My 8yo asked if I would post something to Bluesky for her, then grabbed a piece of paper and made this So here is your advice for the day:

Minnesota did not go through all that to have people who live elsewhere do a weird one-up thing. It’s not a competition and we’re all in it together Resistance will look different in New York just like it did in Chicago and LA. We learned from those before us and we’ve got your back too ✊

If you hate the things a stupid pundit says, please block them instead of keeping the endless news cycle they depend on for engagement alive. Just seal them underground.

And it was just the sweetest thing to watch them imagine biking to a friends' home to play, or to the park together. The kids have a lot to say if you ask them the right questions, and I think we (the adults) have a lot to learn. 5/5

Quite a few adults stopped to look at the results, grimacing & looking rather uncomfortable about all the cars. One teen chatted with me about how he really wants to ride his bike, but he lives in Fairview so it's not safe enough. He told me he wished our mayor was more like the mayor of NYC. 2/5

A few weeks ago, #KidicalMassHfx was invited to an Eco-Fair at a local private school. We brought a couple of surveys on giant sticky notes, as one of the interactive components for our 'table'. The first survey asked students to tell us how they got to school that day in mid-April. 1/5

In the past month I have been in contact with measles, rsv, covid, influenza, and TB. All while being protected with ppe. All these pathogens can be found at your local grocery store. Do not take clean air for granted.

Myopic obsession of some in the left with Nordic countries ignores how these welfare states are built on intense nationalism & growing anti migrant racism. Sweden's new legislation includes longer residency period, higher income thresholds, and mandatory language and civic knowledge tests.

I keep forgetting that happy feet and mad max are both made by the same guy

It's so funny that decades of science fiction have used people assuming that A.I. cannot be conscious as an analogy for real world dehumanization of political minorities, but then in real life the people dehumanizing political minorities are the only ones who actually believe A.I. is conscious.

A year ago tomorrow. Nothing has changed on Wellington Cres. We returned Rob’s ghost bike to Wellington and Cockburn, and we’ll keep pushing for action.

Never been disrespected by elected officials, in any jurisdiction or level of government, anywhere near the extent we are consistently when we go to meetings that Janice Lukes chairs. Interruptions, dismissal of our concerns, injury that we don’t respect all she’s done for us (but nothing changes)

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

day two of in-person school and i’m zonking out for a nap in the middle of the day 🥲 my body and fitness are destroyed as hell

move when you can and don't beat yourself up when you can't

Today, of all days, we find out if the person who killed my cousin is found guilty or not. Mackaylah Gerard-Roussin. 2001-2022 Say her name.

At the Public Works meeting this morning. Rob Jenner is here in spirit

Honestly it’s time for NIMBYism to do a 360 and return to its original usage of not wanting their neighbourhood to be a nuclear and industrial waste repository instead of the pejorative that the YIMBY movement used to advocate for unfettered private development

Use alt text, folks.

happy first day of school, my period came in and i bled through my light coloured pants

cities: we need lanes to be really wide, for safety also cities: people are driving too fast on our streets for some reason

Cyclists get mad that drivers are killing and injuring people and are treated as hysterical meanies Drivers throw a fit over losing 4 parking spots and are treated as people with serious concerns over how our streets should be designed

I once helped write and facilitate a workshop that used transportation mode as a metaphor to dig into anti-oppression themes, but the longer I work in transportation activism, the more I’m convinced the struggle needs to adopt the footing of movements that wrested concessions from hostile majorities

Every speed limit reduction currently passed by council or slated to be discussed this week at Public Works is being delayed until after the election. Not because we have any need for further info, but because Scott Gillingham and Janice Lukes are big ol cowards afraid of annoying a single driver.

Credit to Joel Pett for one of my favourite cartoons.

I am generally growing increasing concerned about car culture and car dependency as a tool of *limiting* mobility bsky.app/profile/this...

perfect fucking day for tennis (overcast, not too hot, no wind)

We are #1, we are #1. More measles in Manitoba than rest of Canada combined; provincial numbers in first four months of year exceed all of 2025 www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Anyways, happy May Day. Remember that not a single right has ever been given, they must always be fought for

Happy May Day to the more than 30k workers of Winnipeg who shut the city down for six weeks in May & June, 1919. Especially the non-union "hello girls" of the city telephone exchanges who were the first to walk off the job, and those who were brutalized, jailed & killed by police.

now that i am feeling burnout less and less and my brain is approaching its normal level of clarity and function pre-(redacted workplace), really can’t help but berate past me for not doing the working holiday visa thing last year

crying screaming I want her so bad

told myself last year that i was going to apply for a japan working holiday visa but i age out of eligibility in two weeks so is it even still worth trying to apply or will it arrive at the consulate too late

I demonstrated two things today: that driving faster increases the risk that someone will die and that, after the pandemic, people started driving like bigger assholes. Gift link: www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Workers are the economy. That’s why capitalists need them and hate them. Happy May Day! ✊

How much do you know about the history of fascism in Canada? In my latest for Canada's History Magazine, I detail the history of fascist movements, what fed them and how they were sidelined. www.canadashistory.ca/explore/poli...

Gillingham has manipulated process to require a public works report on the speed limit reduction duly passed by council, and delayed that report until the June Public Works committee meeting.

Hey, it’s the first full council meeting since council voted to reduce the speed limit on Wellington Cres to 40. So today we get to see passage on the bylaw to enact that, right? WRONG! Mayor Gillingham has manipulated process to delay consideration until after the summer *at the earliest*

@nat4mynarski.bsky.social is already running, go sign up to work on her campaign

there is a whole class of policy interventions that are loudly opposed until their adoption and then widely beloved almost immediately afterwards, and people need to know this. especially politicians

Mark Carney is like one of those venture capitalists who take over a company and sells off the parts until it goes bankrupt, but he's doing with a country instead.

this might be what tips me over the edge into doomsday prepping.

it’s done and again i want to reiterate that i wish i had studied better because i definitely bombed one long answer question but will i learn my lesson?

ready enough for exam tomorrow but could’ve studied a little more and better but I’m gonna be so glad when this course is over (so I can start on the two other courses next week lol)

“Share the road”

imo one of the reasons i don’t like going outside as much anymore is bc i live on a really busy road with aggro drivers and i really hate it here i guess!

Another day of the Israeli 'ceasefire': Israel bombed multiple villages and towns in south Lebanon and continued to detonate entire villages

I want a story within the universe of the hunger games about a normal person in the capitol who writes fanfiction about hunger games tributes and forms parasocial relationships with them and the whole point of it is so the reader can see how exploitation has been so normalized within their lives

every time i see the argument against universal childcare and free tuition bc rich people who don’t need it shouldn’t get it, i just think that we need to reframe giving help not because someone needs it, but because we have the abundance to spare