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erikwdv.bsky.social
Bikes, dad jokes, urbanism, and cats. Occasionally beer and baseball. Victoria and Ottawa are home.
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Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors... Being silent won't protect you.

submitted 3 hours ago • 99 comments

This is exactly the kind of moment when it’s appropriate to move from the sidelines and block the road. If mere dissidence were enough to deter them, they would already be listening.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Congratulations to Victoria’s mayor on the occasion of having Eastern Canada’s new high speed rail line named for her.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I am exhausted from organizations doing everything in their power to avoid having you speak to a human. Self-service options and FAQs can help, but when they don’t, hiding phone numbers and front loading phone menus to steer callers away from live agents is intensely time wasting and frustrating.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

I have discovered a secret way to prevent this happening. 🚲

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

@renomate.bsky.social do you know about what’s going on with this project?

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

This is a great profile of the much-loved Cowichan sweater.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Ah, good to know appointed police chiefs now carry more weight in setting school priorities than elected boards do.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The guy helping me at the passport office today told me he had just moved to Victoria. Last year he and his wife visited from Calgary. As they looked out over the Juan Da Fuca Strait in Sooke she asked him what it would take for them to move here - and now they have. He seemed unbelievably happy.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

That was the final straw. I deleted my X account.

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

This whole “cooking is for elites, regular folks order DoorDash” thing is exactly the same weird inversion that leads people to believe walking or taking the bus is for elites while the proletariat are stuck driving their Infinitis.

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

Careful when you’re treading on the turf of the master. He’s watching even if he’s out of the country.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

You bought fresh berries in December (barely available in Canada 25 years ago) and are complaining they were too expensive. Buy luxury goods, pay luxury prices.

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

Road space is either allocated to move more people or fewer people. It's a choice. nacto.org/publication/... #urbanism

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

In the last few days I’ve had the chance to try out the new bike lanes on Caledonia (all the way from Cook to Store) and Blanshard. Love it! There’s a lot more to be done, but the core of Victoria is really starting to look like a decent grid.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

One of my favourite parts of Christmas has migrated! I hope the lady whose in-laws put a shower with a glass door opening onto the landing appears…

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

“May need support” = need a kick in the pants?

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments