I gave it a like for the picture, but re-skeet for the alt text

My tip from years of experience commuting by bike: puddles hide potholes. Avoid both

I keep hearing it as “J’accuse”

RETVRN

It's a shame that their positive energy (tm) money ran out before that founder of Alex & Ani could pivot to running for governor on a platform of "let's put all of the government on A.I."

It’s….. beautiful

Benefit Street the last 2 weeks:

working on a Massachusetts collection

For Rhode Island friends: The Erika Niedowski Memorial Scholarship is currently taking applications. More information and apply at: erikaniedowski.org

Can we get Prisencolinensinainciusol as the new Olympic anthem?

Will we see @alex-rivera.bsky.social 's dream of "Cybraceros" come true? alexrivera.com/2022/01/02/w...

Gonna use this as an excuse to brag about my dad (80+) who went on two 15-mile bike rides per week with his old man crew prior to open heart surgery last year. Now he goes on two 15-mile e-bike rides per week, using the e-assist about 50% of the time.

Message sent by those extra piles at corners: This is your city saving 1 minute of work by a plow driver by creating 10-60 minutes of work for a neighbor who probably won't do it anyway. NBD because it matters only to people not traveling by car!

In a better world, the city would be responsible for clearing sidewalks so people can get around by foot. But how about this compromise: make the city responsible for clearing between the street and the sidewalk at every corner.

Lambda waves

RIDOT Director Peter Alviti, one of the longest serving department heads in state government, is retiring later this month

A well done little doc on how the transit cuts are affecting people's lives.

Attleboro is first out of the gate with a parking ban! www.oceanstatemedia.org/news-and-cul...

While we all wait for the anticipated Secret Mall Apartment documentary to drop on @netflix.com, check out our sneak peek inside the mall with the #rhodeisland rogue himself, Michael Townsend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME3E...

One signal! And a very good one too!

The Kansas version of this video would be the most boring thing ever…. Until you got to Stuttgart. The Missouri version would be boring until you got to Versailles.

A nice thing about my now longer bike commute: I'm seeing the same handful of other bike commuters on my route. 👋to the lady on the bike with the front basket! 👋to the dad on the Radwagon!

Kevin is right -- holy hell! -- but among many other things, this obit demonstrates the possible price of resistance.

"Now, just 21 of the 63 routes offer buses more than once an hour throughout the week." Once an hour is what you should have for train service between cities that are 3 hours apart. Within a city (or a city-state like RI), bus service should be every 10-15 minutes max.

This is such a great upgrade compared to the bike lanes that were there before!

North Main & Olney Street. This is from about 6 years ago before they installed the planters and posts that block people from cutting this corner. It's much safer for people walking and biking now.

I think the clerk at the grocery store sneaked this sticker onto my onion while bagging my groceries. If that keeps him amused while working during the holiday rush, I don’t mind!

Nice scoop from DOJ whisperer Sadie Gurman and C Ryan Barber in the WSJ: How the FBI finally found the DNC/RNC pipe bomber, and how it had nothing to do with new leadership. (Gift link.) www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Several posts on Providence Reddit right now: “I know that Reddit sleuthing has led to tragedies in the past, but let’s speculate about who did this”

This is the case in a bunch of places - mostly the Midwest. And confusingly, both are state schools! Are Penn/Penn State the only exception to this?

By request, here's a thread of books that I think make excellent gifts this holiday season (obviously they're cartographically inclined, you know me) 1. Best anthology "All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.

I saw the Wild Turkeys of the East Side the other day and stopped to admire them. Three college-aged people walked by and noticed them as well. None of us took a picture so I guess this means the turkeys are totally normal now

Daily mantra:

New ankylosaur just dropped, please notify @benjaminahr.mobi

I resisted posting The Chart in the company slack today. Please clap. And please drive safely

Autumn's Scylla & Charybdis: ride in the bike lane covered in slippery wet leaves? Or in the travel lane with the 4,000+ lb SUVs?

This is well worth your 5 minutes of listening

trunk or treat is important because it prepares our young children for the rich fulfilling teenage experience of hanging out in parking lots

Watch for the dry line ... 😂

For Halloween, should I put this out on my lawn to scare my neighbors?

NYT spelling bee puzzle doesn’t accept “tuppence” but does accept “toonie”

I keep getting emails for someone with my same name from a Ford dealership in Wisconsin with reminders for an upcoming appointment. I've replied in the past telling them they need to update that email address. Should I just start canceling appointments for him now?

MEYE STICKER HAS IMPROVED THE LOOK OF MEYE BEIK HELMENT 132%

This looks really cool. There's an African Gray parrot named Popeye (iirc) that lives in Jordan's Jungle and I wonder what she'll think of the music? When I had a parrot, she loved to hear electronic music and would chirp and squeak along with it.

shouts out rhode island pbs www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0BA...

Well this is certainly concerning