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In this article a family member says they’d like to see the crossing’s pedestrian lights upgraded to traffic lights (because drivers do not respect soft limits), and then there is a quote from the police telling pedestrians to take responsibility for themselves and avoid stepping in front of cars. 😵‍💫

(side note: every time I find my bike covered in frost I wonder if it’s inside the frame too and if I need to be doing anything about that)

One of my slowest bike rides ever because I was convinced that my apple crumble would fall off the back at any moment.

Oh, this is terrible news. I can’t imagine that trying to make a left turn in Sunday morning traffic was so urgent or distracting that one hits a pedestrian? 😵‍💫

Ugh, suddenly having flashbacks to the persistent gravel section in the middle of the 153 Ave SUP.

My dream of finding the missing cams for my Singer buttonholer (the original, I don’t have the Professional… yet 👀) for a not-ridiculous price came true this week. 😭😍🥳 Sure, my sewing machine has a built-in round-end buttonholer but the process is fiddly and not even a little bit as fun as this.

I am once again asking the city to make SUP users’ lives easier and stop putting SUPs in places where they won’t get sun exposure. This is like the one way in which Edmonton’s weather conditions can actually help with snow/ice clearing but we refuse to take advantage of it in any way. :(

While most moderately busy roads are bare, most paths/sidewalks in the shade look like this. Studs probably a good idea to stay upright. #yegbike #yeg

Seen on the new SUP on the north side of 137 Ave between the north and south-bound legs of Manning Drive. I thought the city had stopped doing this kind of thing. Surely there were other options? #yegbike

I locked my bike at the downtown library this evening. When I came back to the rack there was another bike locked to the same loop, plus a dude walking around the bikes, touching and pushing each of them this way and that, I guess to see if they were locked properly? #yegbike

Today someone asked me if my bike has a name. I forgot that other people give their bikes human/boat/horse names, so I got a bit of a funny look when I said its “name” is 3M. 🫥

I’m directly across the street from a street light but was still able to see the aurora :)

Go look outside right now, we are having the most interesting sunset we’ve had in months

A tiny bit of swiss darning to fix a pair of fleecy sweatpants. 60% of the way through I realized that dark grey would have been a better choice than white. Oops. This is part of my winter biking base layer collection, which I think will be back in action sooner rather than later…

The SUP that was installed on the west side of 97 St between 167 and 160 Ave as part of Lorelei-Beaumaris neighbourhood renewal is already cracking in some places. It's only been 4 years! :(

Watching live baseball on tv for the first time in my life today and thinking I should give it up and go back to watching highlights the next day

one simple fix here is to make a world that you'd actually want to bring a child into, and put everyone who says that doing so would be expensive and unrealistic into an individually-sized tupperware® container

The latest item to graduate from my alterations pile is a knitted turtleneck dickey/bib that I bought for winter bicycling. It’s drapey to the point of sagginess (because superwash wool), so it wasn’t great at keeping my neck warm. I inserted 5 rounds of elastic thread and now it’s perfect.

IDK who needs to hear this but a well planned city is an affordable city.

🤫 Nobody tell David Staples this is all because of the changes me and my UCP have made to how municipal elections are held in Alberta. Let's see if he can use his "journalism" skills to figure it out on his own!🤭 #abpoli #yyc #yycvote #yeg #yegvote

Yet again I am trying and failing to find a bike rack (via streetview) that I can use on my trip later this week. A bike shop being located beside a bike lane but having no bike rack just doesn’t make sense. I think the message being sent is that cyclists aren’t actually supposed to use 82 St.

Update from Elections Edmonton: "Voting has been suspended at St. Timothy Catholic Elementary School in Ward Anirniq due to a power outage. EPCOR is accessing the situation. Voters assigned to St. Timothy Catholic Elementary School can cast their ballots at Caernarvon School, 14820 118 St NW."

Ah, I forgot to look at the time when arriving and leaving my polling place but I got through 5 or 6 rnds of sock knitting while waiting in line for ballots, so… close to 20 mins? Not very long but I’m sure that’s the longest election day* wait I’ve ever experienced

Question for candidates: is it embarrassing to go to the polls to vote for yourself? How does it feel if the poll workers recognize you? 😳

When people mock millennial style I am never bothered because surely you don’t mean me! 2010s Black hipster fashion is something I will always look back on fondly, with 0% cringe. IMO this wasn’t just Peak Fashion but also Peak Hair (and makeup)

My one-sided beef with the ready-to-wear clothing industry continues. You wouldn’t think that someone who’s less than 5’6” should have to buy tall sizes. And yet >:(

I finally remembered that I can sew, so now my too-short pyjama sleeves have turn-up cuffs. 😌 And it only took [mumbling] years for me to get annoyed enough to make this fix. Don’t mind the basting threads, I got too excited about posting. #garmentsewing

Screenshotting this post to send to my mother and make her happy

*rubbing temples* I just helped some family members book their seasonal immunization appointments online and I have some questions, beginning with: why does the appointment booking change every year? Why is it a different process on a different website every time?

Everything I have learned about [insert name of far-right US media pundit], I have learned entirely against my will.

Separated. Active transportation. Infrastructure. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Might have seen a driver in the French Quarter abruptly pull over on the wrong side of the street for a chance to talk to Andrew Knack this afternoon. I was like, “What the hell does this guy think they’re doing? Oh, they’re talking to someone, maybe picking someone up. Wait, Andrew Knack??!?”

The fork… no. The fish can stay, though.

Very normal and democratic regime

This week l've been thinking a lot about how Danielle Smith said it's fine, everything's totally fine, Alberta can easily sell the excess not-Tylenol to the US

Such thrilling weather we had this evening. Unless, of course, you are a cyclist with sensitive ear drums. 🙃

Not this being PACE’s real campaign platform 🫠 #yegvote

Just remembered that one of the candidates running in ward tastawiyiniwak posted a video endorsement apparently from Shaun King… #yegvote www.instagram.com/reel/DGxTDQq...

Ya know, we haven’t heard anything from Shaun King lately that’s been nice I wonder what he’s been up to I….oh….

Not this being PACE’s real campaign platform 🫠 #yegvote

Where are people getting this idea that emergency vehicles will get stuck on 132 Ave??? Have they ever been to 132 Ave?

Huge scoop from the CP: Canadian Press is reporting that Premier Danielle Smith has directed the justice ministry to use the notwithstanding clause to push through three anti-trans laws that would otherwise be blocked by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Alberta Bill of Rights

All evening I’ve been thinking about how funny it is that I watched this film not even 24 h ago. I already thought it was topical (*gestures at news coverage from the last several days… months… years…*) but baby, today??

Oh no, it looks like UCPism is contagious. The cost to QC residents will be 50-80% higher than AB’s price. Yikes. 😟

A story about last week's rally to support the search for Samuel Bird, at Alberta Native News. www.albertanativenews.com/rally-held-i... -- #yeg #yegwriter #photojournalism #journalism #SamuelBird #Indigenous #MMIEP #yegphotographer #bringsamuelbirdhome

Wait for it. The chart below is actually a video. It will start to scroll, depicting how smoky each day in Calgary has been amid wildfire season, dating back to 1953. (More context & data here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...)

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally says marking Canadian citizenship status on Alberta licenses won't lead to discrimination against non-citizens, because this is Canada. Legal and immigration experts are skeptical. #AbLeg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#bikerackrating at Northtown London Drugs: 1/10. It was impossible to lock my bike frame without orienting it parallel to the length of the rack. I spent quite a bit of time trying. 🥲 (sorry, there were no fingerless versions of pic 2)