About 110 people on their bikes had a great time at I Light HFX 2025, jointly organized with Dal/Kings Bike Centre. Big thanks to our sponsors, Wagners Law, Halifax Cycles, Giant Halifax and Long Alley Bicycles. Also thanks to the ride marshals, Halifax Bike Party, and all the organizers.

How it started. How it's going. Fuck RFK, Jr.

I didn't hear the headcount, but what an amazing turnout for I Light Halifax tonight. Especially everyone who braved the rain! Thank you so much to everyone for coming! #BikeHfx #Halifax #Cycling

"Get rid of Obamacare and replace it with Obamacare" is always where this was going.

My parents are both hard of hearing, mumble when they speak, and have limited patience. Me, who prefers quiet and dislikes yelling:

Why doesn’t the biggest passenger vehicle on the road simply nudge the others out of the way

This is welcome but it does give a bit of "hm, wonder who could do something about this" energy, and I feel like that's been the case with Chow a bit too often. She still has time to be more bold.

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

The I Light HFX ride ride tonight is going ahead! @cyclehalifax.ca #bikeHFX

you ever read something and think how close the author is to realizing something but can't?

They just LOVE dancing around Trump's increasingly-obvious mental illness with phrases like "strange obsession". He is insane. Deranged. Absolutely barking mad. Bat-shit crazy. A dangerously-unhinged megalomaniac. Stop trying to hide this behind polite words like "strange".

I'm quoted at length in this @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social piece on the danger of politicians spreading misinformation about the Supreme Court and its recent decision on mandatory minimums in the child pornography context. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...

Who got to Morse and told her true facts about urban development!?!

Canada's provincial economic accounts came out this week—in 2024, all provinces & Nunavut grew! Fastest: Nunavut (6.9%), PEI (3.8%), Nova Scotia (3.1%), Alberta (3%), Saskatchewan (3%) Slowest: Yukon (-2.5%), NW Territories (-0.8%), British Columbia (1.1%), Ontario (1.6%), Manitoba (1.7%)

Good for him www.axios.com/2025/11/08/t...

>Nobody >Absolutely nobody >Not a single soul in this universe >Me: We need to bring these self driving buses circling Upper/Lower Water Street and Hollis Street. Max speed at 30km/h, a fleet of moving traffic calming device.

Wut?

Across Eastern Europe, they have what are known as "lustration" laws that do exactly this for people who were in the Stasi and its various equivalents. It's a model we should be examining.

There are two sides to Mark Carney. One that sucks up to Trump in a way that is, frankly, embarrassing. But there’s also this side.

This is probably the single thing that the framers of the constitution would find most horrifying about our current government order - not only is there a standing army, but we have the equivalent of one directed specifically at domestic operations

This past week, the federal Conservatives have lost one MP to the Liberals and another has resigned from federal politics altogether. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Autumn roads 🍁 (Quebec, Canada) #canada #quebec #autumn #fall #roadtrip #travel #photography

Former military lawyer calls U.S. boat strikes "murder" tinyurl.com/2td4vt92

Classic.

Conditions in ICE facilities were bad before Trump. They have gone beyond that into horrific.

"this is your last time to dodge a block" I intone menacingly at the broken self-checkout kiosk in the JFK Terminal 4 Camden Foods Express

Thing 2: All The Things

The 2024 election will forever remain a f-ing mystery what people were possibly thinking.

how we keep discussing Venezuela without taking this into consideration drives me insane

It's not until the end if the month, but I'm in town now, so celebrating with my parents.

She and her ilk really sicken me. They’re why I left the party.

birds trying to fight or fuck the mirror, forever

I feel like the chief lesson of Iraq/Afghanistan was, you need a hella of a lot of troops/resources to pull security until you can stand up a government/local security and even than its extremely difficult so for people not even a decade later to be like “actually you can do it super cheap” is wild

Upside of using apps for cabs is not listening to them fight each other for five minutes over who was there first.

Abolish Border Patrol.

this is excellent maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

Give the man credit! These are the seven wars he stopped!

there should be a word in English for when somebody tells a story that they think valorizes them but they're the obvious villain

"We’ve lived all our lives in the Great World 2 Afterparty, and now that party is over." www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-great-...

Over 1,400 short-term rentals have exited the business in Nova Scotia in the year since the province instituted regulations aimed at boosting the housing supply. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

NS, NB, PEI & Labrador. Can we all agree to stay on ADT permanently…

Preserving neighborhood character, but the character of the neighborhood is just that it loses money every year.

This is one of those things that's obviously true and has massive negative consequences, and also I have no idea how you solve it in a way that's politically palatable to the average voter.

So this Tim Houston “it’s come to my attention” statement on Poppies in Courtrooms did happen…. In Saskatchewan, but nowhere in his statement does he disclose this leading it to be manipulatively framed as if it happened in Nova Scotia, scoring him cheap political points. Smh

My first solo apartment is gone. [laudatory]