Do yourself a favor and listen to some of the great music linked from this article (gift link/no paywall). www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

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Cycling home from work yesterday I saw that amazing full moon. I thought, wow, it's about ten days until Hanuka. One of those oddball holidays that isn't on the 15th of the Jewish month. What a pain in the ass if you were a Jewish werewolf. "How come uncle Ze'ev is always sick on Passover?"

"accidentally"?

But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs, and arms, and heads, chopp’d off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all, “We died at such a place”

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

Sounds like a lot of work. I appreciate being left out.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Ibex Hyrax North Atlantic Right Whales Foxes Wild Turkeys Coyotes

"Takeout is not an option." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMbj...

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Cycling legend Major Taylor won the 1-mile sprint event at the 1899 world track championships to become the first African American to achieve the level of cycling world champion Happy #BicycleBirthday, Major! November 26 (1878-1932)

Hesgeth will be calling in an arclight strike at 2 AM.

It's a cookbook!

I got my flu vaccination (and a COVID booster). Get yours done if you can. Gift link/no paywall www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...

Actually, he's "Mr. Mansplainer".

Cheshvan is not Marcheshvan.

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, one of the greatest comic strips of all time, was born on this day, November 18, 1985 -- December 31, 1995. And Calvin's dad remains a beacon of inspiration to cyclists everywhere.

Drop some ANIMATION

Exactly correct. Nobody points this fact out enough.

It's his fucking city; we just live here.

I mean, I could put on a coat before stepping out today, but I'm leaning more towards just staying inside for the next four months.

And you thought loading up on area merchant birthday specials was a savvy move....

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

I am so, so sorry.

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Weird how at some point the ACA subsidies went from meaningless technocrat babble that it was obviously incredibly stupid for Democrats to try protecting to being incredibly important for helping people avoid suffering. And Democrats managed to get it wrong both times!! What were the odds?

Aurora watch starts now 👀

I had a frank and open exchange of views yesterday with a driver of a BMW SUV on this very topic.

Jokes on you my impatient neighbor, I drive slower than I ride my bike.

Moi aussi. Photo shows a cyclist in Paris at night. They're between a parallel parked car and a car stopped at a light or something. Their bike has a red sign on it that says "Attention Je suis folle! Je m'arrete aux feux rouges!" (Attention I'm crazy! I stop at red lights!)

Back in my day we had to make up the bullshit all on our own. No AI to lean on. Kids today.

This woman made herstory. She’s the reason the ACA got passed. She led us through Trump 1.0, the insurrection & COVID She never lost a single vote she called up. I didn’t always agree w her but this woman showed us what a gifted leader looks like. TY Nancy for all of it. apnews.com/article/pelo...

Btw, the government shutdown fight by the Democrats shows how to deal with Trump. Fight. Always Fight and never let him get away with his BS.

Classic dish being served, but this is just an appetizer for the midterms.

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

Does this guy know anything?

Rounding error

Fact check: it will hurt Americans.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

I don’t think we have any idea how bad it’s going to get. Elon Musk started Trump 2 by giving Nazi salutes, but there was at least the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability because he didn’t immediately own it. Nick Fuentes is a Nazi who owns it and he’s just becoming mainstream now.

That rainy headwind for my bike commute home last night was something else. It was like cycling uphill for 15 miles.

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As I’ve explained: one of the best ways to protect your heart health is to keep up with your Covid and flu vaccinations. Don’t listen to antivaccine activists they don’t care about you or your family www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

It has a name, you know, "stagflation".

Basically, he's endorsing bike commuting/a daily ride. #cycling #bicycle

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle & go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” -Arthur Conan Doyle

If you see this, quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula.