Coprolithic 💩🪨🗺️

And he was just a fairly regular guy who we talked into TRYING it.

The route that I have been most anticipating.

113 st bike lane is 95 percent rideable to Kingsway road.

All intersections are painted. There is a small gap in the MUP near the Lions centre.

#yegbike

This just in: RFK Jr says that norovirus is good, actually.

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive

And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...

Okay. That’s literally just the novel.

If he’s that, then he’s Jeffery Rath’s most important ally.

I’m not sure that they’d want to see this.

For the sake of the country, Conrad Black must stuff his skivvies with ground beef and hurl himself into a pit of hungry weasels.

Maybe check out Wikipedia.

Just a little PSA for those who got drunken tattoos in Croatia who don't want an awkward moment down the road where someone says, "Hey dipshit. Why the hell do you have a Nazi tattoo?"

I'm not sure to what degree their tattoo culture overlaps their subculture that thinks the 1940s was a pretty sweet deal nowadays, but for a while that Venn diagram was pretty circular.

Croatia has struggled with that ever since. To the point where Croatia's President stormed out of the 25th anniversary memorial of Operation Flash, because a number of invitees had shown up sporting the emblem of a far right paramilitary unit whose slogan was one the Ustaše coined.

During that whole first phase of the disintegration of Yugoslavia which led to Croatia becoming independent, a whole bunch weird stuff bubbled right up from the Ustaše, who ran Croatia as a puppet of Nazi Germany, and were enthusiastic participants in the Holocaust.

But yeah, if you were young, unworldly and drunk and let someone tattoo you in Croatia in the 2000s, you've probably just made a poor life choice. And if you don't know what that is they put on you, it might be a good idea to figure it out.

I was wondering how the hell you accidentally get a Nazi tattoo and then I heard it was in Croatia and suddenly it made sense.

(Not figuring it out or doing anything about it in the intervening years is definitely a choice though.)

Two cats sitting on top of cages and looking at the ceiling

Two cars on the floor staring up at the ceiling

Two young kittens in a cage taking notice

A cat standing on her hind legs to reach for a moth

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

a cartoon character sits on a bus with an emergency exit sign behind him Alt: Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons laughing, "Ha ha. I'm in danger."

The moth...

And yeah, I love HSR, but a regular train that is just quick could be up and running reasonably quickly and without having to acquire a whole bunch of land. Like the old Dayliner service used to pull this off on the extant tracks (it just used Budd RDC's and was infrequent).

And yeah, a price that's not three times that of flying (though I would be a sucker for paying a bit extra for some kind of comfy seat upgrade). And there we go: I am no longer uttering profanities at the prospect of going to Calgary. Because that would absolutely beat the heck out of driving.

And ideally core to core, with good linkages to each city's transit (especially an LRT connection), and not like Edmonton's current VIA station that has no connection to absolutely anything and is somehow terrible to walk to despite being adjacent to a walkable neighbourhood.

And the equipment would have to be reasonably comfortable to ride and not surplus Budd RDC "skunks". Give people a bit of space, decent seat recline, and reasonable comfort and a quiet ride. Some basic on board food and drink services would be excellent.

By not sucking I mean things like it not constantly being stuck behind a slow freight resulting in delay after delay after delay. And there would have to be at least a few trains each way per day.

High speed would be great, but if it were just as fast as driving and didn't suck, it would capture my ridership 100% of the time. I would become open to going to Calgary just for fun.

You know, I love high speed rail, but if there was just a train running between Edmonton and Calgary, and it didn't suck, I would actually not hate going to Calgary. 1/?

wow, which common vaccine was it?

That at least had panache.

He certainly was open about his opinion that the city should just sell the land off to a private developer and abandon the project.

(He did not canvas here.)

Yeah. I was happy to see Cartmell go down in flames for precisely that reason. Well, that, and I live there.