the three groups of people at dew drop rn are 1) little kids 2) their parents 3) twenty-somethings very confused about why either of the first groups are here

good luck out there 50 states riders! don't forget north dakota

a serio? a serio!

can't say that I love how this problem still lingers, though less intensely, a few days later

(im)patiently waiting for the local personal liberties and free markets editorial page to weigh in on yesterday's events

sometimes at lunch when I have the time and inclination I walk across the street and wander through a handful of galleries with no particular aim or purpose

Bikes for the World refurbished bike sale this weekend

whatever sucker* has to walk to school to bring my kid home sure is gonna get wet. *me

Can’t say that I love how you can be active and exercise and stuff but also turn slightly the wrong way sitting at your desk and somehow strain your back in such a way that you’re barely mobile

looks like the local personal liberties newspaper is at it again

Nicole sent Jack with my credit card into Andy’s to order her a slice of pizza and thankfuly we seem to have avoided this

every time I get on a bike in this city I aim for a disposition of unflappability. second to arriving safely, I most want to arrive unbothered

at the Art All Night in Shaw refusing to engage with the fact that the cool-as-hell HU line dancing sophomores are closer in age to my child than me

when you live here, sometimes you do stuff

went to the field where we do soccer on Sunday today, and it’s basically an interchangeable group of kids and parents, except from one elementary school over. like when Bart et al go to Shelbyville. so uncanny

waiting for this website to see the fourth and fifth paragraphs in the newest op ed in our local personal liberties newspaper. hoo boy

[catching up on all the internet I missed today while at work] I see.

I think overall the not-that-many people I follow on this website have acquitted themselves relatively well over the past 24 hours

USPP helo circling my house for last 20 minutes So that’s fun

I know that complaining about the newspaper is both 1) pointless and 2) boring, but one of the consequences of them tricking me into clicking on their article is now me responding to it.

wasn’t going to catch the bus at the nearest stop so I took CaBi two blocks to the next stop and beat the bus, which I’m now on. you gotta make your own fun (multimodalism edition)

an autumnal crispness in the air? in early September? in this economy?

I don't want to see soldiers in the park I don't want to see soldiers in the dark I don't want soldiers doing mulch I want no soldiers in the gulch I don't want soldiers raking leaves I don't want soldiers in DC

with the end of federal control of MPD in the coming days, I wonder if we're going to get one more big 'going out of business' blowout event of horribleness or if we've already reached the wind-down phase

DC-area people! I am going to be in Arlington on Tuesday talking parking, come thru! ggwash.org/calendar/eve...

there are many ways to read the weather (so to speak) of the current enhanced police occupation but the presence of a large group of unbothered dudes on dirt bikes in the middle of Shaw on a Sunday afternoon definitely tells you something

this past month has been very bad for my formerly goodish habits of not spending too much time doomscrolling

for a lot of structural reasons the district is hamstrung in how it can respond, but the people here are good and the cause is just and I think that's important to remember

How we rode the DC Bike Ride this morning before the We Are All DC March against the Trumpists attempted takeover of my hometown

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

leaning into the urban millennial cargo bike dad aesthetic this morning: swvre shorts, t shirt from defunct bike cafe, blue lug satchel

Maybe @ddotdc.bsky.social will move forward with appropriate haste to finish that 15th street PBL extension?

our good friends at the local personal liberties newspaper think that opposing soldiers being used as police is tactically dubious while declining to address how offensive, wrong, and unnecessary it is to have soldiers being used as police

Phoenix Bikes is looking for a Youth Program Manager. Love bikes?! Love working with kids?! Love repacking cup and cone hubs with grease?! This is the right job for you! #bikedc www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/...

I’ll post a full deep dive, probably on Monday, but CaBi data for August is out and for once, the vibes are not good! The 43 month YoY streak survived, but barely (just 4% growth!). It appears cost increases and fascism have a negative effect on bikeshare

tonight is the monthly dad meet up when a bunch of dads from the school/neighborhood meet up at a bar after kid bedtime and talk about dad stuff or whatever. it is, not joking, one of the highlights of my social calendar

AG to NG: GTFO ASAP

the local personal liberties newspaper would like to elide the fact that president made up an emergency to deploy goon squads and soldiers so it can punch left at critics of the mayor

the headline on the home page vs. the headline on the article

one thing that I'm especially known for is not being in charge of the police. in fact, one of my nicknames is 'guy who isn't the police chief.' but sometimes I think about things and apropos of [staring into space], here's a bunch of questions I'm hoping people asked and have good answers to

Stopped on my way to Soulcycle to record an HSI, Park Police, and MPD arrest downtown, and some HSI guys waited until they were in their unmarked car to tell me to smile more.

I wonder if anyone is looking up what “to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District” means

if the soldiers don't know that they're here to intimidate us and we decline to be intimidated by them, then what?

happy terrible traffic tuesday eve to all who celebrate

very excited for our nation's elected legislative leaders to come back and lie about how they finally feel safe enough to do the exact same shit that they were doing here before

some observations from biking around today: 1. if this was always our summer weather, bike modeshare would be 20%+ easy 2. the young people love to exercise in rcp and also too loudly discuss their messy situationships 3. feels like DC locals are out, but people aren't coming into the city

ok, I think that's enough bluesky for the morning. maybe outside can fix me.

DC's least accountable federal police force looks forward to running you over or smashing into your car in the pursuit of "bad guys" (door dash drivers on mopeds)