Well-coiffed lady rolls down her window in the middle of Arsenal & Grand, to tell the workers "y'all are doing a great job". Result: some big grins all around.

It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️

What if color harmonies were a continuum? Not fixed rules, and you could glide through them just by interpolating?

"At their all-time high, in 2017, global sales of pure internal combustion vehicles hit 79.9 million units, per data from the International Energy Agency. Last year, 54.8 million internal combustion cars were sold, a 31% reduction." www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele... via @danmccarthy.bsky.social

Cheese on a cracker is a tiny pizza.

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process

SCHUMER: Well, I—for one—am touched by this act of generosity. Perhaps one day, all of humanity will know the saying “Be welcoming of Greeks bearing gifts.”

11-11-2018 photo of Veteran's Day uniforms in Kansas City - the 100th anniversary of the armistice.

Boomers' levels of civic engagement were COASTING. They inherited a healthy democratic system from their parents. When we think about what level of effort we need to get out of our multiple crises, we need to look not to our parents the Boomers, but to our Grandparents.

For today's article, I'm just griping about why "fun" is a bad word for critics. spacebiff.com/2025/09/30/a...

One of the less understood beauties of a transition to a renewable economy is: you cannot invade a country and steal its sunshine and its wind, and you will not need to. The uneven distribution of fossil fuel, esp. oil, has corroded geopolitics for more than a century....

The 'Ship of Theseus Paradox' has shifted meaning over time. As this continues, eventually it'll mean something completely different - then the 'Ship of Theseus Paradox' will have been subject to the Ship of Theseus Paradox. But we won't be able to talk about it with 'Ship of Theseus Paradox'!

What happens to America matters a lot, not just to us personally, but to the world. Do you think a demented nuke-armed mafia superpower might be ... bad? 🤔

When all you have is a hammer... @politicalwire.com politicalwire.com/2025/10/03/n...

Kept thinking about the debate between Klein and Coates and wrote down some thoughts.

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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS- St. Louis” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Nothing says "I have no reason to silence these women or fear what they will say" quite like ordering military aircraft to fly over and disrupt their press conference.

I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Liberty on Labor Day- St. Louis” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

Stop inviting Google read your mail! If anyone's on the fence about migrating from Gmail to Proton, my advice is: DO IT! Proton focuses more on the user. I find a sensible feature every week or so. There's a free tier and a good migration tool. What are you waiting for?

Crime in cities IS rampant and IS slaughtering people. It's motor vehicle crime, perpetrated by amateur drivers.

This. Forever.

Holy Shit! Specialized now has TWO types of bike helmet geometries, based on how eccentric of an ellipse your head is, in addition to three sizes. Coming from the "The Alien" school of skull geometry, this is huge.

Goodbye to an annoying business! Spectrum, my former internet provider, miraculously discovered they could charge me $20/month less when I called to cancel the service. Had they simply had low and low-hassle pricing I would have stayed. But I hate calling every year to get the rate reduced.

Oooh, I'll watch this. And speaking of Avatar: today I learned that there was denialism of the outcome of the First Opium War in the Qing dynasty. I wonder if was the impetus for Ba Sing Se's denialism?

Google has unilaterally changed the power button on my phone to no longer power-down the phone. Instead it summons an AI! So if the AI malfunctions, how do we turn it off? 🤔 Ominous metaphor, much? 👌

Robert's been working on social justice in Kentucky since his childhood. We're lucky to have him running!

"It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA" www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...

p.s. We're having a lot of "Which is why the person who said, or rather typed, offhandedly 'people should bike more' really means all people need to bike everywhere under all circumstances and is callously indifferent to people who..." on this thread.

A while back I wrote my Senators encouraging them to arm Ukraine. IIRC Hawley didn't write back, but Eric Schmidt finally replied to say "Ensuring complete and total accountability of every item and every cent throughout the process is a chief concern.". Uh, it's a war, not an accountancy exam.

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What?! What!? What?! @mattleacock.bsky.social 's Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship is already fully implemented on BoardGameArena. I'm excited to play over-the-board with my Fellowship, but I'm already feeling the lure of the ring beckoning me to try it online... 😅

A tandem bicycle is fundamentally an accessibility tool! Hear me out! What capabilities does a tandem bike give you? 1. You move two people using the skill of one person 2. You move two people using the sum of their power output Skill and power are barriers to bicycling. Tandems can lower them.

@politicalwire.com great headline! 🤣 politicalwire.com/2025/06/05/e...

Calling Spider's Web "Russia's Pearl Harbor" is overlooking a certain crushing sneak attack against the USSR in June of 1941.

Protest creeping authoritarianism. app.sosha.ai/s/k5WTc62T

this is such an interesting time to be alive. we concreted the internet as our second equal and primary reality but it's full of ghosts now we try to talk to them and they pass right through it's a haunted world of dead things who look real but don't really see us

In the midst of all this terrible stuff, note that: * Higher priced imports incentivise repair. * Global recessions slow the rate of energy extraction, including fracking.

I've stopped using Google for the horrific waste of the useless, un-turn-offable AI "summary", but if you need further impetus ...

Cole Wehrle @ 36:30 > it is *less important* to me that someone have a good first game, because I just think trying to optimize any game system for the experience of a first play is just a fool's errand. ***I FUCKING KNEW IT!!!***

"Because the successful examination candidates who ran the Qing government were among the primary beneficiaries of the status quo, there was no incentive for them to change." -Elleman & Paine, writing on why we require entry level web developers to got to school for advanced algorithms.

Making America Bicycle Again. www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

I just realized that 3 of my 7 lifetime primary computer programming languages are named in BLOCK CAPS: - BASIC - C - LISP Now I feel a little dated.

Hahaha! And the award for the most ineffective sign goes to: (Hint: it might be about smashing into bicyclists with cars?)

In my dream last night I convinced my school bus full of coworkers to sing this this album really loud twice a day.