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fbaum

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Let's make things better!🚶🚲🚄

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yogthos, to random
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These are the statements made by US politicians in 2019 regarding Hong Kong, when rioters were burning police cars, throwing Molotov cocktails.

fbaum,
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@yogthos we have a “Proximity Rule” of Politics, in which the further away from the situation, the more forceful and principled the response.

fbaum, to palestine
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Call for a in @palestine and you get, uh... pushback🤔

owen, to transit
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Biggest positive takeaways from the line 2 opening:

  • The Master planned development near stations (Overlake and Spring District) is genuinely good.
  • The Spring District shallow station is awesome

Biggest negative takeaways:

  • the at grade stuff -- intersections and pedestrian access -- is extremely bad
  • Blows my mind how much parking is surrounding the stations.
  • Using highway adjacent right-of-ways is a disaster for the lines usefulness

#Transit #Seattle

fbaum,
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@owen I was a little surprised it doesn’t go slightly further to Redmond (by which I mean “downtown”)

HayiWena, to random
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Five years ago, I volunteered a shift at the community bike shop and a grandma came in with her 9yo granddaughter looking for training wheels. I put her on the back of the tandem and did a few laps of the parking lot to build her confidence, them I took the pedals off a BMX and sent her out for a few more laps before putting them back on. Her grandma told me, as she watched her pedal around happily, that it was one of her best life memories.

fbaum,
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@HayiWena this is the way!

we hafta unlearn the training wheel trap!

fbaum,
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@enobacon @HayiWena the shoes, ha! My teen was on a trail-a-bike and never had to balance😆 but finally did pick it up!

ascentale, to random
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@nsousanis is working on something and would like to hear some comments:

Q8. What are common complaints drivers make about people who cycle/bike lanes/etc?

(Added by me: are they valid? Why or why not?)

fbaum,
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@ascentale A8. I haven’t read through all the great answers, but to answer the second part: no! The most common grumps I hear are downright ludicrous. Time to bust out the excellent https://CyclingFallacies.com/

moira, (edited ) to MountainBiking
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OKAY. Stopping point on the Northshore Bike Map, connecting the latest Seattle and brand new Eastside map.

I've added everything I know and I've stumbled upon a bunch of things I didn't before. This has been educational.

I've also labelled a bunch of stuff, added replacement labels for certain attractions that had their labels obscured, and made a couple of corrections.

I'm not including the sidewalk/path hybrid along Ballinger because while sometimes it sure does feel like a path most of the time it's just "sidewalk."

DO YOU KNOW ROUTES I DON'T?

Tell me about them! But only if they're public. I've not included a couple of trails here because they're private.

MAP REV 8 / RC2, 1 May 23:30

fbaum,
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@moira this is great, I'm taking a look! Is there a way to see it larger somewhere?

fbaum,
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@moira ah, thanks I downloaded it!

ST has a list of secure lockers at their locations - looks like you have the bikelink ones... https://www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/know-before-you-go/bringing-your-bike/parking-storing-your-bike

I like MapComplete as a tool for showing some OSM stuff, but I wish their Bicycle Parkings could be sorted by type... https://mapcomplete.org/bicycle_parkings.html

fbaum, to random
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What a day!🏔️

mekkaokereke, to random
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Oakland Airport wants to rename itself "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport?" Seriously?

What in the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim yeah we're in Anaheim but nod-nod wink-wink think of us as LA but we're the red one not the blue one but we're better because we have Ohtani wait what do you mean he's a Dodger now whatever bro we're still claiming LA" is going on here?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W7IDRj5KUF4

Is this early April fools? Tell me this is a bit.

fbaum,
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@mekkaokereke This happened here, too! “Everett's Paine Field changes name to Seattle Paine Field International Airport” (Everett is 30 miles from Seattle, and Paine is 40 miles from our main and larger airport… easily an hour in traffic if someone gets confused by this😖)
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/everetts-paine-field-is-now-seattle-paine-field-international-airport/

ascentale, to random
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Q2. Do you have any cycling jokes? Let's hear them.

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

fbaum,
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@ascentale A2. What's the difference between a someone in sweatpants on a bike and someone in a tux on a trike?
…
…
…attire

DrTCombs, to northcarolina
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#NorthCarolina's state bird is the northern red cardinal. What these striking red birds lack in brains they make up for in their talent for mimickry....which is cool until they start mimicking car alarms.

This is not a post about #birds after all. #Cars are awful. #BanCars.

fbaum,
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@DrTCombs have you heard this Lyrebird piece?!? https://youtu.be/mSB71jNq-yQ?si=fFcOgnj5VS9831HK

fbaum, to cycling
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What if none of these are my riding style?

