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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

Ooh I beat the current Aliexpress level!

Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

This is from Saturday morning. It's now Sunday evening, and this Matrix client hasn't bothered to get the key so I can actually read this (work!) message. Clicking "request key", of course, does nothing. I tried many Matrix clients, and they all have […] [Original post on social.ridetrans.it]

Screenshot of part of a chat window, showing two messages from someone. But instead of being able to see the message, both say "There is on key to unlock this message. We requested the key automatically, but you can try requesting it again if you are impatient." and then a "request key" button. Underneath the first message, someone has clicked the green heart and also the fire reaction emojis.

Timestamp on both messages: 10:18am.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

While I do have a bbt-22 and extra cranks and square taper bottom bracket, for multiple reasons I reeeally didn't want to pull off these cranks and deal with that octalink nonsense. Also the cranks and bb work fine, and if I pull then off they're not […] [Original post on social.ridetrans.it]

My hand holding a small silver 26 tooth bike chainring. While normally they're a circle, this one has a clean cut breaking the circle, and the ring is bent about 45 degrees. The naked bike cranks (without chain rings) are in the background.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Here's what it's replacing. I believe the bike is from around 2011, and other than than the rear wheel and cassette (and obvious consumables of chain/tires/brakepads) the components are all original. The two derailleurs were completely rusted in place . I […] [Original post on social.ridetrans.it]

The front triple chainring and chain. Rust covers the chain and various other pieces. The teeth of the chain rings are worn and looking shark-toothish

Rear derailleur. Rust covers the entire cage. Also the quick release skewer.

Front brifter. It says "shimano tiagra", but the clear plastic is cracked and worn and broken. Not pictured, but the other side brifter has plastic completely missing.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

meh to New Bike Day. Happy Bike Restoration Day! #BikeTooter

A box inside a cardboard box. The inner box says "Microshift Sword Black" "sword black group set" "drop bar shifters 1x9" "cassette 11-46T" "rear derailleur medium cage"

The group set components laid out on a white rug (with black stripes). All components are black. There's a 9-speed cassette, two sti shifters (aka brifters), a rear derailleur, coiled-up cable housing, silver cables, and misc other small parts.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Of course they lied about it, because #ACAB (including transit police).

An EAGLE officer filed official paperwork reporting that Taylor “fell out of the bus” and refused medical attention, an account contradicted by the video footage.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

lol, okay, guess I'll check those build logs tomorrow!

Webpage for package.php on buildd.debian.org, showing a Service Unavailable (403) error.

Because Debian admins have shut down php due to severe security issues that won't get fixed until tomorrow.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Their bike saddle says "Yuba". Mine says "This costs less than $20 on ebay. Including shipping & tax."

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

I parked my Yuba Kombi next to another one at the grocery store. I had to take a picture because it was so amusing. Mine, made up of Frankensteined parts on base model ($900 when I bought it). Theirs, the fancy e-assist model that starts at $2400 […] [Original post on social.ridetrans.it]

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Once I tell the kids that screen time is over, the cats guard the electronics and video games with unimaginable ferocity. #CatsOfMastodon

A couch with a bunch of (teenager) crap on it; dirty clothes, a black dell laptop, Nintendo Switch, and cell phone. Two tabby cats (Twig and his mom Widget) are lying on the couch as well. The are cuddled together, so you can't tell them apart, but both of their head are towards the camera. Twig is asleep, head resting on the Switch. Widget is looking at the camera, her chin resting on the cell phone clearly ready to go back to sleep once the person with the camera leaves.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

The kids refer to this as the gay bacon or "gaycon"

A container of "sour rainbow belts" candy. They are flat gummy strips covered in sugar, that have colored stripes the color of the rainbow.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Okay, I don't know anything about this lady, but this bio is incredibly embarrassing. Is your prompt certification from one the accredited universities? Wow, Fox News AND Bari Weiss's CBS News? *impressed whistle*

Amanda Caswell is an AI journalist, certified prompt engineer, and technology commentator whose work and expertise have been featured on Fox News and CBS News. She covers artificial

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Ugh, these fuckers. Same shit Google Maps is doing these days, too. These days I'm using mapquest (which uses yelp) more and more. Need to find someplace else to look up product reviews..

