Alex
@affrayer.bsky.social
Interests now include: chess, birds, cross stitching, puzzles, unions, reading, cats, cycling, video games, tea, urbanism and leftism.
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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.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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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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)
(If you drive a lifted Ram though, fuck you)
October 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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)
(If you drive a lifted Ram though, fuck you)
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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.
October 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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.
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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
Cars keep people poor and kill cohesive communities
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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
Cars keep people poor and kill cohesive communities
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New billboard in town 👀
October 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
New billboard in town 👀
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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...
www.polygon.com/2019/2/28/18...
Everyone hates my big stupid horse in Red Dead Online
He is my friend
www.polygon.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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...
www.polygon.com/2019/2/28/18...
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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.
September 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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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I like this illustration by Swedish artist Karl Jilg showing how much public space we reserve for cars.
September 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I like this illustration by Swedish artist Karl Jilg showing how much public space we reserve for cars.
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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.
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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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Human beings are not cognitively or psychologically equipped to safely and responsibly operate cars. The fact we have normalized it is truly wild.
September 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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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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
September 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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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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.
This rant brought to you by the lady who made direct eye contact as she refused to let me cross the street.
June 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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.
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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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.
May 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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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“Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works”
An all time evergreen quote
An all time evergreen quote
April 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works”
An all time evergreen quote
An all time evergreen quote
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If driving is so freeing and convenient, why is every driver one nanosecond away from total rage meltdown?
March 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If driving is so freeing and convenient, why is every driver one nanosecond away from total rage meltdown?
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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.
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.
March 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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.
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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men who dressed like this from 2008 - 2012 had preppy menswear blogs
February 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
men who dressed like this from 2008 - 2012 had preppy menswear blogs
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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.
January 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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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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?
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.
www.planetizen.com
December 23, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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?
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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
December 3, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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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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.
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.
December 2, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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.
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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This is what it looks like when a city doesn't care about anything but cars.
November 19, 2024 at 2:07 PM
This is what it looks like when a city doesn't care about anything but cars.
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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.
🧵
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.
🧵
November 17, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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.
🧵
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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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.
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.
November 17, 2024 at 6:01 AM
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.
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.