darren is Not Going Back @bikepedantic@transportation.social
Bikes and stuff. Widow, dad, taking it bird-by-bird.
So many things are improved by 🦪,🚲, & 🪕.
Just me, very much not my employer. Opting in to be searchable via #tootfinder. #fedi22
Joined Feb 2023
"I got a lot of work to do, any chance you could pick up my kid from school?" is not a thing i will ever ask a member of my work family to do.
It's 2023, how are we not yet at the point where execs know not to refer to the workplace as a 'family'?
Boston local news magazine show 'Chronicle' devoted a whole episode to bicycling, and no lie, it was really well done. Here's one segment, navigate to their homepage to see the other three.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/bike-education-safety-efforts-boston-pedal-power-1699486223/45784478
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Yet another piece of evidence that American "cars" are getting way too big: all reports are that Kelly Oubre Jr. was struck in the *upper chest* by the hit and run driver. He's an average-sized NBA player at 6'7" - imagine if he were "just" an average-sized person?
Friends peer-pressuring me to do a 5K turkey trot, which would be my first running race in like 10 years, and I’m just feeling good about this rn
Death, taxes, and 80+ y/o family members describing the side effects of Coumadin
FYI the Teasing episode of Bluey is back on Disney +
If you make errands fun, are they even still errands?
Two things here:
1. Offering me these, and not ketchup ‘flavour,’ is a stunning continuing failure of US capitalism, and
2. Yeah I bought them and they’re fucking delicious.
Happy 20% off Bosch 500 ebike batteries at REI to all who observe https://www.rei.com/product/181983/bosch-powerpack-500-frame-battery?sku=1819830001&store=143&CAWELAID=120217890010475278&CAGPSPN=pla&CAAGID=113279934153&CATCI=aud-830183485327%3Apla-297455113653&cm_mmc=PLA_Google%7C21700000001700551_1819830001%7C92700058217368285%7CBA%7C71700000074726922&gclid=CjwKCAiAxreqBhAxEiwAfGfndIJ1s0RYvxBScEEKHHfsLIbbONf2PGvst1v7DyeotgNIUWoD00Ky6hoCSqUQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&fbclid=IwAR34HuU9hxFfHMOlKRqMVPj-DmCTluvOmUnni6WUEn2DdYxfdp9CU8VqS4Q_aem_Aa8ZBH2mwiVR_nGq3X_zsnS8PVVU5kcsC6fhmdcPflLAfPzXqoqDO7wfm6fml2kQ014
With a taste of your lips I’m on a ride
You’re toxic I’m slipping under
With a taste of a poison paradise
I’m addicted to you
Don’t you know that you’re toxic?
Sportsball
Don’t judge a book by its cover, except Joe Burrow. Judge that guy harshly.
also, maybe don't fuck with us, Joan Pickett.
If/when I get my head back in the game of active transportation work, Peabody Bike Bus is gonna be a big part of that. It's weekly inspiration and purpose for me. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/08/metro/all-aboard-cambridge-bike-bus-where-parents-kids-find-strength-numbers/
Having some Cambridge buyer's-remorse. If I wanted to stress about whether or not lofty bike network plans ever came to fruition, i would have been happier overall in Somerville. A promise of a network was codified, and we relied on that.
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“She died without learning a secret: She'd played with the Beatles” https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/caroline-buckman-obituary-beatles-1.7020774
Couple that with the news that someone riding a bike suffered severe injuries on a street with unprotected bike lanes as voting wound down yesterday... just a sad morning for Cantabrigians who bike. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/07/metro/cyclist-suffers-life-threatening-injuries-cambridge-crash/
Good morning. If you’re in search of unhappy morning-after election news — the woman who led a lawsuit seeking to overturn Cambridge MA’s landmark Cycling Safety Ordinance won a seat on the City Council last night. https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/electioncommission/news/2023/11/11723cambridgemunicipalelectionpreliminaryunofficialresults
darren is Not Going Back
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Bikes and stuff. Widow, dad, taking it bird-by-bird.
So many things are improved by 🦪,🚲, & 🪕.
Just me, very much not my employer. Opting in to be searchable via #tootfinder. #fedi22
Joined Feb 2023
