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)

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

Bought last weekend, IT GOOD GO READ!

It gets even crazier

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...

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!

RFK is the only person able to properly talk like that creepy text that y̵̲̹̲͌͜o̶̻͠ȗ̵͍̓ ̸̞̏ͅh̵̡̗͈̥̅a̷͇̍̊͝v̶̺͕̲͑̐ê̵̥̪ ̵̻̫̪̝̓̿ţ̵̂͋́̿ͅȯ̵͍͙̪ ̵̨̳̞̼͒g̴͚̰͆͝ǫ̴͖̫̼̇̇̆͠ ̶̡̡͓̩̾ẗ̸̛͉͌͝o̷̬̣̠̍̊̋ ̵̫̜̼̾̒͛a̸̤͒̿ͅ ̵̬̀̈́ẉ̸̦͙̀ḛ̵̲͇͓͗b̴̟̪͋̂ș̸͎̻͈͋̀i̴̛̟̞̽̀t̶̙̻̳͋ẹ̸̦̗̀͊͌ ̸̙̈́͠t̷̙̦͓̾ö̴̬̺́͒ ̶̨̰̜̋̽ṫ̵͚̝̖̎͜y̴̞̮͊̆p̴̖̫̚ě̸̢̻͍̈́ ̷̳̖͙̾̔͗ō̵̤̱ù̸̢̐͝t̴̰̻̦̎̃̅.̴̛̮͓̣̱̈́

"why people are mad about Abundance" in meme form to save me time in the future

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

May I be so bold to recommend A Physical Education by @caseyjohnston.bsky.social I found it to be very inspirational when it comes to weight lifting.

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Just finished @caseyjohnston.bsky.social ‘s book A Physical Education. Incredible read! I started lifting weights and working with a trainer 8 months ago, and this book has given me so much motivation and encouragement to just keep at it. Even when I fall on my ass pulling a sled across the room.

On bended knees praying that whoever is in a position to do the technically correct thing, doesn’t. Even Hippocrates would say let this one go

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning

been at the eric adams scavenger hunt all day. mostly we were in a crawlspace under a house in howard beach learning “how to out-hustle the rats.” not sure what this does for the campaign

Lifting weights is like a scavenger hunt for strength

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

BOULDER HERE I COME

I will admit the culture of humorless scolding on here can be pretty obnoxious on occasion but this is an ironclad material reason for any journalist, creator, etc to support it. every other platform is intentionally bad for promotion

the irony that this is happening surrounding Wizard of Oz, a movie in part about a populace ruled by an all powerful wizard, that turns out to be a giant projection manipulated by some guy pulling levers behind a curtain

once again "ai" is just many underpaid overseas contractors in a trenchcoat and every once in a while sam altman pretends to be scared of its awesome power in order to drum up more funding

Gonna brag and tag @caseyjohnston.bsky.social because this is her wheelhouse. Moving on Tuesday, my dad, uncle, and I were handling my window AC unit. Window was refusing to budge, Dad & uncle couldn't move it. I dropped down and basically front-squatted the window open. 💪

i'm going to need someone to draw me a diagram of where and how all the trans panic loops back around to don jr getting implants

I guess at least now I get to say I graduated from clown college www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...

this is hitting for me because i have had people say right to my face that of course people pay for my work because they feel obligated to "spend money on their health," nothing to do with my deliberate creative choices. and they feel okay being rude like this because, say it with me--

It’s come to my attention that I inspired Cheryl Strayed to learn to powerlift, so as soon as I’m done screaming crying and throwing up I will have no choice but to retire. Thank you for understanding www.instagram.com/p/DMWO-zsyAn...

I finished @caseyjohnston.bsky.social's book last night & it is as excellent as promised - a perfect combo of memoir & research. Worth reading if you are a person with a body, especially if you have complicated feelings about that body. bookshop.org/a/100021/978...

New from 404 Media: inside ICE's supercharged facial recognition app of 200 million images. After scanning someone's face, it can query DHS, CBP, FBI, State Department, and state databases at once. An unprecedented linking of government databases into a single tool. www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

In total, this means that the number of people imprisoned in CECOT without trial by the Trump administration is *at least* 281 — 42 more revealed on this list that weren't on the original leaked CBS News list, plus Kilmar Abrego Garcia. These were disappearances. www.404media.co/flight-manif...

This new story from @404media.co provides the first public confirmation of the identity of some of the people who were disappeared by the Trump admin on March 15. In some cases, families knew they were there because they saw their loved one in pictures — but had NO confirmation.

PORTLAND OREGON: I will see you tomorrow at Literary Arts, 7pm!!! Bring your questions and objects to sign; so far I have signed shirts, 1.25lb change plates, and lifting notebooks (and of course copies of APE) literary-arts.org/event/a-phys...

"nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" is making the rounds again. what skinny feels like is the first bit of A Physical Education, and i gotta say, skinny feels like total garbage. can't form thoughts, cold all the time, literally doors are too heavy. plenty of things taste better than garbage

Do not lead the goats.

Can I do the opposite of saying something without everyone getting mad www.cbsnews.com/news/palmer-...

"picking up something heavy for a few sets of five reps, sitting down half the workout, and then going home and eating a big sloppy burger did far more to make me feel comfortable in my body than gasping my way through endless burpees and rewarding myself with a salad ever did."

I wrote about @caseyjohnston.bsky.social 's weightlifting memoir, the perks of getting jacked, and why I eat candy at the gym www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Abrego said he shared a cell with 20 people, who were forced to kneel overnight, “with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion.” He was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. Detainees were confined to metal bunks w/no mattresses in an overcrowded cell w/no windows, bright lights…

What does gender have to do with strength training? A lot less than you thought! Today on the show, author @caseyjohnston.bsky.social breaks down muscle myths and shares some facts from her new book, A Physical Education. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

im kind of living for how hideochious lauren sanchez’s wedding outfits are like this is what $35 mil got you? ek

I talk more about this here, if you are curious podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

I signed. AI isn’t real, it’s stolen work mashed up by outsourced laborers paid a tiny pittance by companies so they can raise billions of dollars from their fellow idiots who are incentivized not to look behind the curtain so they can all keep getting richer lithub.com/against-ai-a...

The way in which you will be like “there possibly can’t be a fresh joke here” and then he nukes the “them is plural” guys from orbit

Just finished reading this. What a remarkable book, really well written. Has helped me understand my own thoughts on lifting heavy things up and putting them down again. Would definitely recommend it.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

From 2017 article “Making sense with sensors: Self-tracking and the temporalities of wellbeing” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Eclectic Reading Summer to Recover 🧠 from Diss, Books 1-4 weirdly paired well for thinking about how to rebuild, burn down, turn on the past in ways I didn’t expect. Thanks to @sgj.bsky.social @caseyjohnston.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @shelbyhinte.bsky.social

not sure why only the worst bastards alive are allowed to be in charge of everything. but i guess it's been like six or seven thousand years of that so who am i to argue