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Tracy

@atraceofcool.bsky.social
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Former English/comms/journalism teacher, current mom, coach, and stylist, politics (unfortunately), Pitt sports, Pittsburgh everything 🩷💜💙

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 03/10/2026
Country singer Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt at his Gillette Stadium show in Massachusetts.
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Mason Houdini Heinschel
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Perfect start lol
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Obligatory return to bluesky for a minute to introduce Mr. Leon
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Chris @thunderpittroad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Got a dog. This is Leon. Look at him. LOOK AT HIM
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Jesus Christ.
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It’s been hours and I’m still fuming about Colin Dunlap’s post. Idk how he’s still employed.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham", then a dramatic blank space on the landing page of NYT.
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A *confirmed* Republican senatorial death, as a little treat
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’m choosing to believe he shit himself to death.
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Robb @robbpettit.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This could be an all-timer rule of threes
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Mike @85mf.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
he just loved going to war with Iran so much and I can’t believe he won’t be here to finish seeing how stupid he was
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Trump is booed louder than the Spurs at Madison Square Garden:
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Decided to watch Pitt baseball and log into bluesky. Both are bad. I’ll be back when…well…you know
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Secret Service shot a kid today
Politico: Secret Service officers shot a man during an exchange of gunfire Monday near the White House in an incident that wounded a child who happened to be in the area.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
'Working Class Hero' John Fetterman is now yet another of the Senators using insider info to make money on the stock market www.pennlive.com/politics/202...
pennlive.com
Fetterman stock purchase draws scrutiny over timing and Senate committee role
The value of the Micron stock purchased has increased over 60%.
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🎶🗣️this is what it’s like when worlds collide🎶
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Stephen Thompson @stephenthompson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Management at the Post-Gazette informed me today that I would not be one of the journalists retained when the organization changes hands on Sunday. I’ll have a couple more things up on the website between now and then, but that’s it. I’m disappointed, but understood this was a possibility when the outlet was sold. 

I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to have worked for the institution. Connecting with athletes, coaches and fans has made my time covering the Panthers thoroughly enjoyable and interesting at every turn. If the next stop of my career is as engaging as the past year-plus at the Post-Gazette has been, I’ll count myself lucky. 

I want to express my sincere appreciation for the two wonderful partners I shared the beat with, Abby and Chris, who made my work life easier and more fun with their passion and humor, and the many friends and mentors at the Post-Gazette who added so much to my life in Pittsburgh.

So I’m onto what’s next and excited for a change of pace. If you know anyone in need of a writer, please feel free to reach out.
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
You can’t convince me Noah Kahan’s album release didn’t trigger this depressing New England ass weather
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 26/04/2026
This video is insane because I don’t think Trump could actually stand up and he pretty clearly falls at the end
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
So just to recap, in the last minute CSPAN says it was a false alarm, CNN says the shooter was killed in the lobby, and the pool report says he's in custody, do I have that right?
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill. HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.
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Critics of new bill say Ohio women would be banned from sports bras, bikinis in public
'The peak of fear mongering.'
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
AI MAGA girls are taking over Instagram. @ejdickson.bsky.social talked to a guy who made thousands off of just one of those accounts
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This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.
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Sta7ic @sta7ic.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The guy who famously did everything he could to not go to Vietnam claiming he'd "win" Vietnam is a new one even for him.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Big abortion win in PA today - the ban on Medicaid funding is unconstitutional! AND there's a fundamental right to abortion! We won! (Though this Commonwealth Court opinion can be appealed - we'll see what our AG does.)
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Steelers with the dumbest “no worries if not!!”
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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Jake Mangum spots kid in the crowd, tosses the ball, and her brother catches it and gives it to her. Dudes rock.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I'm so glad this brave law enforcement officer is OK after being violently smirked at. Praying for him and his family
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 19/04/2026
BREAKING: Eight children were killed in an "extensive" mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, police say. The suspected shooter is also dead.
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8 children killed in Louisiana mass shooting
The alleged gunman was killed after a police chase, according to police.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Pope Leo on AI: “Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.” This short thread is worth reading:
Pope Leo XIV 
@Pontifex
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#ArtificialIntelligence systems increasingly shape and permeate our mentality and social environments.
Like every great historical
transformation, this too calls not only for technical competence, but also for a humanistic formation capable of making visible the logic behind economics, embedded biases and forms of power that shape our perception of reality.
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@Pontifex
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Within digital environments —
structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons!
Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded.
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When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread.
What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It’s insane that this isn’t getting more coverage. 62 million men in one month. 62 MILLION. It’s so hard to not think at this point that no one gives a shit about women at all.
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Nicghoulas Case @nick422.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Genuinely if you’re so stupid you need AI to figure out your coffee order please seek medical help.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 17/04/2026
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Kinda love this for him www.startribune.com/reality-tv-s...
startribune.com
Reality TV star Luke Gulbranson to challenge Republican Rep. Pete Stauber
Gulbranson’s entry comes just weeks before the Eighth District DFL’s endorsing convention and he plans to run in a primary if he doesn’t get the endorsement.
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Water Cooler Dictator @dadloop.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
If there was ever one post to sum up the entire maga movement it's we are smarter than the foremost experts on the subject.
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
more like Department of Jackasses amirite
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Tory Wegerski @producertory.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is now owned by @thebaltimorebanner.com's parent company, which will turn it into a non-profit news organization. Honestly the best possible outcome for a newspaper that's been bedeviled by its billionaire [former] owners. Good riddance to the Blocks.
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Banner parent company to buy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, staving off its closure
The Venetoulis Institute will acquire the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, converting it to a nonprofit to prevent the historic paper’s closure.
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Stephen Thompson @stephenthompson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which DID NOT die
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Sam Feldman @srfeld.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It's a bad sign that Spanberger, elected on a wave of opposition to Trump and his swollen militarized secret police force, is insisting that Virginia sheriffs and jails continue to imprison people past their release date in order to hand them over to ICE. This grants ICE power it should not have.
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Kid’s first baseball game of the season tonight and I had a nightmare about running GameChanger. We’re so back.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball. Now being discarded as if he was human refuse. Shame on Syracuse for not intervening. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...
Former Syracuse basketball player to be deported after more than a month in ICE custody
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Are we…are we…good?
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 13/04/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Embattled Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is resigning from Congress after sexual assault allegations.
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Chris Peak @pantherlair.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Folks, Pitt has a (potential) starting lineup: PG - Nait George SG - Jalil Bethea SF - Jonathan Powell PF - Baye Ndongo C - Armani Mighty We'll see if the staff can upgrade at any of those spots, but getting the players for a starting five is, well, a start.
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Logging on to find out that everything is even dumber than it was yesterday
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bart simpson is giving a speech at a podium while homer simpson stands behind him
ALT: bart simpson is giving a speech at a podium while homer simpson stands behind him
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 12/04/2026
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squidward from spongebob looks out a window
Alt: American squidward gazing longingly at Hungarian spongebob and patrick who have ideals and morals and want to do things
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Mike @85mf.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
it’s gonna happen one day
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Tracy @atraceofcool.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hell yeah
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute
In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head
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