But also, we've been looking at moving, and even when apartments have bike parking, it seems they are increasingly banning e-bikes. It's a serious problem for anyone who can't afford a house/townhome.
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Guys what's stopping you from being like this guy
amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 2h agoe-bike dad at my daycare has evolved into MEGA E-BIKE DAD and now carts three children to daycare with it 🫡
Some good news to start your Wednesday: @morricemike.bsky.social is in the running to be the next @canadiangreens.bsky.social leader. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo... #CdnPoli #KitCen
Mike Morrice running for leader of Green Party of Canada
Mike Morrice seeks Green Party leadership to succeed Elizabeth May. The former MP and deputy leader aims for the next federal election after losing his seat in 2025.
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It's kind of perfect that the "short-stories.co" version of this apocalyptic short story appears to be an early ChatGPT's incomplete recollection of Bradbury's actual story (which I think you can find here: www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...)
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · yesterdayRead it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
You know when you’re frustrated by something and feel like the people who created it must be idiots, and then you realize why it’s like that and feel a bit humbled? What if some people never have that second part
Can’t get this story out of my head. The delays aren’t unusual, the cost comes out at $100k per unit or ~$400/month rent for those non-market homes. Same issues come up for market housing, developers could keep building at lower rents if munis did not impose those delays and uncertainty.
Ryan Jabs@ryanjabs.bsky.social · 2d agoAnother window into why even non-profit housing is so expensive. Saanich delays led to an extra $9milliom (!!) in costs. No one in Saanich is held accountable so they keep dragging their feet and increasing costs. bcbusiness.ca/real-estate/...
Ontario rail operators: "we don't need double-track, thanks to strategic passing sidings and the magic of ✨️scheduling✨️" Also Ontario rail operators: "we arrived at the passing siding 5 minutes late, so we will have to wait here for 20 extra minutes while we wait for opposing traffic"
JackTatt 🇨🇦@jacktatttran.bsky.social · 2d agoFun fact: If you have good punctuality and timetable discipline, you can run pretty frequently as single track with timed overtakes. The Swiss do this a lot, the Zurich S10 runs up to every 10 minutes with single track with passing tracks and strict punctuality.
Seems like a perfectly fine spot to build some damn homes, maybe even denser than what's proposed. Why are we even talking about this
Waterloo Region Record@therecord.com · yesterdayA development proposal in the Bridgeport area that has seen several revisions in recent years — and plenty of opposition from residents — will finally be presented to Kitchener councillors Aug. 10. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterdayU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...
Really remarkable article, the Anglican Church is going gloves off against multiple cities. $9M and 6 years of delay to build 85 units of below-market seniors housing on their own land
Ryan Jabs@ryanjabs.bsky.social · 2d agoAnother window into why even non-profit housing is so expensive. Saanich delays led to an extra $9milliom (!!) in costs. No one in Saanich is held accountable so they keep dragging their feet and increasing costs. bcbusiness.ca/real-estate/...
Me: The new agent harness is great. You feed your tokens into the machine. Then you run simulations which, if successful, produces tickets. If they fail you have to buy more tokens and keep running the sims. Once you have enough tickets you can redeem them Boss: are you at dave & busters, yes or no
A lot of things that were considered reasonable or even good parenting will now get you arrested in many jurisdictions.
Glad to see this crucial rebuttal thread go viral too, honestly surprised even
Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · 2d agothis is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
We’re not arguing about Bluesky liberal bubbles on here, that’s played out. We’re arguing advocacy tactics for improving Toronto streetcar speeds
society: we’re low-key (sometimes but not always racistly) worried that people are having fewer kids also society: we expect parents to spend more time and money parenting every year
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2d agochange in societal norms from "a 14 year old is capable of watching 3 kids for an evening" to "a 14 year old can't be trusted to be in public unchaperoned"
It’s great we have some weekend trains now but we should have the Kitchener line double tracked so these trains can go back and forth between Kitchener and Toronto all day long every hour including weekends and holidays
If they put me in charge of ION light rail I would call every bus terminal station a connectION
Follower count is meaningless, you gotta sum up 1/[number of accounts followed] over the set of followers
Every other day Ukraine knocks out a couple percent of Russia’s oil refining capacity and I think that’s beautiful
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 2d agoRussia’s Saratov oil refinery following yesterday’s massive drone attack.
Why it's important that historically-accurate people argue back against the silly "a GM conspiracy killed all the streetcars, just like in that movie" story.
Christof Spieler@christofspieler.bsky.social · 2d agoI think the conspiracy is comforting to people -- "a few bad guys did this." The reality -- "electeds, planners, and most of the public believed that the car was the future and rail transit was outdated" is actually more unsettling since it raises the question of what we're getting wrong now.
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop
It may be years until I get used to being able to create a custom app for a niche use case about as easily as I can figure out what I actually want, and to get new or improved functionality quickly enough to be able to use it immediately
