Jeremy Cole

Also visible in the photo:
• shark teeth markings indicating who is to yield, even for the bike/bike crossings
• separated pedestrian and bike signals (and cycles)
• cyclist eye level signal likely with countdown
• clear signage indicating bike path, separated MUP, or shared MUP
• bike wayfinding

Screenshot of wandrer leaderboard showing me at #2 with 431.22 new miles

😂 I was #2 in the Netherlands on Wandeer for September. 😁

I know there’s a lot of serious issues involved and everything sucks but can we take a moment to bask in the hilarity of the right wing obsessively rallying against an imaginary organization against fascism… and then believing they’re the good guys?

Part of mural on brick wall of bird with rainbow feathers riding bike

Where am I?

The masses have decided that em dashes and bullet points mean something is AI, but em dashes and bullet points are just a writing style used in authoritative technical writing, which is the style the AI is mimicking based on its training (technical writing). Now nobody believes humans can write. 🤦‍♂️

All I can really do is point you to the place with the best developed bike infrastructure in the world and say that mixing of mopeds and bicycles is the standard in the Netherlands and mopeds zooming by is commonplace. They could do better, too, of course.

The term “moped” is just a lower powered motorcycle (both in gas and electric forms), not really similar to a pedal-assist e-bike. Some still have vestigial pedals but they are not actually intended for use. For actual e-bikes the term pedelec exists mostly in Europe but hasn’t caught on much.

Yer a wild man, Paul.

Done this but nooooope. Last time I did this I noted that the sidewalk on that side doesn’t even extend far enough to get you a reasonable spot to cross past the ramp with the inbound speeding cars.

Annotated image of a map

There isn’t a way as you’ve discovered. Practically useless. You can use SW City View St instead of the stairs, but it’s fucking steep and not usable on a cargo bike etc or by a regular human on a pedal bike, either.

Put another way the use of e-mopeds/motorcycles is only a problem due to squeezing them into the margins and scraps with pedestrians (and to a lesser but still valid extent, bicycles).

And at the same time the widespread use of e-mopeds/motorcycles is a signal that they actually fit pretty well with people’s desires for non-car lower impact and cheaper transportation. So societally rather than banning them maybe we need to make space for them?

Bluesky glitched on these photos and even reposting them they’re still glitched. I think it must dedupe photos so reused the glitched versions in the repost. Huh.

Did some grocery shopping by cargo bike again today at the West Seattle Thriftway. Took the long way home and stopped to admire this view from High Point.

I dunno man, Sweden exists. Surely there are such attachments there!

This is so fucked up and I’m sorry that they had to experience that.

NW right?

Real talk but why is the iPhone Mirroring app limited to 2x Actual Size? It's still tiny on my monitor, and isn't the point of mirroring to make it usable on the bigger screen etc?

In Germany, Denmark, and Sweden there were many places where the cargo bike wouldn't be great, mostly S-turn gates on bike paths, but also narrow spots, steep curbs without ramps, and excessively steep grades.

Since I got a cargo bike, when I am biking somewhere I often pay attention to whether I could use it there. While biking in the Netherlands (431 mi/693 km) I can't remember a single instance of a spot where I could not have taken my cargo bike comfortably: slope, width, obstacles, etc. all good.

Eventually apps on macOS will just be round, won't they?

I yearn for the day I get to watch someone overestimate the space available and absolutely destroy their car on a median while aggro-passing. I haven't decided yet whether I'll stop to assist them or pedal on after yelling "you can't park there, mate!"

Same. I miss it.

Grant's biggest mistake wasn't on the battlefield, it was making nice with Lee instead of hanging him.

(Yes, half of my photos from this trip are of random streets and concrete bits.)

Street with chicane

Chicanes, you say?

Another thing that struck me about rural areas in NL, DE, DK, SE is that there's an entire class of road design that doesn't exist in the US: paved, high-quality but very narrow two-way rural roads, explicitly designed to make it uncomfortable to drive on them too fast, too far, or too often.

It's been having lots of moments lately.

It's already been imported and UPS has already paid the tariffs as a broker on your behalf. I think *you* owe them regardless of whether the goods go back to the shipper or not (and I'm not sure that's an option, either).