Thom McVeigh

Am I the only one who thinks that the part the Republicans are afraid of with the Trump/Epstein files isn’t who is in them, but who funded the operation. Those two jackasses had a *lot* of money sent their way to make this operation work.

Count me in.

Imagine if #OttCity invested in e-bike rebate (say, $1000 per bike, x 1000/year); that’s a rounding error in the city budget but would lift 1000 ppl per year with better transit options; make income based; create secondary stream for youth; add cargo bikes; expand w/better bike infra and bike share

the best answer i got for this:

Highlights For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement. Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design. Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically. Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street. There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

And the front lawn is the best place to play frisbee downtown.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Maybe if Medicare paid enough, rural hospitals could survive a downturn. Just a thought.

I think the only reason the evil bastards went after Tylenol is to punish women. It’s the only safe painkiller for pregnant women, so let’s stop them from using it. That simple. Prove me wrong.

I know you know this, but.

It's to mock us.

It's a dominance play.

It's about rubbing it in our face that they are Nazis, daring us to accurately call them Nazis, then getting us fired & on lists for telling that truth.

They can do whatever they want. We do what they say. That's the lesson.

And watch as left leaning creators get shadow banned and alt right creators will be amplified. The algorithm will make it a visual version of the nazi infested swamp that used to be called twitter. TiXtoX is going to suck.

They’re taking him out of context : vt.tiktok.com/ZSDyrES35/

Lucy holding the football and the Democratic Party asking progressives for trust seems to be an appropriate analogy.

Proximate placemaking Activating space for the people who actually want to use it

"Turning a wide, underused, four- or five-lane stretch of downtown into a linear park sounds radical. But maybe it shouldn’t be. Maybe it’s just what a city does when it decides that children — and by extension, everyone else — deserve space to move, to play, and to belong."

*stares at Sparks St disappointedly*

Both @jleiper.bsky.social and I voted against the mayor’s budget direction because it won’t give the city the resources to maintain core infrastructure or make buses run on time. Also: giving police an increase of up to 6.5% without a corresponding increase in social services? Counterproductive.

The words are ‘depraved indifference’

What exactly are the odds that Kirk was shot by his own side right now? The fact his assassin got away makes me suspect that he was allowed to get away. My very cynical sense of how things work at play.

Company behind Jack Daniel's says Canadian boycott is 'significant' as sales drop 62% | CBC News The parent company of American alcohol producers such as Jack Daniel's whisky and Woodford Reserve bourbon says sales to Canada dropped 62 per cent during the latest fiscal quarter compared to a year ...

In a press release Jack Daniels was whining that their profits and Canadian consumers are being hurt by our own boycott.
They still don't get.
They say sales dropped 62%.
C'mon people we can do better than that.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mark, your pressure on Capital Pride to not support the Palestinian people vocally is part of what led us here. My pride is intersectional and liberatory, not capitalist and conciliatory.

Take note of how journalists critique queer people acting insolidarity with oppressed people worldwide during THEIR own parade during THEIR own Pride week. #Ottawa

You can be as light on the accelerator as you want. It’s the high torque that means that you’re doing the equivalent of a burnout every single time, even with gentle acceleration.

That feeling when you buy everything you need for a really yummy meal, and then stare at the fridge because you have it, but now you don’t want it, and there’s nothing else you want in the fridge either.

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Selling my kayak, if anyone knows a fisher that wants to be able to be spontaneous and keep their fishing boat in their vehicle…

www.kijiji.ca/v-canoe-kaya...

Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs

The automated camera does more to stop scofflaws than any cop in the city. They probably see them as stealing their overtime’s.

This thread is relevant as @catmckenney.bsky.social tries to help tenants , and as our climate changes to create record breaking heat waves every summer. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/....