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Leeann A.

@lva1113.bsky.social
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Lowellian. Cornellian. Outside whenever possible. She/her.

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As a society, the United States has decided that the ability of drivers to go wherever they want as fast as they want is the priority, at the expense of the safety and mobility of children. If you suggest this is somehow wrong, you are ridiculed and told that drivers are more important.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The FDA just announced they won’t release their “safety review” of abortion pills until March of next year. In other words: They’re stalling until after the midterms.
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FDA says it will complete safety review of abortion pill in March
A federal judge in Louisiana ordered the FDA to provide an update on its safety study as part of a lawsuit seeking to overturn a provision allowing mifepristone to be delivered by mail.
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Dover Publications @doverpublications.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We’re excited to welcome Paw Prints Publishing into the Dover family! 🐾 #childrensbooks #kidlit #booksforkids #socialemotionallearning
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Mark Sutton @marksuttonbike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cargo bikers - show me your loads! Writing a piece to snap back against this bizarre viral AI slop that's been prompted by that LBC segment. Pics and stories/metrics welcome.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is this fallacy that the cyclists getting killed by drivers are running red lights and doing wheelies in the middle of the lane, when the reality is that cyclists get doored or right hooked. It's easier to have this worldview instead of acknowledging the fundamental changes needed.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The mobility of children is simply not taken seriously or viewed as important. Something illustrative is how people will often say that kids "don't count" when you remind them that children and young teens are nondrivers who deserve the right to get around without cars.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Everywhere you look there's public concern and even outrage over ebikes, largely brought on by emotos, but that's not what bothers me. What bothers me is the blind eye to Suburbans, Tahoes, Wagoneers, and lifted commuter pickup trucks making our streets truly deadly and no one even takes notice.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
THIS is the right response to high gas prices. NOT cutting the federal or state gas tax and helping Trump out of the mess that he created. ( @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @massgovernor.bsky.social )
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's quite possible to do all these things, and also, not everyone has to or wants to go car-free. Simply replacing some car trips with bike trips is a step in the right direction. This all-or-nothing framing from anti-bike people is such bad faith bullshit.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love fall so much. I've lived in Vermont my whole life and foliage season still seems like such a completely bonkers and beautiful thing to happen every year. It never gets old. 🍂
Photo of a pile of leaves on vibrant dark green moss. I collected lots of fallen leaves of different colors from different plants and trees and arranged them in an egg-shaped gradient going from green at the top to yellow and then orange and then red to darkest reds at the bottom.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There's a reason why Somerville hasn't had a traffic death in 4 years. The city isn't perfect, but they've made a concerted effort to design many streets around people and not cars. You can still drive, but you're going to have to do so slowly and while paying attention.
bostonglobe.com
Somerville is intentionally making roads harder to drive on. It’s getting results. - The Boston Globe
To make roads safer, the city says, sometimes you have to put some obstacles in drivers' way.
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Leeann A. @lva1113.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gorgeous day today for Open Streets on Merrimack Street in downtown Lowell, MA. Great to see so many people out enjoying fun activities, shopping, music and dance performances, a community art project, and more. Need more of this!
Photo of Merrimack Street in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts, closed to cars for the day for an Open Streets event. The street is filled with people, booths, and tables.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026
look if the Red Sox are going to be out of the postseason there’s nothing quite like Yankees schadenfreude to sustain us
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very helpful video summary of the MA ballot questions. Vote NO on 3!!! Don’t let rich creeps buy our elections!! Don’t like Democrats? - Fund multiple D candidates to split the vote - Bribe any R candidates beyond 2 to drop out
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's a pretty direct line between "When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything" and this kind of MNF banter. The rot is everywhere in our society but it's a lot worse in some places than others. (screenshot from sports.yahoo.com/articles/al-...)
Then, Michaels cited the familiar football phrase that "winning is the best deodorant," before Herbstreit predicted that Browns fans would eventually embrace Watson after previously booing him in the preseason.

"You want the fans to get behind you, and that goes for pretty much any market," Herbstreit said. "This is an extreme case because of what you laid out with Deshaun Watson, but if you convert on third downs, you hit passes, you lead this team to victories, those boos turn into cheers."
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026
Butterbutt. An older comic.
A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m at the point where I’m confusing all the rapists in the news so that’s how its going.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a big f’ing deal. Story at the newsletter right now, and full explainer coming soon (so make sure you’re subscribed to AED) Three anti-abortion states are asking the Supreme Court to allow them to extradite abortion providers from pro-choice states.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of the really interesting findings here is that microtransit is associated with better healthcare access and health outcomes because riders are able to have reliable transportation to medical appointments.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As we talk about what happened at Cornell, please take a moment to learn about how a young LSU student is fighting for help against that school’s storied football program
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”
thecut.com
How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 29/09/2026
Before the John Hancock Tower was an architectural marvel above Boston’s Back Bay, it was architectural mayhem. Here's a look back 50 years later. trib.al/B1Qt5dr
Many black-painted plywood boards covered the windows of the John Hancock Tower in Boston on Aug. 8, 1973. High winds had broken and damaged much of the glass facade. Text on the card reads: “Fifty years ago, the Hancock Tower officially opened — after a windy road getting there”
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A case that isn’t getting the headlines it deserves: an LSU student was raped by an LSU football player. He admitted it, but the school is still letting him play football. How multiple systems have failed this young woman & why she went public to get the help she needs: youtu.be/LihN7hsNKnw?...
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SHOCKING College SCANDAL EXPOSES Stakes Of Trump’s DANGEROUS AGENDA!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you student journalists/editors.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought
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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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:
thehandbasket.co
I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see
'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So @propublica.org debunked Susan Collins www.propublica.org/article/debu...
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
malpractice story packaging in that the more pertinent details are: this guy is a bodybuilder promoter who killed his own son with a $100K divorce on wheels but is crowdfunding his funeral on a page that just says he was “accidentally struck by a moving vehicle” and they’re close to half that amount
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Young boy killed after father backs Cybertruck into him, police say
A California man accidentally hit and killed his 6-year-old son while backing out of the family’s driveway near Temecula in a Tesla Cybertruck, according to police reports.
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