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Decades of not owning a car teaching you: I can get that home on my bicycle.

This thread reminding me why prefer smaller bicycle front racks (on normal bikes): I love a large front platform rack, but I *will* put something stupidly large on it that would have been better transported on a trailer.

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If you want a user-friendly height for mobile dispensing: not bad on a rear rack. Moderate side-side slosh when stopping or taking tight turns. Front rack doable if you’ve got wide handlebars and aren’t making any sudden movements: your steering is gonna fight you the whole time.

Back-to-front slush is manageable as the brakes soak that up; side-to-side is the bad part. A trailer will likely be a low-to-ground platform and general movement will be front to back, aligning to bike movement. I’ve had no weirdness/problems with lugging 10 gallons of water in my Burley.

I once rode with four gallon cube jug of horchata on my front rack: I was so grateful for each dispensed cup of liquid that contributed to lessening my steering slosh.

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^ : because e-bikes open up a whole world of accessibility

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What are you my partner? (..pointing out that as a 6’1” able bodied person that regularly partakes of manual labor, larger cargo loads are a relatively smaller amount of my own mass and capacity, so no, we’re not getting a cargo bike without e-assist despite my preference for acoustic bikes)

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Yeah, trailers are pretty much electric or acoustic bike agnostic.

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“Oh, end users! Yeah, I’m not been charging to service people.”

Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 18h

Cue automated post about harvest season being important to our culture as a farm labor party. Have a safe and fruitful Halloween this year!

Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 19h

I’m a little miffed that there aren’t even torn away soft-hit post mounts at the Starbucks short term parking. Just tacitly accepting that people are gonna park over the painted on, at grade bike lane.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 22h

Ilhan Omar is my representative and she fights so hard for us. Represents us well in DC, constantly present in the district, uses her sway to support other politicians, extremely responsive when people need help. The absolute model of an Congressperson. So many of us are ready to stand with her

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Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It just raises uncomfortable questions about our flash-in-the-pan liminal state of awareness as a recyclable biomass.

Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Leaving the house with a light jacket on was a mistake.

Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Self Medication Suggestion: bike ride to a burrito

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Mike Wooles @mikewritesfunny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A new episode of The Gargle podcast is out! 👍 🎧👂 Laugh smugly while learning about gene editing, new lizards, AI ghosts, imagined Ads, Moth news... and more! 🦎🔎🧐 Topical thinky-bants from @joshgondelman.bsky.social @alicefraser.bsky.social and Robin Clyfan. pca.st/episode/2142...

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A future of Gene-Editing and AI generated Ghosts?

On this week's episode of the Gargle, Alice is joined by Robin Clyfan and Josh Gondelman as the three, dive into the world's science and tech news! From the moral case of gene editing, to the…

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just to be clear: we are fine in Minnesota. We are not being taken over, though there are more rabbits in our yard than some years. Also we still need to address creeping bellflower. But otherwise all good. Don’t need rescuing or another murderous occupation.

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Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gone done voted early myself, this afternoon at 980 E Hennepin Ave. Open M-F 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. until Oct 16 After that, it’s open later and throws in a few weekends. Check the schedule at vote.minneapolismn.gov/voters/vote-...

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Vote early in-person

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Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Those statements hit similarly when you type it “Being a dead beat dad hits different when you work in AI.”

Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Currently watching a live version of this show.

Fluffy white cat purring out between blankets as it gets offscreen scritches.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 02/10/2026

Parked smack dab in the middle of a protected bike lane. “It would be dangerous for our customers if we parked outside of it, with the bikes zooming past,” he said when I confronted them. If you live on Grand St. in Williamsburg, go tell them what you think – right outside of the Lidl.

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Pabst Boo Ronin @pabstblueronin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Support one of the best websites on the internet by clicking on it and going "wow, italian glassware in the 80s was wild". It don't even cost nothin

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Star Trek + Design

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

men don't attack the system that allows defense attorneys to dig through women's sexual histories and assert that they are either lying or deserved to be rape. we don't demand that police officers who don't thoroughly investigate rape allegations to be fired. we don't do shit. we let it happen.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

a lot of men say "i would beat a guy's ass if they raped a woman close to me", but would you? and yeah, maybe you beat one person's ass, but do you actually try to dismantle the system that lets people think they can get away with rape? how about beating several asses.

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Big fan of PPE over here. Also: <3 Nurses; thank you for helping keep everyone together (or a best-possible effort of together).

TBF, we do, but there’s a very high chance of long term health repercussions, most of which preclude further roofing work.

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It’s next to the snack fridge, below the klaxon. If you can’t find it, follow the fluorescent floor arrows that lead you to the demarc, but backwards.

Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Brass Solidarity Band is participating in the Honk! festival of activist street bands in Boston this October and needs travel expense assistance. More info here: gofund.me/5d4613a46

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For easy reference: www.perennialcycle.com/bikes-trikes...

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Demo/Used Bikes

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Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please don’t. If you *have* taken a bat to one of these, please contact the Minnesota Department of Health; you would benefit from a rabies assessment.

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Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Couched in the meta narrative, learning the plot/crux of this song from you has planted Wham!’s “Last Christmas” as the elevator music in my brain.

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Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They cut the regular blast with pink lemonade flavor. I assume that it’s not a sumac based drink and it’s just lemonade flavor plus color, in the style of most pink lemonade.

Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also, the cup makes more sense when they serve you the pink colored collab drink/liquid.

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Acceptable alternative to poster-sized prints: at least one life-size display mannequin.

Unless the art is like niche fetish stuff, seems fine.

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No, but that seems like a normal thing to do, like putting up at least one of those poster-sized photos on an easel.

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A+ recommend: dry butts and a surface for putting fun stickers on your bike.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Starting to wind down my peppers for the year. Gonna give a crack at overwintering the plants once I’m done processing all this fruit. Maybe I’ll remember to wear gloves for the next batch and maaaaybe I’ll remember to not touch my eyes tonight.

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When I think about other things that are similarly racist, nearly all of them were also done by the Trump administration. Trump is a racist piece of shit who has hired an administration filled with other racist pieces of shit, doing racist thing after racist thing. This one is particularly bad.

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Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look pal, I don’t personally use elementary schools, but I don’t complain because they have a public purpose. Let’s let kids enjoy a cooling mid-bike-path splash in the summer and the tiniest hockey matches in winter.

Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you for your service.

Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They’re a “different” way of doing things.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026

if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
protecting, maintaining and improving the health of il Minesotans
RABID BAT FOUND ON SIDEWALK
On Tuesday, September 15 at about 12pm, a bat was found on the sidewalk on Hennepin Ave between N. Washington Ave and N 3°St.
The bat died and was sent for rabies testing. This bat tested positive for
rabies.
A woman was seen crouching by the bat and putting it into a bag. She was described as a 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog. If this was you, please call 911 and ask to be connected to Animal Care & Control.
Bites from bats are tiny, may be painless, and may not leave a mark. An person who had physical contact or touched this bat should talk with health care provider this weekend for assessment. During the week, Minnesota Department of Health can also provide rabies assessments at 651-201-5414.
If vou did not touch or have any contact with the bat, you have no risk of rabies and do not need shots.

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Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you accidentally arrive at john waters, maybe try it out, but you’ll get comments, so maybe also keep trimming.

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Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Agile intraurban mobility sans pooping and the “I fell over” work-comp risk is much lower.

Rogelio @rojoleon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, some “so this is what people talk about; this really sucks.”