James Longhurst

Sooooooooo drunk

The subject of my undergraduate thesis

same thing, but stamped with the number 1116 and also shiny, like someone polished it?

#1116 has shown up for sale multiple times in the past.

a photo of a brazz or bronze metal tag, in the shape of a "6" for 1906, with "Cortland Co" and "612" and "Sidepath" stamped into it. It has a long tab of metal off to the left for the purpose of wrapping around a biccyle frame and attaching to the stamped rivet hole on the right.

1906 Cortland County New York sidepath tag for sale in the usual place, but for a completely reasonable price this time. If you're in the market, this is a fine price for a 120-year piece of bike history.

Book cover Wheeling Through Toronto A History of the Bicycle and Its Riders by Albert Koehl University of Toronto Press

Looking for a present for the cyclist on your holiday shopping list? How about my friend @albertkoehl.bsky.social's "Wheeling through Toronto, A History of the Bicycle and Its Riders"? Not convinced? You can read some reviews here. #BikeTO #TOpoli #VisionZero www.albertkoehl.ca/wheeling-thr...

I cancelled and Lily was French me.

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Vancouver’s Veloligarchy: The Role of Cycling Clubs in Early Elite Formation | Urban History Review Histories of the late 19th-century “bicycle craze” tend to focus on events, riders, and the building of better roads for cyclists. Everywhere, elites—who almost exclusively could afford both the cost ...

now reading: "Vancouver’s Veloligarchy: The Role of Cycling Clubs in Early Elite Formation," John Belshaw, Urban History Review. 🗃️

utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

oh that's because those three things are in fact somehow one amorphous thing and also three distinct things at the same time. it's a superposition of quantum states, wherein your file both exists and does not exist at the same time; is both private and shared. Schroedinger's budget spreadsheet.

it is good for my mental health to have Bluesky to vent to when I am forced to work at a microsoft school. We were a Google workplace when I took the job! they bait-and-switched me and now I have to interact with Teams on the reg!

I should get hazard pay.

Sharepoint: I have no idea what file you're talking about.

OneDrive: I've never heard of that file in my life.

Outlook: What are "files"? Why would one want to "search" for "files"?

Microsoft: Have you tried our new AI?

the file, by the way, appears to be in SharePoint, but if you search for any individual word in the filename in sharepoint, there are no results returned. if you search for the entire filename, there are no results returned. if you sort by recent, there are no results returned. But it's there!

Bernie "I am once again asking" meme, but it reads "I am once again asking what is the difference between OneDrive and Sharepoint"

Outlook: "Would you like to save this file you're attaching to OneDrive?"

Me: Fine, whatever.

Outlook: "Great, I'll save it to OneDrive." Saves to Sharepoint.

Sharepoint: I have no idea what file you're talking about.

OneDrive: I've never heard of that file in my life.

The Aristocrats!

I think that this is just the right measured criticism for works of popular history; critique it for what it is, not what it isn't. It isn't an academic monograph, which would provide greater context and depth. But it does a remarkable thing: popularize the events of a Supreme Court case!

H-Environment just posting some bangers on @hnetreviews.bsky.social these days, my wallet can't keep up.

Here's measured praise of a work of popular history in "Disneyland on the Mountain":

networks.h-net.org/group/review...

Convenient low cost storage for private vehicles is a huge part of their competitive advantage as a mode of transportation.

No wonder people fight so hard to maintain it. Otherwise they may have to face the reality that cars don't work well in cities without a ton of public subsidy.

White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed. For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.

The only thing that has ever stood in the way of the president building a big gaudy ballroom, is an understanding that the powerful would defer to self-appointed experts.

And now we see what a bad system that was.

“You lucky you got a son named after me. Now get your ass back up here.”

If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.

if higher ed was really workforce training, “running meetings that don’t suck 101” would be a required class for everyone send tweet

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

counterargument, it's an opportunity for a new university slogan: "get a liberal arts degree and get dates"

ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts

"Approximately three weeks before the pipe bombs were placed,... COLE made a purchase at a restaurant located near First and D Streets, Southeast."

Congressional Liquor & Deli or Talay Thai, what do we think?

personally I blame Tim Berners-Lee

Someone should just stand outside the committee room with a big copy of this:

Photo of a teenage girl resting astride a bicycle. She's in front of a house with a wooden arch and picket fence, and is keeping her balance with one foot on the fence. via ridesabike.com

Photo of a young woman riding a bicycle backwards. She's sitting on the handlebars and facing back while pedalling. via ridesabike.com

Singer/actress Deanna Durbin knew her way around a bicycle -- both forwards and backwards

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