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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 7h

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 21h

Helped with a 3 minute thesis event and being around a bunch of excited PHDs is such a joy. Can't be in that room without thinking about the tremendous and irreparable damage being done to science in the country.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

State owned streets are a major barrier to safety and connectivity for bike networks. 5 lane stroads where drivers feel comfortable going 45mph cutting through otherwise urban neighborhoods make walking & biking so much harder. They are often the most dangerous too... We've got to do better.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"E-bike adopters reduced travel costs by 12% and increased physical activity by 14%." doi.org/10.1016/j.ur...

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I Reposted this so I wouldn't forget, and TRULY you all need to stop whatever you are doing and listen to this on repeat for the rest of the day. Tell everyone you know. A generational talent at his most genius sharing 4 more songs with the world from that era... what a gift.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes"

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Falling pray to N+1. 😅 Longtail cargo bike in-bound for school drop off now that our little one is too big for the trailer. Got a good deal on a lectric expedition on marketplace.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reposting because bike joy is always worth sharing. 😊

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water

Across the basin, alfalfa hay uses more than 5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water — that's 26% of all the water consumed in the basin. One acre-foot roughly equals the annual water use of two or three households.
In the Upper Basin, irrigated agriculture consumes 2.8 million acre-feet, or nearly half the water used by Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, the environment, reservoirs and water exports out of the basin. Cattle-feed crops, like alfalfa, consume 90% of all water used by Upper Basin agriculture.
That means alfalfa uses more water than cities, commercial users and industries across the entire basin:
Collectively, these users consume about 3.5 million acre-feet, or 18%, of the river's water. The Colorado River

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A sentence like this appears in every one of these articles: "Sure I object to everything Trump has ever done, but on the other hand I also disagree with some things about Democrats I made up."

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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Imagine if all of New York City looked like this?

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Pete S @silentone-77.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DRINK IT IN, ROCHESTER!

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How is it possible that our local baseball team was in the running for the championship and I'm learning about it now??? I'm so mad! I learn the score of the bills game against my will every week but I blink and not only is summer over the Redwings win a championship?

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The scale is striking too. Anecdotally a single school within a local university saw a drop from 400 international students in a particular graduate program to 12. Irreparable damage.

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In a just world a terrorist walking onto the floor of the UN holding up a model of the bombs they used to indiscriminately kill children would be arrested on the spot and tried for their crimes. Netanyahu should be arrested now.

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🎼Do we fight for the right to a night at the opera now?🎶

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reading "Circe" and struck by the impression that in the rising tide of empire the "heroes" end up being just the ones who by luck survive long enough to tell the story. It's not a new thought... but I'm struck by how the rising tide lifted the baby boomers, and how the stories of old heroes end.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/09/2026

How many Watergates did we have today. Feels like the average is three

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Owning a senator is more attainable than owning a home and also the best and surest return on your investment in this economy, and also the also the crime least likely to put you in jail" are three true statements that sum up how we got here...

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another thought to ponder about potential risks being used to distract from current harms.

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was on a mission trip in 2008 when russia invaded Georgia and it was framed for us as a prelude to the apocalypse and Armageddon because "the bear" was moving south... I can't*imagine* what insanity they are rising to with Netanyahu's advancing genocides & wars of expansion now...

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Viktor Köves @viktorkoves.com · 20/09/2026

I need everyone who thinks you can't bike in Chicago for six months to name the months. The average temperature in FEBRUARY this year was 36°, and by late March I was wearing a T-shirt! In 2025 there were only FOUR months with SOME days fully below freezing (www.weather.gov/lot/2025Cale...)

A full year Chicago highs and lows diagram for 2025, showing only January March and December with significant days below freezing

A February 2026 review showing an average temperature of 33° F in Chicago.

A photo of people walking around Lincoln Ave and on a scooter and bike on Feb 16, 2026 in light jackets

Viktor biking in a T-shirt on March 30th 2026

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Reconnect Rochester Cycling @roccycling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As of Sep 19th, residents have given this stretch of Genesee Street an average of 3.9 stars (out of 5). Ride & grade new bike infrastructure anytime! The City needs honest feedback on its investments. reconnectrochester.org/2026/04/new-...

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Like Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.” “Do the thing and you will have the power.”

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All Im really asking the mainstream political media to do is to cover Trump with the persistently negative tone they use to report daily on Hasan Piker

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

File under "Potential risks are being treated as more important than current harms"

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 19/09/2026

I interrupt your timeline to bring you a wood duck wearing a leash.

A wildlife expert stands at an event table behind a wood duck. The wood duck wears a harness and leash for security.

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The belief that "possible risks are more important than current harm" is one to sit with for a bit... It's everywhere...

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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just so refreshing to see a mayor straight forwardly say it's their job to prepare for the next generation and recognize their city's impact on affordability.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Facts worth repeating: It would be cheaper to pay the ~40,000 or so people employed by the coal industry $1M a year to do nothing than to pay for the health damages (not including climate change) caused by burning coal in the U.S. publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/news/story?h...

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Counting up the costs of coal

Regular readers know that WVU’s Dr. Michael Hendryx has done work on that issue (subscription required), reporting that:

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every time a young person emails me about what they should do at this moment, I say "organize a fundraiser for someone or a group doing the kind of work you value." I don't usually hear back after that, lol.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's interesting that both Mary Karr and Laurie Lee became famous for poetic memoirs, despite mostly spending their time writing poetry that few read. I continue to think that writing and reading poetry carries value for all writers, even if nobody will read your poetry.

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have read and find deep comfort in the work of Wendell Berry and those he inspired (Kimmerer and more recently Kingsnorth) But my kingdom for a similarly inspired thinker/writer who embraces urban life. Human scaled urbanism can be as (or even more?) kind to the land as a garden.

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is a (tangential and off topic) reminder that my favorite Gadsden flag concept that I have still never seen is a mushroom captioned "You cannot tread on me in a way that matters"

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also, the Patriots team jet has been regularly used by ICE for flights in the off season, if you needed more evidence that Kraft is bad news.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

also there are like ten people waiting outside Mitch’s house

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I swear if I learn about the status of Mitch McConnell from musicology duck standing outside his house before an actual journalist....

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026

A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Spotted on my morning run: Older gent riding his bike with the biggest smile you could imagine on his face. Dad running with daughter in stroller (got to let him know she's still awake, much to his chagrin) Guy struggling to get his bike seat tight enough, so I helped him with that. Sun, wind river

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost. This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath

Detailed math as shared in the post. “How much does your commute cost (or save) society? Source is Discourse Media.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026

Abortion bans make exceptions for ectopic pregnancies, but some people still don’t get care. One doctor told a woman intervening in her pregnancy could land him jail time, according to a lawsuit. “I felt like my life was a risk he couldn’t afford.”

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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Gotta love that when I looked up an "Environmentally friendly ETF" to make sure my 401K isn't invested in fossil fuels the top result is 30%+ AI/Data center stocks, 2% Tesla and the biggest financial firm is Chase, the largest funder of fossil fuel projects...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

attacking trans people hurts dem politicians and that take is missing from this whole news cycle. dems attacking trans people makes it more likely you will lose, defending trans people makes it more likely they win I want democrats to win so they need to defend trans people

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reading Dan Davies "Unaccountablity Machine" and boy the concept of "Accountability Sinks" hits so hard in the homelessness space, and non-profits more generally. Feels like it should be required reading. Genuinely flummoxed about what to do with the information, but it's necessary.

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