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Jemaleddin Cole

@jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy
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اسمي جمال الدين. #CarlyRaeJepsen stan. Repeat Webby winner. (he/him) Coming to you from #Baltimore, land stolen from the Piscataway Tribe. Trans Rights are Human […] [bridged from dmv.community/@jemal on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
Trying to figure out what I did to ruin this Ultegra cassette after a year of use. (The three largest cogs are attached to one another via a bracket, as are the next two. The pair are misaligned so that they are at an angle to the rest of the cassette. When […] [Original post on dmv.community]
The view of a rear bicycle wheel looking down at the cassette. On the left side there is a large gap between the three largest cogs and the next two. On the right side those two are too close to the three largest and there’s a gap to the next smallest.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
I host a couple MediaWiki sites for podcasts that I like, and they were no trouble for a long time. But one of them has drawn the attention of AI crawlers, and made hosting it a nightare. On Saturday while I was at work (not a computer job) I started getting […] [Original post on dmv.community]
A graph labeled "Unique visitors per day - including spiders" that is mostly very flat and hugging the very bottom edge of the graph until you get to the extreme right edge where this past Saturday shows over 31 million hits and over 700,000 visitors.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026
My wife got these Bontrager TLR wheels (old, but unused) as spares for her cross bike and we set them up tubeless. She ran them for a bit, took them off for a bit, put them back on and they went flat. It appears there’s a hole in the seam where the rim is […] [Original post on dmv.community]
The inside rim of a bike wheel with sealant bubbling up from a hole in the wheel as air escapes the wheel. There is a bike stand visible that is holding the (not seen) bike up over a hardwood floor.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
@thechildofroth I’ve already asked the RetroGrouches in the Classic & Vintage section of Bike Forums and gotten one wrong answer. 😀 However, I think it might be a March 1984 PGN 10 based on the serial number starting with 403 and the tubing, forks, and seat tube screw matching this description:
A section of the 1984 Peugeot Bike Catalog showing a black road bike with white bar tape and orange accents. It’s labeled a PGN 10 and has a long list of features which are not on my bike:

PGN 10
Frame and Fork: "REYNOLDS 501" Cro-Moly double butted main tubes
with forged drop-outs, brazed-on bottle cage fittings, chrome fork and
Delrin derailleur cable guide. REYNOLDS 501 fork.
Handlebar: Alloy racing
Stem: Alloy, aero.
Brakes: WEINMANN 506 alloy side-pull, with drilled levers.
Chainwheel: NERVAR 3020.42 x 52T.
Pedals: MAILLARD alloy, aero.
Chain: SEDISPORT %z" silver.
Freewheel: MAILLARD Helicomatic 6 speed, 13.15. 17. 20. 24.28 T. silver.
Hubs: ATOM Helicomatic alloy, small flange with quick release.
Rims: RIGIDA alloy, 700C.
Tires: MICHELIN BIB 20 TS white wall, 700C.
Derailleurs: SIMPLEX SX 610T rear, SJA 222 front, downtube shifters.
Saddle: SELLA ITALIA racing style, suede.
Seat Post: Alloy, micro adjust.
Accessories: CHRISTOPHE toe clips with straps, wide angle reflectors,
spoke protector.
Weight: 23.9 Ibs. (size 22).
Sizes: 20½" (52 cm), 22" (56 cm), 23½" (60 cm), 25" (64 cm).
Colors: Metallic Black (NM), Burgundy (BU).
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
Here's the bike in question. The serial number is 4034614 and the sticker says it's Reynolds 501 tubes if anyone wants to help me figure out the year/model! :-) #cycling #BikeTooter
A fixed gear bike made from a vintage black Peugeot steel frame with orange/yellow accents and a polished chrome fork stands on a wooden floor in front of a mid-century Danish cabinet. The bike has a white racing saddle, a short Deda stem with riser flat bars and wooden grips fitted with one brake lever on the right side attached to a front Ultegra brake caliper. The wheels have deep white sections and are fitted with Continental GP4000 23C tires. The Origin8 chainring is white 42T fitted with Sugino RD2 "Messenger" crank arms, and is mated to a 15t cog attached to a flip-flop rear hub.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026
I thnk I have an answer, or at least some ideas and starting places - let's see how things go at the bike co-op. In the meantime, here's a pic of the bike this was all about. #BikeTooter #cycling #bikemechanics
A road bike with black raw carbon rods for the top tube, down tube and seat tube with decals on them that say "Composite," "Trek" and "2300 Pro" in that order. The lugs, head tube, bottom bracket shell, seat stays, chain stays and forks are painted neon yellow with little gray lines that resemble marbling. There is a black modern Fizik saddle on a black seat post, a black stem mounted to a quill stem adapter, black handlebars with matching yellow tape, and brake levers with modern-shaped black hoods and black levers. The caliper brakes are a medium gray, connected by greenish yellow cable housings. The bike has gray downtube shifters, a silver Dura-Ace crankset with flip-flop flat/SPD pedals, a silver 7400 Dura-Ace front derailleur, a silver Dura-Ace 7410 rear derailleur with a short run of greenish yellow housing, and silver-gray bottle cages. The wheels are nondescript with silver brake tracks and spokes with black Rubino Pro Control tires and too-long valve stems. The bike stands in front of a rich brown wooden mid-century cabinet with shelves below and glassware stored in cabinets above all on a brown hardwood floor.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026
Hey bike experts: if I have a nicer wheelset with an 8-speed hub and a less nice wheelset with a 7-speed hub, and they both have 32-spoke rear wheels with Shimano hubs, is it possible to swap the freehub bodies between them? Or failing that to loosen all the […] [Original post on dmv.community]
Closeup of the rear 8-speed hub that is labeled: Shimano 105 FH-1056Closeup of the rear 7-speed hub that is labeled: Shimano RZ1”” FH-A550
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025
Found this photo I tried to take of a dog named “Nugget”, and I think I really captured its spirit.
A small extra fluffy dog with blue eyes that are extremely bugged out lunges at the camera mouth open with its tongue out and curling upwards.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025
#MediaWiki 1.44.1 uses this code to determine if a skin is responsive. DEEP SIGH. At the top of the function it says: "Please call SkinFactory::getSkinOptions instead." Which it does not do. Anyway, if you want a responsive theme that works, you have to hardcode it somewhere!
Function from skin.php in MediaWiki 1.44.1 that just returns false for whether a skin is responsive. In full it reads:

final public function getOptions (): array {
  return $this→options +  [
    'styles' → [],
    'scripts' → [],
    'toc'. → true, 
    ' format' → 'html',
   ' bodyClasses' → [],
   'clientPrefEnabled' → false, 
   'responsive' → false,
   ' supportsMwHeading' → false,
   ' link' •→ [],
   'tempUserBanner' → false,
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025
@helvetica the problems since the last Good Sudoku update persist: • Streaks are wrong, and leaderboards don’t show all recent scores • Scores all earn gold stars, kinda • It’s really hard to get around this Apple Arcade icon over the top of the top left corner […] [Original post on dmv.community]
Good Sudoku daily games page showing the three types with 401, 67, and 67 day streaks, but the good is too long, arcade is too short. Screenshot of Good Sudoky daily games recent scores for Classic, but there’s only one score on a 67 day streak. Also, a 1 point game with a gold star - both wrong. Screenshot of Good Sudoku’s daily games score list for Good games and all of them have a gold star. Screenshot of Goid Sudoku in a Pro Arcade mode with an Apple Arcade button obscuring what’s naked in a cell.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025
My wife got a good deal on a New Albion Privateer frameset and I got to turn it into a bike. Because the frame and fork were so cheap, we could spend more on components, which came in handy because she needs very short cranks and almost nobody makes short-pull […] [Original post on dmv.community]
A bicycle stands next to a curb in front some grass and bushes oriented with the front towards the left with the drive side toward the camera. The frame is slate blue with polished silver cranks and chainrings, black derailleurs and brifters, silver V-brakes, and  black tires with tan sidewalls. It’s pretty cute. A bicycle stands next to a curb in front some grass and bushes oriented with the front towards the viewer at an angle with the drive side to the left. The frame is slate blue with polished silver cranks and chainrings, black derailleurs and brifters, silver V-brakes, and  black tires with tan sidewalls. It’s pretty cute from this angle too.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025
A friend posted a picture on his Strava of me riding through a cornfield, and I just look like a tiny cyclinst in the distance, but I still like it a lot.
