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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

yeah so a bunch of liberals and leftists on X and bluesky mocking queer people for wearing masks to a queer bar is the most predictably terrible outcome of that article

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

totally sucks to log back on after driving across the country to see so much hate levied at the action of masking specifically, not to mention the people who are desperate for the very few places (it’s literally named last ditch people) still safe if not encouraging toward those who wear them.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

got this *and* a new The War on Drugs single today!

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

<Religious studies narrator> It did *not* used to mean something

On Language
‘Cult’ Used to Mean Something. Now It Applies to Taylor Swift and Trader Joe’s.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 27/08/2026

many traffic deaths are purposeful policy decisions.

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a birb @rhiolit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

chronically ill non-driver here, yup. also no one wants to take cars away from rural folks and the disabled people who need them. nor is there a remotely politically viable program to take cars away from folks in general. but there are a hell of a lot of car trips that could be bike or transit trips

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hey ⚓ has anyone here made a stole before? Any advice, patterns, words of caution welcome.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you live in a city you shouldn't have to own a car.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Had my first experience of being screamed at and cussed out by a driver while biking this morning. My crime? Biking.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"You can walk and run? Congratulations on beating Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy*!" *I do not have Duchenne, I am a genetic carrier for it. This was a cardiologist who definitely glanced at but did not in any way process my medical history

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.

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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Great thread. Yale’s efforts at some kind of settlement should cast doubt on its much-publicized April report on the humanities. It wasn’t a report, but a performance to satisfy political censors. Pundits who praised the “report” as a source of “bold ideas” for reform should admit their complicity.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Biked some errands today (farmer's market, bakery/coffee shop, zero-waste store, & library) & it is absurd to me that Providence has a bunch of safe places to bike, but they're not all connected

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Getting a button that says "Emily Wilson is right about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey" and wearing it everywhere until things improve

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Most loved (at the time): Brave New World Most hated: Walden, The Awakening, and Pride & Prejudice

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So far, the vehicles that have been most hostile to as a cyclist have been oversized pickup trucks & I really feel like there's some rich gender analysis to be done there

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I think the Church suffers when there’s a lack of scholar-bishops and monk-bishops and a surplus of CEO bishops.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Man, all of the church inside baseball is just what my heart needed this morning

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I have owned a bike for 4 days. Since then, the word "stroad" has entered by vocabulary, I'm talking to everyone I meet about better pedestrian and bike infrastructure, and I'm already planning bike-based day trips (with public transit to fill in gaps). Is this just what happens?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

got up, went to Pride Yoga, stopped at my local independently-owned bike-shop, bought a bike (!!!!!!!)

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Woke up & decided to day trip into Boston without realizing it was pride until I got on the train and was surrounded by merry folks on their way

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

fuck FIFA and the world cup, always and forever. At the same time, the Scottish fans coming to PVD are delightful & I already adore them.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 26/05/2026

This report should get as much if not more coverage than the other Yale report. It won’t, however, because it doesn’t fit the media narrative about higher ed as a woke indoctrination factory.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I haven't wanted it for somewhere close to 16-18 years now, but I suddenly have an intense craving for Jello Pretzel Salad

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I don't expect BlueSky to exist to be able to cash in on this prediction, but I'll put the over under on this at six years. They'll evaluate in three (the current duration) realize it's not working, but decide to try to tweak it, the sentiment will be against it at year 5 and take 1 more to kill it.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

there are a million conversations I see about women's safety when running, but rarely do I see extensive discussion of the number 1 threat to my safety when running: cars and delivery trucks

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Because 1) they are completely out of touch 2) they are arrogant as fuck 3) they still need everyone to buy their product for it to work

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/05/2026

Why did a reputable journal publish such a shoddy meta-analysis? Why did it rack up so many citations? Why did it get reported so widely? I'd guess that the answers to these questions all stem from the US's neoliberal allergy to public goods. 1/🧵 arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/i...

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Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags

The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

just saw a poster for the Netflix East of Eden adaptation and got extremely angry at it

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

school administrators implementing canvas for every use case

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

saw MJ Lenderman and Waxahatchee last week & now just occasionally find myself singing "it's visceral and crushing"

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

i run a lot and by far the most dangerous things when i'm running are (1) cars and (2) delivery vehicles. I've had way too many of those Amazon vans pull up onto the sidewalk without looking

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

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Why Yale’s term paper on what’s wrong with college gets a ‘D-’ | Will Bunch

An Ivy League university's report on the loss of faith in higher ed ignores what really killed the American Dream of college.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

It's harder to measure but I feel like RFK Jnr shutting down funding for MRNA research is actually up there with DOGE cuts and this latest Iranian war as a contender for Most Evil Things Trump II has done. Accounted properly, this regime is really wracking up 20th-century-dictator kill counts imo.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

running my second half marathon tomorrow and i'm NERVOUS

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

getting off this website to scream at God, because i have no idea what else I can do

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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

As a Rhode Island resident, I'm glad to hear you say this. I urge you to also use the power and influence you have as a member of Congress, which your constituents do not have, to begin the process to remove Donald Trump from office and to obstruct his dangerous activities while he is still there.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The thing about there needing to be a path of redemption for people who have been “canceled” is: there already is a path to redemption and it’s called “redeeming yourself.” The path is open! No one is blocking that! You just have to do it!

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Decided that I'm skipping the vigil tonight to sit in the mystery and silence of Holy Saturday a bit more.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The Supreme Court's "conversion therapy" decision today is indefensible on its own terms. A ton of medical regulations restrict speech on the basis of "viewpoint." Nobody thinks they're unconstitutional. This court just subjects pro-LGBTQ protections to special hostility. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Yet anti-LGBTQ+ therapists now enjoy a First Amendment right that is denied to abortion providers. But as Jackson pointed out, the inconsistency runs deeper. After Chiles, parents who seek to “convert” their transgender children have a constitutional right to do so. But thanks to last year’s decision in Skrmetti, parents who seek to affirm their transgender children with medication have no such right. States can ban gender-affirming medication but evidently cannot ban anti-transgender talk therapy. And the majority does not explain why anti-LGBTQ+ speech receives heightened protections when other viewpoints do not. Surely, Jackson wrote, a state can direct doctors to discourage, and not encourage, smoking cigarettes. It can prohibit doctors “from telling an anorexic patient to eat less” while allowing them to recommend eating more. It can stop doctors from encouraging patients to end their lives. These laws, too, censor speech on the basis of the state’s preferred viewpoint—in Gorsuch’s words, they “enforce orthodoxy.” Why is it, then, that nobody seriously argues that they’d violate the First Amendment, too?

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 30/03/2026

I've spent the last two days talking to Connecticut Sun fans (story TK) and *every single one* has mentioned how depressing it is for this team to go from independent, women-centered tribal ownership to a Trump-supporting billionaire white man.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

when i lived in connecticut, i was a (very small) part of a push to get a conversion therapy ban passed, and this news fucking sucks

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 28/03/2026

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

If I were ranking them, I think that the 1979 Palm Sunday liturgy would come in last of all the 79 liturgies. It's so bad.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

These week I was talking with some retirees, had a long conversation with them about The Tragically Hip, and then a while later they were surprised I knew the Beatles when "In My Life" came on.

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