Alex Schieferdecker
@alexschief.bsky.social
Mpls Ped/Bike Coordinator. Cold weather apologist. Sports appreciator. Cookie enthusiast. State capacity booster. Opinions do not represent those of the City.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Armando Iannucci get ready to learn Lin Biao Incident, buddy
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Armando Iannucci get ready to learn Lin Biao Incident, buddy
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This means being careful about embracing the idea that the internet allows us to warp reality to conform with our political preferences - even when it seems to benefit us. It may indeed win us an election! But it’ll literally burn down the world if we’re not careful.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This means being careful about embracing the idea that the internet allows us to warp reality to conform with our political preferences - even when it seems to benefit us. It may indeed win us an election! But it’ll literally burn down the world if we’re not careful.
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The world will not snap back to normal after Democrats win an election. How do I know? Because they won in 2020 and the world only continued to go more floridly insane. We need to address the root cause of the insanity, which is the complete epistemological collapse we are living through.
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The world will not snap back to normal after Democrats win an election. How do I know? Because they won in 2020 and the world only continued to go more floridly insane. We need to address the root cause of the insanity, which is the complete epistemological collapse we are living through.
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
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You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
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Minneapolis has been named one of the world’s most bike-friendly cities! A new report covering 100 cities in 44 countries ranked Minneapolis as the #2 biking city in the U.S., #5 in North America and #44 globally. Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2025/november/2025-bike-friendly-city/
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Minneapolis has been named one of the world’s most bike-friendly cities! A new report covering 100 cities in 44 countries ranked Minneapolis as the #2 biking city in the U.S., #5 in North America and #44 globally. Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2025/november/2025-bike-friendly-city/
Appearing on the @copenhagenizers.bsky.social Index is an important milestone for Minneapolis! We've come a very long way *AND* we've got a lot more work to do.
The good news is that steadily we're making it happen. Culture and infrastructure don't happen overnight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOYM...
The good news is that steadily we're making it happen. Culture and infrastructure don't happen overnight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOYM...
Minneapolis named one of world’s most bike-friendly cities
YouTube video by cityofminneapolis
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Appearing on the @copenhagenizers.bsky.social Index is an important milestone for Minneapolis! We've come a very long way *AND* we've got a lot more work to do.
The good news is that steadily we're making it happen. Culture and infrastructure don't happen overnight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOYM...
The good news is that steadily we're making it happen. Culture and infrastructure don't happen overnight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOYM...
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
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Spokes and Leaves Full
Artist: Mia Nilsson
Artist: Mia Nilsson
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Spokes and Leaves Full
Artist: Mia Nilsson
Artist: Mia Nilsson
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The lights are fixed!!! The Midtown Greenway is now lit up from the river all the way to Uptown!
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The lights are fixed!!! The Midtown Greenway is now lit up from the river all the way to Uptown!
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You guys..Minneapolis is BACK!
I just biked through an open and lit up Cedar Lake Trail… missed this so much
🚲🚲🚲
I just biked through an open and lit up Cedar Lake Trail… missed this so much
🚲🚲🚲
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
You guys..Minneapolis is BACK!
I just biked through an open and lit up Cedar Lake Trail… missed this so much
🚲🚲🚲
I just biked through an open and lit up Cedar Lake Trail… missed this so much
🚲🚲🚲
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Why the developing world needs wider streets • Roads are the arteries of cities, making the whole more than the sum of its parts. Cities of the developing world need more of them.
Why the developing world needs wider streets
Roads are the arteries of cities, making the whole more than the sum of its parts. Cities of the developing world need more of them.
www.worksinprogress.news
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Why the developing world needs wider streets • Roads are the arteries of cities, making the whole more than the sum of its parts. Cities of the developing world need more of them.
I just donated to help get this book published!
Cycling Cities: The Minneapolis Experience explores nearly 150 years of cycling, using photographs, maps, newspaper articles, advertisements, and documents to uncover the true story of people on bikes from the 1880s to today. gofund.me/6a8484f34
Cycling Cities: The Minneapolis Experience explores nearly 150 years of cycling, using photographs, maps, newspaper articles, advertisements, and documents to uncover the true story of people on bikes from the 1880s to today. gofund.me/6a8484f34
Donate to Help us publish Cycling Cities: The Minneapolis Experience, organized by Peter Bird
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November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I just donated to help get this book published!
Cycling Cities: The Minneapolis Experience explores nearly 150 years of cycling, using photographs, maps, newspaper articles, advertisements, and documents to uncover the true story of people on bikes from the 1880s to today. gofund.me/6a8484f34
Cycling Cities: The Minneapolis Experience explores nearly 150 years of cycling, using photographs, maps, newspaper articles, advertisements, and documents to uncover the true story of people on bikes from the 1880s to today. gofund.me/6a8484f34
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this is the correct way to react to anything the president says-
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
this is the correct way to react to anything the president says-
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
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one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
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Congrats Mpls! The city's achievement is not just about cycling, it's about creating a more inclusive, accessible, affordable, &safer city.
District 61a is lucky to be home to recent upgrades incl. on Hennepin Ave in Downtown & Uptown & on Dunwoody Ave! Great progress & still more room to improve.
District 61a is lucky to be home to recent upgrades incl. on Hennepin Ave in Downtown & Uptown & on Dunwoody Ave! Great progress & still more room to improve.
Excited for Minneapolis to be recognized among the world's best cycling cities in the 2025 Copenhagenize Index!
We placed 44th overall and Bryant Ave S was specifically profiled as a global success story. Looking forward to moving up in future years!
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We placed 44th overall and Bryant Ave S was specifically profiled as a global success story. Looking forward to moving up in future years!
content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MPL...
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Congrats Mpls! The city's achievement is not just about cycling, it's about creating a more inclusive, accessible, affordable, &safer city.
District 61a is lucky to be home to recent upgrades incl. on Hennepin Ave in Downtown & Uptown & on Dunwoody Ave! Great progress & still more room to improve.
District 61a is lucky to be home to recent upgrades incl. on Hennepin Ave in Downtown & Uptown & on Dunwoody Ave! Great progress & still more room to improve.
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once again forced to conclude that the cultural dynamic of late 2025 is 'i have lead poisoning' or 'there is a gas leak'
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
once again forced to conclude that the cultural dynamic of late 2025 is 'i have lead poisoning' or 'there is a gas leak'
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.