Peter Flax
@pflax1.bsky.social
Into riding, writing and complex carbohydrates.
Every opinion stated here is mine—and mine alone.
Every opinion stated here is mine—and mine alone.
Many folks in the advocacy community know that efforts to lower driving speeds save lives...so in most places we're left to grapple with this reality where we know that most people and institutions choose to accept a certain amount of preventable human suffering as unavoidable collateral damage.
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Many folks in the advocacy community know that efforts to lower driving speeds save lives...so in most places we're left to grapple with this reality where we know that most people and institutions choose to accept a certain amount of preventable human suffering as unavoidable collateral damage.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Anyone who is more disturbed by trans woman participating in high-school sports or amateur events like a Cat 3-4 bike race than by powerful media, punditry or political figures publicly claiming that old men paying for sex with 15 year olds isn't pedophilia—your moral compass is profoundly broken.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Anyone who is more disturbed by trans woman participating in high-school sports or amateur events like a Cat 3-4 bike race than by powerful media, punditry or political figures publicly claiming that old men paying for sex with 15 year olds isn't pedophilia—your moral compass is profoundly broken.
Most folks have the good sense that if they see a piece of dogshit on the ground, they don't get down on their hands and knees to smell it. And yet if they see the New York Times runs a fawning profile of Olivia Nuzzi, they lose their minds, settle into the couch and inhale the putrid feculence.
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Most folks have the good sense that if they see a piece of dogshit on the ground, they don't get down on their hands and knees to smell it. And yet if they see the New York Times runs a fawning profile of Olivia Nuzzi, they lose their minds, settle into the couch and inhale the putrid feculence.
I think whomever realized that this could be a Christmas ornament (and figured out the funding, tooling and logistics) deserves free drinks for life in Los Angeles county.
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I think whomever realized that this could be a Christmas ornament (and figured out the funding, tooling and logistics) deserves free drinks for life in Los Angeles county.
We’ve had an uptick of coyote attacks in our neighborhood so we’re keeping the cats inside after dark. My pal Feta is annoyed by the new policy and was grumpy for a few hours last night.
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We’ve had an uptick of coyote attacks in our neighborhood so we’re keeping the cats inside after dark. My pal Feta is annoyed by the new policy and was grumpy for a few hours last night.
The new batch of Epstein emails makes me ponder the folks deeply outraged by trans people who want to do sports because they think it harms women. Decades of hard proof that cis men who abuse their power to harm women in the worst ways are the actual threat can alter this counterfactual obsession.
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The new batch of Epstein emails makes me ponder the folks deeply outraged by trans people who want to do sports because they think it harms women. Decades of hard proof that cis men who abuse their power to harm women in the worst ways are the actual threat can alter this counterfactual obsession.
When you read the barely coherent emails it's easier to understand why rich tech pros like ChatGP.
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
When you read the barely coherent emails it's easier to understand why rich tech pros like ChatGP.
Rewatching earlier seasons of Stranger Things to prep for season 5. Forgot how beautiful it is. I love how all the young characters are such well developed and acted. Plus, shitloads of awesome bike moments.
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Rewatching earlier seasons of Stranger Things to prep for season 5. Forgot how beautiful it is. I love how all the young characters are such well developed and acted. Plus, shitloads of awesome bike moments.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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NEW: Rad Power Bikes has told employees it will go out of business in January without new funding.
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
Rad Power Bikes faces shutdown in January without new funding | TechCrunch
The company is "still fighting to find ways to continue" according to an email viewed by TechCrunch.
techcrunch.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
[redacted]
Just as the graft and lawlessness and weaponized bigotry need to face consequences, the repeated capitulation and silence needs to have consequences, too.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Just as the graft and lawlessness and weaponized bigotry need to face consequences, the repeated capitulation and silence needs to have consequences, too.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
I find it exhausting to watch elite cyclocross. If you understand how hard they are pushing watts, it's hard to ignore the suffering involved.
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I find it exhausting to watch elite cyclocross. If you understand how hard they are pushing watts, it's hard to ignore the suffering involved.
The carnage caused by FAA cutbacks cast a spotlight on the massive public subsidies required to have air travel function in the US. People think spending money on bike lanes and rail is socialism while TRILLIONS have been spent to prop up the airline industry and to build and maintain roadways.
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The carnage caused by FAA cutbacks cast a spotlight on the massive public subsidies required to have air travel function in the US. People think spending money on bike lanes and rail is socialism while TRILLIONS have been spent to prop up the airline industry and to build and maintain roadways.
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Richest nation in human history
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Richest nation in human history
I was very very fortunate to spend my day yesterday making content and memories with one of the best human beings in pro cycling.
Photo by the incomparable Joe Pugliese
Photo by the incomparable Joe Pugliese
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I was very very fortunate to spend my day yesterday making content and memories with one of the best human beings in pro cycling.
Photo by the incomparable Joe Pugliese
Photo by the incomparable Joe Pugliese
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"I unequivocally reject identity politics" i scream, right before selecting my five gallon cowboy hat for my Fox Business interview.
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"I unequivocally reject identity politics" i scream, right before selecting my five gallon cowboy hat for my Fox Business interview.
This is just so beautiful and I think anyone who has a problem with this should be flushed out of power in the America most of us want.
Cities thrive not on fear but empathy, on cooperation not division.
That's the NYC we know and love. It has found expression in this movement. And it is rising up at the ballot box today.
Polls close at 9pm: zohranfornyc.com/vote
That's the NYC we know and love. It has found expression in this movement. And it is rising up at the ballot box today.
Polls close at 9pm: zohranfornyc.com/vote
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is just so beautiful and I think anyone who has a problem with this should be flushed out of power in the America most of us want.
As someone who has lived considerable stretches in LA and San Diego, I am bemused by the extremely heated discourse about whether a community within Chicago city limits can be called a suburb. But on the bright side, I learned that this qualifies as a massive insult in at least one city.
November 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
As someone who has lived considerable stretches in LA and San Diego, I am bemused by the extremely heated discourse about whether a community within Chicago city limits can be called a suburb. But on the bright side, I learned that this qualifies as a massive insult in at least one city.
Just remember that even if people insist on writing dumb things about Dick Cheney, you don't have to read them or talk about them.
November 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Just remember that even if people insist on writing dumb things about Dick Cheney, you don't have to read them or talk about them.
Someone should immediately start selling ALOOF WIFE t shirts because there is major money to be made there.
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Someone should immediately start selling ALOOF WIFE t shirts because there is major money to be made there.
In a era of AI slop, social-optimized highlights and poorly edited news summaries of big sporting events, it's wonderful to read a longform piece of sports reporting about a special moment like last night's game 7. In another era this was common; now, sadly rare.
www.joeposnanski.com/p/the-greate...
www.joeposnanski.com/p/the-greate...
The Greatest Game I've Ever Seen?
Trying to make sense of Game Seven as I sit among the fog and ghosts in Cooperstown.
www.joeposnanski.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In a era of AI slop, social-optimized highlights and poorly edited news summaries of big sporting events, it's wonderful to read a longform piece of sports reporting about a special moment like last night's game 7. In another era this was common; now, sadly rare.
www.joeposnanski.com/p/the-greate...
www.joeposnanski.com/p/the-greate...
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits