alecbikes (he/him) 🇵🇸🇵🇸
@alecbikes.bsky.social
Transport Engineer in Boston
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Had a discussion in the coffee shop about how car speeds are excessive and limiting at 100 was reasonable - my point was cars without a roll cage just shouldn’t go that fast.
The other individual then recounted an elaborate story going 115 (the cars factory limit) and being passed by a mustang. 🤦♂️
The other individual then recounted an elaborate story going 115 (the cars factory limit) and being passed by a mustang. 🤦♂️
Love how much energy we all spend circle jerking over classes of ebikes while car culture runs around with metrics of multiple tons, hundreds of horsepower, and top speeds only limited in triple digits.
December 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Had a discussion in the coffee shop about how car speeds are excessive and limiting at 100 was reasonable - my point was cars without a roll cage just shouldn’t go that fast.
The other individual then recounted an elaborate story going 115 (the cars factory limit) and being passed by a mustang. 🤦♂️
The other individual then recounted an elaborate story going 115 (the cars factory limit) and being passed by a mustang. 🤦♂️
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Taking the car to go get groceries today simply because I know there will be multiple instances where bike infrastructure is not clear of mounded snow where it meets the clean and clear streets for cars. A city gets the traffic they design and maintain for.
December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Taking the car to go get groceries today simply because I know there will be multiple instances where bike infrastructure is not clear of mounded snow where it meets the clean and clear streets for cars. A city gets the traffic they design and maintain for.
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I liked Dunkelman's book but this op-ed is based on the same fallacy that leads some people to think fascist Italy and Germany were models of efficient administration.
There is such a thirst in some progressive centrist circles that they will look at the Trump administration as a model to get things done. I think its worth addressing the argument. This is from Mark Dunkelman, author of the widely praised "Why Nothing Works."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
Opinion | What the Left Could Learn From Trump’s Brutal Efficiency
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I liked Dunkelman's book but this op-ed is based on the same fallacy that leads some people to think fascist Italy and Germany were models of efficient administration.
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Cable was a once-a-year decision. Streaming is a constant battle of subscribing and cancelling to get the content you want and I. Do. Not. Want. To. Do. That.
Libraries have DVDs and they're free.
Libraries have DVDs and they're free.
December 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Cable was a once-a-year decision. Streaming is a constant battle of subscribing and cancelling to get the content you want and I. Do. Not. Want. To. Do. That.
Libraries have DVDs and they're free.
Libraries have DVDs and they're free.
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I'm being honest here: if this goes through and it means higher prices for a netflix subscription I'm out.
Netflix’s new bid to buy Warner Bros is a mostly cash offer.
The company is arranging a mega-loan to be able to buy WB
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
The company is arranging a mega-loan to be able to buy WB
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
December 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I'm being honest here: if this goes through and it means higher prices for a netflix subscription I'm out.
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I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites
The Gallatin City-County Health Department has confirmed a second case of measles in Gallatin County, with the latest case identified on Dec. 1, 2025.This foll
nbcmontana.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
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I’m glad they told us how far away the dimension line is from the house
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I’m glad they told us how far away the dimension line is from the house
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Stressing to the contractor how critical the spacing of this wall from a dimension line (to another dimension to nothing) is
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Stressing to the contractor how critical the spacing of this wall from a dimension line (to another dimension to nothing) is
Nowhere to eat but 8 places to shit and piss. Look out everyone, "AI" is gonna change the world.
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Nowhere to eat but 8 places to shit and piss. Look out everyone, "AI" is gonna change the world.
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High tides will probably swamp Dorchester’s Morrissey Boulevard during peak travel times this week, including the morning rush hour on Wednesday.
www.dotnews.com/2025/morriss...
www.dotnews.com/2025/morriss...
Morrissey alert— Tidal flooding is back this week - Dorchester Reporter
High tides could once again swamp parts of Dorchester’s Morrissey Boulevard during peak travel times this week, including the morning rush hour.
www.dotnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
High tides will probably swamp Dorchester’s Morrissey Boulevard during peak travel times this week, including the morning rush hour on Wednesday.
www.dotnews.com/2025/morriss...
www.dotnews.com/2025/morriss...
