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Cameron Fraser

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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yup... Exactly this... nutmegphantasy.substack.com/p/i-got-olde...
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I Got Older. When Exactly Did I Become a Blasted Idiot?
By Hans Casteels, who apparently survived decades of work, marriage, children, technology and ladders only to become a public safety concern somewhere around sixty five.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yup. As someone who spent years doing risk assessments, I know that helmets are a last line of defence to try to limit the severity of consequences. They don't address causes and prevention like infrastructure does. If you ever really NEED your helmet, you're already having a bad day
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Very pleased to find someone stepping in after Bose abandoned the software necessary for their product and made it essentially useless for me. STR keeps Bose SoundTouch speakers alive without the cloud. st-reborn.de
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SoundTouch Reborn (STR): Bose SoundTouch without the cloud
Bose ended the SoundTouch cloud service. STR (SoundTouch Reborn) revives Bose SoundTouch 10, 20, 30, 300, Portable, Wave, SA-4, SA-5 and CineMate. A one-person hobby project under MIT, made because ha...
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
@thewaroncars.bsky.social ... There's clear evidence the High School kids in my area want to ride to school. There's equally clear evidence the school needs more bike racks, and to think about where they go. (The ones on the opposite side of the school are full.)
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Alberta, A Poem Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And I asked "should we take route 1, or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not we should take route 1 or route 2?"
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
They say culture eats strategy for breakfast. I've seen it before, but I am not sure I have seen as comprehensive example as I saw today. The next few weeks will be "interesting". (I am part of the culture, but no, not my strategy. Well intended and some merit. Terrible implementation.)
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Roubaix... Man, I love it. And the long list of memorable gritty wins... Van Aert, Cobrelli, Hayman, Jackson, Ferrand-Prevost. It's great.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
That'll happen. (Didn't actually cry, but a Christopher Pratt took my breath away.)
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natalia barbour @nataliabarbour.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
They say a picture is a thousand words. This one is a whole book. 📷: Reddit: Blueraccoonboy
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Of course, the Trump administration and their supporters will understand that statement to describe a grand success. In reality, both statements are succinct summations of the limitations of air power.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Sleep deprivation would explain a lot.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The only rigged vote in Canada
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I just watched Carney's motorcade go past my house on his return from Davos, and while Trump's “speech” is on. I doubt a 24 hour period on the world stage has ever seen such a contrast in clarity, honesty, and intelligence.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I really like @Garmin.com products, & have many. I really hate every update they have ever made to Garmin Connect. Today's is no exception.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Things that make you go "Hmmm..."
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
What I hadn't expected to find in digging around the family tree was the information in the 1912 Queen's University Yearbook that my very dignified, always in a suit, professional engineer grandfather went through university carrying the nickname "Freak".
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
It's a good day when the shuffle function provides a few @ronsexsmith.bsky.social songs in a short time. It's older, but given the news recently, "Wishing Wells" hit home (again). Beautiful, catchy melody with some lyrics that remind me to push back. youtu.be/E4TmcJCzNk4
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 27/11/2025
Happy Thursday, Canada 🍁
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Food for thought in the F-35 vs Gripen debate, specifically on the industrial benefit. There is $3 million Canadian content per airplane, which doesn't sound like much but it’s on every single airplane built. Given the number built and the number still planned, that’s $9,300,000,000.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Canada Post is required to do 2 things. 1. Deliver mail to every address in Canada, & 2. Be financially self sustaining. Until a government decides whether Canada post is a public service or a self supporting company, it can't be fixed, because it can't do both at the same time.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Do you suppose the rapture happened today, and everyone is still here, because it turns out people are awful?
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Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
now is the autumnal equinox of our discontent
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Watching "Yellowstone". In the pantheon of American television shows, where the main characters are terrible people, I can't decide if this is "Succession" with a lot of guns, or "Sons of Anarchy" with better scenery and clothes.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
If at any point in my life, much less in retirement, you had told me I would spend a Friday evening teaching a Nun/PhD student to ride a bicycle, I might have been skeptical.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 16/08/2025
Poilievre promises Battle River-Crowfoot if elected they will never see him again
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Poilievre promises Battle River-Crowfoot if elected they will never see him again
CAMROSE, AB - Speaking to a rally in the closing days of this summer's by-election, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre assured voters that electing him would ensure that they would never risk runnin...
