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I'm not dead I'm just sick of this place getting my blood pressure up.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

My mom was talking about Food Network changing to Flavour Network and she said "they disappeared Guy Fieri" and she didn't know why I found that so funny.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

I’m just gonna assume the entire GTA looks like whatever’s within a mile radius of the Burlington Holiday Inn, hope everyone’s cool with that

submitted 62 days ago • 9 comments

I hope all this spontaneous Canadian nationalism doesn't go weird places. (he said, knowing full well it will).

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Re: the whole Google Maps / Gulf of 🇺🇸 debacle: In my old Maps classes, we dedicated a lesson to geographic disputes + how Google Maps, responding to state demands, alters labels on opposite sites of contested borders. We used to use this Disputed Territories site, now accessible only via Wayback:

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

What new and horrific things can I learn today?

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Maybe I’m a bad urbanist but I just can’t get excited about battery buses. Oh, you’re telling me that the bus that comes in 26 minutes and misses my hourly train connection by 45 seconds is zero-emissions? Well then, glad we solved climate change, great job everyone, mission accomplished

submitted 63 days ago • 26 comments

Who up honking they horn?

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Snacking on some Night Cheese.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Duck bums.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

The cure to queer loneliness is tiny diesel locomotives in your attic

submitted 63 days ago • 5 comments

My 1970s time capsule house has a jungle bathroom. #midcenturymodern #grandmastyle #timecapsulehouse #1970s

submitted 64 days ago • 8 comments

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submitted 64 days ago • 14 comments

If Manitoba Hydro brings in time of use rates I'm going feral. Raise the rates, keep it flat.

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Probably the railway. Back to back 12 hour days with only 8 hours off in between. If you forgot to request your weekend you didn't get it. Also all the bigots and chuds.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Feb 10, 1998: the Canadian National Railway and the Illinois Central Corporation announce that the two companies will merge. CN had previously been a federal Crown corporation from 1919 until it was privatized by the Government of Canada in 1995. 1/2

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Winnipeg Snowstorm Terry Watkinson 2014

submitted 64 days ago • 11 comments

When I worked at the Oregon DOT there was a clandestine organization within the Preliminary Engineering group that made urns of coffee every morning and hid them out of sight, and you had to pay one dude a monthly fee to be in the club (I mentally nicknamed him “The Drug Lord”). True story

submitted 64 days ago • 5 comments

Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney is speaking in Winnipeg to a partisan crowd of several hundred at the King’s Head Pub, trying to feed off anger over Trump’s tariff threats and annexation talk. Carney compared the U.S. president’s comments to those of Voldemort. From Harry Potter.

submitted 64 days ago • 5 comments

Shout out to Winnipeg for getting Leading Pedestrian Intervals.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments