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@bikesarecool.bsky.social

Cyclist (gravel and MTB), leftist, sci-fi enjoyer, bi, probably exhausted. Any pronouns.

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Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1h ago

During my ride this morning, as a friend and I were going up a hill, one asshole repeatedly honked at the driver directly behind us who was waiting for a safe time to pass. It was maybe 30 seconds? So many drivers turn into impatient toddlers the second a bike is in front of them.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · yesterday

It's very important to remember that as a cyclist you are representative of and responsible for the actions of every single person on a bike.

@fencepostmalone.bsky.social · yesterday

Out of their car drivers get super angry at cyclists for the behaviour of “all” cyclists, but accept no responsibility or even care for how drivers kill and injure cyclists all the time. They don’t go around yelling at other drivers in the office because someone cut them off in their SUV.

Tristan Salazar@ofnadwy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ada Palmer: I created the Gendered Sex Club as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At last we have created the Gendered Sex Club from the classic sci-fi novel, Look What Happens When You Have a Gendered Sex Club (apologies to @adapalmer.bsky.social for this gross mischaracterization of Terra Ignota)

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 2d ago

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Ann Pierce @itsannpierce 20h I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology. I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again. This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last wk.

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

nytimes.com

Rob Beschizza@beschizza.com · 6d ago

The time is nearly perfect for a movie about the famously chaotic and dramatic 1976 production of Star Wars, starring Ewan McGregor as Alec Guinness and Hayden Christiansen as David Prowse.

Ewan McGregor looking a lot like Alec GuinnessHayden CHristiansen looking a lot like Dave Prowse
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 6d ago

Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 6d ago

I know it goes without saying but as the right wing media-political complex runs from Trump we should remember that they played a leading role in--and gleefully profited from--enabling and promoting him. Accomplices trying to get off a sinking ship, trying to salvage what's left of their reputation

Dr. Stephanie@punkrockscience.bsky.social · last wk.

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

Nick Field@nickfield.bsky.social · last wk.

“This country has never elected a female president. Why are we pretending that this is not a factor?” Ocasio-Cortez said with a laugh. “That doesn’t make it impossible, but to act as though it’s not a factor in anything ever is really a form of, like, denialism” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

Troy Jackson@troyjackson207.bsky.social · last wk.

This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.