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Lucas Wagner

@lucas.monster
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Canadian on loan to California, cargo bike commuter. (That's my Tern GSD R14 in my profile banner, on a bike camping trip.)

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Andrea DeKeseredy @andiewinnipeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New piece in the University of Alberta paper on the administration’s recklessly cruel decision to slash 100% of funding to affiliated child care centres on campus The effects continue. They refuse to budge despite the harm. “Have you dropped out, yet?” thegatewayonline.ca/2026/10/the-...
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The effects of the defunded on-campus child care - The Gateway
Campus child care was defunded by the U of A leaving student parents struggling and the university’s dedication to ACB is nowhere to be found.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For the past week, I've heard a lot of people say "provincial and municipal elections happening at the same time is confusing, especially since I don't fully understand what a city is in control of." So, I did a four minute explainer piece to try and help www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqlh...
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What municipalities can and can’t do in B.C.
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
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McMichael Canadian Art Collection @mcmichaelgallery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we're reflecting on 𝘎𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 by Pierre Aupilardjuk — and the story behind the work.
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 23/09/2026
Rogers Blue Jays Baseball Partnership, you are the weakest link. You have been eliminated. Goodbye.
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 23/09/2026
(with a tear in my eye as the Jays get eliminated from the postseason) #RaysUp
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The @Tigers broadcast had a hilarious message for Jason Benetti after he dropped some historical knowledge 🤣
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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 22/09/2026
As we sit on the precipice of another election in BC—particularly considering the climate with the Democrats in the U.S. right now—it's worth pushing progressive politicians to vocally affirm their support of LGBTQ2S+ folks (and particularly trans people), rather than accepting silence as support.
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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 18/09/2026
friends don’t let friends eat at wendy’s btw
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers to celebrate 30 years of fighting for human rights
A three-day festival will be held on the island of Palm Beach starting March 8 to highlight the achievements of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. The farmworker-driven program ensures workers know t...
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 18/09/2026
New bike day! Say hello to my new Tern HSD S9i Sport, a delightful e-bike that carries a lot with a smooth and stable ride. (Thanks to @newwheel.bsky.social for a top-tier new bike experience, and @ternbicycles.com for the work you put into creating the HSD!)
A grey bike with knee-high wheels and a rear rack that could fit one passenger. The rear rack has a basket and two panniers. The bike stands proudly in a bike shop, and I’m standing and grinning behind the bike.
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 17/09/2026
I miss HFS’s colon-separated paths, the beauty of “Macintosh HD:recipes:tv bitch crisp oat/date cookies”
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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 16/09/2026
if you use AI to do this, you are the scum of the earth and will never see the light of heaven
cbc.ca
‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 15/09/2026
Now it's time to rec my books to your friends—hello! Do you like gay hockey, or body swapping, or a screwball comedy about art kids, or DC Comic superheroes? www.ngoziu.com/books 📚
The covers of the graphic novels Check, Please! books 1 & 2, FLIP, Bunt!, Barda and Orion.
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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 10/09/2026
she doesn’t want to watch SportsCentre
Thumbs, a white cat with polydactyl front claws and black markings, stands pensively on a staircase with wide eyes
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 10/09/2026
Northwest League championship baseball #AtTheNat
The sun sets behind tall trees, illuminating the baseball field at Nat Bailey Stadium, as viewed from behind the third base line. A batter from the Vancouver Canadians swings at a pitch from the Eugene Emeralds’ pitcher.
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Electrek @electrek.co · 07/09/2026
This family of four put 1,000 km on a cargo e-bike instead of buying a second car
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This family of four put 1,000 km on a cargo e-bike instead of buying a second car
I’ve been working in the electric bike industry for nearly two decades, and publicly reviewing e-bikes for around half of that. I used to say I’ve touched hundreds of e-bikes, but now that I’ve lost count, I wouldn’t be surprised to find I need to add a digit to that. With so many saddles that I have to sit on, I get to ride a lot of e-bikes for a few weeks, but I rarely get to spend months on any one bike. So when I finished my one-month review of the Xtracycle Hopper electric cargo bike and had a unique opportunity for a longer-term project, I jumped on it. My best friend and his wife have a couple of kids and are a bike-friendly family, so I made him an offer: take this bike and ride it as much as you guys can. Now, having just hit 1,000 km (620 miles) on the thing, he’s back to share his experiences with me. And by extension, with you all. more…
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 06/09/2026
I enjoyed this small mystery/translation game, "I can explain/Vo yopol glebobapol": rosday.itch.io/glorp-mystery
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Vo ylopol glebobapol by rosday
A mystery game in an alien language! Interrogate 3 Glorban suspects to figure out who is a killer.
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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 06/09/2026
A truly balanced transportation system would: • Unconditionally fund basic O&M for both roads and transit • Prioritize the Berkeley Hills Tunnel BART work over the Caldecott Tunnel freeway work, since Caldecott Bore 4 is still brand new • Provide cyclists 24/7 access through the hills via BART
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川原瑞丸(Mizmaru Kawahara) @mizmarukawahara.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 05/09/2026
We need to keep getting pettier.
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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 04/09/2026
I feel like we’re not talking enough about what a BFD it is that the federal government is floating $165mn to simultaneously keep Inlet District alive while accelerating rental housing production in PoMo. #bcpoli #cdnpolih
freshetnews.ca
Federal funding a boost for Port Moody’s biggest development project - Freshet News
Developer says the money for 342 rental homes will also help keep the first phase of Inlet District construction on time
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 04/09/2026
from the classics, I gotta go with Jennie Trout:
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Heritage Minutes: Jennie Trout
YouTube video by Historica Canada
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 04/09/2026
My favourite modern Heritage Minute is the Vancouver Asahi:
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Heritage Minutes: Vancouver Asahi
YouTube video by Historica Canada
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Historica Canada @historicacanada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
On 9/11 2001, the US closed its airspace after unfathomable terrorist attacks. Flights bound for the US were forced to divert, with many opting to land in Canada. Under Operation Yellow Ribbon, the small town of Gander, NL and the surrounding communities accepted 38 planes. buff.ly/Ugvm4vL
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NEW Heritage Minute: Gander and 9/11
“There’s only one thing to do here – we’re going to ask people to open their doors.” It was the day in which Gander and surrounding communities welcomed the world to its doorstep. *Join our mailing…
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Random Trek @randomtrek.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Star Trek (1966) Season 2, Episode 1: Amok Time 00:23:44.773
Star Trek (1966)
Season 2, Episode 1: Amok Time
00:23:44.773

Originally aired: 9/15/1967, NBC
Studio: Paramount Television
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 01/09/2026
A book recommendation: Big Mall, by Kate Black. It's about West Edmonton Mall, but it's about all malls. It might be because I spent five years working at WEM, but I found myself fascinated by the stories and observations in this book.
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Big Mall
A phenomenology of the mall: If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poisoned by capitalism, is shopping what makes life worth living?Kate Black grew up in West Edmonton Mall ...
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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 01/09/2026
This is the Government of Nepal’s official relief fund. Link from the Nepalese Prime Minister’s Office in the thread. Four of our Tri-Cities neighbours are still missing. Please consider joining me in donating if you are able
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Colin Duggan 🇨🇦 @bailefios.ca · 30/08/2026
Do you operate a website for your business or ecommerce? Check any embedded maps, if Google is the provider this name change could very well be on your site. If you're Canadian and want an open source and uncompromised alternative, drop me a line and I'll get you fixed up
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Lake America replaces Lake Ontario on multiple Canadian websites after Google Maps update | CBC News
Some Canadian websites, including for the federal government, displayed maps with Lake Ontario renamed as Lake America on Sunday, a day after Google Maps announced the change to align with an executiv...
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 30/08/2026
I recall us having to re-enact at some of the debates leading to Confederation in social studies (can't recall if it was Charlottetown or something broader). I played Sir John A. Macdonald and failed to make Confederation happen because I couldn't get them to agree to build the railway out west.
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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"What in the world?"
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Oh These, Those Stars of Space! @starsofspace.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
⌛🥪🐟OH THESE, THOSE STARS OF SPACE🐟🥪⌛ Episode 110: Tachyon Jump www.patreon.com/ohthesethose...
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[Episode] Tachyon Jump | Oh These, Those Stars of Space!
[Episode] Tachyon Jump by Oh These, Those Stars of Space! on Patreon. Join Oh These, Those Stars of Space!'s community for exclusive content and updates.
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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 28/08/2026
“If you ride a bike share to the grocery store, you should have to park further away than everyone who drove. This is to improve public safety.” – statements of the utterly deranged
Map of Lime e-bikes, e-scooters, and permitted-but-empty parking locations in Coquitlam city centre, overlaid with shopping cart emojis to indicate the locations of grocery stores.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ontario is named after a Huron/Wyandot word meaning "great lake" and America is named after an Italian liar and slave-trader who went to Brazil and fabricated half of the stuff in his accounts. Impossible to say which name is better
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The last time the Americans tried to claim Lake Ontario in 1813, we intentionally lured them into Fort York and then blew up our entire gunpowder magazine to kill as many Americans as possible. A foundation part of Toronto history is "blowing our own fort to smithereens rather than being American"
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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 27/08/2026
the text of the executive order should be read as an implicit threat on the Saint Lawrence Seaway
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 23/08/2026
Annex 16-A of CUSMA says that parties "shall consult" with other parties before imposing a visa requirement, but that would only apply to B-1, L-1, and TN, and I don't know what they'd consider a "consulation".
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 23/08/2026
I'm also curious about this. From my uneducated read of 22 CFR 41.2(a), it seems like DHS or State could alter the visa exemption for Canadians by making a regulatory change, but I'm not sure how likely they'd be to do that.
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22 CFR Part 41 -- Visas: Documentation of Nonimmigrants Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, as Amended
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bikebike @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
broke my own rule re: not servicing big box retailer e-bikes and immediately reminded why i have that rule hot garbage - all of it PSA please stop buying e-bikes from places that are not bike shops
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 22/08/2026
This would hurt El Camino Real, which @bikesiliconvalley.org has been working towards making safer and more bikeable for years: bikesiliconvalley.org/biketivism/e... Personally, this would also cut off my easiest route to work (along Homestead in Santa Clara/Cupertino).
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El Camino Real — Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 21/08/2026
This is the kind of stupid thing that I usually just send to @ellenteapot.ca and leave it at that, but she said "plEASE tweet that" so this is for her because I love her.
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 21/08/2026
walk button? more like WOKE button
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Very glad to speak with @markhamhislop.bsky.social and @energimedia.bsky.social about my Senate motion, calling on Canada to create its own sovereign verified travel program for frequent flyers. I hope to bring my motion to a vote this fall. #cdnpoli #SenCa @senindepend.bsky.social
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Why Does Canada Need America’s Permission for Airport Fast Lanes?
YouTube video by Energi Media
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 20/08/2026
Nothing like a good ride along roads less travelled. :-)
An orange Tern GSD cargo bike, panniers fully loaded and a backpack on the rear rack, stands at the side of a rural road. Fields of green and yellow extend into the distance where they meet a sky rivered with clouds.
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 15/08/2026
1. Montréal, to my great embarrassment 2. Depending on where home is: Prince Albert, Chestermere, or Campbell River
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Jonathan Ore @jonore.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Got to talk to Canadian indie teams both new and now-veteran, about how and why they left AAA studios to strike it out on their own. Feat. @studioresetgames.bsky.social @peculiarpath.com @softrains.bsky.social @phantomrowboat.bsky.social @redbarrels.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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Why do video game developers leave major studios to go indie? | CBC News
Edmonton-based Studio Reset was founded by developers with years of experience working at studios like Electronic Arts-owned Bioware. As companies with billion-dollar budgets become more risk averse c...
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 07/08/2026
A series of screenshots with dialogue from Pokémon Emerald. The player character talks to a kid in a house.

