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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Gosh I hope no one keeps track of that data state by state... csgjusticecenter.org/publications... oops. MN is down at the bottom of the list, 8th from the bottom between the liberal states of Florida and Texas, for those who don't want to search the whole list.

list of states by recidivism rates and change in rates between over a 10 year period (period varies by state but generally 2010-2020)

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm just following @wedge.live around doing this tonight I guess.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Keep seeing the chart, so I risked it and signed into facebook, and I am seeing a lot of star trek content instead of the usual lot of political AI slop. Scrolling for a bit & the most conservative this is floor plans that contain a gun room (in his closet), & still using the term "master bedroom".

facebook post for house design with floor plan.

4 bedroom, 3 bath, layout could use some work, having children play in a hallway seems silly and i'd make the pantry big enough to fit the freezer in there instead of the laundry room.... move the door from the laundry room into the master bath to be a door from the laundry room into the closet (because why do we seperate those to things when the clothes go from one to the other? seems dumb.) Maybe use some of the saved space to put in a meaningful linen closet. (dual sided so you can load clean towels in from the laundry and pull them out in the bathroom?)
wall between the main entrance and the coat closet also seems weird... but I like my a good free standing coat rack any how...

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Pumpkin harvest time. Decent haul from the garden, now to Google how to turn them into pumpkin spice.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Can we talk a moment about the artist that did this graffiti? We can profile from the handwriting, this was done by a boomer, no one else can write in cursive (ask any boomer) Boomers have already destroyed our society, why do they need to deface our public spaces as well?

"Deez nutz" written in black cursive on a bridge support post with a heart and a green drawing of a penis.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

ATGATT means even when your riding an emoto in places emoto's while pretending it's a bicycle. (And I assume making vroom vroom noises).

Troy you can't bring that in here.

Troy on ATV: yes I can. It's all-terrian dummy.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I've got one of those (likely questionably sourced) Let me know if you need me to figure out a way to get it somewhere tonight.

Inner tube box covered in Chinese(?) writing but 20x1.9/2.125 is clearly visible on the box!

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As a middle aged white guy with hearing loss (nothing in the left ear above 6khz) I think I could bike past this house a lot. If any small bag pippers (sub 150lbs) wants to jump in the side car and play as I ride in circles your certainly welcome to. (Harmonica could work to & probably fit better)

E bike with side car, there is a dog in the side car in photo, but a small musician could fit easily enough (seat would need to be bolted back in but that is easy enough)

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tires at 60psi, bike rack on car, bike on rack, route loaded, computer/lights/mini pump all charged, snacks in handle bar bag, freshly waxed red/black chain installed, jersey/shorts/etc all clean, just need to fill up water bottles and I should be set to go. I'll be the nerd in the TNG jersey

Star Trek TNG style bicycle jersey (in science officer blue)

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is it weird that last year was almost the exact same temperature despite being a month earlier? I started riding at 68° and finished at 82° Forecast for tomorrow is 62° to 85°

Chart of temperature from bike MN twin cities tour last year (plus 17 miles from my house to the star)

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Find a bike rack? Sorry, find ANOTHER bike rack? I mean if you always have a bike rack option (or multiple?) then yeah, use a u-lock... Sometimes the options are to limits to these light poles... (Stock photo, I'd check out the stop sign or trees first in this lot)

Light pole on top of 3' high ~2' diameter concrete cylinder.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The robots will cuddle the baby.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

By the time I, child number 4, came around my mom had recorded herself reading most of the children's books in the house to cassette tape. I get that reading Robert the horse over and over again probably wasn't that exciting, (spoilers: he fell flat) but I guess it was better than Teddy Ruxpin?

Cover of Robert the horse.

Acab includes Robert the horse.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They were elected to lead, not to understand the functions of local government they are elected to!

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ah yes the Nazi planet plan. I'm not saying the AI CEOs are all spacemen trying to manipulate our cultural and technological evolution... But I'm not willing to say to say aren't either, I mean they certainly struggle with humanity.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But looking on the bright side that whole cough into your elbow and then touch your friends germy elbow with it thing died out...

People touching elbows to appease the fetish of some weirdos in the CDC under the first trump admin.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here is a picture of my dog. Hope it helps.

