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AlanDRitchie
@alandritchie.bsky.social
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Cycling, data and information architecture, books, libraries, food, government information, cats

failed philosopher/failed librarian/basically pleasant bureaucrat

cisgender: he/him/his
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alandritchie.bsky.social
Mundane bike errand - vegetables
Front view of a red bike with with flared drop bars with green bar tape leaning against a bike rack. The front basket contains vegetables: cauliflower, red onions, carrots, red pepper.
July 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
alandritchie.bsky.social
Mundane bike errand - cat food
Front view of a red bike with green bar tape leaning against the corner of a brick building. There is a case of tinned cat food in the front basket, secured by an orange bungee cord
June 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
alandritchie.bsky.social
These projects are all fantastic...
ryancordell.org Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · May 5
Our student project showcase at the end of Book Lab has become quite the event! I was so pleased at the turnout today from the iSchool, Library, & beyond—the FabLab was packed

I’m going to share a few student projects in this thread, so follow or mute as you want or need
May 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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coolbikeart1.bsky.social
Mademoiselle Billaud after winning a cyclocross race.

It's the 100th anniversary of this photo, and it still goes harder than anything on the Internet.

February 14, 1925
#otd
A woman, her legs splattered in mud, stands on a muddy path with her bicycle.
February 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
alandritchie.bsky.social
After reading this thread I'm afraid (not for the first time) that I mispronounce everything.
aktange.bsky.social Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · Jan 29
See also: frequently surprised by how things are pronounced (often NOT the way they are in my head, it turns out)
phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jan 29
One of the weird things about being a lifelong reader is that I’m often surprised to learn that a thing I thought was a thought I had is actually something I read.
January 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
alandritchie.bsky.social
I love this
joelleondanis.bsky.social Joël León @joelleondanis.bsky.social · Dec 18
Once a year I go to town on a bake celebrating #Toronto as part of the Toronto Society of Architects annual #Gingerbread City. This year my submission is an edible rendition of 60 Richmond Housing Co-Operative, a fun, sustainable and interesting mid-rise housing project designed by Teeple!
A gingerbread rendition of an 11 storey residential tower featuring black and white interlocking volumes and a central courtyard A gingerbread rendition of an 11 storey housing complex. Little snowmen candy look out from the multiple balconies and terraces. Looking down into the 10 storey courtyard of the gingerbread building, with some of the red sedum green roof made of icing visible. Down below you see a bridge crossing the courtyard on the sixth floor and two snowmen in conversation down on the second floor. The back of the gingerbread building featuring a metal fence made of piped gingerbread finished with silver edible dusting. Above, candy filled windows glow softly.
December 18, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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pflax1.bsky.social
I don't think it's contentious to discuss how a huge number of people struggle to integrate enough movement into their daily lives and how regularly pedaling a bike leads to all sorts of physical upsides that on a large scale can have big public-health impacts.
November 25, 2024 at 9:30 PM
alandritchie.bsky.social
#Coffeeneuring #7 - mostly on paths, including some I hadn't been on before. Through Carleton, across Hartwell Locks, through Experimental Farm then further west until I ran out of path. Back along some slightly different paths and had coffee at Happy Goat at Bank and Hopewell. #OttBike
Red bike with green-taped drop bars and a front basket leaning against a tipped over table in front of a coffee shop. Sign on the shop reads "Happy Goat Coffee Company" and has a picture of a goat. A front view of a red bike with green-taped drop bars and a front basket leaning against a small wooden footbridge. The bike has a row of ghost shaped decorative lights across the front of the basket and a box on the rear rack.
November 11, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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lanrickbennett.bsky.social
#Amplify

"ICYMI George and Karen's daughter Alex Amaro was killed riding her bike on Dufferin Street in December 2020. They're asking Premier Ford and Minister Sarkaria to stop the anti-bike lane legislation Bill 212." - @cycletoronto.bsky.social

