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This is the most Trumpian nonsense from Captain Canada’s govt. University isn’t busy! The bike lanes fit ambulances by design! Waste waste waste $$$. This govt is as illogical as the one down south.
Bike lane update: "Toronto's proposal includes returning two car lanes to University Avenue near the city’s hospital row, narrowing the bike lanes and removing on-street parking, said a source familiar with the plan."
#biketo #topoli
#biketo #topoli
Ontario open to compromise with Toronto on removal of three bike lanes
Doug Ford’s government passed legislation last year to take out sections of bicycle lanes on Bloor Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is the most Trumpian nonsense from Captain Canada’s govt. University isn’t busy! The bike lanes fit ambulances by design! Waste waste waste $$$. This govt is as illogical as the one down south.
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It's dumb that this is necessary, but if it saves the bike lane it's absolutely a great thing.
Bike lane update: "Toronto's proposal includes returning two car lanes to University Avenue near the city’s hospital row, narrowing the bike lanes and removing on-street parking, said a source familiar with the plan."
#biketo #topoli
#biketo #topoli
Ontario open to compromise with Toronto on removal of three bike lanes
Doug Ford’s government passed legislation last year to take out sections of bicycle lanes on Bloor Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It's dumb that this is necessary, but if it saves the bike lane it's absolutely a great thing.
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Yesterday when I was trying to find a shortcut to make an HTML version of my mom's obituary I signed up for Ghost and accidentally gave my new culture newsletter the perfect title.
There's nothing here yet. But this will be where I will be writing about culture from now on.
test-obituary.ghost.io
There's nothing here yet. But this will be where I will be writing about culture from now on.
test-obituary.ghost.io
Test Obituary
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
test-obituary.ghost.io
April 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Yesterday when I was trying to find a shortcut to make an HTML version of my mom's obituary I signed up for Ghost and accidentally gave my new culture newsletter the perfect title.
There's nothing here yet. But this will be where I will be writing about culture from now on.
test-obituary.ghost.io
There's nothing here yet. But this will be where I will be writing about culture from now on.
test-obituary.ghost.io
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Politics! In the dance dads group chat
April 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Politics! In the dance dads group chat
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This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.
How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement
AOC, solidarity, and people power.
www.thebulwark.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.
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Seventy years ago, the writer Lewis Mumford warned that urban highways would be a disaster:
“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”
He was right. We just didn’t listen.
Me, in CityLab 🧵
“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”
He was right. We just didn’t listen.
Me, in CityLab 🧵
The Dark Prophet of Car-Clogged Cities
70 years before congestion pricing landed in New York City, Lewis Mumford sounded the alarm on letting automobiles run amok in America’s downtowns.
www.bloomberg.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Seventy years ago, the writer Lewis Mumford warned that urban highways would be a disaster:
“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”
He was right. We just didn’t listen.
Me, in CityLab 🧵
“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”
He was right. We just didn’t listen.
Me, in CityLab 🧵
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Whatever your job is, there's probably an industry association that gives out awards for excellence in your field. And if you pay any attention to it at all, you probably think that the whole thing is dumb and political.
Anyway the Oscars are an industry association award show.
Anyway the Oscars are an industry association award show.
March 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Whatever your job is, there's probably an industry association that gives out awards for excellence in your field. And if you pay any attention to it at all, you probably think that the whole thing is dumb and political.
Anyway the Oscars are an industry association award show.
Anyway the Oscars are an industry association award show.
February 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Doug Ford banned riding your kid to school in an e-cargo bike and anyone under 16 from riding an e-bike.
It's still legal for a 16-year-old to drive a Ford F250 Superduty truck with worse sight lines than an M1 Abrams Tank.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/dro...
#dougford #onpoli #ebikes #ontario #bikes
It's still legal for a 16-year-old to drive a Ford F250 Superduty truck with worse sight lines than an M1 Abrams Tank.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/dro...
#dougford #onpoli #ebikes #ontario #bikes
February 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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if there is an amount of power that one person can wield that will make them turn their attention away from bike lanes, we have not found it yet
February 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
if there is an amount of power that one person can wield that will make them turn their attention away from bike lanes, we have not found it yet
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To my American friends: Call your grandparents, they gonna get scammed.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are now ordering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop protecting consumers from unfair fees, fraud, and scams.
They have cut off funding to the agency.
They have cut off funding to the agency.
February 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
To my American friends: Call your grandparents, they gonna get scammed.
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MFer I grew up before NAFTA. I didn't have an avocado until I was 15 years old. I ate lunch in a Zellers cafeteria. I thought Robin Hood was just a guy who made flour.
I was made for this moment.
I was made for this moment.
February 2, 2025 at 5:14 AM
MFer I grew up before NAFTA. I didn't have an avocado until I was 15 years old. I ate lunch in a Zellers cafeteria. I thought Robin Hood was just a guy who made flour.
I was made for this moment.
I was made for this moment.
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if only there was an entire generation of unserious adults who could filter all of this through the lens of Star Wars or Harry Potter comparisons so I could make sense of it
February 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
if only there was an entire generation of unserious adults who could filter all of this through the lens of Star Wars or Harry Potter comparisons so I could make sense of it
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I've been thinking about this @aworkinglibrary.com piece about how "energy makes time"—doing the things that energize you can feel like it will cost time, but in fact they give you time and energy and life. And how, when you attend to that energizing thing, suddenly you have time for the rest, too.
Energy makes time | everything changes
One weird trick for hacking the space-time continuum.
everythingchanges.us
January 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I've been thinking about this @aworkinglibrary.com piece about how "energy makes time"—doing the things that energize you can feel like it will cost time, but in fact they give you time and energy and life. And how, when you attend to that energizing thing, suddenly you have time for the rest, too.
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If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The spreadsheet brigade that's keeping LA's rental market from exploding—new from @awalkerinla.bsky.social
www.torched.la/the-spreadsh...
www.torched.la/the-spreadsh...
The spreadsheet brigade that's keeping LA's rental market from exploding
There's an army of volunteers at their keyboards right now, all over the country, preventing the ignition of a secondary disaster by snuffing out LA's price-gouging rentals
www.torched.la
January 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The spreadsheet brigade that's keeping LA's rental market from exploding—new from @awalkerinla.bsky.social
www.torched.la/the-spreadsh...
www.torched.la/the-spreadsh...
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“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”
Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
www.theregister.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”
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I was really shy the first time I signed up to do a Bike Brigade delivery, but it was incredibly easy - and everyone was super nice. I was hooked! I've explored my city, made good friends, and learned that I can ride in all kinds of weather. Bike Brigade makes my life better. Want to try? AMA...
So very proud of these people on bikes who every day ride bikes to support the community orgs, food banks, solidarity movements, harm reduction groups etc. making this city a better place.
Everything from a simple backpack to a cargo bike can be used. Join us:
www.bikebrigade.ca/volunteer-ri...
Everything from a simple backpack to a cargo bike can be used. Join us:
www.bikebrigade.ca/volunteer-ri...
January 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I was really shy the first time I signed up to do a Bike Brigade delivery, but it was incredibly easy - and everyone was super nice. I was hooked! I've explored my city, made good friends, and learned that I can ride in all kinds of weather. Bike Brigade makes my life better. Want to try? AMA...
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some of you smart people pointed out that the city's next best move post-bill 212 is a massive roll-out of safe street infrastructure, & that is happening!
toronto's road safety budget is going up by a record 25% next year if passed. here's what it contains...
1/8
toronto's road safety budget is going up by a record 25% next year if passed. here's what it contains...
1/8
November 30, 2024 at 6:17 PM
some of you smart people pointed out that the city's next best move post-bill 212 is a massive roll-out of safe street infrastructure, & that is happening!
toronto's road safety budget is going up by a record 25% next year if passed. here's what it contains...
1/8
toronto's road safety budget is going up by a record 25% next year if passed. here's what it contains...
1/8
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If they’re going to accuse road safety folk of waging a war on the car, let’s actually talk about who’s operating in good faith & who isn’t. And some history.
If they accuse cyclists and pedestrians of waging war, a war they should get.
My column this wknd.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
If they accuse cyclists and pedestrians of waging war, a war they should get.
My column this wknd.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Shawn Micallef: Think there’s a ‘war on the car’? Here’s the truth behind the rhetoric in Toronto
The fight over cycling lanes and other safer-street infrastructure in our city is marred by obfuscation, scapegoating and rhetoric.
www.thestar.com
November 24, 2024 at 4:55 PM
If they’re going to accuse road safety folk of waging a war on the car, let’s actually talk about who’s operating in good faith & who isn’t. And some history.
If they accuse cyclists and pedestrians of waging war, a war they should get.
My column this wknd.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
If they accuse cyclists and pedestrians of waging war, a war they should get.
My column this wknd.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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just rode a bike for an hour and all i got was marginal gains in physical and mental health what gives
November 24, 2024 at 8:38 PM
just rode a bike for an hour and all i got was marginal gains in physical and mental health what gives
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Thanks MPP Jessica Bell for exposing the Ford government's Bill 212 amendment which includes preventing people from suing them over the bike lane removals & confirming all of Bloor would be impacted. It's Ontario Place all over again! #shame #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero x.com/JessicaBellT...
November 21, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Thanks MPP Jessica Bell for exposing the Ford government's Bill 212 amendment which includes preventing people from suing them over the bike lane removals & confirming all of Bloor would be impacted. It's Ontario Place all over again! #shame #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero x.com/JessicaBellT...