Dean 🍁

Dean 🍁

@dmaclanders.bsky.social

Technologist, photographer, maker, baker, traveler

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The cost of ripping out bike lanes and the massive police resource heavy response should give all taxpayers in Ontario pause. We know removing bike lanes won't help congestion, so why is Premier Ford so bent on wasting our money? Should we be paying for his sagging poll numbers?

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Here is what Ford wants to rip out. In a city stuck in debilitating gridlock, nothing better than removing bike lanes and getting more people driving. 🙌🙌

Tom Flood@tomflood.bsky.social

Be Ready For Action. follow @cycletoronto.bsky.social and @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social for updates

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TW Last week our client was cycling in Hamilton. He passed James Newlands in his grey pickup truck. Words were exchanged, Newlands sped unsafely past our client then brake checked. Shocking video confirmed Mr. Newlands intentions & shed light on this terrible incident of road rage 1/3

Recently been reading Carney's book 'Values'. Was surprised to see this in the preface. Not sure if I should be disappointed that he accepted PP's lies, or hopeful that he can change his mind.

Catherine McKenna@cathmckenna.bsky.social

Carbon pricing not only lowered emissions it gave more money back to the majority of people, especially to the poorest Canadians. Shame on all the cynical politicians who repeated lies about it. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

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Replying to @doctorow.pluralistic.net

Problem is, there's no such thing as internet "age verification." What we call "age verification" is actually *mass surveillance*, so invasive and pervasive it makes the ad-tech industry's surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia: pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/b... 5/

pluralistic.netPluralistic: “Privacy preserving age verification” is bullshit (14 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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One billionaire family controls the bridge that carries 25% of all U.S.–Canada trade. The good news? There's a brand new public bridge right next door (and Canada paid for the whole thing). The bad news? Donald Trump won't let it open. Here's the story:

A hopeful thread on the reality of the moment. Who knew hate, greed and stupidity would be the boost the energy transition needed.

No one is better at keeping hope alive than Rebecca Solnit, the historian and essayist whose *Hope in the Dark* got me through the first Trump administration and whose *A Paradise Built In Hell* inspired my novel *Walkaway*: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301070... 1/

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Niagara Police are looking for the driver of a white dodge ram pick up who hit, ran and killed a cyclist around 6pm on August 12, Welland Rd and Effingham St. Send them info if you got it! This shameless horrific act cannot stand: www.cp24.com/local/niagar...

cp24.comPolice searching for driver after cyclist struck and killed in PelhamA cyclist has died after being struck by a vehicle in the Niagara Region last week.

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🧵 Dear Republican lawmakers, Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet. An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires & yes, more smoke. No amount of "raking" fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time /1

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com

"If Canada can't get these wildfires under control, they need to face real consequences," said Wisconsin state Rep. Calvin Callahan in a news release Wednesday. "We won't sit back while our air becomes a health hazard."

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On days like this I find it so hard to reconcile our human actions with the almost impossible odds that we exist at all. I wish we treasured and valued each other. I wish we realized there’s more than enough for everyone. That we belong to each other, we need each other. That we are all we have.

New Bill C-5 is sidestepping environmental laws to fast-track dirty energy projects. But burning #fossilfuels isn’t the answer. Tell #cdnpoli that our strength lies in #climate leadership, not in accelerating pollution.Take action ⤵️ act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/173069/...

act.environmentaldefence.caCanada: Let's Build a Climate-Forward Nation!Canada wants to become an ‘energy superpower,’ but at what cost? Tell the Carney government that our strength as a country lies in climate leadership, not in accelerating pollution.

The wind at work. I am in Prince Albert National Park at the moment, surrounded by fires, have crystal clear skies, and there is smoke in the UK. Small planet we live on.

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#Polio vaccinators are heroes! So we decided to hop on the generative AI trend and show you what a polio vaccinator starter kit looks like. Did you know❓ Polio eradication efforts have directly averted 20 million cases of paralysis. Yes, #VaccinesWork! #EndPolio

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100%. Harper allowing Americans to buy out Canadian newspapers changed the game. Then tech bros compounded it by their takeover & manipulation of social media. Then organized foreign bot farms led attacks on liberal politicians, drove conspiracies. Nothing changes until we tackle these things.

Shamus Brown@shamusbrown1.bsky.social

You know what Canada bungled? Allowing US foreign ownership of 🇨🇦 media.

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Bill 212 is now law, and it’s worse than we ever imagined. This anti-bike lane legislation will put lives at risk by removing bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge, and University—three of Toronto’s busiest and most critical cycling corridors. 1/

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You don’t have to be a “cyclist” to support safe bike infrastructure in your city. You don’t have to ride bikes at all. You just have to understand the FACT that bike infrastructure makes getting around easier & safer for EVERYONE, saves us all public money, & makes cities generally more successful.

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This is SHOCKING. Among everything else that’s despicable about this, ITS A CLEAR ADMISSION THAT THEY KNOW THAT DOING THIS WILL OBVIOUSLY ENDANGER LIVES. People rode bikes on these streets before the bike-lanes (albeit fewer) and they will again after. The inevitable blood will be on Ford’s hands.

Curiosity, as the Ansel Adams of Mars.

Kevin M. Gill@kevinmgill.bsky.social

One of the more beautiful images taken with the Curiosity Rover’s black and white Navigation Cameras. This was taken on Sol 3324 while driving through “Maria Gordon Notch” in December 2021. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

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Maga and the kremlin gremlins are coming over in droves. If you think they aren't peddling "MAGA blocklists" to new members you haven't been paying attention for the last several years. Those lists are renamed for each community they target and seeded with activists they want silenced.