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Benjamin Fry

@bluejekyll.bsky.social

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Rust, Rusty Bikes, and making everything safer. Berkeley, CA.

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · Nov 22

I just went to the Berkeley Transportation and Infrastructure Commission meeting to recount this story.

That was hard. I barely kept it together. I hope I did Ben justice.

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · Nov 19

On Thursday, Nov 14th, I was riding home from BART. At Rose and Josephine in Berkeley, an intersection that I have always treated with care, and especially after dark, I ended up witnessing this tragedy. I saw a car hit a pedestrian (Ben I later learned).

Walk Bike Berkeley @walkbikeberk.bsky.social · Nov 18

Beloved, long-time Berkeley community member Ben Brown was the pedestrian killed on Rose Street.

Please consider donating to this GoFundMe to help his family with funeral expenses and travel.
gofund.me/c4cb551e

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 1h

The obvious response to this is that if the Republicans don’t want to be in charge, then they can just do what the Democrats are saying to do.

It’s simple.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"

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Bianca Walser @biancawalser.bsky.social · 5h

Close the bike lane, offer a "free shuttle" that just gets stuck with all the other car traffic.

Fewer bikes= more traffic.

Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 5h

Real time tracking for the shuttle locations is also available here:

www.mytrakk.com/live-trackin...

Currently the westbound shuttle is stuck in a long queue of car congestion waiting to access the bridge. No bike/walk trail to blame this time.

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berkped.bsky.social @berkped.bsky.social · 1h

"the westbound shuttle is stuck in a long queue of car"

Let that sink in.

Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 5h

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 1h

These are amazing.

Bunch Bikes @bunchbike.com · 16d

Get ready folks - HALLOWEEN CONTEST 2025 is around the corner!!!! I have to warn you, #bunchfam goes HARD 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇

#cargobike #halloween

bunch mom and dad in ET costume split screen with ET frame

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 4h

So mating -> saying.

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you for being there Robert. On ND someone is already so mating that it’s great, there was a car broken down and no traffic.

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 4h

They are spending more money to deny bike and pedestrian access to the bridge than if they had left it open.

What this will eventually mean is cuts to the shuttle service, and even less access for people.

Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 5h

It’s 6am on October 27th, 2025, the first day of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge trail closure and free bike shuttle service.

I’m here for most of the morning handing out rider surveys for @bikeeastbay.bsky.social. You can take it here too: bit.ly/rsrshuttlesurvey

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 19h

LOL, and they double it up while I was posting this.

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 19h

Indiana Vassilev, don't know about that mustache, but can't deny he's a key game changer. Deserves to be on the USMNT.

Philly take the lead.

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 19h

I only watch the most beautiful game.

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 19h

Just totally ignoring the MLS' playoffs?

It's like there's always been a policy to downplay the success of Soccer in the US, my guess, because it's a better viewing experience with far less advertising interruptions than these other sports.

Sports Reference @sports-reference.com · 20h

Monday is a Sports Equinox! ⚾🏀🏈🏒

All four major North American men's professional sports leagues—MLB, NFL, NHL, and NBA—are playing on the same day.

Here's a look at the schedule for all of the Sports Equinox action! 👇

The MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL schedules for Monday, Oct. 27

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 20h

Will do!

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 1d

I think they operate by phone (I have the fortune of just ordering in person when I’m there), but this has all their contact info.

nysmaple.com/producers/de...

DeGolier’s Maple Products

nysmaple.com

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for signing my book! I loved your presentation before the Q&A.

I can’t wait to crack open the book—it’s going to be a gift to all of my family this Christmas.

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a great maple farm down the street from my parents in Western NY, I’ve gotten Grade B and even sugar shipped for years by the gallon to CA.

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🐜 🎃 @anthonybecker.bsky.social · 1d

3/5ths rule
Literacy tests
Voter ID laws
Voter registration purges
Gerrymandering
Limited polling places
Voter intimidation
Illegal to give water bottles to voters

Refusing to swear in democratically elected officials

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

It's been 33 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 1d

@therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social post that connects everyone in this photo, bsky.app/profile/ther...

Jean Walsh @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Life After Cars book tour! #thewaroncars
@georgespies.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @scottwiener.bsky.social @bluejekyll.bsky.social

People holding their life after cars books on the bart platform

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Govind Acharya 🇲🇽 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @gringostani.bsky.social · 1d

An after-party of a sort @thewaroncars.bsky.social, waiting on the BART at 24th St/Mission in SF. We were heading to our hotel in Downtown Oakland; others elsewhere.

Seven of the hundreds attending the Life After Cars book event, holding up their copies of the book at the 24 St/Mission BART station in San Francisco on Oct 25, 2025.

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 1d

It was great meeting you last night!

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Birdturntable @birdturntable.bsky.social · 1d

Morning drama in the neighborhood! A young Cooper’s Hawk decides to test a Gray Squirrel and a stalemate ensues. 🪶

A Cooper’s hawk descends on a squirrel who is reared up on their hind legs, moth agape, reaching toward the hawk in an aggressive defensive posture. This is happening in someone’s lawn.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing."

John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

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Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 1d

@biancawalser.bsky.social and @helen--wheels.bsky.social great photo!

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 1d

I finally have the book. We all need to become Superman.

Great talk, makes me excited for the future even if it seems so hard to believe given everything else going on.

Jean Walsh @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Life After Cars book tour! #thewaroncars
@georgespies.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @scottwiener.bsky.social @bluejekyll.bsky.social

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 1d

So awesome to run into you all!

Benjamin Fry @bluejekyll.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. CA should form its own banks, require all tax payments to the Federal Government to flow through them.

Then start using its financial might to distribute that money locally instead of sending it to the feds.

Yes this would take banking back to pre-civil war era, but it’s probably necessary.

marcusgdaniels.bsky.social @marcusgdaniels.bsky.social · 1d

If MAGA really runs the country into the ground, it is good to have blue states as strong as possible in terms of economic productivity. The main costs of the country are entitlements and health care -- reallocate them to states.