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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Alex Pretti, Killed by ICE, Was One of Us Yesterday morning in Minneapolis, ICE agents murdered a member of our community, 37-year-old Alex Pretti. Learn more here...

bikepacking.com/news/alex-pr...

I think I still might have a yahoo email address around somewhere.

Ha ha. I know what this is and it still made me laugh.

(Worked a summer job many years ago working airline catering)

The Danes answered our call after 9/11 and lost 43 soldiers in Afghanistan, which is a casualty rate equal to our own relative to their population.

The whole thing isn’t just enraging, it’s dishonorable in the extreme

This is Minneapolis:

Folks are talking about processes for vetting in Signal groups and someone joked that we could require a character reference from local bike mechanics.

😂

(*Obviously not everyone can/wants to ride a bike, but def agree w the idea of bike commuters being pretty trustworthy.)

If you bike on the Guadalupe River Trail in San Jose, the design team is asking for feedback on the proposed plan at
bit.ly/grt-plan.

#DTSJ #SanJose @cyclelicious.bsky.social @sjbikeparty.bsky.social

Yeah I have my thoughts on that. Some decent stuff but sad about Ewert Rd closing.

Stolen 2007 Specialized Roubaix Comp Triple Silver, gray or bare metal 2007 Specialized Roubaix Comp Triple, serial: WUD241668B. Specialized FACT 6r carbon, triple monocoque construction, compact design, Zertz inserts. Stolen: 2019-03-18, from:...

I just got an email through @bikeindex.org from some guy in Orinda CA who claims he has my bike that I reported stolen in 2019.

I told him he can keep it and I'm happy he's using it.

bikeindex.org/bikes/27081

I fantasize about this kind of stuff, but I also think the kind of person who becomes a billionaire probably has a single-minded drive that probably doesn't involve thinking much about other people beyond "what can I get from them."

3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

These are absolutely monstrous people

"Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"

yeah I had my doubts.

Screen shot of New York Times article showing headline: "E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution" Subheading: "In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show." Photo under the subheading shows a water cooling tower and smokestacks for what might be a power generation station, in a residential area with single family homes.

Ludicrous

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

I was under the impression that American conservatives generally approve of running over people on foot when they're in the street.

A stripped bicycle frame attached to a inverted U style bike rack on a sidewalk near a street. The bicycle is completely stripped of wheels, saddle, components, even the cranks, and pedals. Only the front fork remains. The frame is attached to rack via the top tube. The lock seems to be an orange and black Kryptonite U lock with a cable looped through it. The inverted U bike rack has a decorate bit of sheet metal across the middle with the text "THE ALAMEDA". We can see a blue Ford parked on the street nearby, the trunk of a tree, and what looks like fall foilage down the street in the distance.

Adequate lock, bad technique.

Welcome to 2026. 🥳😮‍💨

I feel this.

Of course the purple category was obvious for me today.

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KRON 4 doing the big story this morning: how more people are killed by automobiles than are murdered in San Francisco.

Oh, wait, I am told they are pissed bikes ignore red lights on the embarcadero when there is no crossing traffic.

Yeah, the actual settlement is undisclosed.

Power-Hungry Data Centers Are Warming Homes in the Nordics By pairing computer processing facilities with district heating systems, countries like Finland and Sweden are trying to limit their environmental downsides.

The video is pretty goofy but the waste heat recovery is indeed a thing.

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Cover of a Japanese Seven Eleven Christmas 2025 gift and holiday food catalog. The cover features a large sweet pastry of some kind, roasted chicken, and some other holiday food items. We see cartoon reindeer and Santa Claus too, along with Japanese text saying you can order beginning on September 15.

The inside of a Japanese Seven Eleven Christmas 2025 catalog showing the various chicken combo options available. You can order roasted or fried chicken, with various styles of fried coatings and pieces.

I found this laying around. I guess it's a bit late to order my Japanese 7 Eleven Christmas fried chicken.

I spent the better part of my life in churches like this and closed my eyes to the hatred, because we have people of color at my church so that means we're okay! So much naive apologia in that Worthen opinion piece.

Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.

I think you'll get downslope winds from this system. Front Range moisture usually comes up from the Gulf, doesn't it?

A wet and stormy week ahead in California, with substantial SoCal flood risk and initially warm Sierra rain transitioning to very heavy snow - Weather West An extremely warm and very moist airmass over California to start the week; record low Sierra snowpack persists Well, the last 3-4 weeks sure have been exceptionally warm across most of the Western United States. Record warmth has occurred literally every day across a substantial chunk of the western third of the country. Accordingly, December

New Weather West post out now: A wet and stormy week ahead in California, with substantial SoCal flood risk and initially warm Sierra rain transitioning to very heavy snow. Plus, join me tomorrow (Mon Dec 22) for a live discussion (link therein!). #CAwx

I love Swanton Berry Farm

And there it is...

It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.

*ABSOLUTELY* this.