CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@uxmark @ascentale @bikenite also-also, this time of year, lot of people walking in the bike lane because lazy fucks in snow plows block the crosswalks so the sidewalks are useless. In that case, I ride in the street, in the center of the "car lane", because this is a car problem, not a pedestrian problem. I am large, male, white, privileged, on a big weird bike, I am more able to make that point than anyone else on the road.

@uxmark @ascentale @bikenite I try to play inoffensive music on a bluetooth speaker so that people can hear me approaching. I also aim to pass with such wide clearance that I don't need to signal, otherwise I slow down, a whole darn lot. At walking speeds, I may say "excuse me".

A bell has a 50% chance of making someone jump out of their skin. Too many people use "onYerLeft" like a magic phrase that only needs to be mumbled to gain passage w/o either slowing down or leaving room.

@spillanemike This probably has something to do with why we here in the US are noticing more "e-bike panic" motivating laws to make e-bikes harder to use. Yes, they are more dangerous than not-e-bikes. Whoopie. Anything 90% safer than driving a car, should be fine.

@kinkkong @proedie @kubofhromoslav @Pare @valhalla @EUCommission interesting, it makes me somewhat grumpy that it has trilled R. Some people (e.g., me) aren't very good at those, and there's entire populations who have a little trouble with R-vs-L. If I were designing a language from scratch, I would try to work with common sounds that most people can already make and hear.

Bike trailer parking. #cargobikes #bikes #carryshitolympics

@bipolaron Beans that get too old, tend not to get very soft when you soak+boil them. A pressure cooker might still work. Not sure what slows this sort of aging.