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Cole Nowicki @colenowicki.com · 03/04/2026

This week, @skateorphi.bsky.social returns to talk Bachelard and little miseries, I declare myself the only living PSL beat writer, a woodpecker pecks, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/i-gotta-star...

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I gotta start praying into my hat

P-Rod's SHS takes PSL, Brian Glenney's little bit of misery, the bright side(?) of corporate parasitism, a woodpecker pecks, and more.

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Brian Glenney @skateorphi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

A story true of a “gift economy”

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Cole Nowicki @colenowicki.com · 10/02/2026

The skate studies community dropped some academic hammers last year. @skateorphi.bsky.social takes us on a comprehensive journey through their work, the trends found within it, and reveals the 2025 SSSOTY. www.simplemagic.ca/the-state-of...

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The State of Skate Studies 2025

Professor Brian Glenney's annual compendium catalogues and analyzes 141 scholarly skateboarding-related books and papers published last year.

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Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

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Skate Bylines @skatebylines.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

When a spot is destroyed how is its legacy preserved in a tangible form, beyond images and stories? The answer may be “Spolia”, an architectural concept which reincorporates materials, “Turning rubble into something both relic and resurrected," writes Dom Teoh 📝 — skatebylines.com/2025/04/08/p...

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Brian Glenney @skateorphi.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Indoor session while it’s 0 outside in Vermont

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Paul O'Connor @peejayohhsee.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

New Special Issue of Sport & Society on Surf and Skate scholarship. Papers on surfing mixed in with work on skate scenes in Tijuana and Northern Ireland, a paper on skaters of colour, and our own ( @skateorphi.bsky.social @texturologies.bsky.social ) on sound. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcss20/2...

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Sport in Society

Surfing and Skateboarding; Michael James Roberts,Kristin Lawler. Volume 28, Issue 2 of Sport in Society

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Brian Glenney @skateorphi.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“The best spots in the world are not built for skateboarding” -Hanson at Slow Impact

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