Did this trip for the 3rd time today and I love it so much. It feels like a bit of faff to load/unload my wheelchair to go for a short stroll, but it’s also nothing compared to the headache of driving downtown and looking for parking. I love my mobility options!

Another Critical Mass is coming! FRIDAY AUGUST 29th🌟 #BikeHFX Meet at Grand Parade (City Hall) at 6:00pm, rolling out at 6:30

Israeli import records state Canada continues to supply ammunition and military parts to Israel. And we have no trade sanctions in place. Write your MP www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nature Nova Scotia’s posts from today:

The province: We don't need the coastal protection act because cities will protect coasts. Halifax: We're gonna protect the coast. The province: How about go fuck yourself.

Current fire-closure status: we don't 100% know if COLT closed, BLT is closed, I called 311 to ask about e.g. the Barrington St greenway & they said they've been getting a lot of calls and they have no idea, and their only advice they can give is to not try anything until the province says something

The logical conclusion to continually wasting money harrumphing about why bike lanes cost money

Taking Morris slower every day. Feels good to not hurry, actually

You can’t have a “good working relationship” with someone who is operating on threats.

The Canadian government responded to its own news of an upcoming pause on permits for weapons exports to Israel by fast-tracking those permits to bridge the pause without a gap in continuous shipments. armsembargonow.ca/report/

If you don't know the news about Chris Smalls right now, I recommend looking that one up. I'm really not sure what kind of radical thing I can say about this that's not already obvious

The universe is an unjust and cold place, but it does have incredible comedic timing some days. (This is the street the province declared all of four days ago must remain open to two-way traffic, or else the provincial economy will spiral to nothing).

Really really do this! Especially if you have a PC MLA! Even one in cabinet or a “safe” PC seat! The more noise MLAs hear about how bad this looks & how much people hate it the more nervous they’re going to get. Houston & Fillmore are relying on creating the impression that everyone’s on their side.

Folks… it’s time for the internet to show up: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Critical Mass is back! FRIDAY JULY 25. Meet at Grand Parade (City Hall) 6:00pm, rolling out at 6:30

You know, if the province just decided they were going to flatten the entire city to turn it into roads and parking lots, at least then it would be over. But council getting threats over and over again from the premier over a single fucking bike lane that's been approved multiple times since 2014...

"Places that allow for children’s play can create dynamic neighbourhoods, intergenerational encounters, and meaningful participation in urban spaces – if only we let it happen." This is about kids and play, but it's also about all of us. We all need places to connect with other people.

They just showed up with security and told the shelter they have 30 minutes to pack up and get out. The whole shelter. All operations, everything. No warning.

People who don't drive are causing too many cars to be on the road so we need to be punished by changing the structure of our democracy to allow someone to take away a minor piece of infrastructure that doesn't exist

We need to apply the brakes to avoid driving off a cliff, but that'll be a sudden jolt so we don't want to go crazy and brake quite yet

Poll: would you allow your hypothetical 5-year-old to bike on the existing parts of the bike network that are "tactical" (i.e., flexposts)?

So in my previous thing where I said maybe Hendsbee didn't hear the person talking about having someone die in the arms in a painted bike lane, I guess I underestimated the possibility that Hendsbee loves brutal killings

As Hackney’s Cabinet Member for Transport, I delivered the largest number of LTNs in the U.K. In return, I was abandoned by my colleagues, got deaths threats, and received the largest number of complaints of any Cllr in the U.K in 2020. It was worth it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Proper bike infrastructure is accessibility infrastructure in so many critical ways

Congrats to Zohran Mamdani, who will now proceed to be maybe the world's person with the most "don't fuck it up" pressure on him for the next long while.

"What about people who commute 100 km each direction every day because they wanted to buy a bigger house in a little town but still benefit from city amenities?" great question, ban that. I don't have time for you

don't worry guys we're losing money on every development but we can make up for it in volume

Just caught myself thinking about the cardinal orientation of roads I'd be biking on later to determine how dangerous they will be due to the sun's position. Do drivers do that?

Hey look at this really cool AAA bike infrastructure lmfao Don't you love imagining your children biking diagonally through the extra wide slip lane

I usually only complain here, so I want to take a moment of BIG UPS to @lecwhite.bsky.social who has been working to the bone for us, and @shawncleary.bsky.social who recently sent out an update email to everyone who emailed in for bike lanes saying he'll push to accelerate the build-out. Hell yeah.

Andy is the villain in a Scooby Doo episode, Trish is the villain in a Captain Planet episode. They decided these things, not us. We don’t make the rules and they’re welcome to prove us wrong.

Found another North America thing to introduce to @zertoxamazigh.bsky.social . Today he learns about our rich and terribly irresponsible deep mansion exurbs (the ones that catch on fire)

Morris St bike lane is functionally dead because it will be kicked down the road every re-examination for a decade. With the 2x vote on Brunswick, RFP process now carries risk for construction companies who will incorporate the risk into bids, which will make bike lanes more expensive. Congrats Andy

Hendsbee clearly did not listen to the speaker outside at 8:30 who talked about a person dying in their arms after being hit in a painted bike lane, because surely the answer isn't that he thinks that'll do

Any hfx bike people want to get together after this and drink hard?

I don't understand why people with this attitude run for public office. If you're not going to work to make improvements, just get out of the way.

The number of cyclists wearing hi-vis tells how dangerous it is to bike in Halifax.

If you’re a cyclist in Halifax, watch out for this asshole. He drives a black truck with large side mirrors. Yesterday he hopped out of his truck at Almon & Agricola to threaten a woman on a bike. At some point he’s going to threaten the wrong person. Hopefully it’s me. lol.

Social housing should be reclassified as “critical national infrastructure” like roads and energy networks, says Peabody Trust chair Ian McDermott, as this would enable Rachel Reeves’ Treasury commit extra funds to it without breaking fiscal rules.

Imagine we made cars for the creatures of the forest, the birds and the deer, the mice and raccoons. Imagine we cut up their woods into asphalt roads with tiny gridded squares of woods between the loud, concrete interchanges. Imagine what their eyes look like. Why are you imagining them so tired?

New development also goes toward lots that already have higher density. Old apartments get demolished for new. It doesnt have to be this way, we could at the stroke of a city hall pen, replace mansions with apartments with 0 displacement. But we chose not to, for made up reasons of “context”

The only reasonable answer to this is to immediately release policy for all of those things and say we weren't going to do it until her threats gave us the idea

When you consider urban areas to be animal habitats (people are animals), major loud roads going through give you pause for thought. Bad for hairless apes. Maybe we should build them a network of habitat corridors with homes, trees, food, room to walk around and make cute little hairless ape friends

Ok, we did the election, now don't forget to do the whole rest of the political process where we battle the opponents we just selected

The inclusion of "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" being celebrated set the normalized precedent for people to accept this as very neat and cool and lovely. It's, you know, slavery, but

Today a candidate for Prime Minister suggested he would change Canada’s Criminal Code to criminalize people staying in encampments and used language that dehumanizes those experiencing homelessness and health crises. Over the years, 1/2

Unaccompanied children represent themselves in deportation court proceedings. This is unreal. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

Realizing more and more nowadays how much of what appears to be my executive dysfunction is actually a trauma response attempting to appease a construct of neurotypicality in my head that rejects what has to be the first step for me in what I'm doing, because it would look too unrelated to the goal.

Part of being human is making mistakes. Part of being a child is making mistakes. When we create an environment (built, social, economic, whatever type) that forbids mistakes with a deadly strictness, we deprive children of their childhood and humans of their humanity.