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@emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com
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books, bikes, buses, trains, parks, forests, Buddhism, Vedanta, anarcho-communism, YNWA, Crew, Bucs Pittsburgh now, Philly for a while, OH for a bit, WV originally montani semper liberi

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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 13/09/2026
What a classic beauty. Oh, and Debbie Harry as well. :)
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 12/09/2026
This dog’s coat is so luminescent I feel like Pynchon could write a seven page run on sentence about it without breaking a sweat.
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 11/09/2026
Favorite sports hug ever.
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Alex.ʳ Jos. @aljodasch.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Wendell Berry, "Questionnaire"
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 01/09/2026
"We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers?" - Wendell Berry
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 01/09/2026
The smallest possible “survival unit,” indeed, appears to be the universe. Inside it, everything happens in concert; not a breath is drawn but by the grace of an inconceivable series of vital connections joining an inconceivable multiplicity of created things in an inconceivable unity.-Wendell Berry
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Pittsburgh Pirates @pirates.com · 16/08/2026
#RAISEIT 🏴‍☠️
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Legendgerry @gerald-t-mc-evoy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Oh wow. FIFA is done. www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
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Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 29/07/2026
Rough news. There was something Zen about Hansard. He seemed completely in the moment when performing, feeling every emotion like he just wrote song live on stage. If it was all an act, it was a beautiful one. We have lost a unique performer.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is peak both sides bullshit, because bike lane opponents don't care about "creating safe streets for everyone." They care about parking and being able to speed. And they draw false equivalences between drivers and bikers that car-brained pundits like Joan Venocchi lap up eagerly. Such garbage.
What should not be lost in the emotion of the moment is the need for balance and openness to different points of view when it comes to creating safe streets for everyone. The perception that both were lacking under Wu gave Kraft an opportunity on the bike lane issue. While he was never able to capitalize on it beyond the loud cheers he got for mentioning it at his announcement, he did force Wu to acknowledge there is more than one side to the bicycle lane debate. It’s the side of businesses that say they lose customer parking spaces to bike lanes as well as the side of pedestrians who dodge people on bicycles, e-bikes, and scooters who ignore red lights and other rules of the road.
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John R. Bennett @johnreidbennett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🚲 + ☕ + 🥯 = Friday!
A photograph of a bicycle at a bike rack in front of Waters Cafe on Waters Avenue in Savannah, Georgia.
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 08/07/2026
Best game.
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Andy @andydrummond.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026
We all remember when #BeeNetwork meant an ambitious vision for walking and cycling, which fizzled. #ActiveTravel
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Pittsburgh Pirates @pirates.com · 04/07/2026
KG STOLE HOME! 🫨
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Once you kill a child, or your policies and actions lead to the death of children, whatever the case may be, it doesn't matter how many satellites you put into space, what anyone says you are or aren't, or how much wealth you amass. At the end of the day, you are a child killer.
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 22/05/2026
Chicago…finally.
Chicago skyline from an Amtrak train
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
NEW: A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesota’s status as a blue state is linked with the removal of residents [VIDEO below] MORE: unicornriot.ninja/2026/federal...
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Federal Agent in Coon Rapids: 'The more people that you lose in Minnesota, you then lose a voting right to stay blue.' - UNICORN RIOT
Coon Rapids, MN — A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesota’s status as a blue state is linked wit...
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Pittsburgh graffiti @pghgraffiti.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 03/11/2025
“Take a simpleton and give him power and confront him with intelligence—and you have a tyrant.” Wendell Berry
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 15/10/2025
While I wish they wouldn’t do this on the one of the three sisters with a bike lane, it is neat.
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 11/09/2025
I think my favorite “shit sucks” tv is people from my xennial cultural touchstones doing travel shows - James May, Conan O’Brien, and most recently Billy Boyd and Dom Monaghan. It’s a bit saccharine but the “turns out we’re all just humans struggling in our circumstances” thesis is what I need.
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 05/09/2025
She is a good looking town.
