On today's ratfuck:

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We (as in my peer group, via a distinct, past theme ride) did this with tacos de canasta, i.e. a basket of greasy-n-steamy tacos (insulated w/ thick towels and some parchment paper.)

There was also an horchata bike which became easier and easier to steer as the evening went on.

Well, I went to do politics but now I’m inspired and am gonna go do some marinara.

Dead laptop, apparently.

Sea Salt opens tomorrow!

Fri April 17 at 11am

Awww(woo): the neighbors’ cute furball dog singing along to the tornado siren.

Awooo!

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

The 2019 ProPublica TurboTax investigation never gets old

There’s a ring of the approx right size dangling next to the cog in Taylr’s video: hopefully that’s it and not a dust-cover/seal.

The snap ring should press on if you can line up everything again; a flathead screwdriver might help press the ring on.

This is all way easier if you take the wheel off, but if you’re patient and hate yourself a bit, you can manage it with the wheel on.

Diagram of a Shimano 3 Speed Nexus cog/drive assembly from page 15 of the service manual: https://si.shimano.com/en/pdfs/dm/SG0005/DM-SG0005-07-ENG.pdf

If it’s a three speed, you probably pulled the snap ring (A) that holds the cog in place. The snap ring is probably still on there dangling next to the cog.

Close-up of a Shimano SG-3C41 hub, logo side

Close-up of a Shimano SG-3C41 hub, back side with model number

Those hubs have model numbers on them which you can use to pull up the service manual on how that specific hub should be set up: si.shimano.com/en/#/en/sear...

I’m a competent home mechanic and can have a look at it. Bonus: I’ve got a spare Nexus hub to swap out on the odd chance that one is toast.

Optimally though, I just take off the wheel and reassemble the pieces that are currently dangling about.

I bicycle commuted, socialized, and generally lived without a car, year round, in Seattle for fifteen years.

- Bicycle lights exist and are normal gear
- The rain is pretty much grocery store mister rain
- Use your shifters for hills, that’s what gearing is for; plus downhilling is fun

The legs of someone sitting on a stoop, wearing black legging, black boots, and brown spats. Photo from: https://trandotnguyen.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/spats/

Unworn, brown, canvas spats against a white background.

Fabric Horse used to make spats out of waxed canvas: those spats were my go to pant-n-sock guard for riding around drizzly Seattle.

You can still get spats from surplus/militaria stores, with variants on Etsy and such.

Fiduciary!

Look, sometimes you just wanna sit back and pick in comfortable leggings that say “Hot Lick” across the butt.

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I, in contrast, read Dale street signs around town in Spanish, so they’re a bunch of callouts to Pitbull in my brain.

TBF, it’s “Dump The MotherFucker *Already*”, so DTMFA, as far as the Dan Savage connection goes.

The term was popularized by the Dan Savage’s “Savage Love” column, in the yesteryears.

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

Me, in a black Sinister Minnesotans t-shirt and plaid pants, holding a white ceramic casserole dish that says “Suspicious Hot Dish” on the side.

A close up of the white ceramic casserole dish that says SUSPICIOUS HOT DISH in black font

The Onion cartoon of ICE beating a Minnesotan who is wearing a black top that says Sinister Minnesotans and is holding a casserole dish that says Suspicious Hot Dish

I FINALLY HAVE A SUSPICIOUS HOT DISH CASSEROLE DISH

I am so stoked 😂

Really makes you think.

I meant self-guided, but your reward is more Mexican food, so self serving kinda works.

You’re just slowly self-serving your way into the magical world of Mexican foods that are essentially variants on the tortilla + bean theme.

Check out a “tlayuda” or a “huarache”.

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

It’s not a proper monument to colonialism without some slave labor.

Later: “We’re saving money on labor by using all these detained illegals! God bless DHS: they’ve been providing these illegals with a roof and food and it’s time for them to pay their fair share.”