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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People who call large meetings (like dean's office who called the DGS meeting I’m currently in) should have to calculate the dollar value of everyone’s time when deciding each and every agenda item.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Made a joke in class today about when the industrial revolution really picked up steam. I'll let myself out.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm filling out an IRB application because I'm planning to do a class project with my Soc of Work students in which they will interview their ride share drivers. 1/n

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cheetah and the Dead Boys were a bit before my time, but his influence was alive and well in the NYC punk and hardcore scene in which I was raised. RIP to one of the originals. @punkrockhistory.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/a...

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Cheetah Chrome, Guitarist for Pioneering Punk Bands, Dies at 71

He played with Rocket From the Tombs and the Dead Boys, whose snarling nihilism opened the door to an entire music genre in the 1970s.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trump has made a career of pushing back the consequences of his actions until either the clock runs out or they no longer matter. The proposed ban on diesel exports might bring prices down between now and the mid-term elections. But all hell will break loose after that.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When you don't have anything of value to offer the world so too big to fail becomes your business strategy...

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have an incredibly great bunch of undergrads in my Sociology of Work course this semester. One sent me a series of poems they were inspired to write about alienated labor.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This, plus Black Flag’s Damaged, was the soundtrack of my paper route as a teenager.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you tried jumping onto the pitch and playing along in any other pro sport, you'd be tackled by security and charges would be filed against you. But, cycling takes place on public roads, so...

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Once again, the AI expertise revolution (in medicine, education, etc) is about reducing the number of experts necessary but not replacing them completely. That way, capital can lower payroll and exploit the resultant tiered market. Humans for the wealthy; AI for everyone else.

but the masses in “economy class” would mostly make do with AI alone

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

For my non-cycling friends, Pogacar is the number one pro cyclist in the world and probably the greatest of all time. 2X world champ. 5X TdF winner. This year, he is on track to earn the equivalent of a mid-tier basketball player in the US.

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Tadej Pogačar

Tadej Pogačar (born 1998-09-21 in Klanec) is a professional road racing cyclist from Slovenia, currently riding for UAE Team Emirates - XRG.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm an invader baby. So are my cousins, some of whom voted for this. The difference is my family are ostensibly white invader babies. My cousins think this too, which is why they're immigrants who are ok with these anti-immigrant sentiments. Whiteness is a hell of a drug.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'd be willing to bet that most of the difference in crash rates between Waymos and human drivers can be explained by the fact that Waymos drive under the speed limit.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm calling it now: Vingegaard retires at the end of the season after failing to make the TdF podium. It'll be sad to see him go, as I think he's net very good for the sport.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My family routinely watches The Amazing Race. It’s been interesting to watch how early season racers did just fine with paper maps. Later seasons saw paper maps become part of the race challenge. Same with driving manual, FWIW.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Local bike shops are closing daily and the folks at @velo-velo-velo.bsky.social are hyping Amazon deals. Way to undermine the very industry on which your readership depends.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I sincerely hope that this and all the MAGA/Trump merch that litters our era are treated in the future like we treat Nazi memorabilia now.

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Patrick Gilsenan for 32nd Ward @patgilsenan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Chicago needs a citywide network of protected bike lanes. We shouldn't have to rely on ward by ward protections, which results in both inequitable infrastructure distribution and safety gaps on longer trips.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

SpaceX, Open AI, and Anthropic IPOs are going to create some real sticky wickets for fiduciaries, especially pension and 401k fund managers. Glad I'm not them but I'm afraid we're all going to get dragged into the morass.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

These people are high on their own supply. The idea of just setting fire to the 60 Minutes and CBS News brand and its longstanding association with credibility boggles the mind. I guess that's life in a post-truth world.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This thread is ultimately the correct take on "class." However, I think we need to distinguish between technical definitions, like how sociologists define, operationalize, and use it, and vernacular uses of the term, like how people describe other people. The latter is worth studying sui generis.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This is dumb for lots of reasons. The first that comes to mind is do they think int'l travelers are just going to be like, "I can't get a flight to NYC, so I guess I'll visit Houston on my vacation?"

