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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Got my copy. Missed the book launch last week but popped into Take Cover Books this morning…

Book Cover of Fighting Strong Winds in a Canoe by John D Etches.

Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This was actually available 10 days ago but is only getting emailed out now. Working group folks only heard through the grapevine. It will be reviewed at committee in 6 days and then council the week after. There is no clarity and new limits regarding commenting in public. #process

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Now reading “The Pushcart War” by Jean Merrill, first published 1964…

Chapter 1 starts: “ the Pushcart War started on the afternoon of March 15, 2026 when a truck ran down a pushcart belonging to a flower peddler…”

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Summons by Aurora Levins Morales via Kelly McD #poetry #meetMe #LetsGo #bringingBandages “we have sent this dream, like a flock of doves into the sleep of the world. Wake up.”

- Summons -
by Aurora Levins Morales
Last night I dreamed
ten thousand grandmothers from the twelve hundred corners of the earth
walked out into the gap
one breath deep
between the bullet and the flesh
between the bomb and the family.
They told me we cannot wait for governments.
There are no peacekeepers boarding planes.
There are no leaders who dare to say every life is precious, so it will have to be us.
They said we will cup our hands around each heart.
We will sing the earth’s song, the song of water,
a song so beautiful that vengeance will turn to weeping,
the mourners will embrace, and grief replace
every impulse toward harm.
Ten thousand is not enough, they said,
so, we have sent this dream, like a flock of doves
into the sleep of the world.
Wake up.
Put on your shoes.
You who are reading this, I am bringing bandages
and a bag of scented guavas from my trees. I think
I remember the tune. Meet me at the corner.
Let’s go.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Garbage holiday for zone 2 in March. See you in April!! #ptbo

City of Peterborough waste management calendar with an error in the Tuesday column where the garbage icon should alternate between 1 & 2 but instead displays 3 for both Tuesday and Wednesday

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

#Ptbo too. See 🧵 above this reply. #activetransportation gets imagined as a recreational / fitness activity by #motonormative snow clearing staff. So #lowpriority. #cycle infrastructure waits days for treatment then…

Large (overly) equipment clearing car free intersection on bicycle priority street. This was happening during rush 15-minutes and may have increased existing animosity of drivers due to blockage created.

The planter boxes at the intersection have been knocked out of position by the large snow removal equipment.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"Where this goes from here depends almost entirely on whether the rule of law continues to be torn asunder by ... Trump"

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Garage sale find from the mists of time. #cutie

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Just got the Dave Smith MPP ACTION CENTRE NEWS! 9 of the 10 photos include Dave’s face. 5 of those feature Dave’s eyeglasses perched on his forehead. ☺️🥸😵‍💫

MPP Dave Smith with glasses on forehead, as is often the case.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Many times, over years to Jackson Park in #Ptbo. This year I moved so now there are trails created in Inverlea Park which is out my front door. Just earlier today I explained the technique to someone who moved in to the old ‘hood.

A winter bike with nordic skis and poles strapped to the frame. Leaning on a utility pole on an unplowed sidewalk.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Jackson Park (actually Jackson Creek Valley) Management Plan is underway. You are invited to a #Ptbo Parks and Rec open house and planning charrette next Wednesday. One week notice… hmmm.

Friends of Jackson Park’s poster for the new CoP Project about jackson-park

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Meanwhile, once you get to the central business district the corners have been cleared by an extra small plow.

Snow plow curb piles pushed back to clear curb for intersection use by pedestrians, disabled folks, prams #Ptbo Carnegie Wing of City Hall.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It took quite a while to plow the sidewalks and when they did (northbound on east side of George) the plow lifted its blade to avoid pushing snow onto the road. Intersection after intersection inaccessible to people on wheels but the cars/trucks are fine…

SE corner still full of snow. NE corner open.

SE corner still full of snow. NE corner open again.

SE corner still full of snow. NE corner open yet again.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

A headless speed camera. Tucked under your arm referencing the horseman.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Loving the Vintage store promoting #Ptbo Folk Festival finery. #PFF

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Yesterday I was happy to see some of the Bethune St planters in flower. Today we got to 98% on NYT connections. Tomorrow is the big Moving Sale at 311 Pearl Ave. Life is good!

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Expropriation… so a few people will go from 3.2-4.4 parking spaces down to 2.2-3.4 spaces for their car. Car owners are so greedy. Oak trees only get one parking space that they use for their full lifetime. Acorns, squirrel drays, raccoon hollows included for free.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Responsive service from @cityptbo.bsky.social. Last Thursday I reported an errant Parking sign on Bethune St between Hunter and Simcoe. Yesterday I noticed it had been removed.

Photograph from Bethune St looking southwest toward basketball courts in Bethune and Simcoe park. Utility pole has a Parking sign that persists from before Bethune St redesign into a bicycle priority street. Sign was many feet from new edge of road.

Photograph from Bethune St looking southwest toward basketball courts in Bethune and Simcoe park. Utility pole has no signage where a legacy Parking sign was a few days before. Bethune St was redesign as a bicycle priority street with narrow lanes and no on-street parking.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

You’re a project “making an opportunity for” community input. In #Ptbo, Cottage country. Your input window is 2 months in July/August. You told the Safe Streets for Everyone summit in April it was too early to design. Tell me you don’t actually want input. www.connectptbo.ca/rotary-trail...

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Locally #Ptbo we have a bike priority street: Bethune. It includes vehicle turn arounds for cars that accidentally end up at a “no entry - bicycles excepted” intersections. South of Charlotte St people are parking in the circle. Saw a car struggling Sunday. Today a ticket issued. Good!

A ticketed SUV parked in a vehicle turning circle on Bethune St immediately south of Charlotte St. This part of the turning circle is often full of up to 5 cars thinking they are getting free vehicle storage in public space. Ticket them regularly!

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Excited to see my new-to-me sailing dinghy show up in the updated Google maps imagery.

Google satellite new imagery of Catchacoma Lake area.

Google maps imagery showing west end of Beaver Lake.

Google maps imagery of southwest corner of Beaver Lake with sailboat just a white speck middle of main shoreline.

Google maps imagery showing sailboat tied between dock and shore.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Spotted this “Anonymous Traffic Study Equipment” - movie camera on a pole on the south side of Parkhill looking north along the Rotary Greenway Trail that runs behind Sadleir House #Ptbo. Based on camera aim the study subjects are walkers and cyclists not cars.

Moivision Scout video control equipment strapped to a utility pole

Camera mast part of traffic study equipment.

Camera mast leaning out from utility pole. Image documents direction camera is looking.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

My afternoon will include a family friendly party featuring a screening of The Sounds of Music set in 1938 Austria.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

More than three weeks, an ice storm and flooding emergency later… Some of the snow and ice is still present (though not blocking flow). However now the intake is full of broken tree debris. Call the beavers 🦫 the dam is half made! #Ptbo #BethuneBypass

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I wonder if 1950s style #walksafe messaging would have prevented this.

Poster on a lamppost. Poster reads: We’ve made it so that automobiles can go everywhere at the expense of children going anywhere.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Gaps filled. Thanks for another wonderful evening @dannymichelmusic.bsky.social

Danny Michel and I with the two CDs that were missing from my collection. The photo is two men facing the camera, each holding a CD, in front of a merch table after a concert at the Gordon Best Theatre.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I laid out the @dannymichelmusic.bsky.social collection and I can see a couple of gaps but… that’s a lot of CDs

An array of 16 CDs from Danny Michel and bands Danny was in. From 1996 to 2018.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I was expecting some news like this to come out of Carney’s immediate PM visit to Europe. USA has become untrustworthy. Responding accordingly. UK needs to undo their Brexit bumble.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A repost of an 11 year old article. “If the temperature rises… “ 2014 to 2025

Chart from OurWorldInData showing 0.6°C rise during the years in question.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

What a difference 90 minutes makes. Also compare to 9:16am post earlier today. Once water starts flowing it creates a path.

Water has melted the ice and now has an open path for almost all the flow. It took 24 hours to get to open flow. This time yesterday it was just cresting into the intake and wasn’t getting past the ice at all.
4:23

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Monday morning. Maybe 24/7 Public Works will visit today but time has, to some degree, solved the problem. Water is still above the intake level and most of it is finding its way under the ice. When that ice/wood debris jam came down the creek it must have been something to see!

The intake of the Bethune bypass now taking most of the water that’s flowing over the wall. The water must have found/made a path under the ice. Should a path have been mechanically cleared so all overflow made it?

This is the third view from the same vantage point of the Bethune creek bypass intake. This one shows the intake corner underwater and you can see the event yesterday afternoon pushed we previous ice back about 8’ while also filling the intake with several feet of ice chunks and wood.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Picked this up last night! My 6th Silver Hearts CD The Man Who Has No Country It’s the 1,111th album in my music collection.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

By 6:45pm there’s a lot more fresh ice deposited. Looks like material delivered by the flow. The water must have become quite high for this to have happened!

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Watch the leaf debris in the water by the snow/ice. You can see that even though water is above intake wall level it is blocked by an ice dam. The Bethune diversion is not working as designed because the intake was not cleared for spring runoff @cityptbo.bsky.social #Ptbo

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

So… #Ptbo tore up Bethune St, built a diversion to protect downtown from Jackson Creek overflow for $$&, but apparently don’t have an operation plan regarding spring runoff intake.

Photo showing Jackson Creek overtopping intake ledge but not flowing under Bethune due to ice.

Identical shot as in first post but now water should be going into Bethune diversion. It’s not.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Jackson Creek / Bethune bypass. #Ptbo @cityptbo.bsky.social The creek is nearly high enough to start flowing through the Bethune bypass pipe. The intake at Murray & Stewart is full of snow and ice. I’ve left a message and report with public works. @ptbocurrents.bsky.social

Picture of Jackson Creek only a few inches below overflow level but intake is full of snow and ice.

Screen shot of confirmation email from online service request to city.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery. The bridge at the trail junction in Jackson Park, Peterborough. #ptbo #photography

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Let's ask the police about the laws - oh wait - they aren't on BlueSky yet. Tonight at General Committee:

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This ETA is going to need an update:

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Could a #walkSafe campaign also address the supper dark tinted window issue? There are cars driving around #Ptbo with windows so tinted that I, a pedestrian / cyclist, can’t make eye contact. That’s a safety threat to me. I assume it’s another unenforced infraction, like casual speeding and idling

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I wonder which of these reactions I should have used when a driver recklessly chased me from Antrim & Water to Bethune & McDonnell. (“my fault” since I had hand signalled him that he was speeding on Water) He chased a cyclist with a car through a residential neighbourhood.

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Actually, checking your work, @trikebum.bsky.social this comment is by the OPP inspector who exposes himself as a #carbrain. Motorists distracted by a cellphone are the threat.

Quote from OPP inspector that demonstrates outdated thinking about crosswalks (and probably jaywalking too) but particularly tells pedestrians to avoid distractions like cellphones and headphones. Victim blaming at its finest - can the F150 driver have their stereo cranked and be rocking out? Who has to be vigilant in these instructions?

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Mark Woolley @perspicuity.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Safe infrastructure is better than reflective vests. #Ptbo

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