darren buck @bikepedantic@transportation.social
one of Secretary Pete's ped/bike chair-moisteners in Sector 7G. 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
darren buck
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Hello, @historians.social. I'm migrating over from the h-net instance to see what things are like here. #introduction I'm James Longhurst, a historian of urban and environmental policy; formerly writing bike history, now working on various parking history and #urbanism projects. I'm professor of history at a teaching-intensive public institution in the University of #Wisconsin system. Posting various bike rides, food pics, and gripes about technology.
Went for a shakedown ride, found this big ass fan sitting amongst some curbside castoff stuff. Wouldn’t have found that doing stupid paperwork!
Have i submitted all the overdue paperwork for my kid’s many summer camps? Not yet!
Did I fix the long-dead headlamp on the cargobike which I thought I should try after fixing the steering squeak which came to mind while in the bike shed pondering wall-mount storage hacks? ☑️
Even the dog is looking at me — flitting around working on random stuff that pops in my head, misplacing stuff, avoiding the boring stuff on my to-do list — and thinking, “you need to get screened for ADHD”
Happy end-of-the-February-to-May-holiday-drought Day, everyone
darren buck
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Some people commute to the SF Bay area from Nevada because they can't afford to live close to where they work. Such lower-income #supercommuters are #gasoline #superusers, and prioritising them for subsidies to switch to #EVs would give a quick and big bang for the decarbonisation buck (as well as saving the supercommuters big money in the long term).
https://grist.org/transportation/peak-gasoline-superusers-electric-vehicle-incentives/
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We just joined Mastodon, please follow us. Still more posts to come soon.
First time that I’ve seen this on Google Maps - bicycling included as a first/last mile option for transit trip alternatives.
Trader Joe’s one-quarter of the way to becoming heroes to Canadian expats in the States
Pic of culinary perfection
Peanut butter between two thin mints
Making a conscious effort to not just ride the cargobike everywhere
Anyway, nice end to a week of disasters at work and fighting the bureaucracy of death, but some big fatherhood wins
GLORIUS: old frame that's gotten a bilateral frankenbiking, with a cargo bike front fork, xtracycle longtail rear, plus a front e-hub kit. $1200 in Seattle WA https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/d/seattle-xtracycle-cycletruck-cargo-bike/7624650040.html
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We've been on Mastodon for *9* months now!
Time for a re-#introduction to the new folks here:
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Our team of editors identifies researchers studying topics that are timely, important or just plain interesting, and helps them write understandably for the public.
We give away all this #journalism for free.
If you know new people here who'd be interested, please boost.
https://theconversation.com/us/10-ways-we-are-different
Alarm is set, password is located and tested, profile info updated… Let’s rock this swim class signup tomorrow morn!
Citi Bike: “another one of those great examples of an idea that seemed impossible, and now New York City can’t exist without it.”
DC didn’t think for a minute that it was impossible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/nyregion/citi-bike-10-years-old.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share
one of Secretary Pete's ped/bike chair-moisteners in Sector 7G. 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
