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A. Pie

@apie.bsky.social
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Artist, cat lady, pie lover. Forensic architect: I figure out why buildings are failing. Throwing away everything I can to be able to see what matters. So far: what matters is people.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The thing that brought this home to me was having a stroke and having to relearn a lot of physical things. It turns out a LOT of my thinking and experience of the world is not in my brain but in my body.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
@jococruise.bsky.social has this on their lanyards and I can confirm it is very cool as a social device although I’ve never run into anybody else with my same niche interest. But people want to hear about mine or I want to hear about theirs.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
They’re genuinely smiling rather than just moving their mouths into part of a smile.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I understand this. I almost died of sadness a few years ago. It is a knife in your heart—metaphorically, and almost literally
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Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani behind the counter of a bodega in The Bronx, flanked by various people. A journalist with a microphone labeled “Shop Cats” is standing in front of the sales counter, and holding the mic up to a black and white cat sitting on the counter next to bananas. The cat has an expression like in the famous “Sir, are you aware that you are a cat” meme
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
if Trump nukes Iran it will be because no one powerful in america has ever been seriously punished for anything
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Oh yeah 1929 saw some amazing stock market gains.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Wealth Psychosis is a real thing
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Old Fashioned Boologna Salad @bolognasalad.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I still think this is a strong contender for the funniest video ever uploaded. Absolutely unbeatable comedic rhythm
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I had a hellish travel day yesterday (assistant booked a hotel on the other side of LA from the job site, traffic, traffic, no bathroom, no functional chargers for ev, traffic, crowded flight, douches, pushy men, aaaaa) and I remembered why business travel sucks
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Holy crap yes. This is not a terrible map, it’s the TRVTH.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
In my licensed profession (architecture) I cannot avoid personal liability for my professional actions by hiding behind a corporation. My home, my retirement savings are all accessible through the courts if I harm people. Will the same personal responsibility attach to chatbot creators?
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
As a geographer, please trust me when I say that Larry Visoski is dead wrong here. Oakland is actually located an average of 90 feet above the Bay Area.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
An Uber driver tried to kill me today, slowly changing lanes into the side of my car to try to force me out of my lane. I went to report this to Uber but they do not allow anybody but the paying passenger to report dangerous drivers. So any Uber you encounter could be that guy.
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🇺🇲💥🧨‼️🦅Diana🦅‼️🧨💥🇺🇲 @citiesbydiana.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
#alysaliu WOKE IS BACK BABY MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I was up early and out on an icy (literally, weird for coastal California) work site at the crack of dawn. Now I’m so cold I can’t seem to warm up. But on my way back to the office I stopped at the recorder’s office and finally got my deed recorded. I’m now fully free of my abusive ex. Woot!
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.
Two cats, one tabby piebald and one brown tabby, on a rumpled, messy bed. The tabby piebald, Chunk, is sniffing his adopted son, Bob, who is leaning in to bite him. They love each other.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 13/02/2026
And this is where we are now: white folk have to do the work of saving democracy by abandoning their comforts & organizing for justice.
For activists and organizers and everyday people struggling against this administration's policies, the race traitor label evokes an inspiring and hopeful lineage: white people who are willing to give up the protection whiteness offers to stand for justice with those who are fewer in number and have far less power.
After the election of 2024, many Black Americans and members of other marginalized groups felt deeply betrayed by a white majority (and a near Latino majority) that sent Trump back to the White House. As Trump has done what they had warned he would do - eviscerate civil rights protections, target L.G.B.T.Q.
Americans, round up immigrants, erode democratic institutions — Black activists have largely moved their organizing underground, leaving it to white people to get in the streets this time.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Well this is a better resolution to this anxiety than I expected: www.filmsforaction.org/articles/noa...
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Noam Chomsky's Wife Responds to Epstein Controversy | Aaron Maté
"Noam’s overly trusting nature, in this specific case, led to severe poor judgment on both our parts... we express our unrestricted solidarity with the victims," Valéria Chomsky writes.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Hey, city people. The groundhog thing is a joke. Either there’s six more weeks of winter or spring is only six weeks away. It’s literally the same thing. Seeing you all talk about accuracy as if there’s a difference every year is embarrassing. The first day of spring is March 21 every year.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This weekend has been a blur of intense stress because I woke up Saturday morning to find my grad school advisor’s name in the Epstein files and I have Feelings about it.
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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026
You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
One thing about me is I’ve never been able to spit particularly well. This has not been an issue per se for well over half a century. But I see I need to develop this skill this year.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The primary thing is this, though, as a beekeeper of many decades: if you are constantly fighting with your bees you are a bad beekeeper, and keeping bees who can't fight back won't help you be a better beekeeper. 1/
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
You know what is reassuring? Waking up to today’s news while in South America. Been an interesting day. I’m safe and should be fine. My views on the current regime in the USA are pretty well known. But still.
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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I said “it sounds like you’re just feeding municipal vehicles to the hill” and the mayor of Montreal started crying
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. (I'm not a serious person.)
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
*GASPS*
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
We had to pause the show while I melted down about exactly this. I do try to do the willing suspension of disbelief thing with TV science/tech but the setup for that part was SO WRONG.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
we need a department of kerning
The Department of War's seal hangs on a wall. The kerning appears to be off.
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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. in fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. the poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
My European family: if they are your age they are cousin, if they are your parents' age they are aunt/uncle, if they are your grandparents' age they are grandmother/grandfather. There's not much reason to try to figure out who is genetically related to me. What does it matter?
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I will pay real folding US dollars to anybody who gets me video of this.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
If there is anything I know about tattoos (not much) it is that if you can get a drunken, stupid tattoo you can also get that tattoo covered up/altered when you realize it's a regrettable design. I don't have a problem with people who have realized they made a mistake and taken steps to fix it.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
As somebody with a really hard-to-pronounce name (it is not, in fact, Pie, as much as I sometimes wish it were), I am often befuddled when people with names that are said *exactly as they are spelled* (for English speakers) have to deal with this. No wonder they get stuck on the Turkish "c".
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Bluesky is hornier than Tumblr??? 👀
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Oh great, now we can look forward to the inevitable "our research shows that autistic people do not feel pain."
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I hit a major milestone today. After years of hard work, I have reached the weight I was before I met my abusive ex. They wanted me fat and unhappy so I was easier to control. Now I feel like I've completely lost the person they shaped me into. 🎂
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
As somebody who was just in an ER as a patient, I can say that wait times are not too bad if you have a life-threatening emergency; I was whisked right into a bed. A system that makes poor people go to ER for urgent care/instead of primary care is very broken and hurts people with real emergencies.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I have a prescription for lorezepam and they give me 90 pills at once (90-day supply, in theory, though in practise they go bad before I use that many). And for reasons that are never quite clear, they put them in a bottle that is easily 10 times larger than necessary.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
As is the custom of my people, the next hour will be spent talking about the earthquake. I will say this one was close to the biggest I've been through here. And every time we have one I am relieved to be on a modern foundation.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Been feeling light-headed during exertion for a week or so, and yesterday the chest xray showed pneumonia. Mostly just a cough right now, but that 80/50 bp was very dramatic: lying down on the street in SF unable to sit up without blacking out, ambulance, 5 hours in ER, 2L fluid. 0/5 stars.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The milkweed patch is finally mature enough that we have a real population of monarchs in the garden.
A small monarch caterpillar on a milkweed plant.
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
How is the network connectivity on my 3D printer making me nostalgic for token ring networks? Bambu Labs you have a lot to answer for. It should not be this hard for me to 3D print from bed.
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cassie willson @cassiewillson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
did i just write the song of the summer?
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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Buying a 6-pack of beer for my dad with a note when I was 8. Just walking into the corner store with a note from my dad and walking out with beer. 8 years old. They'd also have sold me cigarettes for him but my mother disapproved.
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