Absolutely.
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Absolutely.
He had a heart attack while riding on Saturday. Riding the tandem. Stoker is ok, but he hit his head and had an internal bleed on top of oxygen deprivation. Hasn’t regained consciousness. Family making decisions today.
😂😂😂
My neighbor. My ride-leader. My friend. Joseph Bloedoorn.
Tour de Suisse 1935 Artist: Lill Tschudi #BicycleBirthday Lill Tschudi September 2 (1911-2004)
Teacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe and crew member Gregory Jarvis ride bicycles at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, two days before their space shuttle, Challenger, exploded after launching. #BicycleBirthday Christa McAuliffe September 2 (1948-1986)
UffDa. Sorry you had to go thru that.
Whenever the time comes, I just hope the inner circle all agrees that Beria needs to go.
If it’s cancer, PLEASE let it be pancreatic. Please, please, please.
Declaring war on Venezuela or announcing they’ve abducted Maduro.
🎶We built this city. We built this city on bathtub gin 🎶
We’ve also gotta get you a life-sized Janet Leigh screaming head sticker to put up on the shower wall for brewing days.
I keep imagining an Always Sunny episode titled "The Gang Sets Monetary Policy"
Mn gun owners caucus does not like being asked if they are for or against mentally ill people who want to harm children having access to guns that can kill dozens in seconds. Hint: they are very much for
TODQ (Transit Oriented Dairy Queen)
It’s not gonna be apparent to most folks, but this is absolutely a BFD!
Yeah, but the HPC will typically go to the matt for a place where Dan Patch once pissed!
The wine in the 5gal bucket looks just fine. Think we just need to scale you up a bit on your mead fermentation equipment!
Will do. If I don’t get to it tonight, will by end of the week.
Somebody must have drugged the entire Historical Preservation Committee the day that one got approved!
Joke: good Alt text: superb
Happy to. Are you able to DM me? Send me an email and I’ll pass it along.
I’ve got a copy of the quite good 2012 90% plan that MNDOT developed for that segment (Grace a @andy-singer.bsky.social who had the foresight to download before they were deleted from MNDOT website). As you know, it’s 2025. So…not holding my breath.
Homan on a three day bender, whispering into Miller’s ear that Hegseth can be had for a handle of Jack while handing the keys to all the concentration camps to Noem.
The faces of the bystanders when I said, quite loudly, « The beautiful thing about this truck is when it hits you, you get flay-chest, bleed-out and die almost immediately! »
The Church of vous; it’s all about you. Perfect encapsulation of evangelicalism today in the US.
Smart!
Truly. And being contrarian, we are leaving *tomorrow* for a three day to Duluth.
A reminder on this Labor Day: Slavery still exists in the form of incarcerated labor. It’s long overdue to end forced labor in prisons.
Bike math is paying virtually nothing and getting a lot in return. Car math is selling your soul to waste your life in traffic and inhale kilograms of particulate matter.
And yet the anti-bike bigots are still losing their fucking minds about bike infra in the pages of the Gazette. 🙄
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
With a bit of luck, I’ll be at The Spot bar with @danademaster.bsky.social , @stpaulbikescum.bsky.social and several others playing the Gordon Lightfoot song on the jukebox on repeat and getting the whole bar to sing along with us.
Quick reminder: Writing is labour Rewriting is labour Editing is labour Reading is labour Teaching is labour Syllabussing is labour Thinking is labour Academic work is labour
Yes. I enjoyed it but tasted no rhubarb.
Tilburg's project team wanted something unmistakable in the streetscape. The choice of red—a unifying colour for the new main cycle route—was deliberate; intended to make it both comfortable and instantly recognisable. This chromatic clarity would become the hallmark of Dutch cycling infrastructure.
If you played me this clip of a Georgia congressman named "Buddy Carter" talking with this accent, I would've called you a hack filmmaker.
Today is our 7th Anniversary! We are incredibly grateful for the community that exists inside our walls. Thank you. To celebrate, we’re doing happy hour all day!
The far right succeeded in this country in large part because adult men were angry about this supposed theft, and the Nazis learned to channel that rage. "[Marginalized group] stole your sex mommy!" is quite literally their rallying cry a lot of the time.
Gonna be a big surprise for Billy Shakespeare
The bike lane infrastructure in Paris was amazing. I couldn’t get over how many cycle lanes there were. The city is incredibly bike-friendly, with countless protected paths that are fully separated from cars and traffic, making it safe and enjoyable to get around on two wheels.
I live right next to the Greenway but I no longer ride the Greenway after dark because it's very uncomfortable when it's this dark! Soon I won't be able to use it after 4 or 5pm.
We had a great lunch at South Branch Tavern & Grille this past Spring. They are open Mondays. Short walk from Union Station.
lol. Nice. I could hear the melody as I read the lyrics.
Gotta go down to the SE corner of the stadium. There was literally *not* a line at about 6:30pm tonight.
The #OktoberBestFarts
Got to see Merry Wooliston twice today on his appointed rounds! IYKYK.
Aren’t Protesters in Pantsuits an ABBA Cover band?
Imagine being a fricking Chaplain, hitting people with your car and fleeing. He should be de-frocked for such behavior.
Thank you for saying this so I didn’t have to.
