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Plain Kate

@k8thek8.bsky.social
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I ride a bike therefore I care about cities. Also love rock climbing, RPGs, SFF, heavy metal & martial arts. From Wəlastəkokewiyik territory, living in Anishinaabe territory. She/her but not a sonofabitch about it.

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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Combination of "I need to use up the veggies in my farm share" and "I have a book full of small batch bread recipes": started the pizza dough yesterday so I could make a leek and mushroom pizza with bacon and some mozza, with a lil balsamic reduction drizzle, because I am a nerd
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I went through three intersections with lights on my way to work this morning: eight drivers ran the red. I was counting. What is it going to take, #Autowa?
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Putting this song on repeat lately. Because well, you know.
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Bloodywood - Dana Dan (Indian Folk Metal)
YouTube video by Bloodywood
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Person sipping wine 

reckless pedestrian written at top

I’ll wear back whenever the fuck I want
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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have unironically been listening to this on a loop for way too long today.
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Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about Premier Doug Ford's apparent indifference to human life for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Graeme Bayliss: His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’?
No one is expecting the premier to mash out the Bixby letter on his iPhone. Yet we might expect more than this.
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love taking photos at shows because you never know when you're going to get something unusual. I lucked out a couple of times at the Saboton show on Saturday. One of these was sheer chance and lighting: the other I was hoping would work out, and it did!
A figure in a gas mask wreathed in smoke and lit greenTwo guitarists on stage: the face of the one on the right is framed by the hands of someone in the audience making a heart shape
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Ceri Young @ceriyoungwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PWHL is gonna be on Hockey Night in Canada? Oh HELL YES! Also can't wait for the Victoire radio broadcasts. www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...
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CBC/Radio-Canada announces return of Hockey Night in Canada in PWHL partnership | CBC Sports
CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada is returning for a 90th season this fall after all. But instead of six-plus months of NHL action, the longest-running sports program in the world will air eight prime time...
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Feel like this shot sums up why I prefer smaller venues to big arena shows. Sabaton @ HISTORY Ottawa this Saturday
A shot from the audience in a metal concert, focused on a band on stage who kind of all look variously joyous - the audience is full of raised fists
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The fall colours are kicking off in Quebec and it was a beautiful day of climbing.
A view of rolling hills covered in trees starting to turn colour, from the top of a granite slab with a rope leading down it
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Saw Sabaton tonight! Joakim Brodén has an incandescent air of just having so much goddamn fun up there. The whole band does, honestly, but he's *infectious.*
Joakim from Sabaton on stage: he's a muscular man with a full arm of tattoos and short hair and beard, in camo pants and a vest with armored plates on it, wearing aviator sunglasses. And he's grinning at whatever hijinks are going on
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This made my brain go kind of squiggly, it was uncomfy
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Black Hole Sun with Stand By Me lyrics #soundgarden #shorts
YouTube video by Anthony Vincent
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One of the times it IS okay to weaponize your audience. Milo has some actual actions for people to take at the end.
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The Plan To Destroy America's Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We are looking forward to recording our next episode featuring our celebrity guest, massive bull elk.
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Elections Ottawa @vote.ottawa.ca · 23/09/2026
Did you know? If you do not have a fixed address or permanent place to stay, your residence may be based on the place where you most often ate or slept in the previous five weeks. Learn more: ottawa.ca/en/city-hall... #ItStartsHere #OttVote #OttCity
Graphic of a roadside sign that says “Vote,” with a streetlamp and tree beside a road.
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Jason Cosper @jason.cosper.me · 23/09/2026
A spectre is haunting your neighborhood… I'm in the fight against Flock here in Bakersfield and decided to have a little fun in Affinity. So here's the antifa roundel with the flags swapped out for cameras. Shirts, stickers, buttons, wall flag. 👇 boogah.threadless.com/designs/anti...
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ANTIFLOCK ACTION Unisex T-Shirt | Toe by Three
ANTIFLOCK ACTION on Unisex T-Shirt – A spectre is haunting your neighborhood. Flock Safety sold your city council on the idea that a camera reading every license plate that drives by is a totally normal thing to bolt to a pole. It's not. So here's a shirt about it. The old Antifascist Action flags got swapped out for a couple of Flock cameras. Black one out front, red one in back.
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Google maps directions: "oh, you're on a bike? Here, have directions telling you 'in 200 metres, turn right' ....onto an empty field"
Screenshot from Strava showing a photo of a faint track through the grass in a ballpark. The ride is titled "oh fuck you Google maps directions"
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Down side to losing my wallet: I need to replace my ID and bank cards. Up side to losing my wallet: here's my chance to ditch all those recurring payments I accumulated and forgot about. Prolly a net savings in the long run!
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 22/09/2026
Welcome to the autumnal equinox, Northern Hemisphere folks, this might be a good day to get your full spectrum lamp and/or Vitamin D supplements back out of storage why wait until things are bad a month from now when you could prevent it from happening by starting now!!
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember)
Alt: That clip from Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember) that everyone posts today because it says "Do you remember/the 21st night of September?"
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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📣Big news! The Federal Court ruled in our favour in the climate accountability case 🎉 In June @environmentaldefence.ca teamed up with three youth and @cape-acme.bsky.social to take the federal government to court over their lack of a credible plan to meet the legally binding 2030 climate target 1/
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@amalelmohtar.com, you're a New Yorker crossword clue!
a crossword grid with a few words filled in. the highlighted clue says "This Is How You Lose The Time War" author El-Mohtar"
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My day: Bike 10k to friend's house with climbing pack. Get in car, go for ~7hrs of climbing at Calabogie Lake Cliff. Get back, go for dinner and *inhale* a couple of rice wraps and a medium pho bo ga in order to fuel the ride home again, with pack. Crash.
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Paul Champ @paulchamplaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Watching the Ottawa mayoral race closely. Sutcliffe desperately wants re-election, and has swung ‘left’ on transit, homelessness, etc. But his fiscal plan doesn’t match, and where was he for 4 years? Leiper is the real deal.
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hooray for fall kickboxing/kung fu session starting again and getting to fight my friends! (I kinda left it all on the floor though, and I still have errands to do on the bike, oof.)
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wishing this lady joy of the 1.5 seconds she saved by ducking in front of me to turn left. 🙄 (I was NOT expecting it: I did the "what the hell?" hand in the air gesture and... she did it back? Or something.)
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andrew.ottawa 🇨🇦 @ottawandrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
39 days to go … for the love of Christ this *needs* to be a core campaign message that at every opportunity gets repeated over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again (IMHO).
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Listen to Nico! Pump your tyres! Pump your tyres before they're "a bit soft." If it's hard to see the recommended pressure: - take a photo with flash - make a note on your phone - pump your tyres. If it's the difference between doing it & not doing it, get an electric pump. Just pump your tyres.
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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Transit woes? Busted sidewalks? Closed rec centres? Long waiting lists for affordable and emergency housing? Parks without washrooms? Closed pools and beaches? Pot holes in roads? Want more of this? Then keep on supporting and voting for 2.5% caps like this.
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You spot fun stuff when you ride a bike around. If you run a camera, sometimes you even catch it on video.
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Jess 🌙 @sequencefairy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
saw something earlier about how all the smaller artists pulling out of the tour to stand on their principles demonstrates the absolute cowardice of sheeran's position and yeah, y'know, he has significantly less to lose than all of them combined. really wouldn't have been hard to take a stand.
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ahhhhhhh first judo class of the fall session, we were only out for a couple of weeks but it was SO nice to be on the mat with my training fam tonight
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hey drivers: I need you to understand that when you get to an intersection and there's a cyclist crossing in front of you, even if YOU know you see them, there's a good chance THEY don't know you do. Come to a fucking stop till they cross. Stop fucking rolling at them. Fucksake.
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Elisabeth @affabletoaster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#KidicalMassHfx And to the twit who got mad that we were “bringing the kids into [our] agenda,” behold, the kids’ agenda:
An elementary-age girl is riding her bike in the centre of the lane, with her left fist proudly and powerfully raised over her head. She is wearing a black tutu, teal helmet, and probably high heels. A stuffed penguin is in a doll seat on the back of her bike. She is plainly thrilled.
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you would like an earworm. Shana tova!
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shana tova
YouTube video by dori adar
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Things really were deeply weird in 2003
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
👁️ Researchers found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, & feeding it to LG's ad arm Unplug the internet and it saves files until network restored. LG says its TVs don't record conversations. Evidence begs to differ. 216 million in homes /Braiinsforge
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Don’t buy the lie about a war on cars. They’ve been waging a WAR ON WALKING for a century. #UrbanTruth #WarOnWalking
Same text message as in the post, on a new poster from the Urban Truth Collective. Background image is a massive wide freeway, splitting neighbourhoods and filled with cars. #CarDependency #Traffic #Congestion
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW CALLED THE MUPPET SHOW
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For some reason, making pasta from scratch is the thing tonight
Broad egg pasta drying on a baking rack
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Perfect, no notes (the comments are also gold)
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Stay connected. Stay Informed. Stay ready. @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Doug ford next to a bike lane

one of these is a tool that saves cyclists lives, the other is a tool that will kill them
Direct Action Coming. Stay Tuned To:
@thebikinglawyer and @cycleto
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ten year old project, but a friend just sent this article to me and I really like it. A very Danish design applied in a very Chinese space. (Both of them very much biking cultures, too!) urbannext.net/xiamen-bicyc...
An overhead view of a complex system of elevated bike paths crossing a highway, with on and off ramps and connections to rail stations, in a dense city area full of high rises
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Look, I'm just saying if you have an hour or so this story is absolutely INCREDIBLE shit. Bonkers. Put it on and go for a walk. MacGyver could never.
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Ep 3: The Wreck of the Grafton
YouTube video by What to Carry, What to Burn
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It’s official: Big Dumb Doug Ford is Ontario’s very own King of Stupid. 🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼 🚴🚴🚴
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is amazing; everything is very stupid. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
God, what have you done? I've a meat clarinet From my lips to my lungs oh mama My windpipe and tongue Are a meat clarinet (the bassoon is my bum)
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Got this a little while ago, have been stoked to try everything - last night it was mini scones but I didn't get photos
A cookbook: Small-Batch Breads: 50 Recipes for Loaves, Buns, and Flatbreads Made With 1 Cup of Flour
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Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It was never about the traffic lanes. It was always bikelash. They just hate bikes because bikes challenge their worldview.
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