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grivettcarnac

@grivettcarnac@mstdn.social

The name is Gabe, we live car-free with 🚌s & 🚶🏻& 🚴‍♂️ in #ottawa - dad, & photographer @ #gabesimages. Life is political, and sometimes I say fuck 🤷‍♂️

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grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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I do not love that a lot of the same driving mentality permeates how people move around on crowded MUPs in #ottawa If you were in the group of bros loudly ringing your bells in unison to get people walking to move right off the path so you all could blast through the middle so fast I could almost feel you on my left shoulder, well I’ll tell you to fuck off in person when you’re stopped next time too. Slow the hell down and wait a singular minute once in a while #ottbike #biketooter

grivettcarnac,
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It’s fairly intuitive that when you’re approaching people walking from behind, and people are also walking towards you on the other side, you can adjust your speed before hand, gauge when people walk past each other, let people know in some fashion, but I guess intuitive is very fucking subjective. I get it, shits very crowded even on week days. But you’re not special. If you have an emergency than call a fucking ambulance, otherwise I’m gunna yell at you

grivettcarnac, to Instagram
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I just listened to an video about the stress of booking a flight from Barcelona to Paris… the Ryanair airport is very far from Barcelona and absolutely not worth the price of tickets BUT… you can take a direct train from Barcelona to Paris that takes 6 wonderful hours for $126 fucking Canadian dollars 😭😭😭😭 my god I miss living over there sometimes. The overnight from Barcelona to Milan was a fav train I took a few times

grivettcarnac, to random
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I walked down Scott St yesterday for a few kms and I can’t even remember how many people I saw driving and texting. Stopped at an intersection and using their phones. Using a phone and driving is more dangerous than drinking and driving but the big, bad repercussions do fuck all at deterring people because “repercussions” are political window dressing. Like, the chances of killing someone while you text and drive are pretty fucking high, but, well, shrug from all involved #cdnpoli #onpoli

grivettcarnac,
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@dairpo I’ve seen a few cops on bikes out here on the Britannia area MUPs that should spend a day riding Scott st. They’d make so much money. I just think if you drive and text, your car should be impounded for 30 days for a first “caught” offence

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Was 1/2 way across Richmond Rd when the 57 bus comes eastbound. Nooooo. I waved at the bus and dude stopped and blocked a bunch of traffic to let me jump on 😂 Good #publictransit drivers out there in the wild #ottawa

Auxonic, to random French
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Who’s responsible? The mayor of neoliberalism, Jim Fucking Watson, and the corrupt conglomerate led by SNC Lavalin. #ottcity

grivettcarnac,
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@Auxonic hmmm if they pay me I can tell them what’s causing the leaks. Probably water 😂

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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So we have via rail tickets booked for August and naturally I loaded the tickets in Apple Wallet… then a few days later I got an email saying the schedule was going to change and now I’ve gotten 2 new sets of tickets and I’m sick of adding and deleting tickets 🥸 I should be able to just use the same set of tickets regardless of what schedule changes but I’m annoyed at this process. If the time changes by 5 minutes and I need a whole new set of tickets? Gesus… #ottawa #viarail

grivettcarnac,
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@WTL oh interesting I like this. My assumption is that the bar code on the OG ticket “should” work but I don’t really know. Will try this tonight tho ✌️

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Gunna give myself some props here. I attempted focaccia today, well yesterday then it was in the fridge till today. Learned a few things and will make more but it’s pretty tasty if I say so myself. First time in my life I’ve ever made bread… gunna just keep trying new things

grivettcarnac,
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@Dogsbody thank you! Tasted pretty good and proud of myself 😂

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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We’ve put roughly 4,800 kms on two e-bikes in just over a year. ~2,800 on the Yuba (no riding Dec-March) since end of April last year and 2,000 kms on our Load4 75 Reise & Muller since the end of August, 2023. We’ve had lots of bus trips and I’m averaging only 9 kms of walking a day. Living without a car can be very fucking frustrating and limiting in a city like #ottawa but I wouldn’t trade it for anything #cargobike #biketooter

grivettcarnac,
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@sortius I’d easily trade one cargo bike and maybe even a pinky finger for a good tram system! I follow someone on instagram who lives in Melbourne and is constantly showing the public transit system there and decent bike networks! We went from downtown living to not quite the suburbs (Ottawa is a bit fucked as a city) and these bikes have given us just amazing quality of life

grivettcarnac,
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@energisch_ @sortius I can understand this! The kid is only 4 so the e-cargo bikes are pretty amazing still for long 40+ km days of which there are many now that it’s spring/summer. It makes the adventures a lot less sweaty 😂

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Love how colors change and deepen or soften based on distance. As the front of this storm lined up with us, it was so dark #gabesimages #ottawa #onstorm #photography #photographer

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Good luck Barrhaven #ottawa #ontario #storm #gabesimages

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Hey #ottbike or folks around #ottawa that are interested in the idea of a #cargobike but have never seen one up close or ridden one. I’m not an organizer but found this on instagram and will probably try and make it out for the show and tell with our two e-cargo bikes. More people need to see them everyday in all the places, in all the situations, for all the reasons people need to move around and live. Please share and come out! #biketooter

grivettcarnac, to random
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I’m reading Elamin’s “Son of Elsewhere.” I’ve been pretty sparing with what bound books I spend time reading. I’ve loved Elamin for a long time and his book is wild. The journey of his writing is beautiful.

“If you look like me, here is something you understand internally, before you’re ever told: in America, when presidents need to look like they’re doing something, they take it out on Brown and Black bodies … We are the canvas of brutality.”

grivettcarnac,
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@robattrell nice! Got it for Christmas and slowly finding the time to read sections of it. Tempted to roll through it in one go but there’s a lot to sit with

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Showing up at Britannia Beach in #ottawa at 9 AM with cigarettes, open beer and metal detectors is a vibe for sure #maylongweekend

grivettcarnac,
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@dairpo hey party on like no one else exists in the world 🤷‍♂️

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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I love playing around with how to make images of the #ottawa river and the color tones that are popping right now at sunset #gabesimages #Photography #photographer

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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A lotta spray and pray for these types of images given how packed (which is awesome) all the paths are around and have to pay attention a LOT but it feels fun and free so gunna try a bunch of these over the summer

grivettcarnac,
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@WTL oh I loveee biking in birks, especially the rubber ones. They dry almost immediately. I know it looks like I’m going 40 km/hr but I don’t have speed bikes and never had an issue using them! The most breezy and comfortable

grivettcarnac, to Montreal
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We’re going to #montreal in August to watch the Red Bull Cliff Diving event, as we have a friend whose daughter has been competing (and winning) for 3ish years in the sport. It’s also for my 40th birthday 👀 Anyway the part I’m most excited about is taking the train 😂 #ottawa #viarail #publictransit

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