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I do have it! And I don't sweat until it gets to about 30°C. Suburbanites are sweating just *thinking* about 25°C 🤣

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I remember Nitzer Ebb. Back in the 90s, I volunteered being a dj on a Pacifica station, and made friends with people who industrial & noise shows. However, the only industrial act live I've seen was Caspar Brotzmann. Not sure how Crash Worship is categorized, but did see them :-)

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This is my smallish collection of industrial music. Haven't listened to it much lately, but might do so again. What's interesting to me about Front Line Assembly is that they also produced one of my favorite trance bands: Delerium 😀

Wow, someone I know who likes Front 242! Can't say I've ever seen the video, but it also reminds me of the Japanese film "Tetsuo The Iron Man". Now, how about the other "Front"-industrial band: Front Line Assembly 😎

Not Houston. Everyone thinks we're just an oil town, or that we have some insurance/financial and NASA stuff, but most don't seem to know we have the largest medical center in the world here. 120k employees, and 12mil visitors per year. They are currently treating my kidney disease.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026

I live in Houston and I want to live here. We have the best climate (subtropical). Only suburbanites complain about either the heat or the humidity 😎

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“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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I recall back in the early 1980s seeing little ads in Astronomy magazine for handheld 500,000 candlepower spotlights (NASA spinoff tech). I wonder if illuminating the space around you would help them see you in those conditions 😅

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A power-bank can be used for the motor operation, one with a decent-torque rating. You could then lock a bike so tightly to a rack that it can't be moved at all. Use the material in OnGuard's best lock for the U. The key-lock for operating the motor remains the weakest point. 2/2

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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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Probably the best time of day to be riding in that exact direction. The sun isn't blinding yet.

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Y'all had a nice group! I'm still working up my stamina to even do the speed you were at (which I'm sure is "leisurely" to y'all). Just have to keep at it. Even tho Brays is a concrete "bayou" in Meyerland, there's still plenty of water fowl. I think I saw an osprey today.

At first I thought you were locking up to electrical conduit, which might be the best kind of "bike-rack" 😅

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Although the last one might be the antithesis of porn, due to an issue with "fitting" 😅 I hope Rumi took video of the ride. Sims fascinates me, but there's no safe way of riding my bike to it. Not even from Willow Waterhole...

Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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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Beware the Ray of Enfeeblement, though...

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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 have read that some cyclists use ceramic pie weights due to how effective they are on windshields. However, I would suggest to instead carry a fake brick. Drivers don't know it isn't real. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQpa...

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Man Stands on the Roadside with a Brick in Hand on a Rainy Day | Social Experiment雨天举着砖块站路边，还会被溅一身水吗

YouTube video by 大树君TreeMan

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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.

I know; just being silly as there's so much that can be called "stereo". My first thought was furniture that is mirror images of itself and placed side by side 😅

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

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

Also, if anyone thinks I should just get a trailer, I don't think my bike-frame is new enough for modern trailer attachment points (my Giant Cypress DX Hybrid is almost 20 years old). Unless all trailer brands make a means of clamping directly to the bottom rail of the frame?

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Would that be furniture you can only see with red-blue glasses? ;-)

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

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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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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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The other fact going for y'all is that the US military is de-emphasizing arctic training, because they believe all of their future wars will be in the deserts of the Middle East. Anyone still trained in winter warfare is getting older with no supplemental training.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Do you still wear those vented fly fisherman shirts? Maybe they're called something else. I got a pair decades ago and they still work great, so long as you don't use a backpack.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Steve Reich Blue Oyster Cult Laurie Anderson Crash Worship Dev-O Emerson Lake and Palmer Oingo Boingo The Flying Fish Sailors Fishbone Caspar Brötzmann

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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 · 01/09/2026

This was an excellent cocktail, by the way. I hope whenever the pResident is forced out that someone invents a decent cocktail for the occasion. I don't know all cocktails, so maybe there's something other than Dead Bastard 😅

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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 · 30/08/2026

Yes, it is a ridiculous scenario we have ended up in. Not to mention too many politicians being against transit expansion or just spending the minimum to keep it in operation. But, it can be done and will take time. Improving driver's ed is just my own fantasy. I know it won't happen now...

Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Personally, I feel like the driver's test should include a psychological evaluation. Additionally, a requirement that drivers spend one full month on a bicycle (with an instructor to make sure they comply with the requirement) before they are allowed to get behind the wheel.

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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The advantage is that you then can't run "security" algorithms which lock your account every other day for spurious reasons (twitter, instagram).

Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not currently. Conservatives control it all and all of them are afraid of Trump.

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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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Gryneos @gryneos.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Y'all might need to turn it into more of a mural and hire a graffiti artist. Taggers respect the art when an artist makes it and don't tag. That has been the case, at least, in Houston with our "Mini-Murals" of painted traffic control boxes.

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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

I have to wonder if that might have been due to the auto companies switching over. I don't remember when it happened, but at some point you needed a metric set of tools to work on American cars.