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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

When my wife was in the flower business, I was sometimes responsible for local deliveries. I quickly learned that a flower arrangement can get you deep inside some surprisingly insecure "secure" places.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

AWS says there are “significant signs of recovery”.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Halifax Regional Municipality website is having issues this morning.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Chat GPT helped me write this. Based entirely on its advice, I have also purchased a new vehicle -- a cyber truck that my wife definitely likes.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I rigged up our cargo bike with cheap battery powered Christmas lights one year. Worked well with zipties. Kids loved it. The more expensive outdoor ones are waterproof.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I'm sick of my kids heard the word parlay in ads.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Sold mine after losing interest when our first child arrived. Just felt like a matter of time before something really bad happened either through my own error or someone else's. Highly recommend people take the motorcycle training and licensing course: www.safetyservicesns.ca/motorcycle-l...

safetyservicesns.ca

Motorcycle Training & Licensing Course — Safety Services Nova Scotia

Motorcycle Rider Licensing Course

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Cobequid will re-open at noon today.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Update on the closure of the Cobequid Community Health Centre per Halifax Fire: A furnace problem led to the emission of smoke and fuel and now there's a fuel odour issue onsite. Blood collection patients can reschedule or go to the Bayers Rd clinic. Diagnostic imaging patients will be contacted.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

More of a air-keyboard-synth-bass kinda guy, but yes.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The butter isn't soft anymore 🍁🍂

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Totally made up articles and anecdotes, too. (Each with hundreds of witless commenters perpetuating the engagement exploitation cycle.)

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

"... if two days have passed since the last rain, the risk for a deadly accident goes up by 3.7 percent. This number gets bigger the longer an area has gone without rain, so just imagine how dangerous the first rain after a bone dry summer must be."

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

blog.response.restoration.noaa.gov/oil-water-an... Quick read about the statistical link between crashes and rainfall after dry periods.

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Oil, Water, and the Dangers of Spring Showers | NOAA's Office of Response & Restoration Blog

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The risk of road grease in the immediate aftermath of the first rain after a dry spell is also a real phenomenon. (Learned about it in my motorcycle licence course and have definitely experienced it while cycling.) Could be a factor in some of these crashes.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

That - and stay the F off your F'n phone.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I will never part with my olive Levi's Commuter-series trucker jacket and its useful rear pockets. Sadly the Commuter line which prioritized utility, durability, ventilation and (to a lesser extent) visibility was discontinued years ago.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Oh would you look at that another SUV driver obliviously FaceTiming with one hand on the wheel and both eyes on their phone.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Full disclosure traffic was somewhat intense going up and down the climb especially in the wind. Depending on your tolerance for that sort of thing, you might want to wait for the trailway to open.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

One other thing I would add is that drivers on that road are going to have to get used to cyclists being out that way and slow down. I was passed by a lot of speeders in big work vehicles.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Ed and Lyndon have more than 90 seconds on me for the KoM, so I’m almost obligated to go back for redemption. Jokes aside, it’s an A+ climb. Fencework looks like slow going and long distance to cover, I’d be surprised if it opens soon but ya never know.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

On the advice of @ttomlin.bsky.social I hit up the new Aerotech Connector after work. Terry, you failed to mention it’s a 10 minute climb with 5-8% gradients 😅 The multi use path is closed for fencing work. Main road has tiny shoulders and it’s very crosswindy (with a nice view going back down)

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I’ve mentioned it before but it’s happened again: a very large percentage of our child-related travel is medium-distance trips that don’t line up well with transit (so it’s barely faster than walking) but biking is literally as fast as driving. Bike-friendly cities are family-friendly cities!

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Same here (Halifax, NS) -- My oldest (12) wants to bike himself to school and we almost have a route that's safe enough, but not quite yet. Our cargo bike has cut out a lot of our local driving in the last few years especially for grocery runs, child pickup etc.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Doug Flutie's ancestors may (or may not) have been musicians, specifically flautists.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

There's a tentative agreement to end the lockout at Dalhousie University. Details coming later today on resumption of classes. www.dal.ca/dept/hr/labo...

dal.ca

Labour disruption ends: Dalhousie Board of Governors and DFA reach tentative agreement

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Next time perhaps. I think I'm just going to rip it on the road/road bike today. *zooms in to closely study Burnside Strava segments*

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Still determining which bike I want to take. Might just ride among the cars on my road bike for speed and exercise purposes.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I think I’ll just freestyle it haha I’m ready for anything

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

ICS Courier will only be making one (failed) delivery attempt, so later today I get to find out what deepest darkest Burnside's cycling infrastructure is like these days. Google says I need to plan for a 2 hour round trip and the route it's suggesting to Wilkinson Ave is...not great.

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a man with a beard says " deep sigh " in front of some ferns

ALT: a man with a beard says " deep sigh " in front of some ferns

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

From a user's perspective, the only consistency around here is inconsistency.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Almon St feels like a series of bike traffic experiments. Each intersection from Windsor to Isleville is different along the way. Bike boxes, protected lanes that become sharrows, weird merging lanes, bumpy green stripes, bike sensors, one of a kind crossing lights with timing just for cyclists...

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Map of the affected area, which includes 122,000 customers.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

As for what is disallowed, the list includes: -watering lawns -washing vehicles   -filling pools -watering golf courses

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

More restrictions could be added in Stage 2. The utility says in Stage 1 "failure" to follow restrictions "may result in a warning, a non-compliance fine, or suspension of service." No details yet about how much a fine would be.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The utility says the goal "is to help reduce demand until the rainfall can replenish the [Lake Major] and remove/delay the need for an engineered pumping solution."

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Halifax Water announces mandatory water conservation measures for customers in Dartmouth, Burnside, Cole Harbour, Westphal, North Preston and Eastern Passage. www.halifaxwater.ca/alert/mandat...

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Mandatory Water Conservation Measures in effect for customers serviced by Lake Major | Halifax Water

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Ryan Snoddon @ryansnoddon.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Half way through Hurricane season, where do we stand? Sept. 10th marks the climatological peak of the Atlantic hurricane season and yet things are strangely quiet. My latest piece on why it’s been quiet and what things look like over the next few weeks: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #nsstorm #halisky

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Pitted from bite marks too? Nice. Vintage patina.

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

A joint statement from Dalhousie University's Board of Governors and the Dal Faculty Association posted at 11pm says the two sides will resume conciliation talks today (Sept 9th) at 1pm. www.dal.ca/dept/hr/labo...

dal.ca

Joint statement: Dalhousie Board of Governors and Dalhousie Faculty Association

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

With mandatory water usage restrictions incoming, here is a breakdown of water usage, per Halifax Water's most recent water rate study: Commercial/Industrial/Institutional: ~44% Residential: ~56% halifaxwater.ca/sites/defaul...

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

"It'll just be everything that is currently voluntary, will be mandatory. And we're working with the city now to deterimine exactly how we're able to enforce that, whether that's potentially fines or being able to shut off people's water."

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Ryan Pierce @cbcrp.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Smith says once in place it will take multiple days of significant rainfall before the mandatory restrictions are lifted.

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