ChatGPT. Yes, the same ChatGPT that several of my colleagues at the elementary school are using to write their report cards. What fucking timeline do we live in.

Drivers are not okay. A few months ago, I was within inches of being right hooked. I slapped the guy's hood and shouted for him to watch out. As I rode off he floored it, tailing me through the intersection, blocking the whole place while screaming, red in the face, that I'm a menace.

In general, passengers in cars feel the same untouchability and impunity as drivers. As a teen, I was frequently harassed, screamed at, and had things thrown at me by classmates riding in friends' cars. No one walking on the sidewalk would do that. Cars induce sociopathy.

He is going to be getting out a sledgehammer to tap the sign at some point.

Driver Perfectly Describes Pedestrian They Couldn't See.

BCT had requested a 15k hour expansion for Vic to *maintain* service levels due to increasing congestion. In denying expansion, and actually cutting, the province has made clear that Transit isn't a core service and that they are fine with seeing service quality degrade. So much for Climate goals.

Protip: if you break into someone's car, don't leave more than was originally in it, and please close the doors fully so the battery doesn't die over the next five days.

I would be if there weren't a group of 15 year olds literally having a shouting contest three rows behind me.

Worst person you makes excellent point.

This is the unrealized superpower of bikes. They are human-scale, human-mass, and even most of the largest cargo bikes (not those stupid micro-amazon trucks with pedals, those aren't bikes and never will be) are navigable on foot. Sadly in most of the world, roads aren't human scale.

#yyjbike dress well today! Snow is already on the ground on the Westshore.

I've been blocked by two people I (formerly) respected for the crime of disagreeing while anonymous. If you are someone who genuinely cares who I am, and that I can trust not to doxx me for liking bike lanes and caring about trans rights, message me. I can't risk my job because I like bike lanes.

And let's unpack how the only reason cities are filled with asphalt is because of the cars, cars that you claim offer freedom from... Cars? Since asphalt is for cars. Now I'm confused. Almost like we're finding a common problem here, and it isn't the cities. It's the cars they are filled with.

People are so deeply entrenched in the culture you are critiquing that their arguments against my literally prove my point. North American cities aren't designed now to be places people want to be. We view them as places to suffer that we escape from on weekends. It doesn't have to be like that.

I wrote a paper during my masters about the dawn of automobile-centric outdoor leisure travel. British Columbia, with far more parks and a far smaller population, has just the same problems with overcrowding and availability. A thread on why this goes way deeper than campsite availability. 🧵

Since I just changed servers, seems like a good time to post an #Introduction. I live in Central Saanich, a rural municipality w/in Greater Victoria. I transitioned from being an avid motorist (for lack of a better term) to living car-light thanks to my #EBike & […] [Original post on toot.bike]

Happy Julebruary from Pebble the Kayak & Bike Dog. Side note - huge kudos to @saanichbc.bsky.social for the amazing bike lanes that mean we no longer have to drive to get to Cadboro Bay!

Acting like Vance isn't the final boss of populism is kind of hilariously inept.

Bahahahha halfway through typing my search I get a SUBSCRIBE TO GET FLYERS prompt. Who the hell is designing these absolute ass-tier websites. It's getting to the point where I don't even check websites for stock anymore, I just go to the store and hope it's there.

Home Depot website load process. Built-in cookie banner. Location access banner. Sale banner. Auto reload of webpage. Attempt to tap search bar, which relocates a millisecond before my finger makes contact, requiring yet another reload of the site. Finally start typing my search. Wtf.

Amtrak's Newest Train on film Their "Airo" trainset in Cascades livery looks fantastic on Fuji 200

As a teacher, I have two thoughts on this: Firstly, I alute and deeply respect - and can never understand the true toll of - their decision to defend their students. Secondly, though, I didn't fucking sign up for this. I signed up to enrich, educate, and support the next generation.

Should be grounds for discipline and retraining. You are the chief. Act like it. Actually considering what Del was like, act better than that.

In case you thought Canada was any better in terms of how our police handle protests. Firing chemical irritants point blank. ACAB.

On of my school administrators last year declared during morning announcements that kids taking part in Go By Bike week need to be walking their bikes on the sidewalk and stay out of the way of drivers. You can't make this shit up. People outside of cars are second-class citizens.

A Valentine's Poem.

"one day I might be a billionaire too, so the government shouldn't tell billionaires to not be evil because what if I want to be evil one day too???"

I am disgusted by the CBC's decisions during this whole tragedy.

Reminder that these days, the average car has one person in it. So for a bus, double this.

Even here in British Columbia right now, I feel this post is relevant. I still care about bike lanes and the rights of vulnerable road users, but we're going through a lot.

Until the RCMP start describing male murderers as "cis males who haven't transitioned and were assigned male biologically at birth" what the police and mass media in Canada is doing amounts to nothing less than systemic transphobia to further marginalize a minority for the acts of one person.

If you needed any further evidence that Kinew is a climate change denier who occasionally pretends to care, look no further. Wants to help Texas North export their uneconomical climate change juice.

Decided to let this "politician" know how I feel about her hate speech about trans people, who are not out there on the rampage. Drop her a line: [email protected]

Maybe a reporter out there - @akurjata.ca, @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social maybe? - could get in touch with school districts and ask why no guidance for staff or families was made available before schools opened this morning. They report school closures at 6AM but couldn't support their communities.

Meanwhile for two years my administration cannot figure out how to keep parents from driving into the staff parking lot.

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Huh, so cities DON'T have to write a blank cheque for their police forces. @defundvicpd.bsky.social check this out.

1. Doesn't know the correct use of "albeit" 2. Now do cars.

PIXAR's Hoppers will either be a stunning takedown of suburban sprawl and unsustainable development palatable to kids and adults alike... ...or it will be just another in the recent lineup of mediocre kids' movies with a one-dimensional message like "development is bad."

"we hijack your personal property to do stuff that lets us pretend we care."

Gonna be hard to explain Glacier National Park's distinct lack of glaciers in a few decades.

“OUR city isn’t Copenhagen.” Trust me, we know that. It’s abundantly obvious that Port of Spain is not that city. That city made, and continues to make, much better choices with fewer excuses. The real question is, do you want YOUR city to be better or not?

The tobacconist in downtown Victoria is, if I am informed correctly, closing or already closed. Not only the business and building but the counters and interior decor is all but unchanged since it opened in 1906. That's an impressive run as a single business. Wow.

I can attest to the heavenly nature of both Steff's refried beans and salsa verde. Beats the shit out of canned any day. One day I won't be rebuilding a 100 year old house and I'll actually want to sit down and make this amazing stuff... I will continue to eat well vicariously via Steff.

Not a conservative, he just loves Stephen Harper and hate bicycles as a side hobby.

Major figures posting bait like this is tiresome. They could have said anything about the concentration camp in this photo, but instead decided to try to create a flood (pun intended) of misinformation-suggesting comments about what is a storm water catch basin. Fuck ICE. Criticize it properly.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

No headline needed.

we’re not doing this under Woke 2 sorry not sorry