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  1. Ongoing Flock protests in #BloomingtonIN after mayor agrees not to renew the contract but leaves the cameras up.

    youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&

  2. @themediumkahuna @urbangr I have biked in #BloomingtonIN year-round and that works pretty well in winter. Good infrastructure and milder winters thanks to a warming planet.

  3. Welp, my #mapping attempt at a "Total Value Per Acre" map of #BloomingtonIN failed, but the mess looks pretty.

    I believe outside of the core city blocks, too many parcels got joined during a "dissolve" phase, resulting in these mega areas of the same color which shouldn't be there.

    It's an interesting analysis to run when considering annexation to check if the proposed additions would contribute more or less on average than existing city blocks.

    wiki.tycheinsights.com/index.p

    #QGIS

  4. I need to sell my two Magnum e-bikes.

    Magnum isn't listed at bicyclebluebook.com though - is there some comparable brand I could use to set a price? They're about five years old, in great shape.

    #BikeTooter #BloomingtonIN

  5. Bloomington, Indiana has been seasonally closing a popular restaurant and shopping street to car traffic.

    People love the space. The biggest complaint about the recent "Taste of Bloomington" event was that too many people showed up. Check it out!

    bsquarebulletin.com/a-visual-t

    #BloomingtonIN #FuckCars

  6. #ThreeGoodThings

    1. Freshly paved road on the commute to work; bike feels like it’s gliding.
    2. Stopping by the *public library* and picking up this weeks read: Bullshit Jobs be David Graeber.
    3. No work meetings until after lunch.

    #books #bookstodon #BikeTooter #libraries #library #bloomingtonin
    #indiana

  7. In an email to staff announcing his sudden departure after thousands of university web pages had been down for weeks due to a security incident that the university will "likely never explain publicly", Indiana University's Vice President of IT Rob Lowden declared his department a "national — and indeed international — model of innovation, dedication, and excellence in higher education IT.”

    ipm.org/news/2025-07-16/iu-vic

    #infosec #CyberSecurity #iu #IndianaUniversity #bloomingtonIN

  8. Bloomington, Indiana doesn’t have #HungerGames but we do have the Little 500, where cycling teams ride full-steam in tight packs around a cinder track with only coaster brakes to the cheers of inebriated fans.

    As featured in the film Breaking Away.

    idsnews.com/article/2025/04/wo

    #BloomingtonIN #cycling

  9. @enobacon #PortlandOR #BloomingtonIN and #MadisonWI I’ve seen “One way except for bikes” Infrastructure.

    Here’s an example sign from Bloomington

  10. These are the Voronoi polygons of the intersections in #BloomingtonIN

    If you wanted to assign every crash to an intersection, creating voronoi polygons and then counting the crashes in each polygon would be one way to do it, as each polygon represents exactly one intersection.

    Works best in denser areas. In sparser networks, you increase the likelihood that the crash was not close by, like with the larger polygons in the corners here.

    #UrbanPlanning #mapping #qgis #gis

  11. What did I capture in the sky over #BloomingtonIN last night?

    I stopped to photograph the sunset and took two photos 26 seconds apart at 7:59 PM Eastern.

    A friend pointed out there is a row of lights above the moon moving across the sky.

    Help welcome checking flights that would have been overhead.

    I was standing just north of the IU football stadium facing southwest.

    #ufo #PlaneSpotting #Photography

  12. Indiana University is on the verge of firing professors for two counts of “expressive activity” after 11 pm.

    bsquarebulletin.com/2024/09/16

    This is the sequel to student encampments to protest the war in #Gaza. To “solve” that the University is cracking down on all forms of overnight protest.

    #BloomingtonIn #IU #FreeSpeech