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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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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

People say that nothing is beyond being. What I'm proposing is, what if it were otherwise?

Emmanuel Levinas, author of "Otherwise Than Being or, Beyond Essence" but with laser eyes

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Based on the ladder design alone, my expert opinion is we should be looking for this man:

Val Kilmer with an epic mustache in "The Saint" which is a not-good movie I loved when I was a child.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I don't know about you but I try to live every month like Latine Heritage Month. (as always, read the Young Lords)

The NYC Young Lords Party holding the flag of Puerto Rico and marching for liberation.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This section, in particular, had me on the verge of a full "Oh Captain, My Captain" standing on my desk at work moment but I don't trust standing desks to stay standing when you stand on them.

segment of a Wired interview with Ben Collins, the CEO of The Onion.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

When he loses, I swear he’s gonna make the same face. This is some true Jeb! Energy

Picture of Josh Kraft being interviewed in the library and looking like a piece of broccoli

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

On the one hand, 3rd critique gets at this a bit. On the other hand...

Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas with laser eyes

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Reading an interesting biography of Charles Sumner and its wild that he basically looks like Tom Baker in Dr Who

Doctor Who actor Thomas Baker who dresses in eccentric plaids and stripes not unlike U.S. statesman Charles Sumner.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I read about this and my brain goes here.

Picture of the Young Lords Party for Liberation gathering at a march.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Looks like someone didn’t sufficiently succumb to the propaganda spewing from their local Christian bookstore.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Why do you bike to campus? Among other reasons, I get plenty of inspiration. (We’re talking Augustine today so it fits)

Chalkboard with writing on it that says “scrolling on your phone while driving is a moral evil. Discuss.”

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Here I was thinking you'd go the 70's airport thriller meets 80's hardcore punk aesthetic.

Picture of the design for the 99 percent invisible "The Power Broker Breakdown" shirt featuring one of America's true pieces of shit, Robert Moses.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It’s that day I make everyone mad about the theory of the forms

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

He might be a weirdo now but Giorgio Agamben's "The State of Exception" remains an excellent essay for helping folks grasp the larger field of play regarding government-led chaos and power consolidation.

Cover of Giorgio Agamben's The State of Exception. Translated by Kevin Attell. It's really yellow.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This MLK remark, delivered in Worcester MA, really stings as it remains extremely relevant. Thanks to Worcester Sucks (and I love it) for the great commentary as always:

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Just started this text and boy howdy is it a good one so far. Aristotelians, Thomists, McIntyre-ians?--y'all will love it. Any philosophy profs interested in something that can connect to climate change and value fields, this looks to be a good one.

Cover of "Flourishing in the age of Climate Change" by William M. Throop

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The bicycle still got me to the station on time even when the train equipment faltered in the cold. But the real champion is this guy:

A true American hero, this is the mighty Stanley coffee thermos. It is green like the Statue of Liberty and chromed stainless steel. It’ll keep your coffee warm on Hoth and also Boston.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This might be sentimental but I truly find it to be a gift that I get to ride through a city I love as I make my way to and from work. Yes, it’s 1.5hrs on commuter rail to get there each way and it’s certainly not perfect, but even on days like this, it’s still a gift.

A picture of Cambridge Massachusetts from the Boston Esplanade on the other side of the Charles river. It is very foggy.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Also you can make up categories. Sorry Kant.

A picture of a chalkboard in my classroom with philosophers covered this semester grouped by arbitrary categories based on how much of a drama-hound they were. In some cases, they were the drama (Heidegger) but in others the drama found them (Fanon)

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm sure other folks in academia have that one weird little thing that is the equivalent of seeing a cybertruck in the wild first thing in the morning. For me it is this:

screenshot of someone using APA style in a philosophy paper to reference a book from before Jesus was even a baby. APA is wonderful for social science but less-so for the science of being, as it were.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

First time seeing dedicated skate and scooter infrastructure at the Worcester Public Library. Very cool to see an expanded view of micro mobility infrastructure but it’s the library and they are on the side of the angels

Picture of a dedicated Skateboard and scooter rack (next to the bike rack) at the Worcester Public Library main branch.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Rode in Concord today. No picture of a bike but here’s a picture of the house where your least favorite AP English books got written

This is old manse. Emerson and Hawthorne lived here where they plotted to destroy the minds of 11th graders

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

There is a couple on my train who are sitting on opposite ends of the car and are yelling at each other with the same energy as aunt Bethany and uncle Lewis

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

I misread this as a Hannah Arendt book about being a Mean Girls and now my brain is just going through all the overlapping ideas. For real you could teach What is Authority? Using the film

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

In other words, Memphis... ...has been laid to waste?

A picture of headlines about weather, specifically highlighting what has happened in Memphis, TN.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

I remain unconvinced that AI is not a messy program just here for the drama.

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Dear Lord, please add this to my aspirational old age mood board

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Pedal Dad @johnbrittingham.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Today I am 40. This might be small but one of my dreams was to live somewhere where I could get around using just my feet, my bike, and a train. This is from my morning ride as I leave BC and head towards Bunker Hill. It is small, but it is beautiful and a reminder that another world is possible.