Schizachyrium scoparium
schizachyrium.bsky.social
Schizachyrium scoparium
@schizachyrium.bsky.social
landscape architecture and ecology, bikes and bikepacking, urbanism, little bluestem. philly transplant.
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most Scottish man of all time? youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Suffragist and educator Frances Willard riding her bicycle, Gladys (because it made her glad).

“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Yeah i host a podcast. It’s called a conversation with my wife. We have a new episode every night.
November 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
philly at the bottom, not surprised given the councilmanic prerogative and inability to implement anything with conviction. one of the few continuous center city bike lanes remains mired in politics, most bike paths/lanes go nowhere and connect to nothing, very few run more than a few blocks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
this like like saying americans prefer very large gas-powered cars. yeah they buy them in great numbers, but could there be any other factor in the choices people make?
Right, this is true, but the OVERWHELMING evidence of the past 100 years of American life is that vastly more people want space and a car than a smaller unit and a car-free lifestyle. This is mostly why the suburban share of US population has grown relentlessly for the entire 20th and 21st century
Some people put a premium on space in my experience, others put a premium on not having to have a car and not being isolated out in the suburbs
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
not a ton of competition here for me
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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They called them Near Abroad Direct Action Operations, NADA Ops. The "joke" in the CalSec cafeterias, which made its way out later in the hearings was that "What does the operator say when asked if there are civilians in the area? Nada...oops!". Even decades later, Arizona didn't find it funny.
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
@congressmanboyle.bsky.social I hope you’re ready when this comes to Philly. You have a lot of immigrants and Americans who look like immigrants to ICE in your district.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
@congressmanboyle.bsky.social just spitballing here
I want a fucking Works Progress Administration devoted solely to auditing, investigating, and prosecuting every shitheel DOGE kid and MAGA cultist involved in gutting USAID, starving Gaza, and siccing ICE goons on our cities and towns
I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes”

I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum
October 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.
Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting
A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.
www.cbsnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
this piece of rancid beef jerky has never felt the breeze in a sarong on an unseasonably warm day and it shows
Hegseth: "No more dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship ... we are done with that shit."
September 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
because republicans have been hollering about doing this for my entire life, and democrats like this guy have either placated them or not taken them seriously
This. This administration is even worse than any of us thought possible. Who had destroy NIH, CDC, USAID, EPA, scientific research all at the same time on their bingo card?
My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration.

It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough.

www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...
September 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Can’t we just have one day where everything isn’t stupid
September 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Unbelievably grim account of what happens after you are hit by a car in California.

sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Griffin Gaffney on what happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco
The Standard’s CEO tells the story of a near-death experience — and the endless complications that followed.
sfstandard.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
philly’s bike infrastructure in a nutshell. and every 4-block stretch is a herculean effort of advocacy
What’s the point of making a cycling lane that just dead ends and forces cyclists into traffic? Cyclists and motorists are unprepared for the merge into traffic . Couldn’t make 2 more blocks of bike lane ? Why would it take up some parking? Dumb and dangerous.
Here’s the best example where 5 St SW protected cycle track was held back from even higher potential: Connecting to the Bow River Pathway System.

The two blocks between the Bow River and 3 Ave SW remain disconnected from 5 St SW Cycle Track to this day. 🤨
#yycBike #Calgary
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September 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
September 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Once again, I'm feeling pretty good about canceling my nyt subscription.

Everyone should instead subscribe to the Philadelphia @inquirer.com, which doesn't do this bullshit.
not even surprising at this point
September 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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August 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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this is the most embarrassing shit i've ever seen in my whole life
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
August 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
suttree is one of the best american novels of all time and the intro chapter is just one incredible long description of landscape and buildings lol
August 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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who up
August 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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chuck schumer is a world historical fuck up
July 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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July 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM