hope you brought urine!

Hundreds chanting, "FUCK AI!" "Hundreds of people marched through downtown Vancouver over the weekend to protest a proposed cluster of AI data centers backed by Telus, voicing concerns about water use, electricity demand, and what that could mean for local communities." www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

I know because capitalism and whatever but it sucks looking at the catastrophic amounts of money and resource that go into sustaining car dependency and forcing generative AI on people and then thinking what anything like that money and resource could do for public and active transport and the arts.

Take off both goalies and put on extra strikers. Crack on.

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

The lady opposite me on the train was reading this. To be fair she was only on the first chapter.

I accept that there are legitimate use cases for AI but a lot of use is unnecessary & our systems force people into use by making it hard to avoid even though both use & the infrastructure it relies on is harmful to both people & the environment. Sorry, did I say AI? I meant cars. (AI sucks too.)

People are now debating what the proper earring placement is.

Replacing petrol/diesel cars with electric cars and installing chargers outside every home is not a quicker, easier or cheaper solution than expanding public and active transport options, apart from the difficulty of dealing with drivers throwing their toys out of their prams.

The last stanza is incredible from someone who is clearly a contender for owner of the world's most fragile ego. Good call on "Author Unknown" though - I wouldn't admit to this shit either.

I accept that there are legitimate use cases for AI but a lot of use is unnecessary & our systems force people into use by making it hard to avoid even though both use & the infrastructure it relies on is harmful to both people & the environment. Sorry, did I say AI? I meant cars. (AI sucks too.)

I know because capitalism and whatever but it sucks looking at the catastrophic amounts of money and resource that go into sustaining car dependency and forcing generative AI on people and then thinking what anything like that money and resource could do for public and active transport and the arts.

Sometimes I start to think "am I too mean to drivers?" and then I see the things a lot of them say and do and then I'm like "nope, I'm nowhere near mean enough."

It's extremely convenient how many people really do care about the danger drivers cause but only ever bring it up to deflect criticism from them throwing road users who cause far less danger under the bus & somehow just never find time to bring it up in its own right. Isn't that convenient. How odd.

If people cared as much about actually being a good driver as they do about trying to convince other people that they're a good driver, it might actually matter. Also this is a societal level problem & your response is "it wasn't me!" This is routine harm & death; not banging on the bathroom floor.

Some bike parties have volunteer corkers and then others have professional road crews!

I would suggest that Russell T Davies would not "sigh and put up with" it if he were the one they were trying to prevent - and to a significant degree succeeding in preventing - from using public lavs in some degree of dignity and safety.

A law that says anytime your computer won't let you edit a file because another user has it open & that user is you & you do not have it open anywhere except where it won't let you edit it, the company whose fault that is has to give you a new computer if you set yours on fire in a fit of pique.

Thought Spice Girls' 2 Become 1 was an inexplicably sultry-sounding body horror nightmare.

"Make hospital parking free; you can't expect people to pay for parking or a taxi!" people may be interested to learn that I've just had to get a cab to a GP appointment because the assumption is I can get myself several miles away before the bus runs. I'll just wait here for them to be up in arms.

My mum decided that my first non-picture book should be The Hobbit so I showed up at school able to spell words that my teachers described as "impressive but weird." I was also scared of cracks in walls (even just paint) because of the bit in the Misty Mountains. So, you know, swings & roundabouts.

When I ask people this when they say that there are no viable alternatives to cars where they live, they often say there is special provision for disabled people which is entirely adequate or they can get someone else to drive them. Or they just ignore the question. For many, this is the reality:

I keep thinking about one moment from last night's walk audit. Someone asked how disabled people deal with so much inaccessbility. Without missing a beat, a blind woman said, "I just don't go out. I stay home." When we ignore nondrivers we limit their mobility and cut off access to the world.

"If this were happening to any other community" is a way of cutting off coalition between minority groups negatively affected by human rights decay. In effect if not intent, it functions to collude in that very decay by foreclosing on the potential for anything other than isolationist affirmation.

I finally had the energy to have a crack at something creative &, like, I get that I'm rusty & sometimes it just isn't happening & it doesn't have to be "good" but also I could really use an "effort goes in; non-zero amount of enjoyment &/ sense of fulfillment comes out" type deal right now.

They have changed the format of our exam to be open book 😊 presumably because the book is only available in electronic format & ctrl+f is so badly borked by AI that finding fucking anything in the 300+ pages will take longer than the exam time so it will be about as much use as a chocolate kettle. ☹️

Of course I know Wario is evil but I always pick him because I’m able to separate the kart from the kartist

I heard Tony Blair wrote a thing.

IN THE MIDDLE OF ARSTREET,

Cars getting caught on retractable bollards is funny but I feel like the connoisseur's choice for humorous modal filtering is the bus trap/car trap. It's the fact it didn't even move: there was a hole, they were told not to drive in the hole, they drove in the hole.

Hot cyclist summer lfg!!!

New Black Metal band just dropped

A lad I used to work with didn't believe me when I said that in the book Dracula goes to Whitby so he said "Next thing you'll be telling me Frankenstein lives in Skeggy" so now that's my personal headcanon.

Cyclists wearing hi vis doesn't significantly improve rider safety for much the same reason that training dogs not to eat homework wouldn't achieve significantly more homework getting handed in.

But I was led to believe that drivers cared deeply about emergency vehicle access. 😮 They're always so hot on it when it comes to opposing bike lanes or pavement parking bans.

but i’m a crepe i’m a weird dough what the challah am i doing here i don’t boulanger

No Helen of Troy was probably not Kenyan, but I am more certain that Odysseus would not have been from Boston so I guess we'll all need a little suspension of disbelief when watching this modern film adaptation of a 2800 year old work of fiction.

Did I miss some kind of meeting where Bluesky decided that takes that sound like they came straight out of the Daily Mail are good now if they are used in the service of dunking on Taylor Lorenz?

I'm not saying it's the main reason I want car-free spaces but, now that I know it's on the cards, the opportunity to slide down the road in my undies isn't not a reason I want car-free spaces.

Someone once yelled at me about my "expensive superbike" (a £1200 RRP entry level gravel bike that I got 50% off in a sale - not that it was any of their business) before loading a lion cut standard poodle into a BMW crossover.

I'm sure there would be more to it if I understood it but as an outsider the Indy 500 is like watching roulette from the perspective of the ball.

It'll buff right out lol

OutSTANDING lmao

Bluesky isn’t fun?

ME: Why did they call it the endocrine system and not the secrete service SURGEON: How are you still even awake?

Look, I've had my moments with Bluesky but I will take the person who tried to make me delete my post because it was "not good art" over honest to god nazis any day.

“Providing” me with a separate gender neutral toilet is not respectful or dignified, it is humiliating, degrading, discriminating and denies my very being. I am a woman and forcing me to pretend i’m not for bigotry’s sake is fucking egregious

Conversations about street safety do often reveal how many people simply hate kids and teens

This headline is hilarious when you learn that the rocket toppled over in a fiery explosion on landing

Me: "The HOA guidelines say garden gnomes are an approved lawn decoration" The Guy from the HOA, looking at my five gnomes standing on a pentagram around a prone lawn flamingo: "Okay but not like this"