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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦

@bromptonymous.ca

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Cities & Urbanism. Sometimes geochemistry. Often my hound. Climate dad. Always on a bike. “Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.” Born: 344 ppm, PhD 397 ppm, Today: 430 ppm. Victoria, BC.

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 29d

Too often these days I feel like we’re building an economy for cars and chatbots instead of a society for human beings.

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 4h

10/10, no notes

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 6h

Here’s how to file a complaint with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council about profane language during a TV broadcast:

www.cbsc.ca/make-a-compl...

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Tyler Harper @tylerharper.bsky.social · 6h

Hat tip to John Schneider for managing a terrific game tonight. #BlueJays

Ben Nicholson-Smith @bnsbaseball.bsky.social · 6h

Impressive work by Louis Varland, Mason Fluharty, Seranthony Dominguez, Eric Lauer, Yariel Rodriguez, Brendon Little, Braydon Fisher and Jeff Hoffman.

Combined, they limited the best lineup in baseball to just two runs on six hits as Blue Jays advance.

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 6h

Feels like the Blue Jays game is going into the 21st inning on their 17th pitcher.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 10h

“The question is not one of policy or strategy. The question is one of character. History demonstrates how armies in peacetime reward and promote certain kinds of characters—which are typically unsuited to the demands of war.“

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Tyler Smith @tylerismith.bsky.social · 12h

Exactly. The UL certification already exists, make it mandatory, and crack down hard on shady sellers.

E-Bikes Certification: Evaluating and Testing to UL 2849

Industry leaders developed UL 2849 to provide fire safety certification considering e-bikes’ electrical drive train, battery, and charger system combinations.

www.ul.com

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 12h

Or we could just have mandatory e-bike battery quality standards ... none of the e-bike fires are happening with Bosch or Shimano systems. www.gazellebikes.com/en-us/blog/e...

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 15h

We don’t even have a class 3 in Canada but it’s a problem because there are no limits on sale of these vehicles, only rules on their use in public roads.

Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 16h

Learning today that even the red tape has red tape at city hall.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 18h

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 1d

Worst. Sorry to hear. There are no nbd falls anymore…

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 1d

Morning run through Vienna:

"In this house, during the "annexation" of Austria by Nazi Germany, numerous Austrians were sentenced to death for their resistance against the unjust Nazi regime and subsequently executed…

Their fight for a free, independent Austria will never be forgotten."

Wiener Straflandesgericht:

"In this house, during the "annexation" of Austria by Nazi Germany, numerous Austrians were sentenced to death for their resistance against the unjust Nazi regime and subsequently executed in the Vienna Regional Court.

Their fight for a free, independent Austria will never be forgotten."

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 1d

I never thought of it quite like this, but the world seems to be made up of two kinds of people. Those who find the diversity in the world to be comforting and approach difference with curiosity even if they are cautious, and the opposite. Those scared by difference, who go in assuming the worst.

Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 1d

The federal government’s full-throated endorsement of LNG Canada Phase 2 is bad news for anyone who cares about Canada’s carbon emissions, or Canadians’ tax dollars, writes Janetta McKenzie www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/07/o...

A strange start for “climate competitiveness”

The federal government’s full-throated endorsement of LNG Canada Phase 2 is bad news for anyone who cares about Canada’s carbon emissions — or Canadians’ tax dollars.

www.nationalobserver.com

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 1d

There can only be one. David Ortiz retired in 2016. Vlad started his minor league career in that same year.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

vlad guerrero jr is the product of a 30+ year project to concentrate an entire planet's psychic resentment against the yankees into the form of a single human

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 1d

Hi parade just continues … Vladdy!!!!

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Forgot that one.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 1d

"Traffic safety is a shared responsibility"

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 1d

TIL that I can have the BC government pay my municipal property tax so we can keep our cash flow rolling into TFSAs. Wild.
vancouversun.com/news/how-bc-...

How B.C.'s property tax system delivers big benefits to multimillionaires, and why some say it needs to change

B.C.'s property tax system is uniquely generous for wealthy homeowners. Some people think that should change. Find out more.

vancouversun.com

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 1d

Deep cut.

Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 1d

Wear bright clothing. Use the crosswalk. Look both ways. It doesn’t matter.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"I support things like civil rights, access to education, and medical research. You could never imagine me sitting in the front row at the inauguration of a far-right ruler who promised to destroy those things."

Hi, I’m an Early 2010s Tech CEO

I wear the same T-shirt every day, and I have a relatably unkempt haircut. I remind you of the smart kids from high school, so I give you hope that...

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