Chris H

We needed an overhaul to save our planet, and, decades later, it's still cars everywhere you look. Riding a bike is still a dangerous proposition. Here in Burnaby, all I've got is shared street bikeways. It was all just talk. There will be no overhaul. No adoption of bikes en-masse. I give up.

Really? How did my nomination not even make the list? IT'S AN ABOMINATION!! bsky.app/profile/chri...

SARS-CoV-2-specific plasma cells are not durably established in the bone marrow long-lived compartment after mRNA vaccination - Nature Medicine The rapid waning of SARS-CoV-2-specific serum antibodies observed after immunization with COVID-19 mRNA vaccines may be accounted for by the absence of long-lived plasma cells in the bone marrow speci...

I'm pro-vax, but it's indeed a fact that the mRNA vaccines have shortcomings. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Car-free is fantastic. Car-free with plants and trees and water fountains, and all the stuff that makes people really want to relax there, which you can't do when it's temporary, is better.

Edmonton city council votes to remove minimum parking requirements | CBC News City council voted Tuesday to support the change to the city's zoning bylaws. With the change,  Edmonton will become the first major city in Canada to drop minimum parking requirements.

Edmonton (!) led the way on this in 2020... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I mean, this is more or less what he then did, so credit where credit is due. Thank you. Please continue until the people of Palestine can live a happy life.

SARS-CoV-2-specific plasma cells are not durably established in the bone marrow long-lived compartment after mRNA vaccination - Nature Medicine The rapid waning of SARS-CoV-2-specific serum antibodies observed after immunization with COVID-19 mRNA vaccines may be accounted for by the absence of long-lived plasma cells in the bone marrow speci...

I went to Bellingham last fall for Novavax. It's an entirely separate scandal they didn't bring that into Canada last year, given this... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My elderly mother in Calgary, who has cancer, was just telling me yesterday that she's seeing more people in her community getting Covid and can't find a pharmacy to get her shot updated. This explains that. Fuck every last UCP voter in that shit province.

At this point I almost want "Idaho Stop" laws less for the personal *convenience* as a cyclist, and as much for the formal *recognition* that "these two things, cars and bikes, do NOT represent the same dangers, and should not be governed by the same rules".

Motorists love to pretend like scofflaw cyclists are a danger to motorists. Like they'll have to swerve their car to miss the cyclist, and are at major risk to life and limb due to a car accident when they're forced to do that. I'd love to see numbers on that, cuz, yeah, no.

(I don't believe people are responsible enough for guns either)

"We need to ramp up the standards for road tests and train people to be better drivers"

No amount of training will ever fix this.

There's too many skills. Too many variables. It's all just too much, too fast. It's beyond human capacity.

No, cars are a bad model. We need a better one.

A screenshot from the movie Wall-E showing a row of obese people in floating mobile chairs drinking through straws and staring at screens projected in front of their faces.

I feel like it's all the inevitable end-result of Capitalism.

Yes, we've spent a lot of money on SHITTY housing and SHITTY treatment and SHITTY reactionary measures. We've never provided any GOOD help, just a lot of HELP THEATRE. Involuntary Care is just more SHIT that won't fix the root issues. We never really do 🙄

First time I got it was NYE 2019. Didn't know fallout was Long Covid for two years. 2 more infections later (despite masking), what started as sore lymph nodes has destroyed my neck resulting in dysautonomia, cerebral venous outflow stenosis, and borderline craniocervical instability. Fuck Covid.

This is one of the many ways Long Covid has messed with my neck/throat/gut, and this makes me wonder if Covid did a bit of a job on everyone to varying degrees 🤔

In a population prepared to vote for fucking PP, Carney advertised a good compromise. The fact that he totally *lied* about what he would do as PM doesn't justify calling rational voters, who had little reason not to take his promises at face value, assholes 🙄

Recognizing Palestine is at least heading in the right direction. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Recognize them, period 🙄

I want societal concern to be aligned with actual data on damage done. Cyclists are overwhelmingly the ones dying, and constantly taking shit from everyone for pointing that out.

Israel/OPT: Israeli organizations conclude Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in another milestone for accountability efforts Following the landmark publication of two reports by leading Israeli human rights organizations B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel, which concluded that Israel is committing genocide agai...

With the publication of these two reports, B'Tselem & Physicians for Human Rights Israel become the first two Israeli organizations to state it loud and clear, based on meticulous documentation and research: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

They are, but also serve to highlight a bit of a divide the cycling community needs to heal.

14 years ago? 14 *YEARS*? This is the argument? Cuz it's been, like, 14 *MINUTES* since a car killed someone 🙄

I love the diagrams here! This is the situation in so many places around the world, where cars can go from A to B most directly, with one or two turns, but cyclists are relegated to using a GPS/map to navigate some convoluted back route requiring 25 turns.

Yes, it's okay if it's so hard that some people never do pass the exam.

Judging by the behaviour on our roads, getting a driver's license needs to be ten times *more* involved than it is now, not less.

I spent my vacation yesterday in lovely Soulac-sur-Mer, France, where the main street through town next to the beach has been allocated 50% to pedestrian sidewalks (w trees), 25% to a bidirectional bike lane, and 25% to a single unidirectional car lane 🙌🥹🥰

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social, recognize Palestine as a state and send our Canadian troops to save their people from being starved to death.

Absolutely. The two certainly aren't incompatible tho. I just... people aren't responsible enough for cars. We need to stop investing in them.