good snowy morning, toronto! ☃️

bo bichette, bo burnham, and beau biden are the only three people i know with that name. do they even make non-alliterative ones?

disappointing to see a return to these antiquated fare gates on the ontario line project, smh

the east side of downtown toronto is often messy and often delightful

my knuckles have dried too much and now scrolling hurts. i don't even want to think about the monkey's paw curling

i'm building a machine that posts my most successful group chat messages to my public bluesky account. threshold is 2 positive emoji reactions. this is a good idea if you think about it

Forget hydrogen or batteries. Just electrify trains like the rest of the world, with simple overhead line that allows efficient engines to pull power direct from source. Congrats to @caltrain.com, where newly electrified trains are delivering vastly improved service - and rave reviews!

the mamdani phenomenon [travels one year backward] the phenomamdaninon?

how important is this politics event compared to the recent baseball event? which ones are the "blue jays"?

architect 1: and of course, i couldn't get a straight answer. she always leaves me hanging! architect 2: hmm. can't y' leave 'er?

jujuy, argentina, by foot and by horse

i ate too many today and i think a layer of my tongue has left the chat

the best part of autumn is that my hands get dry and cracked and i look like i use them for anything other than scrolling

do they always move the losing team's clocks one hour towards the winning team's? what happens when the teams share a time zone?

los angeles is an affront to god, jays in six 🙏

let's go blue jays 💙

currents, resistance… they're letting electrical engineers name cities in argentina

shoutout to the nonbinary person in rivera, uruguay

let me in!

apparently people don't dress up for 8am lab. then again, i can't think of a better setting for my costume than a city of normal people going about their normal days. happy halloween!

no one showed up to my game night

there's something vaguely australian about this core grid, too. i think it's the angle and the park belt separating it from newer suburbs, most notably seen in adelaide. i half expect the road along the park belt to be called "xyz parade" definitely an entry in "grids i wish belonged to a big city"

interesting sequence of street names in longview, washington. the pattern roughly alternates between US places and trees, skipping down the alphabet in twos. it starts to break as you leave the core. core sequence: Douglas Delaware Fir Florida Hemlock Hudson (no J) Larch Louisiana Maple Michigan

Thank goodness, a transit operator finally banning the covering windows on buses and trains! These types of "dot" coverage make the ridership experience noticeably worse, can be a usability disaster, and overall cheapen the image of transit. Kudso to Denver for taking the lead on this!

i designed a game! anyone want to come over and play it?

*lights a beacon* Professors & teachers of Bluesky! I've been asked to make a lesson plan & supplemental materials for educators so they can incorporate my book (a how-to guide for transportation advocacy) into their course work. I've never made a lesson plan, what do you like to see in one?

you're welcome, toronto

wow, i did not expect such a kick from the dollarama brand sour mango gummies. no replacement for trader joe's spicy dried mangoes, of course, but i'm happily surprised

just got my copy of @carterlavin.bsky.social's new book "if you want to win, you've got to fight: a guide to effective transportation advocacy", to which i contributed some diagrams. it was rewarding to work on this and i can't wait to dig in! (once the rush of seeing my name in a real book passes)

idk what's going on but it strikes me i'm not seeing anyone point out the misspelling of Abughazaleh here

the 18-inning game was @auguststreet.ca's second (and arguably third) baseball game ever, and now i think they like baseball more than i do

New type of gender now available, housing 🏘️😂

Wait this is actually really cute!! I sorta wish it was a nicer design, but I like the creativity of a pro-housing welcome mat

good regular morning

this was two hours ago

colorín colorado este cuento se ha acabado

what's the effect on my expected lifespan of continuing to watch this game

it seems i've become a straight-A student with minimal sustained effort just by taking academic writing out of the picture. nothing is a greater pleasure to my eyes than a syllabus full of quizzes and multiple-choice exams. even projects are fun when their parameters are clear and restrictive

day 4: the blue jays just crushed the LA dodgers 11-4. you know what else toronto crushes LA in? public transit. i'm a nerd, but it's funny how similar the ratio of transit ridership is to the points scored tonight. we're the transit city, and we're the baseball city too 🚇⚾

hardly a concern in comparison to the rest of the page's content, but it took me seconds to find a wrong "it's". the writing is generally awkward and i feel like i'm in high school proofreading a peer's assignment

the sign is up at the new elevator access for lawrence station, soon to open. this only leads to the unpaid zone of the south mezzanine, so no new fare gate line here, but it's a completely separate entrance at street level. feels anomalous for a suburban TTC station!

ugh. this album is special to me

if you or a loved one have lost days of life (in time wasted and distress incurred) to delays related to near-side bus stops, you may be entitled to financial compensation

tired: women and femmes wired: men and homes

i'm not sure why simons needs this information about me

if toronto were exactly the same but with 30% fewer bus stops, far-side bus stops by default, and those blinking green half-signallized intersections, i'd be a happy camper

Cool website by @albertguillaumes.cat showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics). stations.albertguillaumes.cat

I know who has better transit

this should put canada on the map

is this the part where i say go birds