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GIS & Urban Planning Graduate (Fanshawe) - I want to help build cities for people - AI/LLM hater - 学习中文 - Anarcho-Communist - 3968km on the Hamilton Bike Share 🚲 Former Hamiltonian 🌇 Current Edmontonian 🏙️
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Cole 🚲 @mapboy.bsky.social · 1d
The lady and I climbed through the snow and almost ate it a few times but it was worth it for this view of the Muttart on Christmas night! Bonus picture of the wife sunk in deep by the one pyramid 😆 #yeg #christmas
Horizontal panorama of the Muttart Conservatory in the Edmonton River Valley. You can see 5 of the glass pyramids with the furthest left one lit up green with a red tip. The second one near the centre is red and green with a green tip. The small centre pyramid is blue with a white lit up tip. The second from the right of frame is green and blue with a red lit tip. The furthest right is covered in snow mostly with red leaking out from inside. It's night time and everything has snow on it. It's gorgeous. A small 4 foot 9 black girl (my wife) in her black jacket is about a foot deep under the snow by a snow covered glass pyramid with red light emitting from inside.
mapboy.bsky.social
I don't understand why Edmonton's LRT and ETS in general get so much hate online from both citizens and urbanists alike. We get dumped with snow and the trains keep chugging along. Meanwhile this snow will cripple Toronto's LRT and the SkyTrain both. I just don't get it 🤷
#yeg #lrt #transit
December 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
mapboy.bsky.social
The lady and I climbed through the snow and almost ate it a few times but it was worth it for this view of the Muttart on Christmas night! Bonus picture of the wife sunk in deep by the one pyramid 😆 #yeg #christmas
Horizontal panorama of the Muttart Conservatory in the Edmonton River Valley. You can see 5 of the glass pyramids with the furthest left one lit up green with a red tip. The second one near the centre is red and green with a green tip. The small centre pyramid is blue with a white lit up tip. The second from the right of frame is green and blue with a red lit tip. The furthest right is covered in snow mostly with red leaking out from inside. It's night time and everything has snow on it. It's gorgeous. A small 4 foot 9 black girl (my wife) in her black jacket is about a foot deep under the snow by a snow covered glass pyramid with red light emitting from inside.
December 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
mapboy.bsky.social
Fuck this, anyone involved in this should burn in hell. People die, that's life, you can't just keep talking to a digital death puppet for 30 years. We're in a dark, dark timeline right now. Truly dystopian and it makes me sick. #aislop #evil
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Nov 14
For real, check this out. Evil.
December 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
mapboy.bsky.social
Some Christmas Eve panoramas of the fresh snow in Edmonton by the hospital. Definitely a white Christmas, that's for sure!
#yeg #christmas
Wide, horizontal panorama by the Health Sciences/Jubilee LRT station. You can see a bus shelter and garbage can on the left of frame. There's a cleared sidewalk just past the centre to the right along with fresh snow on everything. It's peaceful and dark as it was taken at 10:15pm A vertical panorama of the sidewalk with a bus shelter to the left of frame, a tree with no leaves reaching to the slightly grey night sky. You can see a yellow tinted street light over the road to the right of frame. It's incredibly peaceful.
December 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
mapboy.bsky.social
Drivers in this city can STFU, the whole place is tailor built for them, there's hardly any traffic jams and parking out the wazoo. Go to Ontario and then come back and complain about driving here. It's a joke how good drivers have it in this province overall.
#yeg
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
mapboy.bsky.social
Jesse Watson (@jesseforyeg on Insta/FB) is such a rage baiting hack. All bluster with no solutions and always responds with 💯🫡🤔 to all the dunces putting "suggestions" in his comments section. Thank god he didn't get elected to council. Guy is a UCP stooge and clown 🤡 #yeg
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
mapboy.bsky.social
CARBON CAPTURE IS A MYTH AND NOT A VIABLE CLIMATE SOLUTION! Carney is so hellbent on it and it's maddening. You can't just build more pipelines and use a technology that isn't even viable in the slightest to offset it's nasty side effects. We're a climate joke. #cdnpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
'Too much regulation, not enough action': Carney rebuffs Trudeau's climate policies | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada has too much regulation and not enough investments in clean energy and technology — and he's making his most direct repudiation yet of his predecessor's environm...
www.cbc.ca
December 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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pankraru.bsky.social
Hell World. Hell World. Hell World.
December 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
mapboy.bsky.social
This piece is pure capitalist slop assigning our only worth to how many ideas we can shit out for more money. There is also not so subtle "population collapse in wealthy countries" talk in here as we're set to hit 10 billion worldwide by 2100. And tons of em dashes, bet they felt so clever. #aislop
vox.com Vox @vox.com · 12d
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
mapboy.bsky.social
It's not social media or being Quebecois, it's the neoliberal capitalist meat grinder. "Western Society" is completely failing the moment as AI, fascism and climate change rapidly devastate this planet. Joshua needs to wake up and face reality and quickly if we have any hope of turning this around.
ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social CTV News Kitchener @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social · 12d
There’s a happiness gap between young people in Quebec and in the rest of Canada - Joshua Bujold, an upbeat psychology student in his first semester at Montreal’s Dawson College, was taken aback to find out that happiness among young Canadians has plunged.
There’s a happiness gap between young people in Quebec and in the rest of Canada
Joshua Bujold, an upbeat psychology student in his first semester at Montreal’s Dawson College, was taken aback to find out that happiness among young Canadians has plunged.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
mapboy.bsky.social
Jasper Ave. desperately needs dedicated bus lanes on both sides. There are 10 buses plus the LRT replacement bus (when needed) that run along it. Not a single one of these buses should ever be getting stuck in traffic. Vehicle drivers can cry me a river! Just slap some red paint down already.
#yeg
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
walter cronkite told america we lost the vietnam war on this channel
famousceleb.co cameron @famousceleb.co · 14d
this is the cringiest shit I've ever seen
December 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM
mapboy.bsky.social
Screwed around with the live version of Fedora KDE last night and I'm in love already 😍 Can't wait to get a second SSD and install that bad boy proper! Windows will be on a need it basis at that point. Bye 👋 Microsoft, don't let the door hit you on the way out!
#fedora #linux
December 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
mapboy.bsky.social
I am so glad I left Hamilton as chunks of that council are a goddamn joke. This guy is on the police board for fucks sake. Birds of a feather stick together.
#hamont
December 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
mapboy.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
mapboy.bsky.social
Absolutely fantastic to see the city planting so many trees and shrubs. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the next best time is today so it's great to see!
#yeg
December 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
mapboy.bsky.social
For a true winter city, it shocks me how many do not dress appropriately in Edmonton. Why are you wearing a hoodie and running shoes in -20 with snow and ice everywhere? Are you dumb as rocks? Get some boot spikes/boots with spikes and a proper coat, sheesh.
December 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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yegbike.bsky.social
Will the City of Edmonton work this hard to keep cyclists safe when the province inevitably comes for bike lanes to appease people the never visit Edmonton?

#yegbike
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16d
This is REALLY important in Ontario, where a really bad Premier has been attacking cities in many ways, including blocking smart bike infrastructure: “Rather than contravening the Ontario govt by removing vehicle lanes, the City of Toronto is instead planning to narrow them to accommodate bikes.”
'It's a win-win': How Toronto is planning 20km of new bike lanes without defying Ford
The City of Toronto is also planning $30-million worth of infrastructure upgrades, including bike lanes, cycle tracks, and trails.
toronto.citynews.ca
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
mapboy.bsky.social
Sign this now more than ever. Smith has used the Not Withstanding Clause yet again to trash trans youth rights!
#yeg #yyc #abpoli
momentumcanada.net Queer Momentum @momentumcanada.net · Nov 18
Moments ago, Premier Danielle Smith's government made a terrifying decision and introduced legislation to suspend the charter-protected rights of transgender young people in Alberta.

Now is the time to act. Visit www.stop-smith.ca to sign our petition denouncing this draconian erosion of freedom.
Black text on pink background reads: "Today, the government of Alberta passed legislation to suspend the charter-protected rights of trans youth. Get involved today: Stop-Smith.ca"
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
mapboy.bsky.social
Omg, would these hacks shut the fuck up about trans women in sports already. How many times does this have to keep happening? You're a transphobe, that's it, stop pretending you're anything else.
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
mapboy.bsky.social
Try not to get measles would be high on that list I'd think 🤔

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
mapboy.bsky.social
@edmontonanne.bsky.social, any reason there aren't stronger steps being taken to make the ped crossing at 104 St and 107 Ave safer? Watch the driver on the right just rip through with the pedestrian right in front of him. Everyone pushing through all while the street lights are out too! #yeg
December 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
mapboy.bsky.social
Every single time an Oilers game gets out the place gets clogged with emotional support trucks. Take transit you hacks. There's literally an LRT and multiple buses right there! Also makes my bus late as you shits clog everything up!
#yeg
December 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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thegmcconnachie.bsky.social
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
mapboy.bsky.social
This ad for the Bree App is so dystopian, mixing ChatGPT with a veiled payday loan app is just diabolical. These AI/fintech people should be sent on a direct rocket to the sun. Capitalism on steroids.
#aislop #fintech
Dystopian ad on Instagram that has a ChatGPT window with a fake conversation pushing the fintech Bree App. The log reads as follows: How can I make my finances less stressful? I always need money before payday for bills Can't change your payday schedule - but Bree can spot you $15-$500 in minutes. No interest, no credit checks, and no late fees, so it's basically like getting paid early
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM