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Jean-François

@meanderingemu.bsky.social
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#Halisky. meanderer, pilgrim, one step at a time Kjipuktuk

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's weird to live in a time where the Pope keeps making better statements on current affairs than any secular world leader seems able or willing to.
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026
Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?
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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...
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Abolish This @abolish-this.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(for anyone who doesn't get the reference, or who, like me, chuckled and then wanted to go appreciate the brilliant referenced comic again)
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Smylers @smylers.uk · 01/10/2026
Well you should've tied them down better.
A sign in a shop, locally printed in a default word processor font on A4 paper saying “helium balloons are now upstairs”, stuck partially over a more corporate official-looking sign (red and yellow, parts of words that might be “for latest offers" visible) which has “boyesstores” in the corner, then a Facebook logo
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Anh Khoi Do @anhkhoido.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Parking hors-rue en surface de la station Brossard : imaginez le nombre de logements et de commerces qu'il y aurait eu à la place de cases de parking. buff.ly/EJWpaDp
Une vue aérienne du parking incitatif hors-rue en surface de la station Brossard. Photo : Patrick Sanfaçon (La Presse).
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Vero B 🇨🇦☮️ @mlleverob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Not enough traffic enforcement on the streets, lack of safe street infrastructure (bump outs, narrower streets, bollards), not enough maintenance during fall and winter.” — Student Welcome to the War on Cars kiddo!
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One weird trick to solve traffic congestion (price it).
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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"All students who used protected bike lanes said that they made them feel much safer than biking on the road, or in an unprotected bike lane. Some students pointed out that protected bike lanes benefitted drivers because bikes were in a dedicated space." - damn, can we just hire these kids?
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Raccoon in the sky @seebo429.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You think finding car parking in Halifax is bad? Check out the bike parking!
The bike hoops on a concrete slab jutting out of the ground at an angle . There's a pile of rubble next to it. It's actually at the old common skatepark which is being demolished
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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Big game for this guy.
Cameraguy! Cameraguy! Cameraguy! Cameraguy! Cameraguy! Cameraguy! Cameraguy! Cameraguy!
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Someone wrote “Fuck Trump” on the side of the track
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Chris does it occur to you that you are a problem
Al props up those of us who remain curious into old age. We're experienced enough to recognize its inaccuracies, shortcomings and dangers. It may be the end of civilization but that will be up to others, hopefully in future generations. For now, it is the quickest, most egalitarian source of information that has ever been known to man and my subscription to ChatGPT is one of my most prized possessions (after my guitars and mountain bikes).
—Chris Beaty, 69
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disillusioned torontonian @tanyap-toronto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ah but the redemption was 😘
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 26/09/2026
It’s the Year 2026. The city of Montreal is completely controlled by cyclists. And public transport.
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trc 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇦🇲 @covell.ca · 25/09/2026
"The fee ensures drivers who pay little or no fuel tax at the pump still contribute to road repairs." CBC perpetuating the myth that road maintenance is paid by gas taxes.
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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I didn't realize it wasn't public knowledge, but the media just reported yesterday that Élections Québec is now only allowed to speak in a language other than French to people who have been declared eligible to go to school in English or are Indigenous.
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Jean-François @meanderingemu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
to this day my favourite typo was a mass e-mail from our contract department saying they were unable to meet targets because they had a "hug backlog"
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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Morse yesterday: Report near misses it really helps My inbox today: THESE FUCKING COUNCIL IDIOTS. HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I TRY TO REPORT NEAR MISSES: 311 SAYS CALL THE COPS AND THE COPS GIVE A RUNAROUND BEFORE SAYING THERE'S NOTHING TO DO. THESE ASS HATS DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT(x5)
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
youtu.be/rQW4W1_SJmc?...
youtu.be
What Luxury Housing Does To Homelessness
YouTube video by Justine Underhill
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Sam @smknigh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I reported an incident to police of a driver honking, yelling, riding my ass, and trying to pass me on a narrow local street bikeway. The cop who followed up with me had the audacity to say the driver was upset that I stopped to yell at her to read the road signage and indicate it’s single file…
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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kevin says they’re spending “millions and millions” on the ongoing existance of District 4 and he wants to know if it’s working or not.
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left-shark politics @andrewctenor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Penalty for speeding in a school zone: $340 Penalty for stealing groceries and escaping on a bicycle: being run down by a police SUV and put in hospital
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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
White: why do we have traffic lights that tell drivers to turn and pedestrians to walk at the same time Traffic authority: that's just the way we've always done it.
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He said he’s had four instances or close calls with drivers this summer alone. Austin encouraged him to report and he says one of the ones he reported the cops told him he was “in the way” 
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I often think about the speed camera chopping vigilante who returned to the scene of their crime on Parkside Drive multiple times but Toronto police didn’t catch them & it led to Doug Ford banning speed cameras for 16 million people & now speeding is at epidemic levels & people will die.
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Stoo Metz 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @stoometz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The women at the centre of the fake "Lake America" shirts that she used A.I. to alter before her trip from Michigan to Halifax Canada, thought they were just being cheeky, but it cost her, as she is now no longer the CEO of Family First Credit Union effective immediately. #HaliSky #Halifax
Family First Credit Union CEO Jane Smith is shown on the left with the real photo of her and her friends in their regular clothes and then on the right with the A.I. altered image that shows them all wearing navy blue sweatshirts that say "Lake America"
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Jean-François @meanderingemu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@hfxgov.bsky.social What is the process to report this unmanucured front lawn? -Friends of Cared lawn over valued environmental rationale
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A Vancouver-area First Nation has issued a travel advisory for the US, after members were detained by ICE.
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hfxgirl @hfxgirl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you've been forced to work from the office and your boss complains about the traffic this morning, ask them why they think there might be traffic?
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Jean-François @meanderingemu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Blocked again this morning. Driver not happy that i used the Unmarked Crossing and they suddenly had to break while speeding down Agricola, at a spot actually with many young kids because it's a school bus stop on the East side.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026
Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.
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Jean-François @meanderingemu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Halifax: -Growing Clover is a hazard -Nothing we can do here because they don't have a permit (literally what 311 wrote me)
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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 22/09/2026
The Parkside camera, even when it was cut down so frequently, was still doing a lot of work A 560% increase in speeding!
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Speeding on this Toronto street up more than 500% after speed camera removal
The number of vehicles travelling at least 60 km/h on Toronto’s Parkside Drive has jumped more than 500 per cent this past July, as advocates say their community has become “vastly more dangerous.”
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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Clearing snow from sidewalks in the winter? Aesthetics. Ensuring road paint adequately delineates lanes? Aesthetics. Multiple exit routes from exurban neighbourhoods? Aesthetics. Ensuring kids on bikes don’t get slaughtered by SUVs? Aesthetics. The length of your lawn? DIRE SAFETY.”
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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Please delete this @hfxgov.bsky.social and tell people that supporting biodiversity is actually good and something we want to encourage A lawn should not be a carpet
screenshot from a HRM video showing a lawnmower cutting a clover lawn. commentary: "If you own a property in HRM, it is your responsibility to keep it safe and in good order"
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Montreal bike share offering free rides on provincial election day!
Free bike share rides on election day
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Jean-François @meanderingemu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
No Bikes inside the perimeter of the Public Gardens because they are dangerous. #CarBrainHalifax
6 motorized vehicles cars and truck parked inside the public gardens
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Jean-François @meanderingemu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Induced Demands as per the Friends: If you get 60 people in a bus, 60 new people will suddenly appear in 60 new cars. Lets stop bus lanes. i give up. good luck Halifax.
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Daramola @izdaramola.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
we’re in an existential fight right now against an increasingly fascist Christianity using the cudgel of trans people as its soapbox, but dont forget that so much of this sports nonsense comes down to men’s unwavering belief that the most athletic women in the world can be taken down by some guy
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My mom was a flight attendant in the 80s and she has SO many stories of how angry people were when smoking bans came into effect on planes. Good thing we didn't listen to the angry dudes and pushed through.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18/09/2026
Proper sequence of greetings demonstrated by the finance minister of Canada 🐱
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Meredith Martin 🇨🇦 @meredithmartin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How did bike lanes become the ultimate political wedge issue? Cara Stern & Tom Babin dig into it in today's episode of Demografix.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
god this is good
flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine. 

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is it too soon to start updating our flags
Flag of Ontario with the British Union Jack replaced with the European Union flag.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“oh, are you from the Halifax in Canada or the Halifax in the UK?” “The one that’s in the EU” [loud O Canada noises]
Canadian flag flying over Halifax Nova Scotia
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 16/09/2026
Them: There’s something going around again… Me: It’s Covid, it’s been Covid for 6 years.
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