Picture of the Pittsburgh skyline from the north shore of the Allegheny. There are buildings and bridges crossing a wide river. The clouds are soft and dramatic. It is nearing twilight.
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 01/09/2025
Does a credit union really need a street team? Stop inundating me with advertising.
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 28/08/2025
I was 1 of the 1100 and my quote was published in this article. This is my minute of fame (down from the previously allotted 15 minutes due to the our dwindling collective attention span).
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 26/08/2025
Take a fucking bow Rio Ngumoha. Also Szoboszlai with the best dummy in the history of dummies (I don’t care that I’m exaggerating.) What a team goal with every player having a touch except Szobo whose no touch was sublime.
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 22/08/2025
Don’t mind if do.
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 20/08/2025
I don’t follow baseball but I like laziness with bursts of energy and spreadsheets so maybe I should start.
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Mike Scollins @mikescollins.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
the guy hit with the subway sandwich has passed 😔
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 07/08/2025
If you have a boss, you need a union.
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 03/08/2025
Provided w/o comment
Cat laying half on back and half sideways looking right at the camera
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
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emptycircles @emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com · 20/07/2025
Thought I was catching a bus…turns out it was a TIME MACHINE.
Bus info sign with an incorrect date and time (8/28/2024)
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The classic: Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Panel 1: Calvin, a young boy, opens a door and says, "Hey dad, I'm doing a traffic safety poster. Do you have any ideas for a slogan?" Panel 2: Dad, who's gearing up for a bike ride, says, "Sure! 'Cyclists have a right to the road too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!'" Panel 3: Calvin, walking away, says, "Thanks, dad, I'll go ask mom," and dad responds, "Why? That's a great slogan!"
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Maria Montaño @themariamontano.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“None of us is free until everybody’s free.” - Fannie Lou Hamer
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/07/2025
"What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech
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“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester,...
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Linda Bessin @lindabessin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This was posted this morning by Humans of New York and I think this captures exactly what we are all experiencing right now
“It’s a weird time. I’ve still got to get to work on time, pay my bills, manage chronic illness, all that stuff, while the world in general seems to be falling apart. It can be a challenge to juggle those two things while making sure one of them doesn't completely destroy my mental health. It’s just an odd thing to be like: ‘Oh, all of these atrocities are being committed in Gaza with my tax dollars, but what am I going to eat for dinner?’ Or: ‘Trump just dismantled another check on his power. We’re slowly sliding into fascism, nobody’s stopping him-- but what concert should we go to this weekend?’ The strangest part about the whole thing is that we’ve never been so connected. I could understand if this was eighty years ago; news travelled slowly. But now, in an instant, you get these facts, photos, videos. Verified by credible news, verified by aid organizations—and nobody cares. Well, a lot of people care. But the people who can actually fix things: they don’t care. Instead of standing up for the voiceless, they’d rather lay low, cling to their money or status. It’s hard to be a person who cares right now. Sometimes you just want to melt into your bed or couch and be with your feelings. But I won’t say that I feel hopeless. I’d never say that, because that’s what they want—those people who only care about winning, who don’t care about collateral damage. They want people to feel powerless. And I’m not going to give them that luxury. There are still reasons to be hopeful. Zohran just won the primary. And that’s a sign of change, in New York City at least. Even the people who don’t agree with his politics have to admit: his campaign was built on community. It wasn’t funded by billionaires. This was a campaign of fifty thousand people who volunteered, and canvassed, and made calls. Last week a lot of people who had been feeling powerless realized that they still have some power in this country. Let’s just hope a lot more people are learning from that.”
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Trump Resistance Movement @trm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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nina sabak @ninasabak.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
when you write off Appalachia as an ideologically backwards region that deserves what it gets, you aren't actually doing anything to help. you're actually writing off a hell of a lot of people who are in the struggle with you. y'all do know that, right?
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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 12/06/2025
Kids on bikes rally around “illegal alien” protecting them from detention and deportation by masked agents of an oppressive government agency.
Poster for ET
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
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