Brian M 🇺🇦
@bravado1.bsky.social
Some dude that bikes for groceries most days
Disclaimer: I know that the stock market is not reality in 2025.
All I hear is doom and gloom about Canada and how we can't do anything right economically.
Why have my Canadian equity ETFs kept up with the American ones all year - and even over the last 3 years?
All I hear is doom and gloom about Canada and how we can't do anything right economically.
Why have my Canadian equity ETFs kept up with the American ones all year - and even over the last 3 years?
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Disclaimer: I know that the stock market is not reality in 2025.
All I hear is doom and gloom about Canada and how we can't do anything right economically.
Why have my Canadian equity ETFs kept up with the American ones all year - and even over the last 3 years?
All I hear is doom and gloom about Canada and how we can't do anything right economically.
Why have my Canadian equity ETFs kept up with the American ones all year - and even over the last 3 years?
One of the busiest routes in town, completely impassable for me to walk 5 mins to the hardware store.
Local leadership ignores the poor. They ignore children. They ignore the disabled. This is not radical - it is the default policy of council.
@cambridge.ca @regionofwaterloo.bsky.social
Local leadership ignores the poor. They ignore children. They ignore the disabled. This is not radical - it is the default policy of council.
@cambridge.ca @regionofwaterloo.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
One of the busiest routes in town, completely impassable for me to walk 5 mins to the hardware store.
Local leadership ignores the poor. They ignore children. They ignore the disabled. This is not radical - it is the default policy of council.
@cambridge.ca @regionofwaterloo.bsky.social
Local leadership ignores the poor. They ignore children. They ignore the disabled. This is not radical - it is the default policy of council.
@cambridge.ca @regionofwaterloo.bsky.social
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Living on a busy Regional Road gives me the luxury of sidewalk plow priority when I want to be a lazy homeowner.
Where are they this morning?
Where are they this morning?
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Living on a busy Regional Road gives me the luxury of sidewalk plow priority when I want to be a lazy homeowner.
Where are they this morning?
Where are they this morning?
Average voter: Now that my number in my stocks app is red, I have very serious thoughts about Epstein that I did not have yesterday on a green number day
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Average voter: Now that my number in my stocks app is red, I have very serious thoughts about Epstein that I did not have yesterday on a green number day
I had no idea I could give a shit about baseball and here I am in 2025 having a heck of a time
(Not cardiologically though)
(Not cardiologically though)
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I had no idea I could give a shit about baseball and here I am in 2025 having a heck of a time
(Not cardiologically though)
(Not cardiologically though)
Simple question: Why aren't the democrats running this Reagan ad, if it makes him so angry?
If he does stupid things when angered, why aren't they running 30 ads just like this 24/7? What are all those donations for?
If he does stupid things when angered, why aren't they running 30 ads just like this 24/7? What are all those donations for?
October 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Simple question: Why aren't the democrats running this Reagan ad, if it makes him so angry?
If he does stupid things when angered, why aren't they running 30 ads just like this 24/7? What are all those donations for?
If he does stupid things when angered, why aren't they running 30 ads just like this 24/7? What are all those donations for?
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Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"
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Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.
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Nothing about the current collpase in housing starts is shocking to me
For years people warned cities not to cook the golden goose with high DCs and onerous application processes because they needed the eggs not the meat!
All the meat is eaten, the feast is over, and now we suffer empty stomaches
For years people warned cities not to cook the golden goose with high DCs and onerous application processes because they needed the eggs not the meat!
All the meat is eaten, the feast is over, and now we suffer empty stomaches
October 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Nothing about the current collpase in housing starts is shocking to me
For years people warned cities not to cook the golden goose with high DCs and onerous application processes because they needed the eggs not the meat!
All the meat is eaten, the feast is over, and now we suffer empty stomaches
For years people warned cities not to cook the golden goose with high DCs and onerous application processes because they needed the eggs not the meat!
All the meat is eaten, the feast is over, and now we suffer empty stomaches
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the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is
- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)
- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)
- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)
- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)
- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is
- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)
- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)
- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)
- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)
- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
Idea while biking: measure the ratio of content to ad time in podcasts as a metric for the overall economy
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Idea while biking: measure the ratio of content to ad time in podcasts as a metric for the overall economy
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
Lately I’ve been using the internet just to be crusty and reinforce my own internal crustiness - but I took a 6 minute bike downtown to get groceries and forgot the world is still here! There’s people and sun and happy kids and fancy art students with coffee… no negativity in sight.
@cambridge.ca
@cambridge.ca
August 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Lately I’ve been using the internet just to be crusty and reinforce my own internal crustiness - but I took a 6 minute bike downtown to get groceries and forgot the world is still here! There’s people and sun and happy kids and fancy art students with coffee… no negativity in sight.
@cambridge.ca
@cambridge.ca
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White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
August 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
To put it in another way, since bikes kinda break people’s brains in 2025:
If the government removed a bollard in front of a school, and a kid died the next week, and the documentation around that bollard removal never mentioned kids’ safety in the rationale, that would be a problem, right?
If the government removed a bollard in front of a school, and a kid died the next week, and the documentation around that bollard removal never mentioned kids’ safety in the rationale, that would be a problem, right?
NEW: Looks like CycleToronto won in court. Justice Schabas finds Ontario's law (AND version 2) to remove bike lanes infringe S7 of the Charter and is not saved by S1, in large part because the govt had no evidence to back up its claims.
July 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
To put it in another way, since bikes kinda break people’s brains in 2025:
If the government removed a bollard in front of a school, and a kid died the next week, and the documentation around that bollard removal never mentioned kids’ safety in the rationale, that would be a problem, right?
If the government removed a bollard in front of a school, and a kid died the next week, and the documentation around that bollard removal never mentioned kids’ safety in the rationale, that would be a problem, right?
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We are watching in real-time as an administration and an entire party attempt to cover up the single most notorious child sex trafficking ring in modern history in order to protect their leader being implicated in it
MULLIN: There was a sweetheart plea deal that was struck in 2009 under Obama
TAPPER: No. It was 2008. The US attorney was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become Trump's secretary of labor
M: Who was in office at the time?
T: Bush
M: No. Obama was in office
TAPPER: Not true
TAPPER: No. It was 2008. The US attorney was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become Trump's secretary of labor
M: Who was in office at the time?
T: Bush
M: No. Obama was in office
TAPPER: Not true
July 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We are watching in real-time as an administration and an entire party attempt to cover up the single most notorious child sex trafficking ring in modern history in order to protect their leader being implicated in it
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a society that would like to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Mike Johnson on Trump: "His approval ratings are skyrocketing. CNN had a story a day or two ago -- he was at a 90 percent approval rating! There's never been a president that high."
July 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
a society that would like to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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Oh grow up. There’s more to politics than your survival. For instance, my comfort
July 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Oh grow up. There’s more to politics than your survival. For instance, my comfort
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Only an "academic brain" would call withholding payment for failing to meet contractual obligations "using money as punishment".
Why do we infantilize municipal governments? They're billion-dollar corporations, not toddlers.
www.cbc.ca/news/cana...
Why do we infantilize municipal governments? They're billion-dollar corporations, not toddlers.
www.cbc.ca/news/cana...
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Only an "academic brain" would call withholding payment for failing to meet contractual obligations "using money as punishment".
Why do we infantilize municipal governments? They're billion-dollar corporations, not toddlers.
www.cbc.ca/news/cana...
Why do we infantilize municipal governments? They're billion-dollar corporations, not toddlers.
www.cbc.ca/news/cana...
I decided to go for my favourite doughnuts in town this morning. It turns out that the bike lane doesn't exist on Sundays. Do wrongful death lawsuits apply to Sundays? The Cambridge Master Cycling plan uses the word "safe" 70 times! (but doesn't mean it)
@cambridge.ca @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
@cambridge.ca @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I decided to go for my favourite doughnuts in town this morning. It turns out that the bike lane doesn't exist on Sundays. Do wrongful death lawsuits apply to Sundays? The Cambridge Master Cycling plan uses the word "safe" 70 times! (but doesn't mean it)
@cambridge.ca @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
@cambridge.ca @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
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once again, this is describing the life of a baby
I’m convinced that people like Zuckerberg do not get/actively dislike what it means to be human and are determined to inflict their terrifyingly inhuman fantasies of technology controlling our lives on the entirety of humanity
July 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
once again, this is describing the life of a baby
Fact: an Ontario municipality and their engineers actually approved and built this in 2025, on a busy road with heavy high-schooler foot traffic and high vehicle speeds.
I didn’t know that simple bollards, paint, and signals were more expensive than eventual wrongful death lawsuits.
I didn’t know that simple bollards, paint, and signals were more expensive than eventual wrongful death lawsuits.
June 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Fact: an Ontario municipality and their engineers actually approved and built this in 2025, on a busy road with heavy high-schooler foot traffic and high vehicle speeds.
I didn’t know that simple bollards, paint, and signals were more expensive than eventual wrongful death lawsuits.
I didn’t know that simple bollards, paint, and signals were more expensive than eventual wrongful death lawsuits.
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One of the most insightful things I've read in weeks: "How the Anglosphere's Planning Department is YIMBYism’s Main Obstacle"
It's telling what gets studied at a site level (shadows), and what doesn't (economic impact, homelessness, etc.)
Read here: substack.com/inbox/p...
It's telling what gets studied at a site level (shadows), and what doesn't (economic impact, homelessness, etc.)
Read here: substack.com/inbox/p...
How the Anglosphere's Planning Department is YIMBYism’s Main Obstacle
Montreal doesn't have these problems! Francophones beat us on this one.
substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
One of the most insightful things I've read in weeks: "How the Anglosphere's Planning Department is YIMBYism’s Main Obstacle"
It's telling what gets studied at a site level (shadows), and what doesn't (economic impact, homelessness, etc.)
Read here: substack.com/inbox/p...
It's telling what gets studied at a site level (shadows), and what doesn't (economic impact, homelessness, etc.)
Read here: substack.com/inbox/p...