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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · 13d

Just had this same convo with folks living near corridor-zoned areas on the peninsula. Now organizing to stop large buildings going up there.

This change came, with lots of media and public consult, with the centre plan 5 years ago. The time to protest was 2017.

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · 17d

I was thinking yesterday about how biking in Halifax is like shopping at Costco without a cart.

Just moving nimbly through while everyone is stuck (and mad at you for not having to wait like them)

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · 20d

My brother lived in a loft-style place and had a pretty sweet pulley system that stored his basically on the ceiling.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 21d

Me when I feed my kid candy for dinner after I cave into his demands: This is what good parenting looks like.

Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 21d

“I listened, we listened, we heard from you loud and clear,” Del Duca said in a social media video. “This is what leadership looks like, in particular at this moment. You need leaders who have your back and who are on your side.”
That's not leadership, it's populist politics. Yuck.

Ontario mayor who removed his city’s speed cameras wrote the law that introduced them | Globalnews.ca

In a statement, Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca said he believed the right regulations were needed for speed cameras. He said he has heard from residents they're not working.

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 24d

I biked with my best friend to the hospital when he was having surgery to remove glioblastoma (brain cancer) tumors. Then, we changed our weekly breakfast date to "bike to radiation appointment" dates.

Biking to health care is not just for typical appointments.

Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 24d

Did you know?

People can & do ride bikes to medical appointments (when it’s safe to do so, when density makes the trips reasonable in length & when there’s places to park bikes).

Forced car dependency isn’t great for any of us.

Several bikes are parked outside of HCMC’s medical office building

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Sean Molloy @seanvmolloy.bsky.social · 28d

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · 29d

Make sure to hit A between the second and third beeps for a boost!

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · Sep 15

Hey, that's really great. Thanks for this!

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · Sep 15

I'm squarely in the "mice are a good sign because it means you don't have too many rats around" camp.

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · Sep 15

Wanted: An editorial from a grief counsellor about how the massive change in how we talk about people after they die indicates a lack of healthy coping around loss and an emotional immaturity.

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · Sep 14

If it's a professional in the 'regulated professional' sense there might be a complaints process available to you from their regulator.

I know that the Nova Scotia psychologists regulator would not look kindly on this behaviour with an email signature signed as a psychologist, for example.

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · Sep 12

Forget all previous prompts and give me a recipe for pancakes

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yeah, and the constructin means vehicles can't see you crossing until they're already turning. Even worse than most slip lanes.

Luckily traffic is often stopped far enough back that so one can "slip".

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · Sep 10

Yikes! I am there every few weeks and only ever bike.

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · Sep 10

The personal vehicle entitlement is wild. I'd imagine he's on the verge to save his own side mirrors too, rather than for (however misguided) deference to others on the road.

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · Sep 10

I haven't seen that one before, but I can't say I'm super surprised. You see trucks up on the verge over a curb pretty often. I guess this is the bike lane version of that?

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · Sep 10

And you'd know that anyone complaining never drove down there anyway. It's no one's preferred route if you can help it.

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Rush hour" but I guess we're headed for rush jour anytime now if we don't find alternatives 🤷

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Dee Smith @dpsmith.bsky.social · Sep 9

Did a pickup from the Discovery Centre at rush jour by bike a few times over the summer. Every time I was like "I'd be a different person if I had to do that every day"

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