stormdog: a woman with light skin and long brown hair that cascades over one shoulder. On her other side, she is holding a large plush shark against herself. She has pink fingernails and pink cat eye glasses (Default)
After getting home from a bike ride yesterday, I blocked three people who left a laugh react on Facebook to a picture of me I posted publicly some time ago: one of me shortly after getting my hair done at the salon. I changed it to friends only, but I suppose my picture is probably out there getting passed around somewhere anyway. It's the second time something like this has happened, and I don't really have strong feelings about it that I'm conscious of. But I suspect they may be there anyway.

On one of my rides to the lake, I was passed by two women in jerseys riding together and it made me think of watching Long Riders! and what it would be like to have friends and/or partners to ride with. It made me feel lonely, though the ride was really nice.

Speaking of Long Riders!, Miriam jokes that watching the show was a bad influence on me, and she may have a point. I have discovered a group that organizes brevet rides in Saskatchewan and I want to do one next year. Brevets are a sort of combination race/touring bicycling event. There's a set route and checkpoints, and you have a set amount of time to finish in, but it's explicitly non-competitive.

The shortest ones are 200k with a route from Regina to Fort Qu'appelle, to Southey, to Regina and they have a 13.5 hour time limit. I'm going to aim for one or more of them after the winter. I used to be in physical shape good enough that that distance felt approachable, and I'd like to get there again.

(In case you're curious, the longest ones are 1000km and you have 75 hours to finish.)

And I found a stepstool in the dumpster a couple days ago, so my days of standing on stacked up paint cans or rolling chairs are over! For now anyway...
stormdog: a woman with light skin and long brown hair that cascades over one shoulder. On her other side, she is holding a large plush shark against herself. She has pink fingernails and pink cat eye glasses (Default)
Another example of Lyft and Uber discriminating against disabled people, and another reason I won't use them.

Miriam has a friend who has a service dog. Her local organization that arranges transportation services for the disabled sent her a Lyft to go to work. The driver wouldn't let her dog in the car. She was leaning in through the window explaining that he was legally required to take her and her dog as part of his contract with Lyft when he STARTED DRIVING AWAY WHILE SHE WAS STILL LEANING IN THE WINDOW. She wasn't hurt, fortunately.

She already had an existing legal case against Lyft for a previous case of discrimination, and Lyft and Uber drivers both do these things regularly and the companies themselves don't give a damn and don't do anything about this.

"Gig economy" businesses need to be regulated just like every other business, or banned entirely. Just like AirBNB.

I need to stop the work I'm doing for Miriam's class right now and take a break because I'm too angry to work efficently.

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