bpgel

excessive protein in marketing is just a veiled excuse for disordered eating being funded by meat lobbies. you are not a bodybuilder. i guarantee you are getting way more protein in your regular diet than the the daily value you need

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

"Chicken Cutlet is the most beautiful phrase in the English language."

Selfie of user @bpgel in front of an espresso machine wearing a blue and tan sweater

Selfie of user @bpgel in front of an espresso machine wearing brown and orange flannel holding a cup of tea

Selfie of user @bpgel in front of an espresso machine wearing a green sweater

Selfie of user @bpgel in front of an espresso machine wearing a red sweater

The morning light at work was nice this week

The elites and institutions have folded but regular people haven’t

Don't let Jenufa's stepmother touch our housing stock 😔

To the "civility" people, saying the word "fuck" is violence, but the cops shooting tear gas is "peace keeping", ripping a parent from their children is "doing their job". They want to control the definition of violence and their monopoly on the use of it.

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.

We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

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Hey all good. You def got the right emoji for him

Conway is running in NY-12 per a spam text I received this week. Lander and Goldman are running for NY-10.

The irony that this sort of posturing to look strong and triangulating for votes (instead of having a backbone and standing up for others like trans people) reads as absolutely weak to me

vaccines basically do nothing for me, because the medication i take to keep MS from killing me eradicates all my antibody producing B-cells. mild COVID just sidelined me for three weeks.

get your flu shot so you don’t kill people like me just trying to buy groceries

Citizen is scared reactionary-coded in my mind

Also, toilet paper isn't pee 😔

magical

Portrait of me (user @bpgel) in yellow scarf and dark puffy coat in front of a white tile subway wall. Imbedded in the wall to my side is a square mosaic of a fishhead mostly in blue and green tones, fish eye is wide and blank or perhaps surprised (if we allow ourselves to anthropomorphize) with a mouth slightly open. Photo credit @mattbestny.bsky.social

I didn't mean for this to be a theme, but —

We love to see it 🙏

Oof. Rooting for you as you get through covid!

You get it 🐟

Selfie of user @bpgel in room in front of fish sculpture mounted to wall. Fish is smallish, cast potentially of plaster, painted lifelike in green, purple, and gray tones, with a black fishy eye.

Still thinking of her…

Oof sorry you're sick, Jesse. Get through it fast and well.

It's sad that I won't go back to Lucali or Fish Tales etc, unless the ownership has a public change of heart. Caring about driver convenience over human life is a dealbreaker, sorry!!

It's so amazing how this redesign has stopped a lot of chaotic driver weaving and speeding that was the norm on Court St. If you care about neighbor safety this bike lane is a huge win for everyone.

Here's a list of businesses supporting the Court Street Merchants Association lawsuit to remove the Court Street bike lane www.google.com/maps/d/u/6/e...

Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision Iceland joins Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 contest.

Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision

Brad Lander astride a cosmic silver Citibike next to none other than mayor elect Zohran Mandani

We ride at dawn

Hell yeah

Every argument I see from her is so bad it's like she's doing the work for antizionists