Prince rides a bike near his paisley park compound

Remembering a true legend today.

If we’re doing nuclear airport takes: if you’re going there for less than six months, you’re not going to be doing anything requiring specialized equipment, and you’re not going to an extremely austere or remote place, which is >90% of most people’s travel, checking baggage is a skill issue.

Came to post the same screenshot 😂

Just ten thousand more lanes bro I swear

I think a lot about how we could just close like 20-30% of Minneapolis residential streets to cars, or make them annoying to drive on (e.g. much narrower) and it would barely impact commute times/convenience for most people while significantly improving their quality of life

Dozens of pinkish cones of lilac flowers blooming. A chain link fence is visible in front. A tall brick building is behind.

You can't smell the lilacs blooming from your car.

There are a handful of bushes we walk past for school stop off. It's nice to watch spring arrive.

😥

Sorry, but that's very wrong. Local streets and roads get almost nothing from gas taxes, most of that is from local property and sales taxes. Even at the state and federal level, user fees (gas tax, registration , etc.) don't cover the full cost of roads, let alone all the external costs.

Our engineers have virtually no training in how to construct safe streets and continue to follow "standards" that are decades out of date. They have directly said uniformity is more important than context and, by association, safety.

Yeah, I was pretty surprised when a cop in one of their giant oversized SUVs did actually stop for me the other day.

This is impressive work to address primarily gun-related homicides. Meanwhile, St Paul has had four people killed by drivers through the end of March. SPPD appears to focusing on the right things. SP Public Works, MnDOT, and Ramsey County are lagging behind in addressing vehicular violence.

Definitely very much needed for some parts of it!

a woman says excuse me , i have to go back to a city where things happen . ALT: a woman says excuse me , i have to go back to a city where things happen .

To be fair, I have almost no desire to go to Eden Prairie, because I live in a city, where things happen.

Flock cameras have useful, modular electronic components in them, including:

- Rechargeable lithium iion battery with solar panel
- 5G LTE modem
- 5MP 16mm camera with IR filter

Plus various other components with precious metals that can be harvested for scrap.

This is all just a set up. Most productive council in history, most diverse, and people who just work really hard for our neighbors. We get made to be punching bag to tee up for the charter amendment on the ballot to strip council power and in turn constituent power. Don’t fall for it.

I have spoken in real life to more than half of the Indianapolis city councilors and with one (1) exception they are all stupid losers.

Two very bad no good distinctive things about the western hemisphere:

1. Our societies are bafflingly violent compared to old world societies
2. We think beef is a staple food

What a heart break. So sorry 😥

I took this recommendation from @americanfietser.bsky.social & highly recommend it as well! I've bounced around between TurboTax (which I agree can get fucked) & others in the past. This interface was cheap, simple, intuitive, & they easily imported past data so starting fresh was quick & easy.

Motorists kill 45k Americans a year, cost a fortune in subsidies, and create massive mobility barriers. Yet the minute you propose better non-car transit in cities, suddenly everyone is a rural chicken farmer delivering their harvest downtown and you’re destroying their way of life.

Purple bike leaning against a railing on a pedestrian bridge, with a colorful pannier on the back, overlooking a foggy view where downtown Minneapolis is obscured, and cars moving along a freeway below.

Day 14 #30DaysOfBiking 🚲
Can’t see downtown.
Heard it’s in decline.
Probably the bike lanes.

We also have a solution for this.

Shortly after the pandemic started, I wasn't driving almost at all and we decided to go from 2 to 1 cars, using the money from the sale to pay off our other car and buy me a nice e-bike. That e-bike changed my life within weeks. I made friends, got more exercise, & got really familiar with my city.

I'm glad to still have it though my work library. Libraries are so damn valuable.

i made ~30k-45k for my entire twenties and was always able to afford living in the city (boston, then chicago) because i didn't own a car. and i was never late to work because i biked

I had plenty of complaints, but the fact that she couldn't even be firmly committed to Medicare for all in one of the safest districts in the country is pretty embarrassing.

If you're c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶a̶i̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶p̶a̶r̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ in Blaine, you're doing it wrong.

Just complete weak sauce.

I mean, all the stuff they're doing kind of has that aim too 😜🙃 No vaccines = kid death. Women with no rights or roles beyond trad moms.

If they make us all poor and forced to revert back to subsistence farming, I guess we'll have a lot of kids again.