Matt Cramer

18 Aug

Public transit under fascism be like

Kicking off my Divorced Guy Era with a quick bike trip from The Battery, NYC, up the Hudson Valley to maybe Poughkeepsie. That’s if I can manage ~100 mi in this crazy heat. We’ll see!

music.apple.comNobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore by Harry Nilsson on Apple MusicSong · 1969 · Duration 2:46

I still care, Harry! I love the railroads

Back in New York. Now THIS is a train station ~6 mi from Grand Central to the Battery makes it ~130-135 for the weekend (can’t be sure bc my app died a couple times, and I took some detours)

Kicking off my Divorced Guy Era with a quick bike trip from The Battery, NYC, up the Hudson Valley to maybe Poughkeepsie. That’s if I can manage ~100 mi in this crazy heat. We’ll see!

Unironically, hooray for America. The Hudson Valley is gorgeous. This is one bit they haven’t managed to fuck up yet Look at the view from the Poughkeepsie train station

The train is taking me and Rex back to New York. Harry Nilsson on the earbuds — Nobody Cares About the Railroad Anymore… I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City

Kicking off my Divorced Guy Era with a quick bike trip from The Battery, NYC, up the Hudson Valley to maybe Poughkeepsie. That’s if I can manage ~100 mi in this crazy heat. We’ll see!

My bike trip has received the mandate of Heaven

Behind the sushi bar was the perfect place to watch fireworks over the Hudson River

Kicking off my Divorced Guy Era with a quick bike trip from The Battery, NYC, up the Hudson Valley to maybe Poughkeepsie. That’s if I can manage ~100 mi in this crazy heat. We’ll see!

From Brewster the trail runs on the North side of the mountain ridge and climbs ~350 ft (450 to 800) over ~10 miles. Then it’s all downhill to Poughkeepsie My legs are feeling pretty weak — I’ve done about 80 miles in the past 18 hours. Scenery’s nice tho

Made it to Poughkeepsie just in time for the skies to open up like Noah’s Flood again. Crazy that both ends of my trip were bookended by Biblical weather I took shelter in the sushi restaurant for some protein and rice and a beer. Job well done

Kicking off my Divorced Guy Era with a quick bike trip from The Battery, NYC, up the Hudson Valley to maybe Poughkeepsie. That’s if I can manage ~100 mi in this crazy heat. We’ll see!

I was too tired to post updates yesterday but the Empire State Trail ruled. Nice and smooth, great scenery, mostly shady, not too many hard climbs. I did another 50-60 mi and made it to Poughkeepsie by sundown

This bit outside Carmel was nice. I gained about 700 ft elevation yesterday. The first section today sheds about 300 ft as it follows the mountains East to Brewster. Then the trail turns back North/West and starts climbing again

Kicking off my Divorced Guy Era with a quick bike trip from The Battery, NYC, up the Hudson Valley to maybe Poughkeepsie. That’s if I can manage ~100 mi in this crazy heat. We’ll see!

The finest New York cuisine — the Recession Special at Gray’s Papaya. Perfect bike fuel too

Made my way north out of the city and up the trail to Mahopac late last night. The historic (derogatory) Mahopac Motor Inn gave me shelter for the night, but no hot water grrr

Kicking off my Divorced Guy Era with a quick bike trip from The Battery, NYC, up the Hudson Valley to maybe Poughkeepsie. That’s if I can manage ~100 mi in this crazy heat. We’ll see!

Hopefully the rain breaks the heat and doesn’t just turn the city into a sauna for the next several hours

Rain finally stopped, producing this insane sunset. It did break the heat — the rest of the ride was much more pleasant

Kicking off my Divorced Guy Era with a quick bike trip from The Battery, NYC, up the Hudson Valley to maybe Poughkeepsie. That’s if I can manage ~100 mi in this crazy heat. We’ll see!

ngl those thunderclouds look pretty hairy

Mere seconds after setting out on the Empire State Trail the skies opened up with the wrath of God — pelting rain, wind threatening to blow me off my bike. At least I’m not hot anymore!

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Got my new helmet and kit bag just in time for my weekend jaunt from The Battery, NYC up the Hudson Valley to Poughkeepsie

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@jonbois.bsky.social

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researching baseball

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@elienyc.bsky.social

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Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

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I was feeling all sour grapes about this championship — Philly fan, you know? — but goddamn congrats to the Knicks and the city of New York. What a historic win.

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rainbows and the moon are incredible to see in person and the computer makes them look small, dim, insignificant. consider what other wonders the computer seeks to diminish, and what is prioritized in their place

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IT’S STAR WARS DAY SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

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when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

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people are increasingly saying open.substack.com/pub/powermap...

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@luigithirty.bsky.social

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“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

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"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

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@jonbois.bsky.social

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this is sick. it's the kind of thing i would have loved to try to do at some point if i had any idea how. great work @adumb.codes www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtJx...

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@emilystjams.bsky.social

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I could tell you a Sturges series gives you a shockingly high number of the best, funniest movies ever. I could tell you how much I, personally, would LOVE a Sturges win. But really: Wes Anderson would be so annoyed to learn he had beaten Preston Sturges in a poll? Do it for Wes. Vote Sturges!

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Today in BC March Madness, we have a battle between suprelatives. You can support either The Royal Tenenbaums or The Great McGinty. It's Wes Anderson (1) vs Preston Sturges (7). Vote here: blankcheckpod.com/march-madness

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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

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SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

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Queen shit

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we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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DEEP DIVE MY ASS - dashare.zone ADMIN

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London is fast becoming a cycling city. As each new piece in the network appears—which has more than quadrupled from 90 to 431 km since 2016—so do new cyclists. Its infrastructure now sees a stunning 1.5 million daily users—a 43% spike since 2019—moving nearly half as many people as the Tube below.🧵

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GO FOR IT

prideofdetroit.comNotes: Lions set NFL record in failed fourth down conversion attemptsDetroit broke a 27-year-old record held by the Patriots of all teams.

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Tonight would be the most failed 4th down conversions in NFL history — if it weren’t for the Lions themselves setting the bar at 6 in 2022 Dan Campbell: bad at 4th downs

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