Lucas Wagner

@lucas.monster

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Canadian on loan to California, cargo bike commuter. (That's my Tern GSD R14 in my profile banner, on a bike camping trip.)

A long tail cargo bike is parked in a parking stall in front of a sign that says "DriveUp & Go - Check in with the app - Pick Up". The bike's panniers are loaded with grocery bags full of groceries. There's also a grocery basket on the back rack that has a couple empty-looking bags in it.
KEARNEY (to Dolph, both wearing Mars Peacekeeper gear): "Hey Dolph, take a memo on your Newton. 'Beat up Martians.'" DOLPH (looking at a close-up of a Newton with the text "Eat Up Martha."): "Bah!"
A subway-style train speeds along the rails at the same speed as the camera. An electric city night in the background blurs past while the train remains in the centre of the frame. Another train runs by in the opposite direction in the foreground. By the time the original train comes back into view, the camera’s train accelerates, leaving the original train behind.
A grey long-tail cargo bike, seen from the side. A large pannier is strapped to the side of the rear rack, and a basket sits clipped to the top of the rear rack. Other notable accessories include a water bottle attached below the handlebars, a folding bike lock attached to the frame, a yellow bike tracker attached to the frame below the battery, and an e-ink display that reads "Mountain View". The bike is parked aboard a Caltrain in a spot in the bike car.
A small two-wheeled flatbed Burley bike trailer is hitched to the frame of a Tern GSD cargo bike. The bike and trailer stand in front of a wall with illustrated dogs, each with a taco-shaped snout in a different colour.
Two left handlebar grips. One of them, resting in my hand, is black rubber with a gray rubber inset. The inset has a thatched grip pattern that’s worn down smooth in the centre. The other grip is mounted on a handlebar, with brown cork and a dark gray rubber inset, looking beautiful and new.
At the end of a snow-tipped row of buildings, a mural on the side of a brick building, with illustrations of a fancy woman and gloves, reads “Berchowitz and Epstein - Manufacturers of Fine Kid Gloves - Accept No Substitute - Lake Placid, Essex County, New York. Our catalogue tells about them free on request. Winter and summer fashions. We provide comfort combined with style and dash. Dealers everywhere sell them.”
Randy "Macho Man" Savage Non-International Airport. The airport logo features two planes flying upward alongside the Macho Man himself as he reaches the apex of a diving elbow drop.
In a forest in the video game Anthem, a figure in an elaborate purple combat suit looks at a magenta pillar with gray convex dishes on it. Above the pillar, floating text reads "TEMPORARY STANDIN ASSET".
In a restaurant with large floor-to-ceiling windows looking out to a colourful nebula, a dismantled maître d' bot lies on a set of steps. His legs are kneeling, his limbless torso is limp, and his head looks up helplessly. A Chat-O-Mat interface at the bottom of the screen shows the bot's portrait, with the following dialogue: "Ah! You prod me on my Achilles buttock! This you must not do! It pains me vairry much! You must not prod me on my Achilles buttock! It is vairry unfair that I cannot wiggle it away!" Behind the bot is a dining table, where a singular figure in a tuxedo is enjoying his meal so much his head is lying face down in it.
The interface for AppleShare, featuring a large icon of a hand holding up a tray with icons of an application, a folder, and a document. A cable connects the box beneath the hand to an original Macintosh, and other computers. Other parts of this 512x384 monochrome screen include a list of volumes, a list of users, an activity meter, and the current date/time: Fri, May 13, 1988c 7:52:04 AM.
The Bay Bridge, seen from the northwest. The glow of sunrise on the horizon casts a luminous orange over the deep blue of the rippling water. A ferry crosses in the distance. The lamps along the bridge's span and cables shine like stars against the sky yet to be lit by the dawn.
Niles Crane with a speech bubble pointing to his mouth so it looks like he's saying the quoted post below
The front page of the "Hooterville World Guardian" newspaper, with the headline "Executive Producer Paul Henning" in text that takes up the entirety of the page. The newspaper is held by hands slightly off-screen in this screencap from the TV show Green Acres.
A view from right field of a magnificent baseball stadium packed with fans. In the outfield, several people are holding the edges of a giant red flag of the proportions two by length and one by width, containing in its centre a white square the width of the flag, bearing a single red maple leaf. The stadium's domed roof is opened up to a city skyline with fluffy clouds floating across a sunny blue sky.
Niles Crane with a speech bubble pointing to his mouth so it looks like he's saying the quoted post below
a photo of a Playdate being held in a hand. on the screen is text reading "Media Offline" beneath a bar of static that obscures a warning symbol.
A photo of the video game Anthem being played on a TV. A figure clad in futuristic armour is standing in a forest, looking at a magenta octagonal prism with the words "temporary standin asset" floating above it.
Me, a tall figure with medium-length brown hair and peachy skin. I'm wearing a black t-shirt with a white maple leaf with "Canada" printed underneath. I'm also wearing a black denim skirt that goes to just above my knees, black leggings, and red-and-blue striped socks. On my wrist is a silver watch with a red strap, and I'm holding a phone with a purple case, pointing at the mirror in front of me.
My bike, a gray Tern GSD R14 long-tail cargo e-bike, standing in one of Caltrain's bike cars. The bike has accessories including panniers and a bell with a Canadian flag design. The digital bike tag described earlier in the thread is attached to the seat post.
An electronic bag tag, the same one in the first post in the thread. It now has yellow duct tape covering the outer frame, though the duct tape is translucent enough that the dark blue plastic is somewhat visible. On one edge, an approximation of the Caltrain logo is drawn in black and red sharpie. The e-ink display has the text "San Jose" hand-drawn.
Reddit comment thread titled "Luthen's name": rcl1221: "I thought this was actually kind of weak since Lear is Rael backwards. Not exactly difficult to figure out." panteradelnorte: "You're gonna hate how this old man hid on tatooine with the same last name"
A close-up of the seatpost of a grey bicycle. Attached to the seatpost is an e-ink display in a blue frame with an Alaska Airlines logo. Large text on the display reads "California Avenue".
On a square pink sticky note, six silly faces are sketched in blue pencil. Face 1 is kinda dazed, with a wavy mouth featuring two big teeth on opposite sides. Face 2 is small and grumpy, with eyes like sideways commas. Face 3 has wide eyes, a wide nose, upward-U-shaped eyebrows, and a slight smile. Face 4 has square eyes, an angular nose, and gritted teeth. Face 5 has just pupils for eyes, straight-line eyebrows, and a sad-looking mouth that I shaded in a bit too much, like too much lipstick. Face 6 looks downright devious, with a wavy unibrow, half-circle eyes, and a grin with teeth ready to eat.
Me, with disheveled hair and a huge grin, wearing a black t-shirt that says “ROCK”. I’m standing in front of my grey bicycle parked under a bicycle parking sign, along with a detailed sign underneath listing the bike parking rules, which can be found on the website linked in my post. The bicycle has a black briefcase attached to the front rack, a water bottle, and a little bike computer attached to the handlebars.
A page of about eight roughly-sketched faces, most consisting of just a couple eyes and a mouth, some with eyebrows. From top to bottom, they include: An excited face with an open mouth and two large teeth, bordered by a loopy line. A wild face with eyes akimbo, and a wiggly mouth. A thickly-lined face with glasses, thick sketchy eyebrows, and a curly loopy happy mouth. A face with eyes looking right, tilde-like eyebrows, and a mouth like an unfinished figure eight. A face at an angle, looking up and to the left, with gritted teeth. A serene face, with closed eyes in happy upside-down U shapes, floaty eyebrows, and a blissfully upturned mouth. A small face with diamond eyeballs, angry eyebrows in a V shape, and a grimacing mouth. A face drawn perpendicular to the others, with square eyeballs, U-shaped eyebrows, and a suspicious grin. Other non-face sketches on the page include a stack of cards with a loosely-drawn hand writing on the top card, and a paint bucket pouring out paint.
A snowy mountain landscape, where powder-swept trees poke out here and there against the white slope. Small details can barely be seen: a sign indicating ski runs, and a T-Bar carrying skiers near the slope's edge. In the background, mountains beyond mountains are lined with trees as they meet the grey puffy clouds above. A sunbeam passes through the layer of clouds, illuminating just a portion of the snow below in a brilliant white that makes the rest of the powder look grey.
A white paper sign has an illustration of an electrical cable with a plug at each end, and a red “prohibited" symbol over the cable. Below the illustration, all-caps text reads: “THESE ARE NOT MADE. THEY SHOULD _NEVER_ BE MADE. WE WILL NOT MAKE THEM. WE WILL NOT HELP MAKE THEM.” The sign is affixed atop a bin of electrical plugs in a hardware store.
A blue street sign with large text reads "Bicycle Friendly Community". A professionally-affixed sticker on the bottom right of the sign reads "2010-2014". The sign has an illustration of a bicycle beneath the text, and in the lower left is a "League of American Bicyclists" logo. The sign stands in front of several trees along a street under the dark blue night sky.
A longtail cargo e-bike (a Tern GSD R14) with a grey frame is parked inside a train car. The bike stands beneath a train car window, through which can be seen an autumn day with blue sky and a couple clouds overlooking Santa Clara Street in San Jose, California. Accessories on the bike include a weatherproof bag on top of the rear rack, a bike lock mounted to the frame, a water bottle mounted to the stem, and a yellow Knog bike tracker mounted beneath the batteries.
Me, standing next to a bus shelter. I'm wearing sunglasses, a bright yellow helmet, a bright yellow vest with reflective strips, a beige striped t-shirt, and a winning smile. The bus shelter is made of glass panes with a curved grey metallic frame (with a matching bench) and an angular roof. There's an LED sign showing departures for the 56 Lockheed Martin route in 9 and 30 minutes. In the background, a longtail cargo bike is parked next to the shelter.
Above a tree-lined grove, faint green ribbons of aurora borealis illuminate a night sky dotted by points of light from faraway stars. In the grove, silhouettes of vehicles can be seen along the ground, some partially lit by colourful reflections. The light that casts these reflections is also projected upon a large drive-in theatre screen, where a young Anakin Skywalker sits on the counter of a shop across from Watto. Subtitles on the screen read “Outlanders. They think we know nothing.”
A slide with a Canada Post stamp featuring actor John Colicos as the Klingon military leader Kor. Title: "I think I heard about that…". Body text: People tend to overstate their awareness of current events. To get a true measure of news recall, we asked Canadians how much attention they paid to a fake news story - "the Government of Canada signing the Treaty of Algeron". This was not an actual news story from 2023, but rather a Star Trek treaty between the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Empire. For the rest of this deck we are reporting "true recall" levels, which are calculated by subtracting recall levels for "the Treaty of Algeron" from the recall levels for each news story recorded on the poll. A bar graph shows the same question and results from the quoted Polling Canada post. An inset reads "Men (22%) and young people (25%) are more likely to report being aware of this "fake news" story".
I’m smiling and standing on the platform ahead of a green and brown locomotive labelled “WSDOT” with a destination sign that reads “PORTLAND”. I’m wearing an orange toque, a black jacket, and have a mask dangling from my neck. The sky is still dark.
A photo of the Peace Arch monument, seen from the train tracks on its west side. The towering white angular arch is topped with the flags of Canada and the United States. In front of the visible side of the arch are markers indicating the border line. In the background, trees line the surrounding park, and wisps of cloud drift across a blue sky.