Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Paul Dechene @pauldechene.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And some guys will boil the ocean and torch the economy just to get a machine so they don't have to spend time with their kid. 0101
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 07/10/2026How many times are they going to get asked this in a year? There never is a particularly useful answer and it's the softest of balls. 000
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 30/09/2026As a programmer, I've always said every new programmer should have to do a 1 year "tour of duty" on tech support to build empathy and understanding for end-user needs. 110
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Strong Towns Regina @strongtownsyqr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The first Wednesday of October, our sister organisation: Queen City Urbanist Book Club is talking Escaping the Housing Trap by author of Strong Towns Charles Marohn Jr. Join us Wednesday October 7th from 7pm to 9pm at the Cathedral Community Centre if you'd like to join the discussion! 123
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Bike/pedestrian networks don't take 30 years to build. Stop accepting those timelines in your community. The best practices have been proven & they already exist. Safety should already be the #1 priority. The ROI is unbeatable. The timeline is a moral document and it shouldn't be generational. 4353102
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.disconnect.blogThe media has the AI threat all wrongGenerative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios. 271737589
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)PD City Hall (Paul Dechene) @pdcityhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Mthembu: One thing we're concerned by housing being spoken about as a commodity. Housing & economic development are not part of the same discussion. Housing is economic infrastructure. Housing is a human right. #yqrcc 011
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Paul Dechene @pauldechene.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Who knew having a coffee shop open til 9:30 on a weekday would be PACKED?!? Cozy Haus on Albert, apparently. It’s more busy now than at lunch and people keep coming in. 2132
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 22/09/2026One of the biggest things Regina lacks is places to go after 5pm, both weekdays and weekends. Cozy Haus is proof positive that Reginians yearn for places to hang in the evenings. Blackbird Commons is also open late a lot of days! 010
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Paul Dechene @pauldechene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Tram in Trondheim Norway, population 218k. Though Trondheim is 13° further north than Regina SK (pop 226k), it is much warmer. However, it gets considerably more precipitation & much less sunlight. But they'll tell you that Regina is has too few people & too much winter to have trams. #yqrcc 5153
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 31/08/2026"Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erect inns there. Rationally one wants to have traffic *stop* there, not go *through*." —Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale 317348
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Paul Dechene @pauldechene.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Anyway, yeah… Priests from the other churches downtown came out as well to show their support for the mosque & the call-to-prayer. /2 #yqrcc 1173
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Strong Towns Regina @strongtownsyqr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Just a reminder, we have another one of our "local conversations" tomorrow! Come out and chat with us about Strong Towns and what's going on in the city! 023
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/06/2026“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building wider roads leads to more cars stuck in the same congestion. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.comwired.comWhat's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic WorseThe concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note ... 9474178
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Kero @keroan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026CBC interviewed me about walkability and Strong Towns! Sorry for always using Harbor Landing as an example but it truly is a bizzare victim of plans gone awry. The fact that Vanessa Matthews and I are part of the same conversation means I have officially upgraded to the cool kids club though 🥹cbc.ca 031
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 11/06/2026we read the last downtown plan as part of the Queen City Urbanist Book Club a few months ago. Super interesting, a lot of good ideas that didn't end up manifesting, especially around walkability. It's a bit frustrating to invest in these plans if they aren't something we're going to implement. 010
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 28/05/2026fellas, is it clever to suggest that you are making policy with bad intentions? 093
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 24/05/2026"density only in the right areas", I wonder what Burton could mean by this :) 100
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 24/05/2026We (Strong Towns Regina), took one of the bump outs on 13th and turned it into a little pedestrian friendly park/rest-space for the festival to show how much you can do with a single parking space. So many people loved it, which really shows the appetite for more people-centric projects in the city. 010
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Canadian Meg @canadianmeg.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Once more a little louder for those people on #yqrcc. #CarCulture 143
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Strong Towns Regina @strongtownsyqr.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Come check out our pop-up "3rd Space" on the bump-out by out booth. #Strongtowns #strongtownsregina #cvaf #cvafstreetfair 021
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Ill be at the booth all morning if you want to swing by and say "Hi!" 000
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Remember, don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth 10522172
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Wildly gross statements regardless but when the mayor mentioned it was only 3 hours once every 4 years my jaw dropped. 010
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 21/05/2026we went on one of the last nights and there was 2 cops in uniform. We were really confused, but kinda figured there was some threats or something. Blows chunks that it got so much controversy, it's a phenomenal show; easily my favourite this season! 020
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I know you ran this yesterday, but Caitlyn mentioned to me this morning that it was in the printout we have for thursday. I assume it was moved and you aren't running this again tonight? 100
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I had so much fun being involved in organizing this year's festival. Big plans for 2027! BIG PLANS! 000
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Ill personally be at the booth from 8 - 12:30 if you want to swing by and say Hi! 000
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Get my comic in the newspaper STAT! #cvaf 000
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026HUGE: Alberta judge quashes the separatists' referendum petition, in major victory for Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Blackfoot confederation. Justice Shaina Leonard: "the Crown failed to meet its duty to consult" 18564221
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Paul Dechene @pauldechene.bsky.social · 13/05/2026And once again… sitting in the middle, riling up Regina's tight assed, podunk, moral minority, there's Just Bins doing RCAAN's dirty business. #regina 1152
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Paul Dechene @pauldechene.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Oh for fucks sake. I've seen racier drag scenes in Bugs Bunny cartoons. If you're hauling kids out of the Globe over that? It says more about your filthy imagination than what's on stage. #regina 2171
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)patthebook.bsky.social @patthebook.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Making it all the more egregious that we continue to see a plurality of councillors elected that have never attended a meeting or engaged with the city in a meaningful way, don’t understand these problems, and fail to bring forward any ideas or actions to try to address them. 132
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 03/05/2026The stuff they're doing as part of the Cathedral Village Forest Project is super cool! cant wait to see it evolve over time! #janeswalk #janeswalkregina #yqr 001
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Saw this portrait of me during today's first Jane's Walk! #janeswalk #janeswalkregina #yqr 000
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Saw a lot of animals on the Jane's Walks so far! Hopefully I see more tomorrow. The highlight was definitely the Bat swooping over us during the Cathedral Sensory Walk! #janeswalk #janeswalkregina #yqr 011
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Aidan mmmOrgan, is that spooky, have I given you ghouls enough @thepalinode.com · 30/04/2026He who makes a Mr. Beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a Mr. Man, particularly Mr. Fussy or Mr. Grumpy. 031
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)PD City Hall (Paul Dechene) @pdcityhall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Book: Clr Bezo loves KPIs. He once suggested imposing performance standards on the grades of high school teens in exchange for free bus service. But we won't do that for one of the most successful businesses in the province's history. #yqrcc 0103
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)PD City Hall (Paul Dechene) @pdcityhall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Book: They want you to pay severance for 50 REAL employees potentially, and $500k operating costs each year for up to 99 years. All of this as they gain food & beverage revenue & development rights & plan to charge market rates to their partner the city. #yqrcc 053
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 30/04/2026What downtown? If we build an entertainment hub outside of our already struggling downtown, i'm guessing thats the final nail in the coffin. 000
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Andrew Stevens @astevens81.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Brandt's operations are located in the RM of Sherwood. City Council adjusted Regina's borders in a boundary swap because Semple didn't want to pay taxes to the city. 0114
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Jon Lorenc @jonathanlorenc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026This analogy is more apt than he realizes. The city's primary revenue is collecting property tax. If they sell this land and accept that they won't be collecting property tax, the city will effectively being trying to build a farm on rocks. They will never harvest property tax on this land again. 073
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I hear they have a lot of rocks to kick way out there. ;D 010
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Hot take, if you don't live, work, and play in Regina then your opinion shouldn't matter when it comes to municipal decisions. As soon as you say "I flew in to be here" your opinion is less than dirt to me. #yqrcc 110
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)Strong Towns Regina @strongtownsyqr.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Our friends at Jane's Walk Regina have a great festival planned for this weekend! Check out some walks, learn about your community, and meet some great people! #janeswalk #strongtowns #yqr 032
Reposted by Nickknack (He/Him)patthebook.bsky.social @patthebook.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Maybe you’ve seen the #yqrcc news stories about Brandt trying to buy half of the REAL district land and buildings from the city. They’d pay $6.5 million because the buildings are so busted it would take almost $80 million to bring them up to like new conditions. But there are a lot more costs. /1 3158
Nickknack (He/Him) @nickknack17.bsky.social · 23/04/2026We'll be hanging out tomorrow at Creme Cafe! If you're curious about Strong Towns its a great opportunity to dip your toe. We will probably complain about cars at some point... 111
