i rarely ever overhead-press 65 pounds and I've been lifting for over a decade. weights simply don't want to be lifted overhead and i've learned to respect their boundaries

Smart appliances aren't smart. They're skeevy little rats telling your secrets to giant corporations who sell your life to other giant corporations because they can. Your Roomba and Alexa are basically creepy stalkers. Don't let them into your home.

ICE is tear gassing schools

The defanging of the FDA is the main story. And this has some nice practical advice for what protein powders are best.

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

earnest question: was he drunk www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

Excited to unpack this in the next newsletter

I can’t recommend enough talking a walk or bike ride where you live and seeing who needs help right where you are

I zipped thru @caseyjohnston.bsky.social's A Physical Education in two days. (I had planned on three, because I'm giving the book to my daughter for her birthday today!) I enjoyed this book a lot and it may even get me to go to the gym with my kid. LOL

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

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.

hell yeah. it is never wrong to be strong

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

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!

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...

This was very informative and interesting!!

"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'."

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

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

dudes rock

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...

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