I want my kids to make their bikes their own. To that end, for Christmas I got my anime loving daughter a set of decals from Kaneda’s motorcycle from the film Akira. This is how she put them on. I’m in love with this thing!

Some went down to the sea in ships and plied their trade in deep waters ⚓️

You ever think about how gorgeous this album is?

Was in a meeting yesterday where someone said they could use money for making a bridge beautiful as a euphemism for hostile anti-encampment architecture and it really bummed me out Like, yeah, let's make our bridges beautiful! But not as a cute take on making it harder for my neighbors to exist

Sun is out, so it’s a good day to join @twincitiesdsa.org

"Helpful" drivers are a special kind of unhelpful. Just follow standard right of way. If you sit at the stop sign waving at me to go behind your window when you should have gone, my ability to move through the intersection safely and efficiently is ruined!

Forgot my notes on Sunday and so preached from the hip. Got all kinds of compliments but it sort of feels like a diss if they extra like it without notes. Let alone a script, which is my preferred!

Canadian indie is so back brokensocialscene.bandcamp.com/album/rememb...

Sounds to me like Shrill Standstill wants a planned economy...? And, like, I'm cool with that part

NES. Came with Mario 1 and Duck Hunt

Does any other language have the sheer number of biblical translations as English, and a whole culture of having opinions on them? Genuinely curious about this ⚓️ 🕯️ 📕

Will be mid to high 80s (30C) today, which can only mean one thing: It’s Dickie Greenleaf season

I wrote about my anecdotal experience with my anecdotal sense that far fewer people ride than they did in the early 2010s thecompletebicycle.wordpress.com/2022/09/20/t...

A true saint. We need another like her

Fwiw, as a parent of teens, one of the biggest struggles is just getting them out of the house to do things, even with friends. COVID and short form video cooked a microgeneration's sociableness

Feel like the Ascension is one of the least explored christological moments and I can't quite nail down why. Perhaps because it's sort of a single movement w/ Pentecost? And that's underexplored as well so perhaps that tracks

Can a guy who pretty much knows 25-30 yr old church music learn new tricks?

Started watching Fern Gully last night but stopped after 15 mins. The writing is shockingly bad and the animation chaotic. Had sort of hoped it would hold up, but it very much did not

Latchkey kids

Cut my Spring Fling short today because those 22mph gusts were making things unfun. But overall still a lovely ride!

I am extremely troubled by the amount of standby pay issued to MPD officers during Operation Metro Surge. MPD data shows some officers were paid nearly 24 hours per day for 32 days straight, while dozens were paid 8-12 extra hours each day while we stood out in the cold protecting our neighbors. 1/

FYI tonight’s Top Chef is all about Duke’s mayo 🕯️ 📕 ⚓️

Bikes are, for me, both a hobby and my primary form of transportation. And there's nothing like getting "bike stuff" under the "transportation" section of the budget to reiterate just how cheap riding is

Might mess around and listen to American Idiot for the first time

“For major US cities to bring their public transit up to ‘world-class’ status, it would cost an enormous $4.6tn, involving 7,500 miles of new dedicated infrastructure … over the next 20 years” “While the amount … appears astronomical, it pales compared with the $6.3tn the US will spend on highways”

Unquestionably. And A Serious Man is handily the best biblical adaptation. Our MN boys know how to make movies

This is really a Rubicon moment not just for US conservatism - which had to pretend for 50 years to be only about capitalism and not resegregation - but also for US liberalism, which largely relies on a progress narrative accomplished by a previous generation

Not to brag, but I tried a typing test for fun cause I was bored and this was what I got for a 5 minuter

In middle aged news, nose strips actually reduce my snoring, apparently. And also I get so much more oxygen it makes me think I have a deviated septum

While I had a brief trucker hat & flat cap period as a baby hipster, for the most part I've not been a hat guy. And the more I associated them w/ performative masculinity or follicle insecurity, the more I avoided them But I've come around to hats as an accessory, but I've done it my way /

After a string of albums I didn't find enjoyable, Kacey Musgraves is back with this latest. I don't need her to do country per se - Golden Hour was superb - but the return to country is also a return to good songwriting

Ok now we need a thread of your favorite 5/4 songs

News you can use: wore a short sleeve terry cloth button up on today’s ride and it was really comfortable. My summer transformation to Dickie Greenleaf has begun

I’m 6’1, so when I tell you @scottagunn.bsky.social is tall, I need you to know how tall that is

The vibes are basically the same if someone says Pablo Honey is their fav Radiohead or Royal Tennenbaums is their favorite Anderson. Male contrarian sensationalists

You love to see it #maibock #bikes

Affixed a blank, vintage, French chain guard to my partner’s bike. It is now the ultimate all road city bike

Update: Saw sort of officialish-looking people with gear of some sort in the fountain today on my lunch walk. I take this to mean my old picture motivated them to take action

Happy May Day! Solidarity now and always. A lovely day to join @twincitiesdsa.org

Happy new American Football album to all who celebrate americanfootball.bandcamp.com/album/americ...

So, like, when are they gonna fix the fountain?

I am, and once again, asking bike shops to not treat femme-presenting folks like shit. Inspired by yet another friend telling me about a bad experience she had at one last week. Her husband had a much better experience when he brought the bike in again (to the same shop w/ same need) this week. 🙄

Spring allium risotto tonight. Leeks, ramps, chives. Also peas

Film you've watched more than six times with gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli

Look, I love my keyboardists, but I learned early on that you never let the keys start a song. God only knows how many time signatures you'll move through in the span of a few measures

A Return (to blogging) of Sorts open.substack.com/pub/adalehun...

1-Luke 2-John 3-Mark 4-Matthew 1-The liberationist Gospel with the most elegant prose, coherent narrative structure, seamless OT allusions, & always edits Matthew in a better direction. Also has a fire second volume

#MSPCycleCast Nice ride in. A bit muggier and warmer than you may expect. Full coverage fenders made easy work of the rain

New drivetrain, who dis? Honestly it shifts like a dream

One of the great three song runs. All the more notable for the good-but-not-revelatory songs on either side