brother what the hell are they putting in the TikTok algorithm to get it this well targeted

Crazy how you can be in the best shape of your life and riding 100+ miles per week (occasionally 100+ miles in a single day), then do an FTP test on Zwift and the results are like “Casual, recreational cyclist” ☹️

I don’t have a driver’s license, maybe that’s why I’m struggling to understand how you go from “attempting to park” to “inside a swimming pool”

Boston having 11 sister cities and 2 being Belfast and Glasgow and none being Dublin or any other city in Ireland is very funny to me

the most annoying people on the internet are currently quibbling with the timeline of the Toy Story franchise being messed up by the presence of iPad Kids and they’re all in my TikTok feed

Oh you thought this person was not going to have strong opinions about Toy Story? I still have my Buzz and Woody from c. 1997

There’s a guy on TikTok, smilingstrange, who has recently been on my FYP every day with a new critique of Serial season 1, he’s just on a total tear about it. It’s getting to the point where he might as well start his own podcast, and I would listen to it.

Having now seen Toy Story 5, I realize the end credits song Taylor Swift wrote for it makes less sense in the context of the plot of the film than I expected.

Toy Story 5 with no context

Officially getting fit enough and strong enough that my door-to-door commute from Ravenna to Redmond beats transit by a few minutes 💪🏻 Also a cute coincidence - 6/18/24 was my first commute with a cadence monitor, 6/18/26 the first with a power meter, both noted as especially fast commutes

Unfortunately I keep being fed reaction videos to the original and it’s actually only proving their point further. Just hoards of presumed teenagers who think flowery language makes for good lyricism, it’s wild. Showing me this nonsense is not helping your case whatsoever.

One cool thing I like about Seattle that doesn’t exist in my hometown of Dublin, Ireland is that there are actually a lot of apartments and homes available to move into at any given time and we don’t have a crisis every academic year where students are physically unable to find accommodation.

Been thinking about both cyclists killed in Seattle were crushed by commercial trucks. Think it time to insist that every designed freight route in the city have a protected bike lane.

So many otherwise smart people’s brains are just utterly broken by the topic of cars, it’s truly fascinating

This is not the flex Huang thinks it is. Cars are still one of the leading causes of death for children.

I am heartbroken over this. It’s never easy to read about the death of a cyclist but the more I read about this scenario and about Maridee herself the more I have to come to terms with the fact that it truly could have been any one of us. What could she have done besides not be there to begin with?

And if I said to you the reason we’re getting so many videos of the European tourists (Scottish and Norwegian) doing funny stuff in Boston specifically was because Boston is a very walkable and small city where they’re all concentrated into one area walking around…would I be onto something…

There’s a Rae Dunn’d version of this on Upas Street in San Diego

I am not even close to the first person to say this, but man the decision to just let Phil Collins go crazy with the Tarzan soundtrack was one of the best creative decisions of the 90s. Disney literally doesn’t make movies like this anymore.

Maridee was a 76-year old Vashon Island resident who rides with Rainbow Riders and was in attendance at a trans-support rally at City Hall just last month, as highlighted in this article. We've truly lost a great member of the community.

I went by the scene on Wildwood and happened upon the friends and family of the cyclist just after they had installed a ghost bike this afternoon. She was Maridee Bonadea, a 76-year-old well-loved and wonderful lady from Vashon Island. This did not have to happen and was entirely preventable.

I don’t know how to explain the TikTok dance trend to the new Taylor Swift Toy Story song to anyone over the age of 30, and I myself am over 30

You don’t even have to go outside of tech for this. I’m a Product Manager in a technical field, so many SWEs think PMs are just failed software engineers and they could do my job if they wanted to, which is funny because the concept of a PM exists mainly because SWEs don’t, in fact, do this job well

An addendum to this: the big name chain American fast food also easily clears most fast food you can get in Ireland. It’s just not all that you can get here either.

The funniest part of this being that the Curaçao team qualified but Ireland hasn’t since 2002

I say this as an Irish person: I don’t think you have a single clue what America is, or how good the food here is

There’s gotta be at least one Turkish dude in San Antonio having a terrible Saturday night

Brazil vs Morocco and Scotland vs Haiti are obv great. But like, we got the fucking Gallipoli grudge match at midnight, can’t beat that.

Castle, they let that shit go on for way too long

To be honest they’d have a similar experience at any Mexican restaurant a local would rate as mid-to-good in any town in the U.S. too

Bike ride brought some great views of the local active volcano today

I am losing my mind. I just saw a white Canadian man state that the violence in Northern Ireland is due to “years of replacement migration” and people “watching as their neighborhoods rapidly change” due to people who “don’t share their culture or values and are violent” without a shred of irony!

Are people aware that the Turkish government is establishing a “Turkish Vibe Zone” for the duration of the World Cup

I seem to recall there being regular movie showings downtown near the Westlake Center when I first moved to Seattle c. 2018, why aren’t those a thing anymore

Hot take but I don’t think “all Loyalists want” is to be Irish.

Ah now it’s hard to top the worst takes I’ve ever seen about Northern Ireland, but I reckon he’s only just gone and done it

Scots in town for the World Cup discover the cop slide in Boston. I am so proud of everyone right now

It’s so crazy to bike around residential streets in the wealthiest parts of Seattle (e.g. millionaire’s row in Capitol Hill) and have to deal with canyon size potholes, while the median residential road in Shoreline is butter-smooth. I don’t know why that happens today but this won’t improve it.

James Joyce is gonna read this and come back from the dead so he can publish Finnegan's Wake 2 out of sheer spite.

This bar in Seattle just went crazy my god

He died on his son’s birthday ☹️

The Swifties are being extremely normal and demonstrating a good sense of humor about this one, as expected

If they’re really and truly concerned about the absolute number of affordable units on Bainbridge Island, there’s one obvious solution to that!

Stuff like this is why I hate sitting in a lane on my bike if I need to make a turn or something, and I’m stressed out until the first car stops safely behind me when I have to be there.

perhaps this Toy Story thing has been going on for long enough now

It’s remarkable how a motorist will kill someone and it will be reported in a grammatical form in which you could easily substitute “lightning” or “hail” for “a car”

Just saw a TikTok that was like “wow this song pairs so well with Catholic guilt” about When a Good Man Cries by CMAT um yeah I reckon that’s the point

And this is assuming you ride a regular bike, not an e-bike. At least in Seattle, where there are a decent amount of hills that slow a regular bike more than an e-bike, that means the bike estimate can be reduced by about 20%.