These data (precise location, sexual orientation) were previously not allowed to be tracked under China's PIPL (modelled after GDPR) but the US has no such privacy provisions. If you are in the US please be careful about how you use Tiktok as it has lost its privacy advantage.

Clearing The Tracks

Completely different framing in Le Devoir, highlighting the drop in funding for BIXI (~$10 million a year to $5 million). Also less money for expansion of the bike network, from $20–30 million to $18–20 million. While retaining the budget for maintenance of the bike network.

i feel so faggy riding my folding bike

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

When mad drivers tell you that you, a cyclist, don't belong on roads because you don't pay registration and the gas tax, show them the Road Damage Calculator. Compare, for example, the damage made by a small SUV and a longtail cargo e-bike. Very different orders of magnitude roaddamagecalculator.com

江ノ電が僕の顔の上を通過しました。 がんぼるぞい translation: The Enoshima Electric Railway ran over my face.

Not just TSP ! — new motion brought late today at TTC Board to look at stop spacing, vehicle speeds, and parking and turning changes. Let’s go!

Line 6 late evening maintenance replacement bus is scheduled for a 34 min runtime, about 26% faster than the train (46 mins). Kinda bad. In reality, the replacement bus can make the trip in ~24 mins, about 54% faster than the on-street runtime I experienced on the train (~53 mins). Really bad.

I rode the Finch light rail today. It’s slow, but it has potential, and it brings with it a lot of good things. Read my latest article now: open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...

i really dont know how to feel about my favorite sufjan song being about a pickup truck

One of the headshots is done! I forgot to post it! Would you like me to take some headshots of these again?

u will never catch me hating on the detroit people mover. i love her

Oh! Out of the blue, a motion from chair Myers to conduct a full scale review and scale up of transit signal priority in an attempt to speed up streetcars! You love to see it!!

it's finally happening! after a long summer of advocacy by @ttcriders.bsky.social, red paint is hitting the ground on the south end of bathurst street. dufferin soon! this is part of the most significant expansion of transit priority lanes in toronto since 2020.

"Is it ready?" "I don't think..." "Did I hear it's ready??" "... let me check..." Mustelids are not the most patient creatures on earth. -- I feel like using traditional media again lately. I guess I needed a change.

Illinois transit is going to be bigger and better than ever! SB2111 passed!!!

With a 35/22 vote, transit funding and reform passes the Illinois Senate. An historic governance reform and $1.5 billion annual investment in transit proceeds!

The bill to save transit in Chicagoland (SB2111) suddenly just became bipartisan.

American wine moms going hard for the Bluejays:

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 🚇⚾

many little things within me how could i please them all

Chapter 4, Page 18

i’ll never understand people who don’t care to get involved with local politics

Victory for common sense.

in my detroit era

chubby lycanroc 🥯

Enjoy your cold beer :)

at the photobooth!!! ⭐️

comm for @shibayeenu.bsky.social

Trolleybark

From Jun 14, 2024 Poochyena #261

Signing event

outside wolf

Bark bark BARK!

口から花のビームを出します。がんぼるぞい。 translation: It shoots a flower beam from its mouth.

word limit be damned, my thoughts on "Clanker" comedy shit:

sketch commssion for caspian https://voisona.bsky.social/

🐧 Smile and wave boys, smile and wave 👋 Happy #FursuitFriday fluffy friends! 😸 - @mariannefo.bsky.social 📷 - @tunnycorgi.bsky.social

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

now that it's october im legally allowed to post this

HR: "What are your salary expectations?" Me: "somewhere between $47 and $313,000 per hour"