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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 6h

Fine, if people on bikes are expected to follow the same rules as cars, then I guess we're gonna have to start acting like motorists.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Darth Maul now narrates USCSB videos 😅 Sam Witwer has taken over from Sheldon Smith as the latter retires from voice acting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmiQ...

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Alarming Mistakes, Deadly Decisions: Fatal Fire at BP-Husky

YouTube video by USCSB

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026

“Test-takers will be expected to safely merge onto the highway and then successfully weave their getaway vehicle through traffic while being tailed at high speeds by the police.” — William Deiboldt, California DMV spokesperson

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California DMV Adds Highway Chase To Road Test

SACRAMENTO, CA—Saying the newly instituted changes better reflected the realities of modern driving, officials at the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Friday that they had added a hig...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Removing or failing to build safe bike-lanes can affect much more than cyclists...” It undermines the success of cities, and the safety of people, in a lot of critical ways. “Lessons on what cities lose by giving in to car culture.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/ontarios-bik...

People riding bikes in a painted bike-lane…

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A question for my urbanist friends: When roadway construction takes place in European countries, are the workers from construction companies, or are they government employees? Having watched video of the Netherlands building infra, it's always professionally-built in minimal time.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm always trying to imagine either alternative or better means of locking a bike. The latest has to do with the fact that worm-gears are "self-locking". That is, when idle, the gear connected to them cannot move either. Make the U of the lock a pinion with a worm-gear. 1/2

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nothing like riding home from the grocery store in a light sprinkle. Better than a/c, which strips out the best part: humidity! (Yes, I'm being serious, for the car-brained out there 😄)

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This appears to be an excellent YT channel with advice on ebikes. Here's a newer video about choosing an ebike as an older person: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ywe...

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Mid Drive vs Hub Drive eBike Motors - What Riders 65+ Years Old Should Know

YouTube video by eBikeLab

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I swear, some pedestrians are intentionally oblivious. Yelled out to one this morning, "On your left!" She looked right.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Threads is just proving to me why I never tried harder to get my locked account back. Now you can't even read anything on Threads (even people you used to follow) without a pop-up that prevents scrolling. Fine, I'll just post here & on twitter, & the latter only because no one left it.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I hope to live long enough to see Medicare For All in the US, which should also include pulling the four "parts" back into one single entity. No more getting billed for procedures which happened 9 mos. ago, and at least 5 mos. after getting Medicare and supplemental insurance.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I grew up in the 70s listening to the likes of Brian Eno and learning about the then new genre of "ambient". He has always been a pioneer in the world of music and what it can accomplish. I'll have to look for this, and see if he's on Bandcamp.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I guess everyone's watching SportsBall tonight. And here I sit, cooling off from my first bike ride in two months, and listening to Groove Salad instead 😎 @somafm.com somafm.com/groovesalad/

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Groove Salad from SomaFM

A nicely chilled plate of ambient/downtempo beats and grooves.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I will be so glad when I have an e-cargo-bike. Strapping two large boxes to the rear of my hybrid makes it unstable. I also can't strap them far enough back that my feet don't hit them. Thankfully, it's only for recycling, less than a 1km ride.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The perils of speed. Driving home from HEB, a kid on his bicycle zips through the intersection ahead of me. I'm going 20mph with someone tailgating. (Neighborhoods are 30mph in Houston.) I'm thinking that had I not been there ahead of them, that kid might have been having a bad night.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So, my nurse-practitioner prescribed Hydroxyzine HCL 25mg as a sleep-aid and antihistamine (for itching related to my clinical trial allergic reactions). Well, for 24hrs it made me feel like I was drunk, when I was awake. I slept for 15 hrs. Won't be taking it again.

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

TIL that the Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky, who coined the term "dark matter" also loved the term "spherical bastard" for someone who is a bastard no mater which way you look at them.

A black and white picture of Fritz Zwicky wearing a dark suit and tie, carying a briefcase. A smile is on his facd.
He appears to have just of off the Swiss Air airliner that might be a comet. It's wing, engine and some of the fuselage se visablw behind him.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Decided to have a cocktail tonight (first in about a month) in dishonor of Google's decision to bow down to the pResident. The cocktail is the "Lost Lake", from a Chicago establishment. cocktailpartyapp.com/drinks/lost-...

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Lost Lake | Cocktail Party

If you’re ever in Chicago, do yourself a favor and visit Lost Lake, Imbibe magazine’s 2016 Cocktail Bar of the year. This is their signature drink, and we can’t stop making it. We drank so many…

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

People On Nextdoor™ wondering when a local arterial will be finished with repaving. What I hope some of them realize is that two layers of asphalt have essentially eliminated the curbs. I might suggest that those with houses along it invest in landscape boulders soon...

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ScarletCoral @scarletcoral.ca · 15/08/2026

via @cbcnews.ca "The Coalition to Reduce Auto Size Hazards (C.R.A.S.H), a national road safety advocacy group, is urging the province’s chief medical examiner to investigate pedestrian and cyclist deaths involving large pickup trucks and SUVs." #streetsafety #roadsatefy #abpoli #yyc

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Safety advocates want Alberta’s top doc to examine deaths involving pickups

YouTube video by CBC News Alberta

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Venting with an image of text, because these kinds of social media services aren't conducive to verbiage:

An image of a post made elsewhere because this service doesn't allow for enough text to convey the same message.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's a start in the correct direction. The next thing is to go after the manufacturers who install non-working pedals and allow for jailbreaking the throttles to sidestep the regs.

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Matt Stone (not that one) @stonz2.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Since April, I have exclusively charged my ebike and lawn tool batteries with a single portable 100w solar panel hooked into a 1kw backup battery. I only put it out on nice sunny days and it has been enough to entirely power my yard maint and a significant % of my transportation for months.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 03/08/2026

Naysayers re: biking for transportation in Minneapolis: “This isn’t Amsterdam.” Minneapolis parents: “So what? We’ll make our own version.”

Photo shows a family of three riding bikes on a protected bike lane. One parent is riding an electric cargo trike with a kids bike attached to the back. The other parent is riding beside them on an electric bike.

Two parents and three kids ride bikes on a protected bike lane. The two older kids are riding their own bikes and the youngest is riding behind one of the parents on an electric bike.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16/07/2026

Brennan Lee Mulligan’s Dungeons and Dragons push is part of a wider trend using tabletop games for political action

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D&D players raise millions in real-life campaign against ‘corporate elite’

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Replaced my front tire and inner tube today, but still need to re-adjust the front brake. Brakes and derailleurs are my mechanical nemeses 😅

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So, I've had my second symptom to the clinical drug: a big round rash area on my stomach. They inject into the fat, and have had two injections into that same area in 2 weeks. It's good that I can text my nephrologist about it and send images.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Why are so many small business owners so stupid when it comes to bike lanes? Is it intentional? Are they trying to show the world that they can be the absolute least-informed people possible on this topic?

copied text from Guardian story about "DEI Bike Lanes" and small business owners being obtuse

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I'd love to see a reported harangue Duffy until he *answers* a question on what makes bike lanes "DEI". We know him and others in that admin will deflect and dodge such questions, but we really must needle them until they give actual answers instead of just "replies".

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Inner tube test (soapy & clear water): No bubbles. If there's a hole, it's microscopic. Mostly likely a stem failure, as that seems to be how all of my tubes fail. But, the tube/tire IS losing at least 10 psi per day. So, time to replace tire (from 2008) & tube.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

So far, after pulling the tire and tube off of the wheel, inspecting, and finding nothing wrong, it's sitting off the bike, pumped up and still keeping pressure. I think I'll wait until tomorrow to see if it keeps pressure for 24 hours.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I was all ready to go grocery shopping by bike this morning. But, my bicycle gave me a resounding NOOOooo! and presented me instead with a front flat tire. And I know I don't have a spare inner tube.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Latenight idea: Whenever I get a cargo bike, I believe I will record my first post-able video showing all of the mounting bolt points on the bike, and then working out how to use them all. Because it seems like no one online (or the manufacturers) have ever done this.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Well, it appears anything to do with electronics or the Internet is against me today. Startpage locked my account with them. I'd really like these services to find other ways of determining bot activity than what I consider normal activity (hundreds of tabs, some of which are searches).

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Twitter continues to regularly lock my account. It appears now that it is "suspicious" if you try to help out a friend with multiple links to answer their question about shops to frequent. It makes me wonder now if Stephen Miller's anti-liberal edict will get all liberals banned from twitter...

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I don't know if it's just the age of my Kindle Keyboard (I think it's at least 12 years old) or it became susceptible to Amazon's recent forced obsolescence, but I just lost all notes, underlined passages, and bookmarks in a writing prompt book I like. Guess it's Word docs for notes from now on...

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just in case any of my followers think I've been taken over by bots, I do encourage y'all to try freerice.com. I've been playing it since I first learned about it on Treehugger dot com at least fifteen years ago. Unlike Wordle, it does actual good in the world 👋

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Home | Freerice

Freerice is an educational trivia game owned by the UN World Food Programme (WFP). Join our movement to help end global hunger: start playing today!

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I find it pretty amazing how most drivers have zero clue about where the corners of their cars/trucks reside. While at Baylor McNair campus this morning, I noticed two different drivers (within 1 hour) run into the concrete support pillars while trying to park.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Of all the things that can be done with a wide power-line or pipeline ROW (Shared-Use Paths, parking lots, cement plants), urban farms should be at or near the top of the list:

Aerial image of the Plant It Forward urban farm on Willowbend Blvd at Fondren.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My favorite Sam Neill film isn't a blockbuster and isn't well-known by most. But it is still a phenomenal film. Of course it's also from German director Wim Wenders. www.imdb.com/title/tt0101...

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I feel like I should keep a running tally of how many bandages get slapped onto my body during this clinical study. Or how many of those "ports" get poked into my veins and left there (yesterday, there were three at one time; 2 in the elbows, one on the back of the hand).

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

So-s, what was supposed to be 6hrs turned into a 3hr tour. Uh, I mean a 14hr ordeal. All just to sap and impurify all of my precious bodily fluids (well donate, anyway). For Science! 👩‍🔬 (and I've been awake since 3:45 ayem, minus a 2hr tour of my eyelids from Benadryl)

Quote from the Stanley Kubrick cold war black comedy, "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964) by Gen. Jack D. Ripper.
"...to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

His work matters and Costco rewards it as such. He earns $33 an hour, has a 401k with $1 million, and has incredible health insurance. His wife had brain cancer. They have no medical debt. He had paid leave, and came back part time w/o a pay cut. [gift link] www.wsj.com/business/ret...

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He Earns $33 an Hour as a Costco Cashier. Now He’s a Millionaire.

Long-tenured workers like cashier Tony Barzar are reliable, experienced and able to speed shoppers through a checkout line. Costco is willing to pay to keep them around.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I feel like I need to pay my friends still on twitter to post more often on the superior version of social media here...

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Happy SubGenius X-Day everyone! Praise "BoB"

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 04/07/2026

Very salty, Texas Republican Christin Bentley just opened her sewer mouth about my friend Clayton Tucker

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Twitter sure does seem intent on booting me from their service. I have *never* used it on my phone, but now their verification process requires that. Thus, I can't get anywhere with a login. @bsky.app I hope y'all never require phone use of your service, because not everyone wants that distraction.

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