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Matt • he/him • bicyclist socialist former chef union actor • working w @DETWILLBREATHE, for @DetroitRep • views mine, free Palestine 🇵🇸
Surprised I have not seen any stories yet. Pretty sure the Q Line is going to be out of service for a little while, I don’t see how the damage caused by the parade floats today could be fixed overnight.
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Surprised I have not seen any stories yet. Pretty sure the Q Line is going to be out of service for a little while, I don’t see how the damage caused by the parade floats today could be fixed overnight.
Float stopped, a tow truck had to come. Another float tried to go around it and took out a pole w Q line overhead power at Parsons and Woodward.
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Float stopped, a tow truck had to come. Another float tried to go around it and took out a pole w Q line overhead power at Parsons and Woodward.
Everyone is short on time this time of year. As you drive around this holiday season please remember that ppl on bicycles are humans. We’re not trying to be in your way or slow you down. Chill and give us a little extra room when you see us. It’s scary out here. Show us some love. Happy holidays.
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Everyone is short on time this time of year. As you drive around this holiday season please remember that ppl on bicycles are humans. We’re not trying to be in your way or slow you down. Chill and give us a little extra room when you see us. It’s scary out here. Show us some love. Happy holidays.
The horrors of socialism are all too real:
• late night meetings
• Friday morning reading groups
• sectarian infighting
• 1,000 daily signal notifications
• correctly interrogating systems of power to reveal class dynamics under capitalism as root cause of suffering in modern society
• folding zines
• late night meetings
• Friday morning reading groups
• sectarian infighting
• 1,000 daily signal notifications
• correctly interrogating systems of power to reveal class dynamics under capitalism as root cause of suffering in modern society
• folding zines
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The horrors of socialism are all too real:
• late night meetings
• Friday morning reading groups
• sectarian infighting
• 1,000 daily signal notifications
• correctly interrogating systems of power to reveal class dynamics under capitalism as root cause of suffering in modern society
• folding zines
• late night meetings
• Friday morning reading groups
• sectarian infighting
• 1,000 daily signal notifications
• correctly interrogating systems of power to reveal class dynamics under capitalism as root cause of suffering in modern society
• folding zines
Me packing for a 1.5 day camping trip: “maybe I should bring my home MRI machine in case I need it”
August 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Me packing for a 1.5 day camping trip: “maybe I should bring my home MRI machine in case I need it”
Hit 7500 miles on my Tern GSD right as I went by east side Stellantis. The past and the future in one photo. It is, in fact, possible to be car free in the motor city. ❤️🚲✊
July 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Hit 7500 miles on my Tern GSD right as I went by east side Stellantis. The past and the future in one photo. It is, in fact, possible to be car free in the motor city. ❤️🚲✊
It’s absurd that every article I’m trying to read about a tsunami about to hit Japan is paywalled.
July 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It’s absurd that every article I’m trying to read about a tsunami about to hit Japan is paywalled.
The very same week Dana Nessel made a media splash with her sternly worded letter criticizing Trump’s use of masked agents who refuse to identify themselves … she sent masked agents who refused to identify themselves to the homes of U-M pro-Palestinian student activists.
July 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The very same week Dana Nessel made a media splash with her sternly worded letter criticizing Trump’s use of masked agents who refuse to identify themselves … she sent masked agents who refused to identify themselves to the homes of U-M pro-Palestinian student activists.
We need a USB-C type consortium for the Deli Container and Lid industry.
July 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
We need a USB-C type consortium for the Deli Container and Lid industry.
Revolution as a process is inevitable. Revolutionary socialist politics simply account for that. We can no more summon a revolution than we can summon a windstorm. But good politics can help us build shelter or sails, as needed.
July 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Revolution as a process is inevitable. Revolutionary socialist politics simply account for that. We can no more summon a revolution than we can summon a windstorm. But good politics can help us build shelter or sails, as needed.
The point of struggle is to STRUGGLE. When the boot is on your neck and the hand is around your throat you don’t wait for proper channels. You fight.
July 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The point of struggle is to STRUGGLE. When the boot is on your neck and the hand is around your throat you don’t wait for proper channels. You fight.
There are no bystanders in fascism. Each of us is either grease for the machine or a wrench in the gears.
July 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
There are no bystanders in fascism. Each of us is either grease for the machine or a wrench in the gears.
Signal names be like “Jēsū ☭ (h/t) 🧑🎤 ⚖️ 🌅🇵🇸 (unavail. for 3 days until risen again)”
July 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Signal names be like “Jēsū ☭ (h/t) 🧑🎤 ⚖️ 🌅🇵🇸 (unavail. for 3 days until risen again)”
If you think Hakeem Jeffries is here to help us you have not been paying attention.
July 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
If you think Hakeem Jeffries is here to help us you have not been paying attention.
Always talk to friends.
Never talk to cops.
