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@cactieater.bsky.social
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Probably not a bot, I promise. #HamOnt | Let's talk about biking, urban planning, and organizing.

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Les Holt @lesholt.bsky.social · 22h
“If you’re not somebody in Toronto, you should be extra pissed off about this $48 million,” @mlongfield.bsky.social said. “Why is Doug Ford so obsessed with picking fights with Toronto and he’s willing to waste $48 million of taxpayer money on it?” $48M= $131,507 a day for 1-year $5,479.45 per hour
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Cycle Toronto on bike lanes removal: ‘If you’re not somebody in Toronto, you should be extra pissed off about this $48 million’ - Canadian Cycling Magazine
As work to remove Bloor Street West bike lanes looms, the group is challenging the province’s law allowing protected lanes to be removed across the city
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s actually happening. Ford is ripping these bike lanes out Tuesday. Be there if you can.
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Ben Nicholson-Smith @bnsbaseball.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The #BlueJays are leaning into their Hot Singles In Your Area offensive approach. Weird, but working.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I don't even know how to react. I'm not used to this!!
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My heart breaks... Perhaps onto greener pastures for him. Hopefully he can get a ring.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Thanks! @cptowers.bsky.social What do you think of a trade offer where I get Herrera and give up Willson Contreras? It'd be tough to part with him, but if I need to, I need to.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Thoughts between Fortes, Jeffers, Rushing, Kelly, and Mack? One catcher league, H2H 🐈
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Ben Nicholson-Smith @bnsbaseball.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
One fun thing about Fenway Park is the garden they have along the LF line where they grow some of the produce they use in the food they serve here
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
@cptowers.bsky.social oh no... Shea was a big source of my offense. Any recommendations?
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is the content I was afraid I'd miss not having the other place. Thanks for not making me have to use the other one.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@cptowers.bsky.social how's Yankee stadium? How're things looking?
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy birthday @cptowers.bsky.social!! I've been really enjoying the podcast this year. All the best.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Biggest sigh of relief I've let out in months. Holy moly
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This is the cutting edge journalism the people deserve. More of this please 😁
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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Sometimes, I feel like I, too, am just a single bottle of tequila locked in a cage beneath a ball park, waiting to be freed.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I lined up at 2:30 and I didn't get it. I'm gutted. Lots of respect to the White Sox for increasing their giveaway of the pope hat.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Fine, I guess he can keep his walkup song 😁
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
BIG MAPLE!!!!!! I just can't believe it. Caissie and everyone have come up so big for us.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
From Chris Bassitt... I'm more torn up about losing him than I was about Bo Here's wishing him the best and I'll always root for him (maybe except when he's pitching against us). Hope he tosses us a meatball or two. #torontobluejays #bluejays #mlb #chrisbassitt #baseball
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
That settles it. I'm getting a Cease jersey and will wear it when I lowball people. He's just like me fr
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Rats, I missed it. I'll have to send one in next time!
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Woo hoo!! New episode! Can't wait to listen to it.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I really should go to more of those games. I imagine it's worlds cheaper, especially with the ticket cost increase for the Toronto folks this year. How much did you spend on tickets?
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I'm really hopeful. I know better than to get all tied up in prospect stuff, but it's hard! I know he's had a bit of a down year, but I just feel it in my bones that he'll put it together soon. Which game did you go to?
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Mike, are you still taking listener testimonials?
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Sob... Thanks for putting this out. It's the end of an era.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
timesmachine.nytimes.com
The New York Times: Friday September 25, 1936
The complete edition of the New York Times published on Friday September 25, 1936.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
In light of what's happening at colleges and universities lately: A New York Times article from on Anti-Nazi student organizers from 1936. "COLUMBIA HEARS PLEA FOR EXPELLED STUDENT" Transcript in alt text. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine... #Brown #Columbia #university #studentprotests
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1936

COLUMBIA HEARS PLEA FOR EXPELLED STUDENT 

Burke and Two Other Speakers Demand His Reinstatement at Gathering of 500. Three members of the American Student Union, including Robert Burke, who was expelled in June for leading the anti-Nazi demonstration last May, addressed a gathering of 500 students of the college and the various schools of Columbia University in front of Hamilton Hall yesterday noon, appealing to them to support the youth in his to fight for reinstatement. 

The meeting followed the statement of the dean on Wednesday that he would not reconsider his decision against readmitting Burke to the college.

Edward M. David, chairman of the American Student Union chapter, said Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president, had refused to interview student committees after promising to discuss the status of the Heidelberg celebration. He declared it was "this stubbornness and refusal to meet with them" which really caused the South Field demonstration last spring.

James Wechsler, former editor of The Columbia Spectator and an officer of the American Student Union, stated that there were two issues involved in the case, one of academic freedom and the other of fair play. "It is very evident that this is an attempt to smash the American Student," he added. 

Burke, who was chosen the as president the class in '38, said in his own behalf: "It is a question whether the president, dean and trustees of Columbia will tell me what to think and do or whether I shall do what I think is right."[CONTINUED IN NEXT PHOTO]

Vandals using red paint and rolls of absorbent cotton marred the walls of John Jay Hall and South Hall, which houses the Harkness Library, on the Columbia University campus shortly before midnight last night. Except for an abandoned two-gallon can and a quantity of stained cotton, no trace of the perpetrators was found and no motive established for their sabotage. The damage was done between 11:30 P.M. and midnight, according to university authorities.

Police of the West 100th Street station discovered that twenty-five painters employed by the university as a regular maintenance force had recently gone on strike but were unable to determine if the vandalism had resulted from the walkout. They were also attempting to investigate the movements of leaders in the group who held the meeting yesterday in front of Hamilton Hall to urge the reinstatement of Burke.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Great time to be hiring in academia right now for us. I hear there may be brain drain from our neighbours down south...
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Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
My faculty, @sfu-fhs.bsky.social, is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in health communication. We're open to a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. Located in metro Vancouver, Canada we have a very welcoming environment for health-related research. See here for more and please share!
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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Go check your smoke alarms. Even if you're pretty sure they work, and that they haven't expired, check anyway. It only takes a couple of minutes. HFD stats say in 59% of house fires there are no working smoke alarms. #hamont
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Kojo Damptey ONDP @kojodampteyondp.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Meet Kojo Damptey, the Ontario NDP candidate for Hamilton Mountain for the upcoming provincial election. #HamOnt #HamOntMtn #onpoli
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
#CancelStarlinkDougFord !!!!!! That's it. That is the skeet. Now let's get it trending!!! #onpoli #cdnpoli
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
100%! Hope you and your folks enjoy!!! 🦃
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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CTV News Calgary @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
From our friends at The Canadian Press: The union representing Canada Post workers says the Crown corporation has been laying striking employees off as the labour action by more than 55,000 workers approaches the two-week mark. www.ctvnews.ca/business/can...
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Canada Post temporarily laying off striking workers, union says
The union representing Canada Post workers says the Crown corporation has been laying striking employees off as the labour action by more than 55,000 workers approaches the two-week mark.
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Jake Tobin @jaketobin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I didn’t want to draw another bike cartoon (truly) but then Doug Ford amended his anti-bike lane bill so that people riding bikes who are injured or killed on streets where bike lanes are removed can’t sue the provincial government & hold them responsible legally.
A cartoon of a ghost bike locked to a utility pole with cars whizzing by in the background and a rose on the sidewalk.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Woo hoo!!! Congratulations!!!
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 22/11/2024
Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically
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Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically
They just… blocked me. Like I’m some kind of annoyance, rather than the iconoclastic and fascinating truth-teller which I know myself to be.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Excited to get my hands on this! Can't wait.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If you're comfortable, I'd love to know as well. Do you mind if I shoot you an email?
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A tiny bit out of date with the new updates to the bill, but we'll have new posts soon!
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Link to scripts!! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Post for Leave a Voicemail, Save a Bike Lane
Hi friends, Please send and forward this to as many groups and people as possible! Encourage them to share the following and posts on all platforms! Thanks so much, let's save our bike lanes! Sam N...
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Spread the word
If you and your 10 friends each get 10 friends to call and they each get 5 friends to call their MPPs, that's 550 calls. There is power in numbers and change starts with you.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Implications 
This bill isn't just about bike lanes - it's about the provincial government undermining municipal authority. If they can override local decisions here, what's next?

$75 million is at stake - funds that could tackle Ontario's healthcare crisis, improve education, or support vital community needs.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Leave a voicemail, save a bike lane 
Urgent call to action:
1. Find your MPP. www.ola.org/en/members
2. Call and leave a voicemail. Pro tip: call after hours if you are not comfortable speaking directly to your MPP.
3. Email. Follow up and demand a response. 

Voicemail and email templates at the end of this thread.
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
How can you help? Most MPPs in Ontario don't want to take a stance on this issue - but we can make them.

We can force our MPPs to stand up to Ford and state that $75 million of taxpayer dollars is better spent fixing real problems!
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Nena @cactieater.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We have only a few days to stop Bill 212. Ford will remove brand new Toronto bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge, and University and prevent future bike lanes from being built.
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