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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

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 · 5h

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.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 5h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Techmeme front page:

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 2d

Bring back the Santa robes!

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 8d

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 · 10d

Spotted à Montréal

Un DJ à vélo dans le traffic !

#montreal #velo

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 10d

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 · 10d

So exhausting..

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Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 10d

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 · 15d

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

Him?

Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 15d

Missing this guy today

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 15d

Incredible animation. No notes.

[from Reddit]

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 15d

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 · 16d

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 · 17d

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 · 17d

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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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 17d

I missed this when the news came out. What a mess. $150-$180 if you're not 'at risk'. Good luck finding a doctor if you are in that group. Neighbour broke her hip last week, took an hour for thr ambulance to arrive.

Québec public Healthcare system is in a failed state.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quebec to stop offering free COVID-19 vaccines to the general population | CBC News

COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be free for all Quebecers starting this fall, the province’s Health Ministry announced Wednesday.

www.cbc.ca

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18d

I am looking for a comforter for the guest bedroom and I'm sorry what monster did this

a pillow and comforter set designed to be an optical illusion so it looks like there's a giant hole in the middle of each that the quilt/pillows are being SUCKED DOWN INTO

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 18d

everyone has already got the explicit discourse on this covered so i will simply add its insanely funny to say this as the developer of games where you kill like. ten thousand guys

Kotaku @kotakudotcom.bsky.social · 18d

Sucker Punch cofounder says "celebrating or making light of someone's murder is a deal-breaker for us" https://kotaku.com/sucker-punch-charlie-kirk-ghost-yotei-sony-2000627290

PlayStation Studio Boss Breaks Silence On Dev Fired For Charlie Kirk Joke

The PlayStation studio is getting ready to release Ghost of Yotei

kotaku.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18d

This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 19d

When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...

Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · Aug 27

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.

Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Screenshot of a reddit post: ChatGPT asked if I wanted a diagram of what's going on inside my pregnant belly.

A screenshot of ChatGPT's response. It is a side view of a foetus gestating in the uterus. The foetus is head-up with no umbilical cord or placenta. Behind the uterus is the rectum, which is unlabelled. Trailing down from between the rectum and spine, extending beneath the buttocks to the inner thigh is a yellow line labelled "pudendal nerve. At the front is an oval-shaped part labelled "cervix". And then we really struggle to image describe this bit. The uterus and the bladder are both attached to a single part which is long inside, then extends downwards into a penis with a single exist. This penis is labelled "rectum".

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