Julien B
@boninjg.bsky.social
Parent to 2 wonderful autistic children, MSc candidate in Interdisciplinary Health @ LU researching access to autism service in Northern Ontario & travel behaviour of autistic children/youth.
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As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many basic applications now require an internet connection to function.
December 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many basic applications now require an internet connection to function.
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"Annoying 8 year olds keep wanting to walk and bike to school despite city's best efforts to make it too dangerous."
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creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord
December 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Annoying 8 year olds keep wanting to walk and bike to school despite city's best efforts to make it too dangerous."
creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord
creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord
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The bollard hasn’t moved a single inch. Total domination.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
December 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The bollard hasn’t moved a single inch. Total domination.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
I feel seen
December 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I feel seen
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If we're serious about climate change, we should invest in thorough high-speed train infrastructure. Let the trucks have the highways. Yes, it's pricey. But imagine the positive social transformation.
December 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If we're serious about climate change, we should invest in thorough high-speed train infrastructure. Let the trucks have the highways. Yes, it's pricey. But imagine the positive social transformation.
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Or we can ban cars.
Protected bike lanes don't sound so bad now, do they?
Protected bike lanes don't sound so bad now, do they?
“I wish these cyclists weren’t in my way. There must be a solution.”
Bike infrastructure IS Car infrastructure
Bike infrastructure IS Car infrastructure
December 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Or we can ban cars.
Protected bike lanes don't sound so bad now, do they?
Protected bike lanes don't sound so bad now, do they?
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And now we have free school meals! Quelle horreur!
In fact, millionaires and billionaires fled Massachusetts so hard that the state has collected even more money than expected
Massachusetts collected $2 billion more in tax revenue than expected because of millionaires tax - The Boston Globe
Total revenue collections for fiscal year 2025 totaled approximately $43.7 billion, which is $2.9 billion, or 7.1 percent, more than the state pulled in the prior fiscal year.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
And now we have free school meals! Quelle horreur!
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The prob/em is that manufacturers can legally call this motorcycle an "E-bike."
Streetsblog digs into this fakery and why it has to stop:
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/12/23/s...
Streetsblog digs into this fakery and why it has to stop:
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/12/23/s...
December 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The prob/em is that manufacturers can legally call this motorcycle an "E-bike."
Streetsblog digs into this fakery and why it has to stop:
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/12/23/s...
Streetsblog digs into this fakery and why it has to stop:
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/12/23/s...
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This incredible story only happens because the kids live in a walkable town with a train station.
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This incredible story only happens because the kids live in a walkable town with a train station.
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“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
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My Christmas wish is that one day our sidewalks will be as wide as our trucks.🎄🎅
December 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My Christmas wish is that one day our sidewalks will be as wide as our trucks.🎄🎅
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There is no such thing as free parking!
“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.
Opinion | The Way to Pay for Free Buses Is to End Free Parking
Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.
nyti.ms
December 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
There is no such thing as free parking!
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In Coniston, I toured the Elmwood building, a 55-unit apartment where rents are locked below market for 20 years. This matters because it means people can afford to stay in their community. They don’t have to worry about being priced out or losing their homes.
December 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
In Coniston, I toured the Elmwood building, a 55-unit apartment where rents are locked below market for 20 years. This matters because it means people can afford to stay in their community. They don’t have to worry about being priced out or losing their homes.
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That’s what non-profit housing does: it gives people stability and affordability they can count on. Our Homes Ontario proposal is designed to build more housing like this, using public land and non-profit partners to create permanently affordable homes all across the province.
December 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
That’s what non-profit housing does: it gives people stability and affordability they can count on. Our Homes Ontario proposal is designed to build more housing like this, using public land and non-profit partners to create permanently affordable homes all across the province.
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With French subtitles… 🚴♂️ bsky.app/profile/carl...
The Ontario government wants to remove bike lanes in Toronto. The city's shopkeepers are protesting, explaining that the lanes have been good for their business and providing figures to support their claims.
Extract from a Toronto City News report with French STà.
(HT @emmanuelspv.bsky.social)
Extract from a Toronto City News report with French STà.
(HT @emmanuelspv.bsky.social)
December 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
With French subtitles… 🚴♂️ bsky.app/profile/carl...
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.
December 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.
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The glorious history of The Butter Tart, one of Canada's greatest creations.
youtube.com/shorts/rttD2...
youtube.com/shorts/rttD2...
The History Of Butter Tarts!
YouTube video by Canadian History Ehx
youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The glorious history of The Butter Tart, one of Canada's greatest creations.
youtube.com/shorts/rttD2...
youtube.com/shorts/rttD2...
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What does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc).
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
December 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
What does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc).
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
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Listened to Brent on the latest urbanist agenda pod and really liked his "it's just geometry" argument about getting cars off of roads. This is a good visualisation of that:
What does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc).
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Listened to Brent on the latest urbanist agenda pod and really liked his "it's just geometry" argument about getting cars off of roads. This is a good visualisation of that:
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One US company "owns more than 90% of the tourist attractions in Banff National Park and Jasper National Park."
This seems wrong.
This seems wrong.
December 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
One US company "owns more than 90% of the tourist attractions in Banff National Park and Jasper National Park."
This seems wrong.
This seems wrong.
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40m / 130ft wide:
- Massive sidewalk where you can walk three abreast
- Trees
- Wide bike lane (would prefer a curb, but...)
- Car lane
- Grassy center-running tram tracks with real priority at signals
In America this would be a 6-lane stroad.
- Massive sidewalk where you can walk three abreast
- Trees
- Wide bike lane (would prefer a curb, but...)
- Car lane
- Grassy center-running tram tracks with real priority at signals
In America this would be a 6-lane stroad.
Toute nouvelle bande cyclable plus large Boulevard Davout. Il y a des cadeaux de Noël plus modestes que les autres ;)
December 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
40m / 130ft wide:
- Massive sidewalk where you can walk three abreast
- Trees
- Wide bike lane (would prefer a curb, but...)
- Car lane
- Grassy center-running tram tracks with real priority at signals
In America this would be a 6-lane stroad.
- Massive sidewalk where you can walk three abreast
- Trees
- Wide bike lane (would prefer a curb, but...)
- Car lane
- Grassy center-running tram tracks with real priority at signals
In America this would be a 6-lane stroad.
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When I'm accused of naivety for thinking the world can change for the better, I use this very example.
I'm not old & in my lifetime, smoking went from absolutely everywhere, to "smoking sections", to the current reality.
It took education, new laws, & peer pressure. All of it - no silver bullet.
I'm not old & in my lifetime, smoking went from absolutely everywhere, to "smoking sections", to the current reality.
It took education, new laws, & peer pressure. All of it - no silver bullet.
I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
It’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted
December 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
When I'm accused of naivety for thinking the world can change for the better, I use this very example.
I'm not old & in my lifetime, smoking went from absolutely everywhere, to "smoking sections", to the current reality.
It took education, new laws, & peer pressure. All of it - no silver bullet.
I'm not old & in my lifetime, smoking went from absolutely everywhere, to "smoking sections", to the current reality.
It took education, new laws, & peer pressure. All of it - no silver bullet.
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No one was injured after a vehicle drove into the front of a business in Saanich on Thursday morning, say the Saanich Police Department.
‘Driver error’ suspected after vehicle drives into Saanich business: police
No one was injured after a vehicle drove into the front of a business in Saanich on Thursday morning, say the Saanich Police Department.
cheknews.ca
December 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Trump has now conducted 28 boat strikes, killing over 100 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
December 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Trump has now conducted 28 boat strikes, killing over 100 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.