Ban Cars

How Jeffrey Epstein sought to infiltrate the justice system New Epstein files emails show how Epstein tried to cultivate relationships with prosecutors and others involved in his case

NEW: (gift) A Miami Herald Investigation: How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social and @clurhealy.bsky.social
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

A bobcat plow clearing the bike lane at 16th and Market St in Center City Philadelphia after a major snowfall on February 23, 2026. Photo: City of Philadelphia

Philadelphia is actively clearing separated bike lanes.
Streets that were cleaned on 2/23:

13th: Spruce>>CB Moore
5th & 6th: Market>>Spring Garden
BF Pkwy: 21st>>15th
JFK: 15th>>20th
Lombard: 22nd>>South
Market: 23rd>>15th
Spruce & Pine: 22nd>>Front
South: 34th>>22nd
Washington: 22nd>>4th

Michkov on getting shifted to LW this season, and how that's went for him:

"I was always playing the right. I was always there. Now I’m playing on the left. It’s a new role. If the coaches see me there, I have to adapt as quick as I can."

I was shocked to learn his age in the inky article about him coaching high school hockey

The Myth of Regenerative Ranching The purveyors of “grass-fed” beef want you to believe that it solves meat’s environmental problem. But this is merely a branding exercise, not a climate solution.

You may have come across a piece about the ostensible plight of regenerative ranchers in Point Reyes in a lefty mag. It spends a lot of time on description and pathos and almost none on the actual environmental impacts of livestock. Read this too (or just instead): newrepublic.com/article/1637...

hmm John Tortorella winner Rick Taco loser hmm

I’ve neglected my bandsaw hygiene due to a few months of white and yellow pine and not wanting to degunk the blade just to cut into super sappy wood right after. Well now it’s fully locked in and just got the nicest resaw cut since I’ve had it

Ban cars

There are a whole lot of stupid, destructive, unjust things that are very possible

It’s true. You can drive and park a clearly fake/defaced / 5 year expired temp plate indefinitely and never get in any trouble. In cities at least

You don’t need a visible (or real, or non-expired, or any) license plate on your car. Pretty easy

Exactly what I did. That part was pretty fun

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

If I can get stronger and be vegan, nearly anybody can. But you don’t have to get stronger, though it is probably a good idea for your current and long term health. Start fibermaxxing, leave the animals alone

But since I started lifting again in the fall, I have been trying to eat the bare minimum of calories and protein while still getting stronger (maybe 2500-3200, 70-110 grams). Probably have to increase that a bit

On the disappointing side I could only get one rep of 200 and (gracefully onto the safeties) failed a squat for the first time ever, probably over 400 sets. And now will only be increasing my squat every three weeks instead of every week

Bonkers long weekend for lifting milestones. 135 bench, 225 deadlift, 200 squat. Compared to (long ago) pre-vegan PRs: +30, +10, +50

Did these french cleats over the summer. Was a challenge since I still need a lot more practice with stock prep but very satisfying

(And also gmo to make a soy bean glyphosate or dicamba resistant so farmers can dump airplane-quantities of pesticides all over their fields)

And is there any evidence to believe non-Haber–Bosch mass fertilizer production is more realistic than climate friendly beef, nuclear fusion reactors, BECCS or other greenwashing, action-delaying bullshit?

Maybe I have to read the book first, but there is a difference between gmo to make a papaya disease resistant and chemically intensive agriculture. If we have to grow 70-80% fewer calories, wouldn’t that leave room for less chemical-reliant methods (and that’s good?)?

Including power/olympic lifting?

This is very related to the decades long “eat protein” push, which people interpret the same way. “Whole plant foods” is far better descriptive. Even processed plant foods

Damn gonna be 3 days late

Been lifting on and off (mostly off) for 10 years. First time having two plates on the bar. #vegan

Well also “real food” and “whole food” people interpret as eat as much red meat, deli meat, chicken which is a health food, dairy etc as they want, which is a lot

You could learn something

That’s fuckin right (though I suspect some of these numbers are underestimates)

Yes exactly. Even people with substantial food access issues can seriously improve their diet with the type of help that everybody should be granted, through their primary care doctor. Look at the Lifestyle Medicine program at NYC public hospitals