i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

did a bakfiets write this post

ok whose vehicle is this and can i have one

one weird aspect of local politics is that some officials don't care if their constituents live or die, and will more or less tell you this

fool me once, shame on me fool me twice, shame on me ... fool me fifteen times, shame on me fool me sixteen times, you can't get fooled again

As part of Bike Month, today at McIntire Skate Park it’s Family Bike Day starting at 1pm. Come on out for a good time!

planner brain

by the way, would love to see some @techconnectify.bsky.social content about electric bikes

Albemarle & VDOT are pushing through a highway widening. And they can't even point to congestion to justify it. The vote is 4pm today at MPO Policy: ca-mpo.org/event/mpo-po... Expect VDOT to break its longstanding practice of not casting a tiebreaking vote in order to force this through.

nyt columnist dunking on the extremely anodyne take that people should drive slowly when visibility is bad

snack delivery bike

relevant to charlottesville

i think any city employee at the director level and up should be required to live in the city, and should not get subsidized parking. i'm tired of people who don't live here telling us that our safety isn't a priority.

kamala would have won if she'd appeared on "fuck, that's delicious"

steyermentum

Come come now mr pope, you derive just as much pleasure from killing as I do

BREAKING: DOJ investigating Iran for Mortgage Fraud.

annihilation (2018)

spent half an hour trying and failing to pick up takeout in the car the night of the luke combs concert, then salvaged it on the cargo bike. carrying pizza with a single bungee cord not recommended though.

a problem and a solution

Nearly 57 miles ridden in the past week & a half. I'm making an effort to do this to save gas, help environment, and hopefully encourage someone else to take that ride or walk instead of driving 2 miles. If someone thinks about getting an e-bike b/c of this, cool. Even better if they *get* one!

i keep thinking about buying a real induction range, but the two-burner portable model has been good enough for almost everything i want to do.

now we're cooking with induction! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

ms rachel should primary chuck schumer

i don't write about this often here, but charlottesville has an e-bike library, which takes up most of my shed and sometimes parts of the house too. if you're at all curious about e-biking around the area, sign up and try some bikes while the weather's good: www.ebikelibrarycville.org

Finally, a real use case for JavaScript

Say it with me: We don't have a youth e-bike problem. We have an E-MOTO problem.

Annihilation (2018)

can this be a solution?

am i doing this right

MOOOOOOOOOM THE ENEMY IS VOTING AGAIN

I can’t handle this right now

i regret not purchasing more electric bicycles

when the algorithm knows you too well

bike fact: a bike without fenders also doubles as a bidet when it rains

"I want to do a disaster preparedness story," I told my editor at @cvilleweekly.bsky.social. "And the disaster is ICE." 🧵

structured parking now coming in at $150k/space: meetings.cvilledata.org/meetings/cha...

they're going to waterboard claude www.axios.com/2026/02/16/a...

thanks! we also have a bsky feed at bsky.app/profile/ever...

podcasts are car infrastructure

congragulations

one of my favorite e-bikes is on closeout sale: www.aventon.com/products/ave.... caveats: only one size available, and a bit heavy at ~62 lb. it's the most popular bike at the e-bike library, and has ~2k miles on it with no issues.

in which ross harness and i become city planning commissioners and learn about tax abatements for iz-mandated affordable units

legalize it

You’re not imagining things—the plums that were in your icebox are *completely gone*. Here’s why that’s bad news: • They were *your plums*, that you were saving for breakfast. That makes this personal for you. • They were *sweet*, so whoever ate them *enjoyed* them. That’s unforgivable.