Dog sleeping in a couch, legs are still a touch red from her allergies (she has cleared up since the photo was taken.)

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ride out to Stillwater with friend before we do the the twin cities bike tour... All the elevation change* of the 50 mile ride with 4 fewer miles... @bikemn.bsky.social *Nearly all of it on the Hill after the lift bridge

Map of bicycle route out to water from st Paul.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bring purple stuff to you job interview, offer to share, odds are good middle management/hiring managers are old enough to get the joke and will find it endearing so long as you don't point out that the commercial stopped being aired before you were born.

Sunny delight commercial from the 90s? (80s?)

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another option would be to get a ahold of one of those batteries with a 120v plug on it, and charge up at the rest stops from that.

Image of battery with 120v outlets on it.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Intellectual property laundering... Waiting for gen alpha Napster where they train it on Taylor Swift catalog and have it make up new songs that don't require royalties.

"you wouldn't steal a car" text that says "they would steal intellectual property"

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I need to research spraying my apple trees. All the apples have bad spots, and one of the trees has cedar rust again (which thought I took care of in the spring years back, when I sprayed for it before they flowered)

Apple with some obvious bad spots cut open on an obvious good spot.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I guess we are doing this now: Ebike side car doggo. Your move Internet.

Dog in side car with tubes of stuff strapped to side car

Dog in side car next to ebike in a garage

Dog smiling in side car next to ebike, rider giving her scritches

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Direct fossil fuel consumption in residential spaces is actually pretty small compared to transportation and electric generation. And the finances on switching out a furnace/drier are not always beneficial (gas stoves though are incredible inefficient and health hazards). But transportation:

Lawrence Livermore national laboratory energy usage by source chart, 2024

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've got the Burley for the pooch, we had something different prior. Obviously a 60lb dog is different from a cat, but lower center of gravity for the Burley make it much more stable.

Old dog trailer behind old mountain bike.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Wife and I agree, it was neat to go once, but wouldn't do it again any time soon. Was pricey and tourists are terrible people. But always neat to see people paying a premium for walk and ridability, +horses for some reason.

People cycling in a pleasant looking place with caption "if anyone proposed this in my town I'd kill them."

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I had for a moment considered bringing the road bike, rather than the commuter/make shift cargo bike. I think cargo shorts, flat bars, and fenders were the right choice in the end rather than padded shorts, Jersey, and drop bars.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Some dog pics from our trip. (She also did the full trip around the island in her trailer, just not in 35 minutes, that trip took a bit longer and had more stops for sight seeing, peeing on things, and ice cream)

Dog in a trailer (behind a bicycle) in front of a fancy tent with flower beds around it.

Dog in a hotel room jumping to grab a test out of the air.

Dog in front off a "stick library", though she is clearly interested in something else of camera

Dog home after a long trip napping on her couch

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Would normally post anything about an 8.3 miles ride, but location makes this one special.

Coros screen share.
8.3 miles in 35:53

Background is a 2 lane bicycle way along a rocky shore line with blue water and clear blue skys, few clouds of in the distance.

Coros screen shot of a loop around mackinac Island.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So I got the news letter from my suburban city, and I'm pretty sure the suburban cops are making up laws. Historically (and in my reading of references laws on their safety chart here) bicycles, and ebikes, can operate on sidewalks outside of business districts*. Safety chart says no.

A chart of engine allowed and disallowed things along with scooters (emoto's out of frame)

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Drivers perspective:

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If we are engaging in childish renaming of lakes we should be all in on that strategy, no more going off half cocked.

Mail of lake Ontario, but it's labeled "Lake Deez"

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This one time I saw a bicycle run a stop sign, in a way that's actually legal in my state, but drivers don't know it's legal because we don't require continuing education for drivers. Also this one time two cyclists were riding two abreast and I passed them safely and everything was fine actually.

Flanders: Really, not married?
And you were bicycling two abreast?

Homer: I wish.
We were bicycling to a lake.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Set up a camera... We ended up going 6 miles around some local parks.

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Jon @jonvw4.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dog had decided that every day afterwork is a good day to go for a ride in the sidecar ebike. As soon as I change clothes she is running between me and the door. When I open the door she runs into the garage and very carefully gets into the side car, and won't leave until we go for a ride.

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