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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Sweet little spot from U.S. weatherman Al Roker, discussing his daily commute on a Brompton through the streets of midtown Manhattan - at 4 o'clock in the morning! Happy #BicycleBirthday, Al! Born August 20, 1954

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mkellis.bsky.social @mkellis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

An underrated benefit of having a cargo e-bike: not only has it reduced my driving by a lot, but when I’m not hauling anything bigger than a bag of groceries, I now use my regular bike for most errands. Makes my e-bike odometer less impressive but it’s more exercise.

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mkellis.bsky.social @mkellis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Loading my cargo e-bike at the local co-op. Stopped by a guy curious about it. (R&M Load 75, it gets looks.) He was interested in something like it, but he’s 80. Pointed him to e-trikes with cargo capacity, and local bike shops that can help. I hope I’m as curious when I’m that old!

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Elsa Sjunneson, Order of the Bat @snarkbat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Coming on October 6th 2026 is my new nonfiction title DEAR BLIND LADY from @sasquatchbooks.bsky.social I’m so excited to share this snarky but helpful guide to how to be better humans to one another. Preorder anywhere you buy books, and check out snarkbat.com for more!

A teal book cover, with a graphic. Dear Blind Lady is the title with a pair of sunglasses as the B and a white cane as the I. The author name Elsa Sjunneson is printed inside the cane. a post it reads “but not like Helen Keller” with the subtitle of “disability advice you didn’t know you needed” at the bottom

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Best cargo bike ever? Fun, uses repurposed materials, looks like it could ram the snot out of a car parked in the bike lane.

Cargo bike. The "cargo" part is a repurposed half of a metal canoe.

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mkellis.bsky.social @mkellis.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

@thewaroncars.bsky.social Spotted on a Cambridge, MA sidewalk. (After dark, current phone cameras are amazing.)

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mkellis.bsky.social @mkellis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

@reckless.bsky.social I'm listening to the latest episode of Decoder, with the Wassym Bensaid. Every single vehicle CEO you bring on makes me want to never buy another car again, and spend my transportation dollars on e-bikes and mass transit. The buttons comments in particular are infuriating.

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Porsche driver in some kind of pro-war demonstration almost nails us running a red light just to block the crosswalk.

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mkellis.bsky.social @mkellis.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@catboycdr.bsky.social Having listened to a history podcast on ships cats recently, I was wondering if Starfleet has anything analogous to the old British Naval customs or regulations surrounding useful non-crew animals on starships.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 05/03/2026

Today is Sextidi the 16th of Ventôse in the year 234. Ventôse is the month of wind. Today we celebrate spinach. #JacobinDay More information on spinach

An old time-y illustration of a Spinach.

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mkellis.bsky.social @mkellis.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The past week had been unseasonably warm (30ºF warmer than average). To the point where I got all the bikes out of the garage to make sure they had air in the tires and not too many cobwebs. Even put the batteries back in the e-bikes. Today I’m just glad my Surly still has snow tires on. ❄️

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Delighted to say that an updated and expanded version of my series on one of the most extraordinary acts in aviation history will be running on The Up Front over the coming weeks. And even better: it's now completely free to read.

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Kieran Borovac @borovac.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

stylised version of @garethdennis.uk's British Isles HSR proposal from Railnatter 222 (+ schematic mockup of the GB network)

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mkellis.bsky.social @mkellis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Been listening to the Decoder podcast on @theverge.com, specifically the recent car CEO episodes. Each one of them has made me more determined to hold onto my aging cars and go with e-bikes/cargo e-bikes as much as possible. It amazes me how unappealing Ford, GM, and Rivian make their cars sound.

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mkellis.bsky.social @mkellis.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Full bike racks at the library today. (Forgot to take a picture, alas.) Always nice to see people using bikes to get downtown. #bikesky

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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

Two people riding bikes in Amsterdam. One says “if anyone proposed this in my town I’d kill them”

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Tapbots (who used to make Tweetbot, and now sell Ivory for Mastodon) have just announced a Bluesky client, Phoenix, coming this summer. Ivory is why I spend more time in the Fediverse than here: www.macstories.net/news/phoenix-ris…

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Katharine Kit Kerr @kitkerr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

from Tantor Media: "Haze by Katharine Kerr now has an audio publication date! It will be available for sale on 7/15/25 across our 60+ retail and library digital distributors, including Audible, Apple, Spotify, audiobooks.com and Google Play. "The narrator is Eric Michael Summerer."

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mkellis.bsky.social @mkellis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Have dug out the #CargoBike for the first time in a month to deliver kid to after school activity. It’s not that it’s been so cold (though it’s been cold), but that the streets have been full of (melting) snow mixed with salt. Of course it immediately started raining when I got home.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

DeepSeek hot take: The emperor still has no clothes, but it's very distressing to the emperor that their non-clothes can be made so much more cheaply.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

(From @xiann@mas.to )

Four panel comic strip.

1. Woman fuming as she looks at phone. Thinks "that's it, I need a social media detox."

2. Pointing at notice on wall that says "wood shop starts today", thinks "woodworking! sounds perfect!"

3. Wearing safety equipment and operating a circular saw that goes "bzzzz".

4. Standing proudly beside her creation: a guillotine.

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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Paris | Before, the banks of the Seine were motorways, with daily traffic jams and pollution. Today are parks for people and play areas for everyone. That's what changing a city is all about, even if it's been difficult. We are proud of our Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social's commitment and work.

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mkellis.bsky.social @mkellis.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

@marthawells.bsky.social Stuck in bed sick. Fortunately I saw the sale on the Fall of Ille-Rien and picked up all three volumes, since I don't think I can manage the hardbacks from downstairs. Been a while since I've read these. Picking up stuff I missed the first time around. Thank you.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

One of President Carter’s many humanitarian efforts was the eradication of guinea worm, a parasite that causes incredibly painful and debilitating disease in some of the poorest parts of the world. And he’s almost done it. In 2023, there were 14 cases. When he started, there were millions a year.

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Jimmy Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and he triumphed

Carter targeted diseases primarily affecting the poor in remote areas — notably "Guinea worm disease." Because of his commitment, case numbers plummeted from 3.6 million a year to just 13 in 2022.

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mkellis.bsky.social @mkellis.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

@catboycdr.bsky.social What's the general career path look like after being 'head of shuttles' for a Historical or Flagship type ship? This assumes you don't want to go live on a Starbase and do shuttles there. Defiant-class command? Command track on a larger ship?

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Look, streaming exec, whoever you are, let me make alternating seasons of SHARPE and MASTER AND COMMANDER and I shall deliver unto you the Dad Audience for a decade. It will make REACHER look like a ripple in a pond.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/08/2024

Based on nothing more than a video of Vance saying he likes beer, I now find myself doubting whether he actually likes beer. He comes off as so much the opposite of genuine that it is impossible to take even his most mundane statements as even plausibly true. The man has resting mendacity face.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

I guess I'm all in for Kamala Harris now.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

OK - Tonight's stream, which starts in about 3 hours, will cover the Trump verdict. Because of a question I've received from several people already, we'll also look at U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995). The stream (when it starts) will be at twitch.tv/questauthority

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QuestAuthority - Twitch

The Questionable Authority is a father, Army husband, lawyer, and a PhD candidate in copyright law. He is also an internationally recognized potential late bloomer, and way better at lawsplaining than...

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