It's amazing how drivers who cannot see cyclists, pedestrians or road furniture when you suggest that they should not crash into them suddenly become positively omniscient when someone points out that their personal observations about cyclists run counter to any & all objective evidence.

No shit, you buried a dead bear in Central Park after driving around with it, you absolute fucking weirdo. I bet the valets at Peter Luger used bet on what kind of dead animal they think you're gonna show up with in your car

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 2d ago

‘I Will Literally Eat Anything’: RFK Jr. Touts His Nonexistent ‘Gag Reflex’

the obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

That's libertarians whole deal though, using something of society while being against the concept of society. It's just that house cats tweet

It has always been weird to me that there aren't super cranky bicycle libertarians. you're not chaining me to your road maintenance and fuel taxes, GUBMINT! I'm loading my cargo bike up with canned food and shotguns! makes so much sense?

They hate our freedoms.

Can't make this up.

According to anti-cyclist replies, here's evidence that cars and bikes are equally dangerous: 🚗: They kill ~40000 people in the US annually 🚲: I saw a cyclist run a red light 30 years ago

By the way, because we're in an extreme People Can't Read phase on here: My standard reminder that of course cyclists need to operate courteously and safely around pedestrians

Question: Tell me what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Here are the answers from two popular open-source Chinese AI models.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 3d ago

"Most tech analysts are aware that Chinese models have Chinese Communist Party controls built into them, but the problem is often understood too narrowly. Many assume that these models simply refuse to answer politically sensitive questions..." www.worldpoliticsreview.com/china-ai-mod...

Drivers need to keep in mind that they have actually really poor visibility of other cars. You can see the ones immediately in front of and behind you, sometimes oncoming ones, sometimes in other lanes. But since bikes and cars travel at different rates frequently, we each see more of the other.

This is my feeling, exactly. 😆 “As a postgraduate student I attended a workshop where a senior professor describes turning the same conference paper into five publications. FIVE!? Who do they think was going to read all this samey shit?”

Seth Kahn (he/him)@badpacifist.bsky.social · 3d ago

Lots in this post worth reading, but the title is <chef's kiss> and has become one of my mantras.

Private Equity destroys everything. I have to work with these guys almost every single day. However evil you think they are, they are worse. They do not have any humanity left in them. We should use them as fertilizer. And yes, I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

Star Wars version. Really, once you start, you can't stop.

Now with a version that applies to streets. Thanks, Michael.

Michael@scottgoblue314.bsky.social · 3d ago

May I interest you in The Triangle

"However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top-dead-center."

In an average year, cars kill about 120 pedestrians in New York City and bicycles (including e-bikes) cause less than 1 fatality.

a man in a cowboy hat and a man in a suit are walking down a street .

Alt: Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy, crossing the treet and slamming his hand on the hood of a car that almost hit him, and shouting, "Hey! I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!"

media.tenor.com

Caitlin Flanagan was a prominent Atlantic staff writer for 25 years. Explain to me again how the Atlantic is a serious-minded, left-center publication.

this is my new belief system btw i’m going chud but from an unexpected angle. ‘driving is soy’

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d ago

you know what i fear? abandonment. good luck getting any mileage outta that one from the safety of your fruity lil death machine

Spotted in the bike shop parking lot

Just because

unseal your cards, unseal your comics, take things out of the fucking box. it's all just cardboard and plastic. fuck the resale market

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 5d ago

K-pop star Momo is under fire after breaking open a vintage graded Pokémon card to stick it on her face and keep it in her phone case

America is now a joke country where citizens are arrested to cover up for the president’s lies on social media. We’ve replaced DEI with incompetence and protecting the egos of mediocre white men.

The huge publicity in NYC from media-amplified whining wealthy homeowners with second homes saying they are middle class victims of the pied a terre tax makes 3/4ths of this city eye roll and identify with the Mayor and his agenda. He looks hard core, standing up to powers that be.

The people who falsely accused an Olympian of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are the same people telling you to trust them about the war with Iran

The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.

Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.

Yes, Elon Musk’s Vote-Buying Is Against the Law

People have gone to prison for comparable schemes.

thebulwark.com

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d ago

Musk got away with his $1 million vote-buying scheme in 2024. Why wouldn't he try something similar this November?

literally impeach him just for this

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

In case you are migrating between phones: GOOGLE HAS IMPLEMENTED A COOLDOWN ON YOUR PHONE BEING USED AS A GOOGLE ACCOUNT PASSKEY. it will generate a valid passkey, but refuse to accept it / demand you re-auth with a different passkey or a security key for first ~48 hours. this is a good feature.