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Some people can’t ride a bike!!! Actually this is true. Despite being a "gotcha" on Twitter. Also true: - Some people can’t take transit. - Some people can’t walk. - Some people can’t drive. That’s why we need safe and practical options for everyone. More: davethompsonvictoria.ca/ocp-update-s...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

The seawall detour around science world irritates me so much I want to run for Parks board, fix it, then immediately resign.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)

submitted 3 days ago • 598 comments

I watched Back to the Future last night. If they filmed it today, the past they would go to would be 1995. The future they go to in II was 10 years ago. I hope this hurts your feelings as much as it hurt mine.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes in these troubled times you just need to watch this particular video. youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?... There. All better.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Heated seats make me slightly revise my dislike of driving.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Oh good. Jury summons. At least this one is only 7 days, and not the FIVE MONTHS the last one would have been. (I did not get chosen, it was for the Queen of the North trial. They were sequestered on my wedding day so that would have been bad for me to have been picked.)

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

…846 unread work emails. 35 I can delete out of hand. 500 or so I can skim and mostly just delete. 30-40 will probably need direct attention. The rest need to be at least looked at. Eff this I’m going back to the Bahamas where my emails don’t follow me.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

ROMANCE IN GAMES IS GOOD. MORE queer romance in games. MORE intimacy in games. MORE sex in games. JUST MORE ROMANCE IN GAMES.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Babysaur asked why we don’t fly business class. Had to explain the difference between “financially comfortable” and “business class rich”. Sorry kid, we ain’t business class rich. This trip cost enough without an extra $3k per person.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It’s always disconcerting when you’re the last people left on the airport shuttle. Apparently Terminal A isn’t a very popular one.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Me a month ago: this flight lands at 9:30pm, no problem! We’ll be getting home a little late but we can make that work. Me today: my body is on Eastern time, I have to work tomorrow, Babysaur is supposed to go to school, we’re all going to die.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

yes. love it. do this.

submitted 7 days ago • 56 comments

Please I am begging you, if you must constantly port crap over from X, defeating the purpose of leaving there in the first place, can you please use alt text to describe it as such and include the names of the shitheads being highlighted so our filters will catch it?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

every single transportation conversation ever

submitted 8 days ago • 67 comments

I have an earthquake app and it’s like “did you feel that?” No, I’m on a boat in the Atlantic Ocean. Shockingly I did not feel an earthquake on the other side of the continent.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It’s very weird hearing about an earthquake in my home when I’m not in my home.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Anybody else get hot flashes along with … like, undirected rage flashes? I had a hot flash where if you had put some dude in front of me telling me to “just dress in layers!” I would have thrown him off the ship.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

“Maybe they were American portions.” “Well, everybody else ate their meals.” “Everybody else was from Jersey.” “…right.”

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Just overheard some boomers asking a toddler if he has a girlfriend. Are the straights ok?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

We found a little bird on our balcony. As best I can tell, it’s a bananaquit (Bahamian subspecies.) Poor little guy. We’re missing our last port due to poor weather and are headed back to New York. I don’t think he’s ready for the mean February streets of NYC.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

A friend asked me if I was worried that americas decline into fascism and my dependence on my kindle (I got locked in before there were alternatives) if I worry they might remove my books. My kindle is mostly fantasy, cliterature, and fantasy cliterature so I think I’m safe. They’ll never find it.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I keep seeing "Why aren't the Americans striking" and "Because our healthcare is tied to our jobs" and it never gets less true or less depressing

submitted 11 days ago • 83 comments

Fun fact: one of the more famous PSAs from the time was, "It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?"

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Gators. Everywhere.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I think the part I didn’t realize about “every body of water in Florida has a gator in it” was how many bodies of water are just EVERYWHERE. There are random lakes, ponds, ditches, canals, etc literally everywhere. And yes, they all have gators in them.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I wasn't on duty yesterday when this happened, but watching our emergency response systems light up and coordinate minutes after this happened was amazing to see. Patients were taken across the city and seen and treated within minutes of arrival. No deaths, thankfully. Bravo!

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

America is effing weird. The giant screen outside the Kennedy space center started playing the American anthem and everybody took off their hats, put hands over heart, and applauded. Hardcore patriotism is weeeeird.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I got some really awful news this morning and I don’t really know what to do with myself. I can’t do anything about it, I’m heartbroken and scattered, but also like… on vacation? Do I mope through Florida or do I just try to enjoy myself? Life is fucking weird. She would want me to enjoy myself.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

We’ve been in Florida for less than an hour, haven’t even left the ship, and the humidity is already making me a little batty. I swear my hair was dry a few minutes ago.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Had a lovely knitters meetup on my cruise this morning. But hey Norwegian, maybe schedule these for 1: a quieter area than the atrium, and 2: a location that exists on a map.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Babysaur checked himself out of the kids club (a perk for 10-12 yr olds) because it was “too rowdy”. There’s your paternity test if we ever needed one. Yep, he’s @dfox.foxfamily.online’s.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like I’m in a hammock. Wheeee!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The ship is rocking enough that they’ve put out the barf bags. Here’s hoping we don’t need to use them. Pre-emptively hitting the ginger chews.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

This is the wobbliest hotel.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment