Mary Pustejovsky (@mpusto.bsky.social)

Mary Pustejovsky

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Cargo bikes, urbanism, safe streets, climate. Heat pump all the things! Views are my own. #MadisonWI #EverTrue

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Madison is crushing it on early voting. So far 10.8% of registered voters have returned a ballot. Get yours in. You can also register at the poll.

Mary Pustejovsky@mpusto.bsky.social

Voted early yesterday! Get out there if you can and early voting is available in your area!

Mary Pustejovsky

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21.6% as of today. I am going to be processing a lot of absentee ballots when I work the polls on Election Day.

Mary Pustejovsky

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Ok so I was reading the numbers wrong before, my bad. As of today it’s 19%. My apologies, my numerator was just “issued” instead of returned. Sorry! Still great numbers.

Mary Pustejovsky

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This is just delightful

BART@bart.gov

Now that Taylor Waddell has earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, he is rapidly working toward his doctorate in the field of BART-themed Halloween costume studies. We are ready to bestow a diploma on this postdoc, posthaste.

Mary Pustejovsky

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My time at Rewiring America was wonderful and I wish Ari all the best in his next endeavor.

Rewiring America@rewiringamerica.bsky.social

Today, we announced that Ari Matusiak, our CEO and Co-Founder, is stepping down after six years leading Rewiring America as part of a planned leadership transition. Our full statement, and some reflections from a few friends and partners: www.rewiringamerica.org/newsroom/pre...

Mary Pustejovsky

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Forgot to post this last week but hit 6000 miles on our Tern HSD. Yes, “auto” mode is my favorite setting ever. 😎

Mary Pustejovsky

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Went to Mirror Lake State Park and the Dells Mountain Coaster today. Both were great! Highly recommend. Especially in the fall with all the crunchy leaves. 🍂 🍁

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

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The process of reading and re-reading someone else's imperfect work and devoting mental energy to figuring out what's not working in it and how to fix it is how you develop the creative instincts that allow you to automatically, unconsciously avoid pitfalls and make breakthroughs in your own work.

Mary Pustejovsky

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Voted early yesterday! Get out there if you can and early voting is available in your area!

Mary Pustejovsky

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Indigo Girls third row!

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Update, so great. Except for the guy in the first row recording everything with his phone. Who does that? I don’t understand how you can enjoy the experience like that. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Mary Pustejovsky

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Linda Perry came out for the encore, which included “What’s Up?” and “Closer to Fine” ♥️♥️♥️

Mary Pustejovsky

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My high schooler got their first unsolicited college brochure from Luther College. Them: “how do they know who I am? And I don’t want to go to Iowa!” Me: my sweet child, let me tell you how the College Board sells data to colleges.

Mary Pustejovsky

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And how the elite schools want lots of applicants so they can reject most of them and then seem even more selective. Sigh.

Mary Pustejovsky

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Got two more brochures today. They haven’t even taken the PSAT yet. Only signed up to take AP test this May.

Mary Pustejovsky

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Oh yay! I love bats because they eat mosquitoes, my arch nemesis.

Heather Randell@heatherrandell.bsky.social

Good news alert, Halloween edition! 🦇 www.startribune.com/minnesota-ba...

startribune.comMinnesota bats are rebounding 10 years after fatal fungus killed millionsAs International Bat Week leads into Halloween, local events celebrate the remarkable flying mammals.

Mary Pustejovsky

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Woo hoo!

Lena G R@lenagr.bsky.social

OMG! Wisconsin train Wisconsin train 🎉🌎🚂 www.tmj4.com/news/local-n...

tmj4.comWisconsin gets $218M federal grant to expand Amtrak service from Chicago to MadisonSen. Tammy Baldwin and Gov. Tony Evers announced Friday that the state has gotten $218 million in federal funds to expand Amtrak's Hiawatha passenger rail service in the state.

Mary Pustejovsky

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So good.

Ben Newmark@bennewmark.bsky.social

New from me. What those who find learning easiest can learn from those who find it hardest. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/w...

bennewmark.wordpress.comWhat those who find learning easiest can learn from those who find it hardest.This speech was given to Harris Westminster Sixth Form on Friday 9th October 2026. … Thank you for having me. It is an honour to speak to you – the adults in charge of one of the highest-perf…

Mary Pustejovsky

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Praying for Pope Leo! My dad had lung cancer in 1992 and lived until 2026. 🙏🏻

Mary Pustejovsky

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Another day on the #trapeze rig. I hesitated to go since I was really tired and feeling a bit sick. Still did it. Wasn’t my best but I did make progress on my swing! Got some more callouses too…

Mary Pustejovsky

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It’s 7 miles biking each way. So glad I have an #ebike or I definitely would have driven.

Mary Pustejovsky

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Wooof couldn’t sleep because I actually AM sick. 🤒 So I give myself a lot more grace for not getting the tricks I worked on.

Mary Pustejovsky

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Got my Covid and flu shots today! Arm is a little sore, we will see how I feel tomorrow. 😀

Mary Pustejovsky

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Such a legend! I have the LEGO set that features her. 😍

Micah@rincewind.run

since apparently the original article failed to upload:

news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

Mary Pustejovsky

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Me and my ice skating team left the rink at the same time to go for coffee. Me on bike and the others driving. Guess who got there first? 🙋🏻‍♀️ They were all surprised but I had bike paths almost the whole way and two underpasses to skip the lights! 🚦

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🤩🤩🤩

Robert Loerzel@robertloerzel.bsky.social

Just announced: The Uptown Theatre has been added to the Chicago Architecture Center's Open House Chicago. "Visitors will enter though the main lobby and take a short guided tour of the auditorium. No photography will be permitted." 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 17 and 18.

openhousechicago.orgUptown TheatreThe Uptown Theatre is the crown jewel of theater developers Balaban and Katz and renowned movie house architects Rapp and Rapp. Built in 1925, the Uptown is the largest freestanding theater in North A...

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Bryce Covert

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Fascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...

the74million.orgNearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New MexicoA new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico.

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Patrick Siegman

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Has your town removed minimum parking mandates yet, in some places or citywide? If so, let @parkingreform.org know. Your example will inspire others!

Parking Reform Network@parkingreform.org

One of the best arguments for reform: “Another city already did it.” Good policy spreads faster when communities can learn from places that went first. PRN’s Parking Reform Map helps find the precedent: parkingreform.org/resources/ma...

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Climate and Community Institute

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💰 The lowest-income households with cars spend 40% of their income on transportation. Those without cars spend 7%.

Mary Pustejovsky

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Being civically engaged for more equitable schools as Madison considers new attendance boundaries.

Mary Pustejovsky

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Can’t wait to read all of these!

Ben Goldfarb@bengoldfarb.bsky.social

"If eco-social anomie describes a societal forgetting, dam removal achieves the opposite—a 'collective remembering' that unshifts our baselines." This week @biographic.bsky.social published my story on the rewilding of New England rivers, a mill dam at a time. (1/6) biographic.com/death-by-a-t...