IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

Li-ion after-market starter batteries are sold for many EVs. I've got one in my Leaf. Has worked fine for a year. Cost about 50% more but supposedly will last at least 2x

Thanks! Unfortunately,Tiz only comes thru at 720p, which doesn't cast very well.

Screen shot from FloBike showing Paris-Roubaix not available

I turned off Peacock. Hopefully #bikesky will keep me informed of Paris-Roubaix

Peacock has enshitified #Paris-Roubaix cycling. 5-6 minutes of race then 3 minutes of commercials. Impossible to get into the rhythm of the race. The golden age of cycling coverage is over.

Refusal to Review I wrote the below email, when invited to review a paper that was partially processed by ChatGPT. As I imagine the email could be useful inspiration for others, I decided to make it available. Feel …

“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.”

irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...

A fine thing about Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota novels is that the first page tells you whether you will love them. If you can enjoy this style, and you are not put off by the obvious warnings, you'll probably have a great time.

@adapalmer.bsky.social

You can have 100-year floods two years in a row.

I had a joke, but after satisfying Reviewer 2 it's no longer funny.

*Caprock

Horizon of red canyon walls under blue sky with wispy white haze. Scruffy green and grey brush in the middle, and red dirt in the foreground.

Smooth red sandy bike/hike trail from the foreground curves off to the left with rougher red landscape and low brush to left. To the right are some scrubby green bushes and a hill.

Blue-grey mountain bike leaning against a bush amidst dry yellow grasses. A red canyon wall sweeps from the upper left corner down across the background in the distance.

More biking in Caproco Canyon, Texas

Photograph of a bicycle with green panniers parked next to a green tent on a flat desert plain of scrub brush with mountains on the horizon under a wide blue sky

Photograph of a desert plain of scrub brush leading to mountains on the horizon under a blue sky with wispy white clouds

60km of nothing but 12-15km/h headwind today. And with ~500m of elevation gain, I'm living up to the account name!😜 I'm retracing the route up US95 to Tonopah as I start to make my way northward in earnest, hoping Spring will advance with me.🤞🏼
#BikeSky #BicycleTravel

Three people in green, red, and blue shirts walking their bikes into a tunnel with darkness ahead

Three bikers walking their bikes into the light at the end of the tunnel.

There's probably a meme in these

White gravel bike with orange stripes leaning up against wood beams supporting a tunnel entrance

Obligatory bike lean

Trestle bridge on the left over a brush-filled valley

Gravel bike ride out of Caprock Canyon, Texas

Blue-gray mountain bike posed on a ledge above a dirt track that leads off into the far canyon

More Caprock Canyon MTB

Weather for Quitaque, Texas with high wind warning and blowing dust

But not the ideal wind speeds for biking. Mostly 25-30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph.

Blue-gray mountain bike posed on a ledge above a dirt track that leads off into the far canyon

More Caprock Canyon MTB

Blue-gray mountain bike leaning against a dead scrub bush at the lip of a canyon.

Biking Caprock Canyon in Texas

You should write the books that fill the gap between Nicollo and Lymond. The story of the first Baron Crawford and Sybilla in the landscape of early 16th century France would be fantastic. I think you're the only author with both the historical knowledge and writing/plotting skills to pull it off

I now understand why my favorite authors are Dorothy Dunnett and Ada Palmer.

Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …

My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title!

WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS
Yes, *all*
And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think...

I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!

I propose the first law of AI: No AI shall be allowed permission to "rm -rf"

*not sure where that link came from

If you're near a university, contact profs who teach undergrad fluid mech in Mech Eng and Civil Eng. If they've been at it awhile they probably have dozens of fluid mech books floating around their office that they got free from publishers. I'm always glad to donate a book to a good cause.

I'm envious of how close you will be to great MTB trails

Congrats!

It's now a bank. Once the owner didn't want to run it anymore the the property was too expensive to buy and run a drive-,n.

The Kow Korner in Oak Harbor, Wash. Closed in 2000. It was a 50s style drive-in cause that's when it opened. Basic burgers, excellent fries, and an awesome milkshake. Lots of parking for meet-ups and finding out where the Friday kegger was happening (cell phones killed the "where's the party?" hang)