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Alex

@affrayer.bsky.social
269 followers 32 following 59 posts

Interests now include: cross stitching, puzzles, unions, reading, cats, cycling, video games, tea, knitting, chess, urbanism, and socialism.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If you watch a lot of local TV news in the morning like I do, you really see how traffic violence is background noise in our daily lives. Crashes in the traffic report, stories about pedestrians being hit, cars into buildings, road rage. The danger on our roads is a constant feature.
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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
oil may be destroying the environment, but it's important to remember that it's also driving conflicts and propping up some of the worst regimes in human history
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 13/02/2026
one of the most frustrating things about there being “no jobs” is that we all walk around and see the work that needs to be done. our cities are crumbling, our people need help, our world is dying. there’s so much work to be done, if only it were good for the balance sheet
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
She fucking killed an entire family while speeding in her Mercedes SUV and they’re not going to even take her license away??
On Friday, realizing that Chan was considering a sentence that did not include prison time for Lau, the siblings of the two deceased parents pleaded for Lau to be ordered to home detention and
"meaningful" community service. They also asked the judge to consider revoking her driver's license.
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"It feels like we have no rights," said Diego's sister, Denise Oliveira, addressing the judge. "I feel deeply disrespected by this process. It doesn't feel like this is justice.
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
WE WON. Celebratory gathering at 5pm @ Pattison HQ, to unpack our victory and next steps. Hootsuite ICE protest is ON as planned at 3pm, let’s crank up the heat🧊
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Alex @affrayer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is bullshit, no Canadian company should be able to profit off of ICEs atrocities. Helping to provide them with a new concentration camp is outrageous and we should all be boycotting Jim Pattisons many businesses over this: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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ICE wants to buy Pattison building to use for ‘holding and processing’
The United States Department of Homeland Security is planning to buy a building owned by the property arm of Vancouver-based conglomerate Jim Pattison Group to use as an Immigration and Customs Enforc...
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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Pedestrian fatalities reach 17-year-high. This trend could be why
Fifty-one pedestrians had been killed on the state’s roads this year as of Saturday – the most in any calendar year since 2008.
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BikeMN @bikemn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The solution is never going to be placing blame on pedestrians for being hit. Proven solutions: -Narrow roadways -Short crossing distances -Protected infrastructure -Auto-enforcement cameras -Pedestrian islands -Curb bumpouts -4to3 conversions -Bollards -Boulevard 🌳🌳🌳 -Speed limiters on 🚗 🚙 🛻
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Denver is too damn high 🚲 @yodelinghippie.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Denver yesterday
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This person said we all think "driving is a moral failing" and that's not how I view things. I am mad that we have created a system where many people have to drive, or think driving is the only safe or efficient option to get where they need to go. (If you drive a lifted Ram though, fuck you)
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It's not that every individual driver is a murderous asshole (I'm not!). It's that car dependency as a whole is dangerous. It's that cars are deadly when they hit people. It's that our society prioritizes drivers above all else. It's about a system that is dangerous for anyone not in a car.
The anti-car brigade is really fucking weird. 

