Notices by smellsofbikes (smellsofbikes@mastodon.social), page 3

It's extremely windy outside, and they're forecasting up to 100mph gusts across the whole metro area. After the Marshall Fire in 2021, where several fires, one possibly from a downed powerline, swept through the western suburbs of Denver, driven by 70mph winds, it appears that the power company may be cutting power to some of the area, including where I live. This'll be interesting. Right now it sounds like a jet aircraft is running at idle just over the hill.

If you look at wind records for this area over the last 100 years, getting >80mph winds used to be a once every 25 years event, and only just outside Boulder on one ridge. Now it's something that happens multiple times a year across a much broader area. This is the first time I remember seeing a prediction of gusts over 100mph for the area I live.

@GustavinoBevilacqua I had a coworker who is as unwise as I am, and we'd take off in a 60mph wind day and ride right into it until we were physically unable to continue, and then coast back. I have several local records on a bike tracking website because I averaged just shy of 100 km/h on the way back.

@geekmomprojects I feel like a tendency to explode might be a plus in a fighting robot.

@botvolution @threatresearch @MLE_online Gonna go brew up some fosgene!

I'm eating lunch and in theory she's supposed to clear out of the kitchen when someone's eating. You notice how the back third of her is in another room?

Why do they call it dog agility training not barkour?

@babe duolingo pigeon

This girl has a mouse clamped firmly in her right foot, directly outside the window of my office.

@Swede1952 I just taught a 20-something friend how to drive, from scratch, in a manual transmission car because she thought it would be a better way to learn. (I don't think it's a particularly useful skill anymore but it was fun.)

:gargamel:

I boosted @kissane's latest post but I think it's important enough reading that it deserves the masto equivalent of a quote tweet. Erin is a good writer, did a lot of how-mastodon-security-is-implemented research and thinking about Threads, and I think this is something anyone here should read.
https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads

Ecto1 (and airplane)
#weirdcarmastodon

@roadriverrail @apressler one interesting thing is that all seven judges agreed with the facts, but three disagreed about procedural issues.

Any y'all know more about law than I do: what happens if the supreme court of the united states refuses to hear the appeal of the colorado 14th amendment decision? Does it then only hold for Colorado and any other states that also rule that way? Because that seems a more likely avoidance step than actually trying to prove that the colorado judge who ruled that it was a fact of law that Trump engaged in insurrection, was wrong about that ruling.

I see this building is Americans for Causing Disabilities Act compliant.

@gsuberland I had a g+ friend who was working on MITM attacks on Shimano CAN-over-power communication to try to get it to let him build bikes that had parts from different Shimano part groups.

I'm gonna put an extension on my flagpole so I can fly a flag at 1.5 masts tomorrow.

@JoshuaHolland It's so much easier to break the law and trash democracy when you've convinced yourself that it's in self-defense.

@talia_christine Weird how they keep asking for permission to come into the patient's house...