For those wondering how you get on and off a penny-farthing. *A guy walking by said to his companion, “That looks incredibly dangerous.” 😅

Almost everywhere in the City of Toronto has fewer people that it did 50 years ago

It’s been a few weeks since Hurricane Melissa devastated the west coast of Jamaica. I said that I would post an update on places to donate. The Jamaican Canadian Association Fund funds local orgs in Jamaica that are trying to rebuild in the wake of Melissa. www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/138028

Athena Macke - Berlin-University of Applied Sciences. In her final thesis, she focused on fashionable and performative forms of expression in forward-looking urban design and the move away from cars. The cycle path and the car dress as well as the frustration boxer were also part of her project.

did you know we had ~80 huge sturgeon die this year (that we know of) in 2 BC rivers? These deaths occurred during the summer when the sockeye salmon were returning sturgeon eat many salmon at once, and this may be overloading their metabolic capacity during hot summers 😱 #sturgeonsaturday 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐

#MissingRegalia PLEASE SHARE Mi'kmaq Hereditary Chief #StephenAugustine lost a Chief’s Jacket. Nov. 10, at #Montreal Trudeau International Airport, #YUL It is in a black garment bag Contact him on FB messenger if you can help 👉🏼 www.facebook.com/share/p/1ADc... @aptnnews.bsky.social #Indigenous

I finally put some fresh batteries in our trail cams and ended up catching a deer fight by our apple trees.

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Bill 60 will make our roads more dangerous for everyone. Thank you to Bike Ottawa for inviting me to speak at your rally this morning — keep the pressure on the provincial government and tell them to stop interfering in the work cities are doing to make life better and safer for people.

Some folks said we were too harsh in our episodes on on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling. This amazing video from Not Just Bikes suggests we weren’t harsh enough.

Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Good morning to the person who passed me on a winterized unicycle (?!) as I was walking to the LRT this morning.

If more of us choose cycle or ride the bus, was there even a car to begin with? From @urbancyclinginstitute.org

On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Because all y’all have been so supportive of my weird obsessive work: This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨 www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Like many others, I am disappointed and angry about the decision by @cyclinguk.bsky.social to change the eligibility criteria for Women in Cycling 2025 to exclude trans women. Trans women are women 🏳️‍⚧️ I have requested for my name and face to be removed. www.cyclingweekly.com/news/do-we-n...

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

There's some really big caveats to this. A thread.

I’ve been writing R since 2008 and somehow NEVER noticed that functions can literally call themselves in some sort of evil self-recursion. I don't remember ever seeing this thing in the wild! #rstats

I'm an expert at Bad Bird Photos, but actually like the way this one turned out.

An alarming sidelight on the back doors AI is opening up into scientific publications: not paper factories, but insta-comments for the letters pages.

What if, hear me out, we supported the researchers we already have (myself & my colleagues included) who are struggling to find finding & research positions as it is, & are frequently looking outside the continent for actual opportunities?

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together. archive.is/8VqQJ [this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]

Canada budget: AI is going to do an awful lot apparently. We can cut lots of money, AI will deliver instead! Public safety? AI will deliver RCMP? You guessed it, AI will save the day Fisheries? Yup ESDC? Also on the AI train CRA? See above Gosh I hope this AI thing works out

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

Imagine seeing Dick Fucking Cheney anywhere outside of an iron maiden in Hell and finding something to be nostalgic about? www.welcometohellworld.com/god-will-pun...

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

A quick explainer on Montreal’s election: The urbanist Projet Montréal party of outgoing mayor Valérie Plante has lost the election to the opposition Ensemble Montréal. Projet deserves a *lot* of credit for Montreal’s transformation in the past 10 or 15 years to be more bike/pedestrian-friendly.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

How did this vehicle manage to get past the magical paint?

The art of defending oneself with a bicycle 1904 guide

Avec 470 arbres plantés et 4 000m2 de nature en plein cœur du 14e arrondissement, la place de Catalogne s'est radicalement transformée en 2024 !

What the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group promised Ottawa residents versus what OSEG actually delivered:

I didn't think there were any more lines to be crossed after Mecha-Hitler, but Elon Musk is a brilliant innovator in ways mere mortals cannot dream of

My kiddos at school is walking out #redfored

Halloween. Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Update: Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in southwestern Jamaica — and has tied the all-time record for strongest Atlantic basin hurricane landfall. Hurricane Melissa will be a generational-scale climate disaster and will require an international response to help Jamaicans recover.

these assholes managed to piss off an entire programming language

Academic publishing is extremely difficult. However, if there is one thing that drove me away from academia it was anonymous reviewers being condescending and rude when I'm trying to publish my first papers.

Mass killings reported in Sudanese city seized by paramilitary group

Ottawa paramedic data show an increase in calls for overdoses near the now closed supervised consumption site at the Somerset West Community Health Centre, corroborating what we’ve been hearing from residents.

Thinking about how the mayor of Waltham objected to safe streets infrastructure because "we have winter here," unlike, say, Finland.

Mayoral canadidate, who names his party after himself, says there is a "War On Cars" in Gatineau. I wish. I like living here because it is marginally more bike friendly than Ottawa, but cars still dominate. www.ledroit.com/actualites/a...