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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Until Oct 19 it's $150 for failure to yield, and that's often the only consequence of killing a pedestrian with a car

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What would be the tax implications of depaving every dark green street

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Look at how awful and criminal our city is and how bad and not at all charming and perfect it is

Google Street View of 5572 Falkland St. It is a REALLY skinny, bright red, wood-shingled, east coast, postcard-perfect 19th century row house. God it's so fucking cute

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Btw there are old lovely 15 foot wide houses here in Halifax, check out Falkland St. I know 9 and 15 are pretty significantly different numbers but maybe that still helps your case in one way or another!

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

this would've absolutely ripped tbh

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You cannot fathom how much I want the Wab Kinew "it's legal, but if you do it I will come to your house personally and beat your ass" press release

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Those are some "pie chart of how much pie is left"-ass axes

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wish HAF was as cool as its opponents think it was

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Genuinely we should start riding a bike over the COLT counter every hour as an experiment

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

How about we stop "maintaining" all the random roadside and median bits of grass that don't need to be mowed and short and maintained, and let them be wild, which would free up a little labour for this

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It was downtown, but the Commons is even more impressive, since being more open means there's more wind (outside the obvious wind tunnel streets)!

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Last night as I was buttoning up my jacket I saw a guy jogging with shorts and no shirt on, haha

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My boy's entering the big leagues, it's so beautiful to see 🥲

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The lakes haven't decided yet but we'll get there

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Addendum: cutting edge models last year have equivalents in all capabilities today that can run fully locally on a personal computer. A lot of surprisingly small businesses are running their own local models on their own servers. These big stupid companies can collapse without killing enterprise AI.

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And if you go back to the dot-com era, you get a similar thing where people were investing billions into absolute bullshit in case it was the thing that broke through and become the single dominant breakout. And it was all laughable and stupid. But the world DID change after the crash.

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Like I'm sorry to say it but I work in business analysis and a machine that can go through and vibes-classify 50k lines of a spreadsheet in a way that it's specifically suited to can save literally months of work in a one-shot prompt. But some of these use cases they're pushing are ungodly dumb.

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Probably we'll see something more like dot-com where there's a massive market correction about what part of this sector is actually productive (in the pure-market sense of the word) and it gets massively less ANNOYING overnight without a corresponding check on environmental effects etc.

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm sure getting some crisp fall air can't be too bad of a thing. But don't work yourself to collapse 😅

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wonder if you can tie-dye them by tie-dyeing fabric and then draping it over the pumpkin before it dries

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We really get off on all the slippery maneuvering

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't keep money in my balance but I have a big orange button at the bottom in the Wallet section of the app that says "purchase a new pass". Does that go away when you have money in your balance?

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yup, the problem isn't that the work can't be done, or even that it's particularly difficult to make it happen on a level as powerful as a government or large development corporation, it's that the scale of the work exceeds the scale of the will

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I bet I could haul that on flat ground with my e-bike with a ladder trailer and enough straps

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are already FGNs but of course it's moving at a glacial pace. Iirc one reason it hasn't been converted already is because the past land use, including the car dealerships, fucked the land so much that it would need many millions of cleanup first. Ofc, the ones who fucked it won't pay for it.

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lol "the province with oil, and the province with potash, and Quebec should secede from Canada" come on boy

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Does that mean all the bike lanes that merge into one traffic lane at certain intersections (e.g., Bell, Windsor) have to wait until all traffic passes (never) to proceed through the intersection?

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bicycles aren't considered vehicles in the TSA (they're "conveyances") but there may be other rules that are relevant to that

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

COLT's gotta be fully broken. No way in hell

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is basically just Wolastokuk

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The question is, where are the boundaries of Dartmouth now

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We can be a diarchy of two consuls, both called the North End consul but insisting that their side is the real North End

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You might be underestimating how willing people who ask such questions are to walk when it's raining, which I find really sad. I think experiencing rain is really important for connecting to the world you live in.

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We could have even made it one-way for cars and two-way for buses, and made either Windsor or Agricola one-way in the other direction to balance it out making way for protected bike lanes there

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I dunno, I think a solid portion of it might be the feeling of momentum and inertia, like how babies get rocked to sleep in cars and strollers. I don't think the feeling of zoning out people get from driving is inherently that different from the zoning out people get while walking, except the risk.

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I genuinely think transportation rest is built into us as a species. How else would you walk the enormous distances that used to be required for survival? Our brain forces us into it. The question is, so we want that to happen while walking, or while driving

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When we ask the mayor if he'll house our friends he'll never listen, will he? When he does, we'll know And when I die, dump my body on the lawn of the ones who killed me This is not a joke. This is not a joke!

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have told many people in my life and written it into a song that I play often, including with the phrase "this is not a joke", that my body should be dumped on the lawn of whoever killed me. However, the general understanding of this I've fostered is that it's city hall, province house, etc.

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Abolish Police @awarham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“they’re both at fault” when one is at fault for walking too slowly and the other is at fault for attempted murder or man slaughter. the gall to compare these things has me fuming!

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Unfortunately for us, the Irvings don't have a sense of humour and so won't do the funniest thing

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I would be fine with bus lanes and no bike lanes, although it would be a bit of a bummer to see it basically not change in feel at all. I just wish they would do something, though.

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't think I like that - the sidewalks are already uncomfortably small on Quinpool without also being used as bus stop waiting areas. And something major would have to end by the time that multipurpose area becomes trees

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wait, so New Minas is basically just the Bayers Lake and Timberlea/whatnot of Kentville?

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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This doesn't include bus lanes. The bus icon in the multi-purpose areas is for bus stops

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