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Usually found in one of two places: at my computer or at my sewing machine. ⌨️📖🪡🧵 Board member @ Tomorrow Foundation for a Sustainable Future 🌳🌬️ tomorrowfoundation.ca

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · Dec 1

Finally finished a mending project I’ve been stuck on all month. This free tote bag I got in 2020 immediately became a favourite for grocery runs. After 4ish years of use, I needed to 1) darn some holes, 2) add a panel to the bottom, and 3) make shorter handles.

Before / after

A large undyed canvas tote bag, then only a few months old, in the basket of my bike.

The bag in its current state, now with short handles, a burlap panel on the bottom, a patch pocket on the front, a snap closure, and a few other small changes

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 1d

IDK who needs to hear this but a well planned city is an affordable city.

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Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎(Parody) @abdanielsmith.bsky.social · 2d

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Nobody tell David Staples this is all because of the changes me and my UCP have made to how municipal elections are held in Alberta.

Let's see if he can use his "journalism" skills to figure it out on his own!🤭

#abpoli #yyc #yycvote #yeg #yegvote

A social media post by David Staples, columnist with the Edmonton Journal Post Media Newspaper, posted on October 27, 2024 which reads: The huge win for everyone on all sides, left, right and centre, is an election where everyone believes the results are credible. We used to do this effortlessly. Vote on Election Day with proper ID. Vote with paper ballots. Votes counted by citizens with scrutineers.

A social media post by David Staples, columnist with the Edmonton Journal Post Media Newspaper, posted on October 20, 2025 which reads: Unbelievably stupid process to vote in Edmonton. Do they have no voter list anymore? Where they quickly check your name, ID and give you a ballot? Long line up to fill out paper with name/address, line up again so someone can check paperwork. Idiotic slow, stupid process.

A snippet from a news article stating "The process for voting is different this year, which can impact the time it takes to vote. All electors are legislatively required to complete a Statement of Eligibility Form (Form 13) at the voting station. This form is a declaration by an elector that they meet the required legislated criteria to receive and cast ballots. Also, some electors will need to be added to the permanent electors register before receiving their ballots. This can take time. We ask Edmontonians to plan ahead and please have patience.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 1d

Oh great, it looks like none of the businesses on this street (82 St north of YH) except the habitat for humanity restore has a place to lock bikes. This may be the most annoying place to which I’ve ever had the displeasure of planning a trip. #yegbike

bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 1d

Yet again I am trying and failing to find a bike rack (via streetview) that I can use on my trip later this week. A bike shop being located beside a bike lane but having no bike rack just doesn’t make sense. I think the message being sent is that cyclists aren’t actually supposed to use 82 St.

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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 1d

Update from Elections Edmonton:

"Voting has been suspended at St. Timothy Catholic Elementary School in Ward Anirniq due to a power outage. EPCOR is accessing the situation.

Voters assigned to St. Timothy Catholic Elementary School can cast their ballots at Caernarvon School, 14820 118 St NW."

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 1d

*The last day of early voting in the 2025 federal election was the longest I’ve ever waited to vote. An hour in hell (the mall) 😵‍💫

bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, I forgot to look at the time when arriving and leaving my polling place but I got through 5 or 6 rnds of sock knitting while waiting in line for ballots, so… close to 20 mins? Not very long but I’m sure that’s the longest election day* wait I’ve ever experienced

bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 2d

The discomfiting ordeal of being perceived is the unspoken prerequisite to the mortifying ordeal of being known

bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not the same but someone once messaged me to say they had just seen me go past their house on my bike and I was mortified for no rational reason

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 2d

Question for candidates: is it embarrassing to go to the polls to vote for yourself? How does it feel if the poll workers recognize you? 😳

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 10d

Right, so much character! Seeing experimental, sometimes “imperfect” hair-styling was how I started to understand the versatility of kinky/curly hair.
I’m a big fan of the “unnatural” hair trends from this time too. My cousins had different colour hair at every reunion and it was amazing.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 10d

This post makes me want to wear bantu knots, long earrings, and burgundy lipstick soon 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 10d

When people mock millennial style I am never bothered because surely you don’t mean me! 2010s Black hipster fashion is something I will always look back on fondly, with 0% cringe. IMO this wasn’t just Peak Fashion but also Peak Hair (and makeup)

1ntrusive +ho++ 🤍 @1ntrusivethott.bsky.social · 10d

okay i’m kind of obsessing, going thru 2011 tumblr archives, but is there a name for this aesthetic? i just remember looking up to girls dressed like this - the way this felt like PEAK fashion to me - i lived for an afro punk fit from this era 🥰

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 11d

My one-sided beef with the ready-to-wear clothing industry continues. You wouldn’t think that someone who’s less than 5’6” should have to buy tall sizes. And yet >:(

bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 11d

Length added: 5 cm (8.5 when cuffs are turned down), which I had hoped would be a little too long. Not so; they turned out normal length.

bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 11d

I finally remembered that I can sew, so now my too-short pyjama sleeves have turn-up cuffs. 😌 And it only took [mumbling] years for me to get annoyed enough to make this fix.

Don’t mind the basting threads, I got too excited about posting. #garmentsewing

Closely cropped photo of a person in white and blue long-sleeved flannel pyjamas holding out one arm to show the sleeve hem. The sleeve is a couple of inches too short.

Pyjama-clad person adjusting sleeve cuffs, which were made from blue and white plaid flannel in similar shades as the original flannel of the pyjamas.

Pyjama-clad person with outstretched hands showing the new, longer sleeve length.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 14d

Screenshotting this post to send to my mother and make her happy

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14d

actually extremely grateful to ethiopian cuisine for basically teaching me how to appreciate vegetarian cooking as a 23 year old

bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 14d

*rubbing temples*
I just helped some family members book their seasonal immunization appointments online and I have some questions, beginning with: why does the appointment booking change every year? Why is it a different process on a different website every time?

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 16d

Everything I have learned about [insert name of far-right US media pundit], I have learned entirely against my will.

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 19d

Separated.
Active transportation.
Infrastructure.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Cycling couple struck, injured 2 days apart at same Winnipeg intersection | CBC News

A Winnipeg couple is raising safety concerns after both were injured while bicycling through the same Winnipeg intersection two days apart.

www.cbc.ca

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 19d

Might have seen a driver in the French Quarter abruptly pull over on the wrong side of the street for a chance to talk to Andrew Knack this afternoon. I was like, “What the hell does this guy think they’re doing? Oh, they’re talking to someone, maybe picking someone up. Wait, Andrew Knack??!?”

bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 23d

Made this diagram about angle parking to explain why I’m not into bike racks that are public art pieces first and bike parking second. No one does this to car parking; why do it to bike parking? It’s not like a standard staple-type bike rack is an eyesore.

Diagram made in Notes app promoting the use of an impractical, unusable new parking lot design with curved lines instead of a conventional parking lot design with straight, parallel lines

Text:

Conventional angle parking
- boring
- users are checked out; they do not engage with the space on an emotional or intellectual level
- yawn
-not forward thinking

Innovative new angle parking design
- daring
- draws users’ attention; prompts deeper engagement with the built environment
- UNIQUE!
- wow
- challenges norms

bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 23d

The fork… no. The fish can stay, though.

cyclesixmile @cyclesixmile.bsky.social · 24d

Boyne City, Michigan loved a non-standard artistic bike rack.

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bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 26d

Very normal and democratic regime

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26d

JERUSALEM (AP) — In 'unprecedented operation,' Israeli army takes over mobile phones of Gaza residents to carry Netanyahu UN speech live.

bthl.bsky.social @bthl.bsky.social · 26d

This week l've been thinking a lot about how Danielle Smith said it's fine, everything's totally fine, Alberta can easily sell the excess not-Tylenol to the US

NPR @npr.org · 26d

President Trump said he will put import taxes of 100% on pharmaceutical drugs, 50% on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30% on upholstered furniture and 25% on heavy trucks starting on Oct. 1.

Trump to place import taxes on drugs, home furnishings and heavy trucks

President Trump said he will put import taxes of 100% on pharmaceutical drugs, 50% on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30% on upholstered furniture and 25% on heavy trucks starting on Oct. 1.

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