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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Happy new bike day to me! A driver totaled my Urban Arrow in May and I finally got my green replacement and put it together today. My first bike with a suspension fork! #NBD

A pale green Urban Arrow FamilyNext bakfiets carrying a folding red Tern Vektron.

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My family has been living in Berlin for the last 3 months. Alas summer is over and we’re flying back to the States today. Mach’s gut Berlin, dieser Sommer war schön.

The partial eclipse on August 12 photographed from Innsbrucker Platz in Berlin

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

There were so many people and orgs who decided to push this guy at all costs despite the red flags. And so many others had blind spots with their pitch. This was such a baffling and disappointing episode.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This was all so dumb and could have been avoided.

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Dr Seán Ketchem @cskwriter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I still can't get over this map of the 2025 German Bundestag election.

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I fell asleep trying to watch the opening game of the FIFA men’s football World Cup last night. I’m transfixed by the opening game of the ICC women’s T20 cricket World Cup tonight. Cricket is a better sport than football.

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Feel-good story of the day

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I biked the Berlin Sternfahrt today - 25 km from my Kiez to the Tiergarten, including a long stretch on the 115 Autobahn, which was closed to cars for the afternoon. Never had so much on a highway and one of the best days I have ever had in one of the best cities.

Selfie of me and a bunch of bikers waiting to get on the autobahn

My bike in front of the Siegessäule at the end of the ride.

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Very cute and slightly telling that my 6YO calls a Döner Kebab a "Dinner Kebab"

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (which explains the chain dangling off his saddle)

Studio photograph of musician Bob Dylan posing standing with a bicycle. He's wearing a leather jacket, matching leather gloves, a shirt with vertical stripes, and trousers with vertical stripes.

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And Drew @andrewtappan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The chorus of notifications I'm getting about flooded bike paths in Central Ohio is a pretty stark reminder of why that network, while great, is not a replacement for safe surface street infrastructure.

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The only part of a driver tboning and totaling your bike that I can recommend is the application of @thewaroncars.bsky.social stickers on all the new stuff.

A grey Abus bike helmet with a square yellow reflective sticker that says “The War On Cars”

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Turns out an Urban Arrow can take getting T-boned pretty well. The steering is jacked up and there are lots of scratches (including on me). Shame on the Columbus Police Department for not sending an officer because I was on a bike. PSA: drivers must yield when turning left to a bike going straight.

An urban arrow with some scratches and backwards handlebars after getting t-boned by a driver who failed to yield.

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Viktor Köves @viktorkoves.com · 01/05/2026

For the cost of an absolute lemon of a used car, you can buy a high end ebike, brand new, that'll last you a decade, keep you healthy, and save you loads of money!

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Your First EV Could Be A Cargo E-Bike | Viktor Köves

EVs are here, but I want to show you that your first EV could just be a cargo e-bike that can replace most car trips, and save you a boat-load of money!

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“E-bikes are cheating”, says man who can recite the price of gasoline today from memory.

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It‘s always fun to ride 14 miles in the rain, but especially when the destination is a @transitcolumbus.org gathering with @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social. Thanks for bringing @thewaroncars.bsky.social to Columbus!

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Schlepped the kids to and from school, went to work. A normal day of biking for me, except that normally I don’t get caught in a hail storm (the kids stayed dry and had fun). The only thing my c@r did today was get in the way of my bike getting into the garage. Happy Earth Day.

A map showing several bikes trips in a few directions in the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus. At the bottom it shows total distance as 17.67 miles, and direction 1 hour 18 minutes.

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Sometimes cars can be cool too

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A perfect day to put a bike in the bike to bike somewhere to bike.

Two kids and a green Woom bike in the bucket of a bakfiets on an empty blacktop with a school in the background.

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Tonight was the 12th time I have seen Bob Dylan but the first time I got there on a bike. Great show and smooth ride.

An urban arrow bakfiets parked on an urban sidewalk across the street from a bunch of people going into a theater under a banner from Bob Dylan‘s Rough and Rowdy Ways tour.

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Tern Bicycles @ternbicycles.com · 01/04/2026

Saving money on gas starts with smarter alternatives to owning a car. With an e-bike that can handle groceries, commutes, and school drop-offs, you can transition to a one-car family, using it for daily trips and saving thousands each year. #risinggasprices #gasprices #cargobike #ebike #SaveMoney

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The Rooster @rooster.info · 01/04/2026

Term limits destroy institutional knowledge and create a constant churn of amateurs who need to learn how to legislate. It empowers corporate interests, which is why they push the issue.

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Tired: Permanent Savings Time Wired: Permanent Standard Time Inspired: Universal UTC #AbolishTimeZones

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Doom-scrolling the war (reading a long dense book about the naval history of the Napoleonic wars)

The cover of the book "The Line Upon a Wind: The Great War at Sea 1793-1815" by Noel Mostert. The image is a painting of the sterns of three battered ships, surrounded by smoke.

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I just preordered @josie.zone’s upcoming book The Last Temptation of Beck. I didn’t know anything about comics or wrestling before I read her last books. I don’t know anything about Beck but I am excited to learn in November!

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Happy Washington’s Birthday! He was born on Feb 11 when the Colonies used the Julian Calendar, and converted to Gregorian his birthday was Feb 22. The Uniform Monday Holiday Act says that the 3rd Monday in Feb is Washington’s Birthday and it always falls between Feb 15 and 21, never on either bday.

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Another fun Friday night to have the surname “Epstein”

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I used to live just north of this intersection. It is so dangerous. Often a driver in the right lane will yield to a pedestrian in the crosswalk, only for a car behind to zoom into the left lane and through the crosswalk. Because it is designed like a highway.

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Coming May 4: The Pittsburgh Gazette-Post! Now with fewer employees, and they're paid less, and more AI!

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Every time he puts his name on something, I think of this GIF

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This is exactly what every GOP elected will say about him when he loses the number of his mess.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

If I wanted to see stupid shit from Twitter I would be on Twitter.

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lumpyprol @lumpyprol.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

we're doing every master and commander book baby

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trevin @trevinflickinger.com · 25/11/2025

You can just call it Crew Stadium. It’s fine

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Self-replicating cars cause the apocalypse From: Automania 2000 (1963), dir. John Halas, Halas & Batchelor

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

It’s kind of convenient that I don’t have to tell people how to spell my last name anymore

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11/11/2025

people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad

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And Drew @andrewtappan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

FWIW I still love the Olentangy Schwebebahn idea.

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Very good photo editing in the Guardian (the photograph is by Toby Melville for Reuters)

A clip of the Guardian UK front page. The headline is "Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and forced to leave Windsor home). The photograph is the now Andrew Mountbatten Windsor standing next to the King. Charles is pointing sternly at something to the left out of frame, and in the clip he is pointing to the sub headline stories, like "Timeline: the fall of Prince Andrew."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

(Why Dems took deal, part 2: If they were to lose the veto referendum, the 13-2 map would be in 2028.) I'll let others debate what Dems should do or should have done here, but where fair maps really lost was when the GOP put confusing language on the ballot last year: boltsmag.org/ohio-issue-1...

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Anti-Gerrymandering Groups Warn That Ohio’s Ballot Language Is Misleading Voters - Bolts

If “yes” on Issue 1 wins, it'd create an independent redistricting process. But some voters are saying the GOP-crafted ballot summary tricked them into opposing a reform they support.

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Dr Robert Davis @chairrdrf.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

and the British paratrooper folders from WW2 2./

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Isaac @iepstein.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Always fun to see a hearse with my name on it parked outside my kid’s school.

A black Cadillac hearse with a sign that says “Epstein” behind the B-pillar parked outside of Congregation Beth Tikvah. The Epstein chapel is a big funeral home in the Jewish community in central Ohio. No relation as far as I know to me or to that other Epstein.

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