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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 7h

TL is quoting Mary Oliver (hell yes).

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 9h

(It was lovely to meet you Monktoberfest as well)

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 10h

The car never “warmed up” by the time we got to school either. A 5-minute boop (even in sub-zero weather) quickly became the move.

A cargo bike with a storm shield attached. A radiant sunset starts to turn the clouds pink in the background.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 10h

Tacos Árabes has a fascinating history. It took me faaar to long to reflect on why tacos al pastor and shawarma are both cut from a vertical spit. Anyways…immigration is a good thing and we should be facilitating it at massive scale. www.rickbayless.com/recipe/tacos...

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Tacos Árabes - Rick Bayless

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 11h

Saw this in a shop window on the walk to Bramhall. Forget if this was before @kaiho.bsky.social offered Malort to some folks he met on the street 😭

A T-shirt that says “Nosfera-2-fast / Nosfera-2-furious”

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 11h

Not for nothing this specific shot makes me watch to rewatch Rampage tonight.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 12h

How flat is Chicago? …it would take about 1K miles (3 months) to achieve what riding 40+ miles across 2.5 days in Portland ME with elevations like the one below.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 13h

NGL i think one of the demographics that benefits the most from improved bike infra is people reaching their 70s who know their driving skills are faltering but aren’t ready to lose their independence. Context: just spoke to a woman for 15-min outside the food co-op who was fascinated by my bike.

Cargo bike loaded with groceries and ready to return home. #DontWannaDriveFarForStuff

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 16h

I thought this post was my most “Small World” moment (the person in red saw the photo on their feed, realized they were in it, and followed me). Then Monktoberfest happened and I met @iamjoshfrank.bsky.social who used to work with the wife of someone I named in my talk.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 16h

Two more wolves to go! Bike to School Day is Wednesday and then Roll to the Polls in a few weeks.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 17h

Another roadside small monument. This time to a small bird entombed in a box.

A small dead bird placed in a box filled with shredded paper and placed against a the base of a tweet with some artificial sunflowers laid against it.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 18h

Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage

@chefjoseandres
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© Translated from Spanish by Grok
Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.

Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah. Her post, “In Chicago we run towards danger together” is such a clear eyed account of loving this city during Midway Blitz: “I thought I knew what it meant to love Chicago…until you (collective noun) made me love it more.” organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...

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In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together

"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 18h

Haymarket Books certainly was one of the small presses of choice for this year’s conference speakers: Mariame Kaba: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l... Rebecca Solnit: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2517-n...

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Let This Radicalize You

Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 20h

I rode by multiple times from Allagash (~3 blocks away) before I saw the unmistakable markers: flowers, picture, a name. A woman was killed here. Near a crosswalk. Next to a bus stop. A block from a red light. A 25 MPH speed limit. The fatality rate at 40 MPH is 90%. www.wmtw.com/article/poli...

A roadside monument to 57-year old Portland ME woman named Nichelle who was killed in a hit-and-run accident.

She was killed next to a marked crosswalk near a bus stop (foreground) and house of worship).

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 03/10/2026

lake forever problems for now

sunset over lake Michigan. the sky in a gradient from orange at the horizon shades into light blue overhead. the water is dark and very wavy

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My book to talk pairings: “The beginning comes after the end” for @lisarokusek.myatproto.social “No straight road takes you there” for How to Build a Bike Bus (mine) “the field guide to getting lost” for the Maine map talk. Bomus rec: “Men Explain things to me” and @missamarakay.bsky.socia

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The last image in the “Say Thank You” section (other than the OG Dr. Christina Yang and her sparkly pager) was from the last library.

A dad and two smiling kids after completing their project to bike to all 81 libraries.

An Instax photo with blue and green borders is at the center of the photo (the “proof” used to preserve each library).

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 02/10/2026

our laziness is what allows us as humans to say no, and this helps us push back against complexity @bcantrill.bsky.social #monktoberfest

A slide that says:

The virtue of laziness
• Our need to comprehend and compose systems drives us towards developing simple, powerful abstractions
• This is our drive to cognitive efficiency in a system - what Larry Wall famously called the programmer virtue of laziness
• LLMs lack the virtue of laziness - they are biased to the complex
• Moreover, their limited context makes them tautologically emergent..

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It was an amazing experience to attend and speak at my first Monktoberfest (and to re-learn that the conference started based on a joke tweet). …mainly since who amongst us has not found myself committing to a long-running course of action based on a joke tweet: bsky.app/profile/eric...

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bryan: Dickensian Richard Scary Me: Speeding Ruins Lives bsky.app/profile/spoc...

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This talk from @anthrocypher.bsky.social about how agents have figured out how to collaborate and what that means for humans. Hint: social learning, imitation, innovation, and culture ratcheting. Collaboratively.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@bcantrill.bsky.social referring to an AI-generated image of a factory as “Dickensian Richard Scary” at #Monktoberfest is sending me. Rebecca Solnit was the quote de jour yesterday (3x). Will Richard Scarry be today’s?!?

Richard Scary vehicle with quote from Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car”

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Strong “Paris street; rainy day” to the photo… www.artic.edu/artworks/206...

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Post #Monktoberfest wind down ride to reset. Not many people know this, but you’re allowed to shout “Oh hell yes!” if you step outside and the weather is perfect for a bike ride.

A bike leaning against a picnic table that looks out over the water

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are each other’s harvest. We keep us safe. Solo el pueblo salvo el pueblo. Let’s ride.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The outro to the talk alluded to the deeply communal work of Chicago cyclists buying out street vendors in the morning and literally sending them home with a full days wage. Incredibly moving work. You can throw them some coin at them via @cyclingxsolidarity over on Insta (such incredible work)

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s a few blocks up the road from the location where Federal agents killed Silverio Villegas Gonzalez.

Roadside ofrenda to Silverio Villegas González who was murdered by ICE agents

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ll also make more explicit here something that hid in the subtext as part of the talk. I switched to taking morning coffee in this park vs. my previous one in fall 2025 since it gave me a chance to make sure ICE agents weren’t using the parking lot to stage their raids.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Full circle moment where I quoted @grimalkina.bsky.social in my talk at @monktoberfest.com on “How to Build a Bike Bus: Everything Worthwhile is Done with Others.” The park in the image below is the same park I showed in my talk today

Photo of a black bike in front of a flower bed of tulips that have just started to bloom

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trekking over hilly Portland ME on an acoustic 8-speed bike (a significant departure from my electric bike on the pancake flat streets of Chicago) has me thinking about the time @that-person.bsky.social did the Schlitz ride on a vintage, single speed bike. Incredible.

My bike leaning against stuff (getting ready to speak at Monktoberfest)

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026

ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard

“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m sorry PWM urbanists, I was not familiar with your game!

A hand painted sign with rainbow coloring that says “Joey for Housing” with a bike leaned against it

A sign next to a senior center that says “Slow the Hill Down”

A curbside that says “20 is Plenty”. Slower is Safer.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Been in Portland ME and already seen two of the new USPS trucks. Jelly cat!

The new USPS truck with the high visibility design.

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I ate at their Beverly spot a few months after they opened on one of my multiple bike rides down that way for the #ChicagoLibraryProject (I biked to all 81 locations). Food was incredible.

The back of a pink helmet looks into a window that reads, “Sanders BBQ Supply Co”

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A woman asking for help outside the Trader Joe’s asked if I could get her some ice cream cones. Your hungry neighbors deserve treats too!

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My 7-year old has the most ominous, sing-songy, “I’m back”, that I’ve learned to deploy on drivers in similar circumstances.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(Cognitive behavioral therapy enjoyer Lowly just cut off in traffic) Think positively. He is probably in a rush for a reason. Maybe he’s late for a job interview. Maybe his wife is giving birth Lowly: I’m da king of da highway

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Henderson the Purple Rain King @ericksoen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My turn…Kids went to bed late (because who wouldn’t be sad about missing me), sleepless night, and then woke up early to catch my flight to my first #monktoberfest 💙. See you on the boat!

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 30/09/2026

These are the kind of (abled) people who park in the handicap parking spaces because “I just need to run in for a second”

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@jpaulreed @jpaulreed.com · 29/09/2026

A reminder: never underestimate the value of an operator saying "Huh... something looks weird here..."

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