….theeeyyyyyyy’re comingggggggg 📸

For the record, we saw this shit early in romance, too. There’s a reason @devinharnois.bsky.social had to make a button saying something like “M/M is for gay men, too.”

“Blaming bike lanes is blaming the solution. The only thing that gets cars off the road is better transit and better active transportation. The two go hand in hand.” - Sam Austin www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Great story about how HEATED RIVALRY by @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social got made. macleans.ca/culture/how-... #scriptsky

#hfxws: the Halifax Common pathways have flooded sections; & the asphalt cut near the new playground has deteriorated significantly over the last week, leaving a deeper hole than previously there. Leaves blocking the diverter on Allan St are thawed, but I couldn’t shift them with my feet. 🪏 later!

A little bit of light reading prep for my speaking at the HRM Public Participation evening for budget season... wish me luck

HRM's red tape prevents healthcare as well as housing

For the Gay Hockey pilled locals; 4 copies of The Long Game are in at @kingsbookstore.bsky.social if you wanna read the inspo for S2 before it comes out!

I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement. Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.

really looking forward to this one! join us on Sunday Jan 18th and pick up a book, with portions of the sales supporting the Canadian National Institute for the Blind!

The fuck is this. Our two largest parties are 1) actively cheering illegal kidnapping of a president and 2) acting like a kicked dog in the face of US aggression. It’s pathetic cowardice, not leadership. And this cowardice puts our country at risk. We need actual options in the next election.

I’m stealing “you have to navigate a veritable gauntlet of cycling punishment” to describe the Halifax side of our bridge bike lane. Also, screaming into a pillow as I contemplate what it’s like to have a mayor who cares and does stuff to make things better.

I’m obsessed with Francois Arnaud being a bit of a shady bitch to the NHL about trying to capitalize on the collective Heated Rivalry psychosis without engaging with its subject matter, homophobia in hockey.

Every single year our annual road safety report duly notes that this is specifically the most common cause of pedestrians being struck. A green light for drivers combined with pedestrian movements has terrible, regular consequences for victims.

Drivers should not get a green for left turns while pedestrians have the walk signal. Not just at this intersection, but at all signalized intersections in HRM. m.facebook.com/groups/33150...

A periodic reminder that I've written and edited three critically acclaimed, award-winning nonfiction YA anthologies on the topics of feminism, mental health, and the physical/political body. Buy or borrow these so-called "obscene" books. www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/...

Eagerly awaiting the first time a pundit says it’s inappropriate to criticize the president because we’re at war

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

so much of the bike infrastructure debate is shaped by the presupposition that people who drive cars need their cars, whereas people who ride bikes don’t really need them

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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

the recurrent line that has always stuck out to me, "name any issue and i'll tell you how cars make the problem worse", is extremely true because once you See cars you cannot unsee them.

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.

The majority of archival material out there has NOT been digitized. So if you really want to figure something out, odds are that you have to go to an archive and dig. Historians are trained to dig.

All Cogswell bikeways are now open! I updated the Halifax bikeway map on Wikipedia, marking Amalamek Way, Brunswick Street, and Dutch Village Road as complete. #BikeHfx

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

it would be nice if scholarly organizations defended scholarship

When the police call for police to be taken off mental health calls - as police chiefs have done in Toronto, Victoria and elsewhere - we should listen, ask who responds instead, and where the money comes from to pay for that service. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Relatedly, the HRMs police forces have been saying this for over a year cause we also have provincial legislation that makes cops sit in hospitals with folks until a doctor sees 'em.

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Outstanding news! www.fastcompany.com/91461983/ind...

Finally took the time to write my reflections on mapping (almost) every bike parking spot in Halifax. It's a fun "living" project that brings me joy & has apparently helped some folks too! The post is both a love letter to Halifax and the joy found in simple projects. justbartek.ca/p/posts/hfxb...

FACTS! The gay hockey show is CANADIAN CONTENT, kids - and it shows.

Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition." A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.

Canadian economy rallies as #1 export now Heated Rivalry

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Interesting that the mayor felt like he was in opposition to city administration. And that $22,000 had to be spent teaching him how to work with, and not against others. Will it be money well spent? Or will he continue to play the leader of the opposition attack dog position in the future?

Some #BikeHfx success to share on this sunny, mild morning! The bike signal at Almon & Robie now runs at the same time as green for cars & peds. And, delighted to find that they added flexposts for the WB corner so drivers will stop treating the bike lane as a right turn lane.

This is always the plan — they know the slop is slop so they will hire the original humans back at a cut rate to be slop wranglers, which involves more work and worse outcomes.