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uxmark

@uxmark@mstdn.ca

Cycling enthusiast. Husband & father & brother & son. Executive Director at Cycling Guide Foundation. Co-founder & co-chair of Fluxible. Co-champion of uxWaterloo. Strummer/plucker of stringed instruments with frets.

I like craft beer 🍻

I like cycling 🚴🏼

I’m proud of https://ChoiceConnect.ca, which we made with SHORE Centre.

I’m proud of https://CyclingGuide.app, a free mobile app for cyclists.
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gedeonm, to random
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Just remember - cinnamon is technically sawdust.

uxmark,
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@gedeonm @Snowshadow I think you’re barking up the right tree

uxmark, to random
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“[Bruce Fanjoy] wants to bring Carleton’s rural and suburban populations closer together, help businesses transition to a cleaner, sustainable environment and assist farmers in cutting their energy costs by using some of the technology he used when building Millview.”
— from @thetyee

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/04/One-Man-March-Beat-Poilievre-Own-Riding/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=040324

uxmark,
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@thetyee Bruce Fanjoy on Poilievre:

“I rarely hear people expressing admiration for Pierre himself. He’s rarely here and hasn’t done anything for the riding. A very senior person with the Conservative party told me recently that Pierre’s been living in Carleton’s basement all these years, contributing nothing. It is a riding of convenience for him.”

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/04/One-Man-March-Beat-Poilievre-Own-Riding/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=040324

uxmark,
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@thetyee Bruce Fanjoy on Poilievre:

"He is not a thoughtful man. His thinking on complex issues is shallow. He doesn’t surround himself with challengers, just yes men. He is autocratic and lacking in substance. Many of the things Canadians admire will be in his crosshairs if he wins. A retreat on gun control, human rights, women’s reproductive rights.”

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/04/One-Man-March-Beat-Poilievre-Own-Riding/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=040324

uxmark, to random
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The biggest thing I like about Mastodon is that I have a self-curated timeline that includes only people I follow, and excludes things that I've explicitly filtered out. So no mention of most US politics, no tedious topics that don't interest me, plenty of progressive, interesting people. Am I missing perspectives? Of course I am. But do I really need to see rants from racists, homophobes, anti-vaxxers and the like?

1/7

jd, to Ottawa
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Ottawa, 1960s.
Your job is to pinpoint the location.

uxmark,
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@jd I looked up where Voyageur had a terminal. Albert, near Bank?

uxmark,
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@jd 😀 I grew up in Ottawa and figured I might recognize some of the signs!

uxmark, to random
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Today I harvested nine 750ml jars of sauerkraut from the crock where it had been fermenting. Sometimes taking pleasure in little things makes getting through days like these easier 😀

#Fermentation #Sauerkraut

uxmark, to random
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“The document says 10 provincial ministries would be involved in promoting the plan through ‘a proactive communications approach’ by emphasizing measures in the bill that could save Ontarians small amounts of money. One such measure would continue a freeze on renewal fees for driver’s licences originally announced in 2018, which saves drivers $7 [sic] every five years.”
— Emma McIntosh and Fatima Syed in @thenarwhal

Ever feel like you’ve been taken?

#ONPoli

https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-expropriation-land-bill/

jd, to random
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What day is it, again?

uxmark,
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@jd I got you, babe, to tell me…

uxmark, to random
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Folks who prefer to drive are often highly resistant to lower speed limits, skeptical about why low speeds are so important. The reason is simple: speed kills pedestrians and cyclists. This has been known for decades. From Global Road Safety Partnership:

“The human tolerance to injury by a car will be exceeded if the vehicle is travelling at more than 30 km/h. Pedestrians, as illustrated above, incur a risk of about 80% of being killed at a collision speed of 50 km/h.”

https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/speed-management--a-road-safety-manual-for-decision-makers-and-practitioners

ascentale, to random
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@xtaran a follow-up to a previous #BikeNite question about crossing borders by bike:

Q4. What are your experiences cycling in a country other than your home country? What was it like? What was different?

(As a European I have no idea how different each state in the US or CDN is, so if you are from North America and never cycled abroad, tell us about your experience in another state.)

(Sorry this question is out of order!)

Original question: https://sfba.social/@ascentale/111745884584086123

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

uxmark,
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@ascentale @xtaran When I first visited Boulder CO, USA, I was amazed by the cycling infrastructure. I used rented bikes to get to meetings and other places, but felt uncomfortable without my helmet and without a mirror. But after a few days I got comfortable as I gradually realized that the infrastructure was protecting me. It was quite the revelation for me. When I compare to what we have in Waterloo Region, it’s with Boulder rather than European cities.

#BikeNite

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@Snowshadow @uxmark This morning from author @markbourrie :

"I don't always feel like this, but today I do. I'm old. I'm solvent. I can protect my kids from a lot. I have good friends and a family. If angry Canadians, sociopath politicians & crooked journalists want drive this country into a ditch, then fuck it, I'll read and putter."
"If people think they’ll be better off with the [Cons] then have at it. The ones complaining the most will get hurt the most"

#poilievre #cdnpoli @gakechnie

uxmark,
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@eyrea @gemelliz @Snowshadow @markbourrie @gakechnie 18% of eligible voters voted for the Ontario PCs in the last election. The majority of eligible voters didn’t bother to vote. That’s the root cause of the problem. And it’s an opportunity for the next election: get people to care enough to vote.

ned, to random
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How are there people who haven't heard this joke? Am I dating myself?

uxmark,
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@ned Orange you glad I don’t have an answer for you?

DrTCombs, to random
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10 miles into the 600-mile drive to visit my sister for Christmas, my car's transmission* went belly up. Fortunately we had a plan B and were still able to celebrate the holidays with family, but the spectre of having to pay for a new transmission loomed. Having to buy a whole new car would have been terrifying indeed.

Cars are prohibitively expensive. It's stupid how much we've forced ourselves to depend on them.

https://www.newsweek.com/americans-can-no-longer-afford-their-cars-1859929

uxmark,
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@DrTCombs @bikepedantic Your subsequent explanation in this thread provides context (yikes!), but on its own this post is delightfully provocative. Here’s a canoe and bike image to complement it.

uxmark, to cycling
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“By not acting, we are signaling to dangerous motorists that this kind of behaviour is acceptable. We suspect the message received by the injured people, their families and all vulnerable road users is that their safety is of little concern." — Dave Shellnutt (The Biking Lawyer)

#BikeTooter #WaterlooRegion

https://www.thebikinglawyer.ca/post/copy-of-kitchener-waterloo-cyclists-vulnerable-road-users-in-peril

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If Snoopy were my dog, I'd wonder how he knew so much about World War I.

uxmark,
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@RandomCanuck @KimberlyN @RickiTarr Almost. It was a Canadian, but Roy Brown. Though Australians will know about the ground fire that may actually have brought him down.

uxmark,
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@RandomCanuck @KimberlyN @RickiTarr Of course. Easy thing to confuse given it happened well over a century ago 😀

ascentale, to fedibikes
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Welcome to our December 29th ! Thank you for joining, and I hope we all enjoy chatting about cycle stuff! Feel free to answer whenever at your convenience. Anyone can join, now or later. Reply to what you like, and boost for visibility.
We'll start out with our introduction.

Q1. Where are you posting from today? Do you have any favorite cycling moments from 2023?

cc: @fedibikes

uxmark,
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@ascentale @fedibikes
A1. As usual, I’m in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Several memories of rides last summer with my son to local breweries where we enjoyed a beer on a patio. 🍻🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️

#BikeNite

uxmark, to random
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From @thetyee

“ChatGPT: An AI program that mimics human responses so effectively that many tedious text functions can be performed automatically, thereby saving time and distracting humans who will be lulled into reading computer-generated content such as ‘The Tyee’s Top 2023 Lingo, A Through D’…” (continued in next post)

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/12/26/Top-2023-Lingo-A-Through-D/

uxmark, to Canada
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12.5 years ago, my son ordered a flag that will have been flown on Parliament Hill (either East Block or West Block — not the Peace Tower, as that would have taken much longer to arrive). The flag arrived this week, much earlier than expected. This flag flew from Oct 6 to 13 of this year. Clearly our dog Oscar is interested non the new arrival.

#Canada #DogsOfMastodon

uxmark,
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@eljojo Yeah, he had been told it would be closer to 20, I think 😀

kaia, to random
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everybody is keeping their distance knowing they'd die if touched

video/mp4

uxmark,
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@kaia @likelyjanlukas It’s heading to Ottawa?!? OMG!!!

uxmark, to random
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The mstdn.ca community is a special one. If you’re a part of it, and want to help keep it safe and well-governed, please consider helping out as an additional moderator or administrator.

And to support mstdn.ca becoming a not-for-profit, consider offering to join the board. As someone who has served on NFP boards I can say that it’s not an onerous commitment. Plus you’ll get to hang out with other community builders who share a vision for a social web that works for all.

cc @chad

uxmark,
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@RandomCanuck @chad I think @chad is planning a blog post on that

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