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B. Wendel

@beewendel.bsky.social
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Lifelong Indianan and proud Boilermaker (BSME), avid cyclist in Naptown, "radical leftist" (aka progressive), Bengals diehard. I dig rock music, records, guitars, and Kentucky bourbon. Still trying to find my place in the "post-Covid" world.

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EricTime @erictime.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Update, there are 20 cars valet parked on the cultural trail. Fuck you @impd
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EricTime @erictime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I really want to know the language of where Valets are allowed to park cars, because directly on the Cultural Trail doesn’t seem like a permitted place.
Valet parked cars directly on the Cultural Trail on Washington street in Downtown Indy.
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here’s what this portion of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail and this historical marker for the late pioneering African-American attorney Harriette Bailey Conn look like when there are no idiots parking on the trail meant for walking, cycling and definitely not cars. indyculturaltrail.org/map/
Historical marker in Indianapolis. It reads:

Harriette Bailey Conn
1922-1981

Trailblazing African American lawyer and Indianapolis native Harriette Bailey Conn graduated from Crispus Attucks High School in 1937. After graduating from Indiana University’s Law School in 1955, she became a Deputy Attorney General for the State of Indiana. She later served as an Indianapolis Assistant City Attorney and advised the city’s Human Rights Commission.

Elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1966 and 1968, Conn championed personal and civil liberties and housing reform. She also worked for criminal justice reform and in 1970 she became the first African American and first woman appointed Public Defender of Indiana. The public defender’s office expanded dramatically under her resolute leadership.
 
Erected 2021 by Indiana Historical Bureau, the University of Indianapolis, Indiana Humanities, Dr. Laura Merrifield Wilson, and Karlee Taylor.
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Indy was basically the damn Everglades from mid-May until like a week ago? Never, ever been so ready for a freeze to send the bugs back to hell
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The Hard Times @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Modern Day Country Singer Visits Folsom Prison to Advocate for Harsher Sentencing thehardtimes.net/culture/mode...
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Modern Day Country Singer Visits Folsom Prison to Advocate for Harsher Sentencing
FOLSOM, Calif. — Country singer Carlson Swagger brought his cowboy bootlickin’ brand of lawful country music to Folsom Prison today where he... Continue this tale
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phylan @phylan.website · 30/09/2026
smoking that shit that makes me look like the live action Moe Szyslak
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Now that everyone has turned on Ed Sheeran I finally feel comfortable saying this: you shouldn’t be allowed to get a bunch of tattoos if you’re a musician who makes wuss music
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's clear that people at large in Indiana don't care about cyclists. But when construction projects that affect major trails just do whatever they please and send people to their deaths as a result, seems like kind of a big deal? @safestreetsindy.org @centralincycling.org
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Had to check out the Cultural Trail at Capitol - it's been torn up but navigable, I ride it all the time. Suddenly, now a dead end with no detour signs, which dumps a main trail in the city into the middle of a major intersection with no explanation of what to do. And somebody already died for it.
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Safe Streets Indy @safestreetsindy.org · 02/09/2026
🚨 We have tracked an alarming number of bicyclists struck recently. Of the nine total incidents reported since 8/31, eight involved bicyclists. One was fatal. One resulted in serious injury. Four more resulted in injury with medical transport. @centralincycling.org #SafeStreetsIndy #Indianapolis
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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 19/08/2026
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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
PIT-FIGHTER ATARI/STERLING SILVER 1991 SEGA GENESIS
Buzz flipping The Executioner over
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I've been through here multiple times on bike since the concrete pour, but never realized it. Incredible. 🙌 Now do the one at Mass Ave (technically Bellefontaine I guess) & 10th Street, and we're in business!
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Forever a legend in the Nati 💪
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Same story for sixty damn years: IT'S NOT "COMING HOME"
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 12/07/2026
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Sad to hear about the passing of Lindsey Graham, United States senator and grandfather of rap superstar Aubrey Drake Graham
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
All the while, the slime was under the buildin'
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
Happy Birthday to rock ‘n’ roll legend Chubby Checker. 82 and still going strong!
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If Trump isn’t on the phone tomorrow to get Balogun un-suspended what even was the point of all that corruption
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Safe Streets Indy @safestreetsindy.org · 24/06/2026
2+ years later and this intersection is still a danger to all. Indianapolis is not a City that is serious about Vision Zero. #Indianapolis #VisionZero #HoosierSky
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It's a pretty decent crossing now (temporarily) with the bridge closed - I checked it out last week. Hope they still have plans to upgrade it when/if 16th Street ever reopens....
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Absolutely wild that those weren't there from day one
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Are those actually bollards in front of FortyFive Degrees in the rendering?!?!
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Can confirm firsthand - gnarly spot by 91st is now fresh asphalt 🙌
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I rode thru on Sunday and that gnarly washboard section near 91st was also marked to be repaved - same way the BR section was marked up. Seems promising 🤞
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I solve mental health by calling everyone "big dog" or playboy
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Last thing we need is string lights illuminating the dumpster in front of the Alley Cat door. That is a sacred space in Indy and must remain ungentrified
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🤣🤣🤣🍻
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CosmoQuest @cosmoquest.org · 02/04/2026
There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Sound legal strategy plus genius performance art - absolute perfection. I haven't laughed that hard at anything all year.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I want to be clear that a load bearing pillar of fighting fascism is exactly this
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
9/11 was a mutagenic event leveling up the most potent class of fucking losers this country has ever seen
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
As soon as like eight of them said their favorite song about America was courtesy of the red white and blue I knew we weren’t winning shit
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
What was that, Star Wars name-havin' MF? #belttoass #hammerdown
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Praise be 🙌🙌🙌
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Dunkin in SoBro will sell you an Extra Large drip coffee for the low, low price of $3.39. I remain hopelessly devoted
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Keep our Boilermaker legend's name out your mouth
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Just swapped the crotch pics and welfare theft for ayahuasca and bro-podcasts
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Cream of Sum Yung Gai, obviously
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I just watch every event when it hits replay, and after you clear that 15-second pre-roll, it's ad-free for the duration. $16 for top-tier Peacock gets me all the action I want *and* frees me from the tyranny of NBC Prime Time and the Italian Stallion? Steal of the decade
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Them kids gotta learn eventually
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Usain Bolt
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Dude spouts mealy-mouthed centrist both-sides nonsense, gets absolutely and correctly bodied for it... and his takeaway is to double down on said nonsense. I've stayed an Indystar subscriber because I strongly believe in supporting local journalism, but good Lord. They've gotta do better.
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
May I propose some skinny-tire rally-car bullshit? Bring the god Petter Solberg outta retirement to run for the gold
Petter MFing Solberg
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Another Briggs masterclass in which he acknowledges "posting controversial opinions online might negatively affect your work or relationships" but goes on to mostly put the blame on the "hordes" pushing for "permanent closure", and also on the concept of social media itself apparently. Chef's kiss
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B. Wendel @beewendel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Counterpoint: taking any RB in the top half of the first round should result in the GM in question being fired immediately into the heart of the Sun
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