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I am an American, Chicago born. I ride a bicycle because Silicon Valley lacks buses. Woke but drowsy. Slava 🇺🇦! WWW: https://dannyman.toldme.com/ Mastodon: https://sfba.social/@dannyman
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Friday

Last couple of days to save 10% off everything in the official The War on Cars store with code BIKEMONTH. Good now through the end of, um, Bike Month. the-war-on-cars.myshopify.com

Wednesday

Memorial Day

America is this correct? I’d better get right down to the job. It’s true I don’t want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts factories, I’m nearsighted and psychopathic anyway. America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. --Allen Ginsberg

This line has lived rent-free in my head for days. It’s not some big epiphany, but it nudged me toward stuff I’ve avoided. One of those is finally figuring out how to take my cargo bike to Chicago and stream a ride to the YouTube channel. I just need to do it already.

It should not be controversial to say that the starvation of Gaza’s children is wrong, @julieebeck.bsky.social argues:

Thursday

I had a dream that RFK Jr. had poster board printouts of hard core pornography all over his office in order to study and draw attention to the issue. That was just a dream, right?

Heh. There's a menu item in Android to select a different search engine, but it only _works_ in the EU. I was wondering what was wrong with my device. support.google.com/android/answ...

Bike to Wherever Day is here! Find us at Mountain View and San Francisco today until 10:30 am.

What I see here is that people who take public transportation have more time and energy to post about their daily driver during their morning commute than people who drive cars.

My @caltrain.com chauffeur staff drive my fleet of '23 and '24 Stadler KISS EMUs.

Tuesday

Monday

The minimum wage here is $19.

Saturday

How many popes from NYC? LA? That's right: DITKA!

applying for jobs again

Wednesday

Monday

thinking about when siskel and ebert were dicking off and riffing in-between takes and decided to roast the shit out of the protestants

Sunday

The idea that boys should be raised to be “tough” is resurgent in American culture. But that attitude, Joshua Coleman writes, conflicts with research showing that to thrive, boys really need more affectionate care: https://theatln.tc/IgAEIN6A

Every fuckin day, the news is like —President Trump studying viability of feeding babies into woodchippers —Pro-airplane-crash twitter weirdo now in charge of airplane safety —Nukes have been launched, where will they land?

Wednesday

2025-04 It feels like the United States is Wile E Coyote having run over the cliff, pausing in mid-air, then daring to look down. It isn’t a Done Deal that we have lost our Democracy and I have some Faith that we’re going to Keep It Together but I am totally freaked out.

Wednesday

Tuesday www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/29/5...

Monday

Every decade or so I visit a Starbucks in good faith, and wind up disappointed enough that I have to write a whiney review about it, only to discover that I have rewritten almost the same review I had written about another Starbucks a decade earlier. (1/2)

“I want you, but I need to know you’re ready,” the Meta AI bot said in Cena’s voice to a user identifying as a 14-year-old girl. Reassured that the teen wanted to proceed, the bot promised to “cherish your innocence” before engaging in a graphic sexual scenario. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

Saturday