Yesterday, first time ever I’ve witnessed one being used! At The Fair near the Roasted Corn stand, natch. I call dibs, BTW, on the Fair Floss stand imma open next year on that same corner.
“The suspect said ‘he was distracted by a text message on his cellphone,’ according to the affidavit. ‘He stated that he opened his texting application, and when he looked to read the message, he heard a bump.’” www.startribune.com/state-patrol...
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Yes! I rode part of it recently before fully opened and was impressed. Color differentiation from sidewalk. Curb-protected. Sloped kerb btwn path and sidewalk similar to (though much taller than) The Netherlands!
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Ope. Didn’t mean to misgender Rosie!
Such a big, beautiful boy!
Yeah, I think less puppet, but undeniably still an asset.
God, this is too cute by half and so, so disingenuous. The marketing and ownership culture of, yes, semi-automatic rifles descended from the M16 is soaked in military imagery. But out of the other sides of their blood-stained mouths, the gun nuts say "oh, what weapon of war?" GTFOH
LFG!
Turns out if you accept the premise of voting for the lesser of two evils they'll just keep running lesser evils.
Ding-Ding-Ding! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
A bus, but the seats all spin
Was there yesterday and went through the « fast lane. » it was fine. Line moves fast enough. I waited longer in a beer line, TBH.
Ping @melrup.bsky.social about who she worked with when she was transitioning from the VA. She had a good experience.
No judgement here!
Haven’t just yet. I want to see just how badly they can embarrass themselves first with their shitty take responses. Always good for folks to be reminded just who these ghouls really are.
Great route! You have more long runs planned or are you tapering from here out? I only ran the TCM once (2001) and I think our longest training run was about 22 miles.
Ah yes. Pedantic semantics in the face of dead children (not yet buried) and children still in critical condition due to being shot with « common firearms owned by civilians. » So much respect and care. Great response you fucking Ghouls.
Excellent weather day for those long runs!
Gonna help Norm with a bike thing this afternoon so…
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
If you're looking for something to watch this weekend I suggest the great 2017 comedy 'Death of Stalin'
Joan Blondell makes working on the railroad look like a lot of fun in 1931's Other Men's Women Happy #BicycleBirthday, Joan Blondell! August 30 (1906-1979)
Hey! I saw that movie. It was quite good, actually!
How cool is that?! 😍
Last week, the Minnesota DFL revoked our endorsement. Due to this decision, our yard signs are out of compliance with state law. We have stickers you can pick up at our new office (405 Cedar Ave) this Saturday from 10 AM-6 PM. We advise supporters to cover the DFL logo on your sign.
Listen. It's all you *can* drink, not all you *care* to drink, buster.
And to those who would use this tragedy to attack our trans neighbors, shame on you. We must stand united against hate in all its forms and ensure that every Minnesota child, family, and community never again experiences the grief we’re all feeling in the wake of this shooting.
In the face of radicalization, let’s choose connection. In the face of gun violence, let’s fight for gun reform together. And in the face of this overwhelming grief, let’s embrace the power of our love and care for one another.
70 years ago today, Emmett Till was lynched by white supremacists. Here in Illinois, we promise to never hide from our history — no matter how painful the chapter. We honor his memory and his brave mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, by continuing the fight for civil rights and justice.
It’s like a miniature firework! Smaller than a ping-pong ball.
This is, apparently, what the seed pods of a white clematis look like. These from the East side of our house.
Oh. Like how ChatGPT egged on a 16 year old to suicide?
Or the lazy. 🙋🏼♂️😂
In my experience, one of the very few places in Minneapolis with hills. (Compared to Saint Paul, natch)
Did you see the Krugman piece today on pretty much exactly this topic?
Pretty sure I’m gonna try the Raspberry soft-serve beer thing tomorrow. Because it sounds so dumb. And potentially delicious. 😂
She was a traitor who failed to uphold the oath she swore. Giving her a military funeral with full honors is a slap in the face to those service members who have upheld their oath. Shameful. Disgraceful. Disgusting.
I don’t know why, of all the things I’ve read and heard in the last 24 hours, this was the one that broke me. I was driving when I heard it on the radio and nearly had to pull over.
The fact that the Sandy Hook event failed to meaningfully shift policy was absolutely when I knew we were never going to do a gawddamned thing about gun violence in this country.
Tasted these at @dogsbestfriend.bsky.social for the first time last week! Crisp! Tangy! I said, « I think these would be great in salads! »
MSP folks, if you’re able and éligible, consider making a blood donation. Great experience this morning at @memorialblood.bsky.social in Saint Paul (Pelham just South of University. Right on a bike path!)
Oh yeah.
Look at this beautiful old mouser at my car mechanics shop. I woke her up when I came in and now she just wants to be on my lap. 😻🥰
One other point: Given what's happening with law enforcement, it seems like a good time to remove traffic violations as an excuse for cops to pull someone over.
The price of eggs? Wait until you see your ACA premiums. Got cancer? The hope for new cures has been dashed. If H5N1 develops mutations that confer easy human-to-human transmission? Fuggedaboudit. 7/
I bet the folks at Abbott Paint would have suggestions. I’ve been told by someone in Public Works that the city uses three different « grades » of paint, with different prices points and durabilities.