Our society (a) expects homeowners to maintain public property and (b) has developed our residential areas so stupidly that one individual has enough property that they have to shovel like 100 feet of sidewalk is absolutely bonkers. The city plows roads for cars. They can plow sidewalks.

I spent a lot of time in and around Gatineau park waving to wildlife (bears, deer foxes, racoons, a porcupine, a fisher, probably a bobcat, and endless birds) while climbing to the Champlain lookout (left. I promise that bear is far away! 😂), and bike camping and exploring trails (right).

One of my last bike rides of the year before running off to visit family in stroadland was this amazing winter lights ride by @capitalbike.ca in #yyjbike! It was a blast, and I look forward to volunteering again next year.

Hey everyone screaming that people can't bike in the snow and should instead drive everywhere: I almost went off the highway three times in my car last night because it was an ice rink. Driving half the speed limit in blowing snow, with top-of-the-line brand new winter tires. Give me a bus.

If we treated cars with the same seriousness as planes - cars, which are several orders of magnitude more deadly than planes - our car-reliant society would get absolutely fried.

I call these photos "Kamloops; or, what happens when you plan a city exclusively for cars."

Not Recommending Charges Imagine if they did this when someone shot someone else but stuck around and cooperated with police.

Reminder that caws simply existing produces almost half a kilogram of methane methane each day - which itself is way more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2.

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

The moment I see this in my city, I am relocating it to the road.

This is despicable but not uncommon. My own union rep told me I should be using AI to write the music I teach my students. Openly admitted they use AI to write their emails and report cards. A disturbing amount of my colleagues are actively trying to destroy their own profession.

My editorial in today's newspaper. "We need more buses between Island communities. Motorists can reach virtually any village, town or city, but public transit users often cannot get where they need to go." Let me know if you want to be on our mailing list. www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce

While in Surrey for 3 days, with no snow and mild weather in a flat city, I saw 2 cyclists the entire time. I've been in Kamloops the same length of time - lots of snow, significantly sub-zero, massive hills... I've seen 6 cyclists. Not exactly Amsterdam, but get your shit together, Surrey.

Automobile: Invented in Germany Atom: Foundational research by a Frenchwoman, then mastered by immigrants in America Moon: Need I type more than 'Wernher von Braun?' Yes, someone should write that history, because the USA would have ended up easily a century behind the rest of the world.

look i made it the 1979 ibm warning

Do not let Climate Change Carney sweep this under the rug. He is an oil industry plant through and through.

'velocity matters more than perfection' Basically adjusted wording of Elon Musk's fucked up take on how to run thing - move fast and break things. Sorry, I don't want an AI bot deciding my payroll deductions are actually six million times more than usual.

I was visited by the Ghost of Christmas Alternate Dimensions. He kept trying to feed me tinsel-wrapped globorps with his tentacles. I'm not sure what globorps are.

Headline correction: "Surrey Police Officer kills Civilian using Vehicle on Christmas."

Well that's gross.

“a useful network of safe bike & roll routes that includes the major streets where stores & other destinations are…. becomes a practical way to get around, no different than driving, taking the bus, or walking down the sidewalk. …[this] is core infrastructure.” www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

“An isolated bike lane is a toy; a useful network of bike and roll lanes is core infrastructure.” I love this commentary on how empowering it is to have choices in your community. It’s also invigorating to know many communities in the region are contributing to a useful network of transportation ♥️

Got a chance to get the drone in the air while on my drive through the Coquihalla Canyon. The contrast of pseudo-monochromatic feel of the forest compared the dull but comparatively vibrant river bed is my favourite. The rock face halfway up a mountain is my second favourite.

Each time Doctor Who regenerates they radically reinvent his whole look

Merry Christmas Mobility Lane Rollers

Merry Christmas Eve Ebike Appreciators

As a union guy myself, allow me to ask: Where in their collective agreement does it denote that they are the first line of defense against crime? When your union president is spouting contractual violations, maybe it's time for a different president.

Merry Christmas Eve bakfiets understanders

Merry Christmas Eve Eve bike lane enjoyers

Me: "I'm going for a nice walk at the beach" Guy who blocked me a few days ago and inexplicably has unblocked me to scream at me delusionally: "Replying to posts I made on a public facing social media platform is targeted harassment this is literally stalking! I have reported you for using BlueSky!

This is a friendly reminder that when you post on social media, a post being a day old or a year old or a decade old doesn't mean people can't or won't interact with it. If you don't want people interacting with a post, delete it. If you don't want people reading it, don't post it. Not complex.

Yeah AI is something I want employers to be relying on, absolutely. In seriousness if unions take this shit seriously they can be the first line of defense against its long-term adoption.

I have just confirmed myself that this is true - what the fuck. You can literally just copy and paste the entirety of the document as a text file and get rid of the redactions. This is next-level idiocy.

@archive.org has chosen the side of democracy, information, and freedom of knowledge. You can now stream the 60 Minutes episode about how the USA shipped residents to a concentration camp that would make Nazis blush.

My dad, having just Torrented the 60 Minutes CECOT segment after I told him he needed to do it: "Wooooow. Are you seeing this? What the hell." I think this might be the visual moment that officially makes this real fascism for many.

It's only technically a leak if it comes from the Leak region of Northern Virginia.

So apparently the thing to do is post that the CECOT 60 minutes segment is out there. I'm not watching it right now, I don't need worse depression from things I am already pretty sure of, but go out and find it. CBS is trying hard to kill it.

This is what happens when academia has been absolutely trashed and diminished by conservatives for so long: People don't even comprehend that being an expert means... You actually know what you're talking about. These idiots genuinely believe that experts have always just skimmed and pretended.

The day I use AI for any aspect of teaching music - writing lyrics, arranging instrumental parts, organizing differentiated learning - will be the day I die. I am watching my colleagues - and supervisors - end their own careers. It would be funny if it weren't so depressing.

There was so much regulation that the corporations purchased a government just to get rid of it

Well there's the most America sentence I've ever read

The ratio here is legendary.

I've been passively following Fishmas for a while... But this is hands down the best #fishmas post I've encountered!

One of the most valuable pieces of publicly displayed artwork in the world, with this much LEGO being valued at approximately $1.77 trillion dollars these days.

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

Victoria in December hits different. Cloud bank moving in, I suspect we're looking at bad weather soon. Enjoyed the blue while it lasted

Waymo's failure to handle a very minor power outage in San Francisco should be all any other city needs to put laws in place banning AVs from every operating without direct human oversight within their jurisdiction.

There were 5,000 signatures last night and now over 9,000! ✍️

Holy shit this world does not deserve Rick Steves. What an amazing man. This is real philanthropy.