Owen Biesel
@owenbiesel.bsky.social
Math prof, dad, gardener, knitter, cyclist, community member, friendly introvert. he/him 🏳️🌈
Also on mastodon as @[email protected]
Also on mastodon as @[email protected]
Sounds great! Can't promise the schedules will align, but do you have favorite games on BoardGameArena? (Their implementation of Daybreak is pretty good!)
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Sounds great! Can't promise the schedules will align, but do you have favorite games on BoardGameArena? (Their implementation of Daybreak is pretty good!)
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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Don't be mean in responses, this is often an unpaid volunteer or underpaid staffer sending these out - instead just explain why you not donating at this time with concrete policy asks.
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Don't be mean in responses, this is often an unpaid volunteer or underpaid staffer sending these out - instead just explain why you not donating at this time with concrete policy asks.
Reposted by Owen Biesel
okay how come my ID says I'm 6'4", not 1'10"? it's a historical fact that I was just a real little guy once.
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 AM
okay how come my ID says I'm 6'4", not 1'10"? it's a historical fact that I was just a real little guy once.
I wouldn't mind some rhombic rhododendra though.
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I wouldn't mind some rhombic rhododendra though.
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I wish that if I *follow* someone and then they get put on a blocklist I subscribe to that my follow overrode the block.
November 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I wish that if I *follow* someone and then they get put on a blocklist I subscribe to that my follow overrode the block.
Every uniqueness result: "The set of these things is basically just one point." Love terminal objects!
October 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Every uniqueness result: "The set of these things is basically just one point." Love terminal objects!
I use "yourself" for singular and "yourselves" for plural, even though I say "you are" for both. That's what I go with for "they": "themself" for singular and "themselves" for plural, and "they are" for both.
October 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I use "yourself" for singular and "yourselves" for plural, even though I say "you are" for both. That's what I go with for "they": "themself" for singular and "themselves" for plural, and "they are" for both.
All of us deciding to manually go around editing the coordinate system we use for the universe is so much bizarrer than, say, starting workers' shifts later in the winter (or just reducing them in length!).
October 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
All of us deciding to manually go around editing the coordinate system we use for the universe is so much bizarrer than, say, starting workers' shifts later in the winter (or just reducing them in length!).