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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 38m

A joy i never knew while being a suburb drivist was rolling up and seeing all your friends' bikes out front 😍

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Youth en Route @youthenroute.bsky.social · 1d

We are sad the teachers strike is impacting our work.
We appreciate all the work teachers do to manage challenging class sizes and complex learners.
Some teachers are organizing a Ride for RED Friday. We'll be there, wearing red and in our best biking form! Join us!
#yycbike #bikeride #ata

Image says Ride for Red Oct 10, 10 a.m. edworthy park to east village and has a pack of cyclists wering red jerseys - its an ai image

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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 15h

I have been so impressed with Bixis, year round!

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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 19h

As a Montrealer, this makes me so proud! 🙌
“Though other cities offer bike-sharing programs, “Montreal revolutionized the trend,” TIME wrote, calling Bixi’s technology “the backbone” of bike-sharing services in cities including London and New York.”
montrealgazette.com/news/bixi-bi...

Bixi bike-sharing program among the top 25 inventions in 25 years, TIME Magazine declares

The list also includes the iPhone and the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator.

montrealgazette.com

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 1d

My 7yo this afternoon: “It’s been so long since we’ve taken the @bunchbike.com somewhere!”

Me: “We just rode it to/from St. Paul last night.” (40 mins each way)

7yo: “Yeah, but yesterday was a long time ago.”

😆

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Breck @breckw.bsky.social · 1d

Love a plumber on a bike

Cargo bike parked on the street with a “le plombier a velo” sign, which means “the plumber on a bike” in French

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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 1d

There's more!! 36th st in Dover, and 68th st ne/se in Abbeydale (well....bits of it)

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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I'm assuming. Looks like it!

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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 1d

I've been very excited seeing some of these #yycbike missing links filled in - ones on routes that I've traveled, sharing roads with aggressive drivers far too many times.
4th st NE, Beddington
32nd ave from Barlow to 12th st NE, connecting to existing 32nd ave!
14th st NW, Macewan

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1d

The "set aside the art from the artist" thing in this case is moot. Harry Potter money now goes right to destroying the human rights of trans persons. A billionaire who got her ass kissed for two decades got a rebuke and now she's got to wreck the lives of others.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 3d

I think for Halloween I may put on a blue suit, a strand of pearls and a brown wig, and wander around saying “Well look,” in an authoritative but slightly pissy tone because that’s the scariest thing in Alberta right now.

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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 2d

I love this

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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 2d

I was just going to say, but also that he's not wrong about the ratio since they cost somebody SOMETHING and are completely useless

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Alanna dB @whoalansi.bsky.social · 2d

Finally got around to finishing watching this video put out last year from the @cnunewurbanism.bsky.social about Walkability for a Restorative Urbanism. Some really interesting conversations, including some things that I think are interesting to consider about community, aging, & parenting.

Walkability for a Restorative Urbanism

YouTube video by Congress for the New Urbanism

www.youtube.com

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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway here's my bike under some sick ass spatulas

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 2d

"It would take UNRWA just about 3 hours to get trucks to the borders and then get much needed supplies directly to desperate people in #Gaza” our Juliette Touma tells @npr.org

The siege must be lifted, and the crossings must open.

#CeasefireNow

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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 2d

Weird that antifa has existed as long as fascism. Almost like they're anti...fascism. anyway. Probably means nothing

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 2d

You saw how I acted this summer...I'm with you

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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 2d

No time like the present to learn how to winter camp!

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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 2d

I was excitedly digging out my winter clothes last night.
Where the heck are my head bands

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Aimee Witteman @aimeewitteman.bsky.social · 3d

And it’s so cute when it’s folded up and tucked into a luggage rack 😍🚲🚆#bikesky

Folded Brampton bike next to Acela train

Folded Brampton bike in luggage rack on Amtrak train

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mark burge @markburge.ca · 3d

It is astounding how much negative ebike press has come out in the past few months, it almost as if they represent a real threat to the car industry.

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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 3d

Most normal Airdrie driving enthusiast

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 3d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Matthew the Matticus @matticusssss.bsky.social · 3d

I live for musical instruments on bicycles

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