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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 2h

>EMS
>carrying deadly weapon

Yeah that makes sense

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 2h

Fortuitous find at Valueless Village last night! Her other raincoat is very cute (covered in frogs) but doesn't wrap around.

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 4h

Pebbles greets you from the cargo bike.

A small dog in a rain coat sits in the front of a short-box bakfiets with pink flowers in the background

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 7h

Railway museum discount bins are amazing. In 2019, I spend $80 on a massive collection of old VIA Rail timetables that I then realized I had no easy way to actually pack into my backpack lol.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 7h

Going to Costco during the four days leading up to a Holiday = you are clinically insane. I don't make the rules. It's in the DSM

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 9h

That is a whacky good deal.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 9h

Same reason they keep mowing down old-growth forest, subsidizing oil and gas, and strangling labour unions:

They are left-wing in name only. I hope this term solidifies their reputation as a right-wing party.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 9h

Also bonkers that there is more willingness to restore rail to Gapesie (middle of nowhere) than all of Vancouver Island for half the price (like half a million people within spitting distance of the rail line). What exactly were the priorities here?

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 9h

My canola oil smoothies are starting to get old, they were delicious for the first three months but I'm starting to feel a little weird by lunchtime and let's not talk about my regularity.

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 1d

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 11h

In case anyone thinks that just because Paris introduced massive amounts of cycle infrastructure drivers somehow got safer: lol

EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 15h

Pour voir à Paris des automobilistes et des scootéristes brûler allègrement des feux rouges (même s’il y a des gens en train de traverser) on augmente ses chances en allant près du périph : le feu est alors « le dernier feu avant de rouler tranquille » et ça donne envie de passer quand même !

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 1d

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 11h

Christ why is it so damned boring

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 15h

The key is not to expand the space available to cars—that produces sprawl and unwalkable, unlivable cities.

When you restrict the car space, and prioritize space for more efficient modes—that’s when you discover you have space left over for living.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 11h

While I don't (can't) do it daily, at least once a week I ride the 27.5km from home to work, and then the 27.5km back in the evening. The number of colleagues who tell me I need to make sure I'm wearing bright clothing is tiresome.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 13h

"much" is doing a lot of heavy lifting - there are maybe a dozen intersections downtown with this restriction, and maybe four or five in the outlying communities.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 13h

So because people seldom use an intersection on foot, we should make it dangerously impossible for them to survive it if they DO need to use it on foot?

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Alex Diaz-Papkovich @alexandr.bsky.social · 14h

one of the craziest things to me is we learned basically immediately that this was terrible from a public safety perspective, especially for child/elderly pedestrians

this paper is from 1982 but the earliest version I found was published in *1979*!

Adoption of right turn on red: Effects on crashes at signalized intersections, Accident Analysis & Prevention
Volume 14, Issue 3, June 1982, Pages 219-234

Zador, P; Moshman, J; Marcus, L

ABSTRACT
By the end of the 1970's, all states in the U.S. had modified their laws to permit drivers to turn right on steady red at signalized intersections. Police-reported crash data from six states where permissive right turn on red (RTOR) laws were adopted during 1974–1977, as well as data from three states where the law in effect was unchanged throughout the period, were used to determine the effect of adopting such laws on the frequency of crashes involving right turning maneuvers at signalized intersections. The increase in the overall frequency of such crashes in states that adopted permissive right turn on red laws exceeded by more than 20% the comparable change in states that retained the same laws. Larger increases were found in urban areas (25%), and for pedestrian crashes (57%) especially in urban areas (79%). An increase of over 30% was found for child pedestrians, 100% for adults, and 110% for elderly pedestrians after adoption of RTOR.

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6015713
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0001457582900331

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 13h

This is why AI is a genuine threat to human rights. It will be weaponized not in the form of SkyNet but in the form of "well every piece of evidence is fabricated so you have no defense."

The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 14h

“They ARE arresting journalists” THEN POST THAT. STOP POSTING SLOP THAT CAN LATER BE USED TO FACT CHECK THESE KINDS OF THINGS AS FALSE.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 13h

Hence the quotes. VIA's modernization has been a total disaster, from eliminating printed timetables, to ending inter-agency trip planning. And on a whole other note they should have taken over the Train de Charlevoix.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 14h

That suggests you believe they would do anything other than be massive assholes the whole time and do anything other than networking to try to get more money out of each other.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 14h

"modernized"

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

soos

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

We walked all of the core of Ganges while moored at their trash heap of a marina (next time we'll use the nice public docks). There were two stores that interested us, both were on disastrously noisy roads and one didn't even have a proper sidewalk outside it. Ganges makes 100 Mile look bougie.

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

I ran into Tally Ho on my circumnavigation of Vancouver Island, the same day that my macerator pump got jammed and I had to repair it while underway in 28 degree celsius weather. What a welcome sight that was, pulling up to Savary Island and seeing that cutter.