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@seb55.bsky.social

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Reader, cycler, hiker, worker, mother, worrier and wanna be warrior

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Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · Feb 5

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
-George Orwell

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Diversity DEI Diverse DEAI Equity Equitable Inclusive Inclusion Safe space BIPOC Implicit bias Intersectionality Anti-racist Oppression Gender identity LGBTQ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans Queer Nonbinary
Decolonize Colonizer Marginalized Underserved Microagression Whiteness Anti-Colonialism Institutional racism Systematic racism White privilege White fragility Social justice Bias Racism Minority Latino Latinx Latina Privilege Ally Dignity Respect Responsibility Integrity Compassion Love Fairness

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Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 6h

What does that mean? I finally after 20+ years of not using linked in deactivated my account

Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 6h

Housing bill to build new housing? Status?

Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 1d

That’s awesome but think about stepping down to make room for the next generation. Go out on a high note.

Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 1d

And yet they keep reelecting him

Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my goodness send in more reinforcements , it’s boomertifa

#warzoneportland

Glad there’s music in this war

What’s next? Kombucha and meditation 🧘

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

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Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 1d

Revolutionary dancing. I now understand what my tax dollars are used to fight against these animals. #warravagedportlsnd perhaps they can add goat yoga courses too

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 5d

Stopped a woman in full road rage from running over a family. Driving a convertible waving money, screaming & blowing on the horn as a family of four two parent two little kiddos like 6 & 9 making their way across the intersection on bikes. Said to her "those are little kids."
#bikesky

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Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 5d

Trying but it’s frustrating

Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 6d

I feel so helpless right now.

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Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t find him funny.

Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 7d

Definitely get that child to a bike kitchen

Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 7d

Had a colleague who started fixing broken bikes for friends about that age.

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Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 8d

So yesterday this guy was blocking the bike lanes and the car lanes. Rather than go around him I simply stopped and and waited and filmed. He actually apologized.

Am looking forward to the build out of separate lanes in Mass ave next summer.

@cambbikesafety.bsky.social

Vote for safer streets

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Cambridge Bicycle Safety @cambbikesafety.bsky.social · 10d

Join CBS for a bike safety event on Tuesday, October
7, at 6:30 PM at Portico Brewery, just over the line in
Somerville in Boynton Yards. This short course will
cover the necessary steps you need to take if you are
ever in a crash so you are better prepared.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 12d

If it fits, I sits. Despite an entire empty parking lot on the right & taxpayer subsidized (free) street parking on the left.

Seems like the only thing that reliably keeps divers out of bikelanes is making the bikeways sidewalk level.

Not foolproof, but way better.

A black sports car illegally and unsafely parked inside a 2 way flexpost protected bikeway. The drivers side door is open to ensure the bikeway isn’t passable at all, pushing bikes into car traffic (oncoming car traffic if bicyclists are headed westbound)

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Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 12d

And it’s ai 🤖

Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 12d

Another republican could also sign. Not sure what folks need to know about the guy in the white house tat they don’t already? The victims know all. Just ask them.

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Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 12d

@jamellebouie.net

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
—George Orwell, 1984

Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 12d

Had a friend who was mixed up with someone else and was arrested in front of his 7th grade students and handcuffed. I think he also looks quite similar to the man in the photo and this happened decades ago. Can’t believe this f**ked up thing still happens to black men working in education.

Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 13d

Interesting history on the sheriff in the song and what it means. I looked it up and pretty surprised that the thousands of times I listened I didn’t hear what it was saying.

Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 13d

It’s not like the driver was not capable of walking clearly and the parking space she also blocked was big enough to pull into and there were two across the street as well.

Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 13d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Looking at a rough plot of Cambridge data shows a big drop too from pre pandemic 😷

Traffic Enforcement Dwindled in the Pandemic. In Many Places, It Hasn’t Come Back. (Gift Article)

The retreat by the police coincided with a surge in reckless driving and a rise in road fatalities.

www.nytimes.com

Sarah B 💕❤️🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲🥾🏳️‍⚧️ @seb55.bsky.social · 13d

Had an interesting conversation with the train conductor about 80s rap.

Had to think about my favorite public enemy song of all time.

Fight the power

Good motto for this day and age too

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmo3...

Public Enemy - Fight The Power (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by PublicEnemyVEVO

www.youtube.com

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