Stephen Pecker
@stephenpecker.bsky.social
Hang out with my husband and dogs in Minneapolis. Cyclist. Bartender.
Mostly post about urbanism, cycling, and climate change.
Mostly post about urbanism, cycling, and climate change.
The new episode of Outrage and Optimism reminded me I have a new (to me) copy of Ministry for the Future to start again.
I’m not exaggerating when I say the first chapter changed my life when I read it. It had more influence on me than any piece of literature I’ve ever read.
I’m not exaggerating when I say the first chapter changed my life when I read it. It had more influence on me than any piece of literature I’ve ever read.
November 30, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The new episode of Outrage and Optimism reminded me I have a new (to me) copy of Ministry for the Future to start again.
I’m not exaggerating when I say the first chapter changed my life when I read it. It had more influence on me than any piece of literature I’ve ever read.
I’m not exaggerating when I say the first chapter changed my life when I read it. It had more influence on me than any piece of literature I’ve ever read.
I rode my bike to work today, and that went fine.
I also rode it home tonight. That was much less fine. The roads and trails are untouched by plows.
I didn’t deal with anything this bad last winter, but at least I made it home safe, even though it took over double the normal time lol.
I also rode it home tonight. That was much less fine. The roads and trails are untouched by plows.
I didn’t deal with anything this bad last winter, but at least I made it home safe, even though it took over double the normal time lol.
November 30, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I rode my bike to work today, and that went fine.
I also rode it home tonight. That was much less fine. The roads and trails are untouched by plows.
I didn’t deal with anything this bad last winter, but at least I made it home safe, even though it took over double the normal time lol.
I also rode it home tonight. That was much less fine. The roads and trails are untouched by plows.
I didn’t deal with anything this bad last winter, but at least I made it home safe, even though it took over double the normal time lol.
To the guy that got mad when we refused to serve your clearly underage kids with fake IDs: we aren’t rats, that’s just the law.
We hope your car is keyed with pictures of rats you dumbass.
We hope your car is keyed with pictures of rats you dumbass.
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM
To the guy that got mad when we refused to serve your clearly underage kids with fake IDs: we aren’t rats, that’s just the law.
We hope your car is keyed with pictures of rats you dumbass.
We hope your car is keyed with pictures of rats you dumbass.
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
Tonight, I was double shaking 2 espresso martinis at work, in a long sleeve black shirt. And a woman sitting at the bar told me I have “Michelle Obama arms”.
Ma’am, what the fuck?
I think she meant it as a compliment??? I was just kinda mortified and confused.
Ma’am, what the fuck?
I think she meant it as a compliment??? I was just kinda mortified and confused.
November 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Tonight, I was double shaking 2 espresso martinis at work, in a long sleeve black shirt. And a woman sitting at the bar told me I have “Michelle Obama arms”.
Ma’am, what the fuck?
I think she meant it as a compliment??? I was just kinda mortified and confused.
Ma’am, what the fuck?
I think she meant it as a compliment??? I was just kinda mortified and confused.
I normally drink light roast coffee but every since I started taking a multivitamin with B12, it’s been too much. So I switched to the medium roast from the same company and it tastes like my grandpas “dishwater” coffee where he’d take Folgers and make a whole pot off a single tablespoon of grounds.
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I normally drink light roast coffee but every since I started taking a multivitamin with B12, it’s been too much. So I switched to the medium roast from the same company and it tastes like my grandpas “dishwater” coffee where he’d take Folgers and make a whole pot off a single tablespoon of grounds.
Today, we’re making a seitan “turkey” from scratch, a vegan key lime pie from scratch, and then potatoes, carrots, celery, and I may also make some hummus. And we are putting up our Christmas tree.
Today will be busy but also really fun.
Today will be busy but also really fun.
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Today, we’re making a seitan “turkey” from scratch, a vegan key lime pie from scratch, and then potatoes, carrots, celery, and I may also make some hummus. And we are putting up our Christmas tree.
Today will be busy but also really fun.
Today will be busy but also really fun.
We’d been looking at this blender/food processor for like a year and a half and tracking the prices and watching the refurbished market. So we finally got it.
I’ve already made falafels, vegan mayo, and homemade pasta sauce. I’m obsessed with this thing.
I’ve already made falafels, vegan mayo, and homemade pasta sauce. I’m obsessed with this thing.
November 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
We’d been looking at this blender/food processor for like a year and a half and tracking the prices and watching the refurbished market. So we finally got it.
I’ve already made falafels, vegan mayo, and homemade pasta sauce. I’m obsessed with this thing.
I’ve already made falafels, vegan mayo, and homemade pasta sauce. I’m obsessed with this thing.
My dumb ass just walked out of Home Depot with the hand scanner from the self checkout. Had to make the walk of shame to bring it back in. 🤦♂️
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My dumb ass just walked out of Home Depot with the hand scanner from the self checkout. Had to make the walk of shame to bring it back in. 🤦♂️
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It's baffling that we allow private companies to use public infrastructure as their R&D lab, externalizing the risk onto the public, while they fine tune their unproven software.
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It's baffling that we allow private companies to use public infrastructure as their R&D lab, externalizing the risk onto the public, while they fine tune their unproven software.
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That whole "cars are freedom" bullshit is really coming apart at the seams, huh?
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
That whole "cars are freedom" bullshit is really coming apart at the seams, huh?
Chris made a vegan cream of mushroom soup for my MIL’s potatoes today and it turned out soooooo good. She likes it better than the real thing.
I made a special sweet potato, lentil, cranberry, carrot, black bean, and wild rice dish inspired by a Shepards Pie. He made a butternut squash soup.
I made a special sweet potato, lentil, cranberry, carrot, black bean, and wild rice dish inspired by a Shepards Pie. He made a butternut squash soup.
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Chris made a vegan cream of mushroom soup for my MIL’s potatoes today and it turned out soooooo good. She likes it better than the real thing.
I made a special sweet potato, lentil, cranberry, carrot, black bean, and wild rice dish inspired by a Shepards Pie. He made a butternut squash soup.
I made a special sweet potato, lentil, cranberry, carrot, black bean, and wild rice dish inspired by a Shepards Pie. He made a butternut squash soup.
I also love that for Thanksgiving this year, each couple has to make a dish using a specific ingredient, and then whoever makes the favorite gets a plush toy and gets to decide what the next food item we’ll all use next time. There’s gonna be a lot of unique sweet potato dishes this year lol.
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I also love that for Thanksgiving this year, each couple has to make a dish using a specific ingredient, and then whoever makes the favorite gets a plush toy and gets to decide what the next food item we’ll all use next time. There’s gonna be a lot of unique sweet potato dishes this year lol.
This year, for family Christmas, we are doing a Secret Santa so we don’t stretch budgets buying cheap crap, and the rule is we have to make it ourself or buy handmade items from Christmas markets or something, which I love. So I’m supporting my friend that does beadwork. 🙂
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This year, for family Christmas, we are doing a Secret Santa so we don’t stretch budgets buying cheap crap, and the rule is we have to make it ourself or buy handmade items from Christmas markets or something, which I love. So I’m supporting my friend that does beadwork. 🙂
I just found out the new vegan cafe a couple blocks away from me is opening in a couple weeks and I literally can’t wait. 😁😁😁
November 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I just found out the new vegan cafe a couple blocks away from me is opening in a couple weeks and I literally can’t wait. 😁😁😁
On my way home tonight, a Jeep turned up onto the bike trail and tried driving down it. I stopped and shook my light at them like I was shaking my head and yelled “No! Go!” And they backed into a concrete box, turned around, and peeled off on the wrong side of the street. 🥲
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 AM
On my way home tonight, a Jeep turned up onto the bike trail and tried driving down it. I stopped and shook my light at them like I was shaking my head and yelled “No! Go!” And they backed into a concrete box, turned around, and peeled off on the wrong side of the street. 🥲
I’ve had the hiccups really bad for like 3 hours now and I’m over it. This shit actually hurts.
Yes, I got it to stop temporarily with the water trick. It stopped working after they came back and they got worse and legitimately hurt.
Yes, I got it to stop temporarily with the water trick. It stopped working after they came back and they got worse and legitimately hurt.
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I’ve had the hiccups really bad for like 3 hours now and I’m over it. This shit actually hurts.
Yes, I got it to stop temporarily with the water trick. It stopped working after they came back and they got worse and legitimately hurt.
Yes, I got it to stop temporarily with the water trick. It stopped working after they came back and they got worse and legitimately hurt.
Really hoping that winter deters some ICE activities here in the northern latitudes. It seems unlikely that Chicago will be very hospitable for a bunch of “alpha” vigilantes in Spirit Halloween police uniforms in January.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Really hoping that winter deters some ICE activities here in the northern latitudes. It seems unlikely that Chicago will be very hospitable for a bunch of “alpha” vigilantes in Spirit Halloween police uniforms in January.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
Chris found a vegan “egg drop soup” recipe and holy hell I couldn’t believe it. It was so close. And then we both started following a random German vegan chef lol.
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Chris found a vegan “egg drop soup” recipe and holy hell I couldn’t believe it. It was so close. And then we both started following a random German vegan chef lol.
Really hoping my job’s health insurance for next year will allow me to add my husband without it costing more than unsubsidized Marketplace plans, because otherwise he will not have health insurance next year. 🙁 To add him this year would have cost *$1,600/mo*.
I hate this system.
I hate this system.
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Really hoping my job’s health insurance for next year will allow me to add my husband without it costing more than unsubsidized Marketplace plans, because otherwise he will not have health insurance next year. 🙁 To add him this year would have cost *$1,600/mo*.
I hate this system.
I hate this system.
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No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No health care, no deal.
Any Democrat that votes yes without ACA subsidies being extended should be primaried. All of them. If they don’t get that, this whole shutdown will have been for nothing.
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Any Democrat that votes yes without ACA subsidies being extended should be primaried. All of them. If they don’t get that, this whole shutdown will have been for nothing.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.