulk order. 54 sets (108 wheels' worth!) of party lights have been delivered!

"you can’t help but feel deeply sad, realizing the internet that shaped you has been destroyed piece by piece" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...

Personal aside: on the way to the ride, I dropped off the last two sets of party lights from this year's bulk order. 54 sets (108 wheels' worth!) of party lights have been delivered!

I'm an optimist, but I was still astonished how many people turned up for the Holiday Lights Ride last night. It rained for the four hours before the ride! Yet I'd guess around 200 people, maybe more, came out to roll through the illuminated streets of South Philly. Just wild.

Better kinds of intelligence: natural biological human emotional (each a subset of the prior)

Heartened to see this well-written and thought-out piece from the Drexel student newspaper on two deadly hit-and-runs on Market between 30th and 36th, a stretch I walk and bike on every week www.thetriangle.org/news/market-...

I've known John Prine's Angel from Montgomery since childhood, my dad was a fan, but for some reason it wasn't until I heard Susan Tedeschi's cover yesterday on the radio that I understood that the protagonist of the song is singing that she's ready to die. Even more heartbreaking.

Tonight! The ride's on, despite the slightly sketchy forecast. Bedeck yourself and come roll through illuminated South Philly

"We are animals inhabiting a planet in a solar system, with lives shaped by natural rhythms that stem from its particular characteristics: alternating seasons, days and nights." aeon.co/essays/sleep...

Inspired, I suspect, by its mention in that recent @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social piece in Harper's, I pulled Mary Gaitskill's Bad Behavior off the shelf and re-read it for the first time in 20 years. A few notes 🧵

Do you like our logos? They're by @martharichart.bsky.social, and you're in luck - her show "It's Always Today" opens tonight at Paradigm Gallery + Studio, 12 N 3rd St, up through Dec 28. If you swing by, tell her thanks from WNR! www.paradigmarts.org/collections/...

There are ideas in OTIS to extend the bikeway fully to DRT :) As for American, parking should have been vacated on Germantown and the bikeway extended to Master

"Customers resist new products" is certainly an interesting phrase. Gets at the feeling that these AI tools are being forced on a substantially unwilling populace (because so much as been invested, they *must* be adopted) finance.yahoo.com/news/microso...

Last night I rode my bike for the first time on two new-ish pieces of infrastructure, the two-way cycletracks along Germantown Ave just north and south of Girard Ave It's a helpful piece of bike infra connecting the DRT to the American Street bikeway🧵 @bcgp.bsky.social

Hear me out: to post, Strava requires you to move, usually outside. So there's a natural limit (a slowness) on how often you can post. It's even influenced by the weather - on rainy or cold days, it's quieter. Looking at Strava never feels 'manic' to me the way other social media platforms can.

Cf. Thich Nhat Hanh, “Living in modern society, one feels he cannot easily retain integrity, wholeness. One is robbed permanently of humanness, the capacity of being oneself."

This phrase inspired Christie George to create this "book report" www.emergencywascuriosity.com

INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION ~ forms the basis for ~ COLLECTIVE ATTENTION ~ and thus for ~ MEANINGFUL REFUSAL

Paraphrased, "Your enemy turns out not to be the world, but the channels through which you encounter it day to day."

This book has some excellent disses, e.g. #1 Page 35. “Everywhere you can find men who live for empty desires and have no interest in the good life. Stupid fools are those who are never satisfied with what they possess, but only lament what they cannot have.” – Epicurus

Notes on How to Do Nothing by @jennitaur.bsky.social 🧵

Notes on How to Do Nothing by @jennitaur.bsky.social 🧵

Last night I rode my bike for the first time on two new-ish pieces of infrastructure, the two-way cycletracks along Germantown Ave just north and south of Girard Ave It's a helpful piece of bike infra connecting the DRT to the American Street bikeway🧵 @bcgp.bsky.social

Hey cuties, wanna share some snacks, chat, & pack up native plant seeds for free distribution? Join us December 17th for the next iteration of the Native Plant Prep Party! The goal: Pack up 10,000 seed packets. We're currently at 2000 already packed. RSVP here: luma.com/o3sladpu

"Customers resist new products" is certainly an interesting phrase. Gets at the feeling that these AI tools are being forced on a substantially unwilling populace (because so much as been invested, they *must* be adopted) finance.yahoo.com/news/microso...

continue to be astonished by what's called AI's inability to do the most basic math, yet state its wrong answers confidently

continue to be astonished by what's called AI's inability to do the most basic math, yet state its wrong answers confidently

More details TK, but next week's ride will be our *5th* year partnering with @bcgp.bsky.social on their long-running Holiday Lights Ride. Still a joy to be part of such a fab ride! (and cool to see regular Mary featured in the photo this year). Register: give.bicyclecoalition.org/event/holida...