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Eric Bias 🏳️‍🌈🖖🚴
@ericbias.bsky.social
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A sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly millennial queerdo writing about bikes, books, urbanism, and politics.
📍Brooklyn, NY
www.ericstephenbias.net
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ericbias.bsky.social
Is some normie cop gonna flag this thing as an ebike with a top speed of 28 mph or go for the deliveristas who ride with big obvious silver or black batteries attached to their frames?

www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bik...
A white Trek ebike without a large black battery attached to the frame, which to the untrained eye looks exactly like a regular bike.
October 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I don't appreciate my kitchen skills being mocked, NYT Cooking.
Screenshot of a recipe for a microwave baked potato from the NY Times Cooking website.
September 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Ahh Linux, how I missed you so.
A picture of a laptop with an ominous, full screen error message, noting that the "screen locker is broken and unlocking is not possible anymore."
July 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Billionaires, faced with the possibility that they might have to pay a little more in taxes that they likely won't even feel because they're fucking billionaires:
Blurry pic of a seemingly terrified hamster.
June 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Is this kind of unprofessional, hyper-aggro style of press release the norm now? We're not Trump voters, this doesn't win me over.
“This silly group of paid protesters are the same out-of-touch, anti-Israel, pro defund-the-police fringe extremists who in 2018 supported a ‘Sex and the City’ actress to be governor,” said Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Mr. Cuomo. “The people of New York rejected their bizarre tactics then, and they will reject them again now.”
March 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Screencap of Star Trek: Undiscovered Country, where Spock and Bones are doctoring a homing torpedo, with Bones saying, "I'd give real money if he'd shut up."
February 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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So fucking stupid.
A screenshot of Google Maps, with the Gulf of Mexico changed to "Gulf of America," circled by me in red for emphasis.
February 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Bite me Elon.
A screenshot of the IRS Direct File website (after it was supposedly "deleted" according to Tech Daddy Musk) indicating that I have successfully submitted my 2024 federal tax return.
February 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Burning down the greatest source of US soft power in the world to own the libs or something.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A screenshot of the linked Guardian article: "USAid is the world’s largest single donor. In fiscal year 2023, the US disbursed $72bn of assistance worldwide on everything from women’s health in conflict zones to access to clean water, HIV/Aids treatments, energy security and anti-corruption work. It provided 42% of all humanitarian aid tracked by the United Nations in 2024."
February 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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The Interview: Conversations with the world's most fascinating people. Like Rick Steves, Ben Stiller, and a guy who thinks the US should be a corporate monarchy.
Screenshot of the NYT's recent installments of "The Interview" reading: "The Interview: Conversations with the world’s most fascinating people. Ben Stiller: The actor-director discussed the long-awaited return of “Severance,” the comedies that made him a star and growing up with his famous parents. Antony Blinken: At the end of a tenure marked by war and division, the outgoing secretary of state insisted that he and President Biden made the right calls. Jonathan Roumie: The actor who stars as Jesus on “The Chosen” discussed fans who conflate him with his character and how his own faith informs his work. Rick Steves: The guidebook writer and TV personality reflected on his cancer diagnosis, social media’s corrosive effect on tourism and the transformative power of travel. Tilda Swinton: The Academy Award-winning actress discussed her lifelong quest for connection, humanity’s innate goodness and the point of being alive."
January 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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But you know who can change a tire? Jesus.
Screenshot of the question "Who comes to mind when you think of a man's man?" and two respondents mention Jesus.
January 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Changing a tire, something I'm positive manly man Donald Fucking Trump would do.
Screenshot of a quote from "Brett, 62, California, Black, Democrat, retired": "I only believe in two genders: boys and girls. That’s it. No transgender. You got male genitalia, you’re a male. You got female genitalia, you’re a female. I think a man’s man is just somebody who’s not soft. Change your own tire. Change your own oil. Put your own gas in your car. Guys nowadays can’t do that. Guys who are 22, they can’t change their own tire. You have to call somebody to help you. And it’s the parents’ fault. But a man’s man should be able to change his own tire. Should be able to not tweet out “covfefe” all the time. Be able to keep your tweets to yourself, especially the crazy ones. I agree that Trump is the lesser of the two evils because Kamala Harris would have been horrible."
January 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Fun times we're all living in, fun times.
Screenshot from the NYT article linked in the quote post, with the following highlighted: "That same day at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads, two employees said."
January 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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We're in the bad place aren't we?
A screenshot of an Android notification from News 12, reading: "Officials say that the military's tradition of tracking Santa Claus will carry on even if the U.S. government shuts down."
December 21, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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Meme of a gleeful sharp toothed guy in a window wearing a black shirt with "Sickos" written on it, saying, " Yes... Ha ha ha... YES!"
December 18, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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He looks like a clone that came out of his pod a little too early.
A still from the objectively bad Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi vehicle "The 6th Day," in which the bad guy, a bald and slimy underdeveloped clone, stares at Arnold.
December 14, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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What gets me out of the bed in the morning? Definitely my self-starter entrepreneurial spirit to find growth opportunities in "financial," and not that I have to pee.
A screenshot from a shitty personality test from an online job application, asking "Motivation: What gets you out of bed in the morning?" The options are "Ability to Make an Impact," Entrepreneurial Spirit," Financial," "Flexibility," "Growth Opportunities," "Job Security," "Peer Recognition," and "Self-Starter."
November 28, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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Me when podcasts pollute their feeds with other sorta related podcasts I didn't subscribe to:
Lindsay Lohan in a Santa outfit drinking some monstrosity called "pilk" (Google it) and looking disgusted.
November 28, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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Never underestimate what I can carry with a milk carton and a few bungees. #ebikelife
A white cargo ebike with an orange milk carton attached to the rear rack. In it, is a 4 foot tall small Christmas tree bungeed inside.
November 25, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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Somewhat appropriate next read:

#booksky
A hardback book, Our Own Worst Enemy" by Tom Nichols, sitting on my coffee table with a plant in the background.
November 21, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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Trump Treasury Secretary: The Free Money Question Mark Infomercial Guy
Matthew Lesko, the "free money question mark guy," meeting President Obama.
November 19, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Billionaires waiting for their tax breaks:
Screencap of Star Trek: Generations, when the antagonist Soran is standing on a cliff with arms up, eagerly waiting for the Nexus ribbon to pass through him, sending him to a kind of sci-fi heaven.
November 18, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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TYPICAL.
A screenshot of the article with emphasis on "The child was struck while ducking behind cars in a "No Standing Parking" section that was made to increase visibility, yet is frequently parked up with cars, according to residents."
November 16, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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Coming into the holidays like:
Screencap from a LinkedIn search indicating "there are no jobs right now."
November 12, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Tale as old as time: GOP wrecks economy, Dems come in and fix it, GOP takes the credit before breaking it again, rinse and repeat.

newrepublic.com/post/188197/...
A screenshot of an article excerpt from the New Republic: "I haven’t even gotten to the economy, about which there is so much to say. Yes—inflation is real. But the Biden economy has been great in many ways. The U.S. economy, wrote The Economist in mid-October, is “the envy of the world.” But in the right-wing media, the horror stories were relentless. And mainstream economic reporting too often followed that lead. Allow me to make the world’s easiest prediction: After 12:00 noon next January 20, it won’t take Fox News and Fox Business even a full hour to start locating every positive economic indicator they can find and start touting those. Within weeks, the “roaring Trump economy” will be conventional wisdom. (Eventually, as some of the fruits from the long tail of Bidenomics start growing on the vine, Trump may become the beneficiary of some real-world facts as well, taking credit for that which he opposed and regularly denounced.)"
November 10, 2024 at 12:03 AM