Rusty Crayfish
@stoobiedood.bsky.social
Retired technical writer / voice&data comms sales / violinist
🇨🇦🏳️🌈Toronto mid-town, cat lover, curler, sometime cyclist
NEVER VOTE CONSERVATIVE
🇨🇦🏳️🌈Toronto mid-town, cat lover, curler, sometime cyclist
NEVER VOTE CONSERVATIVE
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Decades-old talipot palm trees in Rio de Janeiro flower for the first, and only, time
Decades-old palm trees in Rio de Janeiro flower for the first — and only — time
Talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives. These palms were introduced by landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx in the 1960s.
apnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Decades-old talipot palm trees in Rio de Janeiro flower for the first, and only, time
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If Minister of Environment, Climate Change & Nature @juliedabrusin.bsky.social is unable to acknowledge that an oil pipeline would lead to an ⬆️ in GHG emissions, she should resign.
Spineless. Dishonest. Feckless. Incompetent. Anti-science. #topoli #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/01/n...
Spineless. Dishonest. Feckless. Incompetent. Anti-science. #topoli #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/01/n...
Environment minister won’t say whether new pipeline would increase or decrease emissions
Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin would not state her position on an oil pipeline, nor give a straight answer on whether said pipeline would increase or decrease Canada's planet-w...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If Minister of Environment, Climate Change & Nature @juliedabrusin.bsky.social is unable to acknowledge that an oil pipeline would lead to an ⬆️ in GHG emissions, she should resign.
Spineless. Dishonest. Feckless. Incompetent. Anti-science. #topoli #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/01/n...
Spineless. Dishonest. Feckless. Incompetent. Anti-science. #topoli #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/01/n...
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today in related news, between your end and ours our sewer network is secure but definitely not encrypted. we can see all the content you share.
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
today in related news, between your end and ours our sewer network is secure but definitely not encrypted. we can see all the content you share.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Hey #BikeTO! The deadline to send your submission to iec@toronto.ca in support of Kingston Road and other cycling projects listed in Motion IE26.6 is TODAY at 4:30 PM! #ScarbTO #TOpoli #VisionZero secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
secure.toronto.ca
December 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Hey #BikeTO! The deadline to send your submission to iec@toronto.ca in support of Kingston Road and other cycling projects listed in Motion IE26.6 is TODAY at 4:30 PM! #ScarbTO #TOpoli #VisionZero secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
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According to Abacus (Nov 27, 2025) Poilievre is the guy you call if you need help putting up a shelf.
December 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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WTAF‽! When will Ontario municipalities band together and not comply with Ford’s antidemocratic, fatal moves? From turning a full sized subway to SRT-sized boondoggle 2 to “strong” mayor powers no one wanted to nixing bike lanes ppl & companies use to transit FU & now this‽ #onpoli #TOpoli
"The new corporation could set water rates for municipal residents, as a privately owned, for-profit organization. Municipalities would have to transfer all their water and wastewater assets, staff, debt, contracts and infrastructure to the new body." 🤮
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/28/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/28/n...
Ford government dives into municipal business as it eyes water services
The province has assumed sweeping new powers to seize control over municipal water systems — one of Ontario’s largest public assets, worth $175.8 billion — raising fears the move could pave the way fo...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Every time a UBI study is done the results are always “holy shit this works so well AND is cheaper than our current bad solutions” and every lawmaker goes “well it’ll never work”
December 3, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Every time a UBI study is done the results are always “holy shit this works so well AND is cheaper than our current bad solutions” and every lawmaker goes “well it’ll never work”
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How can there be reconciliation if there is no veto? How can he unilaterally decide whether they have a veto? What about UNDRIP? Carney's not the king of Canada. Plus First Nations are trying to shield ALL of us from more catastrophic climate decisions.
#cdnpoli #bcpoli
#cdnpoli #bcpoli
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🇨🇦 CARNEY FACES ANGRY CHIEFS OVER PIPELINE DEAL 🇨🇦
PM Carney walked into a "cool" room of First Nations leaders demanding he rip up his Alberta energy pact.
He promised consultation regarding the project, but refused to grant a veto.
Tonda MacCharles reports #CdnPoli #FirstNations #Pipeline
🇨🇦 CARNEY FACES ANGRY CHIEFS OVER PIPELINE DEAL 🇨🇦
PM Carney walked into a "cool" room of First Nations leaders demanding he rip up his Alberta energy pact.
He promised consultation regarding the project, but refused to grant a veto.
Tonda MacCharles reports #CdnPoli #FirstNations #Pipeline
December 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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I am going to repost all the cat in Christmas trees I find. It's my favorite thing.
This is a good one.
This is a good one.
Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.
December 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I am going to repost all the cat in Christmas trees I find. It's my favorite thing.
This is a good one.
This is a good one.
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Is there any more depressing story in urbanism than the fact that people kept cutting down speed cameras in Toronto, and then the premier just… agreed with them and banned speed cameras across the province?
It honestly makes me so mad.
It honestly makes me so mad.
All of Toronto's speed cameras are gone. How did we get to this point? | CBC News
Toronto's speed cameras may be gone, but this time there are no mysterious vandals wielding power tools, no blurry suspect photos and no police investigation.
www.cbc.ca
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Is there any more depressing story in urbanism than the fact that people kept cutting down speed cameras in Toronto, and then the premier just… agreed with them and banned speed cameras across the province?
It honestly makes me so mad.
It honestly makes me so mad.
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A 17-year-old just built a mind-controlled prosthetic arm for $300. #cdnpoli
Yes, $300.
For something that usually costs $450,000.
A teenager, working from home, used AI, cheap materials, and 23,000 lines of code to build a device that reads brain signals without surgery, without implants.
Yes, $300.
For something that usually costs $450,000.
A teenager, working from home, used AI, cheap materials, and 23,000 lines of code to build a device that reads brain signals without surgery, without implants.
December 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A 17-year-old just built a mind-controlled prosthetic arm for $300. #cdnpoli
Yes, $300.
For something that usually costs $450,000.
A teenager, working from home, used AI, cheap materials, and 23,000 lines of code to build a device that reads brain signals without surgery, without implants.
Yes, $300.
For something that usually costs $450,000.
A teenager, working from home, used AI, cheap materials, and 23,000 lines of code to build a device that reads brain signals without surgery, without implants.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Sometimes I stub my toe on purpose on the coffee table and then yell at the coffee table, just to see what it feels like to be a Conservative.
December 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Sometimes I stub my toe on purpose on the coffee table and then yell at the coffee table, just to see what it feels like to be a Conservative.
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brian was starting to think that maybe his mom wasn’t coming back
May 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
brian was starting to think that maybe his mom wasn’t coming back
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'This is no longer a risk, it is an emergency,' explain climate experts to more than a thousand British MPs and civil society leaders.
theecologist.org/2025/dec/01/...
theecologist.org/2025/dec/01/...
'If we take action, we might survive'
'This is no longer a risk, it is an emergency,' explain climate experts to more than a thousand British MPs and civil society leaders.
theecologist.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
'This is no longer a risk, it is an emergency,' explain climate experts to more than a thousand British MPs and civil society leaders.
theecologist.org/2025/dec/01/...
theecologist.org/2025/dec/01/...
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What's the opposite of a sneckdown? Cars driving in the bike lane because they can't see the lines, the curbs have gaps, and there's no bollards.
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What's the opposite of a sneckdown? Cars driving in the bike lane because they can't see the lines, the curbs have gaps, and there's no bollards.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Best response I've seen to the University of Oklahoma firing one of their LGBTQ+ teachers over giving a student a bad grade
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Best response I've seen to the University of Oklahoma firing one of their LGBTQ+ teachers over giving a student a bad grade
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This is the TSP setup that must be standard on #TTC streetcar, LRT, and priority Ten Minute Network bus routes along with fully actuated signals to get transit moving and make TTC the better way then general traffic in @toronto.ca
@ttcriders.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca @moretransitso.bsky.social
@ttcriders.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca @moretransitso.bsky.social
Yes on time and late trams should both have some level of priority (late trams should get more though), and from what I've heard that is the case on the LRT lines.
Here is the typical setup for TSP in the Netherlands:
Here is the typical setup for TSP in the Netherlands:
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is the TSP setup that must be standard on #TTC streetcar, LRT, and priority Ten Minute Network bus routes along with fully actuated signals to get transit moving and make TTC the better way then general traffic in @toronto.ca
@ttcriders.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca @moretransitso.bsky.social
@ttcriders.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca @moretransitso.bsky.social