Matt Ransford

finally got back to lifting again after years and spend every week now waiting for sunday snatch class

astride

unacceptable

Glad to see you’re leaning real life lessons in this new phase of your career

did they waste it on all the fountains (of wayne)

just a little asshole energy, as a treat

don’t discount LA’s corruption or its political constructs which results in eight jillion overlapping and competing fiefdoms in Los Angeles county

remains the loudest band I have ever seen in my life

one reason they don’t work well here is we rarely make them wide enough for even one mode let alone multi

I think a decent part of the dickish quotient is the difference between commuters (most cyclists, chill) and people riding road on multimodal paths where 20mph isn’t a friendly speed. But here again better infra will get everybody better separation

cyclists in front of the Wiltern

unicyclist, big wheel

CicLAvia days are top tier days

bad public art in a B line station. a bridge? an upside down chair, stars from crate & barrel

LA is good at: murals
LA is bad at: public art

the authoritarianism is bad, but the loser energy is absolutely intolerable

thought this was really good from @mmasnick.bsky.social. and i'm biased but i agree that if you've been staring at this tech world for a decade or two, you can really see this new administration clearly www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

The woman who created COBOL, the old (but not obsolete!) computer language that much of the Treasury's code is apparently written in, was a Navy captain. It's not like having high-ranking women in the service is some new thing.

An image from an old newspaper, showing a “white workingman” living with his pretty daughter in a house, juxtaposed to a Chinese man smoking opium in a two-story apartment. The caption reads, “the unanswerable argument.”

One reason I left Twitter was because of the nonstop (in-) fighting between the centre/centre left and the left in housing circles. In an effort to build a bridge early on here, I’m going to talk about my experience, both lived, and as an academic/activist. To kick things off: zoning is racist.

I’ve been watching two sizable lots get developed this past year. Early on it was clear they’d be parking lots but soon after charging stations appeared (fine I guess). Today, they’re filled with Waymos. The most walkable, densest part of Santa Monica gets robotaxi pens, not housing

we are losing mechanics and retail shops at an insane pace.

not great. related to our lack of bike leadership.

The Ride Bicycles storefront and sign. Cars are parked along the curb in the space where a bike lane exists today.

Ride Bicycles will close Seattle location as the retail bike shop business model faces uncertainty

www.seattlebikeblog.com/2024/12/18/r...

#Seattle #SEAbikes

I didn't really predict that a a bunch of companies working to make life cheaper and more convenient would start us on a path to just NEVER INTERACTING WITH HUMANS and that seems very bad and like something to push back very hard against.

It’s so clear in LA today! Please do your posting outside

manifest destiny is a helluva drug

I had a roommate in the late 90s who was a writer for People Magazine and that was her schedule every week

4 Blondes

regular reminder to you survey designers out there that if i click "next page" on your survey and see 18 Likert scales I will quit immediately. similarly if i see 5 Likert scales and see that I am on page 2 of 10 I will quit immediately.

John McClaine in the ventilation system as an ornament on a tree, the perfect Christmas sentiment

Tis the season

They look like a 6am morning show

I used to think a Porsche parked at a dingbat was signifier of LA’s car culture but now I know it’s actually a symptom of the housing shortage

there’s an equally as good if not better version on the long oop criterion version where they’re not in character and the behind the scenes stories they tell are hilarious