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Bjorn Radstrom

@bjornradstrom.bsky.social

He/him. P.Eng. Public transit planner who loves cities, reading, cargo shorts, food, maps, naps, beer, and the Oxford comma. A wee bit obsessive about biking 🚲 πŸ“Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Service in English πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Service en FranΓ§ais πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ ServiΓ§o em PortuguΓͺs πŸ‡§πŸ‡·

1,318 Followers  |  437 Following  |  775 Posts  |  Joined: 26.10.2023  |  2.2067

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"Mom! It's for you!"

04.12.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you tried harder, you might be able to be even more of a West End hipster stereotype

04.12.2025 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œHave Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

02.12.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3915    πŸ” 1027    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 167

The day you could stand for a national anthem with a reasonable length!

03.12.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But isn't that law, by legal constitucional definition, a law of Congress and not of the President? Because all laws are Congress's laws and not the President's?

Either way, it's a weird sign.

03.12.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

C'mawwwwwwn

02.12.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why do we name people Leslie and Morley, but never Sufficient-Lee?

02.12.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

One really bad technical feature of Bluesky is that you need to select whether you want autoplay on or off for both videos and gifs together.

Videos use up so much more data than short gifs, so we should be able to select them separately.

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team:
Can you make this change?

01.12.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Biltmore, as in Biltmore House in North Carolina? Where my favourite comedy movie (when I was a kid) was filmed - Private Eyes with Don Knotts and Tim Conway?

01.12.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't ordered anything from Amazon in many months. Surely my not spending $50 there will get them to change their ways, right?

30.11.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's unbelievable how bad Amazon search is now. Just searched for a very specific item using the make and model in my search terms.

Between the sponsored deals, featured deals, and Customers Frequently Viewed, there were probably 50 incompatible items to wade through.

And the layout is awful too.

30.11.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Come one, come all, to our community backyard Christmas Market at 476 Spence Street from 10 am to 2 pm today. If you're anywhere near downtown today, stop in!

29.11.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can never decide if Q was a brilliant character, or if he was a silly portrayal of a god-like being.

29.11.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I demand that my kids get it right!

28.11.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
SeΓ±or Burns
YouTube video by TheCinnadon SeΓ±or Burns

His finest work:

youtu.be/AOmiWJZ0JoM

28.11.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I demand that my kids get it right!

28.11.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I know! I realized after I posted that I should have mentioned the Beach Boys.

28.11.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sting & Peter Gabriel
Pink Floyd
Cesaria Evora
Tito Puente
Caetano Veloso

27.11.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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It feels like watching Troy McClure.

"Hi, you might remember me from such garage door keypad reprogramming videos as Craftsman, Chamberlain, Genie, and Liftmaster. Now letw delve into a long explanation of why I love garage doors so much."

27.11.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I absolutely hate how everything online is a video now.

I needed to google how to reprogram my garage door keypad, and it was almost impossible to find a website with the three simple written-out steps that would take 10 seconds to read.

Instead it was all 3-minute videos with pointless intros.

27.11.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thankfulness is so important to our everyday lives

27.11.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Contents under pressure may explode"

Those aerosol air fresheners were scary!

25.11.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This might have been my last day of biking until spring, and I have to say that Winnipeg put on a nice show for me on my way to work this morning.

24.11.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I love how this philosophy works everywhere.

Feminism makes life better for men. Universal design/accessibility makes getting around easier for everyone, not just those with disabilities. Child-friendly design makes cities better for all, not just for kids or those who have kids.

Inclusivity FTW!

24.11.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If half of an iPhone's 64 GB of storage is taken up by "System Data", is there anything that can be done to shrink this?

There are no iOS updates downloaded, and near as I can tell, no older system backups saved.

24.11.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly this is almost my story too. Not the learning at 50, but the diving headlong into it at 40.

It absolutely saved my health.

24.11.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I agree, but if there wasn't even the motivation to keep rails on PEI (a much shorter ferry ride at the time), or even anywhere in Nova Scotia west of Halifax, or on Cape Breton past Port Hawkesbury, I don't think there was any hope for the "Newfie Bullet".

23.11.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's amazing how much peanut butter a family can go through, especially given that kids can't take peanut butter sandwiches to school for lunch anymore, like I did basically every single day of my childhood.

21.11.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am legitimately worried about the lack of privacy in the modern world, and how every device and app tracks everything we do and monetizes the data for commercial gain.

What I am definitely not worried about is the Chinese government spying on people using baby monitors.

21.11.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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