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AlanDRitchie

@alandritchie.bsky.social

Cycling, data and information architecture, books, libraries, food, government information, cats failed philosopher/failed librarian/basically pleasant bureaucrat cisgender: he/him/his

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AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · 7mo ago

These are wonderful

Cycle Fun Montreal@cyclefunmontreal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Children in town of Lac Megantic elementary school drew pictures of bicycles and cycling as part of the annual bicycle tour around the (very beautiful) lac Megantic. The drawings are amazing.

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Wow - this is fantastic.

Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 8mo ago

More or less done with the reading list for History of the Database. You could take a lot of different approaches, but this is the one I went with.

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Now it's Mischief's turn to be inside the truing stand. At least it's on the floor and the right way up now, so that's progress.

A small grey cat with white nose, chest and paws stands inside a bicycle wheel truing stand.

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Wheel building is delayed because Marzipan is inside the truing stand.

A white cat lying inside a bicycle wheel truing stand that is lying on its side in front of a window. Snow covered ground visible through the window.

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · last yr.

Mundane bike errand - vegetables

Front view of a red bike with with flared drop bars with green bar tape leaning against a bike rack. The front basket contains vegetables: cauliflower, red onions, carrots, red pepper.

Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 2y ago

I want to make a personal request to those of you who use a bike for transportation purposes to start taking more photos and posting them. You can do so much by showing even the most mundane errands with a bike to educate and inspire others. They're often more effective than words. 📸

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · last yr.

Mundane bike errand - cat food

Front view of a red bike with green bar tape leaning against the corner of a brick building. There is a case of tinned cat food in the front basket, secured by an orange bungee cord

Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 2y ago

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · last yr.

These projects are all fantastic...

Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · last yr.

Our student project showcase at the end of Book Lab has become quite the event! I was so pleased at the turnout today from the iSchool, Library, & beyond—the FabLab was packed I’m going to share a few student projects in this thread, so follow or mute as you want or need

Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · last yr.

Mademoiselle Billaud after winning a cyclocross race. It's the 100th anniversary of this photo, and it still goes harder than anything on the Internet. February 14, 1925 #otd

A woman, her legs splattered in mud, stands on a muddy path with her bicycle.

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · 2y ago

After reading this thread I'm afraid (not for the first time) that I mispronounce everything.

Andrea Kaston Tange@aktange.bsky.social · 2y ago

See also: frequently surprised by how things are pronounced (often NOT the way they are in my head, it turns out)

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · 2y ago

I love this

Joël León @joelleondanis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Once a year I go to town on a bake celebrating #Toronto as part of the Toronto Society of Architects annual #Gingerbread City. This year my submission is an edible rendition of 60 Richmond Housing Co-Operative, a fun, sustainable and interesting mid-rise housing project designed by Teeple!

A gingerbread rendition of an 11 storey residential tower featuring black and white interlocking volumes and a central courtyard

Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 2y ago

I don't think it's contentious to discuss how a huge number of people struggle to integrate enough movement into their daily lives and how regularly pedaling a bike leads to all sorts of physical upsides that on a large scale can have big public-health impacts.

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · 2y ago

#Coffeeneuring #7 - mostly on paths, including some I hadn't been on before. Through Carleton, across Hartwell Locks, through Experimental Farm then further west until I ran out of path. Back along some slightly different paths and had coffee at Happy Goat at Bank and Hopewell. #OttBike

Red bike with green-taped drop bars and a front basket leaning against a tipped over table in front of a coffee shop. Sign on the shop reads "Happy Goat Coffee Company" and has a picture of a goat.

A front view of a red bike with green-taped drop bars and a front basket leaning against a small wooden footbridge. The bike has a row of ghost shaped decorative lights across the front of the basket and a box on the rear rack.

Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 2y ago

#Amplify "ICYMI George and Karen's daughter Alex Amaro was killed riding her bike on Dufferin Street in December 2020. They're asking Premier Ford and Minister Sarkaria to stop the anti-bike lane legislation Bill 212." - @cycletoronto.bsky.social Listen here on the #CBC cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Image of Alexandra Amaro

Text "Toronto
Cyclist killed outside Dufferin Mall ID'd as Alexandra Amaro, 23, remembered for her 'energy, empathy'
Amaro was a budding journalism student whose 'light shone radiantly,' obituary says
Julia Knope · CBC News · Posted: Dec 08, 2020 3:55 PM EST | Last Updated: December 8, 2020

According to an online obituary, Alexandra Amaro, 23, was fatally struck by two vehicles outside Dufferin Mall on Dec. 2. She is being remembered as a kind and intelligent young woman who was studying to be a journalist. (Cardinal Funeral Homes )"

Image of a hydro pole and a ghost bike

text on the hydro pole
"a cyclist was killed here - a safer dufferin street is possible"

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yesterday's #coffeeneuring - #6 - along the canal to OPL Main branch to pick up @helendecruz.net's Wonderstruck then to Ottawa Bike Cafe for coffee. Back via canal, Riverdale and the Alta Vista branch to pick up more books. Gloomy and cold to start but turned into a nice day. #coffeeneuring2024

Upper part of a red bike with green-taped drop bars and a front basket in front of the Ottawa Bike Cafe. The bike's rear rack is decorated with a string of jack-o-lantern lights. There are tables and chairs behind the bike and in front of the shopfront.

A tall, black, insulated travel mug and a book, entitled Wonderstruck on a cafe table. The lid of the mug is off to the right. There is a lot of reflection from the book cover.

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Halloween coffeeneuring - #5 - a short ride in search of more candy. Of course once I got back with the candy resupply the trick-or-treaters stopped arriving. And I had to have iced tea because all the coffee was gone. A nice ride though. #coffeeneuring2024

A head-on picture of a red bike with flared drop bars with green tape and a front basket full of Halloween candy. The front basket has a string of ghost-shaped lights and the rear rack has a string of jack-o-lantern lights.

Front quarter view of a red bike with flared drop bars with green tape and a front basket with a large illumenated Jack-o-lantern. It is dark and the decorative lights on the front basket and rear rack are bright but their shapes (ghosts and jack-o-lanterns respectively) are indistinct.

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Coffeeneuring #2 today. To @octopusbooks.ca to pick up a book I'd ordered (Politics recoded / @aschrock.bsky.social) then to Bridgehead for coffee. Home via Bronson, Brewer Park, the new bike/pedestrian bridge at Carleton, Hog's Back and Brookfield. #coffeenuering #OttBike

A red bike with a front basket, a helmet in the basket, leaning against a coffee shop wall and window. A table in the foreground with a travel mug and a book on it. Book title is Politics Recoded.

A red bike with a front basket, viewed head on, with the handlebars/for turned to the right, in front of a bookstore. The Octopus Books sign is hanging overhead.

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Coffeeneuring backlog. Coffeeneuring #1 was last Sunday. Up the Sawmill Creek path to check out the new bike crossing over Hunt Club and the path alongside the LRT south route. The path is rideable but not really finished. Then back to the South Keys Starbucks for coffee. #coffeenuering #OttBike

A red bike with a front basket, viewed side on, leaning against the front of a Starbucks. The coffee shop doors are to the right of the bike

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Love this picture

DDigressionsimpressions@nescio13.bsky.social · 2y ago

Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 3y ago

Amazing 2011 linocut by Torres Strait Islander Alick Tipoti in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Absolutely extraordinary technical accomplishment, probably the largest single-block linocut print in the world.

Intricate black and white images of rays, turtles, dugong, bats, birds and fishes, including background images picked out by traditional Torres Strait patterns

The previous image in context: one end of a single roll of paper relief printed with a corresponding roll of lino many metres long, mounted on canvas and hung in the Museum of Contemporary Art.

AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social · 3y ago

Coffeeneuring #3 - Happy Goat coffee and a wiggly route home, under some bridges and over others. #coffeeneuring #OttBike

Wooden bridge with a dirt path on either side, surrounded by vegetation.