What’s your Boston Cycling Hot Take? What’s your Boston Cycling hot take? Mine is that I think Blue Bikes have democratized cycling a bit too much. They handle terrible and it encourages non-cyclists to ride a machine they have little experience with. We need a little elitism in cycling to weed out the folks who do not have experience riding bikes in a city. Bonus hot take: while Boston was in dire need to upgrade its almost nonexistent bike Infrastructure, there is a small but vocal minority of cyclists who insist on safety at all costs. I hate to break it to you, but riding in a city will never be completely safe. It’s a risk that any cyclist takes when they decide to ride in a busy place. The more you ride, the more experience you will get. And the more experience you will get the more you will adapt to riding in moldy stressful situations.

What if we made the infrastructure good enough that "experience" wasn't required? What if we made the infrastructure robust enough so that cycling in Boston *is* incredibly safe?

This post is vehicular cycling nonsense.

Oh look, my 1st block of the day. Congrats, jimmydeltaone!

and during covid 90 day fiance boomed and money problems appear among some of the couples as well. There's a kind of semi-escapism for those shows

I think an exception to this is reality TV. The recession-era saw the rise of the Housewives but it also saw a lot of decidedly non-glam shows like Honey Boo-Boo, Jon and Kate (sort of predates this), the Amish shows, the Roma shows, the shows about morbidly obese people

I predicted that the Republicans would go fascist in 2013, because I noticed that 40-50% of the population were climate-denying YECs and that the Republicans were in a self-radicalisation spiral. However, I thought the fascist leader would be a megapastor or Limbaugh-esque shock jock.

the guy who's harassing me is actually in the mentions of my quote, but they genuinely seem to want to be suspended or banned from this app, so they may not be there for long

This is the cartoon that birthed thousands of YouTube Poops

It took a while but I finally learned to stop following people who are always Angry Online, especially the ones who appear to care about the same issues as I do because that's a good way to manipulate me.

are you dril's burner

i literally had a bout of nystagmus bc this pissed me off so much. literally just go do anything not on social media rather than contributing to the cacophony of bullshit

I literally said this to jimmydeltaone but all of you deserve better than to let your misery and ennui fester online. This kind of toxic behavior only convinces people that you exist online solely to piss people off and that no one should ever listen to anything you say

I got called an imbecile and told "fuck you" because I pointed out that routine displacement of longtime tenants is baked into the *status quo* and that building more homes helps prevent that. this is completely toxic behavior and I will unfollow ANYONE who follows people who talk to me like this

you deserve better than to waste your time malding at people on the internet

classic dunning-kruger of not even being aware of about people whose lives are ruined by the *intentional banning of housing*, but calling me a dipshit for wanting housing to be unbanned. if you think you're so right I would hope that you'd act like someone older than 14

coming back here from trying to maintain my IRL life. i feel like it bears repeating that I've experienced blatant racism here from liberals that I never experienced on Twitter. YMMV. On top of that, I'm pretty sure any type of social media makes my life worse. Good luck everyone

My great uncle's house was redeveloped to build a parking lot so this is much better

The last barrier to transitioning for me was the fear that I'd never pass. I started testosterone a year before coming out publicly because I wanted to preserve my ability to pop back in the closet forever if it didn't go well.

kirk said that gay people should be put to death

you can't excise trans people from society because transness is an emergent property of free will. if you divide the world up into men and women and say men do this and women do that, some people are going to say that sucks, fuck you, i do what i want. it doesn't get more complicated than that

These groypers are smart; they are quietly appropriating left wing memes to signal in group status among each other while pushing the scapegoating of black people, queer people, Jewish people, trans people.

Eventually I had had enough and blocked him. I checked on Twitter to see what he is doing. He is still sharing pepe memes and is continuing to soft launch the theory that the shooter was actually antifa.

He was always nice to me but many of his groyper mutuals were virulently racist.

There was this tradcath who works for the state government and who had a lot of mutuals with me and who I used to follow. He followed dozens of racist groyper accounts and people still followed him, including me. He knew not to ever interact with the groypers except in replies.

Off-putting that CBC platformed Charlie Kirk’s widow’s lengthy video message tonight, about continuing his “mission” even more aggressively, without comment on how repugnant much of that mission was. And who are the “they” who killed him she referenced? The even more extreme alt-right “Groypers?”

screenshot from google search text reads as follows People also ask Is the Nation magazine left or right? How many Ukrainians have been killed by the Economist? What is the largest newspaper in Ukraine?

people also ask WHAT?

everything about NYC is apocalyptically bad for people on Long Island

on the podcast with newsom, kirk and newsom agreed that trans people should be persecuted. so why would kirk be mean to him? they agreed! they could be bigots together!

The President of the United States said, on TV today, that the U.S. should have a justice system more like China's, with quick trials that happen the next day. And most of the media decided that wasn't news, because .... you know what he's like.

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I realize reality is meaningless for them now and they just invent a thing to get mad at, but every time I peeked at Threads last day or two it was wall-to-wall 100x more insensitive than anything I saw here