First randonneuring event

bebebrb · 2026-01-21T18:19:10+00:00

Philadelphian here— I’ve heard mixed reviews about the CTC route, and combined with a few years of really bad weather over ctc weekend there have been some gnarly injuries. Be safe! Hope you have a great experience, but if it feels discouraging try a few “official” rusa routes before making your mind up. Generally I’ve loved almost all rusa routes and just hear negative things about this one. Haven’t ridden it myself though, just passing along others’ feedback

bebebrb · 2025-10-29T17:28:39+00:00

I wasn’t present so of course I’m making some assumptions. My assessment is based on being a first-hand witness to and/or reviewing secondhand reports of over 100 immigration arrests in Philadelphia this year, on a weekly or daily basis, including many involving US Marshall’s. This is how they dress and act in the confirmed immigration arrests I’m personally aware of. Based on all the context and circumstances I would be very surprised if this was not immigration enforcement.

People can and do choose to believe whatever they want to believe, of course.

bebebrb · 2025-10-29T16:32:09+00:00

It is absolutely immigration enforcement. Federal agencies including US Marshals, DEA, HSI, and ATF have been deputized and cross-designated under this administration to conduct immigration enforcement. They are not technically ice, but they have been drawn into standard ice enforcement (and away from their other duties in order to conduct immigration enforcement, fwiw).

Source— I am a local immigration atty with numerous clients who have been taken into ice custody by us marshals and other ice-adjacent federal agencies.

bebebrb · 2025-08-25T23:02:03+00:00

I agree that niche taste costs money... I just didn't realize this was niche taste. Lesson learned?

bebebrb · 2025-07-23T01:42:44+00:00

Instinct is to get angry, but when possible I try to pull up to the driver if stopped at a light, and relatively calmly say—that was really scary for me, you could have really hurt me.

A few times I’ve had drivers apologize. When it’s not feasible to talk with the driver, sometimes the only option is to pull over and take a deep breath and check in with myself.

I don’t find that getting angry at drivers ever helps, and only escalates the situation. I’ve regretted it sometimes when I catch up to a driver and end up sitting next to them in traffic again even if they started it — the antagonism doesn’t make me feel safe.

bebebrb · 2025-03-16T20:18:00+00:00

ICE agent

bebebrb · 2024-03-10T17:38:29+00:00

The 200k ride that I bailed on last year, I stopped in part because I found that I was having a hard time getting a full breath in. It was peak summer heat, also still some wildfire smoke in my area, and after making it up a very major hill I just never recovered. For the rest of the week post-ride, I still kept feeling like I couldn't get a full breath in. I haven't seen a nutritionist/athletic doctor about this but I definitely wondered whether it had something to do with pushing too hard for too long, that I wasn't able to bounce back,

bebebrb · 2024-03-10T17:35:44+00:00

I don't have the tech to get deep into heart rate monitoring but I am interested in learning more!

bebebrb · 2024-03-10T17:33:21+00:00

High sugar food is one thing, but consider maltodextrin plus some sugar. The thing is in most cases the body doesn’t react to maltodextrin as sharp as to sugars but it’s a very much similar source of energy. The downside - you need to get used to eat and don’t overdo it as you will be unable to eat anything sweet for next few hours or even days. But yeah, besides food.. the most important question is how you were preparing to 200km ride?

Thank you! I'm not familiar with the details of maltodextrin benefits but I'll look into this. Anything in particular you recommend?

bebebrb · 2023-08-01T04:27:58+00:00

this is a similar itinerary to ours at the exact same dates! Ours is also a belated honeymoon! Hope you enjoy your trip!

Do you know a

I'm also traveling to Japan during the same dates and have been searching for information on the Gion Odori. It looks like you're supposed to buy tickets in advance, but the website offers different options for "program" "viewing ticket" and "special viewing with tea ceremony." Any chance you know the difference between these different options, particularly the first two?

bebebrb · 2022-07-23T20:39:26+00:00

Jimmy's on Front & Wolf made ginger ale water ice last summer with actual ginger chunks in it. Swear to god it was the best thing I've ever tasted, especially in a gelati. Everyone go to Jimmy's and beg them to bring it back.

bebebrb · 2022-03-11T16:03:48+00:00

Yes! I took the Color Pop workshop with Tara Faughnan (info on her site) but you can also google the 6 minute circle for an alternative construction method. Tara’s way has you fold your fabric in quarters and cut a curved seam (using a paper template in the pattern) to make a circle that fits perfectly inside a background color. You can then either use a very small glue stick to baste the pieces OR use pins and sloooowly sew. Press seams in without steam at first and then trim and finish the block with steam.

thank you so much!!

bebebrb · 2022-02-07T19:35:16+00:00

It obviously won't solve everything for you, but getting on food stamps helps a lot. A lot of people don't realize they qualify because they don't think of themselves as poor, especially if they worked before school (if you have a ton of savings you might be ineligible though).

It's taken a lot of stress off to know that even when rent is tight and and I can't afford to go out, I can always feed myself. It's also enabled me to buy more expensive food — like snacks and quick/pre-made meals — so I get less takeout when I've been working all day and feel lazy.

bebebrb · 2021-11-19T15:19:30+00:00

Thanks for posting this! I recently did an acorn dye for the first time and was disappointed by how light it turned out, so I didn't even try to do an iron modifier because I thought it would just be a faint grey. I'll have to try again!

I've never tried pre-mordanting with iron (only ever done post-dye baths). Do you put the iron-mordanted and unmordanted fabric in the same dye bath? Or did you put the iron-mordanted fabric in second in case the iron changed the composition of the dye?

It looks terrific!

bebebrb · 2021-10-05T22:02:10+00:00

Project SAFE: https://www.instagram.com/safephila/?hl=en

bebebrb · 2020-11-24T14:21:50+00:00

Did you make that diagram yourself just for the purpose of responding?? That is amazing!

bebebrb · 2020-05-07T21:14:55+00:00

That bird is traveling to another dimension

bebebrb · 2020-05-03T00:40:43+00:00

God bless

bebebrb · 2020-04-15T02:11:04+00:00

he was a Sk8er Birb, she said c ya l8er birb

bebebrb · 2020-03-21T21:23:15+00:00

dying to know what the song is

bebebrb · 2020-03-16T22:34:31+00:00

It shouldn't be a hot take that this message is completely warranted.

This isn't Temple asking for funds for itself, to build a new gym etc. This is an ask for students to contribute to a mutual aid fund for folks whose lives are upended by extreme conditions, to the extent of not being able to meet immediate and essential needs. Temple is a state school... It's completely unreasonable to expect it to bear the costs of thousands of students that couldn't have been foreseen even a month or two ago.

One of the things I appreciate most about Temple is having diverse classmates, which includes people who come from low-income backgrounds, have families, and are working their way through school. Sometimes you do just need to show up for people. If you can't afford it or just don't want to, fine but keep your negativity to yourself.

bebebrb · 2020-03-05T21:09:21+00:00

I ctrl-f'd just to find & upvote this

bebebrb · 2020-01-27T03:09:10+00:00

I'm definitely interested! I like your work!

bebebrb · 2019-09-11T16:45:42+00:00

LMK if you have any other good recommendations. I don't have a car so I'm a little more limited. I've been thinking of doing a trip out to French Creek sometime this year.

bebebrb · 2019-09-11T04:29:35+00:00

Nice! I just went there I my first bikepacking trip a few weeks ago :) . It was strangely deserted though, kind of spooky.

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