Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦

Your Comeback Guide to all the Anti-Cycling Arguments You’ll Hear This Year Anti-bike arguments aren’t just frustrating—they’re outdated, inaccurate, and often repeated without a shred of evidence.

“We can’t all be expected to bike.”

Fair. But that’s not the point.

“Not everyone can or wants to bike. But some people can & do—and they deserve a safe, efficient, affordable way to move through the city. It’s about freedom of choice.”

This & other useful comebacks, in @momentummag.bsky.social.

RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers change guidance around COVID shots, MMRV vaccines for young kids | CBC News The Friday vote takes a step back on recommending the COVID-19 shot — rather than recommending it outright for most adults as they have in the past, the panel voted that the vaccine should be availabl...

Political interference with medical decisions is alway a disaster.
No! get Covid and flu vaccination. Everyone.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

RFK Jr.-appointed panel removes universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for U.S. infants | CBC News A panel of advisers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has voted to remove the longstanding recommendation to universally vaccinate American infants against hepatitis B.

If this Kennedy had less worm & more brain, he might almost be a half-wit.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

"Disorder" by definition means it troubles the person with it. If the described person isn't troubled, it isn't disorder. It's willful behaviour.
Being a hostile-dominant a-hole isn't a diagnosis. It's being awful bc you can get away with it. It's no wonder Freud was preoccupied with pooping & sex.

"Disorder" by definition means it troubles the person with it. If the described person isn't troubled, it isn't disorder. It's willful behaviour.
Being a hostile-dominant a-hole isn't a diagnosis. It's being awful bc you can get away with it. It's no wonder Freud was preoccupied with pooping & sex.

God is in the details.
The devil is in the details.
Hell is empty the devils are all here.
These visions, as we see, are not all dreams.

European Engineers Keep Finding a Secret Kill Switch in Chinese Buses In Norway they found kill switches, in the UK they seemed to have found none. It's a curious situation.

Chinese kill switch in busses.
700 in UK,more in EU.
"The bus was trying to phone home [China].The engineers discovered a pre-installed SIM card, roaming on a Romanian network, actively transmitting data...can be stopped or rendered inoperable by the manufacturer"
www.zmescience.com/science/news...

Asked ChatGTP to quote Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The City in the Sea". It did not acknowledge that it could not quote it correctly.
"From the tower in the city, death looks gigantically down"
Indeed it does.

Trump administration hard at work helping their allies in Moscow.

I'd like to remind the administration that you are part of NATO, which purpose is to stop Russian agression. Not aiding it.

US should either leave NATO, or leave Kremlin.
You can't have both.

Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia President Donald Trump's envoys were to meet Thursday with Ukrainian negotiators for the third time in two weeks to press his plan to end the war as his administration eased economic pressure on Russi...

Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
www.france24.com/en/live-news...

I looked at details- she is reported to have been driving her boyfriend's car, who is described as an "illegal alien". Does this give "probable cause" in the American context?

n 1958, an earnest group of amateurs started a school which spawned Anglican-affiliated schools in Manitoba, Alberta, and Ontario. Hoping to radically reform Canada's education system their 50-year existence, they sent over 5,000 boys on arduous snowshoe treks and 600- mile canoe expeditions throughout Canada Their masters taught poetry, history, and voyageur French amidst trequent eatings, all aimed at building character. They left casualties in their wake - 13 dead in a 1978 canoeing disaster alone. Backed by dozens of original interviews and a horde of internal school documents, God's Paddlers exposes a bizarre world run by zealots who thought they knew better. In a 45-year international career, journalist Stephen Riley produced stories print and broadcast media for daily newspapers, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and UTV, a popular lrish station. Raised in northern Canadian mining towns, he knows the bush, but now lives at the edge of a small village in Northern Ireland with his patient wife Mavis.

Book about the school I attended is out.
"Canada's most dangerous school" Deaths. Beatings. Sex assaults.
My experience there was a motivation for my psych career.
www.amazon.ca/Gods-Paddler...

Trump: Menschen aus Somalia und Ilhan Omar sind "Müll" Der US-Präsident wettert gegen eine kleine Gruppe von Migranten und eine bestimmte Abgeordnete der Demokraten.

Die „New York Times“ berichtete, die Operation richte sich gegen Hunderte Somalier ohne notwendige Aufenthaltspapiere.

In Minnesota leben nach Medienberichten über 60.000 Menschen aus Somalia, die meisten legal.

People have claimed the religion & philosophy part for millenia. Always FOS. Better- acknowledge this about humans: "You're capable of such beautiful dreams & such horrible nightmares." (Carl Sagan, Contact, 1997). Be intentional about not being horrible, not relying on anything other than yourself

But it isn't freedom that anyone fights for in WW2 or any other war. They fought because incompetent leadership never took the threats seriously. "We can do business with them" they said.
"While from a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down." (Edgar Allen Poe, The City in the Sea)

That's it? For murder? Just some administrative provedural thing?

Bragging.
Used a "fitness watch" for the first time. Ran 3km with dog in 20.5 mins, ~3 mins to pee & pretend to poop (dog not me) = 17.5 mins, 55m elevation gain / loss. 140 max HR. Chart says I'm one athletic old man. Oh yah! Mean time, 70ish men = 22.5 mins ±2.5mins says USA College of Sports Med

The White House full of white racist people. Pathetically evil.

Today I'm answering spam phone calls in German. I may need to learn an even angrier sounding language if this keeps up.

(German isn't really an angry language, it just sounds this way to Anglophones. No helping verb sentence structures, vocal inflection too subtle for English speaker ears imo)

Family of man slain in a US boat strike in the Caribbean lodges complaint Family of Colombian fisherman Alejandro Carranza say his right to life was violated in US 'narco-terrorist' strikes.

It's v bad.
USA kills anyone they want. Expect there'll be retaliatory random murders of Americans. Which is no doubt choosing how many countries to invade.
"Pete Hegseth..order[ed] the bombing of boats..he did not know the identity of those being targeted"
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Russia is okay with a peace it dictates. Thinking of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (03 March 1918), with roles reversed.

This parallel isn't complete- Germany wanted territory, recognition, economic influence and thought it would win it in WW1. It almost won. When it didn't, the Allies' poor response and inappropriate sympathy allowed it to rebuild and reinforce its sense of grievance. Then rematch in WW2.

It's almost never OK for psychologists to date their clients A new code of conduct for for Australian psychologists provides updated guidance that it's almost never OK to date someone who is or has been a client, even if that was years ago.

I'd leave out the "almost". It's never okay. There's no time frame.
This is why I find nearly all movies & shows about psychologists and psychiatrists unwatchable. When it's not sexual boundaries in shows, it's other boundary violations.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Why Canada's food inspection agency won't do interviews as avian flu outbreak in Ontario grows | CBC News As the number of birds culled due to an avian flu outbreak on turkey farms near Strathroy, Ont., approaches 100,000, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says they won't provide staff for media intervi...

Unacceptable.
"As the number of birds culled in an avian flu outbreak... 100,000, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says it won't let its staff do media interviews for fear they will be subject to harassment or even death threats."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Don't rely on that "smart watch" to tell you how well you slept, how do you feel you slept?
Concerned? Get assessed, treated. Sleep apnea is the most common issue I see. Associated with a host of other things: anxiety, metabolic syndrome ("pre-diabetes"), heart disease, stroke, ⬆️blood pressure....

Central to the definition of most pornography is "liking them young".

I've no idea how.
Even showing cost savings- actual money doesn't convince anyone. I think the software ecosystem runs on anxiety, not wanting to learn new things, and convenience.

When someone experiences an interpersonal trauma incident, ie assault, robbery, threatened death, with legal matters in the future, the legal issues are "secondary trauma": forced to relive what they experienced again. Courts / lawyers usually don't understand (?care) how their processes add harm.

Doubtful forever stains. Mostly they get forgotten. A few examples:
*Abu Graib prisoner torture
*Fallujah white phosphorus
*My Lai Massacre
*Haditha killings
*Operation Just Cause

etc.

Destroying Russian shipping wherever it is found is necessary. Why not also destroy Russian oil & gas pipelines wherever they go?
Crippling Russia's economy is better than killing people.