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Liz Denys

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Coldest take in the world but ten years on, Emotion and Emotion Side B are still both perfect albums.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
95% of college-age men admitted to using coercive tactics to get women they already knew did not want any to have sex with them to have sex. When men say they don’t know who these creeps are, all it tells me is that either they’re lying or they’ve chosen not to learn about rape culture.
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 29/09/2026
in* ugh late night typos
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 29/09/2026
Once we're done with Widow's Bay, I think we're gonna have to have @mattdenys.bsky.social finally watch The Americans.
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 29/09/2026
It's also deeply beautiful that Widow's Bay uses 4x3 for flashbacks.
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 29/09/2026
Needle drops that were made for me on a lab: Cornflake Girl when Shauna ate Jackie Caribbean Blue on Widow's Bay
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 29/09/2026
can't believe i haven't been up on the cut being on the ao3 beat til now
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 28/09/2026
lmfao the cut discovers ao3
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 28/09/2026
Hmm yes, but raspberries taste weird in that way, laudatory, and green peppers taste weird in that way, derogatory.
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 25/09/2026
Two weird developments in my hobbies: 1. I can crochet now. 2. I am now a sock knitter.
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 24/09/2026
The actual experience of biking in the city is what people thinking driving is supposed to be, so this kinda checks out 🤣
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This ruling affirms what we've long known to be true. The holding room conditions at 26 Federal Plaza are completely deplorable.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To be fair, this is exactly what people said about Uber and Lyft. And there have been studies about how much more people drive when they don't have to worry about parking on one or both ends of their trip. There's little reason to think driverless cars won't lead to an explosion in VMT in cities.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Someone asked me my thoughts on Boston Globe lesbian bar drama: My thoughts are that if you only temporarily struggled with isolation in 2020/2021, we should have more empathy for COVID-cautious people who have limited IRL community due to health concerns.
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 23/09/2026
oof
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Anti-transplant discourse is a really neat ideological fit for the New York Post, which should probably give serious pause to any Bluesky posters who partake.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 22/09/2026
The discourse is going to be bad I'll just say that covid is still a thing, immunocompromised people still exist despite this country's best efforts, and this is what happens when, instead of systemic clean air interventions, you do the equivalent of a boil water order for air
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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The MTA has been planning to reroute the B65 for years, long before Mamdani’s bike boulevard plans. And the reason? Because there are so many double parked cars on Dean/Bergen that buses literally get stuck. IT’S THE CARS. AS USUAL.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/09/2026
your regular reminder that all is not well for those of us living in red states that women are still bleeding out in parking lots and dying because they can’t access abortion care we deserve not to die
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 21/09/2026
Yet another round of the eternal transplant discourse and I'm thinking about how I'm alive because I live in a place where I could easily get treatment for my life-threatening ectopic pregnancy and how most places with abortion access have exclusionary housing policies, leaving people to die.
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Rebecca Baird-Remba @thecitywanderer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one thing on the Nikole Hannah-Jones piece that's weird: she didn't include much original context around her 2016 piece, which is that her daughter's school was at the center of a very heated school district rezoning battle that hinged on people from dumbo not wanting to send their kids to PS 307
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 21/09/2026
can't believe we keep getting blessed with new crj albums (also glad she finally released the inevitable second part of the double album together this time!)
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 21/09/2026
Just got my yearly flu and COVID-19 vaccines :D
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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s especially wild to be saying that shit in 2026, when people increasingly have fewer rights in red states than in blue states.
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Spooky rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 21/09/2026
It’s wild to see people who (rightly) wouldn’t dream of maligning immigrants shouting about how internal migration is bad, that if you’re already in the country you shouldn’t be able to attempt to improve your life.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Spend time with this extraordinary column because figuring this out is essential to our city's future -- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“This is the 13th child killed in traffic so far this year in New York City, more than twice as many children than were killed by this point last year.”
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!
