Best cargo bike ever? Fun, uses repurposed materials, looks like it could ram the snot out of a car parked in the bike lane.

@thewaroncars.bsky.social Spotted on a Cambridge, MA sidewalk. (After dark, current phone cameras are amazing.)

@reckless.bsky.social I'm listening to the latest episode of Decoder, with the Wassym Bensaid. Every single vehicle CEO you bring on makes me want to never buy another car again, and spend my transportation dollars on e-bikes and mass transit. The buttons comments in particular are infuriating.

Porsche driver in some kind of pro-war demonstration almost nails us running a red light just to block the crosswalk.

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@catboycdr.bsky.social Having listened to a history podcast on ships cats recently, I was wondering if Starfleet has anything analogous to the old British Naval customs or regulations surrounding useful non-crew animals on starships.

Today is Sextidi the 16th of Ventôse in the year 234. Ventôse is the month of wind. Today we celebrate spinach.#JacobinDay More information on spinach

The past week had been unseasonably warm (30ºF warmer than average). To the point where I got all the bikes out of the garage to make sure they had air in the tires and not too many cobwebs. Even put the batteries back in the e-bikes. Today I’m just glad my Surly still has snow tires on. ❄️

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Delighted to say that an updated and expanded version of my series on one of the most extraordinary acts in aviation history will be running on The Up Front over the coming weeks. And even better: it's now completely free to read.

stylised version of @garethdennis.uk's British Isles HSR proposal from Railnatter 222 (+ schematic mockup of the GB network)

Been listening to the Decoder podcast on @theverge.com, specifically the recent car CEO episodes. Each one of them has made me more determined to hold onto my aging cars and go with e-bikes/cargo e-bikes as much as possible. It amazes me how unappealing Ford, GM, and Rivian make their cars sound.

Full bike racks at the library today. (Forgot to take a picture, alas.) Always nice to see people using bikes to get downtown. #bikesky

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

Tapbots (who used to make Tweetbot, and now sell Ivory for Mastodon) have just announced a Bluesky client, Phoenix, coming this summer. Ivory is why I spend more time in the Fediverse than here: https://www.macstories.net/news/phoenix-rising-tapbots-reveals-new-bluesky-client-for-summer-release/

from Tantor Media: "Haze by Katharine Kerr now has an audio publication date! It will be available for sale on 7/15/25 across our 60+ retail and library digital distributors, including Audible, Apple, Spotify, audiobooks.com and Google Play. "The narrator is Eric Michael Summerer."

Have dug out the #CargoBike for the first time in a month to deliver kid to after school activity. It’s not that it’s been so cold (though it’s been cold), but that the streets have been full of (melting) snow mixed with salt. Of course it immediately started raining when I got home.

DeepSeek hot take: The emperor still has no clothes, but it's very distressing to the emperor that their non-clothes can be made so much more cheaply.

(From @[email protected] )

Paris | Before, the banks of the Seine were motorways, with daily traffic jams and pollution. Today are parks for people and play areas for everyone. That's what changing a city is all about, even if it's been difficult. We are proud of our Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social's commitment and work.

@marthawells.bsky.social Stuck in bed sick. Fortunately I saw the sale on the Fall of Ille-Rien and picked up all three volumes, since I don't think I can manage the hardbacks from downstairs. Been a while since I've read these. Picking up stuff I missed the first time around. Thank you.

One of President Carter’s many humanitarian efforts was the eradication of guinea worm, a parasite that causes incredibly painful and debilitating disease in some of the poorest parts of the world. And he’s almost done it. In 2023, there were 14 cases. When he started, there were millions a year.

@catboycdr.bsky.social What's the general career path look like after being 'head of shuttles' for a Historical or Flagship type ship? This assumes you don't want to go live on a Starbase and do shuttles there. Defiant-class command? Command track on a larger ship?

Look, streaming exec, whoever you are, let me make alternating seasons of SHARPE and MASTER AND COMMANDER and I shall deliver unto you the Dad Audience for a decade. It will make REACHER look like a ripple in a pond.

Based on nothing more than a video of Vance saying he likes beer, I now find myself doubting whether he actually likes beer. He comes off as so much the opposite of genuine that it is impossible to take even his most mundane statements as even plausibly true. The man has resting mendacity face.

tim walz gave minnesotans $1500 rebates on e-bikes www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Oh my god he loves MAPS

I guess I'm all in for Kamala Harris now.

OK - Tonight's stream, which starts in about 3 hours, will cover the Trump verdict. Because of a question I've received from several people already, we'll also look at U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995). The stream (when it starts) will be at twitch.tv/questauthority