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Bike dad, nonprofit professional, and former historian in Columbia, MO.

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“So far, you can see, what we have here is an anecdote without a single interesting thing in it. But wait, it gets far more tedious.”

🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

14.03.2026 17:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m out.

14.03.2026 02:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honestly i can’t decide

14.03.2026 02:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Which is worse: how the court looks or the way KU is playing?

14.03.2026 01:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

League for Yiddish just sent out their weekly vocab sheet and it’s all about “Procrastination / דאָס באַלעמוטשעניש.”

Will I read it to put off something else?

13.03.2026 12:39 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
12.03.2026 18:35 👍 2241 🔁 567 💬 20 📌 11

We're a death cult, or at least our leaders are.

08.03.2026 03:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"...mad hymns of ducks and buses, of sharing and sorrow, of big feelings and the bitter tragedy of *someone else* getting to press the elevator button."

04.03.2026 15:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

done

26.02.2026 19:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Being a trans journalist is going to work and having to cover how your life is now illegal in your state but also at the same time make sure someone else writes the story so no one can accuse you of being biased and a "trans activist" and then they do the story and you still get accused of it.

26.02.2026 11:53 👍 1606 🔁 349 💬 11 📌 6

I know the response of 'you're causing irreversible harm to children's bodies!' to trans healthcare for kids comes from transphobia, plain and simple.
But it's wild that the same people are never vocal about MUCH more common things that ACTUALLY cause irreversible harm. Take high school football...

24.02.2026 18:40 👍 592 🔁 146 💬 13 📌 7

Another absolute classic.

24.02.2026 15:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Threw in a couple bucks and forwarded to some Templin 6 guys.

21.02.2026 02:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I know, we got people supporting Mizzou in public.

21.02.2026 02:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Relatedly, i saw this bumper sticker tonight.

21.02.2026 02:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

*looks directly into the camera Marxistly*

20.02.2026 17:30 👍 1184 🔁 237 💬 15 📌 0

Would love to build a college syllabus around Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and The Gladlands season of Dimension 20. Better readers than me will have suggestions for the other readings and viewings.

19.02.2026 13:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Free to jaywalk: How Kansas City killed the discriminatory law it helped to invent Kansas City, Missouri, became the first major city in the U.S. to repeal its anti-jaywalking ordinance, after research found that tickets were being disproportionately issued to Black men. It’s a full-circle moment, because Kansas City was also the first city to criminalize jaywalking more than a century earlier.

Kansas City, Missouri, became the first major city in the U.S. to repeal its anti-jaywalking ordinance, after research found that tickets were being disproportionately issued to Black men. It’s a full-circle moment, because Kansas City was also the first city to criminalize jaywalking.

17.02.2026 06:30 👍 30 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0

You ever think about riding bikes?

14.02.2026 04:29 👍 59 🔁 5 💬 8 📌 1

Bluebird?
Yes?

Columbia, MO

11.02.2026 00:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eleven riders on a mid-day bus. Imagine if it ran more than every 90 minutes!

10.02.2026 17:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Super Bowl Could Not Compete With Tape-Delayed Olympic Curling | Defector Nobody else in my house likes football, and we are believers in democracy at least as far as concerns the television. And so it was that, Sunday evening, I had the Super Bowl streaming on my li’l lapt...

@defector.com knows what's up.

defector.com/the-super-bo...

09.02.2026 19:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No Kings includes Draft Kings

08.02.2026 23:49 👍 26105 🔁 6099 💬 185 📌 110

Curling is a top-5 spectator sport.

09.02.2026 00:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*skeet

08.02.2026 23:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Niche tweet: Yiddishists watching US mixed doubles curling and wondering if he's related to ציליע דראַפּקין.

08.02.2026 23:49 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Saw an ad on the Olympics that starts off by repeating the “one more lane will do it” joke a few times (about highway construction and induced demand). Then it ended up being for an air taxi service serving the 2028 LA Olympics. This is hell.

07.02.2026 19:10 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This has kicked off some terrific discourse in the private chat where I hang out with my idiot friends.

07.02.2026 13:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Worst Animorph

06.02.2026 15:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anne Frank wasn’t invoked because she was identical to today’s undocumented immigrants. She was invoked because she was a child destroyed by a regime that transformed paperwork, registries, and enforcement into mechanisms of terror—while insisting, all along, that it was merely following the law.

This is why ICE cannot be excluded from the conversation. ICE targets people whose defining feature is their lack of state-recognized papers; people who work, form families, and build communities while living under constant threat of detention and expulsion. The claim isn’t that Minneapolis under ICE occupation is exactly the same as Nazi Germany. The claim is that systems of bureaucratic cruelty justified by legality aren’t historical aberrations. They are recurring political, juridical technologies.

Anne Frank wasn’t invoked because she was identical to today’s undocumented immigrants. She was invoked because she was a child destroyed by a regime that transformed paperwork, registries, and enforcement into mechanisms of terror—while insisting, all along, that it was merely following the law. This is why ICE cannot be excluded from the conversation. ICE targets people whose defining feature is their lack of state-recognized papers; people who work, form families, and build communities while living under constant threat of detention and expulsion. The claim isn’t that Minneapolis under ICE occupation is exactly the same as Nazi Germany. The claim is that systems of bureaucratic cruelty justified by legality aren’t historical aberrations. They are recurring political, juridical technologies.

Such an important essay by @joelhs.bsky.social @religiondispatches.org on Tim Walz, the Anne Frank analogy (and broader Holocaust analogies) and ICE terrorizing Minneapolis and elsewhere. religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/f...

05.02.2026 20:10 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0