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@chasingabbey.bsky.social Chasing Abbey at the Rickshaw.... Countdown is on....

We may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop. As the baby boomer bubble pushes into its eighties, we are driving into a demographic wall.

The demographic reality is unrelenting. What happens when you have 70 million baby boomers pushing 80 and still driving big SUVs on North American roads? A whole lot of accidents waiting to happen. lloydalter.substack.com/p/we-may-soo...

This calendar is the operational blueprint of a trafficking enterprise disguised as a social schedule. It meticulously logs Epstein's movements and meetings, proving his access to the powerful was constant and calculated.
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This is what I keep saying. He was running in the same finance circles... There's no way he wasn't at least complicit.

Bad puns are of course essential, so if you have any absolutely terrible puns that would make a good valentine card... send them over!

Hyvää ystävänpäivää!
I made an updated version of my old favourite vintage valentine cards...a blend of cheesy vintage valentines requiring scissors & paste, and the Finnish concept of Valentines day, which celebrates friendships in addition to romantic ones. Enjoy! drive.google.com/file/d/1_Qtz...

They just updated the board and now they're running expo lines back past 22nd st all the way to waterfront again! #skytrain #expoline

We've had enough info to figure it out, but we were also lucky to see it happen so we knew what was going on right away.

Yeah we just got on a nice old mk1 train that started at production headed to 22nd street. We left commercial on a millennium train just after the stall, and had to wait for a bit before an expo line showed up on the board... But it's there now.

I don't think they have bluesky... I saw a train stuck just before the commercial station, and they were disembarking passengers along the trackside walkway. I'm heading around the other direction now... Where are you trying to get to?

Going around the other direction now... Sounds like it's still blocked but there are expo lines running from production o 22nd now

A path lined with wooden posts and covered in fall leaves leads off into a clearing. Trees surround it in green, yellow and red fall colors.

Bluesky readers, I need books please. Here are authors I love. Can you recommend anyone similar?

Fantasy: T Kingfisher, VE Schwab, Katherine Addison

SciFi: Becky Chambers, Martha Wells, Ann Leckie

Romance: KJ Charles, Cat Sebastian, Courtney Milan

Here’s an enchanting scene to say thank you!

The headline "Can San Francisco Be Saved?" (as though it could be lost) captures how even a publication as rational as
@theatlantic.com feels obliged to cater to "urban doom loop" vibes.

Big cities are natural engines of prosperity. They do not need "saving." 1/

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#Repost @indigenousx —— “I just saw a post arguing how traditional hunting practices aren’t traditional because they were fishing from a motorboat... white ppl imagine our cultures as frozen in time and our identities, and our ‘authenticity’, as being tied to that period.” “White people don’t view themselves that way though. White people didn’t see themselves as being any less white when they started using cars and abondoned the horse and buggy. White people get to live in the present while for us, existing in real time is a betrayal of our culture.” “This is how we teach white kids about Aboriginal culture too... we compare Aboriginal ppl pre-1788 with white ppl 2023. ‘They didn’t have cars like we do’ You didn’t have cars in the 1700s either!” “The worst thing we do tho is we teach them about us by what we didn’t do more than what we did - we didn’t invent the wheel, we didn’t farm, we didn’t have a written language, we didn’t build permanent houses etc.” “The implication being we weren’t capable. We wanted to, but we couldn’t. We weren’t just ‘primitive’ we were failures. They can’t imagine we had other priorities, other aspirations, other definitions of success... other cultures are not failed attempts at being you. White supremely is one hell of a drug.”

#Repost @indigenousx —— “I just saw a post arguing how traditional hunting practices aren’t traditional because they were fishing from a motorboat... white ppl imagine our cultures as frozen in time and our identities, and our ‘authenticity’, as being tied to that period.” “White people don’t view themselves that way though. White people didn’t see themselves as being any less white when they started using cars and abondoned the horse and buggy. White people get to live in the present while for us, existing in real time is a betrayal of our culture.” “This is how we teach white kids about Aboriginal culture too... we compare Aboriginal ppl pre-1788 with white ppl 2023. ‘They didn’t have cars like we do’ You didn’t have cars in the 1700s either!” “The worst thing we do tho is we teach them about us by what we didn’t do more than what we did - we didn’t invent the wheel, we didn’t farm, we didn’t have a written language, we didn’t build permanent houses etc.” “The implication being we weren’t capable. We wanted to, but we couldn’t. We weren’t just ‘primitive’ we were failures. They can’t imagine we had other priorities, other aspirations, other definitions of success... other cultures are not failed attempts at being you. White supremely is one hell of a drug.”

#Repost @indigenousx —— “I just saw a post arguing how traditional hunting practices aren’t traditional because they were fishing from a motorboat... white ppl imagine our cultures as frozen in time and our identities, and our ‘authenticity’, as being tied to that period.” “White people don’t view themselves that way though. White people didn’t see themselves as being any less white when they started using cars and abondoned the horse and buggy. White people get to live in the present while for us, existing in real time is a betrayal of our culture.” “This is how we teach white kids about Aboriginal culture too... we compare Aboriginal ppl pre-1788 with white ppl 2023. ‘They didn’t have cars like we do’ You didn’t have cars in the 1700s either!” “The worst thing we do tho is we teach them about us by what we didn’t do more than what we did - we didn’t invent the wheel, we didn’t farm, we didn’t have a written language, we didn’t build permanent houses etc.” “The implication being we weren’t capable. We wanted to, but we couldn’t. We weren’t just ‘primitive’ we were failures. They can’t imagine we had other priorities, other aspirations, other definitions of success... other cultures are not failed attempts at being you. White supremely is one hell of a drug.”

#Repost @indigenousx —— “I just saw a post arguing how traditional hunting practices aren’t traditional because they were fishing from a motorboat... white ppl imagine our cultures as frozen in time and our identities, and our ‘authenticity’, as being tied to that period.” “White people don’t view themselves that way though. White people didn’t see themselves as being any less white when they started using cars and abondoned the horse and buggy. White people get to live in the present while for us, existing in real time is a betrayal of our culture.” “This is how we teach white kids about Aboriginal culture too... we compare Aboriginal ppl pre-1788 with white ppl 2023. ‘They didn’t have cars like we do’ You didn’t have cars in the 1700s either!” “The worst thing we do tho is we teach them about us by what we didn’t do more than what we did - we didn’t invent the wheel, we didn’t farm, we didn’t have a written language, we didn’t build permanent houses etc.” “The implication being we weren’t capable. We wanted to, but we couldn’t. We weren’t just ‘primitive’ we were failures. They can’t imagine we had other priorities, other aspirations, other definitions of success... other cultures are not failed attempts at being you. White supremely is one hell of a drug.”

@indigenousx
“I just saw a post arguing how traditional hunting practices aren’t traditional because they were fishing from a motorboat... white ppl imagine our cultures as frozen in time and our identities, and our ‘authenticity’, as being tied to that period.”
www.instagram.com/p/DKi68VrzBP...

Mohsen Mahdawi, the Buddhist Understanding and responding to the latest college-student abduction by ICE

Nice Buddhist consideration of Mohsen Mahdawi posted before he was released. 🙏🏼 tricycle.org/article/mohs...

The Hop Chocolate was almost as good as the otters and the moon jellies :)

She speaks truth.

This image shows gauges with the Feb 1-14, 2025 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right:VQ5RF Canada: 12.7 - VERY HIGH Alberta: 10.3 - VERY HIGH British Columbia: 8.5 - HIGH Manitoba: 10.0 - VERY HIGH New Brunswick: 8.4 - HIGH Newfoundland and Labrador: 8.3 - HIGH North: 10.9 - VERY HIGH Nova Scotia: 9.1 - HIGH Ontario: 16.4 - SEVERE Prince Edward Island: 9.3 - HIGH Quebec: 12.7 - VERY HIGH Saskatchewan: 9.9 - HIGH A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

Canadian COVID Forecast: Feb 1-14, 2025

SEVERE: ON
VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, MB, North, QC
HIGH: BC, NB, NL, NS, PEI, SK
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 42 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Next time I teach soc of media, this reading would possibly be useful but all probably anger all my students.

We have this in Canada, featuring 25 national, regional, and local indie news publications. Bookmark it and support them with $$
#cdnnews #cdnmedia

www.unrigged.ca

This is a 21st century Trail of Tears. And an actual American Empire. Every bit of hyperbole before the election missed the mark, this is somehow worse.

We need to build for deconstruction. Screws, clamps, or joints instead of nails. No glue or concrete affixed to wood. Consistent sizes/lengths. That kind of material isn't produced by current construction methods.

I think to make it practical the rules have to change for construction and also for deconstruction. Just the time it takes for human to deconstruct, handle and sort the the materials from a normal building (not even including denailing) means it's not cost effective.

Reclaimed will never be more than a specialty product until we change our building methods. The cleaning and prep costs too much. I marketed and sold reclaimed for almost a decade... It's cheaper to grow a tree. But reclaimed does make fantastic finishing and feature materials.

What ex-security officials think of Pierre Poilievre’s top secret security stance - National | Globalnews.ca Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre argues that accepting classified intelligence would stop him from holding the Liberal government to account.

“What ex-security officials think of Pierre Poilievre’s top secret security stance.”

This is damning, but remember these professionals are actually being careful & diplomatic as such figures always are. I can imagine what they’d REALLY like to say.

For example, what OTHER reasons would he refuse?

Goodmorning friends Happy #thicktrunktuesday In the darkest of winter days, hope waits patiently with trees.

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

A great read.

"When your enemy wants you disoriented, your ability to focus is an important means of self-defense. What matters to you in this moment? Most of us can meaningfully dedicate ourselves to one or two causes, at the most. What can you commit to doing something about?"

Everyone in the US: "Holy shit our government is lying to us about China???"

Everyone in China: "Holy shit our government has been telling us the truth about the USA???"