Spotted this ad for an F150 trim package. The goal is to be intimidating. They're not even pretending anymore.

You wanna see what it looks like when author incomes collapse? Make their books unavailable for libraries to purchase. Go ahead, Author's Guild. See how far that gets your members.

The province should be ashamed. They aren’t, but they should be. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'm not sure "Local man invents unverified pseudoscientific reason to malign bike infrastructure" merits a news story.

A bike planner died on his community’s streets, and I wish that this was a unifying moment for the transpo practitioner community to come together to demand networks of all-ages facilities for people on bikes. Not ITS or robocars or bulbouts. All-ages bike facilities. RIP Riley O’Neil.

I would like the federal government to protect the copyrighted materials stolen from Canadians - including those under Crown Copyright - to "train" large language models. Any LLM used in Canada should reveal its training data and proof of legal acquisition of material protected under Canadian law.

This is all on Tim Houston. All of it. And before anyone rushes in to say that volunteer could run libraries (some folks have already said it), you might want to think about why a library should run for free, when industry is never asked to run on volunteer labour www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NS spends less than 0.25% of the budget on libraries & museums. About half is for libraries If the political will existed, they could easily double the funding for public libraries and it would be less than a rounding error against the total budget while creating HUGE benefits to our communities.

Nova Scotia's entire funding for regional libraries is "barely more than half" what it gave Dal to look into fracking. "We could compare it to endless numbers of government expenditures which cost far more and provide far less. So this can’t just be about money," writes @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

Flat budgets are cuts.

This is a tragedy, completely manufactured by the province for refusing to fund our libraries. Again.

Crowds poured out to demonstrate outside Minister John Lohr's constituency office to protest the five library closures in the Annapolis Valley - two of which are in King's-North. The province upholds they're not responsible for the closures, having not cut funding. globalnews.ca/news/1188690...

I can't even begin to articulate how this news has disheartened me. I first sat in sadness & resignation. Then I picked myself back up, dusted off, & researched who I need to send angry emails to about it. (1/?)

I often wonder how Nova Scotia is ever going to survive this Houston con government. So much damage is being done.

Five branches of the Annapolis Valley Regional Library are closing. valleylibrary.ca/news/__trash...

Fuck you, Tim Houston.

Visitors to Nova Scotia who fly in to the Halifax Airport are now greeted by a big question mark where the tourism booth and tourism greeters in tartan once welcomed them. Now, they get this great big question mark. Welcome to Tim Houston’s Nova Scotia?

Shared this article by the great @landofsticks.bsky.social on another thread & was reminded of the solitary pylon (bollard?) doing all the heavy lifting for the Spring Garden Road pilot in 2022. [email protected] approach to road safety in a nutshell #PylonWars www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

Last year, Halifax mayor Andy Fillmore tried to kill this bike lane the day before the tender was to be awarded for construction. Fortunately, other members of council have more sense than he does.

I’m sick and fucking tired of living in a city where our municipal government pretends that basic essential city services are a fucking luxury.

We're spinning up a $300 million ferry terminal in a part of Bedford where no one currently lives and winding down ferries where more and more people live each year, describing the service as a luxury. We've reached the whatever level of governance is below vibes.

Hendsbee: 15 minute service is a luxury

Residents are invited to provide feedback on the shared micromobility pilot project that offers e-bike and e-scooter rentals in the Halifax region. The survey is open to all and runs May 25 to June 26, helping inform future improvements. Learn more: www.halifax.ca/home/news/re...

"writing" is more than just "typing the words onto the page." It's the thinking, the research, the reading and synthesis of information, the structuring and presentation of argument. I am unconvinced by writers saying "oh i use it for XYZ but not for writing, of course." you are using it for writing

We have some great #KidicalMassHfx news! We've managed to reschedule our (cancelled due to special weather statement May ride) to Sunday June 14th! Details have been hiding in plain sight on our website for about a week now. hfx.bike/kidical-mass... 1/3

"'The danger is not just in wait lists and empty emergency rooms, it’s that people start to accept this as normal, to expect less, to stop believing that governments can build systems that work for everyday people,' she said. 'And I reject that completely.'"

The Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP) is a nationally recognized plan that outlines Halifax’s vision for safe, healthy, connected, affordable, sustainable and equitable transportation networks. Learn more about IMP including the latest action update: halifax.ca/integrated-mobility-plan

thinking about pivoting to being a god-tier AI hater on linkedin

In my latest email about a badly parked Bird, I asked for the plan for dealing with the accessibility nightmare these things have become, as they’re frequently parked on Halifax sidewalks. I’m told that physical docks are coming in July. I am hopeful that’ll improve the situation 🤞

In today’s spicy (but not surprising to any of us that have been paying attention) news: Mayor Andy Fillmore met with an Uber lobbyist one day before the mayor persuaded council to delay the vote on a proposal to increase oversight of ride-hailing drivers. 👀

First Dairy Bar of the season! The London Fog flavour was very tasty, highly recommend

Two of the geese at Sullivan's Pond in #Dartmouth had goslings! #birds

Slip lane-turned-public space in downtown Halifax. It's nearly been a year since our populist mayor tried to derail this project at the eleventh hour (one day before the construction tender closed), blaming car congestion on bike lanes.

Slip lane -> sit lane (or sip lane, if it’s a @coffeeoutside.hfx.bike morning!). Celebrate the wins!

The only breaking news i wanna hear:

from yesterday, video of a pedestrian running out the way to avoid being struck on a marked crosswalk, in broad daylight (Victoria Road, Dartmouth) No amount of high vis and pedestrian care can prevent this. www.facebook.com/reel/1991012...

I’m still laughing at Mayor Andy voting against a request for a staff report on construction hoarding on the basis that there are “too many staff reports” and then immediately afterwards dropping 2 motions for staff reports of his own - and then rightfully getting called out by several councillors!

There you go, a proper 5x5 bingo card

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

The #KidicalMassHfx prompted motion to engage kids in transportation planning is on the agenda for Halifax Regional Council today. Tune in (sometime after 10am) to find out which council members don't really care about our kids. www.youtube.com/live/HtmavQV...

I stopped at Harvard & Allan to check out the new Racconne & found a note on the back of its damaged sign. This isn't the second coming or zombie Scritchy. It's his sibling, Scratchy! #pylonwars

They should let you fill in the long form census if you want to

This is a great example of "blame inversion" (coined by @ashtonindc.bsky.social) where danger very clearly caused by cars is blamed on anything else: parents letting their kids play outside, kids riding bikes, etc.

He has risen baby girl!

NSCC is laying off all of their librarians due to Tim Houston's budget cuts. Kydra Mayhew, a friend of ours and currently the librarian at NSCC in Dartmouth, talks to CBC Information Morning www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

A few weeks ago, #KidicalMassHfx was invited to an Eco-Fair at a local private school. We brought a couple of surveys on giant sticky notes, as one of the interactive components for our 'table'. The first survey asked students to tell us how they got to school that day in mid-April. 1/5

come on kids, get off screens and go outside! get off the road it's for cars don't ride your bike on the sidewalk you'll hurt someone take your headphones off it's dangerous stop being so loud you're disturbing people don't just loiter around go to the park but calm down there's little ones

Caught our new #BikeHfx sweeper on Hollis out for its very first sweep!

Hot take on hardcovers. We actually should ditch hardcovers...for YA and MG. These should be paperback first, hardcover as special items. (And of course we need to fix the royalties issue for authors.)