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Tom Flood
@tomflood.bsky.social
Strategy/Creative/Content/Branding @ rovélo creative. Lectures & workshops on reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety/road violence and active transportation but mostly trying to catch up on vacuuming.
Creativebyrovelo.com
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There is no greater joy than everyone in the house being asleep as you drink your morning coffee.
While my family visited China, they rode a high speed train that covered 1100kms in about 4 hours....😮‍💨

Worth noting that in their time there they could not believe how incredible the trains were and how much they (as regular non urbanist type people) so much preferred trains vs planes.
Related: my dad did find and step into his grandparents home in a small village in China last year. Pretty surreal moment for him.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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China is starting to lead. We're falling behind.
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Rogers commemorates Blue Jays World Series Run with new statue of Ted Rogers
Rogers commemorates Blue Jays World Series Run with new statue of Ted Rogers
TORONTO - Rogers Communications, proud owner of the only Major League Baseball team in Canada, revealed plans to celebrate their 2025 World Series run with a second statue of company founder Ted Roger...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
always appreciate the time and space to be able to discuss creative work.
Still thinking about this part of the conversation, showing a poster by @tomflood.bsky.social next to two by Klaus Staeck that I remember from my childhood.
Lots of parallels between discussions in Germany (and other places in Europe) back then and Canada (and the US) 30 to 40 years later.
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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What if, and this is a truly out of the box thought, the new residents of this housing development become customers of those businesses? Customers who can...walk to shop from their nearby homes.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Still thinking about this part of the conversation, showing a poster by @tomflood.bsky.social next to two by Klaus Staeck that I remember from my childhood.
Lots of parallels between discussions in Germany (and other places in Europe) back then and Canada (and the US) 30 to 40 years later.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"Toronto neighbourhood wants to stop cheap homes so they can keep parking spaces"
A headline that truly unites the entire world. 🙏♥️
www.blogto.com/real-estate-...
Toronto neighbourhood wants to stop cheap homes so they can keep parking spaces
A Toronto neighbourhood is pushing back against plans to replace a well-used public parking lot in the community with a massive new housing developme…
www.blogto.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Found my old copy of Either/Or, broken and shattered exactly how I liked my Elliott Smith experience.
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Lego needs an Edmund Fitzgerald Great Lakes freighter set.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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The best book stores make fire-marshals sweat when they step in the door.
The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Prioritising youth mobility is prioritising adult relaxing.

When kids can walk/roll safely and independently to SPORTS TRAINING, you can enjoy some peaceful time to yourself.

@camogie.bsky.social
Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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The Beastie Boys have pumped me up so many times when I feel down and Im thankful for them and what they left us 💜
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Feist and Olivia Rodrigo performing "We're going to be friends" www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-kZ...
Olivia Rodrigo - We’re going to be friends Live at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
YouTube video by Hearts4livie
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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who else can’t watch a TV show without noting every band shirt
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Mortifying and completely preventable.

www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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We really need to not let this happen
When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.

Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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We are coming up to the 50th anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Here is my story about the great ship and the great song that captured how it went down.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtPs...
Canada & USA SHARE A HARD ANNIVERSARY !!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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And the places for kids. In Korea, there are some children's libraries where various programs take place (Library orientated recreation centre more like, in addition to actual rec centres)
Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Faire moins plus souvent.
Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Some Decorator Somewhere: “Now, all we need to do is get rid of the books that don’t spark joy, organize them by color rather than subject or author and maybe turn their spines in so they’re all an attractive beige and—“

(Trapdoor opens and drops them in a swampy, gator-filled moat)
The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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“The office of federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel declined to comment.”

www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The Merch Market Souvenir Ticket Generator

They don’t make real tickets anymore so we thought we’d help out if you collect them - any show from the past, present or future

Totally FREE get stuck right in here…

www.merch-market.co.uk/ticket-gener...
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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49 years ago today
Buzzcocks with Chelsea as support act - Electric Circus, Manchester, November 10, 1976.

Photos by Linder Sterling

#punk #punks #punkrock #buzzcocks #Chelsea #history #punkrockhistory #otd
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM