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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this season of washcaps hockey, where we spent all of our money and resources putting together a team everyone universally agrees kicks ass, is already very challenging for me, a person who specifically loves rooting for a team that is mid at best

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We actually don't hate this administration enough

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have my favorite professor for class again this semester and routinely he will say something with such conviction and gentleness that it makes me nearly cry listening to a grad school class lecture. this is today's:

partial screenshot of a powerpoint excerpt that reads:

5. Never offer false hope.

6. Never fail to offer hope.

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

watching a billion swallow studies on my downtime at work AMA

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

been fighting my work commute so bad the past few weeks. no matter which route i try/what transport i use i inevitably hit some crazy delay or interstate crash or single tracking bullshit. i finally said screw it today and decided to just commit to the 2 hr commuter train. which is, today, delayed.

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this story is funnier if you know my sister, but every time i use KT tape i think about the time i asked her, then a kiniesiology major with years of coaching & athletic experience, how it actually works, and she just told me that “nobody really knows”

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gary’s anatomy @sablaah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“I don’t have a problem with trans people, I just don’t think they should be able to use public bathrooms or play sports or get healthcare—“ ok so that’s segregation. you are functionally a segregationist. and you want me to believe that fights fascism somehow. ok.

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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hi, poor person here. this is an incorrect trope often used by the upper classes. both political parties cater to the very rich who have oddball priorities often driven by esoteric moral values. the poor are never given an option to vote for any of their own interests at all. thanks for reading.

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

martin scorsese's favorite game in the world is to ask you if you want to see an irish man in his 20s and then show you robert de niro

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the FIRST time, been shown to PREVENT COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

another top secret cinema screening at the angelika. roughly 90 minutes, not yet released, taking your guesses now on what the film turns out to be

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Great news! I had a compulsion and redid our whole website. Easier than ever to navigate and explore our many offerings! Sign up for one of my programs so I have stuff to do at work! www.dcpeers.org

dcpeers.org

DC Peers

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 02/09/2026

nice

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the fact that i can’t find an evening showing of camp miasma anywhere but every fucking movie theatre has room for 8 different harry potter movies is going to make me the joker

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly passing in the same week, rough time in particular for homosexuals of a certain age.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

At least one in four of all the people who have played in the NFL might expect to end up with CTE, according to new data

nytimes.com

At Least 1 in 4 NFL Players Gets CTE, Major New Study Finds (Gift Article)

The actual prevalence, researchers said, may be much higher.

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

really interesting thread (read in its ENTIRETY, pls) that highlights some of the issues with “silver bullet“ cures in the context of the systems within which they occur. unfortunately, as we are already seeing with GLP-1s in the cosmetic weight loss application, there is an additional factor here—

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

good morning! I don't talk a ton about my day job on here (or anything else for that matter) but if you are an autistic or otherwise neurodivergent teen or adult in the DC metro area, you might like to know about what we have coming up this fall! www.dcpeers.org/fall-2026-ca...

dcpeers.org

Fall 2026 Program Catalog — DC Peers

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

i don’t believe in brand loyalty but what’s complicated is i *do* believe in brand forced solidarity. when i see another hyundai driver on the road acting like an asshole i take it personally because they’re making us all look bad

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

obsessed with the older redneck gentleman next to us at the mamamoo concert who is either 1) a genuine diehard fan or 2) really enjoying playing along with the spirit of the thing

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

new achievement unlocked: broke a pair of hair scissors on my stupidly thick hair and had to really commit to my long-held hubris that “if i ever fuck up a home haircut it won’t matter because i’m perfectly happy just chopping it all off”

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

friend got me some beautiful local ciders to congratulate me on finishing my first clinicals and jokingly selected the 4% ABV because i told her i was a lightweight. the punchline is it took me two hours to drink one

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

last day of my first clinical rotation! it is with enormous relief that i can formally announce i actually like doing the thing i've spent thousands of dollars and a six-year midlife pivot on 😌

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

yes i know it’s important to not minimize your struggles or compare them to other people but at certain times i think it’s actually productive to confront your mental unwellness by acknowledging that it is causing you to say some profoundly stupid things to yourself

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Ray @eleray.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

lifted weights with some of the gals from my cohort tonight and they were like how are you absolutely destroying us on the hip thrust machine. as if i’m not an out lesbian

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

i have absolutely no strong feelings about vampires 98% of the time but then i bite into a perfectly ripe summer peach and i really Get it. you know?

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

by the way i know everything seems hopeless and helpless these days, but if you haven’t talked to a six year old lately i think you should know they still like doing their own work and are receptive to being taught things like speaking kindly to each other and not recording people without permission

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Addison Peacock @addisonpeacock.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is just to say I have eaten the nectarine that was in the icebox and which you probably thought was a plum Forgive me It was delicious Though it was not a plum

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

thought I was grabbing a delicious plum for dessert and it was actually a delicious nectarine. many such surprises still left in the icebox of this world we share

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

constantly amazed at the complexity of communication that people are capable of inventing with the most rudimentary systems. working with a kid rn who will use available AAC supports to tell me “angry-scared” when he’s anxious or frustrated. like yeah bud! angry-scared kinda sums it up!

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L. Louise Lucas (mirror bot) @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot · 12/06/2026

Why doesn’t Spanberger just let the legislature do our job and she should do her job too; which is veto when she doesn’t get everything she wants.

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

anybody else ever get so distracted by how much the dad in CALL ME BY YOUR NAME looks like ted cruz

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

come to the james madison university student center if you want an ass kicking

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

survived day one of summer clinicals only 25 more to go!!

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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 26/04/2026

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 14/05/2026

But don't listen to me, listen to Virginia unions myemail.constantcontact.com/Gov--Spanber...

“Shame. Governor Abigail Spanberger today betrayed half a million of Virginia’s public service workers by going back on her campaign promise to support collective bargaining rights for the people who keep our Commonwealth and communities running every day. Instead of aligning herself with General Assembly Democrats who unanimously supported this bill, Spanberger instead vetoed the bill just as her predecessor Glenn Youngkin did, sending Virginia workers the crystal clear message that they are no better off than they were under a Republican governor. Many workers were excited by her promise to finally give them a voice on the job, and are now left questioning why she has left them behind.

“It is Orwellian for the governor to suggest that she supports collective bargaining rights while introducing a version of the bill that delayed extending those rights to local workers until the next decade, inserted a killswitch into the bill that would have effectively allowed a future governor to end collective bargaining without a single vote from the General Assembly, and took workers’ rights in Virginia backwards by weakening existing collective bargaining agreements and reducing worker protections across the commonwealth. To then hide behind local politicians who are scared to sit down with their own workers, instead of acknowledging the many local elected officials who called on her to sign the bill and the half a million public service workers whose lives could have been made better by this bill, is cowardly. The Governor thinks she knows what is best for workers, and that is precisely the problem. She is not listening to workers.

“Virginia’s ban on collective bargaining is rooted in the efforts of Black hospital workers to organize the University of Virginia Hospital in the 1940s. Until 2020, Virginia was one of only three states with a blanket ban on collective bargaining, with the other two being North Carolina and South Carolina. It is shameful that the governor turned her back on an opportunity to undo this remaining legacy of Jim Crow in Virginia.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 14/05/2026

This news broke when I was busy yesterday, I think alot of folks in the comments don't realize how much she portrayed she was mostly fine with it. The legislation was already a compromise. A total betrayal.

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

every time i see a national guard member just skulking around in dc i want to ask them if they’re proud of themselves

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I have no idea what's in the water lately but I feel like every single swan boy in recent memory has a line of dialogue that sets a new bar for "most original sentence in the English language." a powerful argument against anyone trying to say the us mid-atlantic is lacking in culture

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

ann renee desbiens the woman that you are

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

just caught TUNER in advance screening at the angelika—can’t wait to see people talking about this one, really interesting flick! if it doesn’t sweep sound design next year there’s no god

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

seeking a like minded internet community where i can bitch about the specific outcomes and results of food network baking competitions

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

had one beer and then tagged along to a Master Gardener info session AMA

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alex flannelshirt @coffeedetective.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

as a person with a heavy vintage single speed bike few things are more satisfying than discovering an errand that has a viable route constructed mainly of flat residential streets

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