The Japanese/English "L"/"R" confusion can be so delightful

The urbanism of Kitchener, Ontario

God the CROWDS

Counterpoint: Yes you should.

this is also my favorite retronym, and deeply intuitive to use. I currently own an acoustic bicycle and am thinking of getting an electric one in addition.

this website can add a poll option AT ANY TIME

The developers of PEAK explain pricing

Finch West Riders Temporarily Convenienced By Fast Frequent Replacement Shuttle Buses

So apparently, some no life dipshit triggered the fire alarm at the AGDQ causing the whole venue to be evacuated for a bit. Thankfully, nothing serious has happened and they have resumed the run but here is the footage of when it happened live on stream. #AGDQ2026

Watching the finale run of @gamesdonequick.com (a very entertaining Pokémon run) and it looks like the fire alarm went off. That crowd of speedrunners are pros: Evacuations Done Quick!

Learning to appreciate the joy in taking precisely as long as you meant to, regardless of the parking-lot-circulation-ruiner hovering nearby.

It's so refreshing to see a major American politician in a children's setting where they don't look like a grandparent just breezing by for 10 minutes on the way to their next vacation

For No Reason in Particular Here’s a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis

I was just riding a subway car plastered with ads for a Wizard School audiobook, but it *should* have been this audiobook:

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it. Everyone, give @skatunenetwork.bsky.social your money. They deserve it.

BlueSky post: "I hate all the ICE out there!" Me, desperately searching for context to tell me if it's about: *) the American Gestapo *) gasoline car engines *) slippery ground

Let 2026 be the year @bsky.app fixes this layout error in their android app cc: @support.bsky.team

If only an idea like this had been popularly dramatised in an Academy Award-winning (2001, R. Howard) feature film, then these schlubs wouldn't have had to invent it

Me when I host a #HeatedRivalry rewatch party:

It's just not right that you can't just stumble into this corner and do some speaking.

It wouldn't be a VIA trip without a delay before we've even boarded (original 10:19 boarding)

Sayonara, french-town

This little guy doing circles in the harbour to keep it from freezing over

Bienvenue!

Banger of a line

Core sample analysis of the snow on top of a shed in Ottawa Mostly snow, but a 3-5mm thick sheet of ice in there The kids are having fun "breaking glass"

How many years are the finished second platforms at Agincourt and Kennedy GO stations going to sit fallow?

I expect that meme will finally be over sometime in 2026-7

My kids are playing, digging in a snowbank. 6 year old to 3 year old: "If I was playing this game on a phone there would be ads, but in real life there aren't ads"

Tight connection from the subway to the GO Train this evening... Just had to carry my sleeping child in a stroller up one flight of stairs to the platform. Thanks Bay Concourse.

The Fog

Snow plow apparently decided "fuck pedestrians, they don't need a sidewalk" this year

We have entered the season of no meal rules. Dessert is breakfast. Dinner is lunch. A snack is an entire honey-mustard ham

*Me riding my kids to school on my cargo e-bike* Old neighbourhood: smug asshole with a toy New neighbourhood: loser without a car

Fascinating new Line 1 maps in the subway... But why the heck is this on my Sheppard Line train??

Great news! Starting January 5, two ION trips have been added at the end of the day to meet the arrival of the last GO Trains to Kitchener GO.

Keep your goths in mind on this difficult morning as the days start to get longer.

Rode Line 6 again off-peak as an experiment to see how much faster service could be with optimisation. Trip time: 41 min Dwell from lights: 11 min Dwell from schedule padding: 4 min Actual run time: 26 min Increase the speed limit, and I'd say we could safely do 25 min off-peak/30 min peak.

A choir singing Christmas carols, while people go skating Remember when this was a parking lot?

Ah, riding a competently built and operated light rail transit system.

Today's multi-modal trip has been: 1) eBike 2) subway 3) GO Train 4) Light rail 5) Uber

This article I wrote about lessons for Toronto from Waterloo's ION LRT is almost 2 years old, but still relevant, especially for discussions about how to speed up Finch West. It's not a direct comparison, but ION shows that full signal priority is possible in Ontario! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The Finch West LRT is fixable, but it’s going to need much more than just transit signal priority. seanmarshall.ca/2025/12/18/s...

Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.

Tomorrow I'm catching to GO Train to Kitchener. I'm leaving from Yonge/Eglinton, so I checked out the options for catching the train at the new Mount Dennis GO. Turns out taking the subway and UP Express is 41 minutes, which is about the same time as the bus trundling along Eglinton.

Oh my god, it took me FOUR tries to get my 6 year old vaccinated for COVID this fall 1) oops out of stock 2) oops out of stock 3) sorry pharmacist had to leave 4) finally success A relatively limited number of locations even do the pediatric dose. Had to bring my 3 year old to a *special event*

Interesting editorial choice for the front page of #CBCNEWS showing the prime minister talking to what appears to be a headless mannequin. #CBC