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Alex Sramek

@mostlydiff.bsky.social
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NYC. Transit, tech comm, other things. 🗽🏋🏼‍♂️🍸🚇🏳️‍🌈 www.howdoyou.guide

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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So orderly.
NYC C train departure board. Trains arriving in 2, 12, 22, 32, and 42 minutes.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"Why don't kids bike more?"
School bus and car parked in a green bike path.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
What are we doing, InDesign?
Close up screenshot of part of a numbered list. A vertical line shows that the left edge of the text doesn't align the same on each of the four list items.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New York and Chicago are always arguing about whose pizza is best. Meanwhile St. Louis is serving up this culinary masterpiece largely unnoticed.
A 10 inch deluxe St Louis style pizza.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Amtrak getting in there with the ad placement. 🚄🚆
Reddit news article: "US says it may be forced to shut down some airports over funding standoff" right above an Amtrak ad: "Traveling as a group? Ride Acela together and save up to 60%."
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
THE PLATFORM IS RIGHT HERE OMG
Screenshot of Irvington BART station video, showing a massive complex that passengers must walk through. I've drawn a red arrow showing that the actual platform is right next to the entrance to the complex, on the same level, but you can't get there without a whole lot of walking and navigating stairs.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I don't care.
Message box: "The Essential Graphics panel has been renamed to Graphics Templates. Additionally, controls for editing graphics and captions have moved to the Properties panel."
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
What are we doing here, Baltimore? Ads for freeways plastered all over the @amtrak.com station.
Large red poster with mostly white text: "Bright to you by a byway. Drive Maryland's 18 scenic byways. You're welcome."Baltimore penn station interior. Several byway advertisements on the wall. Baltimore Penn Station interior. Byway advertisements visible in main corridor.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
YEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!
AP calls the NYC Mayor race for Zohran Mamdani at 9:34pm on November 4th. 50.4% votes for Mamdani, 41.3% for Cuomo, 7.5% for Sliwa with 75% votes counted.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Just gonna put this trifecta here: Apartments. Trees. Sun still gets to the upper floors at 5pm.
NYC street scene. Apartment buildings on a tree-lined street. Sun hitting upper two floors of apartments.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
It IS running.
D train at station, full of passengers.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Hey @transit.app, why no data for the D?
Screenshot from Transit app that suggests the B and D trains are inactive.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I was also mildly uncomfortable after gorging myself at Portillo's. Also, these little hooligans were walking aggressively and staring people down by the river. Super uncomfortable.
Geese walking towards the camera on a pedestrian plaza next to the river in Chicago.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I happen to have a picture of laghman noodles handy. (enjoyed these at Tarim, New World Mall, Flushing)
Uyghur Laghman noodles with lamb and mixed veggies.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Yes to these!! 🥰
"What's going on with the June 24th NYC Mayoral Race" folded booklet, held in a left hand, above a brown tabletop with phone chargers and rainbow wristbands on it.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Yeah it's like a good Scotch you can drink at work without visiting HR.
Bottle of Ardbeg 10 scotch next to a bag of Lapsang Souchong tea, on a wooden counter with a blurry kitchen in the background.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Show me 4 pictures in your phone that have your energy that aren't selfies.
A large salad and a hamsteak in the foreground. Bookshelves, fridge, and a television of Patricia Arquette playing Harmony Cobel in the show Severance. Screenshot from Pokémon Go. Smeargle photobombing a photo of Granbull. Evening scene of lone figure walking in a light snow, along a tree-lined path with two sets of footprints, illuminated by light posts that cast dramatic shadows. Cortado in a small glass on a ceramic saucer, accompanied by a wrapped chocolate, on a red-and-white floral patterned table, indoors. Window and street visible in background.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Wow I just made up that number, but I was close. $16.99.
Tiktok Shop listing for a men's colorblock patchwork jacquard from $16.99, 32% off of the regular price of $24.99.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Wow, Philly, nice upgrade! 🙌 This was a grim, worn, confusing corridor during my first visit about 10 years ago.
Stairs leading down to the new-looking Drexel station metro concourse in Philadelphia. Turnstiles with tap-to-pay readers in Drexel Station in the Philadelphia subway. New-looking concourse, overlooking a subway platform, in Philadelphia.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Take a break from doomscrolling and find the raccoon.
A well-camouflaged raccoon somewhere in a photograph. Photo has leaf-covered dirt next to a tall stone wall, atop which sit leafless trees and vines.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Saw this last week in NYC. Almost as many bikes as cars in a snowstorm.
Snowy city scene with lots of bike tread marks in the foreground, pedestrian island in the middle, car street in the background. NYC.Snowy NYC scene with lots of bike tire prints in the snow between the curb and parked cars. Well worn snowy bike path between parked cars and bike racks on 8th Ave, NYC.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Lol, my contribution...
City Nerd / War on Cars event stage at Hunter College
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Who else is here?
Empty stage at Hunter College with City Nerd and The War on Cars logos projected on the wall.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Also, this was Canal Street on Saturday. I've never not seen catastrophic intersection-blocking gridlock here. Look how easy it is for drivers to head toward a tunnel to Jersey.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
One of the fiercest ratios I've ever seen.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
"But how do you buy groceries in the city without a car?!" With a cart. Walked to the supermarket just before midnight, got this haul. 40 minutes round trip. Easy, except for the stairs.
Grocery cart full of groceries, inside a living room.Grocery cart full of groceries, side view, adjacent to a couch. Groceries spread out on top of a kitchen island counter, including fruits, veggies, rice, beans, paper towels, toilet paper, yogurt, kefir, and six cartoons of juices and almond milks.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
No idea, must be impossible.
Bus map of lower Manhattan
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
"It's faster for me to turn left from left turn lanes in traffic. Protected bike lanes will slow me down." Dunno if it was his influence, but the city has been painting a bunch of absolutely hellish non-protected lanes lately.
A green bike lane between two lanes of traffic A narrow bike lane directly next to a parked Toyota Tundra.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
This year's candidate for "Worst Innovation in Bike Lanes" comes from Los Alamitos, CA. Extra wide, but made artificially narrow to direct riders away from traffic... and directly into the door zone.
Bike lane with indicators directing riders very close to the driver side of a parked Toyota Tundra.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Soon.
Light rail station platform in Los Angeles at Aviation/Century. In the distance, a platform under construction.
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Ben Max, Mark Levine, Amanda Litman on stage being interviewed by Catherine Vaughan and Ryder Kessler, in front of a projection screen that reads "What's Next for the Abundance Agenda in New York?"
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Transit Riders Mayoral Forum on now. 🙌🚊🚉🚌🚍 @ridersalliance.org
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Alex Sramek @mostlydiff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
NYC City of Yes info session with CM Carmen de la Rosa. 🥰
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