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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 07:32:10 JST Paul Cantrell

   I am a total wimp cyclist: ice-averse, frostbite-averse, machismo-averse.

   But I biked to and from work today. In January. In Minnesota. On skinny tires.

   And it was lovely.

   I have very mixed feelings about this.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 08:10:05 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • cognitively accessible math

     @geonz
     Lovely because road conditions are great, there is no snow, and it was 50F. Thus the mixed feelings.

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     cognitively accessible math (geonz@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 08:10:06 JST cognitively accessible math

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     @inthehands Lovely ?!?!? Wow :) When road conditions get iffy I actually sometimes feel anxious ;P tho' sometimes I can suspend that and tell my brain "angular momentum is strong! The road is not going to pick up your bike and throw it to the ground!" and Just Roll Through

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 10:05:25 JST Paul Cantrell

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     To be clear:

     I did not bike to work because of some newfound hardiness.

     I biked to work because there is hardly any snow or ice in sight, and it reached 54°F today — on Jan 31, a date when MSP would not be shocked to see a negative high temperature.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 10:06:10 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Chris Johnson

     @cxj Well, if you thought you were following some sophisticate and it was me, then your life has gone very wrong indeed!

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     Chris Johnson (cxj@phpc.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 10:06:12 JST Chris Johnson

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     @inthehands Wait, what? I’m in the Twin Cities and here I thought I was following some sophisticate who lived in London AND New York City. And I graduated from CSU, too. Where did my life go so wrong? 😆

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 11:23:24 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Chris Johnson

     @cxj
     P.S. Did you take any English classes at CSU?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 23:06:22 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • John Wilson

     @crazybutable Me too

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     John Wilson (crazybutable@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 23:06:23 JST John Wilson

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     @inthehands eh the summers are going to be miserable might as well enjoy what you can when you can

     I miss cross country skiing

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 00:40:44 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Chris Johnson

     @cxj My mom taught English at CSU, although if you took comp and nothing more, it’s unlikely you’d have drawn her name. But she did teach it now and then.

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     Chris Johnson (cxj@phpc.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 00:40:46 JST Chris Johnson

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     @inthehands Only the required pair of low level writing classes, I think. It was eons ago.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:15:36 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @kccqzy Apparently that’s the kind of January Minnesota is headed for, unless we cut our carbon emissions to zero yesterday.

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     kccqzy (kccqzy@techhub.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:15:37 JST kccqzy

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     @inthehands I am in California and also a wimp cyclist. Fortunately there's generally no ice, only rain (which I hate). For the month of January I've averaged three days of biking to and from work per week.