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Pedal Dad

@johnbrittingham.bsky.social
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Phenomenology; teaching and learning; Latin American philosophy; Boricua lover of bicycles, trains, guitars, and more; He/him/el

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is the way. I got an old iPod and modded it cause I found all my old music and it has been absolutely wonderful for my mental state at the start of the day. Hard to be mad about the train being late when you've got "Absinthe party at the fly honey warehouse" going
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Return To the bouncing pause screen
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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
A framing that is underutilized: The BosWash corridor has an annual GDP of up to $5 Trillion USD, which is makes it the most economically productive region in the world and about 20% of US GDP. If HSR investment makes anywhere in the world it would be here, but alas.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
There’s this weird thing where we can clearly see the powerful tool for pro-accountability actions and pro-social engagement (with other ac human persons) that a smart phone can be and also these damned things are sucking the life out of us and we gotta quit it.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
If you need an expensive hobby that gives you the juice ...gentlemen, let me introduce you to the world of road cycling. You want to be 0.00025% lighter and therefore faster? Brother, that will be five thousand dollars for bearings. You can even go to the track but you ride instead of bet.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Signal failure yesterday. CSX can’t park their freight trains today. Elevators that never work. The worcester line is really going through it this week.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
What if the thing that unifies the country is when American Football plays the halftime show for the American football superbowl?
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
MASSIVE delays on the Worcester line today. Some cancellations, lots of 30min+ delays. plan accordingly folks
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
It amazes me how many solved problems are now made to be intractable because someone can sell you something. We solved the problems collectively. Don't want packages stolen from your porch? For many its possible to pick them up from the post office. No surveillance state needed.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/02/2026
AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion
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AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion
PALO ALTO, CA—Hailing the new product as a “game changer” in the development of large language models, Silicon Valley insiders confirmed Tuesday that an AI chatbot that only responds “huh” had been va...
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Just use "I'm trying to understand Bad Bunny songs" as motivation to learn a second language. I guarantee you there's a community college nearby with a human spanish prof who just wants to teach you how to conjugate tener properly.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The word of the day is Wepa
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I’m reading Filtereorld and every chapter is like a conversation i had with @mattbernico.bsky.social over a cake shake a lifetime ago (but in a good way)
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
While I think that the notion of purity tests is in need of some serious nuance, I think one genuine good of a purity test is as a bulwark against getting involved with shady characters waving lots of money your way that end up compromising what you're trying to do.
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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 🔜 NFC @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is old but I am still feeling this way up to this day.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
make the cops shovel.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
What I'm saying is that maybe we NEED mewithoutyou to come back. The times demand it.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Truly, ebiking in winter extends your commuting "season." Only thing I'd add is that you make sure you plan for what cold does to batteries. There is a genuine difference in my bike's range when it dips below 25F.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from just staring into the distance for hours on end. They look like they're about to solve crimes on a PBS drama import.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
It is the first day of Spring Semester for me and I continue to have hope because I get the privilege of working with undergrads. The kids, they really are quite alright. Moreso even.
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Cities of Lions @citiesoflions.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Let’s induce some better demand in 2026!
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Conan O’Brien tipped his hat to me outside of Back Bay station in Boston. taller in real life
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
if we feed the AI's to each other, at what point do they create Marvin the Paranoid Android?
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
At what point do we admit that the most comfortable aesthetic is Kirby?
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
NGL, I thought "Sunrise on the Reaping" was a track off the new Coheed and Cambria album. Truly, a good title.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The number of my students writing their final papers on Levinas gives me hope but also, the way they have been so thoughtful all semester long also gives me hope.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Whole lot of "spent so much time thinking you could instead of thinking whether you should" energy these days. Also how sick of a year was 93?
Domestic Box Office for 1993 which includes such absolute bangers as Jurassic Park, The Fugitive, The Firm, Sleepless in Seattle, and A Few Good Men
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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
👇🏼💯
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
These days, I think about this scene as a diagnosis of social ills and bad motivations a lot. Once more, the brilliance of Brennan Lee Mulligan youtu.be/1OH5Kz3uXh8?...
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Evan Kelmp Blasts a Kid Into the Underworld (Dimension 20 Animated)
YouTube video by Dimension 20
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I said a while back that the country was turning into a christian college and this is what I mean. I used to work at a place that would absolutely froth at the mouth to put on a series like this in the mandatory thrice weekly chapel they held for all students.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Posting this one for no reason whatsoever tonight doesn't feel like 2003 at all what are you talking about no the size of the kids jeans being relatively the same has nothing to do with it youtu.be/aAD6lJiHBdA?...
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Thursday - War All The Time
YouTube video by ThursdayVEVO
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Never Post. Great podcast, better life advice.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/12/2025
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
dear beloved Boston...the green line is right there waiting.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I remember asking someone from Atlanta what temp brought out the parkas and they said 55 degrees. Some people adopt the cold, some of us were born into it I guess
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I find the whole “takes” genre hit or miss (mostly miss) but this is maybe my favorite one if only because I feel “it’s not confusing, IDK, read more dude” in my bones. Also this is why public transit rules youtube.com/shorts/czK16...
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We need to be talking about dinosaurs way more!! @J@JackCoyne#dinosaur #dinosaurs #debate
YouTube video by SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The only wood panelling I want to see is as a novelty wrap on the new green line trains as they snake through Allston and Brighton.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Today, on the anniversary of Hannah Arendt’s passing, it is a good day to read “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship“ and also “Truth and Politics.” I find Arendt, like Kant whom she loved, the kind of teacher you disagree with but asks that one question that will live rent free in your head.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
In my experience, you can write your way to good thinking (in the sense of clarity of thought) and think your way to good writing (in the sense of your ideas actually sounding good). There are just a few dozen drafts in-between start and finish on that front.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Shouting this one from the rooftop along with my old favorite "and institution is its people"
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
For a small fee, I will go to your philosophy enemy’s keynote and have more of a comment than a question really
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? 1) It's gonna be bad for the bad guys. Like, almost feel sorry for them bad. 2) Post-adventure meal is gonna be epic.
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two cartoon characters standing next to each other with netflix written in the corner
Alt: two characters standing next to each other from the Netflix anime Sakomoto Days
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Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
What one needs to bike in most of Worcester now: 1. A bike 2. Heroic bravery 3 Comprehensive health insurance What one needs to bike in Worcester with proper infrastructure: 1. A bike
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
They thought they’d buried us but they forgot we were seeds
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
San Diego has the best looking transit card. i also miss the MBTA.
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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I wrote a four word letter…
The pope at the mic looking like he’s about to tell us to open the pit up
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