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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 1d

It happened then too. I’m still haunted by this image from Marc Hermann’s “New York: Then and Now” series of the aftermath of a three-year-old Brooklyn girl run over on her tricycle in 1959:

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 3d

I always considered that job security

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 6d

ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.

large vertical pipe labeled “mixed liquor”

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 9d

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 13d

Because the smartest financial minds are often very dumb. They want to keep the party going and will grasp for any sign of hope. The best coverage I’ve seen is at Bloomberg — sign up for their newsletters and you’ll see a daily road map of looming disaster.

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 15d

Suspicious of the guy wearing a raincoat on a sunny day

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 24d

Not every horror is modern! Amazing untold story in the Pittsburgh Union Progress by @stevemellon412.bsky.social about the hundreds of workers, mostly Black, who died building a West Virginia tunnel and were buried in unmarked graves almost a century ago. www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/28/a...

At Hawk’s Nest, hundreds of sickened workers died, then were hidden and forgotten; it wasn’t an accident - Pittsburgh Union Progress

Sam Ward spent the first few minutes of Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1933, trying to suck enough air into his lungs to keep himself alive. Most likely he was lying on a bed in a crudely built shack near a smal...

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you visit downtown Tupelo, there’s a store with a sign telling the story about how a young Elvis walked in hoping to get a rifle and got sold a guitar instead, and in all seriousness there should be a national grassroots initiative to do that all the time everywhere.

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · 28d

Quite a timeline here:

Screenshot of the original post by @LOLGOP followed by a post from the Moby Dick bot: “And heaved and heaved, still increasingly heaved the black sea”

adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Sep 10

Nice post but the lead image on a Frank Lloyd Wright thread shouldn’t be vertical …

Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · Sep 9

THREAD. Trained in a European architecture school, I was taught about Frank Lloyd Wright as a kind of grudgingly respected peripheral oddity. Visiting this, his Robie House in Chicago from 1910 firmly disabused me of any notion that his architecture was anything but revolutionary

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Sep 8

Still image from the Blues Brothers movie captioned with Jake (John Belushi) saying “I hate Illinois Nazis.”

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Sep 7

Just heard Zbigniew Preisner’s “Song for the Unification of Europe” from the other room and almost cried — Kieslowski’s greatest work reimagined as a Nike ad: youtu.be/Bcpu-jqAL6w?...

WHY DO IT? | NIKE

YouTube video by Nike

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

Overheard at the dry cleaners: “Yeah I have the recovery retreat tomorrow. A bunch of Buddhist addicts.”

adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

My 10-year-old son at bedtime: “Dogs were put on earth to show people that you can express love without using words.”

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Zach Rosenberg @zachinflight.bsky.social · Sep 4

Me: Can you comment on this?

Public Affairs: Can we go off the record?

Me: Ok

PA: Off the record, no comment.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Sep 4

I get almost as many food ones as you do.

what's the difference...
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what's the difference between alzheimer's and dementia

what's the difference between medicare and medicaid

• what's the difference between gelato and ice cream

what's the difference between an alligator and a crocodile

what's the difference between catholic and christian

what's the difference between jam and jelly

what's the difference between a crow and a raven

what's the difference between a bison and a buffalo

what's the difference between vegan and vegetarian

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is what Google thinks I’m most likely wondering about. What’s yours?

Screenshot of Google search’s suggestions when I started typing “what’s the difference between” …

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Sep 1

for a hot minute I thought you meant Marc Smith because it would also work

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Aug 31

There goes the Pope subtweeting again …

Screenshot of tweet from Pope Leo XIV: “Humility is really freedom from ourselves. Those who exalt themselves think that nothing is more interesting than themselves. Yet, those who know they are precious in God’s eyes have greater things of which to boast, and a dignity that shines on its own. #GospelOfTheDay (Lk 14:1,7-14)”

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Aug 30

Oh lady. You have so much to learn.

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · Aug 30

TIL: Upper East Side parents are ruthless and will stand at the top of the desirable tallest slide and shamelessly let/help their older kids repeatedly skip my (unaccompanied, because why do kids need an adult to send them down the slide?) 3-year-old in line

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Aug 17

Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Aug 14

Today I’ve had meetings on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and even FaceTime. So devastatingly productive.

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Aug 11

Bought it thanks to your recommendation, and now I recommend it to everyone. Astonishing research in here.

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Aug 11

The Venn diagram of “people who support bike/walk/family/transit-friendly street policy” and “people who dig awesome cars” has a big fat sweet spot in the middle and making it an EV is just icing on the cake

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adamlisberg.bsky.social @adamlisberg.bsky.social · Aug 11

The Dodge Charger is an awesome family sedan wrapped in a muscle T. Was the first car we got after having a kid. I still miss it.

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