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Cy Whitling
@cywhitling.bsky.social
Doodler and gear writer. Formerly Idaho.
This does not matter but the whole “Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican in Florida” thing doesn’t mean shit.

I spent 8 years in Idaho as a registered Republican.

If you live in a red state with closed primaries (like Florida) and you register D you’re throwing away your primary vote.
August 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Gimme the think pieces about the choice of outdoor gear in “Mountainhead”!

DPS skis feel…almost right, but not bougie enough. Same goes for the Polaris onesies.
June 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I can’t believe that we’re getting suckered by AI visuals this soon after the whole NFT boom and bust.

Guys. We’ve seen these dumbasses plans for the world. They’re stupid and depressing.

Why shouldn’t we believe the tech bros who have famously never been wrong about this shit?
May 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Spent the last few days painting a couple murals. Absolute bucket list experience.
May 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Just entered the virtual realities (mural project that I need VR for) and so far I gotta say, everything is anticlimactic in the metaverse.
May 4, 2025 at 5:11 AM
This is the least important thing but: The Last Of Us has a hilarious relationship with the geography of the Jackson Hole region. We never get a Teton skyline in “Jackson” but as soon Ellie leaves town and rides for weeks we get shots of the north end of the Park?
April 28, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Has anyone else been driven nuts by the Grammarly ad on YouTube where the narrator says “weary” when they clearly mean “wary”? Hilarious annoyance in an ad in a copy editing software.
March 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Little detail from a last minute commission. Got the assignment around 4 yesterday, and managed to turn around a full-page editorial illustration in about 22 hours. Now to catch up on all the stuff I pushed aside to make that happen!
March 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
March 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Made this little process layout for each of the primary steps in my latest illustration. Still on a raccoon kick for the foreseeable future.
March 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Everything is fucked but I saw two (2) TWO!!!! raccoons this morning so I’m doing pretty ok.
March 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Sketched out a bunch of concepts, didn’t go with any of them.
March 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Finally rode a modern e-mtb this week (not just the sketchy e-tandem I rode at Interbike a decade ago) and by far my biggest takeaway is that XC bikes are way more fun, without any of the ethical/access/general ick issues.

Like. Holy shit. XC bikes are so much fun.
March 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Posting stuff here that the insta hordes don’t get to see yet. Here are a couple of pages from a new project.
February 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I wrote something that’s not just about bikes. www.about-ride.com/articles/i-u...
I Used to Paint My Nails — About the Ride
Not really about bikes.
www.about-ride.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is a frozen snake my friend found. It’s pretty neat.
February 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Here is my dog checking out the first twenty pages of a book I’m working on. She is not impressed.
January 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I bet if you put a couple of those new Nutella-filled Uncrustables in an air fryer it would slaaaaaap.

Yes. This is the level of discourse I plan on bringing to new social medial platforms. But also, imagine the crispy fried outside with molten Nutella filling.
January 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I enjoy burritos and I love gummy candy, so I was excited to write about this combination of the two. Unfortunately it’s not great, but the packaging did spark my imagination. www.about-ride.com/articles/rev...
Review: Raindrops Original Gummy Burrito — About the Ride
Mediocre burrito, mediocre candy, with a hint of divine inspiration.
www.about-ride.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM