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Mark Woolley
@perspicuity.bsky.social
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I am a gen-xy, mathy, mappy, change tracking, silent sportster, integral thinker. Born 320ppm.
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WARNING: Extended use leads to urbanist activism #bunchmom #cargobike #bunchfam
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The plan is to make us trust nothing, to not know how to know what's real and what's not, and ultimately, for us to give up our own agency.

It's fascism.
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Just so we're absolutely clear, Americans are massively UNDER reacting to what's being done to their country right now.
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I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.
Same date and time here in #Ptbo. Gathering at Quaker Foods City Square.
👻👽🎃 HALIFAX'S SPOOKIEST CYCLING NIGHT RETURNS: the 3rd annual HALLOWHEEL🚲💀
⏰️ Thursday, Oct. 30, 6:00, 6:30 roll out
📍The Oval, Halifax
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Stroad

A pejorative portmanteau of street and road: an expensive, dangerous, and ugly design that tries to be both a high-speed commuter road and destination street with businesses, failing at both while being equally frustrating for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.
Stroad - Wikipedia
A stroad is a thoroughfare that combines the features of streets and roads.[1][2][3][4] Common in the United States and Canada, stroads are wide arterials (roads for through traffic) that also provide...
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Everywhere please
In Milwaukee, police will now be able to impound any vehicle driven recklessly.

City Alderman: “It’s a two-ton weapon. We should look at this the same way we look at firearms. Let’s get as many of them off the street as possible.”
Milwaukee Gets Its Wish, City Can Tow All Reckless Drivers
Loopholes made prior policies "somewhat useless."
urbanmilwaukee.com
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Doug Ford is banning speed cameras. He should read @douggordon.bsky.social "Life After Cars"
We were stop and go on the formerly tolled section of the 407 north of Toronto the other day. Ford also making toll blunders.
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This is for the person who recently contacted me, who feels the weight of the world but just doesn't have the fight left for it. I could have written this to myself.

www.collapse2050.com/its-okay-to-...
It's Okay to Put Down the Shovel
A response to a reader
www.collapse2050.com
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I see you…

You’re out here raising hell and hauling snacks. Counter culture with cargo bike capacity.
A headless speed camera. Tucked under your arm referencing the horseman.
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Housing policy is climate policy.
The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...
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According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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New Single! White Kites And Sky Blue, with video directed by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh. Live Like the Sky drops October 24. Tour in November. 🍉
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - White Kites and Sky Blue
YouTube video by youvechangedrecords
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Happening now in Peterborough Square NOW!!!!!
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Where’s Gander? We’re on it! Been a busy, heads down kinda summer, but this is a quick update. August Closed Beta has moved to September, but we still have plans to open up more broadly end of October. More to come!
Looking for a couple of paddlers who’d like to share a 2 night point-to-point trip across Kawartha Highlands next Monday-Wednesday.