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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • i… i’m not circlejerking over anything. the same thing happened in my city to the ghost bike of a good good man. this shit is very sad and extremely sucks.

    look i’m sorry that Canadian Cycling Magazine doesn’t meet your journalistic standards or whatever, but “this is clickbait” is a very weird reaction to this article. sometimes the tweet is all the information there is and publishing it elsewhere helps inform people who are not on twitter–of whom i am one, and was one back in december, 2022 when the op’s article was published.

    at this point, i think you’re actually mad about something else. i don’t know what that is, but a normal reaction to someone taking the time to answer you questions about veracity is, “oh, thanks” and not… whatever this is.

    (ps: it’s interesting to me that you called BLU “a guy.” it feels kind of like calling the ACLU “a guy.”)










  • Had to head out to Reston for the fourth because our dog would die from a heartattack with all the fireworks. I thanked my stars for metro going all the way out there, and coming back. It was… good? And cool? And amazing? And made me fall back in love with metro! I missed the crowds, but even the “regular” service was A+.





  • “The most vulnerable people are primary school children aged 4-12, intoxicated pedestrians aged 30-39, and elderly pedestrians aged over 70.”

    “As part of the campaign, Crime Stoppers Victoria will hit the streets to actively engage with high-risk pedestrians to educate them on how they can help keep our roads incident-free.”

    How does anyone see this as anything but bananas? Kids should be able to quickly and safely get to and from school without needing worry about whether or not a driver will mow them down. People who’ve been drinking are infamously not great decision makers so I don’t know how “educating” will help any. And 70 year olds are vulnerable because they are 70 years old not because they don’t know how dangerous cars are.

    “‘We have seen 175 pedestrians killed on our roads over the last five years, and a significant number of those have been in 60 km/h zones.’”

    the problem is the cars and the car-centric infrastructure, jfc go fix that


  • Looking at the list of information the bill would require OUC to publish, I hope that that’s stuff that’s internally tracked but just not posted. Stuff like “the average time and maximum time it takes for a call-taker to answer” and “the number of shifts where OUC didn’t have enough employees to meet minimum staffing requirements” seems like critical information for an agency to be keeping tabs on.

    If that’s not being tracked… well, it wouldn’t surprise me, but that also makes this bill must-pass.

    (“Number of times people misuse 911” seems a little fuzzier and, eh, if that were dropped from the bill because it’s not currently tracked, I wouldn’t be too sad about it.)