Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Ugh Tosca gets more relevant every time I play it. 030
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliMia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“Let me dedicate this award to all of the survivors of international crimes as well as to practitioners and defenders of international justice whose passion and courage continue to ensure that impunity will not be allowed to reign.” Navi Pillay, 2026 Nobel Peace Prize 17799182
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It'S toO eXpenSIve to AcT oN cLiMatE chANGe. www.theenergymix.com/extreme-summ...theenergymix.comExtreme Summer Weather Produced $1.8B in Insured Losses on Canadian PrairiesExtreme weather this summer caused more than $1.8 billion in insured losses during 10 events across Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, the Insurance Bureau of Canada reports. And those costs will co... 315674
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliKathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Apropos of relatively little, It’s been a while since I posted this… 14819
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliGuy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Very much worth reading if you don’t known about Petrov. This is the day we celebrate and honour him, and properly feel gratitude, and other things. Relying on tech in wartime can be deeply perilous. sammatey.substack.com/p/happy-stan...sammatey.substack.comHappy Stanislav Petrov DayTake five minutes to not destroy civilization 16119
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliJamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller. 20747501187
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliKathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m at the AGM for the Banff Trail Community Association, where a small group of residents have arrived in the hope of forming a planning and development committee. They’ve been writing letters opposing development for a year and a half, but they want the weight of the CA behind their positions. 1113
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliJesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I am so excited that “Who Needs Donuts?” is being rereleased. It is a hilarious, moving, fascinating book that will teach your children to be cool and interesting. drawnandquarterly.com/books/who-ne... 4133
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliKathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is an intersection where I cycle regularly, often with my kids. These fucking drivers man... When are we going to give a shit in this city about the safety and well being of anyone not in a giant murder machine? #VisionZero 1112
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliOsaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 26/08/2026remember: its not a data center its a surveillance data processing complex 14265342088
Reposted by Adam Zinatellicriticalmass.yyc @criticalmassyyc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025"If the minister decides to remove cycling infrastructure, it will not remove the cyclists. We’ll still be out there, just taking up space on the road with cars, making it worse for everyone." #yycbike calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...calgaryherald.comOpinion: Transportation minister needs to stay in his laneCyclist rebuts ministers comments on reducing bike lanes. 1340283
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." -Ursula K. Le Guin, *A War Without End* 1376145
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliMatt Lie-Paehlke @mattliepaehlke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026How is it that the fossil fuel industry is the economic powerhouse that carries the rest of Canada on its back and also it can't survive in the free market without government handouts? 12711
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. 020899
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it. 8606226
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliKathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I made a reel with @unsprawling.bsky.social about salty liquorice and the personal finance benefits of living in a walkable neighbourhood.youtube.comThe paradox of inner-city living #unsprawlingYouTube video by Unsprawling 051
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together. 214180772620
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliKathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Ok I made the word up: Wohnungsheuchelei (housing hypocrisy) 093
Reposted by Adam Zinatellijpbremner.bsky.social @jpbremner.bsky.social · 12/06/2026The solutions are well understood and obvious, they're just not politically attractive. Drivers can't bear to be delayed or have their primacy diminished even a little. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caCalgary council looking for solutions in wake of rising traffic fatalities, pedestrian deaths | CBC NewsAfter receiving a safer mobility report that showed a rise in major injuries and deaths resulting from collisions, councillors want city officials to bring back stronger policy investments and propose... 3196
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliKathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 07/06/2026It’s “disheartening,” Schwieterman said, that society “seem[s] to accept bicycle deaths as an unavoidable part of life.” Heartbreaking. 082
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliKathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I was interviewed for this article. I hate to be a Negative Nelly, but there is nothing good coming out of this council on the housing file. There is no plan, it seems to have fallen off the radar completely.cbc.caHow Calgary will replace blanket rezoning still unclear, after council's latest housing motion fails | CBC NewsAfter Mayor Jeromy Farkas suggested more aggressive local area plan development could replace blanket rezoning's work to increase housing density, city council voted down a motion to follow through on... 42611
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliKathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Are any of them Honda N-VANs? If not, what are even doing here?global.hondaHonda to Begin Sales of New N-VAN e: Commercial-use Mini-EV in Japan | Honda Global Corporate WebsiteHonda Global | Honda to Begin Sales of New N-VAN e: Commercial-use Mini-EV in Japan 291
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliKathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Impromptu summertime hamburger night with some of our favourite neighbours. We may need a bigger garage… 2737
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. 08936
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliDale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Jen Gerson: "The UCP has become a party of snivelling, weak little thieves who operate by night."readtheline.caJen Gerson: Saddle up, Alberta. We're referendum-ingThe UCP has become a party of snivelling, weak little thieves who operate by night. 68239
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 17/05/2026In this time when there's so much to be upset about, nothing gives me more hope than graduating classes loudly booing technocrats talking about AI at commencement speeches. 030
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Come hear not one but two brand new trumpet concertos with Kensington Sinfonia! New works by Chris Sies and Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social are both amazing, and couldn't be more contrasting. I am so, so excited for this!eventbrite.caStrange New WorldsJoin us on an odyssey through sonic worlds never before heard! Minsol Kim flabbergasts on marimba, and Adam Zinatelli stuns on trumpet! 051
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/05/2026I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years. 833817807
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 10/05/2026A great reminder in our world of echo chambers.npr.orgOf course we look for ourselves in art — but if we stop there, we're missing outAs I watched the new series, I only cared about Piggy — the thoughtful, smart kid stranded on an island with other boys. That made me think about what we look for in art. 000
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Important to take a second to ask yourself if you're being a prick. 0123
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliNWChiFiets @nwchifiets.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Drivers are not ok. abc7chicago.com/post/woman-a...abc7chicago.comWoman arrested after driving on sidewalk toward child riding bike: PoliceA woman was arrested in Spokane, Washington, after she allegedly drove up on the sidewalk and nearly hit a child who was riding their bike, police said. 56591124
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliHeather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I was at the Celebration of the Arts hosted by Mayor Jeromy Farkas at Werklund Centre, in the Jack Singer Concert Hall. I was standing in line to get a drink & there was Cllr André Chabot standing to my right (there isn’t much to the left of me). What follows is my version of our conversation. 1/ 14319
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliGhoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 01/05/2026Bring back the ancient knowledge 56165077378
Reposted by Adam Zinatellialix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters 163184365683
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliKathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I'll take a short break from being mad about housing politics to note that in another life I was a music student at the University of Alberta, and I also spent many years trying to learn to play the pipe organ. The organ in Con Hall is a magnificent instrument and this is a travesty. 153
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. 011144
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid. 010433
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026The Batte Man doth knowe the trouthe 8680141
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliMelissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I will always find it confusing that some people think a person riding a $2000 bike to commute is a privileged elitist but the guy in the $80k truck that costs $150 to fill is the working class average joe. 451484260
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Is Angine de Poitrine mirror universe Khruangbin? 010
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 09/04/2026With so much to be angry about in the world right now, act locally and write to your councillor! 030
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliKathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Who is watching Calgary city council right now? I had made peace with the rezoning repeal, but I did not expect things to go so far off track with the amendments. Council is gutting every path to build housing that it can. This is a total dereliction of its duty, and Calgarians should be furious. 2497
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Just putting this here for handy referenceun.orgDefinitions of Genocide and Related Crimes | United Nations 020
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliAdam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Trans rights are human rights. This isn't complicated. 04321
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/03/20266. We should ALL expect that our leaders, who are supposed to learn much more about the need/context for change than most of us will know, will be responsible enough to make the right decisions even when unpopular. And NOT do the opposite, which is rage-farm populist lies about change to get votes. 216223
Reposted by Adam ZinatelliBrandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Midsize SUVs are standard US car bloat. They eat public space, wear down infrastructure, and add danger. Compare that to the Urban Arrow, the SUV of the bike world. It has a minimal footprint, is fully urban capable, and keeps streets safe. Yet only one is called "big". 27111