Jim Gruman
@opus1993.bsky.social
He / him #rstats 🚵♀️ RAGBRAI and 5 Boros Chicago burbs Ally 🏳️⚧️ https://linktr.ee/jgruman
So many interesting nuggets from 100 years ago in this Peter @norton.bsky.social piece. "By then, Boy Scouts were a mainstay of public safety campaigns, where they introduced thousands to the word jaywalker and its motor-age definition. 1/3
![With cards, Boy Scouts taught pedestrians to relinquish their customary
rights to the street. Top: This 1921 card, distributed to pedestrians in Hartford,
Connecticut, promoted the redefinition of “jay walking.” (Source: “Boy Scouts
and Kiwanis Club of Hartford Put on Anti–Jay Walking Campaign,” National
Safety News 3 [7 February 1921], 4. Courtesy of the National Safety Council.)
Bottom: Two years later, 600,000 of these cards were distributed in New York
City. (Source: Barron Collier, Stopping Street Accidents: A History of New York
City’s Bureau of Public Safety [New York, 1925], 76. Courtesy of the Barron
Collier Company.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zo4sskscyoa7ym37gbbnujh4/bafkreih7opa6mxjvaulslhin4tzdggtwdiol6bp2xhibtraqva7wn4au7a)
Once upon a time, industry was powered by rivers. Once upon a time, industry was powered by coal. Things change. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
Girls have always belonged in Scouting America. In 2018 young women were finally recognized as full members. Since then hundreds of thousands of girls have taken the leap into Scouting. And tens of thousands have earned the Eagle Scout rank. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...
Opinion | The Boy Scouts Let in Girls Almost a Decade Ago. It’s Been a Triumph. (Gift Article)
What I know from six years of leading Troop 163 is that these girls invigorate scouting rather than weaken it.
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Before fascism had a name, it had a history. Final episode out tomorrow!
Day 3 gravel
Jim Gruman@opus1993.bsky.social · 3w agoRAGBRAI day 0 notes for the bus ride: Onawa was home to a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp for several dozen captured German soldiers from 1944-1946. The state overall hosted over 25,000 POWs during WWII, with Camps Algona and Clarinda being the two main bases. 1/3 #ragbrailii #ragbrai #Onawa
Gearing up for our first triathlon in a couple weeks how to train for the swim: youtu.be/AtG1BRW0XNo?...
Clif Bar triathlon swim start commercial
YouTube video by Herbert Krabel
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My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
👋 from Iowa. Not going back. Except to bike.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3w agoit amazes me how many people have made it to adulthood and not noticed yet how many if not most vocal critics of Rural America are people who are themselves FROM rural America, and who would rather eat broken glass than go back
Episode 3 - It Happened Here on the collective forgetting "What democracy rounds an entire ethic group up at gunpoint and puts them into a concentration camp?" open.spotify.com/episode/3J0Z...
It Happened Here | Episode 3
First America · Episode
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Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 2mo agoBIG NEWS! New podcast coming out THIS MONTH! Native people have been left out of the story of America—but without us you don’t know what happened. FIRST AMERICA tells the true story of how this country started and how we got here. Subscribe now, wherever you listen to podcasts.
RAGBRAI day 0 notes for the bus ride: Onawa was home to a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp for several dozen captured German soldiers from 1944-1946. The state overall hosted over 25,000 POWs during WWII, with Camps Algona and Clarinda being the two main bases. 1/3 #ragbrailii #ragbrai #Onawa
Jim Gruman@opus1993.bsky.social · 3w agoGearing up for #RAGBRAILIII #cycling #iowa #RAGBRAI #Onawa ✔️ Download free strava ✔️ Replenish Tailwind drink mix ✔️ Plan to collect NPS stamps The Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Center might just be open ragbrai.com/route/
53 years of RAGBRAI and the locals still think it's about how small towns are the awesome-est But if you go back 140 years, the handful of people here wouldn't have known what the wonder of a bicycle was at all
Angry Rutabaga@streamlass.bsky.social · 3w agoMaybe not the Iowa State Fair 😆 It *is* a harvest celebration of a sort, but it's mostly a celebration of cholesterol & bad music.
Gearing up for #RAGBRAILIII #cycling #iowa #RAGBRAI #Onawa ✔️ Download free strava ✔️ Replenish Tailwind drink mix ✔️ Plan to collect NPS stamps The Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Center might just be open ragbrai.com/route/
For the longest time, killing a cyclist with your car in Iowa was just a $1400 ticket.
In the wake of the birthright citizenship decision, I decided to examine some of the ways the American right talks about and treats children. I think it’s hard to conclude they cherish children quite as much as they say. www.liberalcurrents.com/what-to-the-...
What, to the MAGA Right, Is a Child?
The right views children as a resource rather than as human beings.
liberalcurrents.com
Scouting has changed a great deal in the years since 2000. Change is slow, but we hope that in time we will look back on SCOTUS's decision this week as an injustice that needs to be fixed.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last mo.Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.
🎯 Yet another startup burning through venture capital, lighting cash on fire to sell baby spinach to rich people.
Tamar Haspel@tamarhaspel.bsky.social · last mo.I just don't get why vertical farms are still being touted as climate solutions. They use energy from the grid (instead of the sun) to grow baby lettuce for rich people. foodinstitute.com/focus/high-r...
“The two greatest obstacles to democracy are, first, the delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich lest we get it.” Father Edward Dowling (1898-1960) Link to art here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/the-...
