I haven’t tried one. My moto camp setup includes a “2 plus” tent that’s already bigger than I’d like. If I were looking to keep the bike dry I’d be more inclined to bring along an ultralight bike cover.
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I haven’t tried one. My moto camp setup includes a “2 plus” tent that’s already bigger than I’d like. If I were looking to keep the bike dry I’d be more inclined to bring along an ultralight bike cover.
Today was a bit of a bear, but that’s why we ride motorcycles. #MotoSky
The Gold Wheel Club™ showed up to bike night. #Motosky #BMWMotorrad #ADVRider
I had a 2001 FZ-1 as my daily rider for a number of years. Fantastic motorcycle that was overlooked as time went on. That bike taught me how good an inline four can be.
There is something deeply troubling in the American psyche that extends all the way into the federal government. “He told me he likes seeing me on TV” is the language of a person in an abusive relationship. These are men at the top of the world who are desperate to feel loved.
Trump has effectively launched the U.S. into war without congressional approval, without a declaration, and entirely on impulse. Call your Congressperson and demand Congress to speak out and to take immediate action to stop the U.S. from entering a full-scale war.
I’ve been experimenting with making giant ice cubes for drinks. This one was too big and I had to trim it down to fit in a rocks glass.
This is a really good point and it’s far sharper than the usual critique of bluesky. Most of us are here because we left Musk and Zuckerberg, but that doesn’t mean I want to spend all my time talking about Musk and Zuckerberg. Bluesky needs to become a home for other discussion topics.
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
The opinion isn’t really about flags at the White House, it’s about how you feel about trump. The thing about the red herring of the day is that it’s not about the red herring— it’s about the other thing, which is always trump.
I have an opinion about flags at the White House. If you ask around, everyone has an opinion about flags at the White House, or they’ll develop one as soon as they hear the question. If they like trump, they’ll like the idea of more flags at the White House. If not, they won’t.
One of the things I hate about the trump era is these constant red herrings. Every day there is a new topic on which we must express an opinion. The issue is always of low importance and distracts us from what matters. All the chatter around the topic of the day is more noise. This time it’s flags.
That sign is rad and von Haefen is one of the good ones. I heard her speak at a public school event a while back. She shouldn’t have to apologize, but that’s the cost of being in a party of decency.
I don’t know when it’s appropriate to make jokes about this stuff, but this is why you can’t skip lunch. He should buy ICE and make the dress code a big wet diaper.
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
You have to add up all the red bars and stack them on top of each other to pay for the green bar.
"We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." ~ Carl Sagan
This is how I’ve felt since January 6th. I still have strong ideological convictions, but they are superseded by my support for democracy, the rule of law, and basic respect for human dignity. If I’m willing to sacrifice humans, my ideology has become an idol.
I love my Rok straps. I have other straps that are good for specific tasks, but my Rok straps are the ones that I always carry with me. Super versatile.
So feel free to mock TCW, but try to understand that there are people in homeless shelters who agree with him. If we want to win this clash with ICE or gather enough votes to change the next election we’ll need to find out how to win these people over. That means listening to them.
But no, he saw the images of protestors clashing with law enforcement and flying foreign flags and to him it was a protest against America itself. He held an opinion I would have expected to hear from the average right-wing white redneck.
Here was a person of color living in a homeless shelter who undoubtedly has experienced negative encounters with the police or other authority figures. I assumed his sympathies would lie with the protestors who are rising up against authoritarian forces in the US.
He spoke of people burning American flags and marching with foreign flags and destroying property. He said we didn’t need people like that in America and that we needed to stop immigration. I would never have expected him to have that opinion.
One of the men living at the facility asked me what I thought of the immigration protests. I told him I was against them and that they didn’t respect human dignity. He firmly told me that he could not disagree more.
This weekend I went to a cookout with an organization that serves the homeless. It was the kind of place where people live on site and go through jobs training with mentorship and have a counselor guide them through the program to get them back on their feet.
The common tact is to call Bluesky an echo chamber, but I don’t think that term clarifies the specific mode of failure. It’s not simply that the same ideas are repeated, it’s that alternate ideas are not tolerated. No one is willing to listen to why someone has arrived at a different conclusion.
Everyone is dunking on this take from Chatterton Williams and seems to be having a good time doing so. I think this highlights the trouble with political dialog, particularly on Bluesky.
An entire generation of people raised on memes and Fox News who are just completely unable to separate propaganda from reality. If there is a crisis, it’s epistemological. Fascists will try to bend reality to their ideology, but this always fails in the long run with tons of damage along the way.
Marketing insisted that we go live that same day. “But it’s just a checkbox . . .” We pushed that login page to production without the stupid checkbox.
“Why not? It’s just a checkbox” I explained that while the checkbox was simple, wiring up the mechanism to identify the user and store that identification and match it against future sessions to reauthenticate was not simple. It was real code and required time and real testing.
I whipped up a simple responsive page with inputs and the company logo and wired up the username/password fields to the existing logic and told marketing it was ready to go. They responded with, “Could you add one of those ‘Remember me’ checkboxes?” Absolutely not.
The whole project was already way behind schedule. Marketing had worn out the contractor and they passed off the project with a bunch of work undone. The day we were going live they showed me the login page and it was just a mockup. Nothing functional at all. They wanted the site live that same day.
They had outsourced the development of a new website, but they wanted to keep the old site and hide it behind a login page. The authentication was already in place from the old site, so we weren’t adding new code. We just needed to add the new login page.
Back in my web developer days I took a stand against adding one of these useless checkboxes to the company website. I won the battle, but eventually lost the job.
They need to make some space at the Louvre, because this is art.
I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
RTs have historically been fantastic. I expect the 1300 will continue the tradition.
The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.
He’s giving drugs a bad name.
Another wheelie hack- get a bike you don’t mind falling off of. A Honda Z50 changed my riding.
Make sure you’re covering the rear brake. Start working in some dedicated practice with smashing the pedal to bring the front wheel down. It will take time to wire up that neural pathway.
Definitely not. I failed to navigate those ruts. It was low speed so no real harm.
It’s Friday, but I’m trapped at my desk for the day and there’s rain in the forecast. Here’s a picture of my GS laying in the dirt. #Motosky #BMWMotorrad #Pinksky #ADVRider
This guy is one edible away from living an entirely new life.
“What I am is a heretic who’s recanted, and thereby in everyone’s eyes saved his soul. Everyone’s eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.” #Motosky #Booksky
“What is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good—need we ask anyone else to tell us these things?” #Motosky #Booksky
Art.
“Shows just how important it is that leaders are held up to regular scrutiny” is particularly egregious. I would like some semblance of intellectual honesty from the political class.
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
“By contrast, resources would increase by an amount equal to 4 percent for households in the highest decile in 2027 and 2 percent in 2033, mainly because of reductions in the taxes they owe.” www.cbo.gov/system/files...
“CBO estimates that household resources would decrease by an amount equal to about 2 percent of income in the lowest decile (tenth) of the income distribution in 2027 and 4 percent in 2033, mainly as a result of losses of in-kind transfers, such as Medicaid and SNAP (see the figure).”
It’s easy to mock this reinvented bus concept, but there’s a version of the idea that builds on ride share data and puts a vehicle on a commonly used route at a commonly used time and increases the likelihood that someone will take the “bus” rather than a private car. Execution will be key.
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” -Marcus Aurelius
Project Gutenberg has the full Federalist Papers collection available as plain text, HTML, and various e-book formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1404
Links for reference. Declaration of Independence: www.archives.gov/founding-doc... The Constitution: www.archives.gov/founding-doc... The Bill of Rights: www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
Reading all of these documents won’t make you an expert in United States governance, but it might prevent you from claiming that Habeas Corpus is the right of the president to deport people at will. That may come in handy should you find yourself being questioned in the senate.
If you’re looking for the rationale behind those documents, the complete Federalist Papers are also available online, completely free. The arguments in those papers can feel a bit dense, but these two are accessible for an average reader.
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights have a combined length of under 10,000 words, including all of the amendments. Someone with a high school reading level could finish all of them in about an hour.
All of the founding documents of the United States are available online completely free. The sentence structure may feel a bit arduous, but these documents are written in English and entirely accessible to the average reader.
I know this makes me sound ancient and stale, but the United States has a serious deficiency in basic civic knowledge.
“The real cycle you’re working on is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be ‘out there’ and the person that appears to be ‘in here’ are not two separate things.” #Motosky #Booksky
“You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That’s the way all the experts do it. The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn’t separate from the rest of your experience.” #Motosky #Booksky
The new GOP tax bill gives the richest Americans (making over $4.3 million) an average tax cut of over $389k—while working families earning $17k-$51k will lose $700 a year on average. It’s a slap in the face to hardworking families who need tax relief the most.
I don’t have expert advice on this topic, but I’ve found the same pattern in my own journaling. I have found it helpful to read back what I’ve written and see where my thoughts are colored by my emotions. It’s illuminating to see where my thinking has gone wrong and needs adjustment.
Not all motorcycle trips have a happy ending. A buddy got a flat tire on his Multistrada and we weren’t able to plug it. Had to track down a uhaul. #Motosky
Wolf Creek Lake. Somewhere south of Waynesville, NC. #Motosky
Time to head west. #Motosky
This is absolutely incredible -- Kristi Noem repeatedly refuses to acknowledge that Trump brandished an doctored image of Abrego Garcia's tattoos, prompting Eric Swalwell to have a staffer of his brandish an image of them right in her face. Totally dystopian.
