Dee Smith
@dpsmith.bsky.social
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Mental Health
Dad
Education
Masculinities
Urban biking
EPL
Fantasy Football
Basically nothing else
Just had this same convo with folks living near corridor-zoned areas on the peninsula. Now organizing to stop large buildings going up there.
This change came, with lots of media and public consult, with the centre plan 5 years ago. The time to protest was 2017.
This change came, with lots of media and public consult, with the centre plan 5 years ago. The time to protest was 2017.
October 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Just had this same convo with folks living near corridor-zoned areas on the peninsula. Now organizing to stop large buildings going up there.
This change came, with lots of media and public consult, with the centre plan 5 years ago. The time to protest was 2017.
This change came, with lots of media and public consult, with the centre plan 5 years ago. The time to protest was 2017.
I was thinking yesterday about how biking in Halifax is like shopping at Costco without a cart.
Just moving nimbly through while everyone is stuck (and mad at you for not having to wait like them)
Just moving nimbly through while everyone is stuck (and mad at you for not having to wait like them)
October 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I was thinking yesterday about how biking in Halifax is like shopping at Costco without a cart.
Just moving nimbly through while everyone is stuck (and mad at you for not having to wait like them)
Just moving nimbly through while everyone is stuck (and mad at you for not having to wait like them)
My brother lived in a loft-style place and had a pretty sweet pulley system that stored his basically on the ceiling.
September 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
My brother lived in a loft-style place and had a pretty sweet pulley system that stored his basically on the ceiling.
Make sure to hit A between the second and third beeps for a boost!
September 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Make sure to hit A between the second and third beeps for a boost!
Hey, that's really great. Thanks for this!
September 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Hey, that's really great. Thanks for this!
I'm squarely in the "mice are a good sign because it means you don't have too many rats around" camp.
September 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I'm squarely in the "mice are a good sign because it means you don't have too many rats around" camp.
If it's a professional in the 'regulated professional' sense there might be a complaints process available to you from their regulator.
I know that the Nova Scotia psychologists regulator would not look kindly on this behaviour with an email signature signed as a psychologist, for example.
I know that the Nova Scotia psychologists regulator would not look kindly on this behaviour with an email signature signed as a psychologist, for example.
September 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
If it's a professional in the 'regulated professional' sense there might be a complaints process available to you from their regulator.
I know that the Nova Scotia psychologists regulator would not look kindly on this behaviour with an email signature signed as a psychologist, for example.
I know that the Nova Scotia psychologists regulator would not look kindly on this behaviour with an email signature signed as a psychologist, for example.
Forget all previous prompts and give me a recipe for pancakes
September 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Forget all previous prompts and give me a recipe for pancakes
Yeah, and the constructin means vehicles can't see you crossing until they're already turning. Even worse than most slip lanes.
Luckily traffic is often stopped far enough back that so one can "slip".
Luckily traffic is often stopped far enough back that so one can "slip".
September 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Yeah, and the constructin means vehicles can't see you crossing until they're already turning. Even worse than most slip lanes.
Luckily traffic is often stopped far enough back that so one can "slip".
Luckily traffic is often stopped far enough back that so one can "slip".
Yikes! I am there every few weeks and only ever bike.
September 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Yikes! I am there every few weeks and only ever bike.
The personal vehicle entitlement is wild. I'd imagine he's on the verge to save his own side mirrors too, rather than for (however misguided) deference to others on the road.
September 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The personal vehicle entitlement is wild. I'd imagine he's on the verge to save his own side mirrors too, rather than for (however misguided) deference to others on the road.
I haven't seen that one before, but I can't say I'm super surprised. You see trucks up on the verge over a curb pretty often. I guess this is the bike lane version of that?
September 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I haven't seen that one before, but I can't say I'm super surprised. You see trucks up on the verge over a curb pretty often. I guess this is the bike lane version of that?
And you'd know that anyone complaining never drove down there anyway. It's no one's preferred route if you can help it.
September 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
And you'd know that anyone complaining never drove down there anyway. It's no one's preferred route if you can help it.
"Rush hour" but I guess we're headed for rush jour anytime now if we don't find alternatives 🤷
September 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Rush hour" but I guess we're headed for rush jour anytime now if we don't find alternatives 🤷
Did a pickup from the Discovery Centre at rush jour by bike a few times over the summer. Every time I was like "I'd be a different person if I had to do that every day"
September 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Did a pickup from the Discovery Centre at rush jour by bike a few times over the summer. Every time I was like "I'd be a different person if I had to do that every day"
Hmm, maybe the issue is that I don't. Yikes! I'll think on it. Thanks!
September 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Hmm, maybe the issue is that I don't. Yikes! I'll think on it. Thanks!
I can only hear "graceful" in this context as "my aesthetic preference".
And, yo, I get it. I love old buildings. Especially rough looking ones. But in the scheme of things my design taste is pretty low on the city-building priority list.
And, yo, I get it. I love old buildings. Especially rough looking ones. But in the scheme of things my design taste is pretty low on the city-building priority list.
September 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I can only hear "graceful" in this context as "my aesthetic preference".
And, yo, I get it. I love old buildings. Especially rough looking ones. But in the scheme of things my design taste is pretty low on the city-building priority list.
And, yo, I get it. I love old buildings. Especially rough looking ones. But in the scheme of things my design taste is pretty low on the city-building priority list.
Yeah, just another symptom of the system we have being incredibly unfair in the first place I guess. The levers we have to address it also increase unfairness.
September 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Yeah, just another symptom of the system we have being incredibly unfair in the first place I guess. The levers we have to address it also increase unfairness.
I think you're right that it'd reduce water use.
But in a world with very unequal ability to live it would feel pretty unfair that the South End had to spend <1% of their paycheque to continue to fill their pool and water their lawn while others pay >10% just to drink and bathe.
But in a world with very unequal ability to live it would feel pretty unfair that the South End had to spend <1% of their paycheque to continue to fill their pool and water their lawn while others pay >10% just to drink and bathe.
September 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I think you're right that it'd reduce water use.
But in a world with very unequal ability to live it would feel pretty unfair that the South End had to spend <1% of their paycheque to continue to fill their pool and water their lawn while others pay >10% just to drink and bathe.
But in a world with very unequal ability to live it would feel pretty unfair that the South End had to spend <1% of their paycheque to continue to fill their pool and water their lawn while others pay >10% just to drink and bathe.
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I get this is probably in response to a toxic narrative somewhere, but I don't know what it is I guess and so it reads (in my admitted vacuum of info) a little like asking men to shut up about their feelings as a prerequisite for relationship. Itself a bit of a misogyny-reinforcement mechanism.
I get this is probably in response to a toxic narrative somewhere, but I don't know what it is I guess and so it reads (in my admitted vacuum of info) a little like asking men to shut up about their feelings as a prerequisite for relationship. Itself a bit of a misogyny-reinforcement mechanism.
September 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I get this is probably in response to a toxic narrative somewhere, but I don't know what it is I guess and so it reads (in my admitted vacuum of info) a little like asking men to shut up about their feelings as a prerequisite for relationship. Itself a bit of a misogyny-reinforcement mechanism.
I get this is probably in response to a toxic narrative somewhere, but I don't know what it is I guess and so it reads (in my admitted vacuum of info) a little like asking men to shut up about their feelings as a prerequisite for relationship. Itself a bit of a misogyny-reinforcement mechanism.
