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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Slightly less small signs of recovery: Went on a walk and used @streetcomplete and @MapComplete to survey house numbers, public book cases etc. #OpenStreetMap

Screenshot of OpenStreetMap change sets with stuff like "Specify street name to address"

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I've been working on this off and on over the past few weeks. The 10 most recent posts have been cleaned up, but based on how much work this was, even with script to convert Blogger html to cleaned-up Markdown, I don't think I can do it for all posts. Especially adding missing alt text on a […]

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I've considered it. And may actually have enough energy today. We will see.

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😀🚲 @enobacon.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

"Why Progressives Don’t Deliver on Federal #Transportation Policy" > While both parties are foolish, they are not the same. > Republicans would rather have nothing than something they don’t like. > Democrats need something and make it clear they will take […] [Original post on urbanists.social]

US approach to road safety, a cartoon of an excavator digging a giant hole, labeled "dangerous roads", and worker with a tiny pile labeled "safety improvements" falling to fill the hole with a small hand shovel.

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@adarsh That sucks. I'm very sorry to hear that you have to deal with this BS. Sending good thoughts to you and your kiddo!

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raDDler @der-raddler.dresden.network.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Da hat Lost Dot aber eine große Bombe platzen lassen: Max Agut, Gewinner des #TPRNo5, wurde nachträglich von #TPRNo6 disqualifiziert, weil er dabei erwischt wurde, wie er sich am Col d’Aubisque an einem Auto festgehalten hat. Die nachträgliche Analyse seiner Leistungs- und Streckendaten hat […]

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Well, no #coffeeneuring for me this year. Crashed my bike and broke my elbow on ride number 1, before I even got to the coffee shop :(

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@joe Well, my attempt to join those communities has been "pending" for a week now. Not very promising.

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Really cool event on Sunday, put on by a local bike racing team (but not at all racing focused): www.brazendropouts.org/teejop-commu… Bike tour of Teejop Community Art Project sites in Madison. "The Teejop Community Art Project promotes learning and awareness of the […]

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OpenStreetMap Ops Team @operations.openstreetmap.org · 08/10/2026

Great news! 🎉 @homeassistant 2026.10 now uses #OpenStreetMap vector maps, powered by vector.openstreetmap.org! 🗺️ Fast, Free & Open maps, updated with OSM edits in near real-time. 🔒 Privacy-friendly, with tiles cached by Home Assistant. Huge thanks to our Ops team member @pnorman for […]

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Oh my, I have joined the power meter club. I found a good deal on some Garmin power pedals and my riding buddy Ben promised a power meter would change my life. So who am I to argue. #FediBikes

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Six Possums In A Trenchcoat @dbendit.mastodon.eroticmohel.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I never post on here, but I am once again trying to get my city to get rid of ALPR cameras. They've committed to ditching Flock (yay!) but now the chief of police already has a quote from Axon (boo!) If you'd like to make sure that the Sun Prairie Public Safety Committee hears something other […]

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

People in Madison (including occasionally myself) often lament that coffee shops are closing earlier and earlier. But it's 4:40 pm and I've been the only customer in this nice neighborhood coffee shop in a near-in neighborhood for at least an hour. I dunno...

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#Coffeeneuring season is about to start! chasingmailboxes.com/2026/10/03/cof… tl;dr: ride your bike to different coffee shops, document the rides with a photo or similar, share it with the community. Let's see if there are other […]

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#QualitativeResearch people at US institutions: Has your institution conducted a cybersecurity review or acceptability determination for the open source transcription software noScribe? noscribe.de/en It runs fully locally, no cloud involved. I just requested a review by our university […]

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@ChristianKrebel My sync is with a hosted Hetzner NextCloud instance because yeah, I wanted it to be low maintenance and reliable!

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@ChristianKrebel RemotelySave to sync between devices. And Tasks. Natural Language Dates is great too.

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I have a #lemmy account now. There seems to be a decent amount of activity for tech- and nerd related stuff. Much less so for local #Wisconsin or #MadisonWI content. I.e. kinda the same as with Mastodon.

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Happy two year anniversary of Giant-Tromboncini-Squash-Harvest-Day to those who celebrate. #gardening

A smiling person is holding a very big Tromboncino squash.

A smiling person is cradling a giant Tromboncino squash that has googly eyes and is wearing a knit hat.

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: tech.lgbt/@Kroppeb/1173612597535134… "Alarming Mistakes, Deadly Decisions: Fatal Fire at BP-Husky" is a great title! This is also the first #USCSB video missing the voice of Sheldon Smith. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmiQFYGc6C4

YouTube page screenshot showing a big fire in a refinery and the video title "Alarming Mistakes, Deadly Decisions: Fatal Fire at BP-Husky"

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Perowinger94/11735… My US urbanist friends often have a rosy picture of Europe. Meanwhile, Germany practically in the same week a) decides to spend EUR 2.5 billion on a temporary reduction of the fuel tax b) increases the future price of the […]

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I keep working on my bike blog migration away from Blogger. Well, the migration is done but now I'm busy improving the imported posts. Remove HTML clutter, add #AltText, cover images, fix up links and embeds. This is a big project (over 200 posts) and at some point I may stop. But it's also nice […]

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Reminder: This Thursday is the #BicycleFilmFestival in Madison. I've been told tickets are still available (and support local advocacy org Madison Bikes [of which I am a board member]). barrymorelive.com/event/26th-annual… There's also a pre-show get-together at […]

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

If you're into #housemusic, there's a new smashing vinyl set by André Dancekowski on the HÖR Berlin channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzVuQ1IKNjE

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Ich fahre gern Tandem und habe deswegen mit großer Freude die letzte Antritt-Folge mit Wolfgang Haas von Santana Europe gehört. detektor.fm/gesellschaft/antritt-wo… Schönes Gespräch […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Ein gelbes Tandem mit einspurigem Anhänger lehnt an einem Brückengeländer.

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@haraldkliems/1172963… The content from this thread (which will self-destruct in a few weeks) is now also permanently available on my blog. Part 1: ride-or-pie.netlify.app/posts/2026-… […]

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Update: I've been slowly working on improvements. One big issue is that the HTML that Blogger produces is super messy and specific to the previous blog's layout (e.g. specifying image widths, lots of `<p></p>` and ` ` junk). I manually cleaned up one post ( […]

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Waiblinger Bündnis @waiblingerbuendnis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Donnerstag, 24.09.2026, 19:00 Uhr Studio, Bürgerzentrum Waiblingen Eintritt frei – Spenden willkommen Beim Vortrag „Das Waiblinger Stadtklima im Wandel“ zeigt der Biologe Dr. Björn Schäfer auf Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Daten, wie sich die Klimaveränderung bereits heute in Waiblingen […]

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

We spent the night in Albertville, in a huge hotel complex that we suspected was associated with the 1992 Winter Olympics. Next on the list: The Col des Cyclotouristes. Hard to skip a pass with such a name! From a connectivity perspective it's not very useful […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

View back toward Albertville (which isn't visible) from the acent to the Col des Cyclotouristes. A narrow road, meadows, and woods.

A narrow downhill mountain road. In the distance, Mont Blanc is towering over the surrounding mountains

A smiling selfie in front of the Col des Cyclotouristes (Alt 1330 m) pass sign.

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I had a plan for the next day: The Col de la Madeleine would be the pass for the day. But we'd approach it through the back door, via the switchbacks of the Lacets de Vernier, then the Col du Chaussy, and take a gravel road to near the top of the Madeleine […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Looking north from the Col de la Madeleine. Alpine meadows in the foreground, mountain ranges in the distance.

Partially obstructed view of the Montvernier switchbacks, with a village in the foreground.

Two loaded cyclists on the climb to the Col de la Madeleine

The road on the northern side of the Col de la Madeleine, in a high alpine landscape. Weathered wooden fence posts in the foreground.

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

From the Croix de Fer we took the direct descent to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, home of my favorite knife brand, #Opinel. I had planned a variation of getting there that would have taken us on the Route d'Opinel, a tourist route about Opinel history. But since […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Morning view over the area near the train Station at Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. The sun is still behind the mountains.

A roundabout with a sculpture of an Opinel knife in the center.

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

From L'Alpe d'Huez we took the Pas de la Confession, which isn't much of a pass but another beautiful balcony road. Next up: The Col de Glandon/Col de la Croix de Fer (they share the approach from this side). We did not enjoy the climb: Long steep straight […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Ben is standing over his bike and looking down into the Romanche valley.

The earthen dam of the Lac de Grand Maison. A service track is zig-zagging up the dam.

The upper end of the Lac de Grand Maison. To the left and in the distance the road toward the Col de Glandon. The water level on the lake is quite low.

Ben is riding on an otherwise empty road just below the Col de la Croix de Fer.

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

This has been on my long term project list for like forever: Migrating my bike blog from blogger.com to a static site generator. The blog goes back all the way to 2009 and has over 200 posts, which made this seem daunting. It is by no means done yet, but there's a basic working version on […]

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

When making our decision to add the Col de Solude, one consideration was that the next day would have us do the famous L'Alpe d'Huez climb. Ben and I agreed that if our legs and bodies didn't feel right, we'd be okay skipping that or only doing two thirds […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Our two bikes leaning against a wall in front of the Hotel des Alpes. Ben is loading up his bike.

Looking down from the Alpe d'Huez climb over some of its switchbacks and the opposing side of the valley.

A sign near the bottom of the Alpe d'Huez climb, noting that there are 13 km to go and the next kilometer has an average gradient of 11.1%

A sign on top of the Alpe d'Huez climb, showing a stylized person on a bike and the text "Arrivée." Ben is on his bike, looking at his handlebars. A hotel called Le Chaix in the background.

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

#MadisonWI The Downtown Area Plan is in its public input phase. Join the #YIMBY group Madison is for People tomorrow (We 9/23) for a feedback session with city staff. bsky.app/profile/therealzenz.bsky.s…

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

On top of the Col d'Ornon we had to make a decision: Take the direct descent to Le Bourg-d'Oisans. Or descend only partway and then add another whole pass, the Col de Solude, which promised gravel sections, tunnels, and more. We were both willing to do the […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

In the foreground houses with corrugated steel roofs, some of them with a lot of rust. In the distance tall mountains.

The portal to a narrow tunnel cut into the side of the mountain. The road is one lane and there appears to be a drop-off on the left.

A narrow road on the side of the mountain, with a deep valley to its right. On the other side of the valley is a tall mountain with a similarly exposed road on it.

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I stopped by the annual dahlia exhibit in Stuttgart's Killesberg park today. Makes for excellent #BloomScrolling material. www.stuttgart.de/service/aktuelle-m…

A collage of about 20 different dahlia flowers of different variety

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

After descending the Col de la Morte, there was some up and down until we reached the base of the Col d'Ornon. Now we were on a pass that was part of the #TourDeFrance route this year, as evidenced by the road paintings. The pass itself was a little boring, but […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

The Col d'Ornon pass sign. A disembodied hand is holding up a bag of Tour de France branded potato chips. Ben is standing in the background on a meadow. My bike is leaning against the sign.

A large Slovenian flag and "POGI" painted on the road up the Col d'Ornon. Ben is ahead on the road on his bike.

Ben on his bike pointing at a sign for the Col d'Ornon

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The next day we had the rare experience of starting the day with a flat stretch. We followed the Romanche river to the base of the Col de la Morte. That is a long ascent with just over 1000 m of climbing. It didn't feel that bad though, as we had company from a […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Ben biking on the shoulder of a wide highway in a deep mountain valley. The sun is still low

Top of the Col de la Morte. There's a big and mostly empy parking lot to the right.

A mural of a woman sitting on a chair in a field, with one dog on her lap, one at her feet. To the left a bike is lying on the ground.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

"Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control." www.politico.com/news/2026/09/19/ni… Among the nuggets unearthed here: Trump ordered #NIH director, Jay Bhattacharya, to cut research funding […]

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