First Osprey sighting of the year. There’s a nest platform right next to the WSBP just north of the “VINGAY” bridge. At least, that’s what Google Maps calls it, I’m guessing someone put that name in due to the graffiti maps.app.goo.gl/QuVzhN8fygof...

Look! It’s @novaonenovaone.bsky.social playing at the local version of @npr.org ‘s “Tiny Desk” youtu.be/Ls23oEXIkJw?...

This is a good write-up, putting together the pieces of what's been an odd and disjointed story

New update! I posted the photos to instagram and Patio responded, and I’d say it was a good response! I’m sure they didn’t intend to block the lane and hopefully they’ll look out better next year. Or maybe the 2way lane will be installed by then!

Update: almost a week later and Patio didn’t move their barriers that were partially blocking the Broadway bike lane, so I moved it myself. Took less than 5 minutes

For context: the funding clawback Congress approved remains in effect. This suit was pursuant to the President’s initial executive order, one of many he issued later ruled illegal. Funding crisis for public media, sadly, remains.

Don't get your hopes up. The order to stop funding may have been illegal, but there was a separate action where congress voted to get rid of Corp. for Public Broadcasting funding, so it's gone for good... or at least until a future congress passes a new Public Broadcasting act.

I love that Patio takes over a parking space to expand their outdoor dining, but it makes the already too narrow bike lane even narrower. 3 days ago I politely asked the manager to have it moved just a little. It’s still there. If you bike on Broadway, could you stop in and ask them to move it too?

The Audubon Society of RI's Peregrine Falcon Cam is up and running for the season! And it looks like they've upgraded the camera! asri.org/view/peregri...

On my commute earlier this week I saw a pickup truck in the west end with a bumper sticker that just said "Groyper" - and I think that was the only sticker... Like, you're just gonna tell people that you're a groyper? Really?

AERO

Hey check out this cool cargo bike with a folding basket. #BikeHFX

Huge thanks to @benberke.bsky.social & @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social for this reporting. A rounding error in the state budget is devastating transit riders' lives. @karenalzate.bsky.social & Sen. McKenney have bills to restore the cuts coming up for hearing soon - we will let you know how to support!

Kansas: we went to a farm and played inside a large corn silo - which I think is very dangerous We didn't have colonial Williamsburg or Plimoth Plantation, we had old Shawnee Town which recreates a small Kansas town from 1929 - a little over 50 years before I visited it.

Love logging into 6 different web portals to have the freedom of individually managing my health experience

Open Enrollment should radicalize everyone to demand what every other country on the planet has

Of all the inefficiencies of our health care / insurance system. The one that I've never seen quantified is the giant amount of wasted time spent sorting out insurance BS. Every company wastes 1000s of work-hours on open enrollment every year. This must be billions economy-wide

I know most of y'all already know about the negative effects of the RIPTA cuts, but you should still take 4 minutes of your time and watch this story.

Lives disrupted, fewer hours, harder to find a job, can't use the bus to go out for something fun. RIPTA cuts are "sometimes isolating, often debilitating." All to save .03% of the state's budget. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUCt...

an all trans electronic music collective called THE DAUGHTERS OF WENDY CARLOS

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”