Marie calendar pot pies really hit the spot on a cold rainy afternoon. They can be cooked in an air fryer (be sure to wrap the edges in tin foil so they don't burn) and be ready in 30 min vs the 50 min in an oven (plus 10 min for oven to heat up)

Reflections.... #Photography #EastCoastKIn

Brunswick Street, downtown Halifax – the old painted bike lanes are gone, replaced with a wide, bidirectional protected bikeway that looks not far from completion. 🚲 #BikeHfx

Wow these are great results "Of 32 patients given the implant, 27 were able to read again using their central vision. After a year, this equated to an improvement of 25 letters, or five lines, on an eye chart."

Cruella de moth

Chinese stuffed peppers.. Fish and shrimp and lots of unami in the sauce and marinade. It goes together pretty quick. Probably 30-35 min from start to eating

Some of my favorite signs!

Here is a quick pan of the few blocks around me in Hillsboro, Oregon. #nokings #indivisible. Many more blocks of people. Lots of support from drivers honking and waving.

I was one of those people! Great turn out. Lots of cars honking in support

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

When someone asks what you're doing this weekend, tell them you're going to your local No Kings Protest. I hope I've convinced a few people into considering going to this or a future one.

Starlings are one of Britain's most beautiful birds. With the right light and up close, the colours are amazing. Very underrated! #ukwildlife #birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

in the 90’s, computers would scream every time you went online. that‘s called foreshadowing

"Canadians put a lot more emphasis on service frequency. The US is still playing around with 15- + 30-minute frequencies for a lot of bus and rail routes." CEO of #Vancouver's Translink, on why city's transit ridership has snapped back to pre-pandemic levels. 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

#PortfolioDay I'm RJB / Mallacore (Ryan Begemann). 3d modeler and digital artist. I love sci-fi and especially spaceships. I've been bring many ship designs to life in vivid and color space scenes. For the most part I'm a hobbyists but I do the odd commission. linktr.ee/rjbmallacore

I made lemongrass beef tonight & doubled the lemongrass in the recipe to 4 tbl instead of 2 and I still don't think it was strong enough. Next time I'm going for 8 tbl of lemongrass (that is sliced very thinly and then pounded into submission in a mortar & pestle).

He has…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people… He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. —Declaration of Independence, 1776

I've been up to something. For many, it's not worth making a big deal of it. But for me, it's been a goal for a long time. I started commuter cycling from #collegeward. I think it makes sense to share this as my entry into the #weekwithoutdriving challenge.

This is every large city. Don't look at the word Toronto and think it isn't true with your city.

"Our streets are deliberately and inequitably designed. In cities like Toronto, over 80% of street space is dedicated exclusively to motor vehicles. This is not a natural state; it is the result of decades of policy choices that prioritize vehicle throughput above all else." Lanrick Bennett

Using acrylic markers to create a painting: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/DamnThatsR...

I truly believe in the value of social media for good, but if it's going to keep being an instrument of good, platforms will need to very intentionally create spaces were verified expert voices (speaking in their areas of authority) can be amplified...

I do not believe we need a "zen mode" or a "zone out" space. Those, for me, are offline. What we need online is a "high trust mode," where verified experts share deep content rich content. I'd love to see @bsky.app implement some sort of concentrating mechanism for this high-trust social media...

Don’t underestimate my ability to make everything weird.

Dance party!

I can't stop watching this

i just want someone to look at me like i look at bubble wrap

I don’t hold grudges, just a few people in my basement.

We don't try to justify road & bridge expenses for cars, yet trains are always shortchanged because people don't want them to "lose money" This article & PDF illustrate the indirect benefits of rail outside of the maintenance / ticket revenues that most people beat the drum on. Great read.

magic hour

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re at a concert, and you’re not in the band, shut the fuck up. Seriously. Shut the fuck up.

"49 households were loaned an e-cargo bike for a month in summer 2023, in suburbs of Leeds, Brighton and Oxford. Eleven of these households borrowed e-cargo bikes again the following winter. By Autumn 2024, 10 trial households had bought e-cargo bikes."

📢BIG NEW STUDY📢 Out today in Nature: the all-new Doughnut! Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @kateraworth.bsky.social and myself. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More guns than people… Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

Approximately 75% of households on the Upper West Side are car-free. Plus, 13,000 parking spaces in a neighborhood that's home to about 214,000 residents is nothing. This is an elected official listening to a loud and entitled minority and prioritizing the storage of private cars over public safety.

Why These 9 Common Myths About Bicycle Commuting are Totally Wrong. momentummag.com/busted-9-com...

Dear NPR. No. Just no. This is not how you help. One of the several thousand actual road safety experts here. We are easy to find. Maybe give one of us a call next time, ok?

Welcome to Portland, ICE Have fun walking around

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Finished this fireplace mantel this weekend. Will install it next week at the clients house that is in the middle of a remodel. Sapele was the primary wood with the wenge knots on the corners. I love how Sapele shimmers.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Whoa what an incredible thread

Ridership in Akron, Ohio is up 25% after the 2023 network redesign that we worked on with them. Here’s a nice CBS news segment on the project. youtu.be/DNZnZJPvytU?...

Let's focus on supporting each other this year. Indie authors, publishers, magazines & editors need to stay connected! Keep yourself integrated into the SFFH world by reading Locus! Support our nonprofit and help us create the network we all deserve... https://locusmag.com/

Need a build server but don't have the bandwidth to do it yourself, or the budget to hire a full-time employee? Chat to me, I can be your fractional build engineer andrewfray.dev

Happy Teacher's Day #Teachers (My Uni seems to have forgotten btw)

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Among other things, there has been a total collapse of any pretense that government agencies aren't overtly partisan tools distinguishable from campaign accounts.