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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yup. Could have been either of us: sideways snow outside, parents shopping, in awe of all the warmer and drier places around the world that being a pro skateboarder could take you.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Daughter said "thanks, boss" getting out of a car the other day. New levels of parenting pride.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The grocery store magazine rack skate mag selection was wildly influential growing up — would definitely not be writing about skating and maybe not be writing at all if they didn't exist in the 90s and aughts. RIP.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Came up after I saw the first sentence of the first graf. First time I've encountered it — wild stuff.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I (with great internal conflict) sub to the times, but making people hand over an email address to read a gift article is some remarkably uncouth "if you're not paying, the product is you" nonsense.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

You go to Tempe for Slow Impact and see a lot of NB# — company town, no surprise — but when I realized EVERYONE over 29 was wearing the Reynolds shoe I had a Wee-Bey moment

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Online gambling is wack, but I'd love to be able to wager on whether the white dude working out in denim tears at the rec center will be at the skatepark later.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Defaulting to a frontside carve instead of backside, for sure

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Bunch of nollies in a row in the bike lane. Full speed. Probably didn't look great — felt amazing.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Appreciate the motivation to slide the novel to the back burner and getting this Plank piece going. That said, congrats, the water delivery storyline helped tap into the desert hospitality logistics literary scene! This sounds like something out of a Carver novel — lmk if you get strange mail.

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Cole Nowicki @colenowicki.com · 29/05/2026

Wrote about Marc Johnson, one of the best to ever do it www.simplemagic.ca/take-somethi...

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You can take something that was pure thought and you can make it reality

Marc Johnson, 1977-2026

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The late Sonny Rollins — a skateboarder in a parallel universe

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Ice rink? Novelty swords? Listen pal, the Sabres already have a farm team.

Behold, in all its glory, the Beer Sabre.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

C'mon now! Sabres are killing it on the road.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

He's a bozo and borderline-defensive liability. Belongs on the wing because he can't really cover 200 feet. Imagine a game seven though.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It was great to see Thompson and Dahlin finally start too contribute — wish it could have been for the Sabres

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Trying to decide which skateboard I bring to Seattle based on how well the Sabres have played on days close to sessions.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This is a psyop to pull New York Media Twitter into another couple of weeks internecine fighting, and annoy everyone else on here. Like when someone brought up Union Pool.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Bro(s), Slow Impact is essentially a convention of 300 30+ skaters wearing the Reynolds shoe. Truly wild.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Waking up, peeking at the NHL standings, and seeing a Y next to the Sabres' name for the first time since 2010

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Pencils with bad, non-functional erasers — what's going on here? Who are we kidding?

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Popovers were really sick! What's up with the post-grinder rub bricking? Touching up a rough spot, or is the brick a finer grit to smooth it out even more? I haven't pulled the trigger on a grinder and am still bricking by hand on the off chance I'm going from scratch.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

James Kelch, middle-age sartorial icon

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I temporarily suspended my "the Olympics are trash" stance to watch with the kids this year. They were into it, and it was nice until Tage Thompson got outed as a maga bozo. Now this. Time to get back in the "these games destroy cities so that Coke and corrupt officials can get rich" trenches!

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I don't smile enough while skating.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Man. I can't wait to have a healed pelvis and have an AI-free weekend on my skateboard.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Poets LOVE using "profligate"

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Definitely saw some Supreme dudes pushing around in Nike / Preme puffers while the sane world was wearing hoodies when they left the house and skating in tees a few years back.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Negligence is negligence and saying "but I'm old" shouldn't factor into things if your death machine kills four people. We should also be giving people drivers tests at every renewal. I bet it sucks to get some level of personal agency taken away, but fewer pedestrians will get smoked. Take a Lyft.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

What are y'all doing this weekend

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Crazy how I have been on the internet my entire life and am still this bad at it.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Here's a sentence that would have been incomprehensible to me two years ago: I wrote some short fiction for the new issue of Skate Jawn. skatejawn.com/frosted-flakes…

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Bumping this because I was walking down memory lane and forgot about ol' Ron

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Guy in one of the first few rows of the most violent hockey games I've ever seen, cheering for the Sabres, is wearing an eS hoodie and brown pants.

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Cole Nowicki @colenowicki.com · 06/03/2026

This week, @vadiparty.bsky.social and @ibrowning.bsky.social report on the people, happenings, and wheelbases of Slow Impact, I report on some things I saw on television, an AMAZING opossum video, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/the-spaces-b...

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The spaces between bases

Slow Impact dispatches from José Vadi and Ian Browning, a dispatch from my couch, the end of time, and more.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I hit the streets of Tempe during Slow Impact to get a little slice of the weekend (and annoy people with questions about their wheelbase) for Simple Magic: www.simplemagic.ca/the-spaces-b...

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I had not considered a hemp necklace resurgence but now that you mention it, the vibes do seem imminent.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Finn Pope: two minute minor for skating to The Cure in an Antihero flick. Sorry, but those are the rules.

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Got the make, like, two tries later

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Hughes still playing after having two teeth cracked — important not to say that professional team sports are skateboarding, and yet

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

What an insane thing to say, jeez

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Ian Browning @ibrowning.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Unreal how much faster this game is than anything in the NHL, and it's maybe less fun?

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