Just a few minutes away- Emerald Isle, NC
It’s even easier to call me out on point 1. I said discussion was “impossible” because bluesky is “entirely devoid” of left voices. Those statements are clearly false. The only option left is to assume I’m stupid or a liar.
That was a roundabout way of telling me my original point was not very clear. My original points were (and remain) 1: Discussions like this are difficult on bluesky. 2: Language has changed in some specific ways that have a political orientation and that implies some form of social pressure.
Because it’s motte-and-bailey to vacillate between “intense social pressure” and “of course language changes, you racist”. You spent the last several replies asking for proof that master had changed. Now you’ve said it changed but are retreating to the type of pressure that made it change.
It’s only incorrect if you miss the point, which is why I’ve put so much effort into clarifying the point. If you’re still thinking that I meant there are literally no instances of the word “master” remaining in the world, I cannot help you.
Again with the pedantics. Now you’re wrapped around the axle trying to specify the exact type of pressure. I now have some ~1500 replies with a myriad of insults. I’m not probing for your personal threshold of social pressure, but many would find that kind of response unpleasant.
I believe you can see this. You’ve demonstrated a great willingness to do research for this argument. You’ve likely come across several articles addressing master bedroom and master branch while hashing this out. You can see that the language has shifted.
The original claim was that there wasn’t pressure to change language. My thread was examples of where language had changed. We’ve shifted from master bedroom and master branch to primary bedroom and main branch. Your ability to provide exceptions does not disprove my point.
It’s possible that you’re still attempting to operate in good faith, but your pedantry is preventing us from making progress. I started my original thread with the word “impossible” when it is quite clearly not “impossible”. I know you understand hyperbole because you’re using it yourself.
If you want to convince me you’re operating in good faith, you’re going to have to pick a lane on the use of hyperbole. Two posts ago you said “literally no one” argued with me. Can we use literary devices in speech or not?
About a third of my replies right now are calling me a bag of shit liar for claiming that language changed. Another third are claiming I’m a bag of shit fascist for objecting to language changing. I would like these two groups to fight with each other about whether or not the language changed.
Of course. It would be absurd to say that it was literally impossible to have discussion. I don’t even know what that would look like logistically. My point is that it is difficult to have discussions like this without wading through a steady stream of hostile replies. It discourages dialog.
You’re already being slippery with “intense pressure” and “never any great upset”. You’re tacitly acknowledging that there was a shift in master branch renaming, which was my original point. The language changed.
I’m not inclined to engage in good-faith dialog with others who are unwilling to do the same.
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i'm watching a group of conservative law professors insist that there is a grand debate over birthright citizenship that somehow escaped generations of scholarship and only popped into existence after a right-wing president announced an effort to nullify the 14th amendment.
It’s not that the Overton window has shifted. It’s more like we each shrunk our personal Overton windows to exclude everyone else. We look at others directionally. They’re to our right or our left and can be disregarded accordingly. We view every topic though that one lens.
I think this highlights how factional we’ve become. Not merely politically, but socially. In the outside world I’m considered liberal. I can no longer talk to my parents or my in-laws because they think I’ve gone too far left. Here on Bluesky I’m considered right-wing.
I was engaging with people in this thread long before it reached your timeline.
That’s where the context helps. It wasn’t someone mad about perceived wokeness. Hobbes claimed there was no pressure to change language. I replied with a thread of examples of where language changed. Those examples were hyperbolic. You can find counter-examples, but it doesn’t disprove my claim.
It’s ok. A lot of people jumped on that one. Without the context it was an easy one to make fun of.
If you’re not read Masnick yet this is a great place to jump in.
I’m not defending the word slave anywhere in this thread.
Those are the easy cases though. In the case of the n-word there should absolutely be intense social pressure to change. It’s a derogatory word and has always been so.
I appreciate the kind reply. I’m still promoting Bluesky to my normie friends, but it’s a rough place for disagreement.
For the record I think everyone should leave twitter. It’s an awful place. I’d like it if this place wasn’t awful in the other direction.
Because Hobbes was arguing that there was no pressure to change language. Pointing out that the language changed reveals that there was at least some level of social pressure. It’s fine if you don’t consider that pressure “intense” but it’s clear that something changed socially.
Which is fine. I might be an asshole. I don’t think that observing that we switched from master to main/primary is what makes me an asshole though.
Because whether or not it bothers me was not the point. The point was that language changed. Bluesky is not handling that level of nuance very well.
There are now a couple hundred people in my replies here calling me a fascist, which proves my point. Bluesky is not a good place for discussing even the mildest of topics.
My replies have been pretty weird, so I wanted to thank you for engaging kindly. My point wasn’t even taking a stand on the language change. I was simply pointing out that the language did change and that it had a political direction. A lot of people on Bluesky are not willing to hear that.