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Nihilhexia

@clarinetchick.bsky.social
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Plays clarinet in Ishtar Pittsburgh's Premiere Vintage Bellydance Band. Rides a bicycle and takes public transit. Rabid liberal, feminist, polyamorous. Anti - republican.

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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Welcome to the #WarOnCars, kids.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The 28X airport flyer doesn't even have room for luggage. So fuckin stupid. @pghtransit.bsky.social
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Getting my annual mammogram. The building doesn't have a bike rack. I used the bench outside for years until it was removed. Cars park in the traffic circle illegally. I pulled my bike into the lobby & locked it to itself. Today there was a security guard giving me grief. 1/2
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I was on my bike and I saw a drivist run a red light on East St (Pittsburgh) and Tbone another drivist crossing on Tripoli St. I think both of the drivists were okay. This is why traffic rules exist. #bikesky
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Yeessssssss, drivists.... PLEASE STAY OUT OF DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH. The Secret Route is parking your dumb car in one of the many parking garages and walking or taking transit.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
To MAGA, combining racism with misogyny is more delicious than combining milk chocolate with peanut butter.
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Live every day like it's World Bike Day.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Republicans: We’re so pro-life, we’ll kill every last one of you to prove it.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Hey @pogohbikes.bsky.social before you expand to the suburbs, you need to put at least one station in the poor part of the Northside. I bike and live on Spring Hill. If my bike breaks down the nearest bike kiosk is literally at my work on Federal St. Pogoh is useless for me.
Big red circle on map denotes the lack of bike share stations in the poor part of Pittsburgh's Northside neighborhood. Bike share wants to expand to the suburbs but hasn't addressed the inequality of bike share within Pittsburgh city limits.
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Good morning to everyone who bicycles for transportation, despite hostile infrastructure, and who advocates for safe infrastructure, so more people will bicycle for transportation.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I do more than complain about carcentric culture and dirtbag drivists. I play clarinet in a Turkish folk music ensemble. If you are from DaBurgh #Pittsburgh come see me play at Avva in Aspinwall. Call 412-206-7878 for reservations.
Ishtar at AVVA in Aspinwall on May 23. 6-9pm. Call 412-206-7878 for reservations.
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2pVc0 (Tu-Pah-Ko) @tu-pah-ko.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I ride a bicycle because everyone I see in a car is looking at their damned phone instead of the road.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I bike I vote. #IBIKEIVOTE In my kindergarten classroom. (1974)
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
So last night, I said "🖕 this" & took the lane on the 40th St bridge @ 945pm from Lville to Mville. 2 lanes open in that direction. Had PAS on max but only gets to 18mph. Drivers flying past at 35-40 in 25mph zone. 😡😡😡 Close passed once. Screamed obscenities at them. 🖕drivists. 🖕Pgh for no 🚲 lane.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I am so tired of being forced to bike the sidewalk on nearly all of Pittsburgh's bridges. Three times in 5 days on 3 different bridges I have had to deal with pissy pedestrians. I ring my bell every time. There is signage to warn peds to share. I ride as slow as I can w/o dumping over.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Even as a predominant bike rider, I understand my responsibility to do NO harm. If you choose to drive, your number ONE job is to cause ZERO harm to vulnerable road users. If you’re not up for that weight of responsibility: walk, roll or take public transit. Driving isn’t a right.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This picture is from a week ago. Me and a friend rode my ebikes from Spring Hill (PGH) to Duquesne on the GAP trail. A remnant of US Steel Duquesne Works behind the bikes.
Two ebikes in front of an old locomotive from a steel mill
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Rode my Velotric ebike from Spring Hill to Schenley Park for #pittonkatonk yesterday. Google wanted me to ride with traffic up over Polish hill thru Oakland. I preferred to take the protected Jail Trail (noisy AF bc it goes between the two sides of I-376). Then thru Panther Hollow.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Taking my space woMANspreading. 😂😂😂 (If anyone wants to walk past, I will move my feet.) The guys behind me have their feet all over the seats soooooooo....
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
One major thing that sold me on the Dutch bicycle design was the upright ergonomics. No back pain, no wrist pain, just upright, face forward riding that let me take in the world ahead without the hunched over strain.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
STOP. via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
STOP
SHAMING KIDS TO BE PERFECT ON OUR STREETS AND START FORCING ADULT DRIVERS TO BE SAFE BY DESIGN