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You can now rent a CargoB right from Back Bay Station! Whether you live in the neighborhood, Forest Hills, Malden, New York City, Philly or DC, you can get off the train, walk out the Clarendon St exit and hop on an electric cargo bike!
December 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
You can now rent a CargoB right from Back Bay Station! Whether you live in the neighborhood, Forest Hills, Malden, New York City, Philly or DC, you can get off the train, walk out the Clarendon St exit and hop on an electric cargo bike!
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Check on a neighbor
THURSNITE/EARL FRIMORN CULD SEE TEMPS AS LOW AS 10 DEGREES
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Check on a neighbor
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
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It's so fucking infuriating to see the effect that AI is having on artists' ability to make a living.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
I'm really gutted about this. I spent over ten years building my website, it's what launched my writing career. But between AI hijacking all my traffic, literally, traffic from searches is almost 0 now, and my host raising fees to be hundreds of dollars for the year, I just can't anymore.
December 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It's so fucking infuriating to see the effect that AI is having on artists' ability to make a living.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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I wonder if he was smart enough to get Hegseth's order in writing or not
The fall guy. Though he is probably also guilty of first degree murder.
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I wonder if he was smart enough to get Hegseth's order in writing or not
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This is so pathetic of The Post but it's so funny. Is The Post taking the position that we need more cars in NYC? Who is this even for? Even drivers don't want more cars around them.
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
Car-hating Transportation Alternatives boss Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mamdani's transition team for transportation, climate and infrastructure – and his agenda is a nightmare for the city's drivers.
nypost.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is so pathetic of The Post but it's so funny. Is The Post taking the position that we need more cars in NYC? Who is this even for? Even drivers don't want more cars around them.
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Been reading *Walkable City* by Jeff Speck and found out that there are an average of 500,000,000 empty parking spaces in the U.S. at any given time. That's almost 1.5x as many people live in the country. We have enough parking for another America and a half, assuming everyone owns a car.
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Been reading *Walkable City* by Jeff Speck and found out that there are an average of 500,000,000 empty parking spaces in the U.S. at any given time. That's almost 1.5x as many people live in the country. We have enough parking for another America and a half, assuming everyone owns a car.
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It does basically suck that you can't be an actual abolitionist and be mayor in any place in the US really, because you will be brutally and probably openly murdered by your own cops
We are so fucked when Mamdani inevitably does something a typical Major Blue City mayor would do, like sic cops on protesters or cut the ribbon on Goldman Sachs' new building or whatever.
We're all going to need to get real cool with how much weird parochialism comes with this particular job.
We're all going to need to get real cool with how much weird parochialism comes with this particular job.
October 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It does basically suck that you can't be an actual abolitionist and be mayor in any place in the US really, because you will be brutally and probably openly murdered by your own cops
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would you like some housing with your driveway?
November 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
would you like some housing with your driveway?
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Maggie might be the smartest Golden ever bred in this here New England commonwealth, but we’re trying to do a society, put her on a leash.
November 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Maggie might be the smartest Golden ever bred in this here New England commonwealth, but we’re trying to do a society, put her on a leash.
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Spotted the LIRR Holiday Lights train laying over at Jamaica!
This is the first time the LIRR is doing this www.mta.info/press-releas...
This is the first time the LIRR is doing this www.mta.info/press-releas...
November 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Spotted the LIRR Holiday Lights train laying over at Jamaica!
This is the first time the LIRR is doing this www.mta.info/press-releas...
This is the first time the LIRR is doing this www.mta.info/press-releas...
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These parents couldn’t find a space that centered Black trans kids. So they made one.
www.lgbtqnation.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.lgbtqnation.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
These parents couldn’t find a space that centered Black trans kids. So they made one.
For parents of color, advocating for their kids means fighting both transphobia & racism. Rainbow in Black wants to help families through it all.
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
These parents couldn’t find a space that centered Black trans kids. So they made one.
www.lgbtqnation.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.lgbtqnation.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
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Funny how when a person is killed in traffic, according to the Post it’s the “car” that did it but when anyone comes along to make streets safer it’s an attack on “drivers.”
November 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Funny how when a person is killed in traffic, according to the Post it’s the “car” that did it but when anyone comes along to make streets safer it’s an attack on “drivers.”