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JarekFA

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#BikeNYC #YNWA Married father of 2 living in Brooklyn. I’m not a “cyclist” - we just use cargo e-bikes instead of cars since it’s much more convenient to get around with kids.

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Choire @choire.bsky.social · 6h
fresh stims [yeah]
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 7h
Is Dua Lipa sitting next to Marlins man?
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 8h
Volpe over Jazz?
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 9h
Immigrants are disproportionately capitalists! They come here to work hard and make thst paper! They voted for Trump because they think he’s a deity of prosperity. They’re a natural constituency for conservative parties (See Tories in England), except our GOP is just too fucking racist!
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 11h
Thank you for working to preserve the status quo and preventing a third party from profiting off of municipal operations.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 12h
RETVRN “Hachiro Sasaki, drafted out of Tokyo Imperial University, believed that Japan had been hopelessly corrupted by capitalism, and that its pending defeat would give way to revolution. This learned young communist died in a suicide mission off Okinawa on April 14, 1945, aged twenty-two.”
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IAN W. TOLL
In his writings, Hayashi disavowed the war aims of the imperialist regime; he even held that Japan's defeat was both necessary and desirable. Yet he was determined to die for his country: "The situation is tense indeed. But for me, it is all right for Japan to be destroyed. ... Historical necessity led to the crisis of our people. We rise to defend our people in the land we love."18 Hayashi died at age twenty-four, less than three weeks before the end of the war. Hachiro Sasaki, drafted out of Tokyo Imperial University, believed that Japan had been hopelessly corrupted by capitalism, and that its pending defeat would give way to revolution. This learned young communist died in a suicide mission off Okinawa on April 14, 1945, aged twenty-two. He left behind a personal library that included works of history, science, philoso-phy, economics, and literature in German, English, French, Russian, Italian, and Latin. Ichizo Hayashi, from Fukuoka, Kyushu, was a devout Christian who carried a bible on his final flight, along with a copy of Kierkegaards Sickness Unto Death and a photograph of his mother. "I will put your photo right on my chest," he wrote to her, in a last letter from Kanoya. "I shall be sure to sink an enemy vessel. When you hear over the radio of our success in sinking their vessels, please remember that one of them is the vessel I plunged into. I will have peace of mind, knowing that mother is watching me and praying for me."2 Ensign Hayashi, aged twenty-three, died in the second Kikusui operation on April 12, 1945.
Some did not want to go. Gestures of defiance, overt and covert, became more common as the conflict wore on. Admiral Yokoi recalled attitudes ranging "from the despair of sheep headed for the slaughter to open expres sions of contempt for their superior officers.""! On the night before embarking on a last mission, the kamikaze squadrons held riotous bacchanals, guzzling sake and vandalizing their furnishings. A witness recounted …
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 12h
What do we want! Power! When do we want it! Never! What do we want to do with power! Criticize it!
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 14h
@cherylrofer.bsky.social (nuclear proliferation expert) you and Angie (biology/virus expert) should compare notes!
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 14h
couldn’t muster a negative word towards his fellow driver actually blocking the bike lane. Just talking shit to me and my kid - telling bimself he’s being virtuous - for being victims of someone else’s malfeasance - the wrong way.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 14h
“Yah, I know you didn’t slow me down, but you need to be out of the way”. And as he’s speaking, the parked in the bike lane SUV behind me starts trying to move. They love to tell us on bike how we’re being unsafe (when we’re not - I confidently take the lane. I don’t hide in the shadows) but he
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 14h
bike lane from a loading or double parked vehicle]. To which he replies, yah, but at the far end of the block. As if I am supposed to be jumping in and out of the bike lane every 100 feet and then have to check my blind spot to merge in. Insanity. I didn’t cost him anytime. And he’s lecturing me.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 14h
I was so angry some asshole honked to give me and my kid a lecture on using the bike lane as I took him home from after school at 5:45 yesterday. I said to him (after he caught up), can’t you see, the [door zone] bike lane is blocked [4 out of 5 blocks of 5th Ave in Park Slope had a blocked
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 16h
We literally reversed the W era slogan of “No War, for Oil” with “No Oil, for War!” It’s not hyperbole. The sole reason the oil isn’t flowing is Trump and Hegseth doing War against Iran without any strategic thinking whatsoever. It is 100% their fault! And they strut like peacocks every damn day!!
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 17h
My fave was a lady trying to read a book with her phone flashlight (and not the overhead reading light) in a seat in the aisle across from me in the row behind, and I had to ask the flight attendant twice to ask her to stop because the flashlight was directly aimed at the corner of my eye.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18h
Soaring Instrument Prices Could Stop the Music at Many Schools www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...
nytimes.com
Soaring Instrument Prices Could Stop the Music at Many Schools
When a single cello can cost $1,000 and a tuba $9,000, tariffs are straining meager band and orchestra budgets.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I guess he’s no David Robinson.
No nickname is listed on Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s baseball reference page.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Admiral v The Art School Reject would’ve been an amazing Game 1 of the World Series. Still plausible I suppose.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Crissleys. Like cmon. That dude ain’t straight.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
200 more SUVs clogging the streets of Bay Ridge! Huzzah!
