On the flipside, business owners should love walkable/bikeable neighborhoods because people, including me, spend more when walking and biking around. I find moving around outside a car leads to way more impluse purchases.

Started taking the bus to work (and I realize that I’m lucky to have a BRT line that goes to my office) but I have to leave my house only about 10 minutes earlier than if I drove, I get a mile and a half of biking to the station, and I get to spend the bus trip reading.

after 2 years of marriage and 7 total years with my wife I’ve come to the conclusion that the secret to a healthy relationship is to have a bewildering array of catchphrases and shibboleths that you repeat like parrots firing off various sequences of syllables

The day that Elon briefly instituted rate limits was the day I decided ”oh, wait, this place sucks” and started using my BSky account. A house was on fire in Dinkytown and I was trying to find info on it, and the site that used to be perfect for that was telling me I couldn’t use it.

Do you ever just think about hiw we were told we can't have universal Healthcare because it would make too many people in the insurance industry unemployed, but meanwhile AI is allegedly going to wipe out even more jobs and we're told that's just inevitable? The Luddites were right

someone said Kyle Rittenhouse has the face of one of those cartoon pigs they have on the signs of BBQ joints and I’ve never been able to unsee it

I’ve run 600 miles this year. I might break 200 in a single month in May. Running is so cool I love it so much

this was kinda fun - no cars happened to be crossing the river at Ford Parkway when I was running down the hill! It initially clocked me at 7 but I had to slow down to take the photo. I swear.

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

Gonna write a song about a waitress named Florence working in the Two Sisters Kitchen + Bar in a small southeastern Minnesota town. Call it Oronoco Flo

No one: New Zealanders offering you a stone fruit:

what a god-awful day to spend 8 hours in the car on

Heading home from Cedar Falls and stopped at a Casey’s off Highway 63 in bumfuck nowhere. Smells like hogs. Never change, Iowa

I view the “ well I can’t live in Minnesota because of the winter” like someone saying “ oh, I don’t wanna go to that great restaurant because there’s no free parking next to it.”

been rereading Leviathan Wakes and decided to restart the show.

The Packers paid a stop motion artist to create their schedule video by hand and captioned their behind-the-scenes video “your AI slop bores us.” The people’s team!

Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived

This is me when some driver honks trying to get past me (bike riding legally, not even defiantly, and possibly perspiration-drenched) on the street. “Oh you‘re mad because you & your padded air-conditioned chair can’t get to the light 15 seconds earlier? MUST BE TOUGH TO BE YOU.”

You’re a huge baby if you complain about car tab prices. You people drive entire air conditioned living rooms around on a whim and you whimper incessantly. Oh where will I leave my 5,000lbs of metal?? Oh I’m only going 60mph in defiance of God and Gaia. Boo hoo.

remember when Minneapolis had a bike share system and then it got killed by corporate greed and now there’s just Lime bikes and scooters strewn fucking everywhere

I have to laugh because if I don’t I’ll start shaking again - I almost got run over at Bde Maka Ska by someone trying to run a red light! I was waiting to cross Richfield Rd at William Berry. Wm Berry southbound had a green light with a left turn light, so I was waiting for that to change.

Honestly, anyone who does this kinda deserves the inevitable outcomes.

longgggg neck baby

Can you guess which one of the 2 elected officials wearing a helmet in this photo is doing it for a photo opp vs. which one actually rides bikes and is trying to prioritize safety and comfort for folks who get around by bike?

If Jacob Frey shows his pimply weasel face at Pride this year, he should be chased from the scene by people asking him questions about the conduct of the officers in the department he has absolute control over.

“But what if someone wanted to do a thing they’re not supposed to do” that’s you, that’s what you sound like

There still have not been consequences for the Republican Party's brutal public executions of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

I just had a vivid flashback to Fighting Burrito in Ames and how great that place was to work at. A guy once came in and bitched to our manager about having a burrito named after Harvey Milk. She aggressively chased him out of the store, banned him permanently…

*Brandon Flowers voice* 🎵 He’s got six genders Watch it now, here he comes He’s got a real hit on Jesus But he talks like a gentlemen 🎵

$0 to get to and from work

Urbanism is going for a run to pick up your e-bike from the shop

Trump's DHS Secretary said, “For some reason, ICE has been demonized.” ICE murdered two of my constituents in broad daylight and terrorized Minnesota. The American people want us to stop bankrolling more terror from this rogue agency. Abolish it.

Summer must be here! This DJ Ride was for a 120 (mostly non local) urban planners in town for a conference. Build it well and this is the joy that will come. #NACTO

Biking is so much fun. In the past couple days I’ve been able to say hi to my wife on her ride home from work (I was running one day and biking the other), I was able to have a fun chat with a friend from MCR while we were both biking the same way, I saw a KITTY, I saw a DJ Ride…

lookin’ at a thing in a bag

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Solidworks: It’s called Hole Wizard

The road surface on Selby is so bad that it vibrated the chain off my front derailleur when my bike was on the bus rack 😬😬😬

Council Member Soren Stevenson asked Moturi what accountability would look like. Moturi said he wants "O'Hara not be reappointed." And for officers who treated him disrespectfully, including the one who told him to "just move," to receive any kind of punishment.

The Tesoro at 38th and Bloomington is up to $4.59 a gallon - never been happier to have the ability to bike and take the bus!

!!! a wild DJ ride appeared !

snrrrrrk

I have mentioned before that I am a big proponent of paying dignified wages for simple clean up. I think it serves multiple valuable functions. For one, it keeps things attended to. But also, it makes everyone safer. Improves behavior. Weakens arguments for automated surveillance or police presence.

How about Minneapolis takes the TWENTY THREE MILLION DOLLARS OF POLICE OVERTIME for Operation Metro Surge and instead uses it to install more trash cans and pay people to take care of them. How much better would our city be?!

We don't view motor violence like all the other violence, Exhibit 746 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I love not really ever having to reach out to my congressional representative because she’s literally the coolest and is aligned with my needs and beliefs. We should give her a Gundam.