f*cking b*tch club

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social @fullywoolly@mastodon.social thank you for doing that. I refuse to give NYT a dime of my money nor my email address.

@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A8: I can’t figure out a good way to summarize the week. I didn’t know I was capable of riding 400 miles in 8 days without a recovery day built in. I wasn’t even sore at the end! Cycle the Erie Canal is amazingly well organized, other riders said it was practically the gold standard compared to most other tours of that kind. I chose to rent both a tent and a bike—all I had to do was pedal, a smart choice for me. Read the alt-text about the photo inside the Y. #bikenite

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social In my town this is known as “community.” We have a LOT of it. There’s more than one guy with a truck, but then there’s Limon. He has the most dilapidated truck I’ve ever seen. I think it’s literally held together with chewing gum and baling wire, but if you need “someone with a truck”—he’s THE guy to call.

@clhenrick@indieweb.social @ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social Thanks! the first part sounds like a useful rule of thumb, and it’s high time I learned how to patch a tube, so while I’m waiting for a replacement (spare) tube, I’ll tackle that and see how it goes.

@ericm@infosec.exchange @ascentale@sfba.social @edd@freeradical.zone @bikenite@fedigroups.social solid advice! I can’t imagine anyone doing a century without stopping, (except the truly exceptional riders aiming to break records.) If you’re going to stop, build a hearty snack or meal into it. An hour’s rest + refueling makes a huge difference

@ascentale@sfba.social @nwarner@tenforward.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A1: home again in the Hudson valley A1b: on my recent 400 mile Erie Canal ride, I only added air to my tires once all week. I asked other riders—they were kinda evenly split between checking tires every day or only once that week.

@ascentale@sfba.social @geonz@mathstodon.xyz @bikenite@fedigroups.social A1: currently in Canajoharie, NY, part of Cycle the Erie Canal. 64 miles today. Air quality was horrible for two days, but wonderful today. We even got media coverage, but photos aren’t loading. #bikenite

@Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social @transworld@masto.ai they need to change the procedures. This is ridiculous: “any county resident can challenge a book by filling out a single form, and the school is required to remove it from shelves within five days. Putting it back requires a formal hearing. In Clay County, one man exploited that asymmetry to file more than 400 challenges, resulting in 287 books removed in a single school year—titles that included The Handmaid’s Tale, Slaughterhouse-Five, and The Color Purple.“

@Nonilex@masto.ai maybe she wanted out, and knew that if she told the truth she’d be fired….seems like a win to me! 🤪 (don’t get me wrong, she doesn’t belong in any legal job, but she had to know this was an easy exit strategy)

I’m NOT a bike mechanic but I can follow YT videos so I’m pretty proud of myself for removing the rear wheel of my Brompton and finding the puncture in the inner tube. I’ll have to find another video to get the chain back on….. #proudofmyself #bikefixit

@Brownian_motion@mastodon.scot @ascentale@sfba.social @geonz@mathstodon.xyz @bikenite@fedigroups.social I’m riding the 400 miles from Buffalo to Albany. I’ve ridden other sections south of Albany, but north to Canada is all on-road, so I’ll pass.

@elliek@zeroes.ca @ascentale@sfba.social @StevenKennard@zeroes.ca Wow—quite a streak of bad luck with tires!

@ascentale@sfba.social I love getting answers to my questions—so many good points, so much experience! As always, thanks for hosting, Phil.

this guy is fat and happy, comes to munch on my greenery every day. when I saw it like this I thought at first that it wasn’t alive, but then it leaped up and scrambled up the hill to where it has a den. #groundhog

@markn@mastodonapp.uk @MatthewNewell@mastodon.social @ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social I keep thinking there must be a way to make one, but obviously the hard part is making sure the connections are tight enough to be leak proof. But like you, I concluded that I can probably stop and refill a water bottle on most rides.

@MatthewNewell@mastodon.social @markn@mastodonapp.uk @ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social 🤣 ‘Ridiculously high’ vs ‘exorbitantly gouging’—exactly why I haven’t been able to talk myself into buying one

@isol@mastodon.au @clhenrick@indieweb.social @ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social sounds like a good strategy!

@shanselman@hachyderm.io This is fantastic! I esp appreciate the fact that the videos don’t have a sound track. Pure bliss!

@MissConstrue@mefi.social I have questions. In my area, egg prices are stubbornly high at farmers markets. Prices soared during the “avian flu”—some of the farmers chalked it up to having to buy special equipment or feed or medicines…..we paid more for the eggs. But since the indie farmers raised their prices partly due to higher grocery egg prices, will the indie prices come down as well?

Morning views on the last day of #cycletheErieCanal

@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social “The site, known as GW Ranch, got a state permit allowing the proposed power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide, which would make it the biggest pollution site in the U.S., emitting more than the country’s biggest coal power plant” 🤮🤮

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social kinda like how the US govt is being run at the moment. folks with no idea what they’re supposed to be doing, let alone how to do anything, but hey, let’s just shut this part down and fire this group and wow! that was fun! let’s do more of that!

@antongorlin@mastodon.art Stunningly beautiful!

@MissConstrue@mefi.social a very progressive farmer! your points about “everything costs more” are well taken, so now I’m worried about my indie farmers who are charging $10/dozen. If grocery store egg prices fall dramatically, the little guys will get priced out even though their expenses won’t go down….

@davidzipper@mastodon.social Really? my youngest daughter told me when she was taking driver’s ed that her instructor told the kids they didn’t have to obey stop signs in parking lots because they were private property…..I thought she just had a lousy instructor who wanted to sound cool….you mean that’s actually TRUE?

@Nonilex@masto.ai Blanche knows he can’t put anything in writing because it would be a lie, but he’s corrupt enough to see no problem in going along with the scheme. 🤬

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net @ascentale@sfba.social @bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org @bikenite@fedigroups.social I was thinking the same thing myself.

@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks Fascinating!

@exador23@m.ai6yr.org "I can see my camels suffering from extreme heat," Ali Umer, a camel herder from Semera in Afar, told the BBC. "They get blisters on their feet, their eyes become watery and the hot sand burns their skin and eats up their hair when they are sitting," said the 40-year-old who owns around 500 camels. #TooHotForCamels

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social The saddest part of the story for me is how all the “christians” reflexively repeat the same talking points without ever considering whether they are even remotely true. Their BS is like pollen in the air, swirling around, landing on everything, there seems to be no escape from the mindlessness.

@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks I’m not gonna check your math because it sounds solid, but if not bats, then what IS eating mosquitoes?

I found this photo in the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse. The description that goes with it is really important to think about, since it relates to today’s struggles between bikes and cars. Multiple kinds of transportation exist alongside each other and each is necessary. It’s almost never either/or. #cycletheErieCanal

@ascentale@sfba.social @gbargoud@masto.nyc @bikenite@fedigroups.social the “bike chooser app” sounds like crazy fun!

Another event that used to be held on the mall in DC was the solar decathlon, sponsored by the Department of energy (?) Teams from colleges and universities across the country would compete to achieve the highest score in solar efficiency. Each team was challenged to build and power a small house which had to be heated and cooled completely with solar power. They were very innovative! I believe they ended up moving the competition to California. Does anybody else remember the #solardecathlon

The Smithsonian used to hold their Folk Life Festival on the Mall in DC around this time every summer. It was a wonderful event— it was always very crowded as well as very educational. One year the focus was on the Mekong River basin. A group of monks showed their pictorial alphabet. Another year it was Scotland, and a woman demonstrated the process of making fine, knitted lace. Does anyone else remember the folk life festivals? please share your memories. #folklifefestival

@MissConstrue@mefi.social We have lots of backyard chickens in my town too, and once in awhile I score a free dozen that way. Hawks, foxes, raccoons….some years have high chicken mortality rates. Back to prices—I think once they go up, it’s very hard to get them back down.

@thesquirrelfish@sfba.social @davidzipper@mastodon.social Where I grew up a lot of kids learned to drive the family pickup truck on the family farm. A Walmart parking lot is not quite the same as the family farm, certainly it’s a lot more complicated in terms of the number of moving vehicles, and yet both are considered ‘private property’ 🤯

@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social It’s been a week with lots of good bike-related stuff, including a Bike Bus now 4x what it originally was, and 5 new riders in our group ride. But while I was trying to adjust a seat (saddle) I had the unfortunate experience of having the fittings explode into wayy too many washers, and then my multitool chose the same time to come undone. I walked away for a few hours!

@c_9@mstdn.ca Well done, Australia! 3 hours a day is enough to keep most cars powered for daily trips. imagine the reduction in pollution!

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social white men are only 31% of America? You’d never know it if you look at mainstream media.

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social I emailed the president of the university, you can do that too: president@cornell.edu

@ktdoggett@c.im Too bad American politicians don’t talk to him this way. And that photo is perfect!

@Hansonthebike@mastodon.world Interesting! I reserved a copy from my library, but the author is M. R. O’Connor, not Miller.

@xankarn@mastodon.online That Times article is annoyingly bland, and somehow their masks weren’t even mentioned! “wearing clothing associated with the organizations”…..so it’s just the clothing we should be alarmed about?

@MarkBrigham@universeodon.com @bikenite@fedigroups.social @ascentale@sfba.social Someone locally also suggested an interior patch —thanks for adding that tip.

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social surely it’s totally unrelated to the RNC “convention” last week, where Rafael “Ted” Cruz trash-talked about Muslim leaders and allowed someone in the crowd to yell about shooting them. pure coincidence, I’m sure.

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social oops! I didn’t mean to read your diary, but I was walking by and your diary was open and I couldn’t help but see my name in the 3rd paragraph on p 15 as I walked by #theymustthinkwearestoopid

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Thank you for the reminder—we’ve all forgotten about him! I hate to be cynical, but are the monsters in the White House going to prop him up as an example of “dead people voting“?

@ArrowbearMoore@toad.social @JulianOliver@mastodon.social I hadn’t seen the article last year, this is great:

“It’s crazy that we celebrate people who are billionaires. It should be illegal for Christ’s sake. It’s got nothing to do with money, and everything to do with how big their dick is. We should have awards and whenever someone achieves $100 million, which is already obscene, we give them a bronze statue of a dick, and when you get $1 billion, we could give them an even bigger dick.”

@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks Whoa! really? a jumping spider can nab an adult mosquito flying past? I know dragonflies eat a lot of mosquitoes, but they are formidable fliers (I guess I should have said my question about bats eating mosquitoes applies to “at night”)