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call me D. maryland policy director @ggwash.org, your east silver spring civic association VP, pit bull parent, elder emo. no growth has to mean less is less. they/them. linktr.ee/justupthepike

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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
looks like you’ll need a…driver’s license since the bus isn’t coming
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
just had both, can confirm
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
at the format show tonight at the lincoln theatre i met a longtime follower and then afterwards outside someone definitely called my name but i couldn’t see them. if you’re reading this: sorry I missed you, but how was the show? 
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
got this package in the mail from Esther Wells, running for Montgomery County Executive as a Republican, and I’m like…how many Democrats did she send this too and does she think this will work 🤔
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
never thought i'd see the day when purple line trains were running through chevy chase 🥹
an overhead shot of a purple line train, riding down a track with fences on either side, through a neighborhood of large houses surrounded by yards and trees
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it has been 16 months since a driver hit me and my dog on Thayer Avenue and 4 months since Montgomery County finally agreed to install speed bumps. we still don’t have them but the county gave us an AI-generated poster for a block party
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the @ggwash.org fall mixer is one of my favorite events of the year and a great chance to hang out with some of my favorite people. see you next week???
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
falling enrollment means MCPS will close schools for the first time since the 80s—and a big reason is that many families are either priced out to cheaper areas, while others are staying in DC. Montgomery County needs to stay competitive with families, too www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/e...
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Declining enrollment has MCPS considering school closures, consolidations
“When your largest enrollment of 12th grade that we just graduated in June leaves, right, at almost 13,000 students and our incoming kindergarten is closer to 9,000, you’re going to see a significant ...
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
hung out yesterday at the ribboncutting for bottleworks park in downtown silver spring and was pleasantly surprised to see so many old friends from different parts of my life. silver spring needed something like this, and i really hope this park will be successful
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
hot take: bike lanes are actually better for drivers??? in my first column for @citycastdc.bsky.social i get behind the wheel for a chill ride on the recently redesigned blair road nw dc.citycast.fm/opinion/when...
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When a Bike Lane Is Good for Drivers, Too · City Cast DC
An urban planner ponders the redesigned Blair Road.
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Mike English @mocomikee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happy to report this was overturned Unanimously Again Hats off to the council for doing the right thing What an amazing waste of time to indulge a stubborn man’s temper tantrum
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Brooke Lierman @brookelierman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fun news: Silver Spring is once again making headlines! Behind its growth are years of planning, public investment, and people building businesses and communities. This headline proves that those smart investments matter!
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I had a lovely time talking to @bannermoco.bsky.social about the past, present, and future of downtown Silver Spring. it is unrecognizable to how I remember it as a kid in the 90s (in a good way!) and there’s still so much more work to do. www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...
headline from the banner: What downtowns can learn from Silver Spring about growth, diversity and reinvention, by Marijke FriedmanD. Reed remembers the downtown Silver Spring of their childhood in the 1990s as a quiet and lonely place. It was full of vacant and abandoned buildings, they said, and their family ventured to Bethesda and Rockville for most of their shopping.

The downtown doesn’t feel so lonely anymore.
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
starting to work my way through @thebaltimorebanner.com’s list of the best snowball stands starting with The Snowball Stand in Woodstock www.thebanner.com/culture/food...
it’s a yellow cup, filled with like red shaved ice, and on top of that little swirl of soft serve in front of a small green building that says the snowball stand
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
20 years in the making, woodside place would be a big addition to downtown silver spring and i'm excited it may finally happen, though i'm bummed there won't be any retail–once upon a time, it was supposed to have a harris teeter dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blo...
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Four Buildings, 1,340 Units: An Enormous Redevelopment Planned For Downtown Silver Spring
Plans are in the works for the largest mixed-use development in downtown Silver Spring in years.
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
pls let James Hedrick do his job secure.everyaction.com/N2hg_35aQUKj...
secure.everyaction.com
Tell the Montgomery County Council: keep James Hedrick on Planning Board
Late Friday afternoon, Marc Elrich once again vetoed the appointment of a sitting Planning Board member, James Hedrick, who's been a champion for more homes and better transit in Montgomery County. Te...
