One oddity of living in Hamilton is that I've seen a ton of these signs describing people and children in certain areas. What am I supposed to do with this information, who is requesting these signs be put up, and are they ever reviewed or removed?

Addison highlights these types of comments from American conservatives, and I’ve seen this all the time and always think it’s especially deranged. America has the lowest density, most “single-family” housing stock of basically any modern nation and it’s still not enough for these people!

Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :) antirender.com

Reminder: Winter cycling may not be for everyone, but with equivalent road maintenance that motorists get, the number of people that it is realistic for, is surprisingly high! #HamOnt

"retired guy who does everything by bike because he's cheap" is absolutely in my future and I can't wait

In home alone, the same actor who plays one of the bad guys plays the cop at the beginning of the movie.

This could have been avoided. It’s only on the table as an option because a previous Council made the terrible decision to build a two story Investigative Services Division in the heart of our downtown instead of something taller that would have also housed the decaying Central Station. #HamOnt

prediction: in Ontario we'll allow automated cars that use mobile cameras to break laws, but continue to ban stationary cameras that notice and report it

I'm thinking of starting a company that sells nine-gallon pails

Me buying a bike in 2019: "Maybe I'll save a little money on gas." Me as a bike commuter in 2025: "DESTROY PARKING."

As someone who immigrated to Canada this is personally terrifying Under such a system I would have been “lucky” that I got cancer after I had been here for long enough to become a citizen.

I know nobody will believe this but if you live in the 905 and need to drive into Toronto, congestion pricing is *good* for you! unless you love sitting in traffic and planning every trip around a 1.5 hr margin of error, you would benefit from a small increase in your vehicle total cost

Fun fact, loblaws and the Weston family can afford to fill every ambulance in the country with food!

Dope updates to Louise Eveillard’s cargo bike tool! After debating multiple whips, it helped inform my Bullitt decision. #bikesky

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This is more than twice the amount of money paid to every writer in Canada in royalties who has had their book taken out of a library in the past year.

I'm for the ignition interlock thing but separately... how are we letting people rack up 5+ serious driving infractions without a permanent ban?! "they need to drive for work" they literally cannot! find a job you can responsibly do

I thought this was fake when I first saw it .... like a satire

As I never tire of reminding people, the two plausible alternatives to automated traffic enforcement are that we either rely on the discretion of individual police officers or we simply don't enforce traffic laws at all. We have been trying both alternatives now and they are failing us.

Consultants contracted by Minnesota found that an eight-story single-stair building with 6,000 sq. ft. per floor (building 4) has dramatically lower fire risk than a same-height code-compliant two-stair building with a larger floor plate (building 1) www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...

I wrote this article about the nearby stretch of Cannon St over *fifteen* years ago. The City has made modest progress on Cannon since then but has done very little to improve safety on Wilson, which was just as bad. For shame. www.raisethehammer.org/blog/1683/dr...

Wilson Street at emerald is a 3+ lane highway akin to Main or King, but for no reason and with none of the measures that have been taken on those roads to reduce danger a shocking but totally predictable and unnecessary death

hey wanna know what can't be hijacked? solar panels

The best explanation for #MarkCarney as PM that I've seen is through the #ShockDoctrine lens, courtesy of the great @naomiaklein.bsky.social. He's using Trump's #51stState threats & the #ElbowsUp movement to give private capital everything it could ever want www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/01/a...

the more we learn about how to measure air quality / harms of indoor pollution, the more crazy it is that we burn fossil fuels in our homes

I hope Hamilton people are paying attention to ION and now Finch and MAKING SURE that tram is less ugly than these ones (esp Finch) and WAY faster.

Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?" Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."

After I had my daughter, one of the qualities I looked for in infant formula was existence, which was an aspect my breast milk lacked

I don't really know if this is true but it is funny to think of this as a vision zero safety policy -- it's on a newly reconstructed road designed for cars to travel 70kph+ through the same intersections

Copenhagen 🇩🇰 cyclists saved society $1.61 per mile traveled in 2022. Cars cost society $0.29 per mile traveled.

🎯"money's real power is quieter and deeper [than buying votes]. It decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored. It has rewritten the rules of self-government—slowly, invisibly, and almost entirely within the law."

we have a lot of mythology around home ownership to avoid admitting the truth: buying is the way to access nice, secure housing while renting gets you worse housing with less stability. tfw you require apartments to be bad and don't protect tenants from exploitation or market conditions

I like living in a place where renting is common and normalized and homeownership culture is not as strong. Specifically, I dislike the common idea that you’re a “failure” if you rent (or you’re being “exploited”). And the culture that glorifies rising house prices.

The war on christmas continues. thehardtimes.net/blog/opinion...

reviewing the Barton st functional design preferred options and it appears we, the City of Hamilton, paid someone to type the sentence "increase curb lane to accommodate trucks" under a section about prioritizing sidewalks god help us

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

"when will I ever use that stupid geometry stuff we learned in school? like, why would I ever need to calculate the perimeter or area of a rectangle??"

Which will win: the individual capitalist consumer's instinctive desire to move through public space protected by the most luxurious & biggest possible suit of armor, or society's collective interest in managing public spaces to the benefit of the most people? [finger to ear] ... oh.

“There’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles.” Would the author say the same about building bike lanes? Installing automatic traffic cameras? Requiring Intelligent Speed Assist? All of those are proven to save lives — and at a fraction of AVs' cost.

The thing is, even those people won. They just don’t know it or care, but we’re fighting for their safety too.

I'm from Ontario and I work on software for renewable energy, so of course the followup question I get is always "does solar really work? I thought we figured that out" like nothing has changed since 2009

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

​In the Netherlands 🇳🇱, data shows that for a 30 minute trip on a regular bike, only 13% of people are willing to ride. But for a 25 minute trip on an e-bike, that probability jumps to 28%. ​E-bikes don't just make riding easier, they drastically expand the acceptable range for bike commuting.

Was recently told to essentially “Shut up and stick to bike advocacy” after a post supporting the trans community. 1. GTFO 2. My voice is not some singular thing - bike advocacy is a small part of my makeup-you don’t like me or my position on things refer to point 1 Signed, Me

A thought I had about a mix of housing types, is that it's quite nice to be able to rent and find a neighbourhood you like before committing to buying, we have, and we know two other couples that bought a place ~100-250m from where they rented previously.

Remember this is the time to change cell phone providers even if you like the one you have. Switching, not threatening to switch, is how you get the best win back deal. Here are some of the offerings I found online. Not exhaustive and might be better ones. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Another tool the City can lean into is filtered permeability on local streets. When they removed car traffic from Shaw St, they mostly just alternated the direction of one-way traffic so cars can't go more than a couple blocks at a time. No lanes removed, so unaffected by Bill 60

gotta admit, I've said many times that Toronto should use narrower lanes. good thing nobody listens to me!

Every time you see that the government is trying to raise our military spending to 5% of GDP, think about the fact that our total elementary and secondary school spending is 3.9% of GDP.