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This might just be the year our backyard garden breaks even. #the$64tomato

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I know that this is not remotely the point, but pictures are hung. People are hanged.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This is the building I work in as well. I can confirm: it is extremely disturbing to work in it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026

listening to jets to brazil this morning and it is like a time machine back to being a sad 15 year old

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

@chipublib.bsky.social is now recommending books I might like in emails about my library holds and I'm here for it.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Another "Revenge of the Streisand Effect" story. When are these guys going to learn? Six people probably read the original article. Now the news of Patel's problem drinking on the job is everywhere.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Regardless of what actually happens with arresting and charging Obama, this administration will have succeeded in delegitimizing the DOJ and the investigative process into office holders. That will help them if they're charged and tried in the future.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Data like this contribute to my fears Dem leaders are just going to coast into the midterms and not take any stands (or do anything). We desperately need a real opposition party. Pols that people can vote for (rather than just against the other guy).

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The problem with AI is that it's marketed as Artificial *General* Intelligence so there's no use that's off-label. It's a huge liability issue for companies that make the technology. I fear we'll have lots more cases of people hurt by AI in various ways before we see any legal clarity.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Status is absolutely the skeleton key to understanding MAGA. And this is why there should be a Chief Sociologist of the US, not just a Chief Economic Advisor: economists don't have the analytic tools to study status (tho they won't admit it); sociologists invented the study of status, it's our jam.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Streisand effect in full effect. It's already happening. The story is already on the NYT webpage.

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

a sex pest real estate guy who lost money on his casinos got elected president twice because he played a deals man on tv and then he destroyed the global economy. baudrilliard would die if he wasn't already dead.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I'm reminded of the Rick Steves episode on Iran today. Worth watching if you haven't seen it. Worth rewatching if you need a reminder of the complexity and humanity of Iranians. youtu.be/CYoa9hI3CXg?...

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Rick Steves' Iran (2009)

YouTube video by Rick Steves' Europe

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I assume Schumer, Jeffries, and the rest of the Dem establishment are just waiting out the time until the next election, thinking "the fever will break" when they win back majorities and we'll just go back to politics as usual. Spoiler: we're way to far gone for politics as usual.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Maybe if I ride my bike fast enough for long enough I can out ride the creeping existential dread and the horrors.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Hyper local skeet: Harper Court should be closed to car traffic. I'd bet restaurants and shops would survive, even strive, if we turned the area into a promenade. As of now, we get a lot of turnover because it's not a nice place to linger: www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...

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Bob’s Pizza shutters Hyde Park shop

Bob's Pizza, the Pilsen-based chain that brought its beer-dough and pickle pies to Harper Court in 2023, quietly closed its Hyde Park location last week.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

What's interesting about this is how ineffective hand-picked propagandists is likely to be in a highly fractured media environment. Yes, you reinforce the narrative among the base. But you win no new hearts and minds. No wonder approval for this war is stuck ~40%.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

As someone who has studied the craft brewing industry in Chicago for a decade. I've lots to say about this merger, esp as it relates to collaboration in the face of growing competition for craft beer. blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/10/h...

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Half Acre, Maplewood Breweries Merging Amid ‘Rapidly Changing’ Beverage Market

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

A fun post: My daughter got me a "Chocolate Passport" from TJ's for Xmas. It consisted of eight chocolate bars with chocolate sourced from different countries around the globe (mostly S. America and Africa, but also Vietnam). I thought it'd be fun to have the chocolate compete head-to-head 1/n

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Growing up in Queens, we sometimes put rocks inside snowballs during especially passionate snowball fights (which says something about my childhood). I say this because if folks wanted to throw rocks, bottles, or worse at the cops, they would have.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Is this real? One of the problems of living in this timeline is the complete lack of boundaries between reality and plausible satire.

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This is actually a problem for industry. Auto companies plan their production runs years if not decades in advance. They actually rely on gov't standards and regulation to create certainty in the market. Rapid deregulation for manufacturing makes it very difficult to plan. 1/n

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Paul-Brian McInerney @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

This should be on a t-shirt. I'd buy one. Especially if the proceeds went to immigrant relief. One of the things about trying times like these is that they give you new heroes. #itsalwaysoktopunchnazis

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