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Nine-fingered cyclist who’s riding all 21 stages of the 2025 Tour de France to raise money for Cure Leukaemia.

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Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · Jun 3

This summer, I'm riding the entire route of the 2025 Tour de France, raising money for leukaemia research.

You can help; here’s the link: www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/30925 (please select “Cure Leukemia” as the fund and choose to dedicate your donation in honour of “Grant Hamilton”)

Selfie-style photo of a man in on a bike

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Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 11h

It’s a minor “thing” but kind of fun once in a while. In the Strava route-building tool, I just play around until it looks like what I want. Some people do incredible art but it’s a little like Etch-a-Sketch, really finicky.

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Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you!

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Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t make the world’s best Strava art, but it is the most meaningful to me, today.
#stravaart

Map that shows a bike route that traces a four and a nine. The route is 49 km long.

Map that shows a running route tracing the words “forty nine”. The route is 4.9 miles long.

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Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 20h

Christmas is coming and this would look great on your favourite Hamilton cyclist

Cycle Hamilton @cyclehamilton.bsky.social · 21h

Have you seen our collection of new Cycle Hamilton shirts?! 😍😎🔥

Purchase yours for $30 at our upcoming Annual General Meeting on Thursday, November 27th from 6-9PM at @CollectiveArtsHam

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Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 1d

And Canada’s. Lots of great Strong Towns people north of the border too 🇨🇦

Strong Towns @strongtowns.org · 1d

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves: We’re Strong Towns, and we seek to replace America’s postwar pattern of development, the Suburban Experiment, with a pattern of development that is financially strong and resilient.

See if we’re coming to your area soon: buff.ly/Zh0Z6J6

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 3d

Can’t decide whether the caption should be ‘this says a lot about our society’ or ‘this is u lol’

A novelty Halloween skeleton seated at a table-fitted touchpad device

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unpaid shirtz dot cool brand ambassador @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 5d

telling that the reaction to this has been overwhelmingly positive, and that his detractors aren't really pushing this as an attack vector. maybe it's because trans rights are overwhelmingly popular in polling! could be!

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 7d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 5d

Wow!! Congrats!

Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 5d

One Battle After Another (2025)

Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 5d

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 5d

Generous to put us on this list (read the highlighted side note 🙄)
#Canada #rail

A chart listing countries according to how many kilometers of high speed rail lines they have. Canada is ranked 16th even though a side note states that Canada is the only G7 country with no high speed rail lines. It does consider that Canada announced such a line to be built in the future.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 6d

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 5d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 9d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe (Pollyanna here) getting CRA themselves into the filing game motivates them to simplify some aspects of returns?

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 8d

What if you had to take your drivers test at least every 10 years?

A lot changes over time. Including knowledge/memory of the road rules, driver skills and ability, and the size and deadliness of vehicles.

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Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 8d

100% agree it should be a CRA-provided experience. They should acqui-hire this team and just rebrand it!

(Ask me what I think about Canada Postbank… )

Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve had a zero-junk experience for going on ten years probably? But I do have a simple return. They pull all the info from CRA, so it would be weird if they missed some T forms.

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Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 8d

Apparently the SimpleTax people are back at www.bettertax.ca/en/

Better Tax: Canadian Tax Software to File Your 2024 Return

File your 2024 taxes online and get your maximum refund. Better Tax is CRA NETFILE certified, pay what you want, and built by friendly Canadians.

www.bettertax.ca

Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 8d

Wealthsimple (formerly SimpleTax, RIP) does essentially this, for free-or-tip. Some people don’t love that WS also now tries to sell you investment products, tho.

Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 8d

I love that the absurdity is part of the point. This interview was interesting: www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

www.wweek.com

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Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 9d

Team AHB represent :)

Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 9d

I’d miss you!

Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 9d

Love being geographically close to a powerful exemplar state.

Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social · Aug 12

In our - very limited - historical experience of democracy,

(i) states rot from the centre-right
(ii) and it's contagious (via geography/powerful exemplar states)

Grant Hamilton @gramiq.bsky.social · 11d

Nice, and me when I was just thinking I was going to wake up my starter today.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 12d

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Highlights
For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

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