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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 climate
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I try to find and follow urban design, electrification, active transit experts who aren’t white dudes mostly on instagram, and I found one in Australia who I really liked until their litmus “test” for electric cars was “does a wine bottle fit in the front cup holders” 🙃🙃 Like of all the metrics to test this is the one you focus on… because you think it’s funny? People sometimes

grivettcarnac, to Canada
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Fuck no. There should be well-paid career trajectories for this type of work and it should be incorporated into a Climate Corp structure . It’s highly skilled work, dangerous and there’s huge value in expertise retention. It’s great that university students feel drawn to this but 12 hr days for up to 14 days in a row is brutal, regardless of what Alpha Male chumps whine about

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/wildfire-fighters-alberta-pay-1.7206766

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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I’m definitely of the belief that having a public broadcaster is important, but then there are moments when… when that public broadcaster isn’t funded to do real journalism but must chase click bait bullshit like everywhere else and I internally debate the benefit. I bet the editor gets a fucking bonus for the dek of this article too #ottawa #canada #cdnpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/plastic-pollution-lids-straws-culture-war-1.7207579

grivettcarnac, to ontario
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Anyone who works in HR know how shit like this could ever be posted in “error” ?? #onpoli #ontario https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-shoppers-drug-mark-volunteer-job-1.7206582

grivettcarnac, to ontario
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Hmmm democracy, with “voting every 4 years as accountability huh https://globalnews.ca/news/10503475/ontario-place-development-update/

ShaunOttawa, to random
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Why is Presto's website absolute hot garbage?

grivettcarnac,
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@ShaunOttawa @geekingirl yep. I emptied my presto card last year and cancelled it. Pay everywhere with CC, either in a phone wallet or physical card. Way less hassle

grivettcarnac, to Canada
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I think a lot about how in 2024 if “democracy” is supposed to continue/succeed in its current shitty structure, majority governments are going to have to be a thing of the past. “Compromise” mostly doesn’t exist anymore. Nothing “really” has been done for good on aggregate with majority governments in a while. All that exists as a bulwark is the court system unless the general public grows a spine but that isn’t a reliable counter measure

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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The kid ate shit twice on a bike ride of less than 2 km because this city gives zero shits about wildly large curb cuts (and everything else). The fact that Britannia intersection by Beachconers is as horrid as it is being, I’d argue one of the most busy intersection for folks not in a car is proof enough. And the entrance to the kids school is soooooo bad and busted up that its almost impossible to enter on a bike and the kid ate it right in front of his own school

grivettcarnac, to ontario
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I don’t know if we’re prepared for how many people do not and will not give a fuck about serious transmissible infectious disease outbreaks and future pandemics. Considering #covid is already over according to every government and no one is seriously grappling with what happened over the past four years, I’m not hopeful on a large scale #cdnpoli #onpoli #ontario

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grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Wild to be able to watch individual storms move along the river. Definite benefit of living high up

grivettcarnac,
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@ladybugspicnic it’s one of my favorite things ever. I get excited for storms now too!

grivettcarnac, to Florida
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I look forward to the all out campaign against “woke” insurance companies #florida is going to mount now that they have brought in a law erasing #climatechange from all materials produced by the state. Property prices sure to surge when no one can get coverage 🥸

meganL, to random
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I don't want to undermine the importance of having public transit be safe, but media needs to stop covering "violence on the Metro" as if pubtrans is more deadly than car travel.

Sure, you're not the one driving the Metro so you don't feel as in control. But I suspect the numbers would show a lot more violence per day in car travel than pubtrans.

Let's work for violence prevention on pubtrans, but also stop stoking middle class fears of pubtrans. #Transportation #PublicTransit

grivettcarnac,
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@meganL 100% this absolutely makes me crazy. Yes for sure there are incidents on transit that make the news cycle but no one bates an eye by all the folks killed when driving cars is involved.

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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I followed Diane Deans pretty closely from 2019-2023 and say what you will about her but she gave no fucks about Jim Watson. And today not a single councillor who blindly followed Jim’s shadow had a damn thing to say about her. Just deep seated, pathetic cynicism

casseagull, to random
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I wonder if there has been a time other than now when more of the NCC pathways along the Ottawa River (both sides) have had so many closures, other than during flooding and rehabilitation. It's kind of astounding how much of it is closed and detoured.

grivettcarnac,
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@casseagull it’s not like the single lanes because of construction work just fine around westboro beach for people driving and the NCC could just use 2 of the 4 lanes close to downtown where that long-ass detour is but that’s not a precedent that can be set 🙃

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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“… how that policy fits in their low-rise community.” Hahaha you live close to Algonquin college and a 2-story building just busts the great character of your community huh? #ottawa #onpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/proposed-rooming-house-discord-near-algonquin-college-a-sign-of-things-to-come-1.7204363

grivettcarnac, to ontario
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The solution is to raise speed limits on highways, because data is stupid and definitely should NOT be used to help inform policy ever https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/opp-number-fatalities-last-year-deadly-year-1.7204528

grivettcarnac,
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@johnefrancis @WTL this is the “thoughts and prayers” attitude we need around here

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Step-daughter of a friend of ours saw the 11-yr old kid get killed in Rockland, by someone driving a school bus, while they were riding their bike. What the fuck…

I’ve said it a bunch of times but I completely changed the route we take to the kids school which is only 1.2 kms away. We take a ~ 2 km route to avoid the utter mayhem that takes over people during drop offs and pick ups, esp school bus and transport vans

grivettcarnac,
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@casseagull I do love my heart beating from movement and not getting my heart rate up because someone nearly fucking killing us becayse they can’t wait or be slow for 30 secs… the e-bikes make it easy so jokes on them?!!! The kid is strong enough to bike the long way thankfully which involves the MUP south of Mud Lake which we can’t use when covered in ice but will have to figure out a different route come next December.

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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Oh good, it’s not even mid-May and that haze at sunset is already here in #ottawa Burn, fucking burn baby #ontario

grivettcarnac, to climate
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This is not cheering for the pay workers get at Chinese EV manufacturing companies or the supply chains etc but the fact that North American car companies have made zero moves to make simple, low cost EVs is pathetic. “Flood the market” blah blah blah. There’s no free market anyway just protectionism, government subsidies and the gatekeeping to keep EVs at $50,000 a piece. Say nothing of the song and dance about getting folks into EVs

grivettcarnac,
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I guess this is also necessary for the demonization of China by conservatives and the oil and gas sector essential to sell the bit that what #canada does on #climatechange doesn’t matter globally. I’m not cheering for China or their business practices or whatever but the EV market in this country is a fucking joke. My only hope is that perpetual high EV prices force the #publictransit conversation #cdnpoli

grivettcarnac,
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@MichaelPorter I doubt without explicit government regs that will happen?! Also would like speed limitations too please. Every car being 0-60 in less than 4 secs is gunna be great…

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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I despise this whole section of highway all the way to North Bay. Good fucking thing raising speed limits will produce better outcomes in head on collisions… JK I know the speed limits aren’t being raised here and they are also not enforced. I’d be happy to never have to use this highway ever again #ottawa https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/highway-417-ottawa-arnprior-kinburn-1.7203959

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