they're calling it the Lich McConnell theory

I'm no longer looking forward to riding the "D" this summer.

This is a great all around explanation of why we need this tool. Our local reps have been working on this legislation at the MN legislature the past few sessions.

I love how, under our current government, you can never be totally sure if an announcement is an accurate statement of what the government is doing, a statement cooked up by some 24-year old edgelord, or raw ChatGPT output.

This makes me so happy. Over the years I’ve learned just how practical cargo bikes can be. Now I’m seeing more families around Minneapolis figuring that out too, even in the middle of winter.

Does anyone have the full story on the 20ft "Trail closed" section of the MN River Bottoms trail near Bloomington Ferry bridge? It seems like it could be a good @racketmn.com story.

FHWA’s Proven Safety Countermeasures website continues to say that there are "28 countermeasures and strategies effective in reducing roadway fatalities & serious injuries"... but they now only list 23. MIA are the following 5 related to Speed Management, Bicyclists, & Road Diets...

If you knock gently, the doors shouldn’t break (I’m so sorry)

Get loose for Brad!

The quick resegregation of higher education is particularly pronounced. In 1951, in the case of McKissick v Carmichael, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compelled the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law to admit 4 black students. In 2025, they admitted 5. law.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

White People Fraud

Nearly a month after McConnell dropped, assuming neutral environmental conditions, I'd expect most of the sarcophagids and calliphorids to have departed and we'd mostly be dealing with piophilids and the first dermestids.

All sorts wrong here, but the "Everyday bicycling will never grow if cyclists are only comfortable on trails" is some gaslighting patronizing BS.

I remain obsessed with this story line because I continue to learn about new crashes and heroic rescues while simultaneously obtaining more grim autopsy reports via public records requests

I want to point out that "migrants" in the headline is doing the rhetorical work of making human beings into something else. And to reiterate that using "migrant" instead of "immigrant" makes it so the migrating person never lands. (This is not a critique of OP)

My five books I've read by five living authors: Margaret Atwood Ali Smith Mick Heron Jeff Vandermeer Lucy Ellmann

A city that has leading ped intervals and 2 way bikeways should NOT allow right turn on red for drivers. RTOR decreases the safety benefits of the ped interval and 2 way bikeways bc IME drivers *cannot* be trusted to look for bikes & peds when they’re checking for car traffic to turn.

I ended up having to take a hammer to my disc rotor to demagnetize it to fix this problem (and then true the rotor).

One of the wild things about this movement is that the median age at first marriage was lowest in the 1950s—but the median never dropped below 20. The majority of women weren’t marrying as teenagers.

Got lunch with an old friend who teaches math out East. He runs the correlation every year between homework scores (take home) and test scores (in-person). This year, the correlation went negative -- the better you did on homework, the worse you did on the tests.

Plus he was so good in Good Will Hunting.

The Northwest Wind is Blowing. Keewatin, Minnesota

People turning right out of parking lots (and right on red, too!) frequently only look left and can miss pedestrians coming from the right. This morning I was entering into sidewalk where a there was a parking lot exit and a driver looked to their left, saw me and my dog and continued at full speed.

What has happen to Mohammed El-Erian to make him a solid Trump stooge? archive.is/202607071650...

Mamdani won 65% of the vote of young men between the ages of 18 and 29. (circle.tufts.edu/latest-resea...) It's grimly fascinating (and revealing, and unsurprising) how his own party doesn't use him as more of an example of how to reach young male voters.

For anyone who missed this yesterday, classic Raleigh and Schwinn out for the garbage in St Paul, but may be salvageable

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One of the most satisfying feelings in life is the click of a vice grips locking up.

They’re all little babies. It’s unbelievable

Possible project bikes? They are both in pretty rough condition. They were out for the garbage on the 1500 block of River Boulevard

genuinely shocking. I mean, I knew the anti-vax grifters were dangerous and loony. I didn't know they were actively offering after-the-fact alibis to people who murder their children. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...

English relative explaining to me how the US needs immigrants, but UK is too dense. Ohio, Pennsylvania, and 8 other states are more dense than UK. California is barely less dense.

I think if both teams agree, they can skip the open play and go straight to PKs.

By my nonscientific count, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is at least the 30th person immigration agents have directly killed or participated in the death of since Trump retook the White House. That's on top of the at least 59 people who have died in Trump's concentration camps since then.

I was reliably told by a Republican family member (who didn't vote for Trump but accused me of Trump Derangement Syndrome) that Republicans were turning against Trump because they were all surprised and disgusted by the rank corruption.

"A new report has revealed that 90 per cent of utility-scale renewable energy capacity added in 2025 was cheaper than the lowest-cost new fossil fuel alternative, helping to avoid an estimated $480 billion in fossil fuel costs by year’s end."

Holy fractals, Batman! Just came across this image from May 31 of actinoform clouds off the coast of Peru from the Sentinel satellite. eu-space.europa.eu/components/e...

We put up a really gorgeous story from @sonofjud.bsky.social today about how little is actually known about hail, despite its destructiveness. It's one of my favorite stories lately, but it's the comments section where the real fun is www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/w...

Posted a mild disagreement to someone's post, not expecting a response. Instead, the user responded that they didn't care that I disagreed (fine, but why did you respond?), then started a multi post thread about how they don't care when people disagree with them. Social media is hard.

So many .so .sps files. And I still miss WordPerfect and AppleWorks. Wild to be able to boot a 20 old laptop and open things bc you know, the software if downloaded on the machine not seeking a new renewal key

The speed sensor for Tern GSDs is a magnet on the rear disc rotor that induces a charge in a nearby coil. How do I know? Because somehow a little magnet got stuck to my brake rotor and then my speed was reading 2-3X faster than I was traveling.

Shouldn't have bought the 3 size too big shoes.

Complete CONCACollapse

Marginal chance of MInneapolis getting shafted.

Can we all be happy Ronaldo's WC career is done?

I am going to re-up my occasional notice that @scolom.bsky.social can win a perfectly winnable race in Mississippi, if he had financial support and national interest (as some other people did in Maine). You know how cheap it is to buy ads in Mississippi?