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Julian Mope

@alex.vitreous.rocks
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Just here to witness the disaster, but I sometimes post about bikes or dogs and stuff. The follower count is mostly blocked bots. 🇺🇦

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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 4h
The entire West Coast and beyond.
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 5h
imagine if elbridge colby was still around to see this
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Chicago, Bike Grid Now! @bikegridnow.org · 8h
We're hosting a concert with local bands from 3-7p on The People’s Bridge™ (Cortland) in support of the permanent pedestrianization and continuation of bicycle access. The concert is free. Tipping the bands is strongly encouraged. 📍 Cortland Bridge (1420 W Cortland) ⏰ Sunday, October 18th, 3-7p
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h
They're going to try to steal it
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h
NEW: A little-known effort to bring an AI learning tool into Texas public school classrooms began about a year ago, with the help of the state’s top education official. with @texastribune.org
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Texas’ Education Board Raised Questions About an AI Learning Tool. The State Then Helped Pilot It in Public Schools.
Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch...
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 7h
The weather has really worked out in my favor on this trip, but tomorrow I need to bike ~70 miles in the rain, and the first 10 of those will be on roads with little or no shoulder. Time to do battle.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 7h
"no beardos, no weirdos"
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 7h
Geneva, NY
Looking south down Lake Seneca. A kite surfer is doing their thing. Looking east along the shore of Lake Seneca.
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 13h
It’s October 1st
David Lynch. Next to him is a graphic with a Halloween jack-o-lantern and the text, “Devil’s Night.”
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
what are we doing here? just a profound tragedy in the service of cruelty
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A conservative dark money group is running Prop 132 asking voters to put more Coloradans in prison for fentanyl. Is it backed by people who make money off private prisons? Don’t know. It’s dark money.
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 01/10/2026
I bought a cheap bike computer for this trip. No regrets. It doesn't have a touchscreen, which is fine with me. It doesn't have road or topographical maps, but it saves the phone battery and gets you where you need to be. Interfaces with the phone nicely.
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 01/10/2026
Today I startled a fox munching on a small deer hit by a car, a gopher occupying a well-established network of holes along the canal, and a turkey vulture just hanging out in the road.
Just a pic of a turkey vulture in a rural road.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
*27.9%*
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026
I've been keeping a tally across MAGA country in upstate New York. QAnon signs: 1 Confederate flags: 1 Trump signs: 0
An old tractor trailer with anti-choice and pro-cop messages on it.
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026
They're playing Nashville country in this lunch spot in upstate New York. It's obviously not for me, but I still don't get what the appeal is to people around here, aesthetically or otherwise. The bartender can't stop talking about gambling.
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026
Holy shit. I found their hideout. If you have the money...
A replica The A-Team van in an old shed.
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026
Look at this old dredge.
An old dredge/barge in drydock at one of the locks on the Erie Canal.
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026
A bridge abutment for the original versions of the canal, abandoned in 1918.
Bridge abutments for the original canal. Mules could cross the canal here without releasing their toe ropes. The original canal is filled in and covered with mowed grass.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026
This is so stupid. He's fucking with Pittsburgh now. Also, CMU once levitated a frog.
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it's time for playoff basebal
jack white looking upset at a cubs game
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026
I finally learned today where Pittstown, Pittsburgh, Pittsfield, and Pittsford got their names. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026
A Ukrainian soldier on the battlefield saying, "We are very lucky that they are so fucking stupid."
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 29/09/2026
Not bad, Rochester.
A nice section of the canal with a Riverwalk and various shops and restaurants. The trail through the southern part of the city was mostly parks. No complaints.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 29/09/2026
Nearly got hit by a douche on an e-moto wearing a Stahlhelm-style helmet. Outlaw e-MC. Outlaw e-1%-er.
Cat.Cat digging my bike. The canal cuts through some rock east of Rochester.
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 29/09/2026
We need to do a bracket for the dumbest Republican in Congress.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026
New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:
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In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations
Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 29/09/2026
The canal is much higher than a lake in Medina. It goes over a waterfall.
A tow path along the Erie Canal to the right and a lake down below to the left.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SCOOP A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization. He's also: • Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet • Said people without kids should not be allowed vote • Called immigrants "semihuman savages" www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One obvious point about the Republican rats desperately deserting the sinking Trump ship: They're still rats.
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 29/09/2026
Upstate NY really likes the retroflex "R" sound, at least in this diner.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Probably more important he's former director of Montana's Americans for Prosperity; founded an unaccredited private school called "Wonder", funded by Charles Koch's son Chase--oh and then married Chase's wife! iowastartingline.com/news/meet-za...
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Meet Zach Lahn: a Koch-connected political operative running for Iowa governor
Iowa's new Republican nominee for governor Zach Lahn campaigned as an outsider farmer fighting the political establishment. But before he was "Iowa First," he was a Koch-connected political operative ...
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 29/09/2026
But let's be honest. It's not the most photogenic area, but that wasn't what drew me. I did see some early 19th century structures today, so that was cool.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 29/09/2026
Some phone snaps. I didn't bring anything that can process photos from the good camera.
A lift bridge in Medina, NY. Dunno. Odd old industrial building with 3 curious circular portals on the side. Dunno, maybe pipes used to come through them. A shot looking east down the canal, probably around Gasport. Apple orchard. The trees are relatively small, which makes pruning and picking more efficient, and they are in uniform rows relatively close together.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The public won’t even notice until things are gone. A road becomes a line on a map. A drilling lease becomes an economic statistic. A weakened regulation becomes a press release celebrating deregulation." www.explorebigsky.com/dispatches-f...
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Dispatches from the Wild: Project 2025’s assault on the wild | Explore Big Sky
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Project 2025 was never merely a campaign document. It was a blueprint for dismantling the laws, agencies and scientific safeguards that protect America’s air, wat...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If I Were Still Voting in Calif dept: —US needs much, much more progressive tax code, w much more robust IRS enforcement, than now. Doesn't have either, via Reagan/Gingrich-era-onward GOP —Doing it state-by-state won't work. They just move to Nevada —Worked for smog/car emission stds. But not tax
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 28/09/2026
Hoagie country. And superior Reubens and wings. Worth it just for that.
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 28/09/2026
Lock 35. I have seen plenty of signs for Republican candidates out here, but zero mention of Trump.
Lock 35 on the Erie Canal in Lockport.
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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This year I returned to this Black, modernist enclave in Chatham to write about the late Jolyn Robichaux. After the death of her husband, she took over Baldwin Ice Cream, transforming that venerable, small operation into a major corporation, all the while keeping her community centered.
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Best Historical Home for Community Empowerment: Robichaux Home
Best of Chatham
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes the circle of life
• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An important follow up to the original bombshell reporting. Link: buff.ly/UEL8tLM
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 28/09/2026
It's time.
My Kona bike fully loaded, maybe too loaded, for a trip at Union Station.
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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” — Frederick Douglass
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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Friday
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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 25/09/2026
Thanks @amtrak.com, for canceling bikes on my train for the bike trip. Super great.
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