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JamesLonghurst

@JamesLonghurst@historians.social

college professor in the U.S. Midwest (all views mine); author of "Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road" / "Las Batallas de la Bici." Shop intern, historian of urban and environmental policy, gravel grinder, Reacting to the Past instructor, slow roadie, McNair staffer, everyday cyclist, Americanist, #biketooter.
Header: bike tools hanging on a wall
Avatar: a man stands in front of an oversized flag of the state of Wisconsin; the flag is very blue, the state perhaps less so.

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JamesLonghurst, to random
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is the opposite of "nonchalant" having an excess of chalants?

Just so many chalants? Too many, really.

JamesLonghurst, to random
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showing solidarity with my students by having absolutely no desire to do any work at all this week

JamesLonghurst, to random
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This is my regular reminder to any scale-model kit company: make a kit of the trucks from William Friedkin's "Sorceror" (1977) (now on Criterion Channel) and I will totally buy, like, at least two of each. Maybe more.

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@rysiek

24 minutes it takes Friedkin to get to the jungle; an entire 24 minutes of backstory for the four protagonists before the setup even begins. and then it's like another 35 minutes of setup.They don't start driving until an hour in to the movie!

stevenray, to baseball
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The Giants-DBacks game is on Apple TV, just fyi. 😁

JamesLonghurst,
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@stevenray thanks for the reminder I honestly forgot I had this option

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A centralized academic peer review website that keeps track of all the articles you agreed to review and reminds you before they are overdue and alerts you when you are about to agree to more than you can handle again

please and thank you

JamesLonghurst,
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@DrTCombs with ONE and I repeat ONE password

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running theme in the PBS Frontline doc "The Discord Leaks" is that online high schools in 2020 for COVID sent a whole cohort of young people onto Discord to look for community, and they get pulled into absolutely vile, racist, violent communities.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-discord-leaks/

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I liked watching ‘Constellation’ but the payoff I was hoping for just wasn’t there. I get making shows that leave audiences hoping for a second season but this left me wanting more just to get a payoff for my effort, which isn’t good.

JamesLonghurst,
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@kfury not selling it Kevin

JamesLonghurst, to random
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straight up not having a good time

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The base model M1 MacBook Air I ordered arrived today. It’s my writing device away from my desk. As light and small as possible is what I wanted. I tried using an iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard but iPadOS and I don’t see eye to eye for productivity use.

JamesLonghurst,
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@ianRobinson

this is my weapon of choice as well

JamesLonghurst, to random
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whoops all closures

https://captimes.com/news/education/fifth-uw-campus-will-close-as-waukesha-branch-faces-2025-shutdown/article_a5996e96-dfd2-11ee-95e8-93fa3bd34ddb.html

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screw this I’m going for a ride

JamesLonghurst, to random
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Regents who vote against the wishes of the legislative majority will be fired, but also our problem on campus is that you can’t speak freely.

https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2024/03/09/wisconsin-senate-panel-votes-to-fire-regents-who-voted-against-limiting-uw-diversity-initiatives/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

MLE_online, to random
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There's not enough bike riding in sci-fi. If people live in extensive tunnel systems bored into the rock of a dwarf planet, some of them should be riding bikes to get from one place to another. Much less resource intensive than electric carts and scooters

JamesLonghurst,
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@MLE_online

you may be interested in:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/futuristic-cars-and-space-bicycles-9781802078343?cc=us&lang=en&

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What’s the weather like today?

Oh, 60F and 40% chance of snow.

JamesLonghurst, to random
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Absolutely not.

JamesLonghurst, to cycling
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#superb_owl and #BikeTooter crossover:

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Sunny #Caturday

nixCraft, to random
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I really don't think it's fair that my generation

  • had to help our parents use the printer
  • have to help our kids use the printer
JamesLonghurst,
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@nixCraft

personally I blame the printers

mistakenotmy, to TeslaMotors

The judge in the Delaware decision against citing Star Trek and giving a dead serious citation for it is simply gold.

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JamesLonghurst,
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@mistakenotmy

also citing to the original usage, not to later usage in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (1979)" or TNG's re-worded version. This is an appropriate deference to the guiding tenet of stare decisis; clearly, the usage in the first Shatner pilot is the controlling precedent.

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I have just taken some expired off-brand Dayquil in advance of lecturing to my class about Enlightenment political philosophy. surely nothing bad can come of this

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    JamesLonghurst,
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    @aetataureate

    I'm from Kwik Trip-istan, but we have friendly border relations with Casey's Country and I occasionally make visits. Surprisingly good pizza for a convenience store.

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    I’m at the Iowa Bike Expo with several thousand bike people and a couple dozen breweries. (The breweries know who their customers are.)

    A crowded expo hall. A hat in the foreground advertises a gravel event that hasn’t even been announced yet officially.

    JamesLonghurst,
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    RAGBRAI is a cult. I mean that in both good and bad ways, I guess.

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    “Course Media” is not the place to put the media for your course. Neither is “Media Gallery” or “My Media” in the left navbar. Instead of clicking on “My Media,” which does not contain your media, click on “Account” and THEN click on that “My Media,” which does contain your media, unlike the other “My Media,” which does not.

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    @twobiscuits Canvas, by golly. I’m sure Teams would botch it even further.

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