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Miser

@misernyc.bsky.social

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I created and run the 37,000 strong MicromobilityNYC community, including organizing many of the marches for congestion pricing in NYC. We're doing culture shift and movement building.

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · Nov 17

Sometimes people ask why I and others make content for social media. This vid I made after a 7 year old girl was killed basically started the daylighting movement in NYC. A few hrs of my time, and it will end saving countless lives. The power of advocacy to change culture and streets is real. Use it

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 34m

Welcome to the pedestrian capital of the world, where we have streets and avenues as wide as highways

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 21h

Pedestrians have been under attack from drivers for a long, long time.

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 1d

Hey remember when a bunch of the dumbest people in the city tried to whip up weird Columbus shit outside Zohran's office and a big group of Italians that support him showed up to mock them?

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 1d

"No Kings" has become the rallying cry for the largest demonstrations in US history. That it started with our congestion pricing rallies will never not be funny to me.

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 2d

Many of the traffic lights left over from when cars were allowed in Central Park have been switched to permanent blinking yellows -- great, because peds and micromobility can easily and safely share space.

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 3d

Gale Brewer's UWS constituents who have lost loved ones to cars showed up at her office over betraying us and daylighting in favor of car parking

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly I'm just tired of this shit

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 4d

I am quoted in this article.

"A cycle track around the park would get a ton of use and it’s going to take pressure off of Central Park," said Chris Sanders. "That would solve like 99 percent of whatever the perceived problem is for Central Park itself."

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/09/w...

Want Safety in Central Park? Add Protected Bike Lanes Around and Through It: Advocates - Streetsblog New York City

It's time to ring the park with green paint — and add green veins through it.

nyc.streetsblog.org

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 4d

A crazy number of people in NYC still seem to think bikers are the enemies of Pedestrians, despite the fact that WE are the ped advocates. FFS, we're the ones pushing daylighting which is easily the biggest Ped safety initiative and *drivers* are fighting it to preserve parking!

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 5d

As a handful of degenerates hold up 31st st for another week, new ones fight Clinton St, and Parking Extremists hijack daylighting, it's important to remember once again that a lot of this nonsense ends soon.

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 5d

Who's going to tell them?

Kids don't play games on the stoop any longer because you selfish jerks keep driving over children with your cars in a giant city with robust public transit.

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 5d

Getting Republicans to understand there's an objective reality and not just a make believe world in their fevered heads is going to be the defining battle of our times

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 5d

West St has taken a lot of flak over the years, including from me... but I'm starting to see how with a little bit of effort this might actually be amazing

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 6d

I wasn't planning on releasing us just chatting like this, was really just shooting b-roll, but these guys are too fun not to do a Mystery Science Theater reaction vid.

We've really got to rebrand complaining about something as minor and standard as bikes lanes as truly deranged lunatic behavior.

Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 6d

Some losers are bitching about the Court St bike lane that is under construction, per usual. I've lost all patience with these people. Let's check out the reality on the ground with @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and @sgoodyear.bsky.social

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 6d

That's the fun part. They don't have one. Get fat and die.

Conrad Nobert @conradnobert.bsky.social · 6d

If you're 40+ and you don't ride your bike around town what even is your plan for healthy aging?

I just don't understand older people who hate bike lanes.

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 6d

Got a chance to chat with Doug and Sarah from @thewaroncars.bsky.social this morning. They've got a new book that goes beyond even their best in class podcast

youtu.be/kGK91-NAT6s

Field Marshals in the War on Cars, Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear have a new book

YouTube video by Miser

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Jehiah @jehiah.cz · 7d

“Are you going to go or not” lady yells 20x after I put her a timeout for driving in the 11th Ave bike lane.

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 7d

She was the first I did:
bsky.app/profile/mise...

Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 8d

A law in the way gravity is:

Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 7d

Boston getting in on the game

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 7d

This meme format might have legs. The version with our crack loving friend Rob Ford (of "war on cars" fame) is surging into one the top posts on all of reddit today

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 8d

A law in the way gravity is:

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 8d

Ebikes AREN'T a growing safety concern. They get people out of cars, which makes things far safer. Ffs

Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 9d

What were all these Republicans who are embracing fascism doing when watching TV or movies over the last 6 decades? Getting pissed when the Nazis were the bad guys in Schindler's List? Rooting for the Empire in Star Wars? Is this why they were always mad at Hollywood?

Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 10d

I'm sick of conservatives attacking cities. The difference between reality and rhetoric is so wild

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