The way they act like someone who drives regularly kills babies and kicks old ladies down the stairs is really fucking bizarre.
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Rory Bikes @rozd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
My in-laws were bemoaning the cost of their cars. They live in urban sprawl where there is little around them. On one income, which is about $40k a year they have their insurance due for their two cars. $2700. Cars keep people poor and kill cohesive communities
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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
New billboard in town 👀
Billboard reads: "There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Join us in fighting for safer streets. Vision Zero Vancouver and Rovelo Creative." Beside the text, a picture of a child riding a bike in a painted bike lane.
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tatiana 🌈 @caterwaul.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
my kid was telling me about their RDR2 horses and obviously i had to send them @cassmarshall.bsky.social's hall of fame post about Hayseed, who "is not a friend" but "a sin" (they loved it) www.polygon.com/2019/2/28/18...
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Everyone hates my big stupid horse in Red Dead Online
He is my friend
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Chris Rywalt @crywalt.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This is the solution to the Paradox of Tolerance: It's a contract, not a rule. If you break the terms of the contract, it no longer applies to you. If you won't be tolerant, you don't get to be tolerated.
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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I like this illustration by Swedish artist Karl Jilg showing how much public space we reserve for cars.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 23/09/2025
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 16/09/2025
Human beings are not cognitively or psychologically equipped to safely and responsibly operate cars. The fact we have normalized it is truly wild.
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Cass @cassmarshall.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
in 2019 i wrote a piece that was like "uhhh world of warcraft has a world-ending threat every year in its timeline? pretty improbable lol!!!" and I would just like to say: I'm sorry for that particular take. History has humbled me there
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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I am so tired of drivers in their giant vehicles who treat everyone else like second-class citizens & who suck up all the resources in our society & cause everything good to be paved and ugly. This rant brought to you by the lady who made direct eye contact as she refused to let me cross the street.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
If we’re being honest, the biggest threat to urban livability isn’t density or height. It’s the noise, danger, pollution, and wasted space that comes from prioritizing cars above all other modes of transport.
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Rob Harris @orobharris.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works” An all time evergreen quote
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Chloe @chloeph.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
If driving is so freeing and convenient, why is every driver one nanosecond away from total rage meltdown?
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
10 cowardly Democratic members of Congress just voted to censure Congressman Al Green. Jared Moskowitz Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Tom Suozzi Marcy Kaptur Jim Himes Chrissy Houlahan Ami Bera Ed Case Jim Costa Laura Gillen They should be ashamed.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
men who dressed like this from 2008 - 2012 had preppy menswear blogs
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Folkloristan @folkloristan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
To the activities we used to do together - before we lost community to gain efficiency - cooking, weaving cloth and carpets, and quilt-making the traditional way.
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John Lloyd @boyonabike62.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The queue for CA’s 1,500 e-bike vouchers reached 100,000 within minutes. Ya think there might be latent demand for e-bikes as an affordable personal transportation option?
planetizen.com
California E-Bike Rebate Demand Far Exceeds Supply
The queue to apply for California’s new e-bike incentive program, which only offered 1,500 vouchers, reached 100,000 people.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/12/2024
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 02/12/2024
Breaking news! November, 2024, came in at the second warmest in recorded history, at 1.62°C above the pre-industrial baseline. Starting in June, 2023, there have now been 18 consecutive months above the pre-2023 record high, likely the hottest string of 18 months in the last 120,000+ years.
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BirdmanStevens @birdmanstevens.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is what it looks like when a city doesn't care about anything but cars.
Sidewalk with no curb cuts and a shrub covering half the sidewalk.
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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 17/11/2024
Imagine 21 fully loaded 737-8 MAX going down, with no survivors—every day. That's how many people will die in car crashes in the world in next 24 hrs. Based on 1.3 million road deaths in 2023, 40,900 of them in US. 🧵
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The thing about the “echo chamber” complaint is that none of the people making it have had a new idea in twenty years (and that’s being charitable). We heard what they had to say. We concluded that it was stupid, cruel, and harmful. We are not obliged to give them a 2nd, 10th, or millionth hearing.
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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
How I feel whenever a company adds some new bullshit ai feature to anything
A guy saying This is just our experiment.

Hayao Miyazaki saying I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
From Planning Peeps It cannot be any more obvious (well it might be for National) And as always MIXED USE IS KING!
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 15/05/2024
Since 2020 I have had a policy about who I will fight on the internet. Do they have the power to change things I want changed? I will fight them. Are they just some rando with literally no ability to help me achieve my goals? I will block them and go do something that I know will help.
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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Thursday, May 9, 1946: On this day 78 years ago, Thomas MacDonald, veteran highway builder and Commissioner of Public Roads, was surprised to find that his companion at lunch was General Leslie Groves, the man in charge of the recently concluded Manhattan Project.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Good Enough. This was a piece from the #ReframeRoadSafety campaign developed with NOYS (noys.org) This campaign was calling out those who design, approve & implement inequitable transportation systems that disproportionately affect youth + BIPOC communities.
b/w image of a busy road with a bike lane in the middle and a child walking in it. Text: If youth walked to school in our bike lanes would cities still consider paint a good enough barrier.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
"In 2022, cars killed 7,508 pedestrians, the equivalent of 18 fully-loaded Boeing 747s crashing with zero survivors. That means a pedestrian died roughly every 70 minutes, with no breaks in the tide of fatalities for weekends or holidays."
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Pedestrian Deaths Are An Emergency. We Need To Start Acting Like It
With 7,500 pedestrian fatalities in America every year, we must consider the safety of people outside our cars.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12/03/2024
It’s been a month since I started riding my bike to work everyday and honestly I’ve never felt better in my life
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 20/02/2024
The global cost of cars: “We find that, since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion. Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility.” [sciencedirect.com]
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/02/2024
The bare minimum we should have learned from a devastating pandemic that has killed and disabled millions is that we should stay home when we are sick. Yet, governments beholden to corporate interests are determined to make sure we don't even do that.
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Walk or bike around your neighborhood a few times and you'll declare @thewaroncars.bsky.social too.
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Alex @affrayer.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
This may be the best game of chess Ive ever played. Perfectly balanced! 😁
A screenshot of a "game review" from a chess game that shows a perfectly equal number of good/great/excellent moves as there were inaccuracies/mistakes/blunders
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
I fully expect to be blown to pieces by a car that deliberately runs a red light, two blocks from my house. I have no interest in coddling drivers
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
"It makes everything in my life more convenient, and I absolutely love it. Possibly more importantly, it’s also just downright fun." Via @collinwoodard.bsky.social
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I Bought An E-Bike, And It's Now Become My Entire Personality
Give me a couple of weeks, and I promise I'll go back to normal. Maybe.
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