Rudi "Cooler Weather = Better" Riet

@randomduck.bsky.social

Transpo analyst. Political activist. Cycling advocate. President of Potomac Pedalers. Alpine ski racing coach. All views my own. Mastodon: @randomduck@thepit.social (not there too often) #bikeDC #ClimateChaos #AlpineSkiing #RoadCycling #GravelCycling

Viewers at home never saw Sigrid Haugset’s stage-winning move at #TDFF2026 - that’s because the TV cameras began rolling 5km after she attacked I spoke to riders and team staff to hear their thoughts on the race’s limited TV coverage: www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/parti...

'Partial coverage is no longer enough' – TV broadcasts of Tour de France Femmes criticised after missing stage-winning attack

Only two of the nine stages are set to be shown in full

cyclingweekly.com

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

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

You can also walk, bike, or take Metro (bus or rail) to interact directly with these eating establishments. Either dine-in or take-out, these are valid alternatives to DoorDash (or the equally repugnant UberEats). I know not everybody has the time to do so, but delivery need not be the de facto!

@robertwhite-dc.bsky.social · last wk.

DoorDash is deleted, but we still have options. #DeleteDoorDash and support local restaurants and DC food delivery services. #JoinRobertWhite #JoinRobertWhite

There are clear medical reasons to doubt any words coming out of the mouth of Tuberville. In fact: he probably assisted in the cognitive decline of thousands of football players on his watch - far more than Fauci is even remotely connected to search causality. Tuberville is a sham. #resist

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Tuberville: "I'll be the governor of Alabama and I promise you we will find out if there's a possibility that we can bring him to Alabama to put him in front of a court and a jury to see if we can put this guy in prison. He killed millions of people, folks."

Point number 4 on this is particularly good imo. I will gladly take on the sins of every bad cyclist out there, if any motorist complaining about cyclists will take on the sins of the millions of deaths caused by drivers every year.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · last wk.

“10 reasons your anti-cycling ranting just sounds daft, even if some people are nodding along.” A definitely Irish way of making some reasonable points, via @irishcycle.com. Think it’s too aggressive? Try reading some of the rants that the article is clapping back on.

If you can’t handle the truth, at least be polite enough to listen and learn. Of course the Trump administration has cut off any listening or learning from its daily practice. This is not the country I once loved. I can’t defend these petulant actions. #resist #neverGOP

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · last wk.

"The US delegation walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, in protest at comments made by France that compared Washington's voting on human rights to that of authoritarian states." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Jon Stewart on the White House Correspondents Dinner: “This event is worse than pro forma. It’s actually an act of submission… Trump “gets to shake hands with leaders of a profession whose members he has subpoenaed, arrested, sued, cut their funding, barred their access, and even had deported.”

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No matter how many flowers you put on a pile of shit it remains a pile of shit. This is bush league coverup. Fuck these numpty halfwits in the Trump administration (and the GOP in general these days). May they get their karmic just desserts, sooner rather than later. #resist

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.

The Pentagon has reclassified service members who were killed and wounded during renewed hostilities with Iran in a way that separates them from other troops, a move that critics say obscures the human cost of the Trump administration’s war.

Not even pretending to have liberatory or democratic intentions. Literally just looting other countries because we're bigger and we can. The pretense that the US is a force for democracy in the world used to be *so central* to GOP foreign policy. It must sound crazy to young people these days.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump to press on Airforce One: “We are taking billions and billions of dollars from Venezuela. “That will happen with Iran too.”

Donald Trump has not been asked about E Jean Carroll since a judge called him a rapist. If you want to know why, just look at all the pictures and videos of the White House correspondents laughing it up with Trump’s staff.

As a boy, my grandparents wouldn't dream of buying a Ford b/c Henry Ford—who was long dead by then—had been a rabid antisemite. 40 years later, I'm amazed that so many people who deplore xenophobia remain willing to buy a Tesla.

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