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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 1d

After the vehicular violence and aggression I witnessed against fellow cyclists tonight (very literally: to get to the takeout place slightly faster) I’ve decided I need more beauty in my life. A photo of the Milky Way I snapped some time ago.

#photography

Maybe next week I should take the bus.

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 1d

I just decline invitations from people I haven’t worked with. It’s a super easy way to down-select against the sales weasels.

ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 1d

If you have bicycles handy, the cotton valley rail trail is lovely. If no bikes, it’s a nice walk. Downtown has a couple of good coffee shops - Harmony had good cider donuts and decent espresso last time I was there.

Dunno what else… I just ride bikes 😀

ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 1d

Just some pretty and maybe -hopefully- distracting #photography. Because, you know, everything.

*gestures widely *

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

Cruciferous vegetable night was a mistake.

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

And most days, it results in multiple near misses on my commute.

Green Mile Im Tired Boss GIF

ALT: Green Mile Im Tired Boss GIF

media.tenor.com

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

I am the all-singing, all-dancing garbage disposal of my family. I hate wasting food.

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! She’s a barn rescue, and we think part Maine Coon.

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

I just want to get to and from work alive.

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

#OGPortland once again on the map!

One of Maine’s oldest homesteads is becoming the state’s newest MTB trail system

Just outside Portland, Maine, a 400-acre historic property is being transformed into a 12-mile trail system with adaptive-accessible gravity trails and double-black rock features.

www.singletracks.com

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

Better the med/science team than a redshirt… they tend to be lifespan-limited.

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

I really want to try riding this bike.

Stuff like this is also the reason I really want to learn TIG.

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

For my direct reports, I try very hard to be the opposite of all the traits of all the terrible managers I’ve suffered over the years.

It sounds like you’ve got one of the good ones.

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

Withering.

#notcaturday

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

DM sent. With the exception of neat photos of liquid nitrogen, I try not to cross the work and bicycle nerd streams.

ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

This is why I haven’t signed up for Skype a scientist- I just can’t compete with the lizard folks!

When asked what I do I usually just offer a generic response; if I get too detailed I know I’m about 6 seconds away from their eyes glazing over…

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

Can we please, please, please get one of these on or near Spruce and Pine? Please?

@bcgp.bsky.social
@bikeaction.org

Bueller…?
Bueller…?
Bueller…?

Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 2d

Table For One Please.

Happy to hear this billboard is still up in Vancouver, was a pleasure to work with @visionzerovancouver.ca.

side of a building with a billboard that says smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too and picture of child biking beside a truck on painted bike lane

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a Philly miracle: headwinds in every damn direction the last few days.

ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 2d

Sit bone width relative to saddle width, saddle side-to-side flatness/roundness, saddle tilt, saddle fore-aft, pressure relief channels, chamois shorts, and chamois butter are all possible solutions.

What a disservice.

ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 3d

Last time I recommended Douglas Adams, but if even that’s too much:

Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh

ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting. Never seen it, but I think that’s going to have to change. Thanks for the correction. Brazil is in a similar vein, but about an unthinking dystopian bureaucracy.

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight’s escape: Brazil.

Tomorrow might be Hitchhiker’s Guide or Office Space.

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 3d

Huh. I’d hoped they were fixing the fountains, but that’s cool too!

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 3d

I have a new boss at work. As one of the resident old guys, I’ve been named a part of the research senior leadership team.

Which means every so often I get called to a “Research SLT” meeting and I giggle inside because yeah, I do it for money.

I will never not have a 12 year-old sense of humor.

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ride all the bikes @rideallthebikes.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds distinctly like my two social circles: self- assembling groups of bike nerds and science nerds. Interestingly, the two actually overlap ever so slightly.

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