Ricky Munroe

Ricky Munroe

@rnm.io

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My bike is neon yellow. My cycling clothes are neon yellow. I’m 187 cm tall. My bike *and* my helmet have bright-ass lights facing front, back, and the sides (there are side lights in both the front and the rear). I’m ludicrously visible. I’ve been sideswiped several times by cars in broad daylight

Harry@harry-is-human.bsky.social

On roads, drivers have very clear lines of sight. If they haven't seen a child, the visibility of their costume is unlikely to be the deciding factor Take this from a 194cm tall man with a bright yellow cycling jacket. The problem is drivers not looking, not the colour of what they are looking at

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I’m really into this stuff and still find myself forgetting to signal early or do a thorough enough check of my blind spots. It’s just really easy to mess up in a car

And this is why I think the most straightforward solution is to allow cyclists and pedestrians to summarily execute motorists

My bike is neon yellow. My cycling clothes are neon yellow. I’m 187 cm tall. My bike *and* my helmet have bright-ass lights facing front, back, and the sides (there are side lights in both the front and the rear). I’m ludicrously visible. I’ve been sideswiped several times by cars in broad daylight

Harry@harry-is-human.bsky.social

On roads, drivers have very clear lines of sight. If they haven't seen a child, the visibility of their costume is unlikely to be the deciding factor Take this from a 194cm tall man with a bright yellow cycling jacket. The problem is drivers not looking, not the colour of what they are looking at

I’ve seen the exact same people argue that cyclists shouldn’t be allowed on the roads because they’re too slow and then later argue that e-bikes shouldn’t be allowed on the road without being speed limited to 20 mph

Many of those into public transit and pedestrian/cyclist infrastructure want it not because we just hate motorists (we often are motorists too!) or like trains/walking/bikes/the environment, but out of recognition that it’s unrealistic to expect drivers to exercise enough caution consistently

Last night—a week after the two year anniversary of the previous incident—the skunk once again sprayed our dog

My sister pet sat for us when my wife and I were in the hospital for the birth of our daughter. This is our conversation on the morning we brought her home

I think I’m gonna start using my thermal camera to do a sweep of the yard before letting the dog out for her pre-bed potty break

My sister pet sat for us when my wife and I were in the hospital for the birth of our daughter. This is our conversation on the morning we brought her home

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

i once had the good fortune to pass through an area where a skunk had sprayed maybe five minutes before. so i could experience the smell without having to bathe a dog about it. horrid stuff

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My sister had called my brother over in a panic that morning to shampoo skunk smell out of the carpet and furniture as best as possible

My sister pet sat for us when my wife and I were in the hospital for the birth of our daughter. This is our conversation on the morning we brought her home

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

i once had the good fortune to pass through an area where a skunk had sprayed maybe five minutes before. so i could experience the smell without having to bathe a dog about it. horrid stuff

At that moment we were exhausted and suddenly had way bigger fish to fry so we just started laughing

Fun fact: hijacking the browser's native find functionality actually sends you to hell. It's literally in the spec

"But Ricky isn't that part of the spec less spec-y?" no actually it's quite firm on it

My particle physics textbook had a fun blurb at the beginning: “a neutrino of moderate energy could easily penetrate a thousand light-years(!) of lead”

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com

It’s especially good today because neutrinos are just so much fun to talk about. They’re little! They’re weird! They sneakily transform themselves to other flavors when no one is looking!

This game is good. I think I was like five patties and an ungodly amount of lettuce deep before I realized there was a button I could press to switch to a top bun and close the monstrosity of a burger I was bringing into the world

laura@freezydorito.lol

hey um so the steam page for YOU SHOULD CONSIDER MAKING A BURGER EX is now live and i would SUPER appreciate your wishlists and whatnot. it’s a cheap goofy time waster for you and a foray into gamedev for me. thanks in advance ❤️🍔 store.steampowered.com/app/5140030/...

There’s something wrong with her agility. I’ve never met a cat who so frequently falls doing completely mundane things. I’ve seen her fall off tables while walking along the edge multiple times. Yesterday she failed to clear the two foot gap between the coffee table and the couch

This cat is only getting more mischievous as she gets older and I fear for her safety. Keeping an eye on her takes almost as much attention as our actual human toddler

It has regrettably gotten to the point where I needed to print a rack for my devices just to keep cables tidy

Ricky Munroe reposted

coming from windows? life pro tip! create a puzzling '3D Objects' folder on your OS of choice to make it feel more familiar

Similarly, our school district in the *Boston suburbs* will close for just two inches of snow. This is a huge change from 30 years ago. I kinda wonder if part of the reason is due to school bus ridership decreasing so much during that time and most parents choosing to drive their kids instead

Camille Fournier@skamille.themanagerswrath.com

This drives me, the parent of public school kids, absolutely bonkers

Oh my god when and why did Netflix decide that *Amazon* UI for scrubbing through videos was the one to copy?? I don’t know how it is on other platforms but on Apple TV it’s horrible

I was always so confused about why Amazon decided that scrubbing experience was a good one and I’m baffled to see someone copying it

The expression “time makes fools of us all” isn’t about how ideas or decisions age, it’s about how no one can avoid datetime problems

laura@freezydorito.lol

this is like black ops 6 having a level in belgium with gorgeous hand made assets including a calendar in french with the weekdays starting on sunday

I ordered some thin nylon string for an AirTag lanyard and I have questions about some of the features

decided to try out a pinball game but was blocked from doing so because the place you get the games makes you answer trivia before creating an account

sorry I don't know the names of either of the two pinball/video hybrid games produced by Bally in the 1980s. I don't even know who Bally is. I barely know what a ball is. Why are you doing this to me?