Blake Laven

Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.

No helmet or hi viz and you have headphones on?!! What's wrong with you? You should really wear proper cycling attire whenever you ride a bike!

Also, you look absolutely ridiculous in your proper cycling attire, it’s not the f'ing Tour de France.....

Large digital screen on a city street with Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise in white type on black

Happy World Bicycle Day.

I dream that one day drivers will have the same patience for me crossing the street that they do waiting for a parking spot 10 feet closer to the mall entrance.

A dream.

two images - on the right a person riding a bicycle in a separated lane on the left a large highway interchange

Item 1:
A highway that will cost billions, take 20 years and contribute to the destruc....Approved!

Item 2:
A 3km mobility lane that will cost almost nothing, reduce traffic and align with our climate emerg..Do you have approval from every living and deceased resident in the city?

Two people riding bikes in Amsterdam. One says “if anyone proposed this in my town I’d kill them”

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

Would be cool if my body understood the difference between watching playoff hockey and getting chased through the forest by a bear

two kids biking on their street - Kids are not in the way of us driving, we are in the way of them living.

the way.

Programming note: from 10pm to 2am, CBC's nationwide election special will happen from our Vancouver newsroom!

Which means I'll be on air with Gloria Macarenko, Michelle Eliot and others, showing results, maps, and CHARTS.

It'll be fun to inform a national audience, and I hope you'll tune in!

Earth is so pretty.

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." — Simone Weil

I just watched the Minecraft Movie and it is extremely good and the theater was the exact right amount of rowdy and kids were doing callbacks to the screen and singing along with Jack Black.

The whole theater yelling “CHICKEN JOCKEY” alone was worth the price of admission.

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If global warming was fake it would be such a dope conspiracy theory.

I’m not sure what is getting scraped off the bottom of the barrel in the phrase “scraping the bottom of the barrel” but my instincts tell me it might actually be the best part.

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

Carney: Canada must be looking elsewhere to expand our trade, to build our economy, and to protect our sovereignty. Canada is ready to take a leadership role in building a coalition of likeminded countries who share our values… If the US no longer wants to lead, Canada will

A Chevy Bolt parked in front of a church between two SUVs.

I love having a small car so much…the world is full of parking spots no one else can park in.

Deaths peaked at 2,584 in last winter's COVID wave

Deaths peaked at 1,030 in this winter's COVID wave

Good news is rare these days so here's some: This winter's COVID wave was less than half as deadly as last year's
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Big media isn’t dying—it’s going through a renaissance.

Journalist @jokinen.bsky.social explores how small outlets are quietly rebuilding public trust where big networks have failed: thewalrus.ca/canadian-journal...

Abundance From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of li...

Last night Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson discussed their new book Abundance with a packed theater in SF.

Dems yearn for a way forward.. and I believe an Abundance agenda is that way. We need to BUILD the better future we want, not just say 'no' to things we don't want.

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Be strict with yourself and tolerant of others. Your standards are for you.

Donald Shoup, renowned parking guru and UCLA professor, dies at 86 Considered the preeminent scholar of a mundane but everyday issue, Donald Shoup left a legacy of persistence and influence

A lovely remembrance of parking reform pioneer Donald Shoup, whose tireless work to reform costly parking mandates was instrumental in passing AB 2097, a landmark 2022 law that is already helping to make housing more affordable throughout California. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." — Viktor Frankl

I don’t always pay attention to the weather, but public works gives me a helpful heads up whenever we have snow in the forecast bc they pretreat the protected bikeways. 🚲 ❄️

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Editorial: If we just spend billions of dollars to solve our non-existent border security problem, Trump definitely might not tariff us maybe (Patreon exclusive)

woonerf in haarlem, netherlands. person on a bike and others walking, trees overhead. photo by me.

collage of shared streets signs from across europe, compiled by me.

THE SHARED STREETS BILL JUST DROPPED!

SB 5595 legalizes a type of street (“woonerf” or “home zone”) common across Europe where cars, bikes, and pedestrians share the same space but speed limits are low and pedestrians are the priority. lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/202...

Hands up everyone who zooms in on every picture posted with a bookshelf in the background to check out the books