"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

“I was not born to have abrasions.” @kerrianne.bsky.social just now, reflecting on (her first-ever mountain) bike crash last week.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Yesterday as I rode by, a man screamed at me to ask “are you one of those trans terrorists?” (Maybe because I have long hair and wore bright colors, including rainbow socks?) I wish I’d been less flustered, had told him no such thing exists. Mostly I keep thinking about how broken some brains are.

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

But if you call the police and say, "someone stole my bike off my porch," they will ask for serial numbers and pictures and then do nothing.

Confirming: Time is still very much an imaginary construct and is only loosely connected to reality these days.

Bean salad with chili crisp is truly a lunch of champions.

@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

What day is it, even? What is time but an arbitrary construct meant to be broken? - my to-do lists, probably, assuming they’ve finally* achieved sentience * especially that thing that’s been on there for going on [redacted] years…

Reposting with alt text because this is really such a fantastic example of how bike infrastructure supports all types of micromobility. And also makes protesting a little easier too!

There are few things more satisfying than riding by someone* with puppernugs (grinning sweetly, always) in the bike trailer and watching their jaw drop. * Or in this morning’s case, a man walking, two different couples walking their dogs, four kids waiting for the school bus.

So grateful for the people who show up for us when we need them.

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

Something I always say is that so many of the pedestrian vs. e-bike/bike conflicts arise because all of these people are sharing a small sliver of space. But what if it wasn't that way? What if we took more real estate away from cars, thus allowing *everyone* to have a safe space to move?

If the recommendation to Democrats was to speak plainly, casually, like a normal person having a real conversation rather than like a politician stumbling through jargon, they’d be gushing about Mamdani and telling Dems to be more like him. But they’re not, because they really mean something else.

90+ degrees outside & smoky, 80+ degrees inside & stuffy (our AC still out), & all puppernugs wants is to nap against/on me, her hot breath on my sweaty leg. She’s too damn cute not to allow it, though, just dreaming away.

When I see people on here unknowingly join moral panics around child safety and technology, I think about how the future of this very platform hangs in the balance of this legislation that is designed to force us back onto big tech platforms. It’s not about the kids. It’s about all of us

Everything is possible. That's what the fascists are demonstrating, maybe this will get through everyone else's head.

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People will seriously be like "Who cares about trans rights? It's a tiny number of people who are affected by it?" without realizing that they're talking about millions of human beings.

One of my favorite days every single year, which is really something given that I’ve so many favorite days with @kerrianne.bsky.social every year.

By so many metrics, we live an ordinary, albeit plenty lucky life. By every metric, I’m so in love with all of it.

This week also looked like bike stoke, post-ride swims, Toya grins, sunrise-soaked ridge lines, an accidental rabbit murder (I cried), an intentional chipmunk murder (Toya is adorable/remorseless), homemade meals made + home-grown herbs, a comics class with beloved humans, huckleberry-stained hands.

This week looked like unruly inboxes and impromptu meetings and a return to (way too) hot temps and soft pretzels and high praise and a dramatic end to a notably lucky fire season. [Wildland firefighters: thank you, thank you.]

#Idaho Governor Brad Little's office phone is 208.334.2100 Call. He can save face and sell it as a win-win: It's fiscally responsible, AND it does what the vast majority of Idahoans wanted in the first place - - tossing out the stupid voucher bill. #IDPol #IDLeg #IDGov

I've seen people say things like "our troops weren't designed to be used on US!!!" and look, I totally understand, I agree in some ways, but I really, really hope that if you feel that way you spend time thinking about the fact that there's no such thing as a weapon that can't be pointed at you.

You don’t have medical debt because you did something wrong. You have medical debt because we don’t have free health care like almost every other country in the world.

It's been a long week, this country is a hellscape, and I didn't have the energy for ghosting authors today, so instead, it was a food day: Poutine, pizza, preserved lemons, freezer grapes, chicken & rice (puppernug's food), pasta salad, spaghetti sauce, flank steak... & whatever I'm forgetting.

I first moved here 16 years ago today, moving cross-country via bicycle for a job in a place I'd never seen. The 2000-mile trip took fewer days than anticipated (even with many adventure detours!), so I got a few days exploring in the mountains, playing on the trails, falling in love with this area.

hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously

Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling #NOH8

Let’s be clear about what’s happening. Violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low. There is no emergency. This is a test run. If the courts, Congress, and the rest of us let him get away with this, he’ll do it in every city that doesn’t capitulate to him. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

This is such a perfect example of the unhinged and disproportionate targeting of trans people. A town allowed ONE little girl to use a school bathroom and the state spent millions to make sure she couldn't.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Hi! Another chronic pain sufferer here with a side of chronic injuries and a compressed disc in my back, which altogether makes walking complicated and usually very uncomfortable even on my best days. My e-bike has been sincerely game-changing. I’ve lost 20lbs this summer. All I want to do is ride.

Rent-stabilized housing should exist everywhere. Better yet, everyone who wants a house gets a house before anyone else gets two, or three, or four.

Haven't gotten a lot of sleep the last few nights, and we started today early with a (beautiful, brilliant) ride towing Puppernugs around the lake (mix of gravel and pavement, stops to swim, sniff, etc), so fully leaning into coffee (3 16oz pourovers, a sizeable cold brew) and not mad about it.

Peanut butter Butterfinger cookies

Also, I have space for a few more author coaching clients, should that be helpful to anyone. DMs are open if you have questions.

This is a good thread! Some great questions and answers about vaccines.

Also, I have space for a few more author coaching clients, should that be helpful to anyone. DMs are open if you have questions.

One of my author coaching clients is juggling so many things right now, and it's a good reminder that a huge part of getting any big thing done is project management—and that can be especially true of writing a book. Finding slivers of time isn't always easy, but we have to, right?

With every passing day, we are descending further and further into a dystopian horrorscape that I fear we will never recover from. We've lost our humanity if we cannot recognize this.

Almost everything is stupid and falling apart faster than I think even the most cynical of us might’ve expected but I made gumbo for dinner so at least there’s that good.

basic income: has been tried hundreds of times, works every time trickle-down economics: has been tried thousands of times, fails every time AND YET WHICH ONE DO WE KEEP FUCKING GETTING

Had planned to have a 100+-mile gravel adventure today, but haven’t been cleared for rough roads yet… So putting in a century on the trainer, instead, after taking the pup for a trailer ride first thing. We’ll see just how dumb this proves to be!