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Of course they're mostly white. An education lawyer costs like $8k per year per kid. That's money you don't get back. The politico framing here makes me furious, though - "kids benefiting from this public funding". Fuck you. This is a huge pain in the […] [Original post on social.ridetrans.it]

The vast majority of kids benefiting from this public funding for private school are white — in a city where Black and brown students experience systemic educational disparities and are disproportionately represented among students with disabilities. Of roughly 20,000 due process cases settled in fiscal year 2025, about 65% involved white students, even though they only make up 16% of the public school population.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

She's eventually going to make me clean up my half-assembled laptop collection in the corner of the dining room (that's what she meant instead of the living room), but I bet I can at least push it until Halloween!

Anna: It's in the living room [sic] stacked behind your half disassembled lappies

Me: ah yes, Laptop Boneyard
Me: I've already decorated that corner of our house for Halloween.
Me: in case any laptops come trick-or-treating

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Craigslist remains undefeated. Someone picked these up today, so they're staying out of the landfill for now!

Craigslist post titled "5 free sturdy styrofoam boxes (Forest Hills)", posted 23 days ago.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

"Oh look," I think to myself. "A Nazi on the fedi. I wonder if this is a single-user instance, or if skyhaven.social is one of those 'free speech' places that needs to be defederated?" So I go to the About page, and this is where I see that he's the […] [Original post on social.ridetrans.it]

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@AnarchoNinaWrites I don't know though, if you're against all the right, I mean, I'm not sure what I am but I don't love that these small boat people keep coming to the UK and we're going broke forced to house them for free, and give them free everything. I think the UK is in trouble. It's benefits bill is now higher than all the money it takes in as tax. Does that sort of, make me a really bad right person for having these concerns?

Nobody has a right to agreement. Everyone has a right to dignity.

Ideas can be challenged. People should be respected.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

It's true, though. Even my kids can't deny it.

The Onion (print newspaper). Headline "CDC successfully eradicates children" "world's no. 1 vector of disease eliminated from nation."

Underneath is a roughly 3yo boy looking happy while snot drips out of his nose.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I don't know if I'm talking to a machine or a human, but maybe if more people said this than companies would make their sites less stupid. Or their support.

"wow, your website sucks. I click something and the chat disappears.."

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

oh no I broke debian chromium's search engine settings, and now I'm stuck with the omnibox search defaulting to.. yahoo search.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

On the GOP side, you've got Lindsey Graham's prediction (rest in piss) coming true. No amount of right-wing media ownership or voter suppression is going to undo the disgust that people feel towards republicans right now. Whether or not voters remember […] [Original post on social.ridetrans.it]

A tweet from rotting-in-hell former senator Lindsey Graham on May 3rd, 2016 (which was prior to Trump's election) that said, "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed...... and we will deserve it."

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@qagggy.bsky.social Wait a minute, have the furries been stealing the F-15 parts and using them for their fur suits? This is all starting to make sense.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/1173… This linked to a post about turning a $20 4G hotspot into a little portable linux machine w/ keyboard. This part right here almost made me feel some strong feelings...

An image of the hostspot device without its case; a big metal over, and then green circuit board (PCB). Red lines run straight through each side of the board, approximately half an inch away from each end of the board.

The next paragraph is titled "Cutting", and says "Cutting the PCB went unexpectedly well. The device booted up immediately and everything seemed to work. Turns out there really were no crucial lines going through those areas of the PCB."

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

@medieval_illuminations Anyone else seeing Sonic The Hedgehog here? No, just me? Hrmph.

Zoomed in on the painting on.. what I think are flowers or leaves or something. They have a blue swirl at the top, which looks like Sonic's head with the spikes of fur (I'm talking mid-90s Sonic here, not the weird live-action Sonic movies). There's two bits of background that look like Sonic's white eyes, and then a yellowish thing underneath that could be his mouth. There's some random green in there too, but (in the version where it's sonic) that could just be background or something.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

POV: you reeeeeally have to use the bathroom but it's occupied. #CatsOfMastodon

A very small bathroom, looking at a normal toilet bowl. The lid is closed, and a tuxedo cat is sitting on top of it, looking at the camera. There's a kids' stool in front of the toilet, a book on the floor, and other standard bathroom stuff.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@drtcombs.bsky.social My kids' school: "Join the parent Whatsapp group!" Me:

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Twig & Widget having a very lazy Sunday over here. #CatsOfMastodon

A smaller tabby cat lies in the corner of a brown couch, legs splayed out, eyes partially open (making sure I didn't walk over to sit on her). There's a green pillow next to her.

The top corner of a room, where a cat tower extends from the floor to the ceiling, a tabby cat sleeps on a shelf of the tower. Most of him isn't visible, but you can see his nose and closed eyes, two front paws, and his belly. A hind paw and his tail flop over the side of the shelf, hanging down towards the floor; if he were a Slinky, the rest of his body would be heading down to the floor very soon.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Twig was jealous of his cool aunt Clove, but he's like twice her size and really doesn't fit that well (unlike CLoaf). #CatsOfMastodon

A tabby cat sitting in that same pink lunchbox. He's sitting upright because his whole body doesn't fit; he can't loaf in the lunchbox. He's looking at the camera.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Sweet, I don't have to pack the kid's school lunch for monday. Thanks Clove! #CatsOfMastodon

Black and white tuxedo cat sitting in a pink and purple kid's lunchbox.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Ah, another fulfilling conversation with my child. #parenting

Me: Did the bus pick you up on time?

9yo: Idk

Me: Okay, let me ask another way.. Did you have to wait around for the bus after school?

9yo: No

Me: OK, good

9yo: K byeeee

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Spotted this in the 9yo's new classroom, and told the teachers that I appreciate it! #NoAI #FuckAI

A sign attached to a classroom pegboard that says "This is an AI-free zone" "Save the environment!!!" "Use your brain!"

There's a clipart-looking typewriter and bullhorn on the sign.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Oooh! In response to me making fun of her, she sent me this nice pencil #bollard pic. 😍

A sidewalk corner on a random UK street. There's a mid-block crossing with a tactile pad on the sidewalk, and on each side of the pad is a skinny bollard that is painted to look like the end of a blue pencil (the eraser side). In the distance is a 3rd pencil bollard protecting the corner from cars.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

14yo: "mom just photo bombed me" I know the feeling, kid!

A chat, where the 14yo says "Mom just photo bombed me" and shows a sunset picture with her in it.

I respond, "yeah she does that a lot to me, too" "i'm trying to take a picture of a bollard or bike lane, and there she goes, running into the shot"

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@masnick.com Here's a real example from a local restaurant (In Queens, NYC). This is their online menu, but those very same pictures are used in their store. I saw it in-person a few weeks ago and was grossed out, and only realized yesterday that the […] [Original post on social.ridetrans.it]

Four menu items; "Mad Tenders", "Vegetarian chicken", "Mad mixes", and "Scallion Chicken". All are essentially chicken nuggets/wings/drumsticks, but they look like weird plastic with greasy surface textures that I can't even begin to describe.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Can you fucking _imagine_ what it must feel like to try and save your coworker's life, and fail?

Zheng was taken by EMS to the hospital she worked at, just a block away from the crash, where she was pronounced dead.

That includes another NYU Langone-Brooklyn nurse, Clara Kang, who was struck and killed while biking home from work in 2020, just one block away at Third Avenue and 56th Street.

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