A road going straight away from the viewer under a nearly cloudless blue sky. On both sides of the road are fields of corn, and in the distance a man on a road bike is pedaling away.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2025
Just tried installing version 1.4.4 of MediaWiki with the LocalSettings.php file configured by the installation procedure, and even though the MinervaNeue skin is installed and being loaded, it throws an error. All of the other three skins work. Any ideas? #MediaWiki #wiki
A screenshot of the LocalSettings.php file for MediaWiki 1.4.4 showing that "minervaneue" is the default skin and all four of the standard skins are being loaded.An error message complaining that the "minervaneue" skin is not available.Screenshot of the skins folder in Finder showing that the MinervaNeue skin is in place.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025
After yesterday’s Apple Watch freakout that my average overnight heart rate was too high at 49bpm, you’ll be pleased to hear that today my watch had 15 notifications that my heart rate had fallen below 40bpm for at least 10 minutes. I’m right on the knife’s […] [Original post on dmv.community]
A screenshot from Apple Health showing 14 notifications from last night for heart rate below 40bpm. There’s a 15th one that you can’t see because it won’t fit in the screen.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025
Looking on RideWithGPS at the climbs on a ride I want to do next year and HOO BOY! #BikeTooter
A chart of the 8 climbs in the Assault on Mt. Mitchel, the first 7 of which are a mile or less in length and no more than 311 feet, and the last one is 23.1 miles long, 5,856 feet up and a 4.1% grade ON AVERAGE.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2025
I had nineteen PRs on today’s ride, but best of all I rode with a fast dude with Gaza and Free Palestine stickers on his bike who gave me a communist newspaper when we were packing up.
A map of Baltimore county from Strava rotated to fit a portrait orientation and showing a 14 PRs and 4 second-bests.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2025
@mathowie was going through my old screenshots and found a good tweet from you. I wished for the same!
A screenshot from 2009 of Tweetie showing some tweets including one from Matt Haughey that reads: “Really hoping this season of American Idol has a Leon Redbone night.” There is also a less funny one from Gruber, a weird one from Mike Monteiro, and an unfortunate appearance from Neil Gaiman.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025
Visiting Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica was wonderful... and weird. It's incredibly beautiful, as you can see below, but also frustrating and a little off-putting. Getting in means buying tickets from their website on your phone. But using the tickets means […] [Original post on dmv.community]
The sanctuary of the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal looking at the amazing display behind the altar featuring a crucifix, statues of Peter, Paul and the gospel authors, Mary, and a brilliant array of lights and colors. Between the entrance and the pews is a bank of candles and a Tap to Pay terminal to pay for their use. Between the pews and every piece of artwork on the sides of the sanctuary is a bank of candles and a Tap to Pay terminal to pay for their use. Between the entrance and the small chapel for silent prayer is a bank of candles and a Tap to Pay terminal to pay for their use.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025
I love living in a world where this is a sensible question with reasonable answers.
A post from Reddit's r/carlyraejepsen where pettydino asks:
What kind of sword can you bring in to Carly's show?
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025
I did my first time trial last night: 14.1 miles with 1,440 feet of elevation in 45:35. I had been led to believe it was very casual, so imagine my surprise when there were a bunch of guys in skin suits and aero socks & helmets riding TT bikes with disc wheels […] [Original post on dmv.community]
My bike, right, along with three of the bikes that finished before me hanging from their saddles on a rack in a gravel parking lot near some bushes and flowers. My bike is a carbon fiber Cannondale endurance road bike in green with orange trim, the other three are TT bikes with rear disc wheels in black with black everything.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2025
Canada, you have fucked up the Serenity Prayer in a way that is especially bad for AA.
A sign in black and white using a number of different letter styles, from hand drawn to various typefaces, and illustrated with a mug and a wine glass. It reads, “Give me coffee to change the things I can & wine to accept the things I can not”.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2025
Canada, I have questions.
A hand holding a bottle of green liquid with a white label that calls it “Elle Pique Elle” and describes the contents as “Dill Pickle Hot Sauce”.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025
I have burned through all the 2, 5, and 7km eggs I had in my inventory and now… I’m going to have a hard time getting through this “hatch 2km eggs” challenge. #PokemonGo
The egg inventory screen in Pokemon Go and all the regular storage is 10km eggs and the bonus is 12 eggs.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2025
@vandenberglegs it looks like that from the side, but that’s just the Di2 cables heading to the junction box and then one coming back out. The brake hoses route through the fork and downtube.
A green bike with black and orange highlights pictured with the left brake/shift lever in the foreground showing cables and hoses coming out from under the bartape with the smaller electronic shit cables going to a box mounted under the stem and then one cable coming back out to attach to the rear brake hose. Both hoses then internally route through the fork and downtube.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025
Hey #BikeTooter pals, I have a question, but first: I bought a new bike! It’s a 2017 Cannondale Synapse Hi-Mod Disc Ultegra Di2. The only decent pics I have are from the listing, but I haven’t changed much. The existing cassette had a couple broken teeth in […] [Original post on dmv.community]
A 2017 Cannondale Synapse Hi-Mod Disc Ultegra Di2 bike in a stand in front of some trees and a flowering bush. The bike is “Vulcan green” with accents in “Jet black” and “Acid orange”. The orange bits are the Cannondale logo on the downtube and the enormous HG and Hollowgram logos on the 35mm deep carbon wheels.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2025
For those curious about how my 30-year-old titanium bike frame cracked, here are some pictures of the back of the seat tube where it meets the bottom bracket shell, the left side where the crack continues up into the welded area between seat tube and downtube […] [Original post on dmv.community]
The back of the seat tube of a polished titanium frame where a crack is visible in the weld between the seat tube and bottom bracket shell. The left side of the seat tube of a polished titanium frame where a crack is visible in the weld between the seat tube and bottom bracket shell and continues up into the welded area between the seat tube and downtube. The right side of the seat tube of a polished titanium frame where a crack is visible in the weld between the seat tube and bottom bracket shell and continues up into the downtube.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025
In dollars this makes for a striking image, but it’s much sadder as a proportion of income: the bottom 20% lose a lot so the wealthy can gain practically nothing.
A graph entitled "Change in household income from the Republican budget bill". The first and second quintile see modest dips in household incomes; the middle quintile is virtually unchanged; the fourth quintile increases by a few thousand dollars. An enormously tall bar at the right shows the "Top 0.1%", increasing by almost $400,000.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025
I'm not on X (the everything app, forever Twitter), but is this the Ben Thompson from Stratechery? Because whoever this is sounds like an absolute rube at best, and a person who doesn't give the tiniest shit about his family at worst.
Screenshot from Twitter of a tweet by Derek Thompson, @DKThomp:

Fascinating 
@benthompson
 vision of the future of the Internet—i.e., "The Agentic Web"

Scenario: Before I go to sleep, I tell ChatGPT “Plan my 5-year-old’s birthday next Saturday, budget $500. When you've made the reservation, email these 20 ppl a printable invitation to attend. Also my wife wants to go to England in mid-July. Find 5 plausible flights for the family and make several distinct itineraries. Finally, pls edit this work memo."

When I go to sleep, the AI agent negotiates slots with two bowling alleys, buys a cake, emails printable invites, plans the trip, copy-edits, etc.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025
Your local bike shop could never. #BikeTooter
A yelp review from “John B.” of my local bike shop which reads:

“Talked to them over the phone about getting my Smith and Wesson bike dismantled so I could have it painted ,then after painting I would take it back to them to be reassembled and add new tires. We agreed that I should bring it in. 5 minutes later I get a call saying that they won't work on my bike. I asked why and was told because it was a Police bike. So 1 asked is it because S and W are hard to work on or was it a political thing and was told point blank...political! They are free to run their business as they see fit but I won't support a company who has such distain for the Police.”
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2025
One of the roles on S02E09 of #Andor is filled by an actor with the most #StarTrek name playing a character with the most #StarWars name. Meanwhile, she looks like an Indiana Jones villain.
A screenshot from IMDB showing a labeled photo of an actress named Ana Ularu playing the role of Beska.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025
Several times a year somebody knocks down this fence with their car. There usually isn’t any debris, so apparently they just swerve off the road, through the flex posts, over the curb, knock over a chain link fence and then back out and leave. Maybe flex posts […] [Original post on dmv.community]
Picture taken from an intersection showing a chain link fence on the corner that is leaning over and missing a section. Behind is a children’s playground.  Picture taken from an intersection showing a chain link fence on the corner that is leaning over and missing a section. Behind is a children’s playground.  In the foreground some flex posts and white lines painted on the pavement are visible.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025
As promised, here's my completed bike build! I bought a ‘91 Trek 2300 Pro Composite bike a bit ago, and decided to modernize it, sorta. It's a relic of the days before the industry knew how to use carbon fiber, so they just made the tubes for the main triangle […] [Original post on dmv.community]
A road bike stands on a road in front of some bushes, held up by the left pedal balanced on a curb. The bike is Trek 2300 Pro composite, and is labeled as such in green and yellow decals on the clear-lacquered carbon fiber rods that make up the main triangle. The rest of the bike frame is made out of aluminum painted neon yellow with fine swirls and lines in black that give it a marbled look. It has narrow wheels/tires, downtube shifters, black and yellow mottled bar tape, and a black saddle and black brake levers.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2025
Folks, we have to do better than this with #alttext. #a11y
A screenshot from Ivory showing an image with its alt text. The image is of actors Sheryl Lee and Bobby Briggs dressed in formal attire - she in a black dress and he in a tuxedo - at a party looking at the photographer. The picture looks to have been taken around 1990 when they were starring on Twin Peaks. The alt text is: “Image”.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025
I read about this and couldn’t believe it, but if you can’t remember if Angelina Jolie is in the movie Heat, don’t ask Google!
A Google AI result for the question “is Angelina Jolie in heat” in which it thinks the question is about whether she’s an animal that goes into heat.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025
Had a really fantastic ride today, but only because I was late to start. They had scheduled the ride for yesterday, when I was at work, and then moved it to today. Meanwhile, I needed to be home this morning to let some plumbers install our new water heater. I […] [Original post on dmv.community]
The route and details for a 61-mile ride through western Maryland.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2025
It’s nice when people you like have good taste.
A screenshot from Apple Music showing covers for Carly Rae Jepsen albums with icons showing that Rick Mondello has been listening to E•MO•TION and my buddy Jess is enjoying E•MO•TION: Side B
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2025
@vees Or its MUCH worse counterpart.
A flag hangs on a staff on the side of the building. At first it appears to be an American flag, but two hands are reaching from the edges of the top and bottom to grasp the flag and pull it apart to reveal the flag of the Slaveholder’s Revolt in a way that reminds the viewer of a certain shock site.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2025
@ivory I sometimes run into a bug where a post shows a cropped version of an image which is unclickable. Opening the post shows the image uncropped and clickable, returning to the timeline does the same. Happens on Mac and iOS. Not a giant deal, but assumed you'd want to know!
An image of a post from macOS Ivory in which the image from a post is cropped and unclickable.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025
That’s not the story I believe. /cc: @mikemccaffrey pdx.social/@mikemccaffrey/113908542…
A panel from a comic book. At TBT top it says “The biggest evil at that time was Hitler… So I fought him…”
Below is a picture of Hitler burning to death while a subordinate and the Golden Age Human Torch look on. Hitler say, “Oww! The Human Torch has set me afire! But don’t let the world know how I died. Tell them I committed suicide! Arggg!” The Torch says, “Lying with his dying breath!”
It’s important to note that Hitler comes off as a real pathetic loser, which give the panel the ring of truth.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2025
Super niche, super local content, but in the last two days my cycling training has been paying off. If you don’t ride in Baltimore County none of this means anything, but today I went up Jerome Jay in a 52/25 and set a PR doing it, while yesterday I was kicking […] [Original post on dmv.community]
Part of a map of Baltimore County showing personal records for three segments of Jerome Jay Drive on a ride today. Part of a map of Baltimore County showing a personal best, a best 5-minute power, a local legend and a ranking of 8th all time on a segment all on a ride yesterday.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2025
To save money, maybe we should eat the rich for breakfast.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL HEADLINE: 

To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast
By Gabriel T. Rubin
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2025
Been cycling a lot lately, and with my main road bike in the shop, I’ve been glad to have my newer/older Trek around. And to accompany all the exercise, a new high VO2max. 😀 #BikeTooter
A graph in Apple Fitness showing its “Cardio Fitness” scores over the last month, ending yesterday with a VO2max of 53.1. A black and yellow 1991 Trek 2300 Pro Composite bike with raw carbon tubes forming the main triangle with aluminum lugs, head tube and rear triangle in fluorescent yellow. The bike is in a rack on the NCR trail, but I wasn’t riding the trail on those skinny road tires.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2025
Some bike questions will only get an answer on BikeForums, but they’ll also get a lot of people incorrecting you and each other about specifics of various vintage parts. While building my current (old) bike project, they explained how the shifters wouldn’t […] [Original post on dmv.community]
A 1991 Trek 2300 Pro Composite road bike with black carbon rods for the main triangle and aluminum lugs, head tube, forks and rear triangle painted day-glo yellow. The bike is all decked out in old Dura-Ace parts except the 105 aero brake levers and calipers and 105 indexed downtube shifters. The bike is propped up on a curb and stands before a fence with a deep blue lake behind.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2025
Had a very nice ride today! We did a ride that has some of the steepest little climbs our club does on a regular basis, and my hard work paid off - I did even the toughest hills in a 52/27 gear and set a bunch of PRs on various segments. I really need […] [Original post on dmv.community]
A map of Baltimore County showing a ride that is a lollipop: a stick leading from Oregon Ridge Park out to a loop from Veloccino over to Monkton, down to Sparks and back to the stick.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2025
@pws now that you mention it, the bottle cages are mounted in a really weird way with nuts on the outside.
A picture of a bottle cage attached to a carbon downtube with a bolt coming out of the frame and a nut keeping the cage attached.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2025
I know that buying my latest* bike was a mistake in a number of ways, but I love it. #BikeTooter #cycling * I mean, the frame is 34 years old, so it’s not new in any sense.
A 1991 Trek 2300 Pro Composite road bike which has black lacquered carbon fiber rods for the main triangle and day-glo yellow aluminum forks, lugs and rear triangle. It has black tape on old school handlebars on a quill stem, a black Performance saddle, a titanium seat post, and Dura-Ace 7400 derailleurs, cranks and chain-rings with 105 aero brake levers, rim brakes and indexed downtube shifters. It weighs 21.2lbs with its flip-flop SPD/platform pedals and lightweight bottle cages.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2025
That was a pretty fun ride! Mostly easy climbs with a couple sneaky hills and some new folks to chat with. Going to need a little more than that banana after burning 2,600 calories… #BikeTooter #cycling
Screenshot of a map of central Maryland with a “lollipop” route highlighted. Ride details: 
Ride: 41.9 mi
Elev Gain: 3,173 ft
Time: 2h 30m
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2025
The temperature was ideal for a ride today, so I did a route I like and got a new high speed, even with the pretty wet roads. My bike is going to need a thorough bath, but it was worth it. strava.app.link/OyVK5SqWMRb
A map of Baltimore Count showing a vaguely rectangular loop that starts going north, then east, then south, and finally west. A bunch of sections are noted as personal beats, and there’s a note that I had my best power output for one hour.
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2025
My ride to work isn’t what you’d call a big workout, compared to the last two 50+ mile days, but I always end up turning it into an all-out sprint through the city. Today I beat all my records for my commute: best workout time, best elapsed time, best average […] [Original post on dmv.community]
Workout Details from Apple Fitness:
Workout Time: 0:10:25
Distance: 3.31MI
Total Calories: 210CAL
Avg. Power: 270w
Avg. Speed: 19.0MPH
Elapsed Time: 0:11:17
Active Calories: 191CAL
Elevation Gain: 76FT
Avg. Cadence: 57RPM
Avg. Heart Rate: 146BPM
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Jemaleddin Cole @jemal.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2025
Went out for a group ride today, and pushed myself a bit after yesterday’s slow and easy 58 mile ride. Rode to and from the start to add some miles, and got to go up some of my favorite climbs. #BikeTooter #cycling
Workout details from Apple Fitness showing my results:

Workout Time: 3:25:44
Distance: 56.15MI
Total Calories; 3,520CAL
Avg. Power; 204w
Avg. Speed; 16.3MPH
Elapsed Time; 4:24:50
Active Calories: 3,135CAL
Elevation Gain: 3,625FT
Avg. Cadence: 58RPM
Avg. Heart Rate: 134BPMHeart rate details from my workout showing a graph with three gaps: me waiting for the group ride to begin, our break where I are a banana and a brief stop of a hill while I waited for the group to catch up. Details:

Avg. Heart Rate134BPM
Heart Rate
Zone 1: 1:08:28
Zone 2: 28:12
Zone 3: 40:36
Zone 4: 34:44
Zone 5: 33:48
Max: 179A map of my workout showing a line starting in Baltimore and going out to Park Heights where a large loop is described with lots of medals for personal bests etc.
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