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I Built World's Fastest School Bus

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 2d

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 2d

Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary pals, I present Westen Champlin, who I trust will be remembered as a primary philosopher of the 21st century (not even joking!):

"The most permanent solution is a temporary one that works too well."

Preach!

youtu.be/6vABNRUuAgI?...

YouTube video by Westen Champlin

Philly Bike Ride returns for fourth year

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 2d

Philly Bike Ride's comin' up! Saturday, 18 October!

billypenn.com/2025/10/01/p...

The Philly Bike Ride is back on the streets of Philadelphia Saturday, Oct. 18, for its fourth year bringing a car-free “party on two wheels.”

billypenn.com

SEPTA inspections cause major delays for Regional Rail users - WHYY

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 2d

I repeat myself, but I sure am glad that SEPTA has a capital budget to afford replacing/rehabbing these cars the FRA labeled unsafe.

Wait, what? PA still doesn't have an approved budget? When it finally does, probably no money will be put back into the capital budget?

whyy.org/articles/sep...

The federally mandated inspections of SEPTA’s Silverliner trains come after several fires. New sensors will be added to warn of a possible fire.

whyy.org

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 3d

On behalf of my friends in NOLA:

1. Yeah, kinda, could you not? But:

2. Fuck you, weather & climate change. Bring it.

Stephanie ghost of Stephanie @pagnificent.bsky.social · 3d

Jerry, no

Climate Central @climatecentral.org · 3d

Tropical Storm #Jerry formed Tuesday, expected to turn north before reaching the Caribbean.

An October storm isn’t unusual...but the ocean heat feeding it is.

So far, Jerry’s traveled over above-average warmth made 10x–20x more likely by human-caused climate change.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 3d

(That is, I'd never use the "throb" setting while riding. I certainly actually use the light. What is that setting even *for*? Being visible but having irregular visibility yourself? What?)

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, let’s try that “throb” setting on a bike headlight I’d never use on a bike!

"I SHOULD'VE BEEN ****** P7!": Fernando Alonso Team Radio after finishing in P8 at 2025 Singapore GP

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 4d

See also, thanks Rodolphe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=clzx...

YouTube video by ThatOneFormula

Rammstein - Heirate Mich (Live 2022)

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah! Get 'em, Fernando! #f1 #singapore

Screenshot of the F1TV broadcast displaying radio traffic between Fernando Alonso's engineer, Andrew Vizard, and the driver.

AV: "34 to go."
FA: "If you speak to me every lap, I will disconnect the radio."

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 4d

(I'm not saying the song doesn't Go Hard, because it absolutely does, and that performance is *insane*. But I don't think that English-only speakers understand what's expressed by the lyrics.)

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 4d

Did you know that "Du Hast" is not the only prank Rammstein had played on their English-only-speaking audience?

Go learn some conversational German (preferably by way of a human being rather than that green bird, but, hey, you do you), and check out "Hierate Mich".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmrp...

YouTube video by Rammstein live Recording 2 3 4

Marathon In-depth #51 The Big House - Marathon 2 - Bungie's Marathon Trilogy

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 4d

(In the interest of "full disclosure": I helped edit the script for this video, and generally for Jeoku's Marathon content for a few months now. But I'm precisely doing that because I think it's cool! He's not paying me, and I wouldn't take it if he offered.)

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 4d

My friend Jeoku's rundown (as part of his ongoing "Marathon [no, the old one] In Depth" YouTube series) of the longest and most arduous level in Marathon 2, "The Big House".

(There might be a very obvious joke buried up there, but it's not that I'm friends with J.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=32kS...

YouTube video by Jeoku

My Quest to Find the Weirdest 90s Toy Ever

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 4d

Ahem: "but IT and…"

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 4d

I'd never heard of @kurtis-conner.bsky.social before this video, but and his whole attitude kicks ass!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewnj...

YouTube video by Kurtis Conner

Johnny Cash - San Quentin (Live at San Quentin, 1969)

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 4d

Sneak peek of next week's @wednightrides.org (route still subject to change after testing; URL will remain the same).

ridewithgps.com/routes/52376...

The graphic provided by Ride with GPS of this cycling route. The path starts, in West Philadelphia, at 48th & Market St., follows the 31 bus route broadly eastward to cross the Chestnut St. bridge (a deviation from the bus route, which uses Market, but there's a lot of construction on Market just west of the Schuylkill right now; the route also follows Locust further west than the bus does, to avoid the bottleneck that a group of cyclists would encounter turning right, south, at City Hall onto 15th St), loops the Korean War Memorial on Delaware Ave., then heads west back to Broad Street, and finishes just south of Washington Ave at Solar Myth (the old Boot & Saddle).

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, for those halcyon times the US was imprisoning folks (some times: wrongly) at San Quentin (and similar), rather than black-bagging them and, I guess on my tax dollar, flying them to a country they were probably seeking asylum from.

Coool.

youtu.be/7e2B-thaJG0

YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO

PJ Harvey - Dress - HD Live (V Festival 2003)

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, remember PJ Harvey? Yeah, me too.

youtu.be/A29BMj3v86w

YouTube video by AgoraVoxFrance

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gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 5d

… and with the white light. (I’ve got a bag of IKEA tea candles somewhere around here, which I’ll probably use on All Hallow’s Eve.)

gr (he/him) @0x6772.bsky.social · 5d

Video (because light emission from the sides matters!) with the red light: