alecbikes (he/him) 🇵🇸🇵🇸
@alecbikes.bsky.social
Transport Engineer in Boston
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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.”
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This is why @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social needs to go all in on street safety, bike lanes, bus lanes, pedestrians plazas and more. The Post – and the Right in general – is going to call anything he does a “war on drivers” no matter what, so why not just do what’s right and go for it?
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 2:32 PM
This is why @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social needs to go all in on street safety, bike lanes, bus lanes, pedestrians plazas and more. The Post – and the Right in general – is going to call anything he does a “war on drivers” no matter what, so why not just do what’s right and go for it?
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It’s also why @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social needs to come on The War on Cars. We are once again asking…
November 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It’s also why @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social needs to come on The War on Cars. We are once again asking…
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LLMs like ChatGPT aren't like the AI machine learning that enables better weather forecasts (& search engines, translation etc)
@ftrain.bsky.social explained the difference on our recent @flaminghydra.com podcast: Machines shouldn't be pretending to be human beings
flaminghydra.com/podcast-how-...
@ftrain.bsky.social explained the difference on our recent @flaminghydra.com podcast: Machines shouldn't be pretending to be human beings
flaminghydra.com/podcast-how-...
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
LLMs like ChatGPT aren't like the AI machine learning that enables better weather forecasts (& search engines, translation etc)
@ftrain.bsky.social explained the difference on our recent @flaminghydra.com podcast: Machines shouldn't be pretending to be human beings
flaminghydra.com/podcast-how-...
@ftrain.bsky.social explained the difference on our recent @flaminghydra.com podcast: Machines shouldn't be pretending to be human beings
flaminghydra.com/podcast-how-...
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In the Netherlands 🇳🇱, data shows that for a 30 minute trip on a regular bike, only 13% of people are willing to ride. But for a 25 minute trip on an e-bike, that probability jumps to 28%.
E-bikes don't just make riding easier, they drastically expand the acceptable range for bike commuting.
E-bikes don't just make riding easier, they drastically expand the acceptable range for bike commuting.
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
In the Netherlands 🇳🇱, data shows that for a 30 minute trip on a regular bike, only 13% of people are willing to ride. But for a 25 minute trip on an e-bike, that probability jumps to 28%.
E-bikes don't just make riding easier, they drastically expand the acceptable range for bike commuting.
E-bikes don't just make riding easier, they drastically expand the acceptable range for bike commuting.
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I mean honestly what took so F'ing long this was the lawsuit 5 years ago
"“OpenAI pays for its chips. It pays for its computers. It pays its programmers. But it steals the raw material for its [AI] products."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/b...
Boston Herald, other news outlets sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright violations - The Boston Globe
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeks more than $10 billion in damages.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I mean honestly what took so F'ing long this was the lawsuit 5 years ago
![Screenshot of a CNN post on Bluesky. It features a photo of "Cornelius Taylor’s cousins Quintrel Branch and Darlene Chaney read[ing] a poster signed by Cornelius’ friends at a memorial marking his first birthday since his death." Above the photo is text that says "A homeless man was crushed by a 5-ton city front loader clearing his tent."
The post itself reads:"Now, he’s transforming lives from beyond the grave"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hm4euky3y3a3dqrvstvbqakn/bafkreifxxpk43sljnq3szlkjxxzfr47ky7jcctljemhlevx7fzgz3jnq2u@jpeg)
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Encampment sweeps kill and every single Mayor knows it. They need to be held accountable for the policy violence.
www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture...
www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture...
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Encampment sweeps kill and every single Mayor knows it. They need to be held accountable for the policy violence.
www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture...
www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture...
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i wonder why
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i wonder why
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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They like Trump and want to help him
“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
They like Trump and want to help him
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Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
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In a past life I reported about this a lot. There is a French-based group called the Association of Accidental Americans, which sued the US, saying that the cost to renounce US citizenship (which, back in 2023, was over $2300) was unconstitutional. They're still fighting that today.
currently reading about the concept of "accidental americans", ie people deemed a citizen by US law despite their seemingly-nonexistent connection to the country, in the context of international taxation and it's genuinely absurd how we have a citizenship-based tax system that is SO also punitive.
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
In a past life I reported about this a lot. There is a French-based group called the Association of Accidental Americans, which sued the US, saying that the cost to renounce US citizenship (which, back in 2023, was over $2300) was unconstitutional. They're still fighting that today.
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The Mrs and I just used our afternoon to go tour the maternity ward we'll be utilizing in January/February, and while it was nice, all I could do was wonder how much the final bill will be for us in the end with the National Anthem playing in my head.
I hate it here.
I hate it here.
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The Mrs and I just used our afternoon to go tour the maternity ward we'll be utilizing in January/February, and while it was nice, all I could do was wonder how much the final bill will be for us in the end with the National Anthem playing in my head.
I hate it here.
I hate it here.
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Dozens of Dutch school kids gliding past on bikes, headed to a field trip with their teacher. This is what safe cycling infrastructure enables.
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Dozens of Dutch school kids gliding past on bikes, headed to a field trip with their teacher. This is what safe cycling infrastructure enables.
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Blair being the replacement is 😘
Larry Summers’s co-teacher at Harvard:
“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”
Student:
“NO WE WON’T”
dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”
Student:
“NO WE WON’T”
dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Blair being the replacement is 😘
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Amazing how the Antichrist’s agents are always opposing Peter Thiel’s interests, either he’s the most godly man on the planet or
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Amazing how the Antichrist’s agents are always opposing Peter Thiel’s interests, either he’s the most godly man on the planet or
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The fact that OpenAI put a rule about not using ChatGPT for self harm in the terms of service means they knew it was going to drive some people over the edge and they smirked and shipped the damn thing anyway.
We need to make -way- more use of the corporate death penalty.
We need to make -way- more use of the corporate death penalty.
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The fact that OpenAI put a rule about not using ChatGPT for self harm in the terms of service means they knew it was going to drive some people over the edge and they smirked and shipped the damn thing anyway.
We need to make -way- more use of the corporate death penalty.
We need to make -way- more use of the corporate death penalty.