Recently started biking for real, and holy f-ck - the cars. I swear to absolute fucking God. The cars man. I've never in my 30+ year life seen so many stupid fucking idiots in traffic. Blind motherfuckers. They are making my blood boil. Today someone decided it was a great time to make a U-turn in the middle of the street. I kept distance but the car was jerking and was indecisive and just stopped forcing me to go right on the curb making me fall head over the handle bar and crash. Not a care in the world the driver just looked at me and drove off. Never in my life have I seen so many stupid people that can't drive. And I've had a drivers license for over 20 years soon.

A common thread among newer cyclists is realizing just how awful drivers are. There are things you simply don't notice — behavior that has been normalized — when you mostly drive. Biking, walking, or rolling through the world changes that.

All the strange stuff around the JFK assassination is because they didn’t want us to know Oswald was doing it for the USSR. It would’ve meant WWIII.

Every time I read a piece about somebody with an “ai-assisted editing process” I feel like I’m watching someone trying to intellectualize a deliberate choice not to think or concentrate

Yes, as a journalist I have one already. Except it's recorder-shaped, so people know what it's doing when I aim it at their face.

"The device doesn’t record automatically... It records all the audio on a 16-GB microSD card... Those recordings can then be saved on a StoryCorps microsite or the family’s own storage... no cloud connection, no Wi-Fi, and no artificial intelligence..."

StoryCorps goes in a new direction to help people realize what they have in common – Second Wave Is it possible to get two strangers from opposite sides of the many divides in this country to talk, and not be at each other's throats? For StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay this is a necessity. "It's our...

This. I wasn't doing anything investigative. But it had me wondering, what's behind this effort?

StoryCorps goes in a new direction to help people realize what they have in common – Second Wave Is it possible to get two strangers from opposite sides of the many divides in this country to talk, and not be at each other's throats? For StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay this is a necessity. "It's our...

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Two dudes who look like some guys from Mad Max on a rental Lime Bike

When the gasoline wars begin are you ready?

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

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5 week old Steak-umm.

Big "holy war" vibes from Pete Hegseth this morning, insinuating that doubting Trump is like doubting Christ

Yesterday, I mention I got into riding from my neighborhood into town on a bike as basic transportation. "Well, what if you lived in (Hilly Neighborhood)." E-bike. I got an e-bike. Have you heard of them?

Lights, rain gear, e-bikes.

Or the well baby who fell down a well when you were young and now is a mugshot.

Young grey and white cat about to swat my iphone.

Half second later, he's swatting the iphone, paw just about hitting the lens.

We got SpicyOats (wife calls him Oatmeal, but he's spicy) a week and a half ago. Young, half-Siamese so he talks, is too smart for us. A lot of sass-back. Here he is, saying "No photos, please." One thing to know for a new cat-haver is, they all have different personalities.

AI slop. How many labels can be added to an image? And where's the joke?

This should be a no-brainer. For Christ's sake STOP Posting obvious AI-generated political cartoons! Bluesky is awash in this shit these days. There are tons of real live human political cartoonists here, posting terrific work. Repost those.

If you're unclear, here's how to spot AI slop:

Where do people think they are, Facebook?

Well, she died in 2000. I know she didn't really like the domestic geese my dad had roaming on the farm, because they pooped everywhere.

In the olden days it was called "promotion." Record labels got the record out to the magazines, got the band out to tour, got the record on the radio stations. It would snowball until Van Halen's "Jump" was playing so much even your mom knew who David Lee Roth was. "He's a crumbum!" -- My mom.

Huh.

a man in a black shirt says you 're done in front of a wooden structure ALT: a man in a black shirt says you 're done in front of a wooden structure

Let's say, that's it for 2026. April 13, sometime around 1 eastern, 2026 is DONE. That's enough.

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Can't have a DoorDash Grandma who's not doordashin'.

LIDSVILLE INTRODUCTION- classic theme! YouTube video by PITTSBURGH VIDEOS

I am old enough. "Lidsville" deeply freaked me out, because I was a boy whose name was Mark.

I'm just writing this out as self-therapy. It's reality. No, I'm not going crazy.

DoorDash Grandma from Arkansas delivers McDs to White House on Fox News, meets President, says she loves no tax on tips because it helps pay for husband's cancer treatments. President says portrait he shared wasn't him as Jesus, it was him as a doctor, because he heals, and she knows that, he says.

This entire clip down to the "Trump Orders McDonalds" crawl at the bottom feels like a fever dream, you couldn't recreate the cultural and societal trajectory that created this moment if you tried for a thousand years

i know i didn't get to vote for them to be astronaut

Imagine some country's lil' pigman coming here to tell us who to vote for.