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Alex Goyette

@alexgoyette.bsky.social
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He/him. Dad x3, Immigration & GBV Advocate, Alexandria Lead at YIMBYs of NoVA. Local chief of the useful idiots 🫡 Go Bills, Caps, COYG Personal account only. Sign up for Alx YIMBY action alerts: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-yimbys…

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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 16h
got a sketchy email and clicked the 'report phishing' button assuming it was another test from IT turns out it was real and i am a hero, please clap
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Superhero Elmo with Number 4 Cape
Alt: Superhero Elmo with Number 4 Cape
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Alexandria Library @alexlibraryva.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As an apartment dweller it might feel like you can't be a part of the renewable energy movement, even if you want to be. ♻️ But recent legislative efforts have opened the door for balcony solar opportunities in Alexandria and Arlington. ☀️ Join us to learn how it works. Regististration link below.
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I invested a small amount when Fabled Ice Cream did their crowdfunding effort last year That's fully repaid w/ the promised interest now, and i am officially wealthy off my $11 profit! I'm an Ice Cream Mogul! Basically the monopoly man!
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just re-upped as a snow buddy for this winter. Mattocks unite! www.volunteeralexandria.org/opportunity/...
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Snow Buddy - Winter 2026/27
Volunteer Alexandria works with the City of Alexandria to provide low-income homeowners, seniors, and people with disabilities, snow removal assistance during the snow season through the Snow Buddy Pr...
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Can’t make AOTA today, someone lmk if there’s an Ewald Park Feedback booth though
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“I love you daddy.” Aw very sweet thank you R “Even when you talk to me” …Ok
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“I only wish the city cared…about preserving the essential character of the Old & Historic District from the encroachment of sad architecture and inappropriate scale” (Theyre converting a 1970s office building)
Supreme Court of Virginia panel rejects 301 N. Fairfax St. appeal
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bread and roses (and hoping) @weirdlilctydweller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gentlefolk, fetch your mattocks!
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DarkandSpookyMikey @lightmikey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
La Casa and Hong Kong Express are back open! Our need for dumplings moved the needle to HKE first, and they were slammed with orders. La Casa had every seat in the house filled. The majority of the fire damage was on the roof, HKE says the AC units were destroyed, and haven't been replaced yet.
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Work post: i'm real proud of this one, and hope we can take this model to other states next CA also finally banned child marriage, after nearly a decade of efforts www.tahirih.org/news/califor...
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California Becomes First State to Create Forced Marriage Restraining Order - Tahirih Justice Center
New law gives people facing forced marriage a tool to seek court protection before a marriage occurs. San Francisco, CA – The Tahirih Justice Center celebrates Governor Newsom’s signing of […]
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Grassroots Alexandria @gra-alexandria.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Get involved with Grassroots Alexandria to help make real actionable change for every day life in ALX! Grassroots Alexandria October Action Meeting When: Thursday, October 1, 7-9pm Where: 3801 Mt Vernon Ave (main meeting room, 1st floor), Alexandria, 22305.
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
See you tonight for the Duke St Land Use Plan release party! 🎊
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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is legitimately insulting that we live in a time where democracy ACTUALLY IS under attack, but a bunch of neighborhood busybodies who hate housing think not having enough meetings is an assault on democracy. Get a grip missionlocal.org/2026/09/rich...
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At Richmond District town hall on Safeway housing project, neighbors see an assault on democracy
Some 60 people attended to listen and air their thoughts about a proposed eight-story Safeway redevelopment project in the Outer Richmond.
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James Libresco @jameslibresco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I investigated the ACPS Transportation Department after major busing challenges arose at the start of the school year. The department's director is now on administrative leave while the district reviews the allegations raised in my story. Read the Alexandria Times!! Among my findings: 🧵(1/5)
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 23/09/2026
ICE is removing thousands of people from its public detainee locator, meaning families and attorneys can no longer reliably find where their loved ones or clients are being held. This is a deliberate hurdle to deny access to legal remedies. Outrageous. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is awesome I love this alxwhere #5 · 2,829/3,000 🟩🟨🟩 1. 1000 pts · 75 ft off 2. 829 pts · 968 ft off 3. 1000 pts · 49 ft off alxwhere.com
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How well do you know Alexandria, VA? Three spots a day, 1000 points each.
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Amazon resellers were out in force at the Beatley Book Sale. Icky vibe , but also probably good for sales I guess I grabbed a little haul, incl. this first American edition of the Silmarillion w/ a cool fold-out map Shoutout Melissa & Al for Anne Marie’s very cool 1977 Xmas gift
Stack of books including the Oxford Book of American Verse, The Screwtspe Letters, the Silmarillion, and the Ministry of the Future Front cover of the 1977 first American edition of the Silmarillion, featuring a mountain pass and lightning bolt Fold out map of Beleriand and the lands to the north To: Anne Marie
with love from 
Melissa & Al
Christmas 1977
😃
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
cardigan. coffee. candle. updating some charts. author interview in the background. happy equinox 🍂
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
just pulled 2 volunteers out of our garden after realizing they were nightshade if i didnt have kids that put everything in their mouths i'd be leveling my alchemy rn, but can't be having poison laying around with toddlers happy spooky season!
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beth 👻🎃🐈‍⬛ @hells-beekeepers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
every time I have to drive anywhere I’m so glad to live in a place that doesn’t require me to drive everywhere
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Rob Krupicka @robkrupicka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
With the staggering increases in gas prices that have happened and will happen, we have reached the point where it is imperative that employers implement work from home policies and communities focus on transit, walking and biking as necessities for national economic stability.
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Last day for this round of DSLUP feedback! Suggestions in the original thread
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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Do you like maps?? I’m in a briefing where the USGS shared these amazing 3D Elevation images that are just so cool. Find your state/district, and behold this example of DC! www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation...
A 3D Elevation Program image from the USGS of the District of Columbia, depicting (in their words) “the ‘bare earth’ surface, stripping away vegetation and structures, revealing ground surface.
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
this is a great program, highly recommend
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's me again with a thread of ALX housing action items, yay! 🧵 First up: feedback on the Duke Street Land Use Plan Recs is due tomorrow, 9/15: www.alexandriava.gov/DukeStreetPlan There was a small jump in people asking for lower heights & less density recently; it'd be great to balance that out
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Duke Street Land Use Plan
On June 9 2025, the City launched an 18-month community planning process that will update the comprehensive land use plan for the Duke Street Corridor from Alexandria Union Station to Van Dorn Street ...
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Pulled up to port city earlier and something tells me there’s an AlxSkeets presence here Cc @kaylahornbrook.bsky.social
A bike with several local stickers designed by Kayla
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Jailbreak at the goat corral! My mom brought the girls to see the goats (again) and apparently they’re getting loose lmao
Barbara Goyette:
A goat escaped!
Make that 3 escapees
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Barbara Goyette:

So the electric fence went down and they are all escaping. The owner is coming in 10 minutes to herd them back in. We are hoping she brings the herding dog. Will be cool to see
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Really excellent letter in the Times this week re: safe routes to schools and the absurdity of these huge public fights over relatively small safety improvements alextimes.com/opinion/lett...
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
nothing makes me appreciate my job at the Email & Spreadsheet Factory like taking a morning "off" to chase toddlers around for preschool co-op this desk chair in a dark room feels so nice rn
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“They’re going away from the street wall design that’s present in most of Old Town Alexandria, because they need more parking for the bank building...The BAR all came back and said it’s a bad design. It’s parking-centric.” OK go off BAR 👀
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Boss: hey do you think you could take a bunch of your policy charts and figure out how to turn them into scorecards? State level policy + charts + being judgmental?! YES SAY LESS I'LL DO IT
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Grew up mostly in MD plus some time in NJ/NE/NY, school in DE, and parents from NY so that part tracks. Idk where I’m getting southwest/west coast from though NE apparently had no impact on my speech but to be fair we lived on base so not exactly immersed mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
Your dialect map

You talk most like someone from Delaware - about 53% of your answers match a typical resident.
