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Josh Parshall

@jparshall.bsky.social
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Bike dad, nonprofit professional, and former historian in Columbia, MO.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
the WNBA finals is gonna be a real contrast of where the WNBA is coming from and where it's headed. One team forced to play in a 3,000-seat G-League venue because "Sombr" has a concert, the other team filling an 18,000-seater to the top with some of the loudest fans in hoops
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 06/10/2026
when i die tell them i was scared to the end and faced death like a coward
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The future of the military is one computer shooting missiles at whoever it wants and thousands of soldiers who stand around looking sexy
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'd suggest biking as a solution, but my cargo bike has a layer of junk on the floor at all times, so...
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't spend enough time being embarrassed to have Schmitt as my senator. This is helping to fix that.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not even the *south* South, but... Versailles, Missouri, is a real fun one. Also, my understanding is that you pronounce Amite County, MS, differently than Amite City, LA, but I don't know how to say either.
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
redirect every conversation to my proposed “mandatory psilocybin for seniors” policy.
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
N.B. the politically correct Religious Studies term is “New Religious Movement.” AI Safety is Mostly a Sex NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT in Berkeley, California.
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I thought that the parents who complained about how many logins and apps it took to manage their kids' homework were overreacting, but then it happened to me. Math homework has radicalized me against all computers.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes! Image a future where parents put their kids in driverless cars to take them to school while they themselves get in different cars to go to work. Instead of one or two cars chaining trips, now you might have four separate cars making four separate trips. Would be a disaster at scale.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I was just there (and in Belgium), and the numbers are stunning. For one thing, there are places where you kind of need a kickstand because bike racks are so packed.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Living without a car was another one of our goals when we moved to Europe, and I knew cycling was important to the Dutch. But I don’t think anything could have prepared me for the sheer number of cyclists everywhere all the time." www.welcometohellworld.com/it-took-a-su...
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It took a surge in traffic deaths to change
How the Netherlands became the model for cycling infrastructure
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ska priest, somberly: pick it up pick it up (ska pall bearers hoist up coffin)
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Getting spam emails from "Mick Izrael," which I think is a fascinating name.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm Jewish and if a candidate triangulated on antisemitism to win an election, I would most certainly pressure him to do better *right now* and would hope my fellow Americans would do the same. I see no reason why our trans siblings and those who support them should demand anything different.
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Congresswoman Valerie Foushee @foushee.house.gov · 10/09/2026
Trump has removed many government resources that local communities utilize to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety. Over 36,000 people were killed on our streets in 2025, and this inexplicable decision makes it substantially more likely that we'll see that staggering death count continue to rise.
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
one week a year to ride bikes with your buddies, that’s the secret
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Brian K. @briank.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Former Eric Schmitt Nazi staffer has a new job.
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Leuven makes Bentonville look like Olathe" -me, a few hours ago, marveling at how many bikes there are in Belgium
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Cool, because I‘m going to go for a bike ride there in a couple hours.
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Leaving town before the Thursday night Mizzou football opener >>>>
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you pull up to the bike park in a $70k SUV, your kids should on nicer bikes than mine are.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Leonard Cohen on his tricycle with his sister Westmount, Canada ca. late 1930s 🇨🇦
A young boy rides a tricycle with a girl on a bicycle next to him.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Olivia Miles appears determined to beat Washington herself, what a sequence
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Even worse, they sometimes boo.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
2) Love them or hate them, speed cameras improve safety. A pile of research studies make this abundantly clear. Still not convinced? After Ontario banned speed cameras last fall, reckless driving surged in *every city* tracking before/after data.
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What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off
In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Size is my #1 criterion for art.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 15/08/2026
TIL that NHTSA uses dear-stompin SUVs for field work, which tracks
A ford explorer with the NHTSA Llogo on the side
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A Self-Portrait Dedicated to All My Bicycle Falls 🎨Victoria Zerkova
A stylized painting depicting a woman falling down a flight of stairs on a bicycle.
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is, for me, a very exciting development!
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Parts of it don’t even have music! vimeo.com/20459103
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The Sound of
A meditation on sound design and speechless narrative. Robert Wise's The Sound of Music reeditted to only feature its most quiet moments. Created with the help of the DC Commission on the Arts and ...
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Me, holding a six-foot orca floatie from the Lake Michigan shore: “just, so you know, we’re going to have to deflate Orkie for the trip home.” Seven year old, suddenly with a southern accent: “he’s my orca, I’ll do it.”
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In August 2021—if I recall correctly—my daily commute passed by a hospital parking garage that had been converted into an additional hospital by an NGO that usually deploys to other countries…
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Tab C @drtcombs.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Seen some tutorials lately on the best place for a person on a bicycle at a multilane intersection like this, and friends, the actual best place to be is at city hall every day asking WTF we're still telling people on bikes to "just act like cars" rather than building safe infrastructure
aerial view schematic of a three-lane, one-way street approaching an intersection. It appears to be a standard 4-way intersection with no bicycle infrastructure. Each general purpose lane is dedicated (left lane for left turns, center lane for going straight, right lane for right turns). There are dashed lines showing the ideal path for a cyclist to follow to navigate the intersection from each of the three lanes. 
From the perspective of immediate harm reduction, the dashed lines are correct (unless the cyclist feels safer on the sidewalk). But it's a bone headed road design and we should be doing much, much better if we don't want to kill people.
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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 23/07/2026
In the first half of this year, 100% of pedestrians who were killed in an intersection were killed in intersections without fully hardened daylighting.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 23/07/2026
USDOT pulls down more bike lane web info, saying "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda." If you hate bike lanes, you ride with Trump. www.npr.org/2026/07/23/n...
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DOT cranks up its campaign to strip bike lane references from federal websites
Transportation officials have removed a growing list of safety materials that mention bike lanes from federal websites. Safety advocates warn that's undermining proven measures for reducing crashes.
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Read this.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It's World Emoji Day, so here's a friendly reminder that we have 🚷 and 🚳 but not
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Waymo might be individually safer than a human driver, but their introduction entrenches car dependency and car-centric planning and precludes investment in public transit and safe streets. We will have more traffic violence in the long run with Waymo than with an earnest Vision Zero effort.
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The plastic bags in the hotel ice buckets—do we really need those?
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The war on the war on cars continues.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We should ban AI data centers, but let's also take at least five to ten million cars off of US roadways.
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Josh Parshall @jparshall.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is step 1 toward the Demolition Man situation where all restaurants are Taco Bell.
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