I’ve been at home convalescing with Covid & wanted a light-hearted read. The Road to Tender Hearts was in my Kindle borrow pile, & I can’t recommend it enough. Zany yet moving.

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Thank you so much for those kind words! My goal is to work as hard for Tampeños as I've always wanted all of my elected officials to work for me.

We're doing a preview ride for World Car Free Day this Sunday by riding from Henry & Ola to Midtown. If you don't want to bike from the Heights, you can meet us downtown at Cass & the Riverwalk. This ride will be a few miles longer than normal, 12-13 miles at 8-10 MPH.

Do you know when your local elections are this year? The primary? The best way you can honor Sen. Hortman is vote someone of integrity into your city council, your library board, your school committee, your state government. #elections2025

This thread made my morning!

I got UNANIMOUS support for continuing (& expanding) Rt 1 frequency from council last night in our first FY2026 budget hearing. I want to thank council, the administration, & all the folks who came out to advocate for continued transit funding!

We're back! And we have exciting news: The mast arms are up for the new light at Ola & MLK that will make the Ola Ave Bikeway truly usable. We're going to check out the progress—join us!

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DOG!!! The Giant Database of Dogs is a data collection project for classroom use. 6 quick questions to help students learn statistics! ALL good puppers are welcome! buff.ly/f6weaUE (please share widely!) (pics for tax, of course!)

Thanks for the great wrap up of our first budget workshop. But I gave us a C-/D+! Hoping for a higher grade for next week’s enterprise workshop.

Quote post your All-City bikes. We’re bike twins!

Let's go!!! Come on out to the Babe Zaharias golf course clubhouse Friday August 1st at 6pm to cheer me (& maybe other council members) on!

Join me Sunday as we check out the progress of Phase 3 of the East West Green Spine cycle track that will connect VM Ybor/Cuscaden Park to Nuccio Parkway via protected cycle tracks. The complete plans can be found at: www.tampa.gov/tss-transpor...

Greatest flag or best flag of all time?

Mark your calendars! Sept 20, I’m leading the Kidical Mass Ride again on World Car-Free Day. It was such a fun ride last year with lots of family participation. Can we double turnout this year?

looping the lakes this afternoon; knocked Sebastian Joe’s Kingfield off the list—a shrine of neighborhood involvement! Tried Nicolette Ave pothole just for the name, plus raspberry chocolate chip. All incredibly yummy, but danish nut roll was clear winner. Only negative was no bike racks!

We started early with La Michoacana. I had a dragonfruit scoop in a sugar cone & @bubbaprog.lol got soursop and pickle in a waffle bowl. Pickle ice cream was interesting. Pretty yummy.

Tomorrow is my birthday, & I love ice cream. We’ve got bikes & want to do an ice cream tour of Minneapolis. What places/flavors are must stops?

Happening now: Tampa, FL Council Member Lynn Hurtak is back in town and just picked me out of a crowd at the Little Mekong Night Market. @lynnhurtak.com

I am so upset we missed the @wedge.live cat tour! Is there anything going on in the next week that can possibly top this?

Heading back to Minneapolis for a family reunion this coming week. Staying in Uptown, using the bus, will have bikes Monday and Tuesday. What should we do? Where should we eat?

This might be my favorite story in the new cargo bike magazine: how Makan Dramé, a business owner in Bamoko (pop. 4.2M, the capital city of Mali) decided to build cargo bikes with local materials & transform local package delivery. Photo of Dramé doing a test ride at @cargobikefest.bsky.social 2024

Tampeños: Come ride the Riverwalk loop with me this Sunday (yes, there is a loop!) We'll see where other bikeway connections are & stop in Channelside for coffee, so bring a lock.

The global aid sector is quite literally on the brink of death right now and the human fallout globally is already obscene and will keep getting much, much worse. People in the U.S. need to be far more aware of this - and angry - than they currently are.

Trump claims to oppose antisemitism. But he's continuing Biden's legally dubious prosecution of @bubbaprog.lol, the journalist who exposed one of America's most prominent antisemites. I called for the case to be dropped @usatoday.com. I hope organizations that fight antisemitism will do the same

Happy first full weekend of Pride! We always put up our Pride flag for LGBTQ+ events (our celebration & parade is in March because June in FL=muggy & hot!) This year, @bubbaprog.lol had a flag made that superimposes the City of Tampa flag on top & it is GLORIOUS!

Took my bike home from work. It was a great way to decompress from the day.

Sunday we're headed back downtown to ride & talk about the changes coming to the Selmon Greenway & the soon-to-be two-way protected bikeway for Morgan Street. If you want to meet us downtown, we'll stop at Museum of Art at 8:30. We'll stop for coffee on the way back, so bring a bike lock!

Truly the pinnacle moment of this household's decade-long war on neighborhood snipe signs.

This was amazing. Tim makes the best pizzas!

Y’all—20+ people came to my Easy Sunday Morning Ride today! We had our first family. And someone who uses their bike as their primary mode of transit. My heart is so full as we build a community around cycling the trails and bikeways that connect our city.

Since it was rainy last time, I'm doing the Green ARTery segments again along with the new 18th/19th Street bikeway from the river to I-4. It'll be a great day for a ride—join us!

Had the most amazing tour of bikeways and the city tonight thanks to the @wedge.live Emergency Bike Ride. Thanks to all who attended for the great conversation and ride. Bike folks are the best!

While I was in Wisconsin yesterday, this is the Cub in Edina, MN. The brands are mostly familiar—it’s the variety that’s foreign to Floridians. And for those asking, I did get a picture of some Wisconsin cheese.

I was happy to join city & neighborhood leaders to celebrate finishing the first segments of the 22-mile Green ARTery loop trail. Join me on an Easy Sunday Morning Ride to learn more about new & planned city bike infrastructure.

I'll be in Minneapolis this weekend. I'll have Monday evening and most of Tuesday free. Staying in Uptown. Where can I rent a bike to ride the greenway? Where should I eat? It's been ~4 years since my last visit. Tell me all the things!

Rain didn’t stop our Green ARTery Segments D & E ride, but it did delay us about an hour. If you couldn’t join due to the rain, fear not—we’ll be doing this ride again with an add-on to explore the soon-to-be 18th/19th north-south connector from the river to I-4 on May 25th. Join us!

If a 5 year old can't safely ride a bike on your bike lane, then your bike lane is inadequate.

Join me as we ride the newly finished Green Artery Segments D & E through Lowry Park, Sulphur Springs, and Old Seminole Heights. We'll talk about ways to connect these 2 segments and additional bike lanes planned for the area. We'll also stop at Corner Club for coffee. See you Sunday!

🌱 🍽️ It’s International Composting Week! I’ve composted for 20+ years using a simple bin from the city that I turn and water once a month. I have a bowl that lives on the kitchen counter in an easy-to-see location. I empty it every 2-3 days. How do you compost?

D.C. punk icons Fugazi performing "Repeater" live in their hometown in February 1991. Title track to the band's second album from 1990. m.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsx...

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Any human mood can be described accurately by a Mark Rothko painting.

Excited to be speaking at this Saturday night at Shuffle, especially since proceeds support the independent press! Hope to see everyone there.

Big congrats to @cltampabay.bsky.social for syndicating @michaelbishop.me & his @tampamonitor.com blog. Item #4 last week was near & dear to me—putting the extra $11.8M from FY24 into citizen priorities. Glad that the rest of council agreed with me!

Group city council selfie from the State of the City this morning. We’ve been through a lot together as a city this past year. I enjoyed the chance to thank staff & remember what makes Tampa such a wonderful place, but also not forget there are things we need to focus on to make us more resilient.

Want to see the Rays while they’re in town but the thought of parking around RayJay makes you want to forget the whole idea? Give biking to the ballpark a try!

🍽️ Put up some refrigerator garlic dill pickles this afternoon. They should be ready in about 3 weeks!

Join me this Sunday morning for another ride exploring existing and future bikeways in the urban core. Note the earlier hour as temps rise!

A @themountaingoats.bsky.social fan since the mid-90s, I really love his boombox era. But this album explained the roots of where that music came from in a way that was so personal. I'm awed it's been 20 years, & grateful John continues to write and perform with the same fervor as those boombox days