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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 23h

Rich people love to say this shit

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 23h

a lot of people are replying with 'what are you going to do about it,' and while every level of government could do more, the powers the *DC City Council* has in this situation are comparatively limited. This isn't just voter intimidation, but an argument for statehood for the District of Columbia.

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/10/2026

Day one of NYCCC down! Great day, had a great panel, Neil Newbon is a riot. Also, y’ever have one of those moments when you think “I made choices in my life that brought me HERE?” Having someone saying “Ursula! This is your conscience! Do it!” in the voice of Astarion was not on my life bingo card.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Far too many people simply hate children for existing

Neighbor blasts an ultrasonic device audible and painful only to children whenever they pass on the public sidewalk.

Was riding bikes with my daughter and a friend to school this morning. We passed a house and they both started yelling, "Ow! It hurts my ears." Really strange, right? Then I hear a voice play through a speaker who says, "If it hurts your ears, ride your bikes somewhere else!"

Now I'm angry. Literally doing nothing but riding bikes to school, probably one of the most wholesome activities a person could imagine, and...I can't even get my brain around it.

It's apparently not loud, but it is tuned to a frequency higher than I can hear. If it's low enough for my children to hear it, it's going to be almost useless as an animal deterrent. It is specifically designed to cause pain to humans and serves no other purpose.

How is this legal?

Location: Minnesota, Twin Cities suburb

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Car crashes are violent. Removing life saving infrastructure to score political points is going to result in people being killed in violent car crashes. Don't tell us not to discuss violence, when each and everyone of us has lost friends and family members to traffic violence.

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bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Who in the living fuck would use Musk/SpaceX as a mobile carrier????

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Everything is so fucking stupid.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 09/10/2026

Proof the guy isn’t a real New Yorker: everyone here knows Little Italy has dwindled down to just one block. You have to go to Arthur Avenue now.

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Apparently, the last time I wore the jacket from last night's 50th anniversary dinner was at a Worldcon.

Holding a badge ribbon in the palm of my left hand. It reads, "Murderbot doesn't love you. It just wants to watch its shows."

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“I told you” - Kal-El

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Vive la France

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026

the more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NIMBYs in my town love to scream, "Where's the parking!!!" whenever new housing or mixed use is proposed downtown. The parking is literally everywhere. It's never full. It's all free. You may have to walk a few hundred feet though and that's not allowed.

Two large parking lots that are actually fairly full

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 07/10/2026

There’s such a high social cost to being estranged from one’s parents. It’s ridiculous to assert anyone does it for funsies.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A Disney executive bought the script — without approval — for $2.25m and was fired for doing so. Disney couldn’t get rid quick enough & sold the rights, subsequently missing out on a $672m take at the box office. THE SIXTH SENSE (1999)

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 07/10/2026

Tilly and I went to the unofficial dog park. And got even more dramatic sky shots of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) .

The five story, Art deco sandstone and red brick banded column building of the museum of contemporary art, silhouette by a sunrise with bands of yellow, orange, purple pink, and above a gray sky with shots of pink

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Starbucks’ rollback of its climate commitments is just the latest example of why voluntary climate standards like net zero are only useful when coupled w/ credible threats of regulation or (gasp!) *actual* rules on climate action. Mini 🧵

ft.com

Starbucks retreats from green goals amid drive for $2bn in cost cuts

Early corporate champion of climate action scales back or reviews targets to halve emissions, waste and water use

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"remember to wear your high-viz, kids" 🙄

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sunrise Silhouette. This morning's start in Chicago.

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I too regret selling certain bikes.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, and I think that lack of imagination is the result of motonormativity. And I do think another factor here is the whole idea that promoting active transportation is viewed as an attack on drivers. So that's why they lash out in these weird ways.

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Das Doak @dasdoak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I feel like at least a small part of the lashing out is because they *know* that they can do a lot of stuff they do with a car via bike, and that makes them upset and defensive about the fact that you've correctly pointed out that they could do better and are too lazy to do so.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm always struck by how biking and route planning has made me a better navigator overall, including when driving. I spend a lot of time both poring over maps and exploring while on my bike, which has helped hone my sense of direction, but also my ability to interpret maps.

