treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
Jon 🚌🇨🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@elkano22.bsky.social
Woke urbanist YIMBY transpo nerd.
Getting to be that peak time of year for some of my favorite local fall color views.
TTC A8-class all-electric PCC #4542 lays over at Earlscourt loop in EARLSCOURT service alongside Western Flyer rebuild trolley bus #9267 in 47 LANSDOWNE service. ⏰ August 29, 1977 📸 Nick Chase collection #TTC #TakeTheTTC #Toronto #TorontoHistory #TorontoTransit #TrolleyBus #Streetcar
I confess: had you told me when I started writing these that eventually I’d be writing them about the actual plague I would have picked a different name. And I confess: had you told me when I started writing these I’d be writing them for years I wouldn’t have started
It’s been two years since Ontario Place West Island was destroyed for a planned private spa. Hundreds of trees were cut down - here’s a snapshot of the many species who lost habitat. 🧵
An estimated 4,000 Vaux’s swifts circled overhead a church steeple in Salem, Oregon before pouring into the chimney to roost for the night. #AGoodPlace Source : accuweather
This art installation in the harbourfront is gone after Sunday! Get done to see it while you can.
Important update on the St. Dunstan’s School/Calgary Indian Industrial School site (featuring a momentary return byline from the great @cbcscott.bsky.social): www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
City taking steps soon to memorialize former Calgary residential school | CBC News
A city-owned agency will soon place signs to mark the site of a former residential school in southeast Calgary, which operated from 1896 to 1907.
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The road to reconciliation begins with truth Mishiikenh Kwe ~ Anishinaabe c. 2022
The crazy thing about street photography as a hobby is that some mornings I will see things so serene and beautiful that they almost move me to tears and then I have to go sit in an office chair and build a database as if nothing happened
The Harvest Moon rising behind Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Saturday evening in Chicago.
A pair of Cleveland Works switchers pull a hot metal train with molten iron splashing out of a bottle car. Steel mills are wild! And that sunset was pretty nice too.
Our Street in Autumn Paraskeva Clark 1945-47
Vitoria lleva años impulsando el Transporte Público y construyendo carriles bici por toda la ciudad.
Harry Belafonte taking a spin with his daughter Shari in 1957 📷Cornell Capa #BicycleBirthday Shari Belafonte Born September 22, 1954
"You gave my soul a beam to travel on." -musician Leonard Cohen in chapter 19 of Book of Mercy, dedicated to Esther, his sister Leonard Cohen on a tricycle with his sister Esther Westmount, Canada ca. late 1930s #BicycleBirthday Leonard Cohen September 21 (1934-2016)
Perhaps one of my favorite pictures I've taken. The third rail arcing was 💥
Watch amazing cycling and amazing urbanism: World Championship Women Elite Individual Time Trial from Montreal. gem.cbc.ca/2026-uci-roa...
2026 UCI Road World Championships: Women Elite Individual Time Trial
Watch the women's elite individual time trial at the 2026 UCI Road World Championships in Montreal.
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47 years ago today Pennie Smith photographed Paul Simonon of The Clash at the New York Palladium, September 20, 1979. She made one of the most famous images in music history. #punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #PaulSimonon #penniesmith #history #punkrockhistory #otd
A week in and Aucklanders still fizzing on our new city centre subway line. 🥰
Toronto skyline sketch from Biidaasige Park. Did the ink there and the watercolours later. My new fav spot.
