“We’ve all trained ourselves to see car infrastructure as ‘normal’— and therefore its costs as invisible. Roads aren’t expensive, they’re just there. Parking spaces aren’t subsidies, they’re just ‘necessary’.”
The “Framing Game” via @katjadiehl.bsky.social.
This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1. The existence of rental hot tubs in general, and specifically the one now in my back yard
2. Electric heating pads
3. Cats who sleep behind your knees
This post brought to you by the word "warm"
I wondered that too. Why not just exchange them?
And in poor health.
You don't need to if you don't want to! If you do want to read more nonfiction, great. But if you don't, well, there's plenty else out there to read.
Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%, including London, San Francisco and Beijing
This is bizarre. If you admit more people to wards than there are beds... where will you put them? Who will care for them? You've just punted the problem upstairs from ER. It's got a definite deckchairs on the Titanic vibe. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Help select names for Toronto's new island ferries; www.toronto.ca/news/online-...
The #WashingtonPost has been dumping hundreds and hundreds of not-new recipes into its RSS feed every day this week. Are they trying to drive people to unsubscribe from their #RSS? Stubbornly, I am not, and just keep clearing the feed, but WTF, guys?
Impressive that this is not just 250% growth in biking
It's 250% growth in biking and the "number of reported bike crashes is on a downward trend" with bicyclists almost twice as safe on a per miles traveled basis
with reduced sidewalk riding too
Great work @cambridgemass.bsky.social!
Eek! At least the bits are still there, I guess, and you don't need to retrieve them from some remote field or something...
The baby giraffe at the #TorontoZoo needs a name! No, Giraffy McGiraffeface is not an option; you get to choose among five pretty names chosen by the Kenyan Consulate. www.torontozoo.com/giraffe
"When Republicans talk about parents’ rights, look for the child that is being harmed. This rule of thumb rarely fails." www.salon.com/2026/03/11/r...
My library apparently bought extra copies, but I'm still moving up the hold list MUCH too slowly!
"workers and job seekers in the province's softwood lumber, steel and automotive industries" -- this fails even the most basic, cursory gender analysis www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
I shouldn't laugh, but: hump inflation [makes Beavis and Butthead noises] www.vice.com/en/article/2...
Yellow cargo bike with big yellow bucket in back in front of Shell gasoline sign showing gas prices fo 3.48 - 4.49.
Beat rising gas prices with this one weird trick.
Since we can't resurrect Ben Kerr, we really should find a furry to run.
An excellent question
Yeah, there is no way at all to lock my ebike to the rack at the Home Depot near me. I tried seventeen different ways and NOPE. Traffic sign it is.
...or where the racks should be placed, or how bikes need to be locked up (hint: not the wheel), or or or. I might start grading local bike racks, with a bit of description as to why they either suck or do not suck.
I still have mine, too! It's on my bike pannier, appropriately enough.
If these people think Ebikes are lazy, wait until they learn about cars.
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.
Slime mold, more like.
Yet again I choose the bear
I’m not sure that would carry much more than our Yuba, really
I'm feeling better about the $8 ice cream bar (it was admittedly a fairly fancy ice cream bar) I bought at the Vancouver airport recently.