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Uphill Into A Headwind (he/him) @intoaheadwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I just got momentary tinnitus from the noise of a loud-ass motocycle that just passed me. I don't want to hear a thing (haha pun sort of intended) about how my bone conduction headphones & listening to podcasts might impact my situational awareness while #cycling.🙄 #BikeSky

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is simply not true. The Seattle Library is 22 years old and will not need to replace all 10,000 windows in the next 20 years. The downtown office towers from the 1960s-1980s have not had full glass replacements and modern glass curtain wall systems are designed to last even longer

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a wizard @towerwizard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As dawn breaks, a bicycle messenger drops a box of magical reagents on the wizard's doorstep.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's quite possible to do all these things, and also, not everyone has to or wants to go car-free. Simply replacing some car trips with bike trips is a step in the right direction. This all-or-nothing framing from anti-bike people is such bad faith bullshit.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 03/10/2026

Switched to Firefox.

Make-us-of headline: Google Chrome was using 30GB RAM until I made this tweak

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"HoW mAnY lOcAl MoDeLs Do YoU rUn" Jesus CHRIST these dipshits sound like the gun-fuckers who declare you're not allowed to to oppose children being shot to death in their schoolrooms while cops play on their phones in the hallway if you can't run a military-grade gun care routine on a M-16.

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've had multiple drivers harass me, claiming I ran a red light when I had the LPI which is legal in California. Good time to remind drivers: you have not been deputized to enforce your personal interpretation of traffic laws.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

CODDLED DRIVERS—LAVISHED WITH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF INFRASTRUCTURE JUST GIVEN TO THEM WITHOUT ANYONE NEEDING TO LAUNCH AN ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN THAT TAKES ALL OF THEIR TIME ON EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS—EXPECTED TO EXPERIENCE SLIGHT INCONVENIENCE

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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'll leave this guy's mentions alone but it is interesting how if an individual cyclist does something stupid all cyclists become responsible for it, but if an individual driver does something stupid it's just the one irresponsible motorist and doesn't indict all motorists.

RIP my mentions, but: To the biker who flew down the bike lane and nearly crashed into my daughters as they were exiting a school bus with its lights on yesterday -- you realize that this is why bikers don't always have the most sympathetic reputation, right?

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last month, I had an industrial A/C unit installed, because the summers have been getting brutal enough that I wasn't sleeping and the cats were suffering. It is also a heater. I have just turned it on for the first time, and I don't think I HAVE this many cats. Where are they coming from?

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's Judge Edelman's full ruling dismissing *with prejudice* the case against Reflecting Pool defendant David Hearn because "no crime had been committed." www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Order dismissing case with prejudice United States v. David Hearn (2026 CF2 010237)

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today in “why men”, I I bought another bike from the local bike shop where I buy all my bikes. I wanted a “cheap” bike to put on the trainer for the winter, so I don’t have to put my fancy carbon fiber on it. I have an account there. They can see what I’ve bought.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A driver in Pennsylvania went up onto the sidewalk to go around a stopped school bus. Just another day on the streets of the United States where drivers endanger others with impunity. Source: www.kmbc.com/article/driv...

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reminder there was outrage when William Shatner kissed a Black actress on Star Trek. There was outrage about gay relationships in movies. There was outrage about Demi Moore being pregnant and naked on a magazine cover. This kind of performative moral outrage is as old as the hills.

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you don't like seeing Elliot Page on the cover of New York Magazine, then don't buy an issue. See how simple that is?

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 30/09/2026

The kids won't remember peak Newt.

If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections and they don't have upper body strength. I mean some do, but they're relatively rare.

"On the other hand, men are basically little piglets, you drop them in the ditch, they roll around in it, it doesn't matter, you know. These things are very real.

"On the other hand, if combat means being on an aegis-class cruiser managing the computer controls for 12 ships and their rockets, a female may again be dramatically better than a male who gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm watching Buckaroo Bonzai for the first time since I saw it in the theater when it came out (!!) and am now convinced the reason they never made a sequel is because they ran out of money for drugs.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(nodding) bsky.app/profile/jare...

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was in a band in high school called Calculus. People thought our music was derivative.

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