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infrastructure_enjoyer @joelaf.bsky.social · 20h
wondering if I need a $320 premium walnut aeropress
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
A remastered Witcher 3 means a new bathtub Geralt aftermath.site/witcher3-remas...
The Witcher 3's Geralt in a bathtub
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NHIZ @nerdhobbiesinzo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Are you kidding me right now. This is a prime location for people to commute by CTrain and bike path (both 1km from doorstep). If we can't do density here, we're cooked. Just build a 4 storey park and ride I guess... #calgary #yycbike www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Erlton residents rally against proposed 45-unit affordable housing project in southwest Calgary | CBC News
Erlton residents are pushing back against a proposed affordable housing project at a former Enmax substation in southwest Calgary, saying the building would be too big and increase traffic in the area...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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infrastructure_enjoyer @joelaf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wasn’t sure how I was going to vote on the referendum questions, but hearing Duane Bratt’s thoughts on the matter has made up my mind.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“The McCarthy blacklist did not even require civil or criminal prosecution—it was public opinion that could deal the harshest blow to those suspected of ‘un-American’ activities.” @shirip.bsky.social on the function of the list:
bostonreview.net
A Theory of the List
From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will.
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
From trust funds to bullion: Inside the court battles surrounding Jeff Rath | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1202824...
globalnews.ca
Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada
Globalnews.ca – Watch and read Canada’s Breaking news plus Business, Health, Politics and World News
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A LOT of us are non-drivers. And given the big public costs and consequences of driving, we should be making that easier, not harder. Are we putting our public money in the right places? Our SECOND messaging collaboration with @nondriver.bsky.social. Spread the word. #UrbanTruth
“Non-drivers make up 1/3 of the US population. Does your government invest at least 1/3 of the transportation budget making walking, biking, and public transit great?” — Anna Zivarts.

Tagline at the bottom says “Budget for the mobility we want, not the mobility we have.“ Via the Urban Truth Collective collaborating with Anna Zivarts
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/07/2026
You guys aren't going to believe this, but ... it turns out the oil & gas industry knew that they were poisoning people (in this case, with methane) for years, and they hid it & did nothing to mitigate the harm. No, really, it's true! Incredible investigative work here from @rebleber.bsky.social:
nytimes.com
Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest
The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.
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Brett Bergie 🏳️‍⚧️ @brettbergie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“When we hear on the news that someone survived […] often we assume a happy ending […] “Recovery can take months or years, [including] physical rehabilitation, chronic pain, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, […] trying to adjust to a life that may never be the same.” calgaryherald.com/news/untold-...
calgaryherald.com
The untold stories behind Calgary's pedestrian-vehicle collisions
Experts share what can be done and the after affects of people getting hit by cars while walking on Calgary streets as the city hits record.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
theconversation.com
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
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Danny Oleksiuk @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
YIMBYs: I live in a shoebox on an arterial road and cannot afford children. NIMBYs: Living near apartment buildings in my $3M home makes me inexplicably sad and also furious. Local government: How sad? How furious?
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Carl Meyer @meyer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It is 2006. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2016. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2026. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. thenarwhal.ca/canada-carbo...
thenarwhal.ca
Carbon capture promises by politicians span almost 20 years | The Narwhal
It’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be delivered
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infrastructure_enjoyer @joelaf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It’s cool that we can just spend $700M on Deerfoot Trail and nobody blinks.
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Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 20/07/2026
Oh yeah well we're going to send double the amount of wildfire smoke
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infrastructure_enjoyer @joelaf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
clearly the only solution is to immediately cease all oil exports to the United States 😌 www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
cbc.ca
Trump to hit Canada with new 50% tariff | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will impose tariffs of 50 per cent on a wide range of Canadian exports, a dramatic ramping up of his trade war against his northern neigh...
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
On the other hand, this is a great way to illustrate the spacial inefficiency of cars. It's good reminder that cars aren't a technology problem; they're a geometry problem. Or, as @doctorow.pluralistic.net succinctly put it, "Geometry hates cars."
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infrastructure_enjoyer @joelaf.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Jimothy will take over the world soon
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infrastructure_enjoyer @joelaf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
another beautiful day in sunny Calgary, Alberta. time to get working on these pipelines in every direction and producing more fossil fuels. how’s everybody else doing?
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infrastructure_enjoyer @joelaf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
can someone please pop the AI bubble so that I can purchase an affordable hard drive expansion for my pirated movies and shows. thank you.
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infrastructure_enjoyer @joelaf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
a zero sugar Baja Blast slurpee would cure me
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is interesting, and important. How Canada’s Richest Residents Block Affordable Housing. “In Calgary, the wealthy have a virtual stranglehold over meetings where key decisions are made.” @thewalrus.ca (see posts below for context on what’s been happening in #Calgary)
thewalrus.ca
How Canada’s Richest Residents Block Affordable Housing | The Walrus
In Calgary, the wealthy have a virtual stranglehold over meetings where key decisions are made
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infrastructure_enjoyer @joelaf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Maybe you should concentrate on building some homes instead of chasing upvotes on reddit, Mr. Mayor.
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 13/07/2026
@pressprogress.ca is proud to join 100+ journalists, news publishers, academics and civil society groups in endorsing calls for anti-SLAPP legislation in Alberta Frivolous, abusive and politically motivated SLAPP lawsuits are a threat to free and democratic speech READ MORE: antislappalberta.ca
"Whether it's a journalist investigating powerful people, a civil society group or simply an ordinary person with opinions about their government, democracies need legal mechanisms to protect free and democratic speech advocating for social change, from frivolous, abusive and politically motivated lawsuits"

ANTISLAPPALBERTA.CA
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Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Anyone remember the Guidebook for Great Communities Public Hearing in 2021? Yes, I rewatched the whole thing and took notes. It was agonizing. Then I met Peter Dormaar who took my raw data and turned it into something interesting.
thewalrus.ca
How Canada’s Richest Residents Block Affordable Housing | The Walrus
In Calgary, the wealthy have a virtual stranglehold over meetings where key decisions are made
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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When trains and bikes are components in one integrated mobility system, in which passengers may first bike to the station, then take the train, then alight and bike to the final destination, trains and bikes do well together what neither can do alone. The Netherlands proves this every day.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 07/07/2026
Poilievre vows to "fight woke culture" following new galactic disco cowboy makeover
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Poilievre vows to "fight woke culture" following new galactic disco cowboy makeover
CALGARY - Addressing a rally of Conservative voters at the Calgary Stampede, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre has vowed to "reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture", thanks to his latest com...
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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
4 years ago, Fernando Bórquez, Javiera Figueroa and their 3 yo son Silvetre moved to Calgary from Chile to be temporary foreign workers. Silvestre finished Grade 1, and dad says his English writing is better than his Spanish. But fed. immigration rules changed. #Ableg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Hundreds of undocumented Alberta students at risk of losing free access to school | CBC News
Hundreds of children and teenagers already attending Alberta schools could be ineligible to enrol in September as their families’ immigration status hangs in limbo.
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infrastructure_enjoyer @joelaf.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
gonna start all my emails with a land acknowledgment
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 25/06/2026
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 25/06/2026
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 24/06/2026
SCOOP: I obtained the itinerary and other documents relating to Edmonton police Chief Warren Driechel’s February 2026 Israel trip. @mbueckert.bsky.social of @cjpme.org says it’s “much worse than any of us expected.” open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
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SCOOP: Edmonton police chief visited illegal West Bank settlements during Israel trip
Warren Driechel also met with members from an undercover unit that less than three months earlier executed two unarmed men in Jenin after they had surrendered.
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Canadian Civil @info.canadiancivil.com · 23/06/2026
Rezoning in #Calgary brought out NIMBYs with Albertan characteristics. @calgary
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A screenshot from Fox News’ Ingraham Angle

In a remote interview, Laura’s Ingraham is on the left half of the screen with Steve Hilton on the right 

The chyron reads “Socialists winning everywhere”
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This guy's sole academic credential is a Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture and he's employed in an architecture school. His entire claim to fame is dragging the University of British Columbia's reputation through the gutter to present derp to segregationists. Patrick Condon is a fraud.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 09/06/2026
so cool that the canadian government plans to spend billions of dollars to encourage people to use not just a bullshit machine, but a mass death and suicide machine
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Aaron Paquette 🇨🇦 @apaquette.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Now take a referendum, and wrap it in ANOTHER referendum!
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Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I 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.ca
How Calgary will replace blanket rezoning still unclear, after council's latest housing motion fails | CBC News
After 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...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com
forbes.com
Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study
Busting the myth of the "scofflaw cyclist" Danish Road Directorate studies reveal that while 66% of motorists routinely break road traffic laws only 5% of cyclists do so. Law breaking by cyclists is h...
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
we should do communism but call it ai
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 24/05/2026
NEW: I wrote about Alberta’s referendum within a referendum for Jacobin. jacobin.com/2026/05/smit...
jacobin.com
The Outsize Political Power of Canada’s Western Separatists
Only about a quarter of Albertans support independence. But the threat of rupture nevertheless has pushed Canada’s political class toward accommodation with petro-state grievance politics.
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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
In 1923 we knew that the best path to safety was not to rebuild cities for fast driving but to make driving less necessary. In 1923 we knew that the best path to economy was not to make gas cheaper but to make gas less necessary.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
STUDY: “Motonormativity is a shared bias whereby people judge motorised mobility differently to other comparable topics. This works against societies addressing climate and public health crises effectively.” Via @ianwalker.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com
Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity
Motonormativity is a shared bias whereby people judge motorised mobility differently to other comparable topics. This works against societies addressi…
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
NEW STUDY: Who is the Highway Lobby? “The highway lobby has been shaping transportation policy conversations for decades in its interests.” And they spend MILLIONS buying car dependency to make sure all of us have to spend BILLIONS. #UrbanTruth Via the Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org.
blog.ucs.org
The Highway Lobby Spends Millions to Make Sure We Pay Billions
Our car-dependent transportation system is no accident.
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Richard Warnica @rwarnica.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement wildly, dangerously disconnected from reality. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Richard Warnica: I went home to the heartland of Alberta independence. Even after covering Donald Trump for 10 years, I was still terrified by what I found
Independence movement eerily reminiscent of Trump's America.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
If you care about Canadian cities providing more badly needed housing choices, AND not cheating Federal funding programs, read this. I supported Federal funding for cities doing good housing moves. But Feds NEED to send the message that cities gaming the system “need not apply” for future funding.
nationalobserver.com
Calgary rolled back its permissive zoning. Will it have to pay Ottawa back?
Ottawa’s flagship housing program was designed to reward cities for making it easier to build homes. Calgary’s decision to accept the majority of its funding before reversing a major zoning reform put...
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Serene Yew @serene.pixeltree.ca · 04/05/2026
Tuesday at Calgary's Executive Committee: two motions to rescind the 2021 climate emergency declaration. It costs $2.20/Calgarian/year, has helped secure $580M+ in federal & provincial grants, and joins 2,300+ governments worldwide. Sources + context: calgarylens.ca/climate #yyc #yyccc
calgarylens.ca
What Calgary's climate emergency declaration directed | calgarylens
Every directive Council attached to its November 2021 climate emergency declaration (EC2021-1525) and the December 2021 accountability addendum (EC2021-1698), in plain language, with links back to the...
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infrastructure_enjoyer @joelaf.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
honey I doxxed the province
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
A SCANNER DARKLY (Linklater, 2006)
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