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Cats, bikes, urban policy and evidence-based policy generally, environment, books, quilts, and lots of randomness. GenX. Canada.

Let's try not to make things worse, shall we?
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David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve in The Hunget
November 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Physicists should study it, for sure
Two posts by someone named genderfluid-druid. First: hurr hurr I'm a human body hurr hurr I'm gonna solve all my problems using mucus. Second: "I require more fluids" well what did you do with the fluids I already gave you. hmm? did you make more mucus with them? you made more mucus with them.
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Lola sleeps with one eye open
A black cat asleep on a fuzzy gray mat. Her head is tilted sideways and one green eye is weirdly half-open.
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Apparently it’s Black Cat Day in the UK. I’m not in the UK and neither is my cat, but here he is, wearing one of my t-shirts
A black cat peers out the neck hole of a black t-shirt. He looks mildly disgruntled.
October 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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It’s nice of the cats to leave me nearly 1/4 of the bathmat #catsofbluesky
Two black cats sprawled on a grey bathmat, looking pleased with themselves and leaving very little room for a human to use the bathmat for its intended purpose
September 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Starting #caturday at the head
A black cat aggressively sitting on the pillow and head of a woman lying in bed
August 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I organized it a couple of months ago
A set of plastic drawers, labelled with the bike parts in each drawer. There are also wall compartments. It’s tidy, for the moment.
July 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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A tale of two headlines. CityNews: active tense, there's a driver involved ("struck dead by driver") -- kudos for reporting this way. CP: passive ("being hit by vehicle"), vehicle apparently acting on its own. Driver escapes mention, let alone responsibility, yet again.
Screenshot of a Canadia Press headline: Child dead after being hit by vehicle in Surrey, B.C. Screenshot of a CityNews headline: Surrey police: 3-year-old struck dead by driver
July 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I keep this Pratchett bit on my phone because it was so unexpected and I laugh every single time I read it. So much talent to set it up.
Text reads: ...lodgings were on the top floor next to the well-guarded premises of a respectable dealer in stolen property because, as Granny had heard, good fences make good neighbours.
July 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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#SentenceOfTheDay from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. “…the exhilarating feeling of being in on the faint smell of row, without being endangered by it” 👨‍🍳💋
Text reads: Taking inward note of this, and with the exhilarating feeling of being in on the faint smell of row, without being endangered by it, they followed dangerous Miss Brodie into the secure shade of the elm.
July 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Carson says happy solstice, and he hopes you find a nice patch of sunlight to stand in (because he is not sharing his) #caturday
A black cat stands in a patch of sunlight on a desk. He’s looking at you and he wants scritches.
June 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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My tiny mint plant enjoyed the ride home strapped to my bike rack. The basil plants purchased at a later stop perched in the top of one of the panniers full of groceries #DoItByBike
June 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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#SentenceOfTheDay today is by @scalzi.com. So perfect—I hate it, and yet I still somehow want to go there
Image of a sentence from When The Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi: “It was what a goth club would be like if it were designed by Jony Ive”.
May 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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At Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver. Love it.
Sign attached to a pole reads “bait bike in area”
May 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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#NowReading - Crackdown: Surviving and resisting the war on drugs, by Garth Mullins
Cover photo of the book Crackdown: Surviving and resisting the war on drugs, by Garth Mullins
May 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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#NowReading
Cover photo of The Teller of Small Fortunes
May 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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I did the thing. You should too.
Me and an Elections Canada sign, in front of my voting location
April 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I am developing a strong parasocial relationship with this sleepy Swedish bear and its excellent bleps

(From the #GreatMooseMigration 24/7 live stream, which I highly recommend. www.svtplay.se/video/e7d4VX...)
Rather dark shot of a large Swedish brown bear with a wide white stripe across its shoulders. It is sitting in a grassy area nearly facing the camera and it is doing a blep.
April 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I do love the Ask a Manager open threads sometimes
Question in a discussion thread asks whether lycanthropy would be covered under the ADA. Another person asks whether it's a medical condition or a curse, and notes that if it's medical, it's probably covered under the ADA, but if it's a curse you're probably looking for some kind of religious exemption.
April 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Do the thing, Ontario people
Picture of me in front of the VOTE HERE sign at my polling place. It’s raining, but I am undeterred.
February 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Throw the subway in there for an even more dramatic picture of how Bloor works
Image from the City bike-lane study showing the Bloor subway carries 81% of total Bloor corridor volume. Of the street volume, 88% is cars, 12% pedestrians, and a smidge cyclists (I dispute those numbers based on other counts we've done, but never mind, the subway is the main thing).
February 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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This is an appalling attack on bodily autonomy; they're just starting with this population because they think they can get away with it--all the evidence says involuntary "treatment" is ineffective and dangerous. Ask yourself: who's next? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Clipping from the Globe and Mail: Alberta to build involuntary treatment centres for addiction - province set to table country's first legislation to enable adults to be forced into care.
February 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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For sale at that ever-radical institution the Art Gallery of Ontario
A variety of goods for sale hanging on a wall, including baseball caps and toques saying CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE.
February 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Sentence of the day, from Le Comte de Monte Cristo, written in 1846 and yet oh so relevant
Danglars était un de ces hommes de calcul qui naissent avec une plume derrière l’oreille et un encrier à la place du cœur; tout était pour lui dans ce monde soustraction ou multiplication, et un chiffre lui paraissait bien plus précieux qu’un homme.
February 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Wow St John’s, way to show a big middle finger to pedestrians
Globe and Mail photo of a man in St John’s shoveling several feet of snow off his sidewalk after a street plow piled the snow onto it
February 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM