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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 7h
That's basically the point of the Democratic Leadership Council -> "New Democrats" -> simply the prevailing faction of the DNC.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 18h
¨ Whoops, I already posted that (originally to the birbsite)! bsky.app/profile/jymd...
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 18h
⚇ Denver later incorporated bike sharing pods into a concrete-protected bike lane design: flickr.com/photos/jym/4...
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20190923 wynkoop-bike-lane-bcycle
· Note how Denver's parking-protected bike lane on Wynkoop Street, in front of Union Station, uses concrete stops instead of drive-over plastic bollards. Note the dockless Uber motorbike on the left....
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 18h
⚇ Davis is great and all, but let's rise up to Amsterdam numbers! www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...
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200010 centraal-station-parking
· Lots and lots of bike parking at Amsterdam's Centraal Station. There is large shed here now (right about where I was standing when I took this photo in 2000) but still a lot of parked bikes outside...
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 18h
• The @sfgate.com link is bitrotted, but the bike racks look like the one on the right side of this photo. #SFBike www.flickr.com/photos/jym/7...
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20120204 post-and-ring-sfmta
· Another post-and-ring bike rack made from a decommissioned parking meter. Not sure why this Schwinn prefers the pole, though.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 18h
⚇ It took a while for those bike racks to go in. In the interim, they upgraded the bike stencils with "signal green" paint, because they started using green paint on sharrows (which in turn prompted "WAR ON CARS" tabloid headlines in the daily newspapers). www.flickr.com/photos/jym/7...
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20120516 sfmta-bike-rack-pending
· Another new bike rack on the way. Hmm, for some reason they seem to now have a lot of vivid green paint handy, I wonder why?
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 18h
ºº As long as I'm posting photos of bike racks, here's a purple bike-shaped bike rack in Prince's hometown: flickr.com/photos/jym/5...
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20260919 purple-teal-bike-racks
· Purple bike-shaped bike rack on the Loring Greenway. As far as I know, this one has nothing to do with local legend Prince. Another one in the back, a greener shade of teal.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 18h
• In San Francisco there are painted stencils and a long wait for the actual bike rack. "DPT" had been combined into the SFMTA years before this particular photo was taken. #BikeSF (In the 2020s the available bike racks are clogged with corporate e-scooter fleets.) www.flickr.com/photos/jym/2...
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20151204 dpt-bike-rack
· This bike rack outside of Blue Bottle suggests that you can get more racks installed by calling the DPT, rather than the SFMTA. Also, no area code required. And dig that supafly DPT logo!
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 19h
• Today's #TwitpicTuesday rescue was me marveling at how fast Emeryvilles bike racks go in, compared to San Francisco's. Emeryville marks the locations with chalk and in they go! www.flickr.com/photos/jym/1...
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20140725 eville-bike-rack-chalk
· To give Emeryville its due, they can get things done. In San Francisco they will paint a stencil for a new bike rack and we may wait years for the rack. Here, they can write "BIKE" in chalk and in...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
The new track is called “guess what? We’re white”
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 21h
James Watt is telling them to turn it down.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At least we questioned the <blink> tag.
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Drew Scanlon Blinking Meme
Alt: Drew Scanlon Blinking Meme
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We have evidence that you were at a Rick Springfield concert, and if you deny it that's perjury!
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A new-ish tall tale from the "yes on g" crowd is that surface streets are so filled with diverted traffic that they can't get out of their driveways. On streets where there are trucks on the driveway and more trucks on the sidewalk, so I have to walk in the street (around more trucks) to get past.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The puppets on Avenue Q didn't know the real truth: more cat videos than porn.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Baste
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People saying "Woke 1" can't count. Woke was originally AAVE recognition that the system is not honest. Woke "2" was cringey self-satisfied white people appropriating the term. Woke "3" (pejorative) is Fox News stealing the word to use as a monsyllabic version of peecee and essjaydoubleyou.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
‘Rock 1’ also had an oh-so-ironic witticism about every city having a Martin Luther King street where bad things happen, a remark also cited endlessly by white racists. I'm not saying Chris Rock wants his material to be abused in this way, but I am saying he's had some big misfires in judgement.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
‘Rock 1’ gave us, "How not to get your ass kicked by the po-lice," a comedy routine cited endlessly by white racists (with white racist imitation of Black dialect) to justify police abuses of every Black suspect in existence, and to disparage #BlackLivesMatter
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Maura Quint is way ahead of them! bsky.app/profile/maur... See also: thehardtimes.net/culture/amer...
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American Spirit Introduces Protein-Boosted Cigarette
OXFORD, N.C. — American Spirit is set to be the first tobacco brand to capitalize on the protein-boosting craze, according to a... Read more nonsense
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
While I have never considered carob a replacement, this seems like an especially bad time for my city to have chopped down a carob tree in my neighborhood. Unless they're replanting it with cacao.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Chic Young was doing a "Dumb Dora (She's Not So Dumb)" comic strip, a Vaudeville schtick made most famous by Gracie Allen, in which a woman prevailed with her wacky, wily "feminine logic." When an Anita Loos serial about blondes got popular, Young turned his version of Dora into a blonde flapper.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
¨ This #Caturday I'd like to celebrate a mural featuring kitties at the Cedar-Riverside Metro Transit stop in Minneapolis. In the background, the apartments where the fictional Mary Richards lived. www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...
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20260921 mural-kitties-riverside
I was mostly attracted to Cedar-Riverside because of this mural of kitties at the stop! Looming above, the Riverside Plaza apartments, which are famous mostly due to the color panels on it.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Money-obsessed and libertoonian types were in tech my whole career, but they were a fringe. Doing it for the big bucks instead of the love of coding did ultimately take over -- as did the sexist James Damore types with eugenics-style beliefs.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the 1980s, nerdy women programmers were in the minority but were considered peers. I saw that crumble in the 1990s but it came back briefly in the dot-com boom. By the 2010s "brogrammers" were a thing, the number of all-male coding teams increased, and the nerdy ineptness went extra-toxic.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When federal prosecutors assured Judge April Perry last spring they'd had no contact with top DOJ brass while pursuing the "Broadview Six," she took them at their word. Those days are over. From me and @sophiesherry.bsky.social on Perry's fact-finding effort: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/1...
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'Broadview Six' judge wants to put prosecutors under oath, keeps contempt charges on the table
U.S. District Judge April Perry on Thursday raised the specter of a "cover-up" and questioned whether federal prosecutors in Chicago talked to top officials in Washington about the politically charged...
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
𖥂 Maw, fetch the shotgun. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner
Officials say they don’t know who installed the controversial cameras or how the data was being used. Residents are unnerved.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm not the foot-stomper here. There is a clear and present danger going on right now, focus on that.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Concession speech is a formality, not legally-binding. It was just one of several things along the lines of the Brooks Brothers Riot where the Republicans were trying to force the issue.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, I've been hearing this argument for 25 years. The CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER IN 2026 is yet more Election Fraud from the very same people. Stop focusing on Nader.
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nader was not the problem, the media recount showed that Gore won Florida and the Electoral Vote. The problem in 2000 was ELECTION FRAUD by the Republicans, and it's the clear and present danger in 2026.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I protested, but it was way too sparse a protest even in San Francisco. Certainly not enough to get a riot going.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, Gore agreed to stop the count, ruinously. The count was redone by a media consortium in 2001 and they found a bunch of illegally-counted absentee ballots sent after the election. All told, the recount showed that Gore won. The _Times_ were just about to report this when 9/11 happened.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have ad-blockers and VPN and I have confused Meta. Sometimes it sends me ads for trans-conforming underwear (to tuck away my boys), but on that January 6th it sent ads for "tactical wear" to storm the Capitol. It always suggests unwanted reels of teenaged girls dancing in their underwear, though.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh no, I posted a photo of a woman to Flickr, so it's gonna become a female app too now! www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...
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20260919 mode-model-in-green
A model in green, in front of a big MODE Festival sign. This could be a billboard.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#WarOnCarsWednesday has rolled around again (on 2 or 3 wheels, not 4). So here's the stickered side of a bakfiets I saw on Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. Welcome to the #WarOnCars (I left them a "Cities Aren't Loud" sticker). www.flickr.com/photos/jym/5...
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20260920 bakfiets-nihola-sticker-war-on-cars
· Stickers on the bakfiets at Nicollet Mall, including "The War On Cars." I happened to have a different War On Cars sticker from the same podcast, so I left it as a present for them.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bad news, my cat is in a "hate everyone" mood today, too.
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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
DHS Does Big Boy Investigation Of ‘Noncitizen Voters,’ Turns Up Big Surprise, If You’re Dumb by @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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DHS Does Big Boy Investigation Of ‘Noncitizen Voters,’ Turns Up Big Surprise, If You’re Dumb
Surprise! Nevada has zero noncitizen voters, down from an initial estimate of 15,000.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have to wonder what Guy Fieri's hair looked like before _The_Simpsons_ took over the world.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This astonishes me, since I find Shakespeare to be the finest English qua English ever written. Maybe I'll give the German translation a whirl. (I saw a bilingual Romeo & Juliet production this year which fell flat for me, perhaps the Spanish had been dumbed-down so that gringos could understand.)
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🌻 I used to post outtakes to Twitpic/Twitter with a link to better photos on Flickr, now I just use Flickr. This salad was so good I remember it 12 years later, and I wish I had it in focus. I sure wish an Actual Café salad recipe book existed! #TwitpicTuesday www.flickr.com/photos/jym/1...
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20140820 actual-pepper-yellow-cucumber-salad
Here's a Twitpic Tuesday salad. One thing I'd do in the heyday of Twitpic was upload alternate photos (or use out-of-focus ones, like this), and tweet them with links back to more and better photos h...
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
• On this day in 2009 I posted a link to the Octopus Pie webcomic's "Fear" storyline, which starts out with all the bike nuts at Tour de Brooklyn. Yay! #BikeNYC Alas, I used a Brooklyn-themed URL-shortener which has since gone defunct, so here's the full URL: www.octopuspie.com/comic/323-al...
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#323 – all the bike nuts – octopus pie
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
♮ 16 years after this identi.ca tweet and still I ponder. Was he down with the queens in the 'Teens? Wearing some tennies in the Twenties?
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Your jokes are trenchant, please keep bothering.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I dunno, I always look forward to Dayglow Coffee when I go to L.A.
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was there a weekend ago, #AbolishICE street art is a theme. flickr.com/groups/minne...
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Minneapolis Street Art
Posters, public murals, stickers, graffiti, performance and any other kinds of art found on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota (and Saint Paul & suburbs).
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyone need a thrilling science story? Right here ⤵️
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Jym Dyer 🚲 @jymdyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sauerkraut is good for digestion. Steak and roadkill, not so much.
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