Michael Coyle
@oplopanax.ca
🇨🇦 Search and Rescue volunteer, ⛰️🧗🏻♂️⛷️🚵🏻♂️🪢mountain rescuer, SAR manager, software developer (C#, C++), technology and risk expert, transplant recipient.
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Safety is important for scooter users but the biggest hazard is drivers. Any public safety messaging about road safety should lead with this fact, and public safety dollars should go toward automatic speed enforcement.
Money from fines used to build separated bike lanes.
Money from fines used to build separated bike lanes.
E-Scooters are not toys, and there are rules and regulations regarding their use in North Vancouver. All parents and riders should refer to this helpful infographic from North Vancouver RCMP and help keep our kids and streets safe.
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Safety is important for scooter users but the biggest hazard is drivers. Any public safety messaging about road safety should lead with this fact, and public safety dollars should go toward automatic speed enforcement.
Money from fines used to build separated bike lanes.
Money from fines used to build separated bike lanes.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
With respect, if cities want scooter riders to ride in designated cycle lanes, they need to build them everywhere. Shaming users for choosing the option that keeps them safer, when the alternative is sharing unsafe streets with speeding multi-ton vehicles, is unhelpful at best & harmful at worst.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
With respect, if cities want scooter riders to ride in designated cycle lanes, they need to build them everywhere. Shaming users for choosing the option that keeps them safer, when the alternative is sharing unsafe streets with speeding multi-ton vehicles, is unhelpful at best & harmful at worst.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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Love this graphic from @nousaerons.bsky.social. This is why I mask in public. Breathing dirty air is no different from drinking dirty toilet water.
There's no shortages of airborne transmissible diseases. Even the ones we have vaccines for can cause breakthrough infxns (e.g. TB, Covid, Measles)
There's no shortages of airborne transmissible diseases. Even the ones we have vaccines for can cause breakthrough infxns (e.g. TB, Covid, Measles)
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Love this graphic from @nousaerons.bsky.social. This is why I mask in public. Breathing dirty air is no different from drinking dirty toilet water.
There's no shortages of airborne transmissible diseases. Even the ones we have vaccines for can cause breakthrough infxns (e.g. TB, Covid, Measles)
There's no shortages of airborne transmissible diseases. Even the ones we have vaccines for can cause breakthrough infxns (e.g. TB, Covid, Measles)
Reposted by Michael Coyle
when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul
thanks to Outside for saying, correctly, that she was hit by a driver.
hoping for her recovery.
hoping for her recovery.
Gabrielle Suver of Clermont, Florida faces a long recovery and an uncertain future in her sport after becoming the victim of a hit-and-run
She Was Training for an Ironman. A Driver Hit Her and Left Her for Dead.
Gabrielle Suver of Clermont, Florida faces a long recovery and an uncertain future in her sport after becoming the victim of a hit-and-run
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
thanks to Outside for saying, correctly, that she was hit by a driver.
hoping for her recovery.
hoping for her recovery.
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The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
why don't these guys ever post videos of them parallel parking or making a souffle - something that takes more skill and is actually useful?
the definitely not insecure and performative post in question btw:
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
why don't these guys ever post videos of them parallel parking or making a souffle - something that takes more skill and is actually useful?
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Prosecutors in California used A.I. to argue that a 57-year-old man should be held without bail, his lawyers say, filing a brief that included wholesale misinterpretations of the law, as well as quotations that do not actually appear in the cited texts. nyti.ms/3M1bVye
Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say
The case is among the first in which a prosecutor is accused of filing court papers marred by A.I.-generated mistakes.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Prosecutors in California used A.I. to argue that a 57-year-old man should be held without bail, his lawyers say, filing a brief that included wholesale misinterpretations of the law, as well as quotations that do not actually appear in the cited texts. nyti.ms/3M1bVye
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Gabrielle Suver of Clermont, Florida faces a long recovery and an uncertain future in her sport after becoming the victim of a hit-and-run
She Was Training for an Ironman. A Driver Hit Her and Left Her for Dead.
Gabrielle Suver of Clermont, Florida faces a long recovery and an uncertain future in her sport after becoming the victim of a hit-and-run
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Gabrielle Suver of Clermont, Florida faces a long recovery and an uncertain future in her sport after becoming the victim of a hit-and-run
come for the swords, stay for the astute observations on software development
I'll admit that I occasionally watch Forged in Fire (a reality show where people make edged weapons under time pressure—don't judge 😄). One of the things I find particularly interesting is how the contestants continually make the same mistakes that brought down contestants in previous shows.
1/9
1/9
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
come for the swords, stay for the astute observations on software development
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
BRITISH COLUMBIA
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 221 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 7.3 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.8 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 5.7 x higher
-Deaths: 8.6 x higher
BRITISH COLUMBIA
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 221 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 7.3 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.8 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 5.7 x higher
-Deaths: 8.6 x higher
![This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. British Columbia's COVID Forecast outlook is HIGH [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 7.2
About 1 of every 221 people is infected.
Estimated infections this week: 59,400-76,800
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: HIGH; 7.3X higher
Long COVID: HIGH; 5.8X higher
Hospitalizations: HIGH; 5.7X higher
Deaths: HIGH; 8.6X higher
HOW TO HELP:
EVERYONE:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks
Who is HIGH RISK?
People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant
ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months
Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit
COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qbuobwdie7rzq4fburk63aft/bafkreiespdz6brmzjqe54a6dq24a3s72brdcwrsdy5jz3ei5kdu6avi5qm@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
BRITISH COLUMBIA
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 221 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 7.3 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.8 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 5.7 x higher
-Deaths: 8.6 x higher
BRITISH COLUMBIA
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 221 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 7.3 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.8 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 5.7 x higher
-Deaths: 8.6 x higher
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
CANADA
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 161 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 8.8 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.0 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 8.2 x higher
-Deaths: 11.4 x higher
CANADA
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 161 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 8.8 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.0 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 8.2 x higher
-Deaths: 11.4 x higher
![This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is HIGH [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 9.4
About 1 of every 161 people is infected.
Estimated infections this week: 580,400-750,800
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: HIGH; 8.8X higher
Long COVID: HIGH; 6.0X higher
Hospitalizations: HIGH; 8.2X higher
Deaths: VERY HIGH; 11.4X higher
HOW TO HELP:
EVERYONE:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks
Who is HIGH RISK?
People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant
ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months
Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit
COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qbuobwdie7rzq4fburk63aft/bafkreighpvc767vu5vijrifd3zugguoe3xwjkgbm6dc5nyryiluzvbcmdy@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
CANADA
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 161 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 8.8 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.0 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 8.2 x higher
-Deaths: 11.4 x higher
CANADA
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 161 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 8.8 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.0 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 8.2 x higher
-Deaths: 11.4 x higher
Reposted by Michael Coyle
WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK?
About 1 in 161 people in Canada is currently infected (580,000-751,000 infections/week).
The most recent estimate for the United States (Nov 24) is 1 in 116 infected (www.pmc19.com/data/index.php).
About 1 in 161 people in Canada is currently infected (580,000-751,000 infections/week).
The most recent estimate for the United States (Nov 24) is 1 in 116 infected (www.pmc19.com/data/index.php).
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK?
About 1 in 161 people in Canada is currently infected (580,000-751,000 infections/week).
The most recent estimate for the United States (Nov 24) is 1 in 116 infected (www.pmc19.com/data/index.php).
About 1 in 161 people in Canada is currently infected (580,000-751,000 infections/week).
The most recent estimate for the United States (Nov 24) is 1 in 116 infected (www.pmc19.com/data/index.php).
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
And then there were 9.
6 new recall petitions have been approved against UCP MLAs, with the information now posted to the Elections Alberta website
Joining the mix are MLAs Myles McDougall, Ric McIver, Muhammad Yaseen, Rajan Sawhney, RJ Sigurdson +
Dale Nally.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
6 new recall petitions have been approved against UCP MLAs, with the information now posted to the Elections Alberta website
Joining the mix are MLAs Myles McDougall, Ric McIver, Muhammad Yaseen, Rajan Sawhney, RJ Sigurdson +
Dale Nally.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
Current Recall Petitions - Elections Alberta
Recall is a process to remove a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from office between elections by collecting sufficient signatures in the Member’s electoral division. The following recall peti...
www.elections.ab.ca
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
And then there were 9.
6 new recall petitions have been approved against UCP MLAs, with the information now posted to the Elections Alberta website
Joining the mix are MLAs Myles McDougall, Ric McIver, Muhammad Yaseen, Rajan Sawhney, RJ Sigurdson +
Dale Nally.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
6 new recall petitions have been approved against UCP MLAs, with the information now posted to the Elections Alberta website
Joining the mix are MLAs Myles McDougall, Ric McIver, Muhammad Yaseen, Rajan Sawhney, RJ Sigurdson +
Dale Nally.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Dale Nally's recall petitioner says he doesn't listen to constituents and cites his concerns over the notwithstanding clause.
Nally responds by saying the petitioner doesn't vote and works as a proxy for a group weaponizing the recall act and the petition has no merit.
Nally responds by saying the petitioner doesn't vote and works as a proxy for a group weaponizing the recall act and the petition has no merit.
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Dale Nally's recall petitioner says he doesn't listen to constituents and cites his concerns over the notwithstanding clause.
Nally responds by saying the petitioner doesn't vote and works as a proxy for a group weaponizing the recall act and the petition has no merit.
Nally responds by saying the petitioner doesn't vote and works as a proxy for a group weaponizing the recall act and the petition has no merit.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Using the voters list as a political weapon against a constituent feels like perfectly reasonable grounds for a recall to me.
Dale Nally's recall petitioner says he doesn't listen to constituents and cites his concerns over the notwithstanding clause.
Nally responds by saying the petitioner doesn't vote and works as a proxy for a group weaponizing the recall act and the petition has no merit.
Nally responds by saying the petitioner doesn't vote and works as a proxy for a group weaponizing the recall act and the petition has no merit.
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Using the voters list as a political weapon against a constituent feels like perfectly reasonable grounds for a recall to me.
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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It is ILLEGAL to fly a drone in Canadian national parks.
I love how hard they clamped down on an influencer.
Like, do not fuck with Parks Canada, man. They do not play.
From the official Waterton Lakes National Parks page:
I love how hard they clamped down on an influencer.
Like, do not fuck with Parks Canada, man. They do not play.
From the official Waterton Lakes National Parks page:
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
It is ILLEGAL to fly a drone in Canadian national parks.
I love how hard they clamped down on an influencer.
Like, do not fuck with Parks Canada, man. They do not play.
From the official Waterton Lakes National Parks page:
I love how hard they clamped down on an influencer.
Like, do not fuck with Parks Canada, man. They do not play.
From the official Waterton Lakes National Parks page:
Reposted by Michael Coyle
The World’s richest man got rid of USAID as it was cutting into his goal of becoming the first trillionaire. 600,000 and counting, of the poorest people in the World have died, because they weren’t born in Pretoria.
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The World’s richest man got rid of USAID as it was cutting into his goal of becoming the first trillionaire. 600,000 and counting, of the poorest people in the World have died, because they weren’t born in Pretoria.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Yet more criminalization of poverty
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Ford government bill would make defendants put up cash for bail
In the latest move to address bail reform, the bill is intended to improve bail compliance, keep repeat offenders behind bars, and make it easier to collect forfeited bail payments
www.thestar.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Yet more criminalization of poverty
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
fuck it's the beginning of The Last of Us
The infection, caused by a highly contagious fungus, is usually contracted through skin-to-skin contact with an infected person, but can also be spread through touching contaminated surfaces, household items or sexual contact. 😳
www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...
Drug-resistant fungus is now spreading across the UK - and it attacks the groin
A 'super fungus' that causes nasty sores across the groin and buttocks is now spreading in the UK, experts have said, with cases of the drug-resistant infection soaring 500%
www.mirror.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
fuck it's the beginning of The Last of Us
Reposted by Michael Coyle
A federal watchdog urged consumers on Monday to immediately stop using and safely dispose of two models of lithium-ion batteries made for a popular e-bike brand, warning of serious fire risks.
Batteries for Rad Power Bikes Get Federal Fire Risk Warning
A federal watchdog said two models of batteries found in Rad Power Bikes should be immediately, and safely, disposed of. The bike company disputes the safety agency’s findings.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
A federal watchdog urged consumers on Monday to immediately stop using and safely dispose of two models of lithium-ion batteries made for a popular e-bike brand, warning of serious fire risks.