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
seeing NYC politicians fucking *brag* about building less housing and more parking in a lot *right next to the subway* is going to drive me insane
Staples Rezoning: Results
STATEMENT FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
KAYLA SANTOSUOSSO
For the last several months I have been in negotiations with the developers for the Staples property. While this is likely one of the last rezoning votes I can make in Bay Ridge, negotiations were still heavily shaped by the charter changes that take effect in January.
The developers made clear that if the Council did not approve a modified project, they would take advantage of the new rules to resubmit at their original building - or an even bigger, denser building - for expedited approval and with no wins for our community.Staples Rezoning: Results
STATEMENT FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
KAYLA SANTOSUOSSO
For the last several months I have been in negotiations with the developers for the Staples property. While this is likely one of the last rezoning votes I can make in Bay Ridge, negotiations were still heavily shaped by the charter changes that take effect in January.
The developers made clear that if the Council did not approve a modified project, they would take advantage of the new rules to resubmit at their original building - or an even bigger, denser building - for expedited approval and with no wins for our community.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The underage part was not mentioned in the article. Do you have a citation for it? There is a real big difference from trying to procure sex from a child than from a consenting adult for money.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m not seeing the essay on his IG. But I did see this:
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Deer Hunter.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So much potential if they just leaned into “the humanoid robots attack the humans who treated the humanoids like slaves” and just occur in different fancy historical eras. But no, they had to go all Matrix mind fuck creator free will god spiritual BS.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump still retains near 100% support amongst his supporters.
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James Risen @jamesrisen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Political reporters should think about overhauling how they do their jobs. Their dependence on polls to frame stories cost them readers, who started skipping their stories and just looked at the polls. Their former readers now even skip the polls and just look at predictions on betting sites.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s worse. The left hand is screaming that this is a crisis. These terrible things will happen. And the right hand just says, well that’s biased. We can’t go there. And then treats him like a silly fascination. What could he mean? Oh the contradictions.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yah, that was in the opinion page and the news desk wiped their ass with it.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Were they trying to buy sex from an underage person?
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They arrested the johns for trafficking?!?
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They are fascists who want to hurt anyone who isn’t a heterosexual cisgender white christian male. I don’t have any other points to express here.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yah, me super sleazeball for saying trans people are real human beings and not a problem to be solved. From 11 months ago! Tumblr posters just get blocked on here!
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Consider your wish granted, you silly bitch.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They’re kicking black soldiers out of senior leadership positions while also instituting a selective facial hair policy for purposes of oppressing black soldiers - all without invoking the N word!
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ah yes, Trump and his fascist friends being super transphobic is the Dems’ fault. 95% of elected Dems are excellent on this issue but somehow it’s still their fault! I want them to call it out more too but miss me with it being the Dems fault for fascists being fascists!
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yah. She probably teaches film making. Funny she allegedly cannot see how it’s just mimicking Mean Girls’ form? Make fetch happen! Hello. It’s not remotely subtle.
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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For fuck’s sake. So many of the initial details in this story were wrong. The guy was riding a TREK (which is usually NOT an exceptional bicycle). And he was wearing a helmet and still died. But everyone’s running their mouths on the initial (bad) police details 7ny.tv/gFZKsI
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71-year-old man thrown from bike, killed after hitting dog in Central Park
A man was killed on Monday morning after he was thrown from his bike after hitting a dog in Central Park.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What was the quote?
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yah. It’s funny because while most DSA [electeds] are not like that anymore. She can’t even suppress it well. Like the time Jabari Brisport did a 6 tweet thread where he acknowledged the housing market is subject to supply and demand. Like you know he was req’d to post that.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I can’t wait for Heat 2 because it’s also a Thief prequel and a Miami Vice sequel. In particular, they have some heists in Ciudad del Este Paraguay, which were cut short in Miami Vice, since Jamie Foxx got freaked out over nearby gang violence and they ended up canceling most of the scenes.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bet you got your tan in Miami.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There’s an entire province of Italy inhabited entirely by Albanians!
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But for Brexit, you could’ve flown RyanAir non-stop to London from Köln!
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Took a couple edibles and then watched Primetime this weekend. Laughed my ass off. It was a “fever dream” type film. What a trip. The plot may not have totally made sense but I was entertained!
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Loved him in The Card Counter. Glad the awards judges are finally taking notice.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A fighter jet of some sort. Looked like an F-16 maybe.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s wild to the degree to which they’re so flagrantly self-interested. They don’t even deny it. They don’t do a fucking thing to try to beat Republicans. It’s so pathetic. For a few sinecures and judicial appointments?!?
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So masking is a cultural thing that’s much more prominent in east Asia for reasons. If only Natalie Portman’s Garden State character could’ve hacked Western culture such that I can wear a helmet everywhere without stares, once I’m in my 70s, regardless of whether I’m biking.
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Streetsblog with the gratuitous *luxury* descriptor of the road bike. Am a little surprised by the no-helmet (and sadly these are the types of collisions where they could reduce harm) as early morning road bike riders have very high helmet usage rates (maybe the highest?).
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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yah, the look in Parades’ eyes at the 20 second mark say to me. “Oof, I feel bad for his wife”. youtu.be/4TlyzM__RnQ?...
youtu.be
Argentina Parades Fighting Spain - after World Cup Final
YouTube video by Solemnis
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