silhouettes of kids playing
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I fight with my drivist neighbors on the regular about keeping ALL FOUR tires in the street in front of my house. I wish I could send in a pic to some app that would issue a ticket automatically. 🖕 Pittsburgh drivists.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Someone should look into the stats for wearing Car Helmets.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If Melania wants Jimmy Kimmel fired for hateful rhetoric, someone should introduce her to her husband
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The White House claims it has secured all of Iran—when it can't even secure one DC ballroom.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Ban lifted pickups, then pass laws so you need a commercial driver's license to operate a regular pickup.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Socrates: and what is the purpose of a screen? Gloucon: to look at S: just so. And where does one look when driving? G: at the road S: and does a man’s gaze best view object at a time, or two? G: surely just one S: indeed - thus it cannot be proper for a car to have a screen
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Tanisha @tanishaevonne.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I’m telling everybody in town for the NFL draft that Primanti’s is Pittsburgh fine dining.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
If you’re a sexual abusing politician, today is an excellent day to resign. I’m talking to you, you loathsome slug, Donald Trump.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Great. I am supposed to get the Floridian from PGH to CLE tonight but the already 1 hour late train is broke down in DC. Yesterday's train was 7 hours late. I bought a Greyhound ticket as a backup. Only bus to CLE leaves at 8am or 1am. 😢
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A group of wolves is called a pack. A group of fascists is called a CPAC.
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Pittsburgh Protests @pghprotests.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
We know it’s easier said than done sometimes from experience but, PLEASE CREATE. 🥰❤️‍🔥 Make the art. Write. Draw. Etc You’ll never know who will see you.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States with the dumbest, most corrupt president ever in power is a bit like celebrating a wedding anniversary after your spouse murdered all your children and drained your bank accounts.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Have you heard? There’s a new bill that makes it harder for millions of eligible Americans to vote. Join me and @standupamerica.bsky.social in urging Congress to vote NO on the SAVE Act: act.standupamerica.com/letters/no-o...
act.standupamerica.com
Vote NO on the SAVE Act!
The SAVE Act is a trick to undermine our voting rights. Urge Congress to vote no on the SAVE ACT.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I often take the underfunded & underperforming Ghound bus. This station is right downtown Cleveland & DOESN'T NEED A NEW USE. IT'S THE FUCKIN BUS STATION. Investing in intercity public transportation is what we need. I don't care how this shit gets dressed up, it is just punishing the poor like me.
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For These Old Bus Stations, It’s Not the End of the Line
The streamlined depots built by Greyhound in the middle of the 20th century reflected a more optimistic era for bus travel. A lucky few are finding new uses.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Dammit. This is my river and bridge in my neighborhood. I am leaving Belize right now for this. 😭 My bike commute is gonna suck.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is infuriating.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“Why would you bring a gun to a protest?” Pal, there are people who bring AR’s to the grocery store and you’re totally cool with that so maybe sit this one out.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Checks and balances would be great but at this point I’d settle for checks OR balances.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
My favorites are the doods who berate me for owning two ebikes. One for shitty weather and one for nice weather. I live in Pittsburgh. I commute daily. I don't drive. It's hilly here. And fuck off. #bikesky
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The Redaction This Country Yearns For Most:
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I already don't drive. Never have. I bike almost everywhere & take transit if I need to. But I have to fly many places because Greyhound is very unreliable and Amtrak takes entirely too long. Get it together inter-city ground transportation.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
It's a chrimbus eve miracle. My Spring Hill bus was running late but I still managed to catch the rare Emsworth flyer to get to my sister's house for my family gathering tonight. Saved myself $35 in Uber fees. Thanks Pittsburgh Regional Transit. Not on bsky. 🙄
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🎶 He’s making a list He’s checking it twice He’s gonna find out if you work for ICE 🎶
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
My beloved Northside ruined by carcentric culture. I hate it so much.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I bike and I shop in the #stripdistrictpittsburgh #bikesky. PROTECTED BIDIRECTIONAL BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE ON #PENNAVE NOW. #PAINTISNOTPROTECTION @reportsstrip.bsky.social @bikepgh.bsky.social
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Dear Bike Santa - make my dreams come true.
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