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Schizachyrium scoparium

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landscape architecture and ecology, bikes and bikepacking, urbanism, little bluestem. philly transplant.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15/10/2026
Confiscating the passport of the elected representative of the opposition territory in a raid with a flimsy pretext to attempt to strip them of citizenship is something we have words for when it happens in other countries
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
why are these sweaty centrists always so eager to have lunch with racists and fascists? or rather, get other people to hang out with them and maybe see where they’re coming from?
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this whole thing smacks of gender
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spooky cannoli @boner.ink · 17/09/2026
i'm not motivated by money, i'm not motivated by anything
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Blair Spookily @blairloudly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
you know what no im not gonna try harder this world doesnt deserve my effort
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Mary @anniemumary.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This is the time in the evening where I like to play a little game in the kitchen called What else we got?
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
extremely bold to subsidize the purchase of overpriced, oversized vehicles during a climate crisis. more like turd way am i right
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
stay woke or go broke
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
lost was so ahead of its time in this regard (derogatory)
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
you can only do this so many times. gulf of america had a little momentum behind it and trump voters live there. but the smallest great lake just to spite a very benign neighbor? using “america” again instead of getting slightly creative/symbolic with naming? it’s got no juice.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
He watered his plants.
Toad waters his plants, smiling at the thought of a job well done.

From "Tomorrow"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Human rights lawyer Wu Shaoping barely escaped arrest in his native China in 2019. The anti-communist Christian convert applied for asylum, made it to Pa. - doing it all the right way But in Trump's wretched America, the gulag is one traffic stop away My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/wu-s...
inquirer.com
Wu Shaoping escaped China’s repression, only to get busted by ICE in Pa. | Will Bunch
The U.S. reputation as safe haven for the world's dissidents takes another hit with Pa. arrest of Chinese human rights lawyer.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
you'll never know how to love art if you don't let it confuse you 🙂
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20/07/2026
road sign
reminder
people who show you new music are important.
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
where you at @congressmanboyle.bsky.social @congressmanboyle.bsky.social
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
this is how i find out jesus christ keep them coming
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
it’s hot as shit and i did a million cleans and squats at the gym this morning and today really had me wishing for an electric assist. e-bikes are great, even if you’re fit and have a short commute.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Statement from @bikeboston.bsky.social, @streetsboston.bsky.social, and @walkmass.bsky.social about Louisa Gag, who was hit and killed by a driver today. Yet another life taken because our society and leaders refuse to address the destruction wrought by cars.
We are devastated by the loss of Boston resident and transportation planner, Louisa Gag. On Thursday morning, a driver struck and killed Louisa on her bicycle commute to city hall along Tremont Street near Roxbury Crossing.
Louisa Gag is not just a number on a spreadsheet; she was a champion for safer streets, a vibrant part of the planning and advocacy community, and a person dedicated to fixing the very system that failed her.
MASSACHUSETTS VISION ZERO COALITION
Prior to joining the city of Boston's Transportation Department, Louisa graduated with a masters from the Tufts Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy program and worked at Livable Streets Alliance. Our hearts are with Louisa, her family, and all her colleagues and friends at BTD, UEP, and in the advocacy community.
Fatalities are a heartbreaking reminder of the safety gaps in our infrastructure. Inaction and needless delays have consequences. Changes must be made to dangerous streets before we lose a community member, not after.
We need safer streets now.
MASSACHUSETTS VISION ZERO COALITION
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Sam Byers @sambyers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Obviously this is excellent, detailed, and in many ways pretty terrifying - essential reading for anyone with even a passing concern for literature, thought, learning etc. I would only add that there is an even broader crisis here around attention. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
it’s very cathartic to slap a car after a driver’s transgressions but shit like this is why i stopped doing it. it turns drivers into homicidal maniacs when you touch their cars, it pops the bubble of their invincibility and they gotta threaten to run you over to reassert dominance.
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
i was just wondering how Jonathan Ross, the guy who killed Renee Good, was doing. did Minneapolis PD ever arrest him? at least his coworkers are out there reminding the public that Ross killed an unarmed woman and they don’t want us taking about it.
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
gonna need some blood and soil leftists to square this circle of being nativist but also presumably pro-immigrant and pro-lgbt
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
once for texas independence day i served lone star beer in a glass with a beautiful queso rim. there’s some r&d to make sure the queso sticks a little better but i still think i should get royalties when maudie’s introduces this great idea.
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
nasa good
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Truly wild research on the change in bike mode share in NYC, London, Paris and Berlin. Between 2000 and 2023, Paris went from 1 out of every 100 trips being on a bike to *one out of 9!* Many people, including credible researchers, would have told you that that *could not* happen.
Figure 1. Bicycle share of trips in New York City, London, Paris, and Berlin, 1990–2023. Note: the actual years vary slightly by city, as follows: New York: 1990,2000, 2010, 2019, 2022; London: 1993, 2000, 2010, 2019, 2022; Paris: 1990, 2000, 2010, 2017, 2023; Berlin: 1992, 1998, 2010, 2018, 2023. The percentages shown in thegraphic refer to the bicycle share of all trips, all trip purposes, based on travel surveys for each city. Sources: City of Paris, 2000–2023; City of Berlin, 2003–2025;Kalender,2012; NYCDOT, 2018–2023; Pucher, Parkin, et al.,2021; TfL, 2000–2023.This paper compares trends in cycling levels, cyclist demographics and cycling injury risk in NewYork, London, Paris and Berlin, before and after the COVID pandemic. We explore these trends inthe context of changes to policy and infrastructure before, during, and after COVID. We based ouranalysis on data from published reports, open-data portals, government websites, travel surveys,and information provided by transport planners in each city. Cycling levels in NYC, London, Paris,and Berlin increased over the three decades prior to COVID (1990–2019). As a percentage of dailytrips, bike mode share rose from 0.6% to 2.2% in New York, from 1.2% to 3.7% in London, from0.4% to 5% in Paris, and from 7% to 18% in Berlin. Cycling rates have continued to increase sinceCOVID. By 2023, bike mode shares had risen further to 3% in NYC, 4.5% in London, 11% in Paris,and 19% in Berlin. Cycling became safer in all four cities over the period 2005 to 2023, withdeclining per-trip fatality and injury rates. More and better cycling infrastructure has been acornerstone of pro-cycling efforts, especially cycleways separated from motor vehicle traffic (pro-tected bike lanes). Bike parking and bikesharing systems have expanded and improved. Car restric-tions and traffic calming have complemented pro-bike measures, for example, using infrastructureand enforcement to reduce traffic volumes and speeds in residential neighborhoods. Long-termpolitical support as well as cycling advocacy organizations have been critical to the introductionand continuation of pro-bike policies and the necessary financial investments.
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ceej @ceej.online · 07/04/2026
I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine
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Chumbus @chumbus.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Someone has probably said it but
A tweet from Tom Walker @tomwalkerisgood which takes the form of a dialogue as follows.
KOKOK: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can't have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can't afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 23/03/2026
Children of Men screenshot, You Know What It Is Theo? I Just Don’t Think About It
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
it’s really too bad that urban land use is so disproportionate to what people want. like 5% of urban land provides what 39-47% of americans yearn for.
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
i worked for a film season on a friendly, bucolic organic farm. it was nice in some ways but i made less than minimum wage and fucked up my back. best case scenario you’re broke and injured. there’s nothing “deeply human” about harvesting fruits and vegetables at an industrial scale.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
In a nutshell, the Dem lodestar should be: "ICE is bad, and immigration is good"
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
with the caveat that immigrants belong here regardless, the one immigrant from cameroon i worked with at a restaurant was the sweetest and most hardworking dude there. i thought he was a recent arrival due to his thick accent but at that point he had been in america as long as i had.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 12/02/2026
OPINION: "The outrageous lies of Trump regime, from ICE shootings to a Commerce Secretary's Epstein falsehoods, must be punished ... America desperately needs truth and consequences." — Inquirer columnist Will Bunch
inquirer.com
The lying is out of control. People need to go to prison. | Will Bunch
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
this and using the phrase “make america —— again” grinds my gears too. i know it was an effective campaign slogan. it’s also reactionary and you should come up with something that doesn’t reference the return of american fascism.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans. Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror. Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
in high school health class, GLAAD sent folks representing each of the L, G, B, and T categories as it were, to answer questions and share their stories. the trans guy was hilarious and very frank and changed my perception from “weird, don’t get it” to just another kind of person.
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
@repbrendanboyle.bsky.social something to consider
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
wow really helpful, thank you new york times
Infographic altered by me from the New York Times showing four different groups of federal troops dressed in their little tough guy cosplay gear.

Text reads:
Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets

With President Trump sending ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here's how to tell them apart- and what their powers are.

Big Dweebs

Walking Nutsacks

LOSERS

Turd-eating Bitch Boys

Credit for original, unaltered image: Bora Erden/The New York Times
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
everyone is dunking on this take for good reason but cities of the plain definitely reinforced my love for the finest in cheap bourbons, old granddad. thank you cormac mccarthy.
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
my commute takes me past an elementary school and a crossing guard lady who every day has her little speaker blasting oldies. big smile on her face, dancing in her winter bundle. people like that making the world keep turning.
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
search your first name and “glamor shot” and post a photo. doesn’t have to be the first photo. this one is the fourth but one of the best.
miles davis with impeccable flair and the most intense expression
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
as he should.
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
media.tenor.com
a man playing a saxophone in a living room with a godfather poster on the wall
Alt: steve carell playing a brass horn in a living room in a scene from the 40 year old virgin
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Schizachyrium scoparium @schizachyrium.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
it’s really a toss up between john hurt (alien, dead man, contact, only lovers left alive, snowpiercer, the elephant man) and his american counterpart, harry dean stanton (alien, fire walk with me, paris texas) gary oldman a very close third.
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