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‘Naked Bike Ride’ Planned to Protest Troops in Portland After President Trump announced plans to deploy the Oregon National Guard to Portland, organizers are planning an “emergency” naked bike ride in protest, KOIN reports.

When all you have is a hammer...

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Kept thinking about the debate between Klein and Coates and wrote down some thoughts.

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Saint Louis church by night

Nothing says "I have no reason to silence these women or fear what they will say" quite like ordering military aircraft to fly over and disrupt their press conference.

14th street looking north across Market St.

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It's hard to have a Leading Pedestrian Interval without any walk signals! In Louisville we have these everywhere, and they're great!

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Don't get me started on the Kentucky State Fair. :(

Tandems are a thing for a reason.

Do it!

Stop inviting Google read your mail!

If anyone's on the fence about migrating from Gmail to Proton, my advice is: DO IT! Proton focuses more on the user. I find a sensible feature every week or so. There's a free tier and a good migration tool. What are you waiting for?

What, exactly, do you mean by "experienced biker"? Did they pass an exam? Take a class? Read a book? The "experienced bikers" that I know did.

And yet... people see other people doing it every day. I know multiple Midwestern Americans who've commuted the circumference of the planet earth, then died of natural causes.

Urban transportation cycling is about like swimming: drowning is a threat, but learning to swim mostly protects against it.

But also: that knowledge exists. If you could get that special knowledge: wouldn't you? The answer is a resounding "no!"...

Often when I teach an adult to bike or take transit, they're gobsmacked how hard it is for them to learn a new skill. Adults are obsessed with fear of public failure.

Crime in cities IS rampant and IS slaughtering people.
It's motor vehicle crime, perpetrated by amateur drivers.

This. Forever.

Holy Shit! Specialized now has TWO types of bike helmet geometries, based on how eccentric of an ellipse your head is, in addition to three sizes. Coming from the "The Alien" school of skull geometry, this is huge.

Goodbye to an annoying business! Spectrum, my former internet provider, miraculously discovered they could charge me $20/month less when I called to cancel the service. Had they simply had low and low-hassle pricing I would have stayed. But I hate calling every year to get the rate reduced.

You know, when we first got it, I was pretty stubbornly refusing to use the e-assist. But it's a big bike and we're big people, and the geometry isn't as comfy for me as on my commuter. Now we ride with the e-assist on.

So if you've noticed the world going to hell in a handbasket:
blame us.

Oooh, I'll watch this.

And speaking of Avatar: today I learned that there was denialism of the outcome of the First Opium War in the Qing dynasty. I wonder if was the impetus for Ba Sing Se's denialism?

Google has unilaterally changed the power button on my phone to no longer power-down the phone. Instead it summons an AI!

So if the AI malfunctions, how do we turn it off? 🤔
Ominous metaphor, much? 👌

Find me a profession that's accurately portrayed in a super hero movie, and I'll buy you a lunch.

Robert's been working on social justice in Kentucky since his childhood. We're lucky to have him running!

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.

"It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA" www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...

Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media 1) Do not read the whole original post or what it links to, which will dilute the purity of your response and reduce your chances of rebuking the poster for not mentioning anything they might&#8217…

p.s. We're having a lot of "Which is why the person who said, or rather typed, offhandedly 'people should bike more' really means all people need to bike everywhere under all circumstances and is callously indifferent to people who..." on this thread.

A while back I wrote my Senators encouraging them to arm Ukraine. IIRC Hawley didn't write back, but Eric Schmidt finally replied to say "Ensuring complete and total accountability of every item and every cent throughout the process is a chief concern.".

Uh, it's a war, not an accountancy exam.

Neat! I only know where the first of the four are.

That's awesome! How much time in the saddle does it take you?

Bicycling was already _so easy_ compared to walking. Now it's _even easier_?!

After toiling in the bike advocacy trenches for decades, it turns out the pedaling - the thing I was barely aware of doing - was a big blocker for a lot of people. 🤦