Kid: "Where did you come from?"
A prompt appears for the player to pick YES or NO.
Kid: "Yes? YES TOWN? I've never heard of a place like that."
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
new issue of Vizier Monthly is out
a fake magazine cover with a cruelly smiling old woman in red vaguely Renaissance garb, leaning on a staff with a serpent twined around it. Headlines around her:
So He Saw The Strings: What To Do When Your Lord Thinks He's a Real Boy
Chalices, Knives, Nooses: How's a Girl to Choose?
Why Satraps Rebel: 10 Cautionary Tales
12 Moves For The Ambitious Concubine (and a 13th for the New Favorite!)
"I'm Just Getting Better With Age": Catching Up with Brynza, the King's Eye
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 30/07/2026
This was the premise of a game on NPR’s Ask Me Another! www.wqxr.org/story/wrong-...
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'Wrong, Wrong, Wrong' With They Might Be Giants | Ask Me Another | WQXR
Musical guests They Might Be Giants treated us to a wicked game of their own invention. But be careful: don't let John Flansburgh and John Linnell's seemingly easy trivia questions le...
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 30/07/2026
Bike stats from my Tern GSD R14’s tune-up today! 🚲 📊
Bosch eBike report. eBike statistics.

Distance travelled: 6299km. Distance travelled per support mode: 1679km Off, 163.4km Eco, 1158km Tour, 384.1km Sport, 2913km Turbo.

Energy consumption: 49.20kWh. Per support mode: 0.70 Eco, 8.84 Tour, 4.13 Sport, 35.51 Turbo.

Average energy consumption: 7.81 Wh/km. Per support mode: 4.30 Eco, 7.63 Tour, 10.77 Sport, 12.18 Turbo.

Total operating time with support modes: 207 hours. Total operating time: 688 hours.
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 29/07/2026
what do we want? Go where do we want it? Bike
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Lucas Wagner @lucas.monster · 28/07/2026
I don’t know why we keep building car lanes when nobody even uses them.
A road that’s eight car lanes wide, mostly empty except for a handful of cars in the distance. Cars sit in a dealership lot along the side of the road, unsold.
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