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 14/08/2025
The global phenomenon of “bikelash” has become one of the biggest barriers to implementing interventions that make our streets more liveable, accessible and sustainable. So how do we best manage it as advocates for change? Here are eight strategies we recently presented at the Velo-city Conference.🧵
Powerpoint slides from a presentation entitled “Unleashing the Silent Majority to Beat Bikelash”, which feature photographs of urban transformation from cities around the world.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I may have just experienced a miracle...
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
There is just no precedent in recent world history of an advanced industrialized country sabotaging its own scientific establishment, and destroying the base of scientific knowledge necessary for basic policymaking. An avowedly, actively anti-knowledge regime.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Pierre Poilievre is whingeing about trade policy and proposing an alternative plan(without details). He seems to have forgotten he's running in a byelection, not a general.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I don't know who Graeme Barber is, but we saw him on the bike earlier, and anyone doing an Ironman in the 80 to 84 age group deserves some recognition ... Live Results Today for Graeme Barber in the IRONMAN Canada - Ottawa. Check it out! rtrt.me/ulink/IRMA/I...
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IRONMAN Canada - Ottawa Live Results
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The city is such a great place when you replace people in cars with just people...
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Short one today... 25 km ... as I get back on the road bike post op. It's pretty great that we can ride this far, and much further if we want, and have all but about 100 meters be on dedicated cycling infrastructure.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Had a cataract lens replacement last week. Turns out the faint sepia tones I have seen in so many movies and shows the last few years had nothing to do with how they were filmed.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I'm all in favor of transportation alternatives, including things like the electric scooters scattered around the city, but blocking sidewalks (at Lisgar and Metcalfe) for hours at a time really doesn't help the reputation or acceptance... @arieltroster.com
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The Giro Aerohead time trial helmet looks ridiculous... until you see it in use live, like on today's ITT at the Tour de France. Then it looks like a bullet (despite Vingegaard's performance being less than perfect).
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I want to make a personal request to those of you who use a bike for transportation purposes to start taking more photos and posting them. You can do so much by showing even the most mundane errands with a bike to educate and inspire others. They're often more effective than words. 📸
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Summer Solstice. The longest day of the year and, as of 1042 pm tonight, we'll be closer to the year 2050 than we are to the year 2000, a year that was a milestone and synonymous with "the future" at one time.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
@marksutcliffe.bsky.social Lansdowne 2.0 is a bad idea.. Literally good money after bad, and waste of limited taxpayer dollars when so much else needs doing Stop. substack.com/@neilsara/note…
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Special guests in town. We stopped to make sure they felt welcome while on our way to the grocery store.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
@mark-carney.bsky.social ‬ … With a Canada Post Strike just a few days away it's time for the government to provide some clarity. Canada Post, and its employees, are in an impossible position. There is a fundamental conflict between the mandate and and the structure.
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Don Cochrane 🇨🇦 @doncochraneyow.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
“An analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.”
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Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election
FT analysis finds network of social media accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Former PM Stephen Harper says, "Pierre is only one with a plan..." and yet the Conservatives are still the party that has not released a costed platform. Maybe there is a plan, and we're just not allowed to see it, but maybe Harper and #PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Oh lord... Poilievre just recited one of his television commercials as a closing argument. An ability to spout rote answers om cue is not good enough for a PM.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I swear Poilievre has ten short talks. What comes out of his mouth when someone pulls the string in his back is limited to one of these ten. Two years on its wearing thin Plus, he's a rude little prick.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The remnants of the convoy idiots who are still on Wellington in front of Parliament Hill every day have pivoted, but not with any original thought. They've just installed a "F@#k Carney" flag in place of the one naming Trudeau.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Paraphrased from my friend Katherine "A reminder that elections are not like private cars that will deliver you to exactly the destination you want in comfort. Elections are a public bus. Pick the candidate who will get you closest to where you want to go & get on board."
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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“After many years of covering election campaigns in Canada, USA and Europe, the Conservative Party of Canada is the most outwardly aggressive and uncivilized that I’ve witnessed. It’s on par with Viktor Orbán in Hungary and the Republican Party in the USA.” canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-ca...
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Poilievre Stop in Fish Plant Smells | Canadian Journalist
Conservative Party of Canada election campaign stop in a fishing village in Newfoundland turns into a spectacle of party animosity towards media coverage.
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Cameron Fraser @achfraser.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Ship of Theseus time. I keep thinking I'd like a new bike, and then I realized that the only bits on the bike, other than the frame, that are as old as the bike are the seat post, handlebars and brake levers/shifters. So, I guess it is newish?
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