Another discussion on biking with a skirt on (and tagged with #solarpunksunday ) brought back a vague memory that my mom had a crocheted skirt guard in her bike when I was little.

So, after some pondering, I of course had to search online is there patterns for skirt guards, or was it just a fashion phase. Turns out there is.

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https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pimp-your-bike-crocheted-skirt-guards

Appreciation post for mods and admins in the fediverse who make sure that gross crap that is the norm on other social media does not always need to be the norm here

Thanks for all the work ya'll do.

Pfizer just announced that its Lyme disease vaccine reduced the number of tick-borne infections by over 70% in a phase 3 trial.

Warning: GSK pulled a Lyme vaccine in 2002 despite studies showing it posed no serious safety risks.

Any new Lyme vaccine is going to be a huge target for antivaxxers.

Tomorrow we're discussing policing in my "History of Here" course. We'll start in the 19th and continue through the turn of the 21st century. A key event: the killing of Michael Wade Lawson, a Black 17 year-old from #Mississauga, #Ontario, shot in the back by Peel Regional Police. Four years later, an all-white jury acquitted the two officers involved of second-degree murder and aggravated assault.

The lecture's musical accompaniment:

Skank Ranks, "Wade Lawson" (1992)

https://youtu.be/NwQM0J2y704