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ethnographer.bsky.social
Dr. Young-Leslie {use alt-text, humans} ElbowsUp! 🇨🇦🚲
@ethnographer.bsky.social
Anthropologist, feminist, fietsster, research whisperer; settler in Amiskwaciwâskahikan aka Yeg🇨🇦
My research focussed on cultural responses to public health messages (MCH, HIV, COVID)
Mostly skeet on bikes, climate∆, #FeministSky, just transition, urbanism
Technically speaking, what's the difference between pancake ice and frizzle pans?
November 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I've been calling them snow-groomer gnomes.

I saw evidence of them from Kingsway to Whyte Ave!
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Connor,
Tell us about your camera & setup?
November 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Hey #yegsnowstories friends, if you can, share photos with @YegWinterBike on Insta?

They're gathering quite the collection of antifactuals to the "nobody bikes in winter" adage:

www.instagram.com/yegwinterbik...
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Errands frm Wîhkwėntôwin to Old Strathcona & Kingsway: The WinterPriorityLoop was well cleared (altho' a mechanical on the HLBridge?). Off PriorityLoop: Kyoto Protocol, Trolleytrack & 106 St to Whyte; 121 St & RailTrail to Kingsway: Proof of groomer-gnomes, but no CityCrews. Still, fab #winterbike!
November 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Because nobody cries on a bicycle. Because bicycles are *FREEDOM*.
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM
You could try writing those sentiments to your MP, but if s/he is anything like @eleanorolszewski.bsky.social, her office will ignore you, even if you write twice and telephone once.
@liberalca.bsky.social are acting much as did the Harper cons.
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
In the 🦤place, #s were important. They work here too, but differently; I don't see ppl using them as effectively. The other, cultural, difference is 🦤 had reporters, politicians + academics talking to each other. That was a potent mix. Lastly, T was timely-anything, anywhere, showed there, fast!
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Right! 🫣
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
So:
Joseph Boyden
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Michelle Latimer
Carrie Bourassa

now Thomas King

Please say we aren't questioning Richard Wagamese or Lee Maracle or Eden Robinson 🙏
#Pretendians
Author of Inconvenient Indian discovers he has no indigenous roots
Thomas King, whose works centered around indigenous stories, said he feels as though he's "been ripped in half" after learning he is not part Cherokee.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The worn-to-nil road paint on shared 'bike ways' is the thing that most tempts me to become a tactical urbanist.
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Visual representation of what a bike lane builder has said, recently about bike lanes in #Yeg (on Reddit):

www.reddit.com/r/Edmonton/s...
40kthomas's comment on "Edmonton cyclists should pay road tax. Here are the numbers"
Explore this conversation and more from the Edmonton community
www.reddit.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM