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David Hope

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Quantitative Biologist. Happiest on a bike or knee-deep in peat (Ottawa, Canada).

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · Jun 13

Had the privilege of a work trip to the Hudson Bay Coastal Lowlands this spring. Just amazing landscape up there. I'll post a few pictures here.

Peatland in a boreal forest. A think layer of snow covers the ground. The foreground is open water with taller trees in the background.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 11h

Astronaut meme:
Wow, right on red is dangerous!

Always has been.

David Hope @davidhope.ca · 21h

Perhaps our prime minister will listen to his former employer instead of continuing to bet the farm on AI.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 1d

This is an absolutely insane story - and Interior Health is still claiming they didn't have "a large [data] breach." Please read: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hacked CRA accounts, crime sprees as B.C. health agency denied massive data breach for a decade | CBC News

For a decade, a B.C. government agency denied a data breach that affected 28,000 health-care workers, creating a situation that one privacy expert says opened the door for fraud artists to continue cr...

www.cbc.ca

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

A story from last year about your Nobel Peace Prize winner.

The ‘Iron Lady’ of Venezuela Threatens to Unseat Its Autocrat (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 3d

This is what is so frustrating about bike safety blitzes. Drivers are violating laws every damned minute of every day.

And... the blitzes to deal with them are so rare they don't exist.

David Hope @davidhope.ca · 3d

Another day, another #Ottawa driver sailing through a red light. All I can do is wave I guess.

#OttBike

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 3d

Yeah I see a lot of that at this intersection, but this one was just weird. They entered well after it was red and that direction was clear so hadn't been waiting to get through. I think they just didn't want to wait another cycle.

David Hope @davidhope.ca · 3d

Another day, another #Ottawa driver sailing through a red light. All I can do is wave I guess.

#OttBike

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 4d

Oh I hope this is successful. This was my route to school for many years and I had far too many extremely close calls with cars despite being on a side street most of the way.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 4d

Amazingly, our Vancouver visit has coincided with the construction of Canada’s very first Dutch-inspired fietsstraat (“bicycle street”).

Burnaby’s Frances-Union Bikeway is currently getting an all ages and abilities upgrade that treats cyclists as the main users of the corridor, and cars as guests.

Photo of a Dutch-inspired fietsstraat (“bicycle street”), where cyclists are treated as the main users of the street, and cars as guests.

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Clemens Vasters 🇪🇺🇩🇪 @clemens.vasters.com · 5d

Techmeme front page:

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 5d

Bring back the Santa robes!

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 5d

New ceremonial robes vs old ceremonial robes. #SCC

2026 photo of the Supreme Court of Canada, where the new robes are black with red piping.

2025 photo of the Supreme Court of Canada, with the red velvet and ermine robes.

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ScarletCoral @scarletcoral.ca · 7d

via la @rtbf.be : « Est-ce que l’écologie, ce serait pas avant tout un truc de citadins privilégiés, qui se déplacent en vélo électrique et font leurs courses en vrac dans des épiceries bio ? »

#changementsclimatiques #transitionecologique

L'écologie : un truc de bobos ? - Y a Pas de Planète B

YouTube video by RTBF

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 8d

Just discovered the {gm} package, which lets you programmatically create sheet music (and audio!) with #rstats (with MuseScore as the backend) flujoo.github.io/gm/index.html

library(dplyr)
library(gm)

golden <- tribble(
~pitches, ~duration, ~lyric,
"E4", "q", "I’m",
"G4", "q", "done",
"C5", "q", "hid-",
"B4", "q", "-ing",
"D4", "q", "now",
"G4", "q", "I’m",
"E5", "q", "shin-",
"D5", "q", "-ing",
"G4", "q", "like",
"B4", "q", "I’m",
"A5", "q", "born",
"F#5", "q/3*(q/8)", "to",
"G5", "q/3", "be._",
"G5", "h", ""
)

music <-
Music() +
Key(1) +
Tempo(125) +
Meter(2, 4) +
Line(pitches = golden$pitches, durations = golden$duration) +
Tie(13) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[1], 1) + Lyric(golden$lyric[2], 2) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[3], 3) + Lyric(golden$lyric[4], 4) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[5], 5) + Lyric(golden$lyric[6], 6) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[7], 7) + Lyric(golden$lyric[8], 8) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[9], 9) + Lyric(golden$lyric[10], 10) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[11], 11) + Lyric(golden$lyric[12], 12) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[13], 13)

show(music)

The first part of the bridge from "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 9d

Wear bright clothing.

a brutalized neon flex post with tire tracks all over it and tire tracks in the bike lane behind it.

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Drew Anderson @drewanderson.bsky.social · 10d

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

RCMP tried to get photojournalist Amber Bracken charged and detained without bail, documents show

Bracken was arrested in 2021 after Mounties removed protesters blocking access to a Coastal GasLink construction site in B.C.

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jag Villani @jagvillani.bsky.social · 12d

Did you know that drivers don't care and will just plow through flex posts and maybe people too because they're speeding and/or distracted?

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Martin Hamel @martinnhamel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Spotted à Montréal

Un DJ à vélo dans le traffic !

#montreal #velo

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 13d

Take 2 minutes to watch this. In the documentary "A King Like Me", about a Zulu Club in New Orleans, one of the members very emotionally expresses this same sentiment from a working-class perspective. You can feel his anger and exhaustion. I recommend it.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 13d

So exhausting..

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Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 14d

sent to me

Duolingo screenshot showing the fitness-geek character with clenched fists, grinning and looking skyward. The phrase, translated into Russian, is “I have a bicycle. I do not need gas.”

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 18d

Ok I have to admit. I thought it was Jimmy Fallon that got cancelled until I saw this post.

Him?

Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 18d

Missing this guy today

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 19d

Incredible animation. No notes.

[from Reddit]

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18d

Irruption.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, two people are standing outside, facing each other; one is wearing an orange tshirt and one is wearing a green tshirt and a pair of binoculars. The first person says "I heard there's going to be a Red-breasted Nuthatch eruption. Should I be worried?" In panel 2, the second person says "No, it's an irruption - an unusual movement of birds into areas where they aren't usually found. It's great for birders." The first person says "No, I think they said-" In panel 3, both people look alarmed as the ground beneath them begins to rumble. in panel 4, the ground erupts and hundreds of Red-breasted Nuthatches shoot into the sky, lifting the two people into the air.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 19d

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: A guy sporting a pin shaped like a monster leans over to a big glass tube full of skin in the close foreground.
GUY: Hey Geoff. I see you're not wearing a Bone Farmer memorial pin?

PANEL 2: GEOFF, the skin pile, starts to talk, over the shoulder of the GUY.
GEOFF: I mean, it'd be kind of tough to–
GUY: It's bone farmer memorial day.
GUY: We're all remembering all the good stuff he did.

PANEL 3: The GUY dabs away a tear.
GEOFF: Like what? Name one thing.
GUY: Shh! I'm remembering it all right now. Silently.

PANEL 4: THE GUY, dialing a phone.
GUY: It's like you don't even know the rules of the day?
GUY: I'm going to call the cops.

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Roch Bourassa @rochbourassa.bsky.social · 20d

Oh come on CBC!
Report on the event: ok
But check yourselves for streaming any of this batshit ridiculous propagandist theatre!
If the news cycle is so slow just insert a repeat of ‘Murdoch Mysteries’ !!!

kermit the frog is dancing on a stage with a red curtain behind him .

Alt: kermit the frog is flailing his arms around (likened to being frustrated) on a stage with a red curtain behind him .

media.tenor.com

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 20d

Why is Canada's public broadcaster live streaming this? There was one small article yesterday about the national protests for climate action and against the genocide in Gaza. Yet the memorial to a hate monger gets front page coverage?

Front page screenshot from cbcnews.ca. Headline is "Live updates | Tone of Charlie Kirk funeral ranges from mournful tribute to fiery call to action
Mourners shown video of Kirk’s last moments before he was killed Sept. 10"

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