Let the adventures begin.

PXOs have signs and flashing lights and they're constantly ignored. #SubSkeet

The world’s top 1 percent is responsible for double the emissions of the entire bottom half of the planet. The message is clear: to fight climate change, we have to fight the ruling class.

Cartoon by Suhail H. Naqshbandi

Anyone missing a trike and trailer?

Planning what will hopefully be my longest ride of 2025 for this weekend: maps.app.goo.gl/rZ5DC45QbUtU...

Canada’s “elbows up” nationalism may look like resistance to Trump, but it risks repeating the colonial violence it claims to oppose. Ellen Gabriel and @seancarleton.bsky.social warn that patriotism built on erasing Indigenous struggles makes real reconciliation impossible.

Anyone know a good bike route from the Quyon Ferry to Ste. Cecile de Masham? Cc @gguillaume.bsky.social @dvdham.bsky.social

I live in Queensway Terrace North. My street FINALLY got a sidewalk & a decent drainage system. What a fantastic impact - more people out walking with strollers & mobility aids, decent management of rainwater, good access to the bus & incoming LRT, & it looks great. @tkavanaghbayward.bsky.social

Anyone have any suggestions for where to go in the Caribbean/South America for a week with a 12 and 14 year-old that doesn’t involve a resort or huge budget? Had thought Cuba, but once again, US citizenship appears to be an issue.

So, business as usual for the Liberal Party. Run left, rule right has served them well for a hundred years. Canadians, trapped by a ridiculous voting system, and a seeming unending appetite for pain, continue to fall for the Liberals' "progressivism".

mark carney’s liberals really going from bad to worse in record time

I love the idea of a guerilla umlaut www.the-berliner.com/english-news...

Hey #ottbike peeps, any intel on veloroute des Draveurs? Planning on trying it out on a cyclocross bike. I’m running 35mm knobby tires. Doable, or a challenge?

'It is now clear that the world cannot recycle its way out of the #plasticpollution crisis.' www.commondreams.org/news/plastic...

Anyone have recommendations for an electric bike tire pump?

@ladybugspicnic.bsky.social justice treated me to a sushi dinner. Didn’t stop me from bbqing the jerk chicken that I had marinated. Guess I have some fancy snacks in store.

JUST SAY OZZY! RIP

Just over 100 days into his term, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is taking aim at the size of the state — while ramping up military spending. He’s launched a whole-of-government review, pushing deep cuts, deregulation, and a $9 billion boost to defense.

Nobody asked for this.

Bike Camping booked for Taylor Lake in August!

Fuck the Snowbirds and the spectacle of the Military Industrial Complex.

Any #ottbike suggestions for century rides? Have been riding around the Carp area so far this year and loving it, but also glad to spread out and explore other areas.

The ring road is called Hunt Club Rd., Tim. We don't need another sprawl corridor. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

There was once this idea that a relatively benevolent government had a role to play in ensuring that residents were reasonably protected against things that they might not have the capacity to fully appreciate. Now, we ask people to count dead fish and side-eye the algae. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As many as 40,000 people across Canada are out of their homes at the moment because of #wildfires. Now, back to #MarkCarney for more on those 'nation building' #oilandgas projects.

Last Wednesday, workers at a port in southern France searched a cargo ship headed for Haifa — and found it carried 19 pallets of machine-gun parts. They blocked the shipment, refusing to be complicit in Israel’s war crimes.

Third spaces matter. Don't learn this the hard way: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

A modest proposal: if we can't get all 10 provinces and the federal government to agree to abolish the monarchy, let's just deluge them with requests to undertake their formal duties until they quit.

Tell me when the royalphiles have stopped blathering about continuity and the importance of some Anglo-German tourists to Canada's political system.

#SubSkeet canadianart.ca/features/ken...

Canada counters American annexation with reminder it already belongs to elderly King

NEW: Ottawa Police deny inviting convoy figure to help them with anti-LGBTQ+ protest at elementary school Community groups are now calling for police to face an investigation after ‘convoy church’ pastor tells city councillors he was “invited” to help police manage aggressive protests

If we're serious about having *any* leftwing alternative in the country, we need a party that gives a voice to social movements, labour and provides radical alternatives to the status quo. The neo-liberal NDP of today is not that party.

This weekend I pulled out multiple camera kits. I haven't done any serious photography in about a decade, or longer, so I'm dusting my gear off, and thinking of projects. These are film cameras, so there's now also a sharp curve of re-learning darkroom chemistry!

A cultural difference I have observed between urbanites and suburbanites: a friend who lives out in the burbs was saying how in her ‘hood, the spot in front of your house is “your spot.” Since then, I’ve noticed that if I sit outside, most people will not part in front of our house.

Hold on: when transit isn’t ridiculously expensive, more people will use it? Try higher frequencies now.

Weird how the lonely alienated men never turn to community or labor organizing. Che. Black Panthers. Etc as good role models or showing them how to combat capitalist alienation. Showing them how to have a real positive pro social impact they can see with their eyes. Weird how no one mentions this

The monarchists are delusional. How does getting a King holed up in palaces on the other side of the Atlantic to come to Canada and read our throne speech (ugh) show our country is “truly independent and sovereign”? If we were really serious about that, we’d finally abolish the monarchy.

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

On this day in 1967, Muhammad Ali refused army induction to serve in the Vietnam War.

I don't know that anyone on the left should be comforted that the same centrist NDPers who have overseen the decline of the party since 2015 are still running the show.

I don’t know which company co cocked this design, but the top tiers of the ##ottbike racks in the new cage at 235 Queen St. are fixed, so good luck getting a bike up there.

Enjoyed doing 65km on the river and canal paths today, but they also make the case for why MUPs only work in low volume settings. Anyone have any good alternate rides I don’t know nor just need reminding of?

Everybody is distracted by tariffs and "America's standing in the world" while the President of the United States and his buddies are doing insider trading out in the open.