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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 2h

Former highway engineer polices swearing by victim of road violence. Yes, I swear when I talk about drivers trying to murder me. But apparently that is offensive language when asking someone to understand that proactive safety measures are better than reactive. @pedantic.bike

Bikepedantic says, "if you can't reply to people debatin in good faitunwithiut profanity, then go on an git"

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 3h

AI is non-consensual. I've disabled it four separate times on my work PC and my emails and Google Docs are still being slopified.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 13h

For transparency, this was Tanner May-Poole.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 13h

I am deeply troubled by a SD61 candidate for Victoria belittling teachers foe being opposed to AI use in scholls because, apparently, we're all curmudgeonly fucks who are too old and inflexible to understand the amazing potential of AI.

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Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders @movementyvr.bsky.social · 22h

This morning, both the BC Conservatives and the BC NDP ruled out a vehicle levy to fund public transit in Metro Vancouver. This despite the vehicle levy being commonly used in other cities, including Montreal, Seattle, and the bustling metropolis of Gatineau, Quebec.

a map of potential huge transit cuts from spring 2025 with text overlaid that says "is transit doomed to always be in crisis?"

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nanaimo is a mess. The core could be something incredible, but instead cars are given free reign over a set of winding streets all within an easily walkable radius. Luckily Nanaimo is a city that is trying to change for the better. Lots of new bike infra. But the core needs to cut out the cars.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Whoa, a Mark Carney project disregarded indigenous peoples? What? No way!

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow, better for traffic... How are these things to navigate for anyone outside of a car? I'm going to go with a hellish nightmare. We're basically reinventing highway interchanges but in tighter and tighter settings, all so that people who choose to drive everywhere have a bit more convenience.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are no roads in British Columbia where it is legal to drive over 120km/h. But my shitbox Subaru pile of junk can exceed that easily. For no reason.

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Marty @martytix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From 1912

A clipping from a very old newspaper says "The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries."

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

metrics

our streets are so dangerous that we measure success by the number of deaths and injuries.

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samuelholland.ca @samuelholland.ca · 02/10/2026

Grateful to have the opportunity to participate in the Oak Bay All Candidates tonight! I think it’s very clear which candidates have a vision for Oak Bay. I find it unfortunate that Mayor Murdoch used his time to spread misinformation about my answers to the LivableCRD survey. #yyj #yyjpoli

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And counterpoint, forcing a bus to merge through single-occupancy vehicles to get back onto the highway is braindead. We need transit priority signalling.

The view from a bus stuck in traffic because MOTT decided it should have to merge through hundreds of private single-pccupancy cars.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bus lanes work. No debate. If this lane was an "HOV" lane (two people lol) as our transit commissioners think it is appropriate to even CONSIDER as something it's valid to investigate would be just as packed as the others by violators and stupid EVs. Instead the intercity 66 blows by them all.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also can we please talk about how David Eby assumes everyone is driving a fucking bus? To save $20 with a $0.10 discount, you'd have to buy TWO HUNDRED litres of fuel. I drive an SUV and it makes out at 64L. Who exactly is driving a car with a 200L tank?

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey beer-lovers! This is John Adair, the owner of Sooke Brewing Company, and he is a Residential School denialist. So when we say “drink Canadian,” we don’t mean his beer. ☺️ #yyj Fuck this white guy.

An ignorant white man in a t-shirt says SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 01/10/2026

Hey you know what actually saves people a fortune on travel costs, helps the climate, gets people active, *doesn't* further subsidize oil & gas, and would cost the government exponentially less money??? visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/09/22/b...

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Bring Back the BC E-Bike Rebate!

You Want an E-Bike? How about an E-Waitlist? In 2023, BC Provided tax rebates of $350 – $1,400 for e-bikes to low income earners. The budget was for 9,000 people to get e-bikes and the progra…

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"get my number." A vote buying calculator is one of the dumbest most transparently last-ditch thing you could make after mistakenly calling a snap election. No more orange leadership.

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Michael Hall @michaelhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In response to David Eby lowering the province-wide gas tax by 10¢, TransLink should, in response, raise their separate fuel levy by 10¢ to make up the difference 😌 Purely by coincidence, the TL board is meeting right now.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Psychopathy is looking at any of these positions and thinking that are bad.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In my old home in Saanich, less than five minutes from my door a child was killed by a driver. In a crosswalk. Right outside their front door. The mayor at the time blamed the child's clothing choices (which lost him the next election). That road was never improved. Blind spot is an understatement.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Relevant for Canadians too. My off-brand third-hand cargo bike recently had a seatpost failure, which I could luckily rectify really easily with an angle grinder and some paint. Probably not a suitable solution for an $8,000 bike.

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Amalgamation is very bad for urbanism, example 47262537

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Reena Mahajan @reenamahajan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The street you live with is not the street you have to keep. livestreetsmart.com

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wish granted. You are now on the front lines in Iran. Have fun, fuckface.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is so batshit stupid that I legitimately went to my computer to verify that this wasn't satire. Like when I first saw it I laughed because of how good this is as satire. This isn't satire. Read the whole the thread. The USA is official a militarily religious extremist country by policy now.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BCNDP pushing fracking, ANDP pushing pipelines. Lesson learned: The NDP is a climate change denial party. Never again Orange.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Give the green back their balance of power. Do it. And bring back Furstenau while we're at it as a little treat to good governance.

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George Anderson @georgeandersonbc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, I’m announcing that I will seek re-election as the BC NDP candidate for Nanaimo–Lantzville. I was born and raised here, and serving this community has been one of the greatest privileges of my life. There is more work to do, and I’m ready to keep doing it.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Admirals Interchange, caught mid-Big One as the world shook itself into pieces.

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BC Green Party @bcgreens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

⚡️CANDIDATE ANNOUNCEMENT: Andrew Appleton for Oak Bay - Gordon Head! @aaoakbay.bsky.social bcgreens.ca/candidates-2...

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I would like to once again recommend that when time travel is invented the first order of business is going back and killing whoever invented presta bike tube valves.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I would like to once again recommend that when time travel is invented the first order of business is going back and killing whoever invented presta bike tube valves.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The problem is that if the USA (or Canada, for that matter) tried a General Strike for real, we'd have martial law and police murdering strikers in the street by hour twelve.

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nothing to celebrate here. It's a sad day. Combined, LNG Canada Phases 1 & 2 will have downstream carbon emissions roughly equivalent to TOTAL annual domestic emissions for all of BC. Phases 2 will only result in about 240 more permanent jobs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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LNG Canada to move forward with Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C. | CBC News

LNG Canada says its multibillion-dollar Phase 2 expansion in Kitimat, B.C., is going forward, in a move that could double exports of liquefied natural gas from the northern coastal facility to oversea...

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mark Carney, David Eby, the RCMP, and CSIS are all complicit in this white supremacist genocide denial. Reminder that a dozen seniors who ant clean air and water for their grandchildren were arrested immediately in Ottawa, but these fuckers got no intervention. Priorities.

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alex 🐀 @tinysnekcomics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, to be fair, how could you possibly expect them to sponsor this exorbitant $250,000 when they had the terrible news on July 31st that TD Bank’s gross profit for the year prior fell 3.53% to a mere $46.805 BILLION? Will no one think of the shareholders? 😔

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 28/09/2026

“Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym." —Bill Nye, Science Guy.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

While this is fantastic news, it's a pretty funny contrast to the measly half-million for another copy-and-pasted "study" of the E&N despite having multiple studies that show it isn't the right thing to do. Carney knows where he needs to buy votes. And it ain't progressive Victoria.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Clarification: Mark Carney made a statement ON THE WHITE SUPREMACIST PLATFORM OWNED BY A WHITE SUPREMACIST.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At Cornell, one person— Christina Liang — handles every disciplinary case, including the Cornell Seven’s and the suspensions of over 40 protestors. Liang wrote in 2025 that “2024 was one of the most challenging years of my career…and it helped me learn that caring less is okay.”