Tess Perrone Poe
@tesspoe.bsky.social
Your friendly local Gen-X complaint department 😻 Bikes, cats, geography, bricks, government, politics 💙 NY ➡️ DC ➡️ Western Mass.
Is it lost on Sean Duffy that he could, like, bring his own apple? What happened to “personal responsibility?” 😂 gift link below
Transportation Chief Wants Healthier In-Flight Snack Options
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Is it lost on Sean Duffy that he could, like, bring his own apple? What happened to “personal responsibility?” 😂 gift link below
Having an elderly parent in a severe mental health crisis is like trying to wrap your arms around a tornado to stop it from spinning, without getting whisked into the vortex yourself. #mentalillness #bipolar1 #healthcareinamerica
November 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Having an elderly parent in a severe mental health crisis is like trying to wrap your arms around a tornado to stop it from spinning, without getting whisked into the vortex yourself. #mentalillness #bipolar1 #healthcareinamerica
Mental healthcare in America is so obscenely broken. Trying to get help for my 80-yo Bipolar 1 dad having a manic episode is exhausting, heartbreaking, just maddening. Adult children of parents w sever mental illness, raise your hands. I see you and wish you well.
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Mental healthcare in America is so obscenely broken. Trying to get help for my 80-yo Bipolar 1 dad having a manic episode is exhausting, heartbreaking, just maddening. Adult children of parents w sever mental illness, raise your hands. I see you and wish you well.
Like most people, I’m confused and in disbelief at a lot of daily news, but this one was really surreal- why is former journo Deborah Norville hosting a game show??? I’d rather see her feminist rage at her career being destroyed than a game show. Wow.
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Like most people, I’m confused and in disbelief at a lot of daily news, but this one was really surreal- why is former journo Deborah Norville hosting a game show??? I’d rather see her feminist rage at her career being destroyed than a game show. Wow.
This.
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This.
Read and share!
Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women.
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment
The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Read and share!
I just turned 50 and all the sudden I want an electric pencil sharpener. WTH?
November 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I just turned 50 and all the sudden I want an electric pencil sharpener. WTH?
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This is very racist.
November 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is very racist.
Work colleague gave me these vintage office posters today; the abject misogyny seemed to be lost on him….
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Work colleague gave me these vintage office posters today; the abject misogyny seemed to be lost on him….
Yes! @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is just always always spot on. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Yes! @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is just always always spot on. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Here to remind Democrats it’s not (too) progressive to say out loud that women are people.
(Remember HRC’s “women’s rights are human rights” speech? It was 30 years ago…)
(Remember HRC’s “women’s rights are human rights” speech? It was 30 years ago…)
October 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Here to remind Democrats it’s not (too) progressive to say out loud that women are people.
(Remember HRC’s “women’s rights are human rights” speech? It was 30 years ago…)
(Remember HRC’s “women’s rights are human rights” speech? It was 30 years ago…)
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Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Please tell me the person who thought of this is a philanthropic bazillionaire. As a “savory” snacker, all I want are tiny-sized olives/pickles/cheeses/nuts.
October 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Please tell me the person who thought of this is a philanthropic bazillionaire. As a “savory” snacker, all I want are tiny-sized olives/pickles/cheeses/nuts.
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Victoria knows what's up.
September 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Victoria knows what's up.
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These fragile men don’t want women working because they know we’re better at it. If it truly was a meritocracy, we’d be on our second female president.
September 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
These fragile men don’t want women working because they know we’re better at it. If it truly was a meritocracy, we’d be on our second female president.
I wish we could be more creative in addressing our housing needs instead of this: low-density, high-responsibility freestanding SFHs…. Even after my tough experience, I still believe in the benefits of condos, coops, and co-housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...
With New Plan, Hochul Fast-Tracks Housing Supply
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I wish we could be more creative in addressing our housing needs instead of this: low-density, high-responsibility freestanding SFHs…. Even after my tough experience, I still believe in the benefits of condos, coops, and co-housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...
Had a spirited convo with a woman at the city-center farmers market today who was vigorously advocating for converting an unused vacant parking lot downtown into…. a parking lot. It was depressing. A block away, 3-4 spots had been roped off for roadwork without catastrophe! There’s enough parking!
September 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Had a spirited convo with a woman at the city-center farmers market today who was vigorously advocating for converting an unused vacant parking lot downtown into…. a parking lot. It was depressing. A block away, 3-4 spots had been roped off for roadwork without catastrophe! There’s enough parking!
Get out of town with this out-loud hatred of women. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...
Trump Says Having ‘a Little Fight With the Wife’ Should Not Count as a Crime
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Get out of town with this out-loud hatred of women. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
I have family in Gastonia and this is such a sad story. Cars are incompatible with safe and happy communities. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street, and Now They’re Felons
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I have family in Gastonia and this is such a sad story. Cars are incompatible with safe and happy communities. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
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There has been a huge effort to convince us that #MeToo went too far and that our society collectively owes the very, very few perpetrators held accountable forgiveness and more power than ever.
Let the New York election results be a reminder that most people are opposed to that political project.
Let the New York election results be a reminder that most people are opposed to that political project.
June 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
There has been a huge effort to convince us that #MeToo went too far and that our society collectively owes the very, very few perpetrators held accountable forgiveness and more power than ever.
Let the New York election results be a reminder that most people are opposed to that political project.
Let the New York election results be a reminder that most people are opposed to that political project.
The Brad Lander arrest is chilling. And, this photo from linked article shows us who these people are: insecure men trying to intimidate a small but powerful woman.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...
June 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The Brad Lander arrest is chilling. And, this photo from linked article shows us who these people are: insecure men trying to intimidate a small but powerful woman.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...
As a second-wave feminist women’s college graduate who was 17 in the 1992 “Year of the Woman” elections, I have zero tolerance for this absolute garbage. White men: go to therapy, run a marathon, heal your ‘mother wound’ and grow up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men
www.nytimes.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
As a second-wave feminist women’s college graduate who was 17 in the 1992 “Year of the Woman” elections, I have zero tolerance for this absolute garbage. White men: go to therapy, run a marathon, heal your ‘mother wound’ and grow up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...