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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Private carting and construction trucks are a giant safety risk to pedestrians and bikers and should be limited to driving no more than 5 mph in New York City. These are “when” not “if” crashes www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/n...
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15-Year-Old Girl Killed After Being Hit by Truck in Manhattan (Gift Article)
Two girls were on the bicycle when it was struck by a large truck attempting to turn on 1st Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan. The other girl, 13, was in stable condition.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 18/09/2026
The Constitution does not allow the president to choose who counts.
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Excluding Immigrants from the Census Would Hurt the Country and Break the Law
The Constitution, federal law, and centuries of history make clear that the census is meant to count everyone, regardless of citizenship.
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 18/09/2026
this reminds me that i want to do a reread of the great divorce now that i no longer live the suburbs
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 18/09/2026
Graph of what gives people feelings of power with a photo of a deer superimposed.

Money gives a small amount of feelings of power, status a little more, and eating yummy strawberry gives a lot.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Private fliers pollute 14x more than commercial Only the world's richest 0.003% flies private, and half of those flights are for fun. Private flight is 16% of FAA operations, but contributes less than 0.6% of the taxes financing the FAA. New report from @ips-dc.org ips-dc.org/report-high-...
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High Flyers 2026: The High Cost of Private Jet Excess - Institute for Policy Studies
High Flyers 2026: The High Cost of Private Jet Excess
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i see a lot of debate around this issue that takes it for granted that supporting trans rights (especially in the sports context) will hurt you electorally. it’s worth highlighting that that’s just not what the data shows.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wish the administration would be honest and say that they don't have the money to do daylighting at scale, which would at least give advocates something to fight for. Sigh.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"There are around 40,000 intersections in the Big Apple, so even Adams’s most ambitious plan would have taken as long as four decades to roll out citywide, and the pared-back version would have taken around 320 years. Mamdani’s vision doesn’t even commit to that century-spanning timeline."
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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It tells you all you need to know about the role of policing in general that the people who are constantly shrieking about low-level crime and homelessness and bike lanes (lol) as intolerable intrusions on our quality of life have no problem with this
Private cars completely blocking a public sidewalk near a Bronx station house, rendering it unusable
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Again, this is why I think Vision Zero needs to be an internal framework of designing a better system, not a public-facing PR campaign that includes pleas for people to do better. If you have cops parking on the sidewalk and blocking bike lanes just because they can, not a whole lot else matters.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Open Plans @openplans.org · 16/09/2026
Cars emit 3.5x more than freight & 13.5x more than buses, despite moving fewer people. They make up 64% of NYC's transportation emissions. Join our Climate Week panel, Reducing Driving as Climate Action, on policies that cut driving & emissions. 🌎 RSVP: luma.com/parking-70cz
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Dan Mauler 🎃 @meelar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's doable. It just hasn't happened in New York. That 2029 contract renegotiation better be a banger.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am fascinating by the ongoing Ed Sheeran story and the way it strikes right at the heart of the fading viability of "Oh, I don't do politics."
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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
[this generally is why, if memory serves, traffic experts stress road design as a mediator for controlling speeding, as people by and large will adjust their speed in accordance, typically without even intending]
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 16/09/2026
Really looking forward to getting a rezoning out of the South of Prospect project along Coney Island Avenue (where I live!) and McDonald Avenue that has a lot more housing and affordable housing so no one has to live in overcrowded households or leave the area.
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 16/09/2026
Yet another tale in why we need more housing and affordable housing in NYC: @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social just shared that she had to move back in with her parents because she can't afford to live on her own in the Kensington neighborhood she's lived her whole life and now represents in council.
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York.  That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.
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Open New York @opennewyork.org · 15/09/2026
👀 "I’m committed to transit-oriented development. This will be the embodiment of the dream to have more transit-oriented development" - @governor.ny.gov 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 15/09/2026
to be clear, i obviously enjoy this album a lot. i just also acknowledge that it is probably the least good on any metric of albums in my regular rotation.
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