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Halifax mayor's motion to pause bike lane contracts fails 🚲 A win for inclusive and sustainable transportation, but also a frustrating waste of time from someone who ought to know better. Thank you to everyone who spent the weekend speaking out, and to council for making the right call. #BikeHfx

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Coming around to the idea that “made in X solutions” doesn’t only mean cop-outs but sometimes legitimate ways of navigating local context to get a thing done

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Everyone whose opinions I don’t like is actually getting paid by the bad guys to share those opinions

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The Israeli military killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza last night, including 3 paramedics, a journalist, and children. Israel cannot keep committing war crimes with impunity– it must face global sanctions immediately.

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Need this for Victoria Park in Kitchener too

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June 10, 2003: Ontario legalized same-sex marriage after the Halpern v Canada ruling that declared defining marriage in heterosexual-only terms violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ontario was the first jurisdiction in Canada and the third in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.

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This is one of the worst and largest russian drone attacks on Kyiv I can recall, the buzz of incoming drones and air defences firing is literally non-stop. God, save us all.

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A point made insufficiently: nations of the world are lining up to poach US scientists and Harvard-bound students. They are not coming together to think about the hole in global science the Trump administration is creating. That's a problem.

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Vice President, Boring

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I hate when people try to shoehorn every political issue into a unified ideological perspective, especially because all issues come down to solving housing abundance in cities

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The united states government is run by an actual death cult

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This is right IMHO. Custom feeds are great but too hard. This place needs good default _timelines_ not just feeds, and that means algorithmic ones for most people. I'd like for them to be composable, explainable, customizable, etc. But Discover is too random and Following is too current.

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Residents and visitors are invited to experience the largest Canada Day celebration in Waterloo Region on Tuesday, July 1 at Riverside Park. For the first time, the City is officially leading and hosting the event, continuing a favourite community tradition. Learn more: bit.ly/45OYp8K

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For every 1 discourse post about Bluesky you have to do 2 shitposts. (4 if they're shitposts about Bluesky)

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Was great to see people out at DTK bike day! We are thankful for the opportunity to talk to community members about walking, cycling, and transit at our booth and lead an infrastructure cycling tour.

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All the big LLM models are trained to be pleasant and helpful, and this contributes to user overconfidence in the quality of the output. At the same time, there are a lot of AI skeptics out there. Today we are proud to announce our latest model, trained specifically to be grouchy and unhelpful,

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I've been experimenting with AI-proof assignments for a long time. Last semester, that meant Soviet video games and sci-fi short stories --and it worked pretty well. My latest Substack essay below. "Teaching in the Age of AI: How I avoided a shitty semester" hegemon.substack.com/p/teaching-i...

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If people redirected some of their Bluesky-meta-discussion energy to finding, engaging with, and boosting relevant accounts (local orgs, governments, journalists, etc) that are already on here, it would make it easier for other primary sources to switch over and stay here

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At least 4 of Canada's provincial/territorial governments have official presences on here: @govnl.bsky.social @govnb.bsky.social @peigov.bsky.social @yukon.ca (The biggest provinces need to get their acts together though)

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A guy unprovoked points a gun at you and you're desperately, perhaps even hysterically, trying to get him to lower the gun, meanwhile trying to figure out if you can distract him long enough to disarm him, and then an Atlantic contributor walks in and says "You both need to calm down."

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I don’t think people should have to share their personal stories to get elected officials to do the right thing, but I am open about my experience because I think it’s not widely understood how bikes are mobility aids. Here’s my letter to council about the mayor’s motion to stop bike lane progress.

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✅ @govnb.bsky.social has been verified by Bluesky.

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Today, I came to the Metropolitan Detention Center to exercise my constitutional rights as a Member of Congress to check on the safety and conditions of SEIU California President David Huerta, who was arrested by ICE.

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Come on Democrats, if Doug Ford can figure it out, you can too

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Due to the Coriolis effect, loading spinners in the Southern hemisphere spin the other way.

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A big beautiful display of troops loyal to the constitution with tanks in Washington, D.C. has the chance to do the funniest thing

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she’s like 15 feet away. absolutely that man’s whole thought process was: “I’m gonna shoot that woman”

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Good episode but no mention of the humble food processor??? Smh

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lmaoooooo hell yeah LA

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if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted

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cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

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It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

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Part of a larger thread with updates from the Freedom Flotilla. Greta Thunberg and other civilians have been arrested / detained / abducted by the Israeli military.

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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

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My statement on what's unfolding in Los Angeles.

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I'll never forget that Linda Tirado lost an eye and is dying from TBI-induced dementia caused by a cop shooting her in the face by a rubber bullet at the George Floyd protests.

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Honestly I think if this place was actually irrelevant we wouldn’t have to deal with the same freaking editorial every week for an entire year and a half

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I’m just going to get this out now, since I know it’s coming, and I can just link to it. DO NOT FETISHIZE NON-VIOLENCE. It is a PRACTICE and a DISCIPLINE. The people who employed it successfully trained RIGOROUSLY. It’s not just a decision, because it goes against basic human instincts. 1/x

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Seeing kids flinch at thunder cause it sounds like explosions might actually be one of the most heart-wrenching things I’ve recently seen

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mass protest is not the right way to oppose fascism. the right way to oppose fascism is to shake your head and say “no thank you” whenever a fascist offers you some fascism

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