spokesmama.bsky.social
Parent, cargobiker, #HUBcycling Bike Education Coordinator, #CyclingWithoutAge Pilot. The world is burning; bikes are part of the solution.
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It's possible AI is just making shit up 🤣 The style looks right though.
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That was the title of the painting, according to what I saw. She does often paint titles or other text somewhere in the painting. Her signature looks like this, not necessarily high contrast in all her paintings: www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1...
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Google Lens helped me find the artist: Lynne Ogg, American, self-taught. She sells her work on Etsy.
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There is a rapidly growing list of specific examples in reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace
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Wow, my ungrateful crows haven't paid me a cent. I've probably put out at least $20 worth of peanuts & dog kibble over the past year that I've been feeding them too. 😜
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I'm really tempted to make some to see how weird! 🤣
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Ahhh, so they're *SECRET PANTS* when buttoned. That makes more sense. I was trying to figure out how the crotch area would work if they totally opened up as a skirt. 🤣
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That makes sense. Where I live, bike theft is rampant, so I wouldn't leave a bike outside overnight at all if I could help it, even with a couple of locks.
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Yeah these look like they *might* be convertible from skirt to culottes?
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Are they just cafe locked, or do people chain them to something fixed?
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🤣🤣 it took me a minute to realize what I was looking at.
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I wonder if anyone out there has made a heated bike saddle? 🤣
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Oh, wow, that's fantastic!
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How big is the neighbourhood? I looked at merwede.nl but I don't understand much Dutch & couldn't get a sense of the scale from the conceptual renderings.
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You don't sell this one now? ðŸ˜
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A wasteland, truly. 😜
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Liberate us?!? Liberate us from what? From a 99% literacy rate & a murder rate less than half the US?
From socialized medicine & reasonably priced eggs?
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OMG, they really were. I had one jump in front of me (I guess he forgot how 2-way stops work?) suddenly along 16th Ave. I slammed on the brakes & skidded on the wet road, came within maybe a foot of T-boning the idiot.
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Yeah, that was weird--I noticed a few messages about it later on the Alertable app, but didn't get the provincial alert.
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Tourtiere with mole.
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Looks like it!
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THISSSSSS
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Also: actually stopping & looking both ways at stop signs & red lights.
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Yup. Having an ebike allowed me to keep cycling my kids to school right up to the day before I had my first hip replacement surgery. & 2 years later, I can still ride as my other hip heads toward needing replacement.
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How is that thing street legal?!?
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Put out as garbage in THAT condition?!? Wow.
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They actually smile for your staged photos? 😜 Mine have been refusing for years. If I'm lucky, I get something like this:
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Also, it should be pronounced like "doggy".
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Couple other things I thought of: don't assume all the kids know how to ride or have a bike. I always mention that my students are 7-75, so the ones who don't know yet don't feel bad about it. & If you know local resources for free/low cost bikes for kids, bring that info to leave with the teacher.
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I was a bike Ed instructor for 6 years, mainly working with kids 9-12, now I coordinate the programs so I don't teach as much, but let me know if you have any more specific questions. Happy to help.
I highly suggest you bring props also--your bike, helmet, lights, pannier/basket, rain/snow gear.
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Ah fuck, I'm so sorry. I've lost a baby at 17 weeks, it's incredibly traumatic. But I'm in Canada, so I can only imagine how awful it must be to have to also fight to prove that you actually needed hospital care for this. What a shit system.
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Get some ideas from this online course, designed for kids 9+: bikehub.ca/education/le...
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I like this one in particular because it goes after corporate profits & the right to repair is important!
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So relatable!
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Really?!? That IS odd.
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See, I'd rather that. Because you wouldn't email me to say it had shipped when it was still sitting in your store for 4 days.