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Nihilhexia
@clarinetchick.bsky.social
Plays clarinet in Ishtar Pittsburgh's Premiere Vintage Bellydance Band. Rides a bicycle and takes public transit. Rabid liberal, feminist, polyamorous. Anti - republican.
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act.standupamerica.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I often take the underfunded & underperforming Ghound bus. This station is right downtown Cleveland & DOESN'T NEED A NEW USE. IT'S THE FUCKIN BUS STATION. Investing in intercity public transportation is what we need. I don't care how this shit gets dressed up, it is just punishing the poor like me.
For These Old Bus Stations, It’s Not the End of the Line
The streamlined depots built by Greyhound in the middle of the 20th century reflected a more optimistic era for bus travel. A lucky few are finding new uses.
www.bloomberg.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Dammit. This is my river and bridge in my neighborhood. I am leaving Belize right now for this. 😭 My bike commute is gonna suck.
February 3, 2026 at 7:29 PM
This is infuriating.
I know it's a bit chaotic out there right now, but it's still interesting to see middle class bus riders have to wait in the literal street while a tiny of handful of people driving $50k SUVs cruise around in perfectly cleared lanes.
January 27, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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“Why would you bring a gun to a protest?”

Pal, there are people who bring AR’s to the grocery store and you’re totally cool with that so maybe sit this one out.
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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Checks and balances would be great but at this point I’d settle for checks OR balances.
January 23, 2026 at 11:14 AM
My favorites are the doods who berate me for owning two ebikes. One for shitty weather and one for nice weather. I live in Pittsburgh. I commute daily. I don't drive. It's hilly here. And fuck off. #bikesky
"Woman who just bought a new gravel bike "can't wait" to hear how she's riding it wrong by local men"

www.creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorec...
January 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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The Redaction This Country Yearns For Most:
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I already don't drive. Never have. I bike almost everywhere & take transit if I need to. But I have to fly many places because Greyhound is very unreliable and Amtrak takes entirely too long. Get it together inter-city ground transportation.
December 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
It's a chrimbus eve miracle. My Spring Hill bus was running late but I still managed to catch the rare Emsworth flyer to get to my sister's house for my family gathering tonight. Saved myself $35 in Uber fees. Thanks Pittsburgh Regional Transit. Not on bsky. 🙄
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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🎶 He’s making a list
He’s checking it twice
He’s gonna find out if you work for ICE 🎶
December 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
My beloved Northside ruined by carcentric culture. I hate it so much.
December 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I bike and I shop in the #stripdistrictpittsburgh #bikesky. PROTECTED BIDIRECTIONAL BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE ON #PENNAVE NOW. #PAINTISNOTPROTECTION @reportsstrip.bsky.social @bikepgh.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Dear Bike Santa - make my dreams come true.
50% of parking should be removed.

Everywhere
Can we brainstorm some cycling hot takes to create some controversies at the table tomorrow?
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Hey @reportsstrip.bsky.social @bikepgh.bsky.social @cityofpittsburgh.bsky.social Make Penn Ave a PROTECTED BIDIRECTIONAL BIKE LANE. NOW. Before someone 💀☠️ Your compromise is shit. Fix it.
If your street has parking on both sides of a divided road and only gave cyclists and pedestrians the left over bits, you got room to make one side for safe active transit.

So many unused parking spaces in so many neighborhoods.

We need parking maximums not minimums.
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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A sign placed sideways in a car travel lane would be inexcusable. Our database shows they’re common place for bike lanes.

How bike lanes are maintained by a city sets a tone for how they feel about bicyclists.
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I am fed up with this "better than nothing" bullshit in #stripdistrictpittsburgh. We need PROTECTED BIDIRECTIONAL 🚲 INFRA thru the Strip to Lawrenceville & beyond. ##extendpenn This was a shit compromise at the safety of all cyclists. I do not want to ride in Spring Way with the dumpsters & trash.
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🤣 Bike as transportation since 2010. Not going to buy a car, bro. I love that my mere existence on a bicycle bothers people. 😘🖕
"What do you think about the transportation biking movement?" I asked him. “Just a trend,” he said flatly. “It won’t be around for long.”
#MobilityIsEquity #PoliticalWill #ActiveTravel
www.bicycling.com/news/a200128...
Sport vs Transport
Are these styles of riding as different as they seem?
www.bicycling.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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I was just thinking about contributing to the "charity" Feeding America. Until I discovered that the salary for its CEO, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, was approximately $949,866 in 2024, with her total compensation being $1,113,502. Apparently, feeding America isn't her top priority.
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Bought an N+1 bike. 😂 I have a Schwinn acoustic cruiser in my cellar, an EBC cruiser (RIP bankruptcy) getting repaired, & now I own a used Velotric Discovery 1. I hate this color & this design. I love my EBC so much. But I need to preserve my pretty EBC bike & commute on this in winter. #bikesky
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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If this nation had moral standards, a pedophile would not be allowed to host a murderer in the Oval Office.
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I pay taxes. Get the fuck out of my bike lane, jagoffs. Had a cursing contest about it with a rent-a-cop too. @bikepgh.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Oooohhhhh a polycule bike. 😍
me and who and who and who and who
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Well, that tracks. #entitledDrivists
South Shore. Liberty Bridge. Caller is asking for the police to be on the lookout for a driver of a pickup truck who is speeding, swerving in and out of traffic, and is braking suddenly. 75% of Pittsburgh drivers officially on notice.
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
This right here. This is why I can't get protected bike infrastructure thru some of Pittsburgh's hottest neighborhoods. I just want to survive a ride from 16th St to 54th St and back again. If anyone here works at Allegheny Wine Mixer let them know I would be there every night.
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM