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Brent Keeping

@brentkeeping.bsky.social
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If I learn from my mistakes, then I'm now a genius. Opinions are only valid when powered by critical thinking. Open minds, canoes and bicycles make me happy.

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Austrian Fietser #klimafreak @woemi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The most important infrastructure in a city.
Tree alleys
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I live in a place in the world where nature demands your attention. Picture taken from Cupids ♥️ #outdoorsNewfoundland
A jagged iceberg being observed by a person lower down the slope. Overcast day with sun shadows on the clouds.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Not my city but I support this message and idea. Okay, okay okay...I'm partial to the name of the Borough too 😉 Good luck Cllr Mitchell!
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Local Child Thrilled To Walk His Bike Around The City That's Too Dangerous To Ride In.
kid walking bike across the road 

Local Child Thrilled To Walk His Bike Around The City That's Too Dangerous To Ride In.
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cyclesixmile @cyclesixmile.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
My Urban Arrow now has over 8,000 miles on it. Almost every single mile replaced a driving mile, many of them also with passengers. E-bikes, especially cargo e-bikes, can change cities if we let them.
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I did NOT vote for the rapist @sarahgies.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the
moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Today, for the first time ever, I was able to bike from my neighbourhood to a couple of local schools along a brand new shared use trail! Before now, kids had to either illegally occupy the trail or risk our unsafe streets. People fought against this for years. Well done St.John's NL Canada!! 🥳
A trail marker indicating Crosstown Shared-Use Path.A trail marked in green through a city satellite image.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com
economist.com
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
These Machines Fight Traffic. Our @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social billboard is live.
A purple billboard that says these machines fight traffic with two bicycles on it
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
READ: “While I know that driving is a necessity for some, for me, it has been 1st and foremost a habit. My experience of driving less has reminded me that when we can, it’s worth questioning our habits…because what’s comfortable doesn’t necessarily make us feel happy or free.” How change can start.
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We need a vehicle weight tax. If you can justify buying an $80k, 3,000 kg Wagoneer to haul one bag of groceries, taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing your pavement wear and tear plus the added danger to our streets. If you can afford the payments, you can afford to stop asking society to subsidize it.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I have been involved in the assessment of many mines througout my career. Regrettably I can't make the session tonight but I'd bet it will be interesting.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Don’t consider myself an advocate, urbanist, activist or part of some fringe group. Just a dad that was tired of their kids losing their childhood independence at the hands of a toxic and normalized car culture Quite sad that wanting kids to walk/bike/roll safely to school is considered radical.
Me walking a bike and a bike lane with two kids sitting on it
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Americans haven't experienced true war on their own soil in hundreds of years and that's half the reason most of the idiots have no problem with us starting wars elsewhere in the world. They have no empathy or true understanding of the tragedy of war. It's nothing more than something on the tv.
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
There's a world where sitting next to traffic is both tranquil and enjoyable. You just have to put the human back in mobility.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/02/2026
The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I smiled every time I saw Catherine O'Hara on screen. I intend to continue. She is a legend and a Canadian to boot. ❤️
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
You want efficiency of travel? Humans on a bike! vt.tiktok.com/ZSaCP9Gn8/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
"The grill of her massive older SUV showed damage to the center of the grill, suggesting the victim was right in front of her in center of the lane" Taking the lane is our last resort where theres no bike infra With smartphones we can no longer assume drivers even see what's right in front of them
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
It doesn't get more Canadian🇨🇦 cliche than this...Eating a beavertail while skating with the kid (and thousands of others) on the canal in Ottawa. We actually skated to the market, rather than walking, for some bread. Life works out sometimes 🙂
A man and a young woman posing in winter clothes, holding a fried pastry. A clear blue sky and a Canadian flag in the background.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Personally, I'm much happier seeing this in my downtown Toronto hotel room than the one from the Gideon crowd. Congrats Michael Crummy, you've hit the big times! 😁
A Michael Crummy novel "River Thieves" standing on a small wall shelf.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
If I go see Marty Supreme at the movie theater, would it be socially acceptable if I booed out loud when Keven O'Leary is on the screen?
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I really like that most of my feed on here is from cycling and active transportation advocates 🚲💪. It's quite wholesome ❤️.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
If no one holds you to account for your actions, your actions are not illegal. We should stop saying they are illegal, and adjust our lives accordingly. That's my current thinking but I'm happy to be proven wrong.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
If I get hit by this vehicle, I will end up under it and surely die. The same fate for any smaller vehicle that it hits as well. Seriously, we need to rein in the size of the vehicles on our shared streets.
Me standing in front of a parked, North American sized truck.The top of the hood of the truck is at my shoulder height.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I'm liking this local Canadian Tire store more all the time. "Queue here for cash" 💰 No Grinches here! 😏
An in-store sign advising customers to "Queue here for cash" which is probably meant to say cashiers instead of cash.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Ok Spotify, check your data. There's no way that I only listened to Madeleine Peyroux's version of Blue Alert 6 times!! More like 60 times. #SpotifyWrappedIsWarped @Spotify
Madeleine Peyroux  Artwork for the album Half the Perfect World
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 05/12/2025
“No one bikes in the winter.” Minneapolis protected bikelane at 4pm after 1-2” fell in the middle of the day: Look at all of these bike tracks made outside of the popular commute times. 😍
Protected bikelane with some snow and may tire tracks
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Listening to a 🇬🇧 man discuss on As It Happens on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social describe how he was inspired while riding his bicycle ❤️, to use a British bitter beer 😋 can to win a Turnip Art Award is peak value to me. Long live the Brits, bicycles, bitter beers and 'art'. 🥰
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
With all of the Black Friday adverts, I've lost track of exactly what Friday they're talking about. 🤔
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Translation: Paris is great, largely because of its active transportation policies. I've been there. I've seen it. It's real. Vive le vélo !
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Be the change you want to see.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
It's probably a good thing that the Blue Jays didn't win the World Series 💔. Canada avoided another reactionary tariff increase by the US. (I'm looking for a silver lining here 🫣).
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Imagine being someone who speeds a lot, knowing it can and does kill people… kids, parents, anyone. Imagine hating a public policy (speed cameras) that’s proven to make those people safer— safer from YOU— because your law breaking costs u money, so you rant that it’s a “cash cow.” So, is that you?
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Walkable city baseball edition: Andrés Giménez on how you get the feeling of a city by walking it.
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
What you don't see in this photo: Three parents who aren't stuck in a car. Three parents who get their mornings back. That's the invisible dividend of investing in infrastructure that provides safe, independent mobility for young people.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
And they still take up less room on the road than a car!
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I live a multi-modal lifestyle. Wow! That felt good to admit. No more hiding it from my friends and family. 🙂
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car. Our car culture summed up in one video.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I'm saddened to hear this awful news. I found Darren's contributions on here and over on 'X' to be very inspiring. Colleagues, politicians pay tr... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Colleagues, politicians pay tribute to prominent Edmonton doctor killed in mountain biking accident  | CBC News
An Edmonton intensive-care physician who became well known in Alberta for his insights into the challenges facing the health-care system during the COVID-19 pandemic, died in a cycling accident on Sun...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. Via @us.theconversation.com
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Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed
Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The US has an extremely high rate of gun related homicides but I can't say that I like where Canada sits in comparison with the other countries on this list either.
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 13/09/2025
“The odds of fatal injury increased by 44% for people of all ages struck by an SUV, compared with those hit by a passenger car. Among children the odds of fatal injury increased by 82%, and among children under the age of 10 it increased by 130%.” www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Laura’s two children stand in front of a giant, lifted SUV parked on the street. Their heads are below the hood.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
That Kirk guy in the US didn't deserve to die from violence - full stop. He also doesn't deserve all of the post mortem accolades and media coverage either - full stop.
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I wish some people were this outspoken and passionate when a shooter murders a handful of children just trying to exist in school.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is what I call a real clusterpluck! 🙂 Blueberry season in this part of Newfoundland is peaking right now. Get yourself outdoors. #NewfoundlandOutdoors
A hand holding a cluster of blueberries on a wild blueberry plant.
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
What else is there in life? 👇 ❤️
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Brent Keeping @brentkeeping.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Try doing that on a bicycle.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The 2025 Happy City Index is in, and @momentummag.bsky.social is pointing out that many of the world’s happiest cities are also some of the best places to ride a bike. Vancouver is #11, the highest ranked city in North America (cue the usual debates).
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The Happiest Cities in the World are Also the Most Bicycle Friendly
The 2025 Happy City Index is in and the world's happiest cities are also some of the best places to ride a bike.
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