Alex Contreras 🍉
@alexbikes.bsky.social
Your local housing & transportation policy expert. Working to end freeway expansions in CA. Trans rights are human rights. They/Them.
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Alex Contreras 🍉
@alexbikes.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Re-introducing myself 👋🏼 I'm a transit/housing advocate working to end freeway expansions in CA. Transit policy, is housing policy, is climate policy. As a zoning & building design reform missionary, I love Georgism, yet I despise the Georgists. Based in Oakland, biking thru SoCal, fck John Fischer 🤟🏼
The amount of men who have found out I'm 31 after mistakenly thinking I'm younger and going "OH expired!" As a joke is now up to three men. I am a supporter of ethical euthanasia.
December 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The amount of men who have found out I'm 31 after mistakenly thinking I'm younger and going "OH expired!" As a joke is now up to three men. I am a supporter of ethical euthanasia.
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Lol at every university trustee and law firm partner who concluded they had no choice but to play ball with this bumbling fool
Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
December 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Lol at every university trustee and law firm partner who concluded they had no choice but to play ball with this bumbling fool
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115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
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ICE’s acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene—stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing he pope’s call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.
“ICE Was Here”: Pope Leo-Inspired Nativity Scene Sparks MAGA Outrage
A Nativity scene missing Jesus — and marked with an “ICE was here” sign — has triggered cries of “politicizing Christmas.” The parish priest says he’s answering Pope Leo's call to welcome stranger.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
ICE’s acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene—stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing he pope’s call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.
This account is going to have to be renamed Alex Walks because my bike has been gone for so long 😭
December 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This account is going to have to be renamed Alex Walks because my bike has been gone for so long 😭
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New Clipper benefits provide incredible savings if you can access them. 👏 👏👏
But many riders who rely on AC Transit 🚌 pay cash 💵 and miss out. I'm pushing for a fairer system because everyone deserves the same access to savings. #FairFares
But many riders who rely on AC Transit 🚌 pay cash 💵 and miss out. I'm pushing for a fairer system because everyone deserves the same access to savings. #FairFares
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
New Clipper benefits provide incredible savings if you can access them. 👏 👏👏
But many riders who rely on AC Transit 🚌 pay cash 💵 and miss out. I'm pushing for a fairer system because everyone deserves the same access to savings. #FairFares
But many riders who rely on AC Transit 🚌 pay cash 💵 and miss out. I'm pushing for a fairer system because everyone deserves the same access to savings. #FairFares
He saw the bus coming and parked there anyway. I hate people like him.
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
He saw the bus coming and parked there anyway. I hate people like him.
I had a dream that I started a coffee shop in my kitchen, but the city kept trying to shut me down because of the zoning, so I would move the coffee shop around to different people's kitchens and then Obama told me I was doing a great job. Idk what the dream means, but Obama said fuck your zoning.
December 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I had a dream that I started a coffee shop in my kitchen, but the city kept trying to shut me down because of the zoning, so I would move the coffee shop around to different people's kitchens and then Obama told me I was doing a great job. Idk what the dream means, but Obama said fuck your zoning.
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One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
My bike is out of commission so I thought I'd take Bay Wheels to a friend's. Why is the Lyft cheaper than the bike ride???
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My bike is out of commission so I thought I'd take Bay Wheels to a friend's. Why is the Lyft cheaper than the bike ride???
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Big housing news in San Francisco today: the Board of Supervisors (their equivalent of City Council) votes to upzone the entire western half of the city. Currently much of the westside is houses. Commercial streets get a height boost.
Diagrams & maps below from sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...
Diagrams & maps below from sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...
December 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Big housing news in San Francisco today: the Board of Supervisors (their equivalent of City Council) votes to upzone the entire western half of the city. Currently much of the westside is houses. Commercial streets get a height boost.
Diagrams & maps below from sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...
Diagrams & maps below from sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...
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In 1978, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors downzoned the city, banning multifamily homes in many areas and sparking a decades-long affordability crisis.
47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake.
The times, they are a-changin’!
47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake.
The times, they are a-changin’!
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
In 1978, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors downzoned the city, banning multifamily homes in many areas and sparking a decades-long affordability crisis.
47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake.
The times, they are a-changin’!
47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake.
The times, they are a-changin’!
I've been reflecting more on bodily autonomy and I don't think enough men in my life fully understand how absolutely bat shit it is that I can't make decisions about my health without a doctors approval that is based on vibes ( ie sterilization) or the government legislating those decisions.
December 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I've been reflecting more on bodily autonomy and I don't think enough men in my life fully understand how absolutely bat shit it is that I can't make decisions about my health without a doctors approval that is based on vibes ( ie sterilization) or the government legislating those decisions.
I third wheel with my married friends so often I just started calling our hangouts date nights. Tonight's date was a walk to go look at Christmas trees and dinner.
December 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I third wheel with my married friends so often I just started calling our hangouts date nights. Tonight's date was a walk to go look at Christmas trees and dinner.
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My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.
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In need of a new climbing buddy. My last one stopped climbing because they got themselves a boyfriend. Very embarrassing for them.
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
In need of a new climbing buddy. My last one stopped climbing because they got themselves a boyfriend. Very embarrassing for them.
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A small business space in downtown Oakland is up for rent at $7k a month. The idea of being a small business owner with an actual brick n mortar shop sounds difficult n stressful.
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
A small business space in downtown Oakland is up for rent at $7k a month. The idea of being a small business owner with an actual brick n mortar shop sounds difficult n stressful.
I just saw an unhinged, f*cked up, ad featuring Kristi Noem telling people to turn themselves over to ICE and self deport or they will be tracked down and forcibly deported.
November 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I just saw an unhinged, f*cked up, ad featuring Kristi Noem telling people to turn themselves over to ICE and self deport or they will be tracked down and forcibly deported.
My sister who has taken in a semi-feral cat this past year sent me a progress pic. This is Jiji, who was once starving, flea bitten, and covered in ring worm. Now he's getting pretty chunky and she's worried she's not feeding him enough 😂.
November 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
My sister who has taken in a semi-feral cat this past year sent me a progress pic. This is Jiji, who was once starving, flea bitten, and covered in ring worm. Now he's getting pretty chunky and she's worried she's not feeding him enough 😂.
I have been staring at my cart with $300 worth of Sam Edelman shoes. I don't need them. I don't need them. I don't need them.
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I have been staring at my cart with $300 worth of Sam Edelman shoes. I don't need them. I don't need them. I don't need them.
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Canada, I am in a different part of you
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Canada, I am in a different part of you
I have never been more grateful for the invention of the sauna. Cheers to saunas, good food and even better company 🤟🏼
November 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I have never been more grateful for the invention of the sauna. Cheers to saunas, good food and even better company 🤟🏼
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!