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 04/09/2026
Delaware is up 42-7 on Merrimack and is out of fireworks.
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ELAWARE STADIUN
MEAL EXCHANGE
AVAILABLE AT BOOTH 3 & 5
DUE TO THE FIGHTIN' BLUE HENS
CONTINUOUSLY FINDING THE END ZONE, WE HAVE RUN OUT OF TOUCHDOWN FIREWORKS.
WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
These maps from James are really excellent, and pretty damning IMO And to get on my perpetual soap box: there's a reason these maps also closely resemble our zoning map and, consequently, almost every other data map of the city
Maps of flock camera  locations compared to income and reported crime rates, showing that there are lots of cameras in low income areas regardless of crime rates, while high income & high crime areas like Old Town and Potomac Yard have relatively few cameras
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Last primary visit I had elevated BP and cholesterol NP suspected that my assessment that “idk I eat pretty healthy” was not true, and suggested I download a food tracker and enter what I eat for a couple months I regret to inform you that this did in fact solve the problem 😒
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I got a nicer fitness tracker this year that automatically detects activity and logs "workouts," even when it's just something like biking to an appointment or the long-ish walk from the bus stop to my office Really renews my appreciation for the positive health impacts of multimodal transportation
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m not over this way that often but when I am you know I’m taking advantage and spending some time working at Swings
An open laptop and mug of coffee in an industrial style coffee roaster
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Great piece here about the economic headwinds facing builders in Alexandria, and some of the great steps the city has taken to support continued homebuilding Without our pro-housing Council & staff seems like a lot of this activity would've ground to a halt www.bisnow.com/news/washing...
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Surging Costs Force Alexandria Developers To Shift Plans
Developers like JBG Smith, Foulger Pratt and Whitaker Investment Corp. discuss the challenges of building new housing in the D.C. region.
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New space telescope just dropped and these ladies are hyped
Three girls watch excitedly as Nancy Grace Roman space telescope launches Image of rocket over earth Animation of Nancy Grace Roman space telescope
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Shuffling my bill off to die quietly by referring it to a committee that’s past its deadline to meet this session, to avoid the attention of a vote, eh? You thought I wouldn’t dig around your procedural rules and find Joint Rule 61(j) that allows the deadline to be extended! Classic mistake!
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
State legislatures: ACK our session is so short! We simply didn't have time to pass everything we wanted to!!! Also state leigslatures: And now, as we open our last week of session, let us spend hours of floor time to recognize a retiring senator, our interns, a local business, a newspaper, a...
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Go into girls room to settle them down after a big thunderclap Asked if they remember what thunder is L: it’s like the wind clapping together! (Sure, sort of) R: THE AIR IS CLAPPING AT US SAYING GO 👏🏼 TO 👏🏼 BED 👏🏼 🫰🏻🫰🏻yes girl🫰🏻🫰🏻
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Bad news: going to bed early and getting enough sleep did in fact cure my cold
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Just had my first professional encounter w/ an apparent AI error I'm updating our annual child marriage reports, and found an article from this year saying North Dakota passed a reform, HB 1450, way back in 2019 Panic! How did we miss this! Have our reports been wrong for 7 years?! (No)
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yimbyalexandriaken.bsky.social @yimbyalexandriaken.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
publicinput.com/a12731?ref=a... Survey on City legislative priorities at next General Assembly session. Consider requesting bike safety legislation similar to last year's HB 661 (safety yield, bikes proceed on LPI, and bikes may go two abreast)
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Shape Alexandria's Legislative Package for 2027 - PublicInput
Every year the City of Alexandria creates a legislative package that outlines City priorities and positions for the Virginia General Assembly Session. The 2027 General Assembly Session begins on Janua...
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Great coverage here, including notes on how questions asked by housing and safety advocates prompted some re-examinations of building heights and retail street infrastructure 💪
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 07/08/2026
Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
stepped on a bee today and 1) ow, but 2) way less ow than i remembered as a kid am now less intimidated by bees
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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The insult of my alarm going off hours after the kids woke me up 😒
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