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Pete
@peeete.bsky.social
Ottawa, ON

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We don't build storefronts like that anymore and that's a real shame.
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Reposted by Pete
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Do you think this guy knows Jane's house (like many others in the area) was a boarding house before the Jacobs's renovated it into a single family home?
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The idea that shitty cheap shoes/clothes/appliances/etc didn't exist until 1990 or whenever is very strange.
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The neutrality of the courts is good, actually. Allowing some adornments and banning others is stupid.
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Compare to the abject misery of transferring at Hurdman.
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I know what it is.

I also know that clothing is an increasingly small share of household expenses, that the quality of clothing has increased tremendously over the past 100 years, and that the cost of good quality clothing has fallen enormously.

Clothing is not driving the cost of living crisis.
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The cost of footwear is not driving the cost of living crisis, C'mon man.
November 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hell yeah
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Weirdly, I have found the exact opposite 🤷
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If you use one of those absurd awooga horns in your bike, then I'm sorry to say, but: gulag
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Reposted by Pete
Blinking bike lights are not fine
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Personally, I think right/wrong and good/bad are important things for doctors to be able to distinguish.
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Industrial glassware is so cool. Especially pre globalization when production was so regional and every factory had their own little foibles.
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Is the hardcore authoritarian left in the room with us right now.
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM