well done to Germany, but weller done to Curaçao for scoring a goal at all.

I fell asleep trying to watch the opening game of the FIFA men’s football World Cup last night. I’m transfixed by the opening game of the ICC women’s T20 cricket World Cup tonight. Cricket is a better sport than football.

Feel-good story of the day

I biked the Berlin Sternfahrt today - 25 km from my Kiez to the Tiergarten, including a long stretch on the 115 Autobahn, which was closed to cars for the afternoon. Never had so much on a highway and one of the best days I have ever had in one of the best cities.

Oh, no reason.

Very cute and slightly telling that my 6YO calls a Döner Kebab a "Dinner Kebab"

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (which explains the chain dangling off his saddle)

The chorus of notifications I'm getting about flooded bike paths in Central Ohio is a pretty stark reminder of why that network, while great, is not a replacement for safe surface street infrastructure.

The only part of a driver tboning and totaling your bike that I can recommend is the application of @thewaroncars.bsky.social stickers on all the new stuff.

Turns out an Urban Arrow can take getting T-boned pretty well. The steering is jacked up and there are lots of scratches (including on me). Shame on the Columbus Police Department for not sending an officer because I was on a bike. PSA: drivers must yield when turning left to a bike going straight.

For the cost of an absolute lemon of a used car, you can buy a high end ebike, brand new, that'll last you a decade, keep you healthy, and save you loads of money!

“E-bikes are cheating”, says man who can recite the price of gasoline today from memory.

It‘s always fun to ride 14 miles in the rain, but especially when the destination is a @transitcolumbus.org gathering with @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social. Thanks for bringing @thewaroncars.bsky.social to Columbus!

Schlepped the kids to and from school, went to work. A normal day of biking for me, except that normally I don’t get caught in a hail storm (the kids stayed dry and had fun). The only thing my c@r did today was get in the way of my bike getting into the garage. Happy Earth Day.

Sometimes cars can be cool too

A perfect day to put a bike in the bike to bike somewhere to bike.

Tonight was the 12th time I have seen Bob Dylan but the first time I got there on a bike. Great show and smooth ride.

He is risen

Saving money on gas starts with smarter alternatives to owning a car. With an e-bike that can handle groceries, commutes, and school drop-offs, you can transition to a one-car family, using it for daily trips and saving thousands each year. #risinggasprices #gasprices #cargobike #ebike #SaveMoney

Term limits destroy institutional knowledge and create a constant churn of amateurs who need to learn how to legislate. It empowers corporate interests, which is why they push the issue.

Tired: Permanent Savings Time Wired: Permanent Standard Time Inspired: Universal UTC #AbolishTimeZones

Doom-scrolling the war (reading a long dense book about the naval history of the Napoleonic wars)

I just preordered @josie.zone’s upcoming book The Last Temptation of Beck. I didn’t know anything about comics or wrestling before I read her last books. I don’t know anything about Beck but I am excited to learn in November!

Happy Washington’s Birthday! He was born on Feb 11 when the Colonies used the Julian Calendar, and converted to Gregorian his birthday was Feb 22. The Uniform Monday Holiday Act says that the 3rd Monday in Feb is Washington’s Birthday and it always falls between Feb 15 and 21, never on either bday.

the car magically veered a few hundred feet off a state highway, over a bike path, and onto a frozen river. wild, that.

Another fun Friday night to have the surname “Epstein”

I used to live just north of this intersection. It is so dangerous. Often a driver in the right lane will yield to a pedestrian in the crosswalk, only for a car behind to zoom into the left lane and through the crosswalk. Because it is designed like a highway.

Coming May 4: The Pittsburgh Gazette-Post! Now with fewer employees, and they're paid less, and more AI!

Every time he puts his name on something, I think of this GIF

Don’t lose at dreidel

This is exactly what every GOP elected will say about him when he loses the number of his mess.

If I wanted to see stupid shit from Twitter I would be on Twitter.

we're doing every master and commander book baby

You can just call it Crew Stadium. It’s fine

Self-replicating cars cause the apocalypse From: Automania 2000 (1963), dir. John Halas, Halas & Batchelor

It’s kind of convenient that I don’t have to tell people how to spell my last name anymore

people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad

FWIW I still love the Olentangy Schwebebahn idea.

Very good photo editing in the Guardian (the photograph is by Toby Melville for Reuters)

(Why Dems took deal, part 2: If they were to lose the veto referendum, the 13-2 map would be in 2028.) I'll let others debate what Dems should do or should have done here, but where fair maps really lost was when the GOP put confusing language on the ballot last year: boltsmag.org/ohio-issue-1...

and the British paratrooper folders from WW2 2./

Always fun to see a hearse with my name on it parked outside my kid’s school.

if you have some kind of real connection to that period of history, if it wasn't just a complete abstraction, there's just no way to countenance the faintest "fascination" with it like so many other problems today, this phenomenon is born out out of abstraction, and disconnection from the reality

“It’s not clear what caused the crash”

A huge issue with coverage of e-bikes is that journalists are taking their cues from police and local politicians, two groups that are fueling the negativity over e-bikes. There are legitimate concerns, but the coverage is so unbalanced.

May you be posted in the thread of life