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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 9h

Share a four word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

merge conflict detached head

Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 15h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

The drives were clicking.

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 15h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Animate taking off jacket

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 10h

Blanton Woods in Danville was a wonderful offroad excursion (and shortcut). One of the great things about riding a gravel bike with 700c x 38mm all-road tires is that it can readily handle almost anything (sure, slowly at times).

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 11h

Return trip at ludicrous speed and potato quality

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 11h

Yesterday I completed a 100-km ride along the full length of the B&O rail trail from Indianapolis to the back roads of Hendricks County, including an offroad section through Blanton Woods.

I've uploaded a highlights video, which includes the full return trip at 25x speed youtu.be/rGhzTvZU5L0

Indianapolis B&O Trail COMPLETE!

YouTube video by Kevin Retzke

youtu.be

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 21h

That bridge is really cool. Reminds me of the one on the Dust Bowl 100 route near Fillmore (39.695941, -86.784318).

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 22h

“Looking for something different? Check out our non-Euclidean lines!”

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 22h

my bicycle takes me places
my soul could never reach

A drop-bar all-road bicycle with frame and rear rack packs leaning against a wooden railing in a heavily wooded area, sun shining through the trees illuminating the leaves covering the narrow path.

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 1d

Nice ride! I did something quite similar today, but just tooled around the backroads of Hendricks County, heading down to Blanton Woods in Danville and back. Beautiful day!

Garmin map of bicycle ride west out of Indianapolis. Total distance 64 miles in about four and a half hours.

Bicycle leaning against the sign at the eastern trailhead for the B&O trail in Indianapolis

B&O trail artwork made of an old railroad signal in a circle of concrete benches, surrounded by fall wildflowers, with the trail going through a tunnel in the background

Bicycle leaning against a wooden railing in a heavily wooded area, leaves covering the narrow path.

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 2d

fun fact: formal "hello" in Finnish is "hei," so to an English speaker it sounds like everyone is super chill all the time

(the informal greeting is "moi")

(Finnish people are super chill)

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 2d

@beefanddairy.bsky.social covered this recently. Except it was quails breeding with superquail that were engineered to be used as cattle feed. It didn't go well. Nevertheless…

can we use feral superhogs as cattle feed?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jan 9

here is the current tactical map of where feral swine populations have consolidated

the major worry is if the Canadian superhogs end up making their way down south and breeding with the American hogs

Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 3d

This one was out there last year and didn't seem to work either. Or maybe like the proverbial genie is has an unexpected interpretation of those wishes…

"Push button for walk" sign with a sticker put over "walk" saying "fuck nazis / fuck cops / fuck trump".

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 3d

The B&O trail officially opened yesterday, connecting Indianapolis to Hendricks County, after construction on the final segment near Country Club Rd was completed this summer.

It's very exciting, anyone who's tried riding around here before knows how terrible the alternative routes were!

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 5d

Sounds an awful lot like depression doesn’t it?

And hell yeah Ethiopian. Axum in Indianapolis is so damn good.

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 5d

Hah, I was wondering about that pitting during a run up there a couple weeks ago. “Someone must have screwed up and mixed in the wrong aggregate…”

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 5d

Losing the Mad Ants would be a tragedy but I think we can live with Fort Wayne, Ohio

Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 5d

the Forbidden Donut, vestige of Homer's soul, is certainly nontrivial; also some would argue a donut doesn't even belong on an axis of bread, hence "forbidden" (tho the GBBO firmly closed that in the last bread week).
And now I've definitely thought about this too much. Thanks for the fun diversion!

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 5d

nothingburger does make for a good origin

Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 5d

any room for the forbidden doughnut?

a cartoon of homer simpson saying " mmmm...forbidden donut "

Alt: a cartoon of homer simpson saying " mmmm...forbidden donut "

media.tenor.com

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 5d

thematically, what if you upgraded tortilla to "the whole enchilada"?

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 5d

This looks really interesting. I'm personally torn over rail trails; I'm saddened by the loss they represent—accessible widespread public transit wholly replaced by private transportation—but I love cycling on them and appreciate what the auto has done to bring many things and people closer.

Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 5d

Thrilled that someone finally made a documentary about the rail trail movement that treats that history for what it is: a fascinating and shockingly controversial story about the right to public space, which is every bit as epic as the battle against the highway movement (which sometimes overlaps).

The Shocking Untold History of America's Rails-to-Trails Movement — Streetsblog USA

Some of the fiercest battles for the future of public space in America have happened on abandoned railway corridors — and the battles aren't over yet.

usa.streetsblog.org

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 5d

name and shame?

Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 6d

Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 6d

These witches are not to be underestimated, for they have mastered the ability to float in water, thus subverting the most cutting-edge detection methods our scientists have yet devised.

A flotilla of people in witches hats floating in kayaks under a bridge.

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 6d

When I went to the gym this morning, a beautiful warm sun was rising above Indianapolis. When I left, clouds had chilled the air and a coven of witches and their familiars were performing some ancient ritual.

The sun rising over downtown Indianapolis, illuminating a partially clouded sky and the central canal, reflecting off the broad glass windows of the Indiana State Museum.

A view from nearly the same vantage point, now with gray skies and a few dozen people in black lined up along both sides of the canal.

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Kevin Retzke @kmr.me · 9d

Right after the camera panned up the squirrel started running towards one of the trees, then changed direction and ran into the street, where it paused while thinking over the capriciousness of life…

Downtown Cleveland? Sorry but that squirrel is toast. Good on Sup to try though.

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