Listen here on the #CBC cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Image of Alex Amaro with a flower crown Image of Alexandra Amaro Text "Toronto Cyclist killed outside Dufferin Mall ID'd as Alexandra Amaro, 23, remembered for her 'energy, empathy' Amaro was a budding journalism student whose 'light shone radiantly,' obituary says Julia Knope · CBC News · Posted: Dec 08, 2020 3:55 PM EST | Last Updated: December 8, 2020 According to an online obituary, Alexandra Amaro, 23, was fatally struck by two vehicles outside Dufferin Mall on Dec. 2. She is being remembered as a kind and intelligent young woman who was studying to be a journalist. (Cardinal Funeral Homes )" Image of a hydro pole and a ghost bike text on the hydro pole "a cyclist was killed here - a safer dufferin street is possible"
November 9, 2024 at 2:32 PM
alandritchie.bsky.social
Yesterday's #coffeeneuring - #6 - along the canal to OPL Main branch to pick up @helendecruz.net's Wonderstruck then to Ottawa Bike Cafe for coffee. Back via canal, Riverdale and the Alta Vista branch to pick up more books. Gloomy and cold to start but turned into a nice day. #coffeeneuring2024
Upper part of a red bike with green-taped drop bars and a front basket in front of the Ottawa Bike Cafe. The bike's rear rack is decorated with a string of jack-o-lantern lights. There are tables and chairs behind the bike and in front of the shopfront. A tall, black, insulated travel mug and a book, entitled Wonderstruck on a cafe table. The lid of the mug is off to the right. There is a lot of reflection from the book cover.
November 2, 2024 at 5:50 PM
alandritchie.bsky.social
Halloween coffeeneuring - #5 - a short ride in search of more candy. Of course once I got back with the candy resupply the trick-or-treaters stopped arriving. And I had to have iced tea because all the coffee was gone. A nice ride though. #coffeeneuring2024
A head-on picture of a red bike with flared drop bars with green tape and a front basket full of Halloween candy. The front basket has a string of ghost-shaped lights and the rear rack has a string of jack-o-lantern lights. Front quarter view of a red bike with flared drop bars with green tape and a front basket with a large illumenated Jack-o-lantern. It is dark and the decorative lights on the front basket and rear rack are bright but their shapes (ghosts and jack-o-lanterns respectively) are indistinct.
November 1, 2024 at 12:09 AM
alandritchie.bsky.social
Coffeeneuring #2 today. To @octopusbooks.ca to pick up a book I'd ordered (Politics recoded / @aschrock.bsky.social) then to Bridgehead for coffee. Home via Bronson, Brewer Park, the new bike/pedestrian bridge at Carleton, Hog's Back and Brookfield. #coffeenuering #OttBike
A red bike with a front basket, a helmet in the basket, leaning against a coffee shop wall and window. A table in the foreground with a travel mug and a book on it. Book title is Politics Recoded. A red bike with a front basket, viewed head on, with the handlebars/for turned to the right, in front of a bookstore. The Octopus Books sign is hanging overhead.
October 13, 2024 at 12:20 AM
alandritchie.bsky.social
Coffeeneuring backlog. Coffeeneuring #1 was last Sunday. Up the Sawmill Creek path to check out the new bike crossing over Hunt Club and the path alongside the LRT south route. The path is rideable but not really finished. Then back to the South Keys Starbucks for coffee. #coffeenuering #OttBike
A red bike with a front basket, viewed side on, leaning against the front of a Starbucks. The coffee shop doors are to the right of the bike
October 13, 2024 at 12:16 AM
alandritchie.bsky.social
Love this picture
February 11, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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adzebill.bsky.social
Amazing 2011 linocut by Torres Strait Islander Alick Tipoti in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Absolutely extraordinary technical accomplishment, probably the largest single-block linocut print in the world.
Intricate black and white images of rays, turtles, dugong, bats, birds and fishes, including background images picked out by traditional Torres Strait patterns The previous image in context: one end of a single roll of paper relief printed with a corresponding roll of lino many metres long, mounted on canvas and hung in the Museum of Contemporary Art.
November 10, 2023 at 6:38 AM
alandritchie.bsky.social
Coffeeneuring #3 - Happy Goat coffee and a wiggly route home, under some bridges and over others.
#coffeeneuring #OttBike
Wooden bridge with a dirt path on either side, surrounded by vegetation.
October 14, 2023 at 10:59 PM