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
YES
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
a few weeks ago a MoCo Planning Board member lost his job for, basically, doing his job. if you have a few minutes: please tell the County Council to keep James Hedrick and let the Planning Board do their jobs secure.everyaction.com/N2hg_35aQUKj...
secure.everyaction.com
Tell the Montgomery County Council: keep James Hedrick on Planning Board
Late Friday afternoon, Marc Elrich once again vetoed the appointment of a sitting Planning Board member, James Hedrick, who's been a champion for more homes and better transit in Montgomery County. Te...
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m trained in GIS (as in, making maps!) and these maps bum me out, especially when they come from people or orgs who should know they’re egregiously wrong (local governments, for example)
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
just saw the documentary dead city punx at afi—about taking over leftover spaces for guerrilla shows—and walked out to a lil version of that in downtown silver spring, as ppl have been doing here for 20+ years, tho it used to be much busier. i miss that energy on a saturday night
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
buying tickets to a movie at AFI tomorrow night and I always laugh that you have to check a box saying you acknowledge you are going to Maryland (as opposed to…LA or DC or something idk)
A screenshot from the AFI silver website that says: I have read and understood the Terms and Conditions.
I understand the AFI Silver Theatre is located in Maryland and that ticket refunds are only available in person before the show.
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
i don’t like sharing things from the montgomery fix but this premise is so goofy. why would any endorsing group endorse a candidate if the party they represent doesn’t share that group’s values? www.montgomeryfix.com/articles/gca...
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GCAAR to GOP Candidates: Disavow Party if You Want Endorsement — Montgomery Fix
A dispute between the Montgomery County Republican Party and the Greater Capital Area Association of REALTORS® has erupted over a question GCAAR is asking Republican candidates seeking its endorsement...
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
lost in all the discussions of dogpiling is how in elementary school if a dude yelled "dogpile" then all the other dudes would run to the source of the sound and crash delightedly into one another, forming a heap (the "pile"). this ruled and was fun and we should bring it back
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Greater Greater Washington @ggwash.org · 02/09/2026
It seems Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich doesn't want the Planning Board to plan.
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Let Montgomery County's Planning Board do its job
View this post on ggwash.org
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
if you have a few minutes: let the Montgomery County Council know to keep James Hedrick, one of our biggest champions for more homes and more affordable homes, on the Planning Board after he was removed without cause secure.everyaction.com/N2hg_35aQUKj...
secure.everyaction.com
Tell the Montgomery County Council: keep James Hedrick on Planning Board
Late Friday afternoon, Marc Elrich once again vetoed the appointment of a sitting Planning Board member, James Hedrick, who's been a champion for more homes and better transit in Montgomery County. Te...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026
a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
the fillmore turns 15 this month and once again i’m grateful that on a night i’m tired and cranky i can go hear some of my favorite bands a mile from my house, watch ppl have massive zoomies in the pit, and immediately feel much better
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
over the weekend y'all sent the Montgomery County Council 47 emails for @housingjames.bsky.social 💪 keep em coming
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Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
As we begin the 2026-2027 school year, it's frustrating to revisit this story from the 25-26 school year, which talks about a driver hitting a child during the 24-25 school year After two years, this intersection is exactly the same. Our neighborhoods deserve much better than this kind of neglect
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Mike English @mocomikee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Please read this thread. As usual D is right on the money here. A big reason I push for the things I do is not (just) direct affordability but the capacity for more people to be able to realistically live where they can be safe. Who and what YIMBYs hone in on can run frustratingly counter to this
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
sometimes i feel like i’m screaming into the void: helping people, especially trans people, move to safety and opportunity is what the yimby/pro-homes movement is all about. but the movement, as it grows and seeks legitimacy, feels quite indifferent to us
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
in 2023 *you* sent over 170 emails asking the Montgomery County Council to reinstate a Planning Board member after Marc Elrich kicked him out for basically doing his job. it happened again, so let the Council know: keep James Hedrick on Planning Board secure.everyaction.com/N2hg_35aQUKj...
secure.everyaction.com
Tell the Montgomery County Council: keep James Hedrick on Planning Board
Late Friday afternoon, Marc Elrich once again vetoed the appointment of a sitting Planning Board member, James Hedrick, who's been a champion for more homes and better transit in Montgomery County. Te...
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
can’t be mad anymore
it’s a really gorgeous sunset with a dewey beach sign in the foreground on a dock
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
like the man in the white house, marc elrich is too angry, too spiteful, and frankly too much of a coward to know when to shut his mouth. i am ashamed that montgomery county democrats keep electing him bethesdamagazine.com/2026/08/26/e...
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Elrich to veto Hedrick’s appointment to Montgomery Planning Board, again
County Council could override veto with vote of nine members
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
drizzy and I are at the beach in unceded maryland territory aka delaware this week. on the way to dewey beach i tried to get him to pose with the slaughter beach sign but big guy has no patience for my emo band jokes smh
two cuties on the beach, a person wearing purple glasses and a bucket hat, the other a black pit bull mix with a white belly and, increasingly, a white snoot the most handsome dog you have ever seen, a black and white pitbull mix lying in a big hole in the sand. the ocean is behind him a black and white pitbull mix looking down in front of a sign that says “slaughter beach” and has a picture of a horseshoe crab
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I just walk around the house sometimes singing IN A 90’S KIND OF WORLD, I’M GLAD I GOT MY GIRLS
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
as a country music liker I know the answer but still I must ask: who are these approximately 14,000 goobers who *drove* to nationals park to see jason aldean
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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Being edited is sometimes painful, but always worth it. An editor really can save you from yourself.
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Seattle Times Dipshit Quits Because His Editors Were Smart Enough To Spike His Stupid Columns | Defector
People sometimes wonder what editors do. It’s a fair question to ask, given how difficult it is to read a column or blog post and be able to discern exactly how much influence an editor did or did not...
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
iykyk: Indian Head Highway aka Route 210 is a brutal stretch of road. our summer intern and Charles County native Jewel Lester takes a look at how Maryland officials have been trying to fix this highway for over a century
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
paging @natalifg.bsky.social
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
revisiting transit, one of my favorite bands from the 2010s, since the lead singer came out as trans and i’m like 1) huh it makes so much sense now 2) no wonder i had this on rotation *constantly* 3) lol they had trans in their name
lyrics from the song “dear: anyone” by transit: 

You've never felt quite right in your own skin
And there's no place for a crook like me
You've never been in love
I don't know what it is and I don't believe
That anyone can change me
Because you don't know anything about me
My backs against the door to keep you on the outside
And nobody knows what I'm trying to hide
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i love to hate on ocean city but ngl this week it’s been growing on me. we’re not going to the jersey shore this year but there are moments where you remember that ocean city is, in fact, a town
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@princegeorgesplaza.bsky.social and I are in Ocean City for the MD Association of Counties conference this week which is an opportunity for 1) you to follow us on Instagram 2) me to proclaim that Schitt’s Creek is not good
In the meantime: This week, Maryland policy manager Mark Clements and I are heading to Ocean City for the Maryland Association of Counties conference. This is GGWash’s fourth year attending MACo (as it is affectionately known), where elected officials and the people who want them to do things convene by the sea. (Schitt’s Creek, a show I’m otherwise not into, has an episode about their own version of MACo, and it is not too far off.)

We’re there to meet people, share what we’re about, and maybe get some Kohr Bros frozen custard on the boardwalk. We’ll have a booth this year (#920, upstairs in the convention center) so come say hi if you’re there, or follow @ggwash.official on Instagram to see what we’re up to.
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
tag yourself, i’m a non-profit director
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
this is my favorite kind of crankery, when you’re self-aware that you’re being a crank and can have fun with it. i can’t complain about zoomer fashion, they brought big pants back and these thighs are eternally grateful www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Incomprehensible Fashion Statements of Gen Z
It used to be that you could tell goths from preps by the look of them.
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
ICYMI: a few weeks I talked to @citycastdc.bsky.social about my neighborhood’s fight to get traffic calming after a driver hit me and my dog, and why it’s so hard to make our streets safer dc.citycast.fm/podcasts/wha...
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What Does It Take To Make Our City Safer? · City Cast DC
We make podcasts and newsletters that connect people with the cities they love.
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
it sounds like “what if pechakucha night, but with longer presentations”? sign me up
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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
today i’m going thru all my old CDs my mom gave me. some ✨highlights✨ 1) album art i designed for my a cappella group, faux paz 2) first appearance on kojo nnamdi, 2009 3) dvd from michelle yeoh’s road safety documentary 4) promos from shark week 2010 (back when discovery was in silver spring, rip)
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