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AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · 2d

Now unveiling…

My official #flatrunner for the 2025 #tcsnycmarathon

(Temporary tattoos might have been a fail)

#runforautism #Neurodiversity
Support Organization for Autism Research: bit.ly/AnneRunsNewYork2025
#running #newyorkmarathon

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AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · 3d

Dealing with Trick-or-Treaters: New York apartment-building style *and* American Cancer Society fundracer-style 🎃

#Halloween #Halloween2025 #acsteamdetermination

bit.ly/AnneRunsChicago2026

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AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · 4d

Other person: "What are you going to be for Halloween this year?"
Me: "I was in the gifted and talented program. I was supposed to have been many things"

Cute kitty for the algo

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AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · 9d

I wonder what is the union set of people who humblebrag and people who misuse the word "humble"

AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · 11d

Happy United Nations 🇺🇳 Day! Be nice to someone you don’t like.

a drawing of children holding hands around a globe with the words save the world written above them

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AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · 24d

It’s time for the #Abbott5K. Let’s get this #ChicagoMarathon party started.

#chicagomarathon2025 #running #Chicago

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Jonathan E Cowperthwait @cowperthwait.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 24d

I very much would love to wake up and discover there was not, in fact, such thing as internet.
https://mastodon.social/@Viss/115350699836808300

Viss (@[email protected])

happy friday, internet ... if there is such a thing

mastodon.social

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AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · 25d

Chicago is really dangerous— I think the Lincoln Avenue TJ’s is out of the cashew butter-covered cashews

(Back in my old college town for the #ChicagoMarathon )

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AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · Sep 27

Today in my other sport 🏊‍♀️

#swimmingpool #swimming #Saturday

AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · Sep 26

I’m in that stage of the #marathon taper where I want to eat everything and hate everyone

#running #chicagomarathon #fridayfeeling #FridayMorning

On that note, with the goal of saving more humans, I'm still fundraising for @americancancersoc.bsky.social

bit.ly/AnneRunsChicago2025

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AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · Sep 25

Simple joys of a gray day in Manhattan:

A subway cry

Exiting the subway outside of Carnegie Hall and making mental note of shows I want to see

Getting breakfast from the kind guy at the cart

Getting directions from a man sweeping water, wearing an NCAA D-2 XC Championships sweatshirt

AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · Sep 22

The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers

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AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · Sep 22

Today I’m 18 years a New Yorker. 🗽 For various reasons I’ve never quite felt like I fit in but I don’t fit in less here. Yay!

#MondayMotivation #MondayMood

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 15

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Lia 🏳️‍🌈 @fuzhenfan.bsky.social · Sep 15

#chicago

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AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · Sep 16

Today’s date, 9-16-25, is not only a set of perfect squares. It’s a Pythagorean triple. In honor of this occasion that will happen only once this century, here’s a snap from my day trip in 2024 to Pythagoreio on the Greek island of Samos, Pythagoras’s birthplace. 🇬🇷📐🧿

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Mpls Music History @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social · Aug 31

Minneapolis Star piece from Aug. 30, 1975, about music-oriented Teen Fair at the MN state fair. “Over the years the area has been called Teen Fair, Mind Odyssey, Young America Center and Youth Expo.”

Teen Fair falls victim to interest lag in live music
By JON BREAM
A couple of dozen teen-agers clustered around the radio booth as the top-40 disc jockey intoned a mouth-
"We're broadcasting live from the Min-
nesota State Fair and here's one of your favorites.
RANDY LEVY of Schon Productions, which produced Youth Expo, said "waning interest by kids" in
from the fair's carnival atmosphere. They want to get
Books / Arts
seeing live rock music at the fair was a reason for
back to their own reality for a few minutes."
Shapiro proposed converting the Teen Fair area into
Teen Fair's demise.
"We went from 4 in 1973 to 12 na-
a concert bowl with twice-daily performances or set-
tional bands last year, and the kids still weren't show.
ting up a
discotheque. The fair turned down both
It was perhaps the only place at the fair this year where they could consistently listen to rock music.
The singing Osmonds and the pop vocal trio Ameri-ca were
appearing at the grandstand, but it cost at
least $2 to
see them. This year, for the first time in a
decade, rock music performed by well-known artists is not available for $1 or less at the fair.
TEEN FAIR,
which has offered local and national
rock bands and youth-oriented exhibits for a small admission charge since 1964, has been replaced this year by Heritage Square, on American life.
a collection of historical exhibits
Economics was the principal reason Teen Fair was
eliminated, saidJim
Frost, who had coordinated it
since 1968.
"We were spending more money for bands and they didn't
attract
people."
said Frost, who is the fair's
publicity director.
*The attendance at Teen Fair was
16
ing up. Schon lost money (working on a percentage of suggestions.
gate receipts) and that's hard to do at the fair."
Reid McLean of Marsh Productions, which produced
Last year admission to Youth Expo doubled to $1, but Levy said this did not affect attendance. "The real
the teen show in the early 1970s, said Teen Fair is still
issue was that we couldn't …

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Red Loons @redloons.bsky.social · Aug 31

Our hearts break tonight.

A tifo that reads "end gun violence" along with hearts that read "Fletcher" and "Harper".

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AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · Aug 30

Convo that may have happened in my household:
“You re-injured your back because you were imitation Zumba-ing?”

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · Aug 27

There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Aug 27

“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages

www.theatlantic.com

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Aug 27

It is horrifying, but the Minneapolis Star Tribune has an excellent live feed going on the school shooting for anyone who wants to stay up-to-date.

Be warned, there are some truly awful details in there.

Live: Two children and gunman dead after shooting at Minneapolis church, law enforcement source says

Mayor Jacob Frey said he was ‘monitoring reports of horrific violence’ in south Minneapolis. A massive police presence was at the scene.

www.startribune.com

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Uff da neh @sinclairlewis.bsky.social · Aug 27

Trauma upon trauma. It's all bad, but for those who have already gone thru an event like this somewhere/sometime, it's even worse. We never know who is being impacted and how. Just me reminding everyone to be extra gentle with every single person you encounter.

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AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · Aug 27

What with this, the attack against female Democratic politicians in the Minneapolis western 'burbs (I've been in one of the houses on the hit list) and George Floyd, I just can't make sense of my folksy, Scandinavian-idealistic prairie hometown anymore.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Live Updates: At Least 2 Killed and 17 Injured in Shooting at Minneapolis Catholic School

www.nytimes.com

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Lauren in Saint Paul @comobelladonna.bsky.social · Aug 27

Headed to Sociable Cider Werks at 2pm to get in line for a walk-in at their mobile blood drive. ❤️

Lauren in Saint Paul @comobelladonna.bsky.social · Aug 27

Blood drives doing walk-in’s after this? Where can we go

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AFS Talbot @the59thstbridge.bsky.social · Aug 25

London is indeed awesome!
🤞 on ballots
LMK if you’d like a hookup for Chicago / NY charities

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