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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
Yeah I remember the old "Ride Gold" buses.
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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 · 26/07/2026
Was the entitled drivist from Pittsburgh(USA) by any chance? 😒 Sidewalk parking is a huge problem here. I fight with my neighbors all the time. I eventually got one of them a $150 parking ticket. He really hates me now. So nobody even parks in front of my house anymore. 🤣😈🤣😈🤣
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
His show in Michigan two ago was excellent.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
3- Listen Ethel, nobody was responsible for my bike for the past 10 years I been coming here. If my bike offends you, advocate for a bike rack. Mmmmmkay? The nearest rack is a block away in a dark corner of a parking garage. Hard pass.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I explained that there isn't a bench anymore & they should have a bike rack. Guard gave more static and some rando woman jumped in for good measure. I said I was going to lock it to itself inside the lobby in the corner with all the expensive wheelchairs. "I WON'T BE RESPONSIBLE!"
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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 · 15/07/2026
The bike rack at my grocery store looks like this. 😒
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Gold star. 🙄 I routinely roll that red light in the opposite direction because I would rather not get murdered by an impatient drivist. But you do you, boo. 😘
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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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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Any way to share a better resolution map? I am visiting from Pittsburgh and would love to meet along the route.
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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 · 19/05/2026
Exactly. There is PLENTY of space for protected bike infrastructure on the 40th. Every time I have a confrontation with a Ped, I tell them to write to their city councilperson to get bike infra on the bridge. In the cItY oF bRiDgEs only ONE BRIDGE has protected 🚲 infrastructure. 😡
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ugh should have typed "MVALE" 🙄 I went from Lawrenceville to Millvale across the Allegheny river.
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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
Dismounting repeatedly is not gonna happen. Last night I was crossing the 40th st bridge at 1am and a group of drunk sorority girls taking up the whole sidewalk bitched at me about my bike lights. DON'T LOOK DIRECTLY AT THEM, KAYLEIGH! @PghDOMI Get protected bike lanes on 40th St Bridge.
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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 · 12/05/2026
All people in cars should wear helmets too. Car crashes are the leading cause of death. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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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
Panther Hollow is a weird little neighborhood I had never been in. I came up underneath Schenley Dr. Had to loop around on Forbes (has bike infrastructure 👍) then rode around the Carnegie library back to Schenley Dr. It was CMU graduation & Phipps was having some plant thing so everything was CHAOS.
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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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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
But I am stranded well outside of CLE because there is no transportation until 4am which would take 45 mins. So I opted for Lyft which costs MORE THAN MY DAMN GREYHOUND BUS TICKET. This is just punishing the poors. Fuck capitalism.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Greyhound left on time at 1255am. We got to the new bus station near the airport. It's an LED lit box with vending machines and toilets about the size of my mom's boyfriend's 1970s trailer. 😑 And the door squeaks.
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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 · 11/04/2026
Well Amtrak is 3.5 hours late. Here I sit at Greyhound waiting for the 1am bus. I tracked it from DC to PGH and it stayed on time. Hoping we don't have a driver change. Sometimes they don't show up.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Hoping you have a smooth rest of your journey.
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Nihilhexia @clarinetchick.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
My hotel is a 20 min mildly dangerous walk from Amtrak. The bus station is by the airport now. 😡 It looks like the red line might start running at 4am to get me into downtown, adding another 45 minutes to my travels. 😑
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