Tom Carden

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“There’s been debate about whether it’ll be called Bluecifer’s Second Rodeo or Bluecifer’s First Rodeo 2.” - it should obviously be Blue Fast Blue Furious www.waxtraxrecords.com/blogs/news/b...

Can you share your bike bus route map with me?

They played this before Minions and I can’t stop saying the hook www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oYW...

But hey it’s $5 to park downtown

For my gluten-free / dairy-free friends and fans of hard rock, all both of you: gfdf.club

Gooool for TELEMUNDO who not only refuse to run ads during the mandatory hydration breaks, but also straight up just announced that hydration breaks are necessary because of dangerous heat caused by fossil fuel-driven climate change. Bravo Telemundo. #worldcup #futbol

With 93 traffic deaths last year, it's clear Mayor Johnston isn't prioritizing street safety, but his new $5 downtown parking scheme—actively encouraging people to drive to go drinking—goes beyond unconcerned to downright dangerous. Instead of paying $5 for parking, consider the following:

“there are some small number of activists who believe the purpose in urban design is to make it miserable to drive a car. That is not our strategy” I feel like throwing my cars keys at this quote. He has it wrong. People want to make it easier to make other choices. denverite.com/2026/06/29/d...

tfw when your mayor highlights drinking and driving as a benefit of subsidized parking downtown, on an ozone action day ”it’s a win for everyone“ 🤦‍♂️

Every time I see this book I lose The Game.

🤔 "War?" "Hijack?" "Takeover?" Y'all use the weirdest vocab to describe voters calmly walking into a voting booth and filling in the bubble next to the name of the candidate that says things like "Childcare can be cheaper!" and "Let's fix that bike lane!" and "Elon should pay more tax than you do!"

RIP. Huge inspiration for me as a teen.

This series never misses

Bike Bus Shop now supports more suppliers so it’s not exclusively Walmarty any more. Added some first aid kits and little bike tools. bikebus.shop

wow the internet is truly broken

“A pocket-sized zine with art, poetry, and stories centering all who walk, use wheelchairs, and take transit to get around?” 🔥YES🔥 🎙️Help us make this project happen! Campaign page: www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/... #PedestrianDignity #Zinea #MobilityJustice

Enthusiastically backing www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/... - great work by @jonathonstalls.bsky.social @sashakestane.bsky.social and co

Me automating: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me being automated: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

This story of our local bookshop is a poignant portrait of our times. It rightly centers the previous owner, the workers, the patrons, and the ray of hope from the new owner. denverite.com/2026/01/28/d...

#AdventOfCode Day 9 part 2 definitely threw me today. So much for bragging about the runtime of naive algorithms and JavaScript as “good enough”. A hackish memoized somewhat brute force solution, after several attempts, finally competed in 15 minutes. Phew!

I just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6 Today's main fight was all about turning off the whitespace trim-on-save behavior in my editor. Once the input whitespace was preserved I could get parsing and transposing and evaling. Phew!

I've completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4 Staying on brand, here's a visualization of part 2:

Day 3 of #AdventOfCode in the bag, first time I've put the examples into assertions to make sure I don't regress. Satisfying end with a tidy solution for parts 1 and 2 today. adventofcode.com/2025/day/3

Literally pick your poison, e-commerce edition

Is it wrong that I’m starting Advent of Code with a spreadsheet?

Love everything about this emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-es...

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

So much to unpack here, a remarkable piece. The timeline at the end highlights events and solidarity from Italy and Spain that hadn’t made it into my US news bubble before. Worth a read. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...