JamieDay, to cycling
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It took a few trips, but I don't have to fight to get him in the trailer anymore.

Panorama of a paved path next to Sammamish River on a clear sunny day. A man and a dog stand at the river edge.

fbaum,
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@JamieDay Nice! Samammish Trail? We want to figure that out for our doggo.

ascentale, to random
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We have a music question from @pete ! This is timely for me, because our playlist needs a refresh.

Q3. You're only allowed one choice, so which bike-related track are you gonna add to a playlist?

@pete is kicking things off with 'Bike Rider' by Mungo's Hi-Fi. https://youtu.be/4oUxPWnrXNk

cc: @forteller who asked a similar question.

fbaum,
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@ascentale @pete @forteller A3. These are so great I have to update my playlist.

Apologies in advance, but I must add Motherfucking Bike!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgCqz3l33kU&list=PLBiPgzD1V_LVdZcQ3_z2Rt8nje6edjo3-&index=16&ab_channel=Benson%26Evans

ascentale, to random
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Welcome to our BikeNite for the week of March 8th! Thanks for joining, and I hope we all enjoy chatting about cycle stuff! Feel free to answer whenever at your convenience. Anyone can join, now or later. Reply to what you like, and boost for visibility.
We'll start out with our introduction:

Q1. Where are you posting from today? How are you feeling at the moment?

fbaum,
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@ascentale A1. Lynnwood, north of Seattle, WA, USA. Feeling good as I finally got a regular(-ish!) sized bike that fits me – and is still unique. Plus I found cool stuff on the first ride!

It's an Orbea Katu mini velo with a frame-mounted basket, 20" wheels, IGH, fenders, dynamo lights, and hydraulic disc brakes!🚲🌈🐮
#+1

Smiling guy standing in front of a bike next to a hydrant painted like a cow.

ascentale, to random
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@sam has a nice question about cycle shops:

Q6. What is the best looking bike shop or bike related business you've ever been in and why (even if the people were jerks or you never want to go back for whatever reason)? What was the vibe it gave off? Bonus points for pictures!

fbaum,
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@moira that pic is from Counterbalance, which recently closed🥲 …but they did have this!😂

ascentale, to random
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Now a question about cycle accessories: @fbaum asks:

Q6. What essential add-on do you wish your bike had just come with in the first place?

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

fbaum,
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@moira I have one of those - very useful!

fbaum,
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@moira I like the basket and the switching - would love to see it!

fbaum, to ebikes
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Meet the Fleet!🚲😘🚲

…bike fleet, that is. Our cargo bikes and daily riders, and a few features!

Guy with longish hair and a helmet gives an excited walk-through of a garage full of bikes, cargo bikes, e-bikes (and combinations of both)

enobacon, to cycling
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cars are fast, which is why they need to be in front of you, no matter what

red tesla with oregon plate 815MES could not wait to stop in a line of cars. The bike lane is a mess of gravel.

fbaum,
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@enobacon bike lane a mess of gravel all right! Is that leftover from the snow?

Andres4NY, to random
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For the past 10-15 years, we've had a pair of Ortlieb classic Back Roller panniers (40 liter capacity). They've been good to us, and gotten plenty of use, but there's two of us and only two of them. My wife & I share them, and have used other crappier panniers for a time, but those things are just rock solid and great.

I decided to take advantage of a Black Friday sale and order another pair, since she often uses both when she goes to work. Fedex delivered them to some other random place.

fbaum,
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@Andres4NY we got some Pros for bike camping. They are Cavernous!

appassionato, to books
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Language, Thought and Reality
Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about it are deeply influenced by the structure of the languages we speak.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#language
#Whorf

fbaum,
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@appassionato @bookstodon I love studying this, and there are pretty great @linguistics discussions on here!

fbaum, to palestine
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This is important! If you’re in the U.S. you do have some leverage that can actually help save lives.

Contact your Reps, and, yes, President.
@palestine

rakyat, (edited ) to random
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In 2013 I wrote a short (Chinese) article on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that talked about misinformation, anger, and the power of potent symbols. It was one of my very first articles that were published in a newspaper.

In 2023 I’m seeing all the same things happening again, and I’m seeing people saying the exact same things I’ve said ten years ago.

https://www.sinchew.com.my/20130523/%e6%9b%b9%e5%bb%ba%e5%bb%b7%ef%bc%8e%e4%b8%8d%e5%ae%9e%e6%8a%a5%e5%af%bc/

Read this thread, it’s a good read & made the same points as I did:
https://x.com/iyad_elbaghdadi/status/1714985285484707933?s=20

fbaum,
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@rakyat thanks for writing, this is really good.

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