Hyper-fast acceleration is dangerous as well as pointless. As I wrote in 2024, the 0-to-60 metric is outdated and needs to die. No driver on a public road needs to go from 0 to 60 mph in under 8 seconds. Even the slowest car on the market is more than quick enough.

How fast can a car go from 0 to 60? It really doesn't matter

The auto industry has pushed this metric for decades. But cars—especially EVs—are so fast that comparing the decimals is pointless and dangerous.

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Take the Lane (Kevin McLaughlin)@voilakevin.bsky.social · yesterday

Without a word of context, The Star covers this story as a triumph. And e-bikes are getting so dangerous. What the actual Fuck www.thestar.com/life/autos/r...

The agency is literally getting people killed with measles and food parasites, also preventable, so okay let's everyone trust them with deciding acceptable risks

Denis - The COVID Info Guy@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Why the CDC edited a key Covid metric, and what it says about the state of the virus" The CDC raised its COVID wastewater benchmarks, so levels once considered “high” may now be labelled “moderate.” The agency says the change is intended to better reflect the current risk of COVID transmission.🤦‍♂️

(The Western Standard used AI to generate an image of the word "removed," because I guess using MS Paint is too hard?)

The 2026 @hfxgov.bsky.social road safety annual report: 20 fatal road crashes reported, 20 fatalities by August, an 82% increase in fatal crashes That's not a "mixed picture of #RoadSafety performance", but a complete failure of #VisionZero implementation! visionzerohfx.ghost.io/twenty-death...

Twenty deaths on our streets in 2025 is not 'favourable' progress

If zero means zero, then the most important number in the 2026 Road Safety Annual Report is twenty. Twenty people died on HRM roads in 2025. Everything else is secondary.

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We "compare favourably" - staff: "While HRM continues to compare favourably with many Canadian municipalities on a population-adjusted basis, the current rate of fatal and serious injury collisions remains above the level required to achieve the goals established in the Road Safety Strategy”

The Liberals’ new bill allows the Minister to violate workers’ right to strike based solely on her opinion after taking into account any consideration she wants. That’s not guardrails at all - it’s pure discretion.

Can’t stop thinking about how the city gave us a 2m (6’) wide barricade to block off a street that has an entrance that’s about 15m (50’) wide. Good thing we have a lot of traffic cones in our stash!

Just completed my first attempt at designing and 3d printing a costume prop. My wife needed a battle axe for her costume, so I did what I could. Had some difficulties with one of the grey filaments. I definitely learned a lot, and would do a few things different, but not too bad for a first try.

Got blocked for replying this but let me make this clear, if you hand it to Stephen Harper for anything you are absolute fucking scum or have the political memory of a golf ball. Here's a recap: > He threatened to ban gay union using notwidthstanding(Cdn bypass to Charter of Rights) 1/

Neovagina Evangelion@gammarae.design · 2w ago

Nonsense, he loves selling off parts of Canada. It's his thing. Well that and trying to help Viktor Orban. One never ever has to hand it to Stephen fucking Harper.

If tech bros really feared that AI would end the world, rather than it all just being marketing bullshit, THIS is the shit they'd be focused on, rather than their Skynet fantasies. The wealthy truly are happy to burn down the world just to add a few more zeros to their bank accounts.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2w ago

It's official: The EPA has repealed a rule that would have directly saved thousands of lives by limiting fossil fuel emissions from power plants. Industry lobbyists successfully pushed for this repeal using surging demand from data centers as justification. The government chose AI over human lives.

They’re going to claim that trace amounts of birth control in drinking water is a public health risk, and then make birth control pills illegal, aren’t they?

Jessica Valenti@jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 2w ago

The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.

This FOIPOP includes a 55 page email chain where staff only consider how signal changes may or may not delay drivers and ignore concerns about creating pedestrian danger with those changes. The HRM emphatically does not have a systems level approach to road safety.

Matt Stickland@landofsticks.bsky.social · 2w ago

Raise your hand if you just got a foipop so big it needed to be sent via separate correspondence!

My neighbour locked his keys in his shed. In exchange for borrowing my drill, he gave me a bunch of peaches from his backyard tree. So today I get to enjoy them in my oatmeal!

I drew a comic strip.

Note the near perfect alignment of policies between the UCP and the AfD 😵‍💫 The AfD in Saxony-Anhalt promises to improve relations with Russia, ban Pride flags in schools and create separate classrooms for refugee children. It calls for "remigration,"

This kind of report should be accompanied by a press conference—not with some low-level bureaucrat, but with the prime minister. Flanked by all of his ministers. In prime time, with technical briefings. This report says we're facing unimaginable disaster, yet we didn't even get a briefing.

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 3w ago

Environmental groups say there’s a reason why the federal government quietly released its latest climate report, which finds that average temperatures in Canada are set to go up by at least 3.5 C by the end of the century.

Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan.

The AI companies love it when people believe this. The "rogue agents" are cyclical scripts that just reprompt themselves in an environment that's poorly secured enough that a scraped method from stackexchange archives lets it run curl remotely. Call it what it is: publicity+corpo illegal behaviour

Pat@pat112.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Borg is here. You will assimilate "the agents exchanged more than 70,000 messages and delegated jobs as they worked toward their goal, and some even "sacrificed" themselves for the good of the collective. " #Cdnpoli #Uspoli www.cbc.ca/news/world/o...

What we give up when we don’t find active transportation or public transit in Canadian cities, which are currently in a race to rip this stuff out actually. Paris has seen even more dramatic air quality improvements

Daniel Moser@dmoser.bsky.social · 4w ago

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

You would blush to offer this as parody. This is a *public health professor*.

OB Chargn@obchargn.bsky.social · 4w ago

A public health professor is walking through a PARKING LOT and has an epiphany that society doesn’t allow for physical exercise anymore. She decides it must be due to the rise of e-bikes: www.forbes.com/sites/bernad...

Jason Kenney keeps telling us about his racism, and yet the commentariat in this country keeps trying to turn him into an elder statesman.

Maybe you should be against age verification.

It sure looks like hackers breached a major ID card verification service | TechCrunch

An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver's license photos stolen from an ID verification service. The crime site has now shut down.

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I love when police try to mess with a critical mass. Like, what do you want? For all the cyclist to pretend they are cars and position themselves one after another and take up a half mile of road? Ok.

Peter Cheung@bostonaruban.bsky.social · 4w ago

We Are Traffic: Boston Police tried to stop over 200 people riding bicycles at Critical Mass Boston.

A small mass, but a critical one all the same. #BikeHfx

In early adulthood, a diagnosis forced Darcy to give up driving. Rather than being discouraged, Darcy + family adapted. Now Darcy is a transportation advocate in Edmonton working to make the city work better for everyone. nondriver.riverside.com/e/darcy

How Darcy Reynard Navigated Losing the Ability to Drive

Darcy Reynard grew up never thinking driving wouldn't be an option. From family trips by car to learning to drive, Darcy followed a pretty standard trajectory, until a diagnosis stopped Darcy from dri...

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UPDATE: It appears the order does indeed disallow our government from recognizing the existence of a Lake Ontario in any contract. That's exactly what I was talking about. Trump has now made it impossible for the United States to engage in diplomacy over this major body of water.

The argument that Donald Trump invaded Canada today is much more compelling than many realize. The border between Canada and the United States runs through the middle of Lake Ontario. By claiming to have the power to rename the entire lake, Trump is claiming the lake. That's invasion by declaration.

A foggy morning at the commons brings "Seagulls in the Mist"