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OhWall @ohwall.bsky.social · 4d

Have never listened to @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast, but followed them on Bsky because of urbanist mutuals like @nerd4cities.bsky.social , @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social , etc.

After seeing 10,000,000 posts, I have finally broken down and preordered Life After Cars. Very much looking forward to it

Mobile phone screenshot of an online checkout screen on website Bookshop.org showing Life After Cars book preorder confirmation. Order number is scratched out by user digitally with red color.

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 5d

I've read Casey Johnston's work for quite some time now, and I've always found her writing to be smart, engaging and worth my time. I'll be getting this book. Check it out. You may want to read it, too.

Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · May 6

Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 6d

hell yeah. it is never wrong to be strong

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Lennon @lennon-s.bsky.social · 6d

I've had the pleasure of coaching dozens of female lifters in my life and more than a few talked about what a difference Caseys perspective made in their journeys

Can't wait to read this and I hope yall will give it a read too

Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · May 6

Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you Stephen!

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Stephen @stephensj.bsky.social · 6d

I don't know what I was expecting when I put on this audiobook. Maybe a standard bro-science success story? Maybe a fun story about "getting in shape"? This book is more. Maybe I just stumbled onto it at the right time for me, but I can't say enough about how impressed I am with this book. Read it!

Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · May 6

Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...

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The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social · 7d

100% not my business as a non runner, non boob haver, but the recent iteration of @caseyjohnston.bsky.social's newsletter re sports bras was wicked interesting. I remember when sports bras were introduced, naively... 🧵
www.shesabeast.co/running-with...

running without a bra, part two: horseshoe theory

In the matter of "medium support" sports bras, we must ask, qui bene? Plus: baggy workout pants; a lift-and-run program; the last payphone before the forest. This is Link Letter 175!

www.shesabeast.co

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 8d

honestly i think the thing in the air is Windows 11 and it stinks!!

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 8d

huh, I don't think i realized that was supposed to be the point! I think I thought it was a coincidence of timing

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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 8d

This was very informative and interesting!!

Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 9d

if you need a break from *gestures broadly* i wrote two thousand words about boobs www.shesabeast.co/running-with...

running without a bra, part two: horseshoe theory

In the matter of "medium support" sports bras, we must ask, qui bene? Plus: baggy workout pants; a lift-and-run program; the last payphone before the forest. This is Link Letter 175!

www.shesabeast.co

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Nancy Friedman @fritinancy.bsky.social · 9d

"I submit there are a lot of sports bras out there that very likely make running more painful than running without a bra at all, especially if you have large breasts, because they turn what would otherwise be virtually painless 'swing' into all 'bounce'."

Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 9d

if you need a break from *gestures broadly* i wrote two thousand words about boobs www.shesabeast.co/running-with...

running without a bra, part two: horseshoe theory

In the matter of "medium support" sports bras, we must ask, qui bene? Plus: baggy workout pants; a lift-and-run program; the last payphone before the forest. This is Link Letter 175!

www.shesabeast.co

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 9d

just a coincidence! i think i made this bootable drive most of a year ago

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 9d

i painted it! gouache and those pigma micron pens

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 9d

i got silly with it

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 9d

if you need a break from *gestures broadly* i wrote two thousand words about boobs www.shesabeast.co/running-with...

running without a bra, part two: horseshoe theory

In the matter of "medium support" sports bras, we must ask, qui bene? Plus: baggy workout pants; a lift-and-run program; the last payphone before the forest. This is Link Letter 175!

www.shesabeast.co

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 11d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 16d

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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liv @livya.bsky.social · 16d

lifting very heavy things on a regular basis is one of those things that make you feel capable of fighting fascism, and I just want everyone to know that

(I owe this analysis to @caseyjohnston.bsky.social, whose book is very good and I rec it to someone at least weekly)

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taylor bee @taylorbehnke.bsky.social · 29d

started reading casey last year> lifting > carried a bookshelf home by myself that i found on the nyc sidewalk and a passing construction guy said "girl you look STRONG"

read this book and that could be u

Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 29d

my publisher reliably tells me that there is no such thing as selling enough books, and i have to keep going forever til i die. to that end, you should check out the book I wrote, A Physical Education, which inspired Cheryl Strayed to start powerlifting and costs only $5.42 if you ask ChatGPT

A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting

How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting

bookshop.org

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Shawn Naps During 🏋🏻 @spbarney.bsky.social · 28d

Bought last weekend, IT GOOD GO READ!

Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 29d

my publisher reliably tells me that there is no such thing as selling enough books, and i have to keep going forever til i die. to that end, you should check out the book I wrote, A Physical Education, which inspired Cheryl Strayed to start powerlifting and costs only $5.42 if you ask ChatGPT

A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting

How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting

bookshop.org

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 27d

It gets even crazier

This dude Eldertiktok stole all the blood soaked Charlie Kirk merch to sell on eBay and left his fingerprints all over an active crime scene as soon as he finished recording his selfie vid, new fave shooting deep event character

photo of the guy stealing merch

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 27d

an astonishing amount of weird and gross media mourning and valorizing charlie kirk without regard for what he stood for, at a moment in history when it's never been easier to do one google and learn what he is about www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

www.nytimes.com

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 28d

YESSSS

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 28d

hm… no?

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Erin Riedel @erinriedel.com · 29d

I finally started reading this and it inspired me to start lifting at home again and to maybe (finally???) join a lifting gym. It's also an excellent memoir even if you don't care about lifting at all!

Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 29d

my publisher reliably tells me that there is no such thing as selling enough books, and i have to keep going forever til i die. to that end, you should check out the book I wrote, A Physical Education, which inspired Cheryl Strayed to start powerlifting and costs only $5.42 if you ask ChatGPT

A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting

How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting

bookshop.org

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