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@carysmiller.bsky.social
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Family man, environmental health professional (air quality) - field inspector/data scientist, musician, optimist, and lifelong learner in Pittsburgh, the gateway to the midwest. My statements are mine alone. Yinz/yall.

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 12h
You have to believe that boys can do better for them to do better. You have to take your own agency as a parent. This is a little human being who is learning how the world works from you. It is horrible and daunting, but teaching a little boy that men naturally step on women IS BAD FOR BOTH OF YOU
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I really hope the kids today have something this perfect to listen to.
Album cover of Versus God by the band Dillinger Four.  It is a black and white photo of skinny white arms and boxing gloves, with the rest of the image in deep shadow.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The customer is always wrong, now” is a great way to capture how specialize finance has ruined everything from our favorite store to your political process. Margins are now the only customer. The only voter. We have but one real way to exert power over any of it anymore.
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GenAI as alienation from our own critical thinking/cognition. Short lil’ thread:
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spooky sylvie 🦇 @luvcore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
when you bake chocolate chip cookies and you pull them out of the oven and the edges are golden brown but the rest of the cookie is still pale brown and they're very soft and you think "i should cook these for another couple of minutes" DO NOT DO IT. THAT IS THE DEVIL SPEAKING. TAKE THEM OUT NOW.
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
absolute groveling coward shit @fetterman.senate.gov
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Injured addict makes up a rambling story off the top of his head instead of just asking his hospital roommate to just pass his meds.
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MWhite @pjmatt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'll get back to "Islands-in-the-Stream"-is-a-live-recording-of-a-murder, but i mostly came back today for @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, should she have thoughts on Dolly. I mean, she DOES have thoughts on Dolly, they are here and they are exceptional: tressie.substack.com/p/the-dolly-...
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The Dolly Moment
Why We Stan A Post-Racism Queen. A new essay on my new project, essaying. Live now. If you are an OG tressiemc.com subscriber - you got this delivered to your inbox along with a free Substack subscrip...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: Two people have died of measles in Pennsylvania, the state's health department has confirmed. Both people were unvaccinated. They are the first such deaths in the U.S. this year, and the first in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 35 years.
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Two die of measles in Pennsylvania outbreak
The deaths are the first measles-related fatalities in the U.S. this year. Both people had not been vaccinated against the illness.
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Was just reminded of this time that the whole building full of wildass smelly freaks and weirdos screamed along to “I Will Always Love You”. I think it was Dolly’s birthday too? In the top 3 best karaoke moments I’ve ever been a part of.
Blurry image of drunk punks and weirdos and freaks singing karaoke version of Dolly Parton’s song “I Will Always Love You.”
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I don’t know about best, but my favorite Dolly Parton song is Steady As The Rain. Gonna be sharing this one with the youngsters this evening. m.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Wi...
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Dolly Parton - Steady As The Rain (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Sugar Hill Records
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My favorite story is that she anonymously gifted high school band and music programs across the South, especially majority Black schools, with music, uniforms and instruments. We are all made better for living in the era of Dolly Rebecca Parton. May her memory be for a blessing always.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton understood something that too many of my public health colleagues have not grasped: a good idea isn't sufficient — you have to sell it. So she got vaccinated in front of cameras, and literally begged her fans to not hesitate, to vaccinate — to a reworking of Jolene
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Dolly Parton, Public Health Hero, Dies at 80 | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
Dolly Parton donated $1M USD to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2020 to fund the research that resulted in the Moderna mRNA vaccine
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Excerpt from Lou Sullivan's FTM newsletter, December 1990.
Newsletter clipping that says: “Dolly Parton’s FTM Chauffeur.  The July 10, 1990 issue of the supermarket tabloid Star revealed a “Sex change shocker in Dolly’s limo - Her driver is a man who used to be a woman.”  The inside story says that 44-year old Jason Pitto, who weighs 300 lbs. and who underwent F-M surgery in 1982, works as Dolly Parton’s chauffeur whenever she comes to Hollywood.  He also drives Farrah Fawcett, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Elizabeth Montgomery.  Dolly stated that there’s nothing wrong with transsexuals: “If I were a man, I’d be a drag Queen,” she admits.
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I remember the first time someone explained to me that Dolly Parton was drag, and a lot of theoretical stuff about gender and performance clicked into place.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Organized Power in Numbers @opinorg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So much of the important organizing we're seeing against ICE today was started years ago. Labor journalist and historian @kimkelly.bsky.social explains how the 2019 Chicken Plant Raids spurred solidarity in Mississippi that we still see today. Follow @opinorg.bsky.social for more labor history.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The most noticeable and probably most consequential shift I’ve noticed in my lifetime is from the news being about things that happened to the news being about things someone said.
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Tory Wegerski @producertory.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Back in March, KDKA Investigates checked out a community's complaints that their air smelled like nail polish remover, and found a major environmental violation by the nearby Sherwin-Williams plant. Today, the PA DEP announced a $124K civil penalty and a consent agreement.
cbsnews.com
Sherwin-Williams to pay $124,700 penalty after Beaver County residents say air smells of "pure chemicals"
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the Sherwin-Williams Manufacturing Company entered into a consent order and agreement.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
cant believe nobody made a political compass out of this
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NEW, from me: Today, nearly 1000 workers at Mount Nittany Medical Center in central PA have walked off the job on a 5-day strike. The nearly wall-to-wall union (somewhat rare in healthcare these days) has been in the midst of negotiations for months. Their contract expired July 1.
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Nearly 1,000 Mount Nittany Workers Launch 5-Day Strike for Quality Patient Care and Good Jobs
Workers at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, PA hit the picket lines Monday in order to pressure management to get back to bargaining in good faith.
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Reminder that it is illegal to record any personal conversation where any party (or any eavesdropper) is located in Pennsylvania without the consent of all parties. Also it’s just generally creepy to do it without telling the other folks.
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Finally someone getting around to “disrupting” or “moving fast and breaking” the overripe and over-regulated industry of…talking.
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Statler and Waldorf doing play-by-play commentary…
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Very good info that folks may need!
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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
had dinner out tonight next to a table of old yinzers, i asked if this was what the air was like back in the day they were like "yup this was normal"
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help I've autumned and I can't get up @daniskitchen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
if you can sit around with a livestream open for 8 hours tomorrow you can watch them explode a bridge in pittsburgh 🙃
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Former KJ here. Any good KJ keeps that info in their head (and may bestow relevant advice to deserving patrons), but giving this knowledge to most folks at karaoke night would ruin at least half the fun.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
RIP bonnie tyler. lotta folks tonight are gonna learn the extent to which 'total eclipse of the heart' is outside their karaoke range
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Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The only grill I've ever loooved Primanti Bros is in my mind And then they added extra fries One evening, 2025 A homer and 2 RBI
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Just got home from a week of vacation, and the bags of chocolate chips are all melted into choco sludge. 👎
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Horney's (on Main) Clinton, IN
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Name a tv show you’re positive no one remembers but you. For a decade, I was convinced I’d hallucinated this show.
Promotional poster for Space Rangers, showing 6 human and humanoid characters wearing purple work jumpsuits and various equipment and weapons.
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
No offense to anybody but this is exactly how I feel about Foundation by Asimov.
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
There should be a whole lot more CATHEDRALS OF LEARNING in the world
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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2
Photo of Sonny Rollins playing saxophone in 2009 by John Abbott
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Hey Sundar I was born in an era of cordless landlines and no computers and now I spend a big part of my day using social media on my phone and playing videogames and surfing the internet on my computer. It's not "big change" I have an issue with, it's "pointless destructive stupid change."
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Such a treat to walk out of a movie theater and turn to another person, both grinning, and wonder aloud “What the hell did we just see?”
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Doing my parental duty and taking the teenager to see Boots Riley’s new movie on opening night. I may have even gotten him a little intrigued about it. “I Love Boosters” and so will you…
Movie poster showing actress Keke Palmer in a black hat, pink top, and short black skirt and shoes.  She is standing in front of a rack of pink clothes in front of a flat pink background.  Light pink cartoon lettering says “Keke Palmer is Corvette.  I Love Boosters.  Written and directed by Boots Riley.  Only in theaters May 22.”
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual @simple-sabotage.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
If you are cutting, shaping or doing other measured work, measure dimensions twice as often as you need to.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I think it's under-appreciated how much user-hostile recipe sites and news articles smothered in pop-ups and video ads have negatively polarized the average normie against the open web, and helped to drive adoption of AI as an alternative way to get basic information
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Mike Myzak From the Local News 🐈‍⬛ @mikemyzakntc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New video up on the YT. What do Pennsylvanians think about John Fetterman's ass? youtu.be/XLOKIL3aYyc?...
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What Do Pennsylvanians Think of John Fetterman? Pittonkatonk 2026
YouTube video by The Local News
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Post a meme you made (the only one ever)
Photograph of Metallica guitarist James Hetfirld with a look of agony on his face during an outdoor concert.  Below his face are the words “BIG FUN”.
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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Super proud to announce that my partner @daniellemaggio.bsky.social’s forthcoming book about funk goddess Betty Davis, called Game Is Her Middle Name, is now available for pre-order via @feministpress.bsky.social! #BettyDavis #funk #musichistory
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Game Is Her Middle Name
The first full biography of the funk pioneer cited as an inspiration by artists from Beyoncé to Questlove. As a girl, Betty Davis fixed her eyes on stardom and never looked back. After leaving a viole...
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I already dealt with this.
Screenshot from Twitter

Adam Rothman 08 June 2020
Darth Vader was a Jedi.

Charlie Kirk 07 June 2020
The Republican Party freed the slaves.
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
God forbid a guy have any swordful swagger in his step!
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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Correspondents’ Dinner Eyewitness
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
lots of public health work is very boring to the average person. but it's what saves lives. it's also why everyone who is running HHS right now got bored and immediately went back to podcasting
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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
If we had a better-funded transit agency, we could do this for other big events (Light-Up Night, Steelers games, the World Series) while still keeping a weekday schedule for the rest of the system.
triblive.com
Shuttles to the NFL Draft win over attendees
If there hadn’t been a convenient, free option to get into Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft, Isabel Papariella and her mother Rose might not have ventured out. “We didn’t want to have to...
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