James Glave 🇨🇦

In October 2021, at its pand3mic peak, the market valued Rad Power Bikes at USD$1.65 billion. The company just handed over the keys to a Florida outfit for less than 1 percent of that figure. techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/r... #ebike #ebikes #RadPower #mobility

Meanwhile, this is still happening. climatedata.ca/news/2026-li...

My journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump's America I once documented human displacement and desperation; now I am living it

Powerful, beautiful, profoundly personal account of a man cognizant of his privilege and doing the best he can.
open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

Narrator: “But he would not stop…”

I used to begin long drives with “In the Neighborhood” and sang along while the kids writhed in agony, begging me to stop.

I’m so down with pedestrianizing 700 Block Denman! Sign me up.

Ragescrolling is the new doomscrolling.

Hi everyone. So, as per Terms and Services, I’ve taken every photo you’ve ever uploaded, every email you’ve ever written, and everything you’ve ever said or thought in your Connected SmartHome™️ and I’m using it to train my new robot army. We cool? Cool.

Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.

The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 #AGU25 #climate

An absolute banger, but given Shane’s use of a homophobic slur, I wonder if the ceeb can/will play it?

In its 2023 budget, the province committed $100 million to fund such active transportation infrastructure over three years. While this represented the province’s largest investment of its kind until that point, given active transportation’s extensively documented co-benefits, the amount is modest. (To put it into perspective, the funding amounts to 0.2% of the $5 billion the province subsequently directed to widening Highway 1 through the Fraser Valley.)

From the CleanBC review:

Customers set to be screwed as Rad Power Bikes files for bankruptcy + Former St. Paul Councilmember says a Rad battery fire destroyed his house From the Minnesota Star Tribune. Seattle-based Rad Power Bikes filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday, three weeks after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) issued a pr…

Well, shit. www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/12/16/c...

2025 Word of the Year: Slop Plus 'gerrymander', 'touch grass', 'performative', and other words that defined the year

A good choice by @merriam-webster.com:

The 2025 word of the year is slop
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...

Caught up w a friend who had a solid career as a corporate and game industry writer. In recent years the work had slowed to a trickle. She was fortunate to be able to retire early & did so; her partner still works. Her final gig? Coaching the #AI robots that had rendered her obsolete. 😞

What do the Party Mouthpieces say when they put up a graphic like this? Thoughts and prayers?

you do not need a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun. you just need very restrictive gun laws and proper enforcement to get rid of the guns.

To these people, expertise is an outright threat.

I ask myself, “If I found myself in Ahmed’s shoes, would I have his courage?” I hope I would.

Hatred and violence against Jewish communities has no place in Australia, Canada or anywhere. It is unacceptable that anyone should fear being themselves or expressing their faith publicly.

I'm a duel citizen of Australia and Canada. I'm sickened reading this morning about the antisemitic mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. My deepest condolences to families, friends and communities of the victims. May their memories be a blessing. +

Good Trouble 🔥

I'm so thrilled that we have not just one but two accomplished, community-serving, values-driven leaders vying to be nominated by OneCity members as our first Mayoral candidate, in an open, transparent process. Bring it on @wazaroff.bsky.social, Amanda Burrows and @onecityvan.bsky.social

White text: strange how nobody cares about pedestrian safety until the villainous cyclist shows up.

the villain

Totally fair, my bad.

I honestly don’t reference those regions collectively. In an Indigenous context, happy to use Salish Sea, but that only addresses ocean. Cascadia is ecosystem/watershed/geology term, ie Cascadia bioregion or Cascadia Subduction Zone. As a political/economic union it’s a fantasy.

The PNW is a wholly American concept and invention, comparable to the South, or the Southwest, or the Northeast. I live in Southwestern British Columbia. I don’t live in the Northwest. That ends at Blaine.

We have never been the Pacific Northwest and we are even less so now. Cascadia, whatever.

No

I will never set foot on American soil again. Never.