It's me
@justmeinottawa.bsky.social
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In Ottawa 🍁, sometimes with a camera, often on a bike 🚲
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ericwickham.ca
This is what the woke left wants to turn Christmas into
lukelebrun.ca
Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore
Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees
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jackieseidel.bsky.social
The growing number of diverse people riding bikes in Calgary is astonishing. Many more children and older people. Our infrastructure is not keeping up with demand. I’m noticing more and more children and teens riding alone! Some with instruments. Cool. So many adults with young children on the ⬇️
chiwho.bike
A great article on the rise of urban biking:

“Surveys show rates of cycling are higher in countries where cyclists feel safest. And there are few things that make riders safer than lanes that separate them from cars... allowing cities to reduce traffic and save money...”
dlknowles.bsky.social
By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...
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davidho.bsky.social
Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
www.nytimes.com
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lauragmitchell.com
Yes, that is a rowing bicycle in front of me.

At a previous stoplight a pedestrian asked the rider about the bike.

They chatted then ped said “Wow, that’s so cool. I’m just going to wait here until the light turns green so I can see you ride it.. if that’s not too weird.”

Rower: “Go for it!”
lauragmitchell.com
I ❤️ Bryant Ave S
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
I wish more coverage of traffic violence reckoned with the psychological harm of crashes on the wider community. It's not just cyclists; if a friend of mine is hit, my wife will be more nervous for me. These deaths and injuries take a heavy toll.
It had a chilling effect on the local cycling community, with members expressing their fear about riding on roads. Prince George has a lack of dedicated cycling infrastructure, including even painted-on bike lanes in many areas.
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taylornoakes.com
What we need to remember is that the oil is good for the environment, but only when Liberals pump it

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FWIW pitching articles to the MSM about climate change, #Canada’s role in making it worse, or the inevitable collapse of the fossil fuel sector is futile

They do not care

#cdnmedia #cdnpoli
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.
justmeinottawa.bsky.social
Not that Mark was a paragon of some virtue or whatever but given his apparent public facing stances of climate change (he apparently wasted time writing a fucking book about it?) it’s wild what happens when individuals end up in power, in systems that seemingly strip them of agency
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jamespmcleod.ca
The multinational tech giants are not going to be allies in the fight against fascism.

(But if people decide they really want to fight, the corporate giants won't be able to stop them.)
premthakker.bsky.social
Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”
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shawnmicallef.bsky.social
"Low scoring company" is such Ford capitalism kinds phrase
christyceeck.bsky.social
The Trillium is hammering this story.

"Months before he was put in charge of Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, cabinet minister David Piccini was at a Toronto Maple Leafs game in front-row seats with a director of a company his office would later give $7.5 million in taxpayer-funded grants to. #OnPoli
Labour minister was in Leafs glass seats with director of company he granted funding to
The ‘lower-scoring’ company got $7.5M of tax dollars through David Piccini’s office and is a client of the lobbyist whose Parisian wedding the minister recently attended
www.thetrillium.ca
justmeinottawa.bsky.social
New Halloween trend has dropped
adamchicago.bsky.social
The frogs have landed in Chicago!
Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.
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jessehawken.bsky.social
The No Kings rally is going to be loaded with people dressed up as giant frogs and the Pepe Nazis must be pissing blood about this
adamchicago.bsky.social
The frogs have landed in Chicago!
Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.
justmeinottawa.bsky.social
It’s honestly very on brand for what Christmas seems it will feel like in 2025
justmeinottawa.bsky.social
Turns out we go to the same store Luke, and both have the same question
lukelebrun.ca
Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore
Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets
atrupar.com
C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."
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shawnmicallef.bsky.social
One other minor thing about this is it sorta takes back the noble frog from that far right meme.
dannykpolitics.bsky.social
WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents
justmeinottawa.bsky.social
Hey #ottawa folks. Last weekend I think of open parkways and…

The Grand pizzeria has opened at Westboro Beach!

Turkey or pizza?
justmeinottawa.bsky.social
Fucking wild
mark-bray.bsky.social
Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.
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