Ian Thomson 🇨🇦

Ian Thomson 🇨🇦

@ianthomson.bsky.social

East Van. Cyclist. Dad. Canucks, Blue Jays. Canadian Comedy Connoisseur. My dog’s name is Blue. My bike’s name is Big Red. #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦✊🏼🇨🇦

1,084 Followers 3,199 Following 727 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 month ago

When grand juries have been impaneled to hear testimony and evidence on the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti, then we can begin to talk about the Trump admin doing something tangible. Until that, all this is just PR damage control that only the extremely naive will fall for.

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1 month ago

American centrists & institutions move a bit quicker when white people are murdered in broad daylight & on camera.

Not so much when it comes to Black people, immigrants, Latinos, Muslims, & Palestinians.

If this is what it sadly takes to wake everyone up to the nightmare that's always existed...

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1 month ago
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We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.

“We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower.”

“With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.”

Via @wired.com and @vermontgmg.bsky.social

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1 month ago
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Fox News railing against participation trophies but make the footage Trump's fake Nobel Prize

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1 month ago
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AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

Good! LET IT DIE

www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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2 months ago
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The Globe and Mail

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2 months ago

Nazi cunt

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British police have killed fewer people in the last 100 years than American police kill in an average month.

Policing in America is an ongoing tragedy.

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I’m in Canada 🇨🇦 
We saw the videos. 
We know the truth. 
We know it was murder.
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Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread)

1. Pat Bagley

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2 months ago

Thanks for playing, knuckles.

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2 months ago
Graphic asking “What does it take to move 1000 people? One linked train with four cars, 15 buses, or 625 cars requiring over 5 acres of parking.”

What does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc).

Mobility in cities is about space.

Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.

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2 months ago

The obvious answer:
AAA BIKE LANES EVERYWHERE!

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3 months ago

#Canucks

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3 months ago

I know Canucks fans are freaking out (what else is new), and I’m disappointed too about Hughes leaving, but as for the return, we did get four first round picks for him, three of whom are already playing in the NHL, and all are under 24.

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July 2024 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the summer weather."

December 2025 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the winter weather."

I don't know maybe our road design just isn't safe?

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3 months ago
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#RemoveTheRegime

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3 months ago

“Personality” LOL

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3 months ago

VANCOUVER: “Over 60!businesses have signed an open letter to council, asking the city not to make a controversial budget cut to the Department of Planning, Urban Design and Sustainability.”

See my comments to Council today in the thread below. This budget won’t save money. It’ll cost FAR too much.

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3 months ago

As the saying goes, “you’re not stuck in traffic, you *are* traffic”

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3 months ago

If the shoe fits…

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4 months ago

And rioting…

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4 months ago

Fucking fascist cowards

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4 months ago
Key quote from the great Lewis Mumford in 1955 — “Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.”

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.

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4 months ago
A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

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5 months ago

Pierre Poilievre says he wants to “restore merit.” He needed to be handed arguably the safest, most impossible to lose conservative seat in all of Canada after losing his own seat.

Seems like the opposite of merit. #Poilievre

(oh, and he still refuses to complete a check for a security clearance)

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5 months ago
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

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5 months ago

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

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5 months ago
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Vladdy and David saying DAAAA Yankees Lose YouTube video by Game Day

Let’s go Blue Jays! #bluejays #mlb
youtube.com/shorts/Ymyf3...

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