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Photos on my phone tagged “cycling with kids propaganda” - girls huddling under a blanket together on the way home from the park - hauling girls to a birthday party (with their bike) - wandering around the city with the toddler

"Justice and accuracy are not the same thing."

I like building our culture in this direction

AOC Tidies Up In Case Federal Agents Stop By For Raid

As a transit rider it’s pretty great how every minute of my trip is under video surveillance at all times and it’s “🤗 safety and security 🤗” but as soon as one of those cameras can read a license plate, woah, this is government tyranny that the Founding Fathers could have never fathomed

Metric of productivity is LOC / commits / PRs Data is from January 2021 to March 2026 Can what we're looking at even tell us what we say we're asking?

Would be cool if more towns and cities tried to address this directly. Are single-day speed limits legal?

Kita picnic bike census: Babboes upon Babboes, several regular bikes with racks, two Mulis, and a Riese & Mueller Load 60 Curious to see how kids outgrowing frontloaders’ rain covers will change the distribution

Valid: “[Muriel] Cooper was both fascinated by and inevitably frustrated by computers. She never learned to program, always felt the machines were too slow, or too clunky, or even downright hostile to their users.” -Reinfurt

What is up with Berlin Marathon pacers this year? The 3:30 guy just came up behind the 3:45 guy, and I saw five 3:00 pacers spread out across twenty minutes at least.

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

I've never not had an insightful interaction with Quinn Wilton. This talk, "The Graveyard of Good Ideas", is an absolute delight. I can't describe it; just listen to the first 5 mins and if it doesn't grab you…I dunno, you're just not my kind of nerd. (-: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovlQ...

From a note to a friend a couple of weeks ago "imo the reason text elemental is so good is because it captures the notion of something that is animate, but not conscious so much as an expression of the fundamental nature of the substance of which it is composed."

send me your recs for an intro to (textual) programming for an 11 year old

LLMs make it easier to maintain two native mobile stacks than to use React Native (And the scaffolding this led Shopify to is another example of LLMs catalyzing good engineering decisions, e.g. decoupling biz logic from UI so it can run headlessly.) shopify.engineering/back-to-native

Joined a local amateur sports club and competed with the boys one last time before getting relegated to masters divisions for the rest of my life. Went to nationals, it was dope. Gave myself an overuse injury, of course.

Hazy beers have gone too far. Twenty taps at a Berlin craft brew bar. 3 variations on a pastry stout, kind of a cool oddball flex 2 sours, 1 nitro and a few imperials, good options And I believe a full 10, *half* the menu, were hazy IPA/DIPA/TIPA/QIPA — and I believe *zero* non-hazy IPAs. WTF?

"No surviving name" Cool historical toy anyhumanever.com/life/2173280...

If you want to know why people get touchy around the helmet discourse, this is it. Elected officials who do not know the difference between different classes of legal e-bikes and who also can't distinguish them from illegal e-motos probably shouldn't also be writing bicycle helmet laws.

The thing to remember about CDU is their top priority is hating cities and the people who live in them. Their plan for Torstraße is pure spite, comic book villain shit designed to be twisted into anti-Grüne propaganda.

"Don't work out more than one muscle at a time"

The simple foot sweep, painstakingly set up and thrown *hard*. (Of course it's Tobizaru.)

Aonishiki with centimeter precision on his tokuiwaza

Love how Hoshoryu counters grips he doesn't like with moves like this overhook throw-by and elbow prop.

Fujinokawa bests the Yokozuna with a pulling/redirecting escape of the kind I expect from Hoshoryu himself.

The Empire State Trail through New Paltz, NY appears incredibly well executed. Didn't get a chance to take it by bike or on foot myself, but will certainly try next time. Bravo to the designers.

“CAFOs are climate-optimal” is one way to look at the world, I suppose

Newly infra’d-up swimming hole in Kingston NY has zero thought to people getting there except by car, so of course the parking situation is immediately miserable and insufficient. Another casualty of American narrow mindedness.

American grocery stores apparently label normal (full fat unsweetened) yogurt “Indian” or “European” style now?

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NYC ferries are blowing my transit mind. $4.50 for what feels like a super-express line. Incredible. Integration of both fares and other modes seems challenging — except bike+ferry looks like a cheat code for certain routes.

Belt throw to snap down is sliiiiiick

Glad my Grüne are addressing the 🥵 problem close to the root. Collective action is a force multiplier. District cooling pipes next?

Last time my DB train got delayed I got up, stretched, ordered another beer, and read an extra chapter of my book. 🙀 Last time I got stuck in a highway traffic jam I continued being stuck sitting immobile.

A clear reminder that electrifying heating, industry, and transportation is incompatible with being picky about your electricity. A few % doesn’t mean shit when you need to double production.

More evidence for my pet policy proposal that 🇩🇪 should invest in a Horse Girls Force as a disaster-response tool leveraging that underutilized population of enthusiastic experts: adolescent girls obsessed with equines

🇺🇸 “In 1842, a young journalist interviewed 91-year-old Levi Preston, the last survivor of the battles of Lexington and Concord [and] expected to hear stories about unconstitutional government and oppressive taxes.”

Europe right now

Among other things, a reminder of how important it is for technical staff & decision-makers to actually use the system

@spd-berlin.bsky.social rightfully taking some licks for coalitioning with CDU. Lay down with dogs, you get fleas! (I think I like “Sozialstaat? Kann weg.” on the recycling bins better than this one.)

Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What’s the BIG DEAL? Pat Helland www.cidrdb.org/cidr2024/pap...