ONLY talk to media about cops.
NEVER talk to media about friends.
Never talk to cops.
ONLY talk to media about cops.
NEVER talk to media about friends.
July 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Always talk to friends.
Never talk to cops.
ONLY talk to media about cops.
NEVER talk to media about friends.
Never talk to cops.
ONLY talk to media about cops.
NEVER talk to media about friends.
…the clean laundry pile of Theseus at the foot of my bed…
July 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
…the clean laundry pile of Theseus at the foot of my bed…
NYT puzzles are the circus they use to keep you eating their moldy bread. I know a lot of you who are smarter than to keep reading it. Give up Wordle. There’s other apps or go buy a puzzle book. You’ll be fine and you’ll stop being dosed w transphobia, nationalism, militarism, and NGO corporatism.
June 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
NYT puzzles are the circus they use to keep you eating their moldy bread. I know a lot of you who are smarter than to keep reading it. Give up Wordle. There’s other apps or go buy a puzzle book. You’ll be fine and you’ll stop being dosed w transphobia, nationalism, militarism, and NGO corporatism.
This is kidnapping. Bystanders and community defense orgs should use force to defend against these “officers”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US citizen arrested during Ice raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’
Andrea Velez, 32, a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, had just been dropped off at work by her mother and sister
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is kidnapping. Bystanders and community defense orgs should use force to defend against these “officers”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
You’re driving a car approaching a turn and a bicyclist is in front of you: Please just wait and make the turn behind them. Don’t speed up to pass, don’t tailgate or crowd.
You’ll survive if you arrive 20 seconds late; I may not if you put your schedule before my life.
You’ll survive if you arrive 20 seconds late; I may not if you put your schedule before my life.
June 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
You’re driving a car approaching a turn and a bicyclist is in front of you: Please just wait and make the turn behind them. Don’t speed up to pass, don’t tailgate or crowd.
You’ll survive if you arrive 20 seconds late; I may not if you put your schedule before my life.
You’ll survive if you arrive 20 seconds late; I may not if you put your schedule before my life.
Seeking a dive bar with food in Indianapolis. Bonus if live music.
June 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Seeking a dive bar with food in Indianapolis. Bonus if live music.
No Kings 1/2
Everyone should show up for things tomorrow. Massiveness is what’s most important politically. The more people who do the safer it will be. Experienced folks are happy to help newer folks land somewhere within their risk tolerance.
Everyone should show up for things tomorrow. Massiveness is what’s most important politically. The more people who do the safer it will be. Experienced folks are happy to help newer folks land somewhere within their risk tolerance.
June 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
No Kings 1/2
Everyone should show up for things tomorrow. Massiveness is what’s most important politically. The more people who do the safer it will be. Experienced folks are happy to help newer folks land somewhere within their risk tolerance.
Everyone should show up for things tomorrow. Massiveness is what’s most important politically. The more people who do the safer it will be. Experienced folks are happy to help newer folks land somewhere within their risk tolerance.
PSA: You never need to register or RSVP for a protest. If you really want to get all the emails and be plugged into that stuff, good for you go for it. But it hurts nothing and nobody to simply show up. Do not let these orgs pressure you into registering.
June 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
PSA: You never need to register or RSVP for a protest. If you really want to get all the emails and be plugged into that stuff, good for you go for it. But it hurts nothing and nobody to simply show up. Do not let these orgs pressure you into registering.
People are under attack rn I’m not really interested in this cool pope circus. I’ll give a shit about cool pope when he uses his White Sox hat to throw a CS canister back at the police, or when he is tackled entering an ICE facility to free kidnapped families.
June 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
People are under attack rn I’m not really interested in this cool pope circus. I’ll give a shit about cool pope when he uses his White Sox hat to throw a CS canister back at the police, or when he is tackled entering an ICE facility to free kidnapped families.
One of the first deaths reported in Tehran was a child. Israel is killing children in a whole new country now. The children of Gaza and the West Bank in Palestine are not safe. The children of Lebanon are not safe. Now children in Iran are in the genocidal state’s crosshairs.
June 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
One of the first deaths reported in Tehran was a child. Israel is killing children in a whole new country now. The children of Gaza and the West Bank in Palestine are not safe. The children of Lebanon are not safe. Now children in Iran are in the genocidal state’s crosshairs.
Hell ppl can criticize PSL for non masking, settler chauvinism, authoritarian vanguardism, hijacking protests–whatever you want–but is it really that hard to say “no congress should not be hauling socialist parties and Latinx political orgs in front of counterterrorism subcommittees”?! ffs
June 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Hell ppl can criticize PSL for non masking, settler chauvinism, authoritarian vanguardism, hijacking protests–whatever you want–but is it really that hard to say “no congress should not be hauling socialist parties and Latinx political orgs in front of counterterrorism subcommittees”?! ffs