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i treat blue denim as blue too 😅
October 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I'm getting flashbacks to when a different RU frat KILLED someone by spiking her drink in 2015.

Is this what Greek life is like everywhere, or is it just a Rutgers thing? newbrunswicktoday.com/2014/09/19-y...
19-Year-Old Rutgers Student Dies After Passing Out at DKE Fraternity House - New Brunswick Today | New Brunswick, NJ Local News
UPDATE (11:21 am): This article has been updated to include statements issued by the Rutgers President and the DKE International Fraternity. NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ--A 19-year-old Rutgers sophomore died i...
newbrunswicktoday.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
October 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I've aways found this LOVE Park clip fascinating, from a time when it was mostly off-limits for skateboarding. When an Occupy encampment went up, skaters seized the opportunity.

Nicely articulates the sport's apolitical individualist anti-authoritarianism. So very American youtu.be/luusm0mGkMg?...
occupied
YouTube video by sabotageonline
youtu.be
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Most city councils don't understand this. Popular images of a "skatepark" usually involve pools & half-pipes, which take a lot of room & money to build, but are way less popular w/ users than curbs and ledges

Former pro Dave Caddo covers this nicely davidcaddo.substack.com/p/built-envi...
002: Built Environment Inertia
Why skate parks are the way they are.
davidcaddo.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"many of the most enticing spots, to me anyway, were nothing more than simple granite benches, about 14 inches tall, placed in areas with nice smooth ground and ample space...It takes a skateboarder to know that you don’t need a big, expensive park to make skaters happy."
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
October 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Much as liquids assume the shape of their containers, so too does knowledge assume the shape of the practices, objects, and systems within which it is embodied and transmitted"
October 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Adjacent and sometimes overlapping with the Pizza Belt (New Jersey to Connecticut)
October 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Anyone submitting garbage like that for publication should be banished
September 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Reposted by James Hodges
As @lorenagonzalez.bsky.social president of @californialabor.bsky.social says, now that #AB288 is law, "California workers will no longer be forced to rely on a failing federal agency when they join together to unionize." This is a LANDMARK WIN!
September 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM