Idris Fashan

Access to traditional food/flavours from around the world. I enjoy Himalayan, provincial Korean, Cantonese, Nigerian, Cree, Punjabi, Afghani, Finnish, Serbian, Yemeni and rural Japanese dishes at restaurants within 5 km of my house—and it has forever altered my (and my friends’) cooking. 💙

Car machismo is so illogical. Bro taps a pedal with a shoe in a/c glass bubble—and that makes him man enough to kill a cyclist. Meanwhile my wife commutes in -25C with just a slick set of goggles, some knitted mitts, 3 layers and a half jug of coffee in her veins. Who’s tougher to you? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Maybe it’s time to start throttling Meta…

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👇🏾 In case ANYONE needed to see how the sausage gets made… 👇🏾

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Lobbying: it’s as American as apple pie. But it’s also a great way to see who and what is hiding in PLAIN SIGHT. Follow the Benjamins!

Amazing. 🚲💙

Because to certain people with power, equality and equity feels like a type of murder. It isn’t. We have had to keep saying this for HUNDREDS OF YEARS. We’re tired.

@parismarx.com oh damn, you’re coming to Edmonton in November? Nice! Hoping a signed copy of your book are in my future 👊🏾🧔🏾‍♂️

Cyclists were the primary force behind organized political pressure for better, paved roads before the arrival of cars and drivers. Drivers now think they own the road and oppose safe infrastructure for all other road users. What if tanks started using roads and were crushing cars and people?

It’s almost like companies expect the public to not know what ‘unsecured’ means. “Hey public, we need to regulate the stuff we’re borrowing billions to make” (while we leave all your back doors open. 🙃🙃 Also, if you give any shits about technology in 🇨🇦 betakit is tops. 👊🏾🧔🏾‍♂️

Hold fast, team! 👊🏾🧔🏾‍♂️ 🙇🏾 to our leadership.

Kinda wild that we’re shuffling evermore quickly back to the climate era that created the layers of algae & plant material we burn evermore rapidly today. 🤷🏾‍♂️

So much being said without having to utter a word.

I wonder how quickly the province of Alberta will remove its provincial fish once it goes from endangered to extinct (or extirpated). 🤷🏾‍♂️ This province is the home of own goals. There is no greater enemy of Alberta than its own hubris. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

More than 2 First Nations in 🇨🇦 burned to ash this year 🇨🇦 is about to announce a new pipeline to the west coast Modern liberalism hasn’t changed since the Enlightenment. The same colonial praxis that wiped millions of indigenous people lives on but climate change comes for us all. Eventually 😔

Hot take: The ENTIRE political internet is insincere. It’s paid ‘at best’ (the right), or ‘aspiring to NOT BE broke’ at worst (the left). 💰 The sooner the world recognizes this, the quieter OUR WORLD will become. 🌍

🤣🤣🤣 fair.

Alright I’m hooked. Skill AND swagger? You got me. 😆💥

For some of us, the blueprint was clear, if not obvious. But receipts count. Great reporting from the trenches of tech of just how well the original plan is working — for investors, not citizens: disconnect.blog/global-depen...

July: Heatwaves… Electricity bills… Bond prices… IT’S SHORT SEASON!!! 😎

“I don’t play for job security…” - Colin Rand Kaepernick 👊🏾🧔🏾‍♂️

At some point Canadians are going to realize that the national parks they cherish (one that I am on a board for) are not as much pristine wilderness to conserve as they are sacred lands taken by the force of a colonial federation. Probably not in my generation… 🙃 www.newsweek.com/canada-natio...

Republicans: “Dead people voter fraud is everywhere!!!” Meanwhile: Senator Mitch McConnell… 💀 🤣

Spot the difference

Hot take: 🤔 Political consultants are a special interest group.

Hey, Alberta! Those data centres sure sound great… ☺️ www.inc.com/georgia-fear...

Maybe some dinosaurs did recognize the meteor… 🌍 ☄️ 😆 www.mediaite.com/media/news/i...

I… cannot…

This made my evening. 💙

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I just read the Canadian government’s AI strategy. Working in a tech-adjacent industry, I now have more reasons to be worried. 850 MW of “private-public” 💴 data centres in 4 years And 🇨🇦 needs 5.5 GW, for it… equivalent to a new city of a million people. No mention of water, heat or environment.

Sorry to hear about Jeff Bezos's rocket exploding prematurely. A good technique to prevent that from happening is to try thinking about something you find totally unarousing or even repulsive, like giving workers a living wage or paying a fair share of taxes.

📣 Louder for the devs in the back 📣

Surround yourself with the kind of people who are proud to have a library card.

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I sat through 3 oil and gas experts’ chats & watched them lie to 🇨🇦 We are NOT the only country with a price on carbon. There are 6 others like 🇳🇴 🇬🇧 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 for example. When your touted customers/Asia shifts carbon levies to oil & gas (as soon as 2027) you sure as 💩 better be ready. + stop lying.

An old friend I met for a bike ride this morning said I should try climbing because “Climbing is golf for fun people.” This is living rent free in my head. 😆 IS THIS TRUE?!?!

Dear fellow climate academics. Polycrisis is a polite society term for a Clusterfuck FUBAR.

10,000 PERCENT. Plus differently-abled people who deserve the dignity to be outside and get around as freely as the rest of us. 💙

40-ish km morning #bike ride with the missus for my birthday. Didn’t get any photos but managed to mess up my bottom bracket pretty good so it time to unpack and repack that sucker. 🙃 ☺️ Photo is of previous ride, but was just as much fun!

We have sturgeon in our river here and they are majestic in their ancient-ness! 💙 👑

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Simple everyday folks want simple everyday things.

Date ‘night’ ride with the missus… quick catch-up at our new local (Frank’s) and a blast southwest into the sunset.

👇🏾 100,000 percent this 👇🏾