Gryneos
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That semi-native Terran and cycling centaur. "Hot" is: 40° - 50°C "Humidity" is: Wonderful!
@yankeevelofoxtrot.bsky.social Twitter is doing its damndest to push me off of their platform. So, if you, @rumilb.bsky.social and all the rest there want to stay in contact with me, this platform is the most likely place to do it. I won't mourn the loss of twitter when it finally implodes.
Well the seemingly bi-annual twitter acct suspension has taken place for "Inauthentic behaviors". The only thing coming to mind is that I will 'like' posts. They encourage that. And in the same breath they see that an as "inauthentic behavior". They are not a serious social media platform.
An idea I had the other day about Halloween and drivers: Every neighborhood has a group of "pilots", or people who take over driving any car entering or leaving the neighborhood. They drive very slowly until they are at the home or out of the neighborhood. Just like ship-pilots at ports.
While I am currently in one single game of DnD (playing a human cleric) I do sometimes build new characters in my DnD-Beyond account. Such as the African-centaur-druid that's taken a few days to get to finally equipping her. Set her background as Guide, which has some nice equipment perks.
I don't have a personal need for a cargo-bike like that, but imagine having one for a limited-range IKEA delivery and assembly service here in Houston 🥰
vitkor arnell@vitkor.bsky.social · 4d agoDagens last på lådcykeln: Ikea 90-säng
I hate how about once a year I get some kind of upper respiratory tract infection or 'something' where it takes a month to recover and lose all of that fluid build-up & production in the lungs. Because it is strongly advised to *not* exercise when your lung capacity is reduced. I miss bicycling.
@coxyjindas.bsky.social Produced a good video on car-brained drivers and their threatening behaviors yesterday. It's worth a watch. Also, read the comments. The butthurt drivers are a hoot! 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMv6...
When cyclist hate turn to violence
YouTube video by Chris Cox
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One thing I don't have to worry about happening on BlueSky is being shadow-banned. A concept that should not exist on any social media platform.
Watching Jesse @dollemore.com 's video about IcePick, the hacker collective responsible for releasing info on ICE employees. The original site is down, but it IS on the Internet Archive. So, here it is for those who want to view and/or archive it themselves: web.archive.org/web/20261028...
icepi.cx - Home
icepick DHS leak search tool
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So many in one week! 😥 I recognize most, though Richard Riehle isn't coming back to me. Was he the "people person" in Office Space, with his "Jump to Conclusions Mat"?
Liam@liamginger.bsky.social · 3d agoThis just sucks! Along with Sir Patrick
Bloody cyclists, they have no idea how to behave on the road, unlike licensed and registered motorists... #sarcasm
I see on the various urbanist accts on twitter (and maybe here) that the trolls are already using the Spain disaster as a reason to not want trains. Sure. As if that happens every single day. It *does* happen every single day with cars.
How is it that in the present day where basically everything to do with billing is done with computers, that a medical-imaging bill from June of 2024 is only *now* being billed to me? I didn't even know it existed until I got a collection service email.
Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....
PsiCop Alfred Bester is dead 😥 For context, and for those who have never watched Babylon 5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2GV...
Walter Koenig on playing Alfred Bester on "Babylon 5" - TelevisionAcademy.com/Interviews
YouTube video by FoundationINTERVIEWS
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The largest heat wave of the 1960s reached ~6% of the planet, lasting 46 days over the Atlantic and adjacent areas. The largest heat wave of the 2020s hit ~85% of the globe, lasted 367 days, touching virtually everyone. Calling these “heat storms" instead of “heat waves” seems like a good invention.
John Vaillant@johnvaillant.bsky.social · 2w agoLandmark climate reporting from @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/investigates...
Decided to help out my "neighbors" on Nextdoor with videos from Strong Towns and Not Just Bikes. I expect many will ignore it, though 😅 (plus the OP is almost a day old, so most likely won't even see it). nextdoor.com/p/swKTqqd6G_...
Vote out all the ones who raised our property Taxes.
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Even though I live in Houston, I was thinking today how homeowners will have to eventually accept the fact that if they don't allow small businesses into their neighborhoods their property taxes will become unaffordable. Or, infra will never be updated.
Today marks the official relaunch of Brian Eno's label, Opal Records Opal returns with 2001’s Drawn From Life and 2005’s Another Day on Earth, both of which have been unavailable for nearly twenty years You can now order both albums on LP & CD: brian-eno.lnk.to/opal-records
Imaging service sent an automated text to let me schedule an appt for next week. Seemed to work fine and was all set up. Just got a call to set up my appt *with the same service* and they had no record of the appt. How can a company NOT know what it's automated services are doing?
Spent all day at my clinical trial, so I'm dead tired. Only to get home to find that a scheduled power outage seems to have shut down our Internet connection. Our IT guy seems to be MIA (I know him, and think he might be sick from office-bldg a/c). Abysmal speeds right now:
Fine, if people on bikes are expected to follow the same rules as cars, then I guess we're gonna have to start acting like motorists.
Darth Maul now narrates USCSB videos 😅 Sam Witwer has taken over from Sheldon Smith as the latter retires from voice acting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmiQ...
Alarming Mistakes, Deadly Decisions: Fatal Fire at BP-Husky
YouTube video by USCSB
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“Test-takers will be expected to safely merge onto the highway and then successfully weave their getaway vehicle through traffic while being tailed at high speeds by the police.” — William Deiboldt, California DMV spokesperson
California DMV Adds Highway Chase To Road Test
SACRAMENTO, CA—Saying the newly instituted changes better reflected the realities of modern driving, officials at the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Friday that they had added a hig...
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“Removing or failing to build safe bike-lanes can affect much more than cyclists...” It undermines the success of cities, and the safety of people, in a lot of critical ways. “Lessons on what cities lose by giving in to car culture.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/ontarios-bik...
A question for my urbanist friends: When roadway construction takes place in European countries, are the workers from construction companies, or are they government employees? Having watched video of the Netherlands building infra, it's always professionally-built in minimal time.