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@ygkrogue.bsky.social
· Nov 10
A city that has a Weather Severity Index for roads but not for humans living in tents tells you everything you need to know...
❤️Kingston. Where Pothole Key Performance Indicators Thrive
#ygk
❤️Kingston. Where Pothole Key Performance Indicators Thrive
#ygk
Return To Normal
Last night Hank shut his phone off early and was the only local that didn't post photos of the Aurora Borealis.
Audrey and Boyd also missed out as they were busy watching two weeks of Entertainment Tonight they PVR'd.
#ygk
Last night Hank shut his phone off early and was the only local that didn't post photos of the Aurora Borealis.
Audrey and Boyd also missed out as they were busy watching two weeks of Entertainment Tonight they PVR'd.
#ygk
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Return To Normal
Last night Hank shut his phone off early and was the only local that didn't post photos of the Aurora Borealis.
Audrey and Boyd also missed out as they were busy watching two weeks of Entertainment Tonight they PVR'd.
#ygk
Last night Hank shut his phone off early and was the only local that didn't post photos of the Aurora Borealis.
Audrey and Boyd also missed out as they were busy watching two weeks of Entertainment Tonight they PVR'd.
#ygk
Now that everyone is done remembering and honouring the lives lost protecting the world from authoritarianism, it's now time to focus on the Dark Season of Mass Consumption in the Name Of Jesus.
#ygk
#ygk
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Now that everyone is done remembering and honouring the lives lost protecting the world from authoritarianism, it's now time to focus on the Dark Season of Mass Consumption in the Name Of Jesus.
#ygk
#ygk
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If you only think of one thing today, may you remember that two world wars were fought to defeat fascism, Nazism and authoritarianism yet many Canadians seem to embrace those values and are threatening democracy...
Lest we forget.
#RemembranceDay #ygk
Lest we forget.
#RemembranceDay #ygk
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If you only think of one thing today, may you remember that two world wars were fought to defeat fascism, Nazism and authoritarianism yet many Canadians seem to embrace those values and are threatening democracy...
Lest we forget.
#RemembranceDay #ygk
Lest we forget.
#RemembranceDay #ygk
The Rogue City Diner will be closed this week while our staff attends classes at the Sysco School of Culinary Arts so we can remain competitive with the top eateries in town during the Dark Season of Mass Consumption in The Name of Jesus.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
#ygk
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
#ygk
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Rogue City Diner will be closed this week while our staff attends classes at the Sysco School of Culinary Arts so we can remain competitive with the top eateries in town during the Dark Season of Mass Consumption in The Name of Jesus.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
#ygk
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
#ygk
⚠️Winter Pedestrian Alert!
Please exercise caution and be alert for motorists unable to make the seasonal transition from months of bare asphalt to snow covered ice roads while they are driving distracted under the influence of Capitalism on a Monday...
#ygk
Please exercise caution and be alert for motorists unable to make the seasonal transition from months of bare asphalt to snow covered ice roads while they are driving distracted under the influence of Capitalism on a Monday...
#ygk
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
⚠️Winter Pedestrian Alert!
Please exercise caution and be alert for motorists unable to make the seasonal transition from months of bare asphalt to snow covered ice roads while they are driving distracted under the influence of Capitalism on a Monday...
#ygk
Please exercise caution and be alert for motorists unable to make the seasonal transition from months of bare asphalt to snow covered ice roads while they are driving distracted under the influence of Capitalism on a Monday...
#ygk
UPDATE: Nope
Perhaps one good thing to come of Mayor96's idea to include "other public places," such as sidewalks in the "Child Safety Zones" is that the municipal sidewalks might get plowed sooner rather than later after a snowfall so the children don't have to walk on the bare, plowed roads...
#ygk
#ygk
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
UPDATE: Nope
MP Chris d'Entremont says he crossed the floor and joined the Liberals because of Poilievre's leadership style.
Mayor96 wanted to join the CONS because of Poilievre's leadership and polling numbers but local voters had a better grasp of common sense...
❤️Kingston, eh?
#ygk
Mayor96 wanted to join the CONS because of Poilievre's leadership and polling numbers but local voters had a better grasp of common sense...
❤️Kingston, eh?
#ygk
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
MP Chris d'Entremont says he crossed the floor and joined the Liberals because of Poilievre's leadership style.
Mayor96 wanted to join the CONS because of Poilievre's leadership and polling numbers but local voters had a better grasp of common sense...
❤️Kingston, eh?
#ygk
Mayor96 wanted to join the CONS because of Poilievre's leadership and polling numbers but local voters had a better grasp of common sense...
❤️Kingston, eh?
#ygk
Meanwhile, on the playing fields of Parliament:
PA Announcer: "Now batting for the Cons, Andrew Sheer."
Dan: "Well Buck, they seem to understand this is an important time of the game."
Buck: "Nyah, unfortunately the Cons don't have a deep bench to pinch hit for Poilievre."
#CanPoli
PA Announcer: "Now batting for the Cons, Andrew Sheer."
Dan: "Well Buck, they seem to understand this is an important time of the game."
Buck: "Nyah, unfortunately the Cons don't have a deep bench to pinch hit for Poilievre."
#CanPoli
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Meanwhile, on the playing fields of Parliament:
PA Announcer: "Now batting for the Cons, Andrew Sheer."
Dan: "Well Buck, they seem to understand this is an important time of the game."
Buck: "Nyah, unfortunately the Cons don't have a deep bench to pinch hit for Poilievre."
#CanPoli
PA Announcer: "Now batting for the Cons, Andrew Sheer."
Dan: "Well Buck, they seem to understand this is an important time of the game."
Buck: "Nyah, unfortunately the Cons don't have a deep bench to pinch hit for Poilievre."
#CanPoli
Perhaps one good thing to come of Mayor96's idea to include "other public places," such as sidewalks in the "Child Safety Zones" is that the municipal sidewalks might get plowed sooner rather than later after a snowfall so the children don't have to walk on the bare, plowed roads...
#ygk
#ygk
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Perhaps one good thing to come of Mayor96's idea to include "other public places," such as sidewalks in the "Child Safety Zones" is that the municipal sidewalks might get plowed sooner rather than later after a snowfall so the children don't have to walk on the bare, plowed roads...
#ygk
#ygk
No word if City Hall will consider repurposing Municipal Speed Cameras to monitor sidewalks designated as Child Safety Zones...
❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk #ygkHistory
❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk #ygkHistory
The City of Kingston has announced that it will discontinue its Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) #pilot program, due to recent provincial #legislation that removes municipal authority to operate ASE programs. #YGK
Learn more: www.kingstonist.com/news/city-of...
Learn more: www.kingstonist.com/news/city-of...
City of Kingston announces end of Automated Speed Enforcement pilot
(Kingston, Ontario) The City of Kingston has announced that it will discontinue its Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) pilot program, due to recent provincial legislation that removes municipal authori...
www.kingstonist.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
No word if City Hall will consider repurposing Municipal Speed Cameras to monitor sidewalks designated as Child Safety Zones...
❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk #ygkHistory
❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk #ygkHistory
⚠️Pedestrian Alert!
Mayor96 broadened the scope of the legal review of "Child Safety Zones" to include "other public places" where children may gather, such as municipal sidewalks...
❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk #ygkHistory
Mayor96 broadened the scope of the legal review of "Child Safety Zones" to include "other public places" where children may gather, such as municipal sidewalks...
❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk #ygkHistory
#ICYMI
By a 12-1 vote, #Kingston City Council voted to seek legal advice on the potential implementation of "Child Safety Zones" to prohibit "high-risk" activities in those areas.
Residents, however, may never know what that advice is. #YGK
www.kingstonist.com/news/balance...
By a 12-1 vote, #Kingston City Council voted to seek legal advice on the potential implementation of "Child Safety Zones" to prohibit "high-risk" activities in those areas.
Residents, however, may never know what that advice is. #YGK
www.kingstonist.com/news/balance...
‘Balanced approach’: Kingston seeks legal advice on restricting drug use in designated areas
(Kingston, Ontario) Deputy Mayor Conny Glenn’s controversial attempt to establish “child safety zones” in order to prohibit drug use and other high-risk activities near Kingston’s playgrounds, sports ...
www.kingstonist.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
⚠️Pedestrian Alert!
Mayor96 broadened the scope of the legal review of "Child Safety Zones" to include "other public places" where children may gather, such as municipal sidewalks...
❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk #ygkHistory
Mayor96 broadened the scope of the legal review of "Child Safety Zones" to include "other public places" where children may gather, such as municipal sidewalks...
❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk #ygkHistory
Downtown Kingston's 2021 pewter Christmas ornament commemorating Dr. Moore's COVID flipchart appears to be overstocked due to ongoing tarnish...
❤️Kingston. You'll Be Amazed At What You See
#ygk #CovidIsAirborne
❤️Kingston. You'll Be Amazed At What You See
#ygk #CovidIsAirborne
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Downtown Kingston's 2021 pewter Christmas ornament commemorating Dr. Moore's COVID flipchart appears to be overstocked due to ongoing tarnish...
❤️Kingston. You'll Be Amazed At What You See
#ygk #CovidIsAirborne
❤️Kingston. You'll Be Amazed At What You See
#ygk #CovidIsAirborne
November 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Reposted by YGK Rogue City🍁
Imagine what Carney is up against.
Now.
Read this story.
Perhaps maybe now you understand why he apologized.
Tame the shrew. As it were.
I wish people would start thinking outside the box.
#cdnpoli
Now.
Read this story.
Perhaps maybe now you understand why he apologized.
Tame the shrew. As it were.
I wish people would start thinking outside the box.
#cdnpoli
November 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Imagine what Carney is up against.
Now.
Read this story.
Perhaps maybe now you understand why he apologized.
Tame the shrew. As it were.
I wish people would start thinking outside the box.
#cdnpoli
Now.
Read this story.
Perhaps maybe now you understand why he apologized.
Tame the shrew. As it were.
I wish people would start thinking outside the box.
#cdnpoli
We will not be adjusting our time measuring devices this evening because the government has no right over our personal continued sequence of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past.
#ygk #DaylightSavingTime
#ygk #DaylightSavingTime
November 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
We will not be adjusting our time measuring devices this evening because the government has no right over our personal continued sequence of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past.
#ygk #DaylightSavingTime
#ygk #DaylightSavingTime
Don't forget to turn your clocks back an hour tonight as we begin the Dark Season Of Mass Consumption In The Name of Jesus.
#ygk #StandardTime #timetravel #ConsumingOurWayToNetZero2040
#ygk #StandardTime #timetravel #ConsumingOurWayToNetZero2040
November 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Don't forget to turn your clocks back an hour tonight as we begin the Dark Season Of Mass Consumption In The Name of Jesus.
#ygk #StandardTime #timetravel #ConsumingOurWayToNetZero2040
#ygk #StandardTime #timetravel #ConsumingOurWayToNetZero2040
Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,434
The Kingston Environmental Advisory Committee is to be dissolved and its role is to be assumed by city staff members who have increased their skills and understanding of the issue...
Your community voice? Not required.
🧵
#ygk
www.thewhig.com/news/kingsto...
The Kingston Environmental Advisory Committee is to be dissolved and its role is to be assumed by city staff members who have increased their skills and understanding of the issue...
Your community voice? Not required.
🧵
#ygk
www.thewhig.com/news/kingsto...
Kingston city council to look at making changes to committee landscape
Review of Kingston's municipal committee structure recommends changes, some minor, some major.
www.thewhig.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,434
The Kingston Environmental Advisory Committee is to be dissolved and its role is to be assumed by city staff members who have increased their skills and understanding of the issue...
Your community voice? Not required.
🧵
#ygk
www.thewhig.com/news/kingsto...
The Kingston Environmental Advisory Committee is to be dissolved and its role is to be assumed by city staff members who have increased their skills and understanding of the issue...
Your community voice? Not required.
🧵
#ygk
www.thewhig.com/news/kingsto...
"Now, nearly three years since COVID-19 first took over our lives, the worst of the pandemic is behind us."
-Mayor96, Nov.22, 2022
Spend. Consume. Dispose. Repeat
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause...
#ygk
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
-Mayor96, Nov.22, 2022
Spend. Consume. Dispose. Repeat
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause...
#ygk
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
November 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"Now, nearly three years since COVID-19 first took over our lives, the worst of the pandemic is behind us."
-Mayor96, Nov.22, 2022
Spend. Consume. Dispose. Repeat
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause...
#ygk
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
-Mayor96, Nov.22, 2022
Spend. Consume. Dispose. Repeat
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause...
#ygk
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
"Local tourism groups, like Kingston Accommodation Partners, have questioned the figures provided by VIA to maintain 154 weekly service stops as seemingly high."
Back in 2020, the City build a rail overpass because they said 50 trains per day was inconvenient for motorists...
#ygk
Back in 2020, the City build a rail overpass because they said 50 trains per day was inconvenient for motorists...
#ygk
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Local tourism groups, like Kingston Accommodation Partners, have questioned the figures provided by VIA to maintain 154 weekly service stops as seemingly high."
Back in 2020, the City build a rail overpass because they said 50 trains per day was inconvenient for motorists...
#ygk
Back in 2020, the City build a rail overpass because they said 50 trains per day was inconvenient for motorists...
#ygk
FACT CHECK:
Masking to hide one's identity on October 31 is socially acceptable.
Masking to protect one's health every day is suspect.
#Mask #ygk #Halloween #Idiocracy #TrickOrTreat #CovidIsAirborne
Masking to hide one's identity on October 31 is socially acceptable.
Masking to protect one's health every day is suspect.
#Mask #ygk #Halloween #Idiocracy #TrickOrTreat #CovidIsAirborne
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
FACT CHECK:
Masking to hide one's identity on October 31 is socially acceptable.
Masking to protect one's health every day is suspect.
#Mask #ygk #Halloween #Idiocracy #TrickOrTreat #CovidIsAirborne
Masking to hide one's identity on October 31 is socially acceptable.
Masking to protect one's health every day is suspect.
#Mask #ygk #Halloween #Idiocracy #TrickOrTreat #CovidIsAirborne
Kingston Food Insecurity Emergency Day 290
Anyone else giving out canned beans, soup or packages of pasta to hungry families that come to your door this Hallowe'en?
#ygkHunger #ygk
Anyone else giving out canned beans, soup or packages of pasta to hungry families that come to your door this Hallowe'en?
#ygkHunger #ygk
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Kingston Food Insecurity Emergency Day 290
Anyone else giving out canned beans, soup or packages of pasta to hungry families that come to your door this Hallowe'en?
#ygkHunger #ygk
Anyone else giving out canned beans, soup or packages of pasta to hungry families that come to your door this Hallowe'en?
#ygkHunger #ygk
Mayor96 Reign Day 4,021
We would be remiss if we didn't belatedly recognize Mayor96's rise to power on October 27, 2014.
Twas ever thus...
❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk
We would be remiss if we didn't belatedly recognize Mayor96's rise to power on October 27, 2014.
Twas ever thus...
❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Mayor96 Reign Day 4,021
We would be remiss if we didn't belatedly recognize Mayor96's rise to power on October 27, 2014.
Twas ever thus...
❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk
We would be remiss if we didn't belatedly recognize Mayor96's rise to power on October 27, 2014.
Twas ever thus...
❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk
Sure hope that with any service upgrades the City won't have to cover the cost of empty seats like they do with the Air Canada buses...
#ygk
#ygk
“Through this survey, we are asking residents if there is community interest in new rail service options, including a late-night train possibility,” said #Kingston Mayor Bryan Paterson. #YGK #TrainService
More details here: www.kingstonist.com/news/kingsto...
More details here: www.kingstonist.com/news/kingsto...
Kingston launches survey on potential VIA Rail service expansion
(Kingston, Ontario) The City of Kingston is gathering public feedback on potential additional VIA Rail service options, including a late-night train option from Toronto to Kingston.
www.kingstonist.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Sure hope that with any service upgrades the City won't have to cover the cost of empty seats like they do with the Air Canada buses...
#ygk
#ygk
Update:
Rogue City News has learned that once these cameras improve vehicular traffic flow, the City will focus their cameras and AI to improve human traffic flows from Encampments to Transitional Housing...
#ygk
Rogue City News has learned that once these cameras improve vehicular traffic flow, the City will focus their cameras and AI to improve human traffic flows from Encampments to Transitional Housing...
#ygk
Kingston upgrading intersection cameras to improve traffic flow #ygk www.thewhig.com/news/kingsto...
October 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Update:
Rogue City News has learned that once these cameras improve vehicular traffic flow, the City will focus their cameras and AI to improve human traffic flows from Encampments to Transitional Housing...
#ygk
Rogue City News has learned that once these cameras improve vehicular traffic flow, the City will focus their cameras and AI to improve human traffic flows from Encampments to Transitional Housing...
#ygk