The new bike share e-bikes are much more spaceship than I want from a bike. The old ones are like... A surgey pedal assist bolted on a normal bike share. The new ones are something else entirely. And I think they know that.

Cycled to my #garden plot last evening to find rhubarb & strawberries growing quickly. Put in a few loops around High Park, then rode home via Bloor & side streets in midtown. #toronto #biketo #cycling #gardening

Day 29 of reminding @mark-carney.bsky.social we still don't have a zero-rating for bikes. #BikeSky

They warned you this would happen. #15MinuteCity

Day 28 of reminding @mark-carney.bsky.social we still don't have a zero-rating for bikes. #BikeSky

This guy shouldn't have a license.

I have a dilemma I'd like to pose to Bluesky. Healthcare and infrastructure are not my wheelhouse, I have a reasonably well-tuned bullshit filter, and a critical mind, but I have neither the time or SME to properly scope and test these claims.

Day 27 of reminding @mark-carney.bsky.social we still don't have a zero-rating for bikes. #BikeSky

City of Toronto Archives storage vault and nearby Dupont Station today.

Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam in 1980 and today

Day 26 of reminding @mark-carney.bsky.social we still don't have a zero-rating for bikes. #BikeSky

About ready to murder google assistant. We use it to populate a Keep checklist we use for groceries, has worked for years. This week it started telling us things were already on the list, we go "oh neat feature". All those items were checked items on the list from before. No idea what we need.

Chided by a driver today for not looking both ways before crossing at a crosswalk. I did, I looked and saw him fail to stop. What really upset him was that I didn't yield. Look both ways before you cross is engrained in us because drivers suck, and the consequences of that are dire.

Day 25 of reminding @mark-carney.bsky.social we still don't have a zero-rating for bikes. #BikeSky

Stunning adaptive reuse of a former rolling mill and seed warehouse to create new housing Apostelhof by Schenker Salvi Weber, Vienna

Alt text is inherently literal. Some photographs are good because they resist literal descriptions. That's not an excuse, it's a real structural incompatibility, and acknowledging it isn't the same as not caring about accessibility.

Making headway on layout, still not happy with it, but going the right direction. Also, yay cable management! Going to need to reprint the bezels with some dovetails or something.

An aspiring cyclist. Can you believe they just rent these out to anyone?

📍 Brunswick Avenue #Toronto

New contender for Ward 11: Huy Lieu. His website is... interesting.

The extremely rare catcopus.

We take our laneway closures seriously in Toronto.

A new bicycle counter display has been activated on Martin Goodman Trail at Rees Street! The counter is composed of two parts: in-ground loops that count people cycling on the east and west sides of the trail, and the public counter display. (1/2)

The only thing the SMS emergency alert system has ever alerted me to is the fact that I need to update the emergency alert ignore settings on my cellphone.

SOON #Lilac

Day 24 of reminding @mark-carney.bsky.social we still don't have a zero-rating for bikes. #BikeSky

Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem

They're spreading dirt on the infidels of the small diamonds at Christie Pits! What?!

I hate to nitpick because the truth is bad enough but the claim in the skeet from @torontoopendata.cityof.toronto.ca isn't strictly true. Drivers spent 50% of time on SHIFT unpaid. The graphic below makes it clear that time was not "on the road".

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The whole parametric design thing is giving me Primer flashbacks. I'll make some innocuous change that breaks everything, and then I wind up at the beginning of the timeline, trying to make everything more resilient to tweaks, those tweaks break everything down the timeline again. Rinse, repeat.

Not a giant fan of Lamb but the claim that: "Installing chutes is not a major cost when compared with high-rise budgets" is a bit disingenuous. The equipment cost is minor, vertical circulation space whether it's for people or garbage is all expensive when it comes to space.

I guess this means you're no longer dumped in the absolute bike black hole that is(was?) Wellington and Blue Jays Way when traveling east?

Day 23 of reminding @mark-carney.bsky.social we still don't have a zero-rating for bikes. #BikeSky

Planners only want one thing and it's disgusting.

Can everyone just calm down, can't you see the hazard lights are on? They'll just be a second.

The whole hostile pedestrian infrastructure thing has gone a bit far in Toronto. #Photography #Toronto #Walk

Your baseball diamonds? No No, our dog toilet. #ToPoli

This one felt intentional.

The other sign I find myself irrationally angry with on a frequent basis.

Day 22 of reminding @mark-carney.bsky.social we still don't have a zero-rating for bikes. #BikeSky

They call him Dumpster Dan.

signs of life from TTC wayfinding: exit codes have appeared at dufferin station!

FOR FIFA? Someone please tell me Garrison Crossing isn't closed until June. I might have a fit.

Typical Toronto. Wait until the closure point for signage. After I've gone out of my way. #Toronto

THANKS OBAMA.

For those who celebrate today. #MayThe4th

Alice Li enters the ring for Ward 11. #ToPoli

Oh Baby. #Census

Our laneway? No. No. My loading zone.