The recent hysteria over bike and ebike regulation is infuriating, dumb, and counter-productive.

Since April, I have exclusively charged my ebike and lawn tool batteries with a single portable 100w solar panel hooked into a 1kw backup battery. I only put it out on nice sunny days and it has been enough to entirely power my yard maint and a significant % of my transportation for months.

Not even Alanis Morissette could have come up with this.

Mexico warns of diarrhea risk when visiting US

Health officials issued a travel advisory following a spike of over 1,600 parasitic infections across 34 U.S. states.

newsweek.com

Anyone from the Midwest knows that it’s actually “ope”

It’s unsurprising but shameful nonetheless that Sen. McConnell’s office won’t tell his own constituents what is happening. He’s leaving office, and this life, the way he lived it. As a disappointment.

my god

If there were scenes like this from any other mode of transportation, it would be national news. #motornormativity

Turns out we really don’t need urban highways destroying our neighborhoods and killing us with noise and air pollution!

Gerth: Interstate 65 closure shows it may be time to 8664 | Opinion

Twenty years ago, a group proposed razing Interstate 64 along the waterfront to reconnect Louisville to the Ohio River. Now may be time to do it.

courier-journal.com

You can put as many Class 3 bike routes, or gutter/door Class 2 bike lanes (see below) as "existing bicycle facilities" on your map as you want. Normal people who *do not want to die* will look at real world version of the city and say, "fuck no."

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Always comforting to see things like this along one of my most used bike routes.

This is a five-alarm fire for public access to government records in Kentucky 👇

Kentucky Public Radio@kentuckypublicradio.org · 3mo ago

The majority opinion of Kentucky justices ruled government business conducted on private devices are not public records, which critics say could “eviscerate” open records law. #kyga26 From @sylviaruthg.lpm.org & @joesonka.lpm.org

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Trump/Vance apparently don’t need to arrest or kill foreign leaders to get rid of them, they only need to campaign for them.

Twig & Leaf got Magbarred. Photo from Reddit.

Actively losing respect for Ferris Bueller.

These are the same people claiming us on the left live in a bubble, unaware of the “real” world.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Glenn Beck thinks Bad Bunny is an anti-Trump psy op because no one ever talked about the [checks notes] guy who was Spotify’s most streamed artist in 2020, 2021, and 2022, who was named Billboard’s pop artist of the year in 2022. www.billboard.com/music/pop/ba...

My prediction is that if Tesla ever actually releases its AI robot butler thing, it will make the Cybertruck look like a comparative success.

Who will be the first team to withdraw from the World Cup? It’s inevitable that it will happen, right? I’m just curious who will be the first.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

“No, I just gave you a Willie, there was no wetness!” (heard from the backseat)

I feel like something’s wrong here but just can’t quite put my finger on it.

I knew I could feel the demonic energy coursing through me while working out today.

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away. They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

Was researching the coffee bike idea today and hit up the Small Business Admin website for some info, and they’ve got that bullshit Democrat-blaming message on their header in bright red. This is illegal, right?

Got laid off as an app developer earlier this year, and job hunting has been extremely fruitless. Currently fighting the urge to buy one of these and just sell coffee by bike.

I love how Google spotlights these AI results that put up blatantly bad math.

Not every hardware trip needs a trailer (or a car/truck). Most of the time, a milk crate or pannier can handle the job quite nicely! If only they would install bike racks so I wouldn’t have to lock to a tree. @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 2y ago

I want to make a personal request to those of you who use a bike for transportation purposes to start taking more photos and posting them. You can do so much by showing even the most mundane errands with a bike to educate and inspire others. They're often more effective than words. 📸