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I ride a bike therefore I care about cities. Also love rock climbing, RPGs, SFF, heavy metal & martial arts. From Wolastoqiyik territory, living in Anishinaabe territory. She/her but not a sonofabitch about it.
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I know a guy that did a 5K run in full armor just because he still felt okay after the first 1K.
Huge relief to hear nobody was lost.
*SUSPECT AT LARGE AFTER ATTACK ON A MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP
*NO DEATHS AFTER ATTACK ON MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP
Heh, I once named a rock climbing route "Mixed Precipitation" because of "wintry mix" that happened while we were doing the first ascent, and that's the only good thing I have to say about it (she types, from a city getting every kind of precipitation for the last 48 hours)
(I laughed out loud, thanks)
Today is my eye twitching every time I see "strait" spelled as "straight"
The ones from walk away from Omelas and into Mordor
The Onion, welcome to The War on Cars.
BREAKING: Grammarly is pulling down its explosively controversial feature that impersonates writers without their consent
futurism.com/artificial-i...
The New Yorker
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Very similar. We had an election in 2022 that was won by the more conservative candidate versus a progressive candidate who was SUPER popular downtown. Same issue as TO. Suburban and rural issues outvote urban ones. The maps here are *wild*.
Yeah, Ottawa amalgamated with a lot of the outer suburbs and rural communities back in 2001 and it was ... a bad idea. IMO. Now the rural residents don't have transit AND the roads are terribly maintained because there are 6,000 km of them to keep up. And the burbs outvote the core every time.
Though a lot of that outer area is actually farmland: our city limits are stupidly far out. And it leads to all kinds of problems balancing the interests of urban and rural residents.
A map of Ottawa with the outlines of Calgary (826 km2), Edmonton (685 km2), Toronto (630 km2), Vancouver (115 km2) and Montreal (366 km2) superimposed on it
Yeah - Ottawa sprawls pretty badly though. They tried to contain it with a greenbelt but the city is still equal in area to Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver COMBINED (with a population of only about a million)
Yeah, the whole area absolutely sucks to walk in. Massive stroads, high speeds, and that parking lot is a nightmare (I cross it twice a day on my bike). But it also sucks to drive in. I see SO many crashes and near misses from my office.
Google maps screenshot with a blue line showing the walking route between an office building and a Mexican restaurant, through the parking lot of a mall
Yeah, my work team went to lunch one time at a restaurant that was across the parking lot of a mall from us. We could see the place from our office windows. I walked, with one other person. The rest of them got in a pickup truck & drove. (We still got there first.)
Given what the afternoon is supposed to be like, I think it is. 10mm of freezing rain during afternoon rush hour is not great biking.
Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.
What in the absolute fuck is this.
Where was I talking about sidewalks? Sorry - just seems like a non sequitur.
And wheelchair users and bikers both need curb cuts and ramps and pedestrian walk signal buttons you can reach from the pavement
The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."
(Okay, either the drones are hanging out the ass of the bag or the chanter is, actually: hard to tell which way it's facing cause it's sort of a blob - either way you couldn't *play* it)
Hah! I actually missed the two pipes going into the chanter 🤣. (Two drones is a thing historically and in small pipes, although it's not standard.) And yeah. No mouthpieces. Also the pipes on the three-drone set are hanging out the ass of the bag, that thing would be uncarryable.
A graphic posted by the Scottish Society of Ottawa showing two sets of bagpipes on either side of the text "International Bagpipe Day," along with Scottish and Canadian flags. One set of bagpipes has three drone pipes and the other has two: that's fine and historical. But neither one has a mouthpiece or anywhere to blow air into the bags, and the three-drone set's drone pipes are placed at the back of the bag so that if this set was real the player would have to drag them along behind them like a wounded bird dragging a wing
Okay, I used to PLAY the bagpipes, so maybe it's more obvious to me that this illustration is AI, but see if you can spot the tell/s (the answer is going to, of necessity, be in the alt text)
Yeah, I had a nasty bout with recurring lower back spasms for a while, and I could ride okay when my back was out, but just sort of shuffle in pain when I walked
Putting this in my back pocket for the next time someone tries to claim that you can't be disabled and ride a bike, or that advocating for cycling infrastructure is "ableist"
Thanks for passing along that distinction! It just struck ME as particularly useful right now.
Oof, just saw where you are! Yeahhhh that's a lot of winter 😂 I'm in Ottawa and we just had the first big thaw (I go the studded tire/commuter bike route too)
Like if you can get a cheap e-fatbike for $1700 and these kits are running from $900-